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COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Subcommittee of Board of Selectmen
The purpose is to help identify problem areas in community relations within Lexington
and to suggest possible means of coping with these problems
The suggested means by which this would be accomplished would include but not be
limited to the following
1 Developing and maintaining an improved channel of communication among involved
and interested parties
(a) Creating a climate of calm understanding of existing situations in which
dialogue (not to be confused with accusations, allegations, second and
third-hand reports of improper behavior by "them") can take place
(b) Accumulating and sorting out credible information which can serve a con-
structive community purpose from the total information received, and
using it to achieve the objective
2 Being an objective, non-investigative, information gathering, dialogue generat-
ing group
3 Seek out, analyze, evaluate and recommend to the appropriate parties courses of
action for consideration which might lead to problem solutions, or improvements
in the current difficult situation. This would include observation of those
activities currently producing potential confrontation situations
4 Refrain from any and all actions (including publicity) which would create im-
pressions of bias, self-interest or other positions prejudicial to the group's
objective
5 Seek out the underlying causes of the social behavior problems generating the
current tensions Suggest courses of action for correcting the root causes
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