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Minutes
Human Services Committee
3/3/99
Present: Nancy Bartlett: Barbara Ciampa, Co-Chair Roz Gittleman; Eva
Glick; Khalil Khatri; Gregory Kotonias-Payne; Christine Yedica;
Nancy Freed, Director, Social Services Department; Arnie Berger,
Board Member, RePlace; Laura Kurman, Director, RePlace; Bonnie
Saulnier, administrator, Wayside; Nancy Freed, Social Services
Director and Recorder
Absent: Helen Cravis, Co-Chair; Kathleen Palmer; Steve Baran, Human
Services Coordinator
1 Nancy Freed reported on COA Long Range Planning Committee.
2. Nancy discussed bank building in Depot Square as a possible site
for a Youth Drop-In Center
3. Roz Gittleman reported on the COA Women's Conference and
upcoming Battered Women's Benefit Conference.
4 Barbara Ciampa reported on the LexFest! Blues Benefit Concert.
5. Barbara reported on a meeting of the Early Childhood Education
Committee in which there was a discussion of all day kindergarten
for Lexington.
6. RePlace report in response to questions contained in meeting
minutes of 2/3/99: -
a. Becket Rhodes had a baby girl, Rachel Ann, 7-lb. 6
oz.
b. Recent article in Minuteman on the Domestic
Violence Response Team.
c. Lower number of crisis calls due to previous clients
now stabilized and teen crisis calls more often coming
through the Domestic Violence Response Team.
d. See March 3, 1998 RePlace handout clarifying that
their peer leaders are supervised by RePlace staff.
The peer leaders do tutoring, not peer counseling.
The Committee agreed to have peer leaders come to
a future Human Services Committee meeting.
e. Wayside has made a commitment to RePlace to fund
office space if no in-kind free space is located — Laura
stated that the goal is now to look at rental space,
e.g., above camera shop. Could RePlace rent (or use
in kind)town space for offices described in hand out?
2
An interim space plan may be developed. Laura
Kurman is waiting to hear if some smaller interim
space would be available in the church.
f Laura Kurman discussed RePlace work at the high
school: Jodie Williams is responsible for school grant
(case management— continuing funding); RePlace
active with ACE/PLACE student counseling.
7 Barbara Ciampa reported on the successful diversity tea held at the
Senior Center and thanked Roz Gittleman and Christine Gelling,
Senior Center Pogrom Coordinator, for their help. The next tea is
scheduled for March 19 with Khalil Khatri's family
8. Get-together of present and former Human Services Committee
members — April 20 at Barbara's home.