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Meeting Minutes from July 17, 2024
Members: Victoria Buckley (Chair), Sue Cusack, Shaun Grady, Leonard Morse-Fortier,Janet
Perry, Nancy Wong
Town Liaisons: Kelly Axtell, Deputy Town Manager;Joe Pato, Select Board;Jim Kelly, Building
Commissioner
Committee Liaisons: Pam Lyons, Center Committee; Stephanie Hsu, Human Rights Committee
A meeting of the Commission on Disability was held on Tuesday,July 16, 2024, 5:45 PM —7:15
PM via zoom.
Pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open
Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §18, and the Governor's March 15, 2020 and subsequent Orders
imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting
of the Lexington Commission on Disability will be conducted via remote participation to the
greatest extent possible.
On July 16, 2022, Governor Baker signed into Law an Act Relative to Extending Certain State of
Emergency Accommodations, which, among other things, extends the expiration of the
provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2023.
On March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed a bill that continues remote and hybrid meeting
provisions that were enacted during the pandemic. The new law extends pandemic-related
authorizations that were set to expire on March 31 as follows:
• Allowing remote and hybrid meeting options for public bodies through March 31, 2025.
Announcements
Review of minutes from June
June minutes will be shared for review at our next meeting.
Collaborative Reform—ideas for summit and going ahead
They met on July 16th and decided to create a plan that supports town employees in sharing
their extensive resources among each other.
Plan to address school data disparities, possibly partnering with ABCL [Association of Black
Citizens in Lexington] and others
The speakers were not able to make our meeting, but there is a problem in Lexington with
disproportionate representation related Suspension Rates. Stephanie Hsu offered to find the
Disparities Report prepared by the district.
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New Business
• 329-331 Concord Avenue I MBTA Project related to Low Income Housing
o Planning Board Meeting will be held on July 31"at 6:00pm about this project. A
link to access Zoom meetings may be found online
at: https://www.lexingtonma.gov/377/Access-Virtual-Meetings
o Pam Lyons, in her role on the Transportation Committee offered that they
suggested to the developers the contributing a Bus Shelter and donations to the
Traffic Mitigation Fund.
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• 89 Bedford Street—Jim would like to ask the developer to present the project.
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• Update on the sidewalk at Hastings School, a concern initiated by Janet Perry, will be
reviewed by Jim this summer.
• Joe Pato clarified that in Overlay Locations, you can replace a single family dwelling with
a multi-family structure.
Meeting Adjourned 6:45