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Minutes of Meeting
December 41 2024
By Zoom Teleconference
Members Present:
Glen Bassett, Geetha Paclaki, co-chairs
Linda Dixon., David Grabel, Cerise Jalelian, Lorain Marquis, Sandy
Podgorski, Ashley Rooney, Sue Stering, Pam Winter
VSO Officer: Karen Tyler
Members not Present:
Bonnie Karshbaum, Gresh Lattimore, Hong Xi, Jamie Lee, Mary Hutton,
Mirela Vaso, Perla Walling-Sotolong, Sondra Lucente, Steve Cole, Sudha
Balasuryan
Yifang Gong
Housekeeping:
• Meeting called to order at 7:06 PM
• The minutes for November 6 were corrected and approved as
modified.
• Glen needed someone to take minutes due to Gresh's absence.
Lorain volunteered.
Next Steps:
• The team discussed the "Lessons learned" for Veterans Day. They
discussed whether we should have the breakfast, ceremony and
the parade for Veterans Day on the same weekend. The breakfast
should be the 1st Saturday of the month and the parade should be
on Veterans Day. We discussed Patriots Day 2025 and reviewed
the budget for Lex 250. We discussed the parade route and the
staking of the units. It is going to be quite a challenge.
• David to send the parade unit spreadsheet to Ashley and Suzie.
• David to send out acceptance letters for "no brainer" parade units,
stating details to follow.
• Linda to submit Lex Veterans' parade application.
• Pam to continue working on obtaining permission from the FAA
for a flyover at the beginning of the parade.
• David was requested to share the parade spreadsheet with Suzie.
We have 124 units totaling $99,000.00. Dave shared information
about some of the units that might make a difference in
acceptance.
• Wilson's Farms has chosen not to participate in the parade due to
the day being day before Easter.
• Jamie to reach out to Charlie Price asking him to be Grand
Marshal of the parade.
• Sue will ask Plimoth Patuxet Museums to contact Cathy Severance
regarding their request for an information table.
• David to provide an update to the Lancers within 2 weeks
regarding their parade application.
• Discussion about handouts at the parade.
• Dance Around the World, March 8, 2025.
Lex 250 Invitations going out, no other new information
• Ashley and Linda to proceed with planning the Memorial Day
event using the "Songs of the Era" theme.
• Glen to contact Suzie Barry regarding the process for creating the
Patriots' Day trifold.
• Questions came up regarding our participation in the re-
enactment.
• Questions came up about the position of the reviewing stand.
• Parade stepping off on Maple Street.
• Discussion about units being political being referred to the Select
Board. We really cannot say "no".
Motion made to adjourn the meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM
The next meeting: 12/18/2024
Respectfully submitted,
Lorain Marquis