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Meeting of the Fair Housing and Human Relations Committee
April 14,2004
A regular meeting of the Fair Housing and Human Relations Committee ("FH&HR") of the Town of
Lexington,Massachusetts ("Lexington' or `Town') was scheduled for April 14, 2004 in Room 111 of
Lexington Town Hall on Massachusetts Avenue,Lexington, Massachusetts.
In attendance were FH&HR members Chang-Sheng Ting, Kellie Barnette,Tom Montanan,Jean Hibino,
and Harriet Cohen. Michael Novack was present.FH&HR member Michelle Waters-Ekanem and Bill
Kennedy the Selectman representative, were unable to attend. Mr. Montanan presided and Ms. Cohen
kept minutes of the meeting.
A quorum was present and the meeting was convened at 7:06 p.m.
I. Review and Annrove Minutes of the March 10 meeting
The minutes from the March 10, 2003 meeting were reviewed and unanimously approved.
II. LexFest—Jean Hibino
LexFest will most likely be held on Oct. 2,probably at the Town s Visitor Center and not at the
National Heritage Museum.
III. Selectman Liaison Assignments
Mr. Montanan circulated the list of Selectman Liaison Assignments.
IV Franklin School
Many of the apartments are becoming market rate. This means a major rent hike for many of the
tenants. Marshall Derby of LexHab may intercede with the management of the Franklin School
apartments to see if it would be possible to maintain the current rents for at least some of the current
tenants.
V Incident Response Team
There was an incident response team meeting on Friday April 9 2004 Mr. Montanan had planned
to attend the meeting but was unexpectedly unavailable.More information will be available at the
next FH&HR meeting.
VI. Lexington Housing Partnership
Ms. Cohen had distributed the minutes of the last LHP meeting. There has been no news since that
meeting.
VII. No Place for Hate
Ms. Hibino attended the last No Place for Hate meeting. She discussed the inquiries of Selectperson
Dawn McKenna.
VIII. Next Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for May 12, 2004. The meeting following that is June 9
The meeting was adjourned at 7.42 pm.