HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-11-13-FHC-min.pdf Fair Housing Committee Minutes 11 / 13/91
Present Gerri Weathers Chairman ; Florence Baturin
Peter Brown ; Mary Haskell ; Bill Spencer
Steve Baran Fair Housing Director ( recorder )
Absent Jim Brannon Leona Martin Bob Pressman
The Minutes of 10/9/91 were corrected as follows Peter
Brown and Florence Baturin listed as present were absent The
St John Church Baptist Church is located in Woburn (38 Everett
St) not Cambridge
Gerri reported that she had discussed with Jacquie Smith the
possibility of a Selectmen response to recent incidents involving
the painting of swastikas Jacquie had welcomed this and
suggested that the Committee should send the Selectmen a draft of
a possible statement Florence said that she would try to locate
a position statement that had been prepared by a college or
university
Steve reported on diversity training that ha been held for
Town Department Heads on November 13 The training had been very
well received with many ideas for follow up There was some 1
discussion about follow-up including more training with corporate
( sponsorship and a report to the press
Peter reported further activity on the creation of a bank
consortium under the Community Reinvestment Act There was
evidence of interest from Bedford Arlington and Belmont as noted
by Laura White the Lexington Savings Bank Community Reinvestment
Officer He said that he planned to examine a consortium on Cape
Cod known as Cape Cod 5
Bill reported that Rita Sullivan supported the idea of
making a flyer available to applicants alerting them about the
readiness of the Fair Housing Committee to assist them with
questions about Lexington
Gerri said that she had received a letter from the MCAD
Chairman Michael T Duffy to the effect that Marlena Richardson
had been named as the Director of the Metropolitan Boston Housing
Opportunity Clearing Center also known as the METROLIST The
letter came with a Community Resource Questionnaire Steve was
asked to complete the questionnaire and return to Marlena
Richardson together with a copy of the Fair Housing brochure