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Yes. Now that we are recording, um, let us try to, uh, Juliana, can you do your motion again for the minutes? >> You're on mute. >> Juliana, you're on mute.

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Sorry, I didn't know how to work my phone either. [laughter] >> Motion to approve the minutes. [cough] [clears throat] >> I'll second it. >> I >> I >> I All right, I see Kim is coming in now.

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Hello, Kim. >> Hi. Thank you. Coming in hot. Photo. >> Coming in hot. Boom. [laughter] >> Last one, baby. >> I know. I miss you already, girls. [laughter] Um, and I'll keep my eye on this attendance thing, too, to see if I can promote people. So, we were just, um,

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talking about the upcoming events. Uh, tomorrow, uh, Kathy is going to be making it to Creek Alley, a tribute to American folk music and 1960s folk rock. Um, and then, >> yeah, it sounds like it's going to be a blast. And then, Actton Community Chorus

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has their spring pops concert, movie night, the 12th and 13th. And then this weekend and next weekend, the uh child's play theater in Actton has the the great race, the story of the Chinese zodiac. Oh, so that those are the three upcoming

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things. And then I think the only things that are really left is like the thing for um you know, summer reading and then ongoing, you know, things that are kind of ongoing um are are all happening. And we have one in the fall which is the one for um the Russell Street and um Shaker Lane

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Cultural Fair. I think it's like food trucks or something. That's for like September. So we won't we'll see that in probably our August meeting. [clears throat] Um so next up is as we mentioned it is Kim and Jen's last meetings with us.

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So, I think uh just to have it on record, the council I think speak for everyone when we say we want to express our gratitude to both of you for your dedicated service and all of your valuable contributions during your term apostrophe s for those who have multiple

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terms uh on the cultural council and um extending you our best wishes and thanks that um you're continuing your service probably elsewhere and don't be strangers. If you have any good cultural ideas, send it to us anyways. >> Thank you. I'm sure you'll see. And if you know anybody, >> both of us around. Yes.

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>> Yes. Oh, yeah. I mean, you guys are not uh not the type to stay inside the house and not be involved. So, I'm sure we'll see [laughter] you. >> We'll be around. >> Um, next was just sort of this FYI about this uh thing from Greg Turales, our um liaison that he's having on Monday.

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There's this local fundraising check-in Zoom that he's doing. He had sent an email back on April 29th and I think Melissa reshared it more recently. Uh we were not one of the councils that was like specifically asked to come to the meeting. You know, he had some that he wanted to report out, but we weren't on

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that list. So, it's there. I think just as an FYI if people wanted to go and see. I don't know if Ry was planning on going. Like, it's sort of it's like a financial check-in. So, I don't know if Ray was planning on going or not, but I just put it in there as sort of a like

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carryover old business FYI situation. [clears throat] I guess >> speaking of finding people in the wild, slightly off topic, but [clears throat] I got to see Rey out in the wild at the financial literacy fair at the high school a couple of weeks ago,

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>> and that was nice to see a a fellow volunteer somewhere else doing something completely different. And it was nice to see him. Yeah. >> Yes, it is good to see each other out and about. I saw several of you and people at uh the the middle school play

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which was awesome. And um you know Ray's daughters run at my daughter um and we saw a lot of you there. So thanks for the support always. >> It was wonderful. >> It was so good. I love that they had uh you know it was written by a high school junior and I just love that.

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>> And it was funny. It was I was so pleasantly surprised because I I mean knowing that a kid wrote it because he's so young. >> You you My expectations were not I loved it. I laughed. I I loved everything that the kids did great. >> They did. They did. So they're they're

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all waiting with baited breath for the announcement of what the musical is going to be in the fall. They still haven't announced it yet. So that's big thing. Yeah, it should be good. >> Um I don't think Ray said he didn't need a treasurer's report. There really wasn't much to report. We only have

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three outstanding packets that people haven't turned in at all, which is amazing. Like awesome. >> Um, >> and have you gotten your reimbursement, Kiki? Cuz I haven't, but I'm guessing process. Okay, good. I'm sure.

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>> I know. Yeah, I know that he did send it, but I'm sure it's just Yeah, it seems like it takes like the full six to eight weeks to get that stuff going. >> Okay, that's >> Yeah. So, and I have had a couple of inquiries just on the email of people who were looking for checks and and

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kudos to Rey if he sees this recording um for his diligent entries of like the dates and stuff. So, I was able to say to them, according to our records, the town sent you a check on this date. So, let me know, you know, here's who you can contact if you don't have it, but like our part's over, >> you know. Um so, yeah. So, we only have

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three left. Like I said, one of them isn't until is not until the fall. So, I'm thinking maybe they're just waiting. I did send them an email just to say, "Hey, you don't have to wait." Like, you can submit it now um and get your paperwork at least going, but um so that's great for us. So, we shouldn't have a ton of of that kind of thing. I

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mean, they have until um I think February before it would, you know, roll back anyway. So, I think we're in really good shape with that. Yeah. And I did see that the reimbursements did go to the town. So, that part is in process. Um and then I the little town in Bloom

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spreadsheet I did update. So, we did spend less than we had budgeted. So, that's great. So, we've got a little leftover cushion in there. >> Um, >> I have a few stems and I picked up one tipped over sign and stuck it in my car

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and fixed it. So, I'll play I'll return that to Ray um at the same time as this the stems. >> Oh, awesome. Amazing. You do you feel like you're doing like a jig in your in your space? You have like tons of extra

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room now. [laughter] If you ask my boys, they're like, "What is happening here?" [laughter] If any of you saw my Instagram post, I don't have a dining table because it's at a client's house. >> Oh, no. >> And so furniture just comes and goes

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here. And often I have far more than I need. And then occasionally what we really do need is missing. So [laughter] >> they get their plates like, "Where are we sitting?" >> I was like, "Mom, >> totally fine. Totally fine. Suck it up, kids. Paying the bills." >> That's right. Welcome to our life.

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[laughter] >> Oh, that's awesome. >> Um, yeah. So, I think our our kind of biggest discussion here is number six, which is the review and reconsideration of the uh mission statement and maybe a discussion of any revisions. I know uh

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Juliana, you were passionate about this as well. Um, I had sent if I can figure out how to share with my screen here, I will send >> I saw what you I read what you what you shared. Um, yeah. And so I I kind of went online when I was on I was in there doing

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something else and I thought, "Oh, I should see what other people have, you know, why not uh we don't need to reinvent the wheel, right?" And um >> Absolutely. >> And so I was thinking, "Oh, we should Oh, here it is. Okay. I did figure out how to do it." All right. I don't know if you can see that. >> Yeah. >> Okay, great. So these are just some of

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the local um >> ones that I just, you know, just our our area. And then um so these were their mission statements, right? which is sort of what they just have like as their information session. And then there was also the secondary uh piece which we

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don't need to address really until um August uh which is the like the procedures and policies document which historically we have used sort of the information we got from our community um survey to sort of um touch on the topics

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but I don't I did send out the one from Chumsword which I did kind of like I'm sorry there's noise um which I did sort of like in the uh the way that they sort of broke it down saying like oh we're giving priority to things from Chelmsford and even where they said you know things won't all like everything

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wouldn't be totally funded just to kind of put that FYI out there I kind of liked so I don't know if anybody wants to start the discussion or have conversation about it >> I mean we talked about this a little bit already so you Kiki you know kind of

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where I'm coming from with this like I really liked what Schumpster done too I did not like that they said nothing more than 3500 or whatever that particular item was simply because I found that

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in any sort of application you know an and and an an a grant application a response to proposals whatever it is if you if you give people a number it changes how they're thinking about things so my preference would be to not put a number like that anywhere

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>> um The other thing I wondered which I hadn't thought about before but it it do we need like does this need broader approval or is this just our decision as a council? >> You know that's a great question. I don't know. I think that I know on the

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actual MCC website we can just change that. I think you know on this town website but I don't think that this is anything that is had been voted on previously. We can, you know, ask Diane Corey about that, but I don't think unless we were really changing,

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you know, something dramatic and and the the I know that the the policies and procedures we can just vote on ourselves and put put forward because that's what we've typically done before, but I'm not 100% sure about the actual um mission statement because if you look at these,

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they all seem sort of like generic similar to ours, right? Where it's just, you know, members are appointed or it's a volunteer community, whatever. So, I think we're sort of talking about two different things. Like one is the mission statement. Yes. >> Yeah. And then two is the the policies

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and procedures piece. And um so I'm going to try and see. I'm using my iPad so I can't always get everything. But let me see if I can pull up our actual the one that we have now. You know, our current um >> I will also say that I think it's well worth just even if it's minor tweaks

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updating. >> Yeah, I agree. I know like Juliana had talked about the language, you know, that it was said select men and that doesn't match what uh the town uses, right? Is that what you were saying? >> I can't. >> Yeah, it's it's select board and the

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town uses Sorry. It's select men and the town uses select board because there is a lady. [laughter] >> Yeah. So, I mean, even just basic stuff like that, we should probably be at least matching. You know what I mean? >> Okay, here we go. Here's our page. So,

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let me try and share this. I get back to our Zoom meeting here. Sorry, I'm just talking to myself. >> We're all listening. [laughter] >> And of course, my iPad's decided to be like, "Oh, let's let's do something strange and make it really small." Okay,

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share. Oh, okay. I don't use the iPad that much to be honest with you, so I'm kind of like You'd be It's I'm surprised at least how different it is. You can't just click on an open window. You have to like paste in the URL. Okay. Uh website URL, P and share. Let's

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see. Here we go. So, that's our current uh mission statement. So, I don't know how if you want to go about like just having conversation

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right now or you want to me to like live type it over here as we make changes or or what people's thoughts are beyond um you know the the the changing of the language instead of saying board of selectmen to to match. >> I'm sorry Kiki because I'm in my phone

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and I don't have my glasses. I cannot read it. Could you can you read it? >> Oh, sure. Thank you. >> Yeah. So, it says uh the Littleton Cultural Council, whose members are appointed by the board of selectmen, supports community cultural projects through its grant program. Funds are received from the Massachusetts Cultural

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Council, whose mission is quote to promote excellence, access, education, and diversity in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences in order to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents and to contribute to the economic vitality of our communities.

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So, I think my biggest concern with this >> is and has been that it doesn't say what our mission is. Right. Right. >> It only says what the Cultural Council, the the Massachusetts Cultural Council's broader mission is.

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>> I think we need at least at least one sentence that talks about Littleton, >> right? So yeah, I would start by changing the select men for sure and then I agree it

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would be great to add something more specific. Um, if you'd like, I'm happy to draft like a sentence or two and then just circulate it around everyone and we can kind of go back and forth over edits.

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>> Yeah, that was I was going to suggest. Does anybody want to take this on as their little their little tiny project? I'm I'm happy to be a starting point with the understanding that whatever I send out will not be the end point. >> Yeah. Oh, that sounds great.

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>> Awesome. Thank you. >> And I wonder >> something out this week. >> Just just to get you going, Sarah, I wonder if it's necessary to like if we want to do it more local, right? Do we really need the the mission of the big

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council from Massachusetts? Maybe we cuz you don't want this mission to be super long. Right. >> Right. >> So I I maybe if we if we really want to focus in something local, I would scratch it. That's my advice. But you whatever you bring out will be great, I'm sure, and we can tweak it.

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>> I I I like that idea, too, because we want the focus to be Littleton. That being said, I'm not entirely sure whether that's required, >> but we can be. I mean, it can be. It's a part of the m Massachusetts cultural

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council and you put the link right like you you like others other towns do. So if people are interested in knowing what the mission of that thing is then you click right but this is just little. >> Yeah it seems like >> that's way we can check check yes it is

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included but not literally. Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's any requirements here because as you look at these others, you know, they don't, a lot of them don't even mention that they're part of it. You know, it's very generic. It's basically just, you know, how is it appointed? You know, are you

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volunteers or are you appointed? I think most are the same. And then just a generic kind of, >> you know, what do we do? But I I like Chumsford. I feel like I'm picking on them. But how it does say, you know, uh in projects that serve Chumsford and the surrounding communities, you know, that we're sort of bringing it a little more

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local. That's how that's what I feel too. >> Yeah. Perfect. >> So, I don't I don't remember ever seeing anything about a requirement in your mission statement to connect with the cultural coun the Massachusetts Cultural Council, but I'll I'll I'll touch base with Greg and just make sure that we get

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it right. >> Yeah. And even if you go on to that MCC, they have that little like uh LCC toolbox and there's a lot of FAQs in there. So, there might even the answer might even be in that, too. Good point. >> I just had a team match.

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>> Uh so I I will I will try to have a starting point for everybody this week. >> Great. Thank you. >> Here, I'll share the agenda now that I figured out how to do this. >> Maybe you can even do a percentage. You know, we we focus on Littleton first and

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when the money goes out, we like all of the rest of you, but first Littleton. >> Yeah. And I I do think that um we should put that into our policies and and procedures, which I think we we have historically talked about that more in our August meeting. Um, and so I think

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that that's good point to to make sure that we're kind of being clear about that because I think that's what people are looking at when they're submitting an application, you know. Um, and I think we could probably tweak that to really get a little more specific and talk about, you know, our other sort of

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requirements, but the venue and all that >> and the fact that they need to include, you know, remember we said that if they didn't have like a support letter from whatever the venue was, like if because that way it's easier to eliminate, you know, the extras that

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don't don't have the requirements. >> Yeah. And I think it also sets people up more for a successful application because we're being really intentional about what we're sort of >> we want you to do it right so that you can be considerate consider that is that like that is very much it. We want to

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make sure that you know how to do this >> you get it right and we can say >> yes bring your art here. >> Yeah. Um, I I can I can do a like a real rough cut on some of that with

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kind of the initial mission statement rewrite. So just to start the conversation more than to finalize that part, but so we can start thinking about things like I don't know how we word and we would

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also like to um support arts nearby and can can you tell me a little bit more about what you were thinking about the percentage comments? Um I I didn't have a percentage in my mind but thinking you know we want to

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make sure that a greater quantity of our of local money goes towards our local endeavors. I would I would use the word prioritize because we don't know right because we you don't know what we don't know what

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the applications would be and I absolutely agree that we will always put Littleton first but if we just say prioritize then that means if you're from a different town then you're not in our priority but we will still look at you right and if you are Littleton come

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show up ask for it right because we are seeing you first or something like that right so just using the word priority I think we'll cover that and and make it clear. >> Yeah, that makes that makes sense to me too. I'll >> And during the application process,

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they're going to see who we have funded in the past. So, it isn't like it's only Littleton. So, [clears throat] I think that's perfectly fine, right? It shows yes over here and also >> we're not terrible. [laughter] >> Um, yeah, thank you. And Sarah, I think

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it's great if you want to do both, but if anybody else is feeling like, you know, they they want to jump into that, feel free to speak up, too, so we can spread the wealth, especially as we some of us speed toward our our

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last year here. >> Well, and and just to be clear, like I really am picturing anything I send out as very much a starting point that I hope everyone else will have a significant amount of input into. I don't know if everybody saw the one

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from Chumsford, but I thought that I I did enjoy there. And I can send you I know that I have it the um doc like the language that we had used in the past >> um that sort of had our little bullet points. But I do think we could, you know, really expand upon it and take

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this opportunity to sort of get it um really clear because I think maybe in the past we had sort of been kind of vague, maybe thinking purposefully so that people would would apply and I think maybe that was back in the days when we, you know, were maybe not

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getting as many applications, but I feel like those days are gone. Um, so this is for anybody who didn't see it. Um, and I agree with what you said, Sarah. Like I I I don't love the idea of putting no applicant shall receive more than X amount, you know. They also, I think,

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have they had like I think 11,000 to give out and, you know, so they have like twice what we have. Oh, 20, you know, so they, you know, are maybe doing it in that regard. But, but I did like how it was very like Chumsburg focused, but it wasn't too much, you I saw I

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think it was um Westford had like a it was like seven or eight paragraphs. It was like insane. So I was kind of like who's reading all of this, you know? So I think, you know, I like I like this idea of sort of, you know, um show clear evidence that you're benefiting

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residents. Show additional sources of collaboration. And I do think it's important for us to put maybe partially funded. That way people have a good >> Yeah. >> like expectation coming in. you know that if you're asking for $1,000, you're probably not going to get the thousand. You know, not to say you wouldn't, you

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know, but >> agree. >> I'm just what we've talked about letters of support and >> Okay, so yeah, that was a good one I thought to to sort of look at. So, let me get

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back to our agenda. >> I agree. I like that one. It's clean. It's It's short enough that it's easy to like go over every point and still retain it all. So, I I'll I'll do something similar for us at least in

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terms of scope. >> Awesome. [clears throat] Um, thank you Sarah. Thank you. just a starting point open for lots and lots of discussion.

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>> Um and then the only thing left is our FY27 grant cycle planning. Believe it or not, it will be here before you know it. So um they h it hasn't said the deadline yet, but it's typically like August 28th is when we have to have those priorities

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and um procedures in. and we have historically used the um community survey as our sort of jumping off point. Um so we have just done like a Google form, you know, through our our

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our Gmail or whatever our, you know, our our Google Drive and um just sort of asked generic questions, ask people to rank them. That's kind of what we've done with our with the third Thursdays where we have um used that that table not only just to for people to see, you

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know, like who we are, but also um to try and get parents to fill that out while their kid is making a suncatcher, etc. Um I haven't heard if they're doing third Thursdays. I don't know if anybody else has any information. I know that >> heard I haven't heard I've been looking.

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I know any information. >> Is it parks and wreck? >> Parks and wreck. Yeah. And I know I had seen like an announcement of um Oh, I don't have my video on. Jeez. Um Oh, here I am. Uh that they have been I know that you know Cass obviously left and

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now Tim has left. He's over in Actton now at uh as a director of their parks and wreck. So, I know I don't know if they're hiring, but I had seen some kind of a post that said when they canceled the touch a truck, you know, that they were sort of focusing with their uh personnel shifts that they were just trying to get up and running for the summer.

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>> So, the a little piece wonders if they're not doing that. >> I have a friend who's at the like she's in park and parks and w so I can reach out to her and ask if they're doing this third Thursdays. >> Yeah, that would be great. or even if they're doing anything over the summer

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that we could, you know, tag ourselves into a little bit just to get that survey out there, but also, you know, to bring art to the to the community. >> Well, and I think this goes right back to like when we when I had trouble reaching them about Little T and Bloom,

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right? Like Rachel is also gone. So, that's right. Relatively small organization, that's a lot of turnover. >> Yeah. Yeah. I hadn't even realized that Tim um had left until I knew Rachel had, but I hadn't realized that Tim had left

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until uh I I actually somebody reached out to me from Actton about their Fourth of July celebration because they they I'm going to sing the national anthem there in God Bless America and they were like, "Oh, our colleague Tim knows you." And I was like, "Wait a minute, Tim's not in Littleton anymore." I was like, [laughter] "That's probably why he

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didn't call me back about the soccer thing either." Um um because I just had his work cell phone number which probably does is like no one's even looking at but anyway. Yeah. So I don't know. So I don't know what's going to happen there but yeah that'd be great Juliana if you um have a contact there and you can get us a little little intel.

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>> Yeah. >> I was going to go there tomorrow because I've been dealing with Nate over a parking pass and stuff for Long Lake. So >> Oh yeah. I got to do that too. >> I can I can do it in person. See what he knows. I texted my friend, so I'm sure

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she'll come back. I know there's a parks and wreck meeting right now, >> so she might not see my text, but she'll respond. So, I'll let you guys know. And >> let us know so you can Yeah. >> And if these things work out, I can

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reach out to Alysia, too, and see if I can get her ear for a couple minutes and see if she has any info. Would that be something you can do at the Fourth of July thing >> somehow? >> Well, usually Third Thursdays happens

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June, July, and August. So, I feel like um that's part of why I feel like we would have heard something if they were doing it, but they have cancelled. They have not done the one in June before just because of like the last day of school, which I think is on the third Thursday this year. So, um they I know it's the 18 I'm pretty sure it's the

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18th. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's >> Yeah. which is which is the yeah which is the third Thursday. So I don't know if they would do it and they're going to do it in July or what but um >> yeah or if there's anything that they're doing that maybe is a community thing

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but segueing into that is our community service survey for FY27. Um, and so for the last three years, I've just done that. But I'm happy to if anybody wants to, you know, take on something and have something to do, uh,

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you know, feel free to I'm happy to pass it on. I don't have to own it. Basically, it's pretty simple. I take last year's Google form. I hit duplicate form, and then, uh, we look at it and sort of just, you know, change up some of the the questions because, I mean,

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it's pretty generic. It's about, you know, what kinds of art do you want to see? What kinds of focus? And it's a lot of open-ended questions because we're really trying to get people to give us their information. So, I try not to have too many um, you know, clickings. I think right now it's a little too long

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like it has too many that scrolls across. Somebody was telling me when you use an iPad, but because I was looking on a computer. So, um, that's that's something usually we put out like in July. So, if you in the next couple weeks, unless someone is burning right now to do it and wants to raise their hand, but if you think about that you

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want to do something, like I said, it's pretty low-key. You just need to make the form and then when it closes, download the spreadsheet and uh send it to us. So, it's it's pretty low-key. I'm happy to continue doing it, but if uh has a burning desire to do it, let me

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know. I would say that's worth uh just a broader email too. Maybe there are people that couldn't be here today that'd be interested. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> And did all the new people join up or how did

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>> Yeah. So that I'll put that under other business because when I had to submit this um agenda like to get us legal, I hadn't heard back from the town yet. But um I'll segue into that now. So, uh, I did finally hear back about the application. So, I think, um, just to

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refresh everyone's memory, at the end of the last meeting, we had sort of communicated to those new people that they should not fill out the application because at that point, it was still this like first come, first serve, auto approve situation, and we had talked about wanting to, you know, actually see

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the applications and have conversation. Uh, and so I didn't want to encourage people to fill it out and then get us into this pickle where suddenly these people had got because I mean that's happened before where in the time that I've been on the council where suddenly someone would just come to the meeting and be like, "Oh yeah, I was sworn in at the select board." And we were like,

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"Oh, never. That's the first we're hearing about it." >> Oh god. >> Um, okay. Well, beyond the new welcome, you know. Um, so I didn't want to have that happen, you know, and also because people who are uh reapplying needed have to have time because that I also was

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worried about that that if six people applied before let's say Melissa or Sarah or anybody put theirs in, now the board is full, right? So anyway, I did hear back from Dian Corey uh like on it was after the agenda had to be printed. So she has started sending the applica

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new applicant and then I ended up sending an email to everyone um who came to the meeting and then there were some people who had expressed interest but like couldn't come you know to the meeting uh and so I sent them a pretty detailed email that was like here's the link here's this here's that um and

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there was also another person who reached out organically that hadn't come to the meeting and must have seen some residual post from back when we were posting about it um who was looking for the application and said that that she had filled it out. So hopefully um Diane will just forward them to us and I think

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um we'll just I don't know. I mean I guess that's another conversation we need to talk about like what are we doing with them because we've never had this experience where we've had more openings. Well, I don't know, right? Because we don't know if they're going to actually apply or not. So we did have the one application from Jenna Lamb who was here on the meeting.

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>> I think [laughter] I think it might be Jane. Yes, >> Jane. Oh, is it Jane? Yes. Um, but then >> she has a she has a background in arts and music. >> Yes. Uh, but Diane did let me know that she applied for five different boards at the same time. And so I don't know that

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if she's gonna [laughter] >> Yeah. So she's going to get on another one or if you or if that even factors into the decision. So I don't know if she's just trying to look to get involved >> or whatever. I haven't actually clicked on the application. Um, >> I also kind of wonder if that was

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intentional because like the the forum is not as straightforward as it could be, >> right? True. Yeah. And it is one application for every open position. Um, but you do do have to click on the ones you're interested in. So, um, yeah. So,

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I don't know. Um, because we just got ours and so she had sent other ones. But, yeah. So, that's that's another just a I mean Diane was kind of like, oh, you just make sure just FYI. Um, and so I don't know what what that means, but >> so she lives I'm going to go with across

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the street from Judy, but very nearby. So I can ask Judy to like check in. >> They are neighbors. I remember her saying that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So we can we can have Judy like pick her brain and see is she particularly interested in this or is this just like

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one of the many things that might work and where her priorities are. >> Yeah. And there's no I mean it's not to say you can't be on multiple boards of course but um yeah so we'll see. I think you know I like I said I just sent that email out the day I heard that from Diane which I think was on Tuesday it

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was either Tuesday or Wednesday. I'd have to look but very recently. So you know we'll give these people a chance to actually fill out the application and um so as we get them I think um they come in like an email you know um and so we can just for I can just for them and we

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can look at them. I do think we're probably going to have to have some kind of a conversation if we do end up I I don't know if the best course of action is to say like let's have a a date, you know, where we say like okay, whatever application I mean maybe by the next meeting, right? But um

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which is I mean we should still have quorum because we're really only l because you guys are reoping so we're only down two. So if we have everybody is able to come in July, we could have that conversation and say let's see what we have on that July meeting. And then >> but that being said, this is probably a

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conversation that would be more appropriate in executive committee rather than >> right then. Yeah, exactly. So, I think we'll have to see um because the other thing is, you know, people people can come to the meeting, you have to actually fill out the application, right? So, we may only get one

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application. It might be a moot point, right? So, um yeah. So, that's kind of the where we are with that. But at least now we're not on the auto approval, which is good because I think that um you know, I think it's I think it's always worthwhile to see the application before we're just automatically

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approving it or that we don't even know about it, you know. >> Agreed. Thank you for reaching out to Diane to make that happen, Kiki. >> Oh, yeah. No problem. >> Yeah, I just kept getting my all and saying following up about this again.

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>> Yes. Like the the followup is huge because like honestly I had completely forgotten >> and we talk every month or more and I still couldn't remember to get the application in. So, I'm I'm I'm glad you reached

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out. Oh yeah. Um, yeah. So, that's it for the official agenda. I don't know if people have anything else to discuss, thoughts. Um, I don't know if this is

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something I should say where we're taping, but if you find people that you think would be better qualified than me being on for another 3 years, I am perfectly fine with that and I can still help out at events and things like

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that. But where you have more people and you, you know, fill the board with what's going to be the best fit for everybody. >> I'm not going anywhere from I know [laughter] >> what >> you can't get away from us that easy,

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Kathy. >> Yeah. Well, and and I think that like thinking about that and saying things like that are exactly why you should stay. [laughter] Plus, as my as uh my granny used to say, you know, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, right? We don't we

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really only have one actual application. [laughter] >> Well, I put mine in and then I got something from town hall, but I did it. >> I did get yours letter or something. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Everybody who is re-uping is all in the three of you. Um we have and

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then so just brand new. So that means we it we would just have two to fill because we were sort of, you know, in flux about about how many open positions we even had. So it looks like officially we will have two open positions uh to fill starting I guess it would be July

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1st technically. >> Um so yeah, I think we could see what comes in. Yeah, I'll definitely forward Jane's application so people can look at that one because that's the first one that's come in. Um, I didn't hear back, now I'm saying this out loud, I didn't hear back from her about um that woman,

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Maria, who had put in the application back in >> uh I think it was like in September when we didn't actually have an opening. Um my question was sort of like is her application still sitting there like or does it expire? Like does she have to do another one? And so um yeah, Diane

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didn't get back to me about that, but she's out there too which I kind of feel like she came to a meeting. She seemed really enthusiastic. So, and she does technically have an application out there. So, I think if she's still interested, it's worth at least reaching out to her um to see.

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And that could be that might be her, too. I don't know. >> Yeah. Oh, it is. It's a great problem to have. I was like, "Oh, we like we've never faced this before." >> Amazing. And and if if those are our two, we can always tell the other people

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that they can still be involved. Like they don't have to be official council members to to meetings, come to Third Thursdays if it's still a thing, like that kind of stuff, >> right? Totally. I agree. >> Paint flowers, butterflies,

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>> right? >> Reach out to organizations that you know. Yeah. My four-year-old granddaughter came with me and was helping when we were pulling them out of the ground. She was carrying them to raise car. >> I love that. >> That's awesome.

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>> Community ready to be on be a volunteer. [laughter] >> Yeah, there you go. I know. I've I've volunttoled my daughter uh as well several times over the years. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Okay. Say something. >> I'm just gonna miss you all so terribly.

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>> A >> I know you've been on what? For >> six years, right? Or seven. However long until they kicked me off. Yes, [laughter] >> you will definitely be missed, Kim. >> Absolutely.

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>> I'm still doing coffee with Kim uh every Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 10. So, if anybody wants to see me, you can usually travel down. >> And it's turned into a fascinating morning ritual. Some days I maybe once every quarter I'm there by

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myself. 90% of the time two, three, five people show up and they all needed to meet each other and didn't know that till they got there. >> That's awesome. >> It is that kind of a magnetic little group. So fantastic. >> Tomorrow is actually what they call the

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women's breakfast and that's like 8 to whatever. So you may get people hanging around after that. >> Oh, nice. There you go. Are you It's always at the Sha at the Shadic Street Building. >> I do Wednesday morning at Kimbell and then Thursday morning at Shadic. So, >> okay. Y Wednesday at Kimbles. Thursday.

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See Kim. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Kim at Kim. >> Kim at Kimbles. >> It's interesting because people then know that that's where I'm going to be. And instead of trying to calculate all of our schedules, it's like, "Oh, wait. I'll just go then. >> I'll just go walk over and see her." That's amazing. My son's working at

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Kimbell's now at the uh at the seafood shack in the back. Give him a hug. >> Yeah, >> sometimes he's there in the morning. Beg graduated. >> I was I was just there. Clients took me out to dinner the other night. They said, "You and your son have worked so hard. We're going to feed you." And sweat was pouring off both of us and we

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were starving. We'd been there for like six hours. We're like, >> "Yes, lovely." [laughter] >> Not have to cook. >> Yeah. Amazing. >> It was And ice cream at the end. >> Exactly. >> Oh my gosh. >> Exactly. Both of us were in heaven.

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We're like, "Okay, that was totally worth it." [laughter] >> That's amazing. >> And Reverend Jen, we're gonna have to see you when you're doing comedy and see you out in the wild doing something other than

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this. >> Yeah, hopefully I'll be around. >> I know. Keep sending us your stuff and we can at least promote it and come and see you. >> Be great. >> Yeah. I was bummed that the parade got cancelled because I was going to come get my delicious breakfast sandwich like man.

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>> I know breakfast sandwiches man. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, they were del. They were always delicious. My daughter >> still eating breakfast sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. >> No, we gave away all this stuff. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that was good at >> Yeah, [laughter]

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>> that was good at least. >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, that's the end of our formal agenda. So yeah, once again, just a massive thank you to Kim and Jen and we're definitely going to miss you and uh you know, remember us in your

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thoughts. Speak kindly of us to others. >> I just brought some I brought some new people into town and I said, "You have to get on several things. Meet the people because that's what makes town nice." I didn't mean to interrupt you, Jen. Yeah. Yeah,

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>> it's true. the gift. >> Well, I'll see you. Not this weekend. I'll be in York, but I'll see you around, Kathy. Sounds good. >> See you ladies. >> Thank you everyone. >> So, does anyone want to make a motion to close the meeting?

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>> I can make a motion. >> Yes. [laughter] >> Go ahead, Jen. >> Second. >> So, make a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Yes. Last motion, Jen. There you go. Yes. [laughter] >> Thank you for your final service. >> And we're out.

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>> And you're out. [laughter] >> Good night, >> everybody. Good night.