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2020 Vision Implementation Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 30, 2001
Present:
Fernando Quezada, Helen Cohen, Ellie Epp, Bernard Harleston, Alan Lazarus, Sherry Gordon,
Peter Enrich, Todd Burger, Candy McLaughlin, Rachael Herrup-Morse
Call to Order
1.Review Committee Membership and Additional Recruitment Needs
Fernando Quezada introduced the new members of the Steering Committe who were present at the meeting
and discussed members not present. The committee spent some time suggesting members that might be
invited such as a representative from the Lexington Center business community and a young parent. The
Steering Committee will grow from the present membership to include a larger group of other stakeholders
in order to keep the constituency informed.
2.Discuss Report to Town Meeting
The report to Town Meeting should consist of three parts. The first will be to report on the 5 themes that
were outlined in the 2020 Vision report and developed in the various Working Groups. The second part
will include a description of the survey that was mailed to all Lexington households and the results of that
survey. The final part will serve to introduce the Implementation Committee and its charge. The packet to
go to Town Meeting Members and the Board of Selectmen will include a cover letter by the committee, the
results of the survey and the membership and charge of the Implementation Committee. The report to
Town Meeting will be under article two; Candy McLaughlin will talk with the Moderator, Marge Battin, to
ask her when she anticipates the presentation will take place. The committee decided that Tony will
present the survey and its results because of the large donation Mercer made in conducting and analyzing
the survey.
3.Outline Work Plan
The committee moved on to preliminary discussions of the implementation of the 2020 Vision report. It
was decided that a standard framework for providing updated reports to the committee would be useful in
communicating with the community on the progress of implementation. A review of the survey results was
postponed until Tony could attend the meeting.
The next step in facilitating implementation involves the committee prioritizing the goals, meeting with
community groups that are stakeholders in those goals, selecting action items to address and deciding on a
reporting date. It was suggested that the committee begin with an action item that will produce relatively
quick, tangible results – where success is measurable. Committee members will bring ideas about what
action items would be appropriate to start with to the next meeting.
The committee also decided to break down into sub-committees to facilitate the implementation of the
report. Because there seemed to be a significant proportion of the community interested in education it was
decided to form a sub-committee (Sherry, Peggy, Bernie, Alan, Ellie) to address this goal. An additional
sub-committee focused on operations (Peter, Helen, Todd) was also formed to ensure the smooth operation
of the Implementation Committee as a whole.
4.Decide Meeting Schedule
It was decided to have the meeting of the full Implementation Committee on a once-a-month schedule with
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the next meeting on Friday, April 27 at 7:45 a.m. The sub-committees will meet between Implementation
Committee meetings on a date to be determined internally.
5.Adjourn
Submitted,
Rachael Herrup-Morse