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Lexington Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA)
Business Meeting Minutes
September 12,2017
Attendees: Jennifer Yaar, Kathy Cunningham, Christina Patti, Myriam Wright, Barbara White, Agnes
Chan, Kim Murray, Lisa O'Brien, Bettina McGimsey, Mona Roy, Meena Kurup, Elise Phair, Nicole
Diggins-Locher, Robin Abrams, Amy Marsili, Carissa Black
Location: Lexington Community Center, Room 237
Call to order: 9:07 am
Adjourned: 10:45 am
Reports of Officers
• Treasurer Report: For 2016-2017 school year, $3993 took in, $2000 spent. $345 in dues so far
in the 2017-2018 school year. Audit of 2016-2017 finances to be completed following the 9/12
business meeting. Members were reminded to use Amazon Smile as a way of donating
additional funds.
• SEPAC Membership: Lauren Onorato working on plan for driving membership numbers for
2017-2018 school year. All officers reminded to become SEPAC members.
Secretary Report: Open Meeting requests for all confirmed meetings have been submitted to
the Town Clerk. Continuing to work on confirming room request for Science Lecture Hall for
October 11 meeting.
Upcoming Meetings
• September 25 Parent Meet & Greet: Should have sign-up sheets from various subgroups. Will
have laptop so that attendees can sign up for membership at the meeting. Mona Roy and Carol
Millard to work on food and setup tasks.
• October 11: Dyslexia Film Screening.
• November 8: Nicole Diggins-Locher working on scheduling a speaker about goal-driven IEP
creation.
• Shut Up About Your Perfect Kids—request to move this meeting to March from the Lexington
Community Coalition.
• Lisa O'Brien to work on scheduling Basic Rights presentation on Dec 7 through MassPAC
Other Topics Discussed
• SEPAC Parent Survey to be postponed until 2018-2019 School year due to Human Rights
Coalition Survey that will focus on higher rates of suspension in African-American students and
students on IEPs.
• Development Learning Program (DLP) Audit Report will be finalized on September 15 and will
be presented to the School Committee (date TBD).
• Understanding Our Differences program to be piloted at the Harrington School during the 2017-
2018 school year. There is interest in the program from the Community Coalition as well. Lisa
O'Brien and Kathy Cunningham to follow up with Ellen Sugita about future plans for this effort.
• Carissa Black is working with the Lexington Recreation Department on vacation and summer
programming for students with special needs.
• Christina Patti is working on a special needs resource fair for the spring timeframe.