HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-12-04-YC-min.pdf LEXINGTON YOUTH COMMISSION MINUTES
December 4, 1975
PRESENT Ellen Boyle, Sue Abkowitz, Jeanne Hathaway, Nancy Abelmann,
Joe Barringer, Robert Bayliss, Alfred Busa, Tracy Dickerman,
Paul Ferguson, Paul Furdon, Jeff Spencer, Richard Wertheim.
Ellen called the meeting to order at 7 35 The first
order of business was the sighing of the acknowledgement of the
open meeting law Each member df the Commission is required to
read the open meeting law (effective Jan 1, 1975) and must sign
the acknowledgement of its receipt. If you were not at the last
meeting, there are copies of these papers enclosed to be read,
filled out and returned
Ellen reported that Mary and Cindy Lescalleet will meet
with a representative from the Minuteman sometime next week The
committee's attention was then turned towards the revisions of the
By-Laws A brief discussion took place over whether or not we
should include a statement concerning the frequency of ourmmeetings
The decision was finally made to add the following statements to
section 3 (a) . The end of this section should now read "The entire
Commission shall be called to meet monthly A quorum shall consist
of ten members All meetings shall be open to the public and subject
to the open meeting law, " The Commission eventually voted unani-
mously to accept the By-Laws with this ammendement, and Mr. Busa
will present them to the Board of Selectmen
The question of our involvement in Youth Day also sparked
a conflict of ideas Mr Busa commented that we should not get
involved in too many or too varied projects or none will be too
successful Nancy said that if we concentrated too much on Youth
day that it would detract from other, more pressing youth issues
The question of the actual purpose of the Y C. was raised We
are supposed to represent the problems of the youth to the town
and promote better communication and relationships between these
two We should make sure that there are enough activities for
the youth, but not neccessarily plan them ourselves It was
decided that the committee was still in favor of a Youth day, but
come April, it would not be our major concern, and we will also
be involved in more pressing issues
Ellen suggested that we move the date out of April, and
put it in a month that has few exciting activities Paul suggest-
ed that we sponser or oversee Youth events every couple of months.
These decisions will be up to the subcommittee which will hopefully
consist of outside members interested in planning Youth day.
As for the other committees, the Youth Directory needs
to get more information from Chris Anderson before they can begin
their work Mary and Ellen will talk to Mr O'Connell about our
part in the Youth Employment Service Nancy will gather info on
a program of the American Bar Assoc. which raises conciousness
in Constitutional rights. If this info applies to us, she will
present it to us at the next-meeting The meeting was adjourned
at 8 40 /VExT MEETAIG- g I UESDAY , DEC. 16 x,30