HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-02-29-CCTF-min Meeting
Community Center Task Force
Meeting February 29, 2012 Meeting Time/ 7:3 0pm, Legion Room
Date: Location Cary Memorial Hall
Members in Laura Hussong, chair Liaisons in Jane Trudeau, FCOA
Attendance: Jim Goell, vice chair Attendance: Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN
Tim Dugan, Florence Stephanie Lawrence, HSvc
Koplow, Lisah
Rhodes
Absent: Betty Borghesani, Guest:
Sophia Ho
The committee voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the January 26, 2012 meeting.
Laura reviewed the current status. There were conversations with Koren Stembridge at Cary
Library 1/27/12, Karen Simmons at the Rec Dept 2/2/12, Selectman Mauger, to get responses to
the interim report 2/8/12, and with Laurie Atwater of the Colonial Times 1/31/12 to talk about a
piece on the survey. We will continue talking to groups, including other Selectmen.
We will continue to refine questions for the survey, the current questions are mostly prototypes.
They need to be tested out, and we do that before going live in April.
We discussed focus groups and possibly doing a single-evening event that would be modeled on
the League of Women Voters Community Conversation. We discussed not doing focus groups
at all, since we can use data from 2020 Vision and League of Women Voters Community
Conversation focus groups. We only have the time and collective energy to concentrate on the
survey and publicity for it. The committee voted unanimously to defer doing focus groups or a
follow-on community conversation.
Lisah reported on the work she and Michelle C. have been doing on comparative communities.
She will email the committee the data items (comparison factors) they are examining.
We have a long list of sites we visited, and we need to choose five that are of primary interest.
For our report focus. We decided that Harwich, Weston and Wellesley are definitely important
to focus on. Remaining sites of interest are Chatham, Hingham, Sudbury and Newton, with
Sudbury and Newton making the cut for now.
How to publicize the survey, especially since the work of the CCTF has been under the town
radar. We can go to organizations like PTAs and give a short talk about our work. Get on
listserves for PTA, LexFUN, etc. Talk to Lexington Patch and Minuteman. Put a link on the
Lexington home page? We will, thanks to a suggestion from Koren Stembridge, create
Meeting Minutes
Community Center Task Force
bookmarks that librarians can give to everyone checking out books. Jane will pursue a design
for a bookmark.
For next meeting:
Finish survey questions
Design a bookmarkâJane will pursue
Next meeting will be to review survey questions and to strategize publicity
The meeting adjourned at 9:00PM. The next meeting of the CCTF will be scheduled via Doodle
poll.
Respectfully submitted by Laura Hussong