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Community Center Task Force
Meeting January 17, 2012 Meeting Time/ 7:30 pm, Legion Room,
Date: Location Cary Hall
1605 Mass. Ave
Members in Laura Hussong, chair Liaisons in Nancy Adler, LVW
Attendance: Jim Goell, Vice Chair Attendance: Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN
Betty Borghesani, Greg Zurlo, Planning
Tim Dugan, Sophia
Ho, Florence
Koplow, Lisah
Rhodes Guests: Barry Orenstein,Narain
Absent: Bhatia
Action Items:
• Florence and Sophia to work on Op Ed pieces
• Laura will call Laurie Atwater, draft questions for BoS, contact stakeholders
• Lisah will send out new Doodle poll for meeting date
The meeting began with the unanimous approval of the minutes of December 14, 2011.
This was our first opportunity to discuss the interim report to the Board of Selectmen on January
9, 2012. We were pleased to see the large number of attendees who were there for our report.
We discussed the data that we need to incorporate into our final report.
We should choose a few of the most relevant sites we visited and include their experiences.
Focus groups: these reach only a few people and are time and labor intensive. They are also
qualitative, where surveys are quantitative. If we rely primarily on surveys we will have much
more data. We should talk to Needham; they have the most robust survey mechanism and
interesting and supportive website.
Consider our original stakeholders a focus group. Go back to them and get their response to our
concept. Get buy-in and reassess needs.
We have a lot of data; how do we know what data we need to include. Board members requested
`data' in final report, but that doesn't tell us what. Ask them. What types of recommendations
do they see coming out of our study?
OpEds in Minuteman to get interest, visibility and leads for surveys. Colonial Times piece?
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Take the two concept slides from interim report. Use them to begin discussions/analysis with
stakeholders, demographic groups. 'Here is what already exists in Lexington. Here is our
vision, what do you think?'
The meeting adjourned at 9:50 PM. The next meeting of the CCTF will be scheduled for week
of January 23 by Lisah using Doodle.
Respectfully submitted by Laura Hussong