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transcript  Special Commission on State Institutions (SCSI) Meeting: January 18, 2024

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>> Matt: The meeting is being recorded and videos are available on

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the commission's MASS.gov page and on the YouTube page.

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You see the agenda in front of us. So we're going to engage

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CCDER to support at the commission, as we'll hear the team

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has been hard at work since October. I like to take a moment to introduce the CCDER team. Emily, you like to

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speak first. >> Emily: Thanks, Matt. Hi, everybody, I'm

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Emily Lauer, the director of the group we call CCDER so that stands for the Center for Developmental Disabilities

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Evaluation and Research. CCDER is the acronym. We're here at UMass Chan Medical School and we're thrilled to be a

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partner to support this special commission. Thank you. >> Jennifer: Hi I'm Jennifer Fuglestad. I

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work with Emily at CCDER, and I am happy to be working with

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the commission to support you in your work. >> Hi, I'm Christine Clifford also part of the CCDER team

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and I'm here to help take some notes today S.

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>> Matt: Thank you for the introduction. Next we have

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approval of meeting minutes for the October 20, 2023

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meeting. Draft copies were sent out and hopefully everyone has had a chance to read those. Do

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any members have suggested changes to the minutes at this time? [Pause] If not, can we proceed with the vote? A vote?

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Do I have a motion to approve the minutes for October 20

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meeting? >> Rania: This is Rania Kelly making a motion to accept the meeting minutes from October 20, 2023.

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>> Andrew: Andrew, I'll second that. >> Matt: Thank you, now I will do a role call

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to say approve of and not approve. Elise is here.

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>> Elise: It's Ann and Brenda. Elise is getting back from a visit. She will be here momentarily. >> Matt: Okay. Is she coming in a minute?

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I'll circle back to her if that is okay. >> That would be great, we appreciate that.

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>> Kate: Kate Benson. >> Kate: Yes.

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>> Matt: Reggie Clark? Anne Fracht.

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>> Here. >> Matt: Approve, yes?

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>> Anne: Yes. >> Matt: Alice.

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>> Yes. >> Matt: Rania Kelly.

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>> Rania: Yeah. >> Matt: Andrew Levrault.

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>> Andrew: yes. >> Matt: Mary Mahon McCauley.

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>> Yes. >> Vesper Moore. >> Yes. >> Matt: Brenda Rankin.

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>> Do you approve the minutes. >> Yeah. >> Matt: Okay. >> Thank you.

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>> Matt: Conor Snow. >> Conor: Yes. >> Matt: thank you. >> Mary-Louise White, not here. I approve

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the minutes, is Elise here yet? >> She is not. I thought it would be quicker than the 2

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minutes I anticipated. She is on her way. >> Matt: No worries. That's, that's will do.

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>> Okay. >> Matt: Thank you, everyone, I didn't miss anyone, did I? So the minutes are approved. Copies of the

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approved minutes all of the details are available through

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the commissioners web page.

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I would like to invite Emily back for CCDER to share updates

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with the group. >> Emily: Thanks very much, Matt. Can we go

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to the next slide please? [Pause] >> Jennifer: sorry, having technical difficulty.

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>> Emily: So one update for you is that we have set up an

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e-mail address that we will be using to communicate. We at CCDER will be using to communicate with you all as

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commission members. This e-mail address is here. You'll also receive it via e-mail. That e-mail goes to the full

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team. So if you want to reach out to us, I see that e-mail,

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Jen sees that e-mail. Our project manager Christine sees that e-mail and anyone of us can receive your message and

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respond back to you. If you want to reach out to our team, this is the best e-mail to use because we are all be able

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to see it. Next slide please? Thank you. And next slide. We have a few things

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we'd like to talk with you about at the start of this meeting. The first are a couple of updates.

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So as we had discussed with you all at a prior meeting, we are able to make an agreement which is called an interagency

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service agreement that allows us to get paid for the work that we do because UMass Chan is a state agency and the

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funding for this project is being routed through the Department of Developmental Services, also a state agency.

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It's a contracting mechanism that just makes it easier for us to have an agreement and to get paid. So we have drafted the scope of work based

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on what you all had put together. That is in the process of being added to our current agency agreement with D. D.

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S. and will allow us to provide these services.

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The other update I wanted to give you is that it is our understanding that the funding for the commission is

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available until June 30th of 2024. The work that the commission is planned to

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do goes well beyond that for about another year. What our

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understanding is is that it will be necessary to request any unused funds to be carried into the next fiscal year

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for us to use them. So we do not anticipate -- we don't plan to use all the funds between now and June. We plan

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to use the funds to support you over the period until which your first report is due. So we will need support probably of the legislators

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to carry the money into the next fiscal year in order to continue to be working with you all.

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There are ways to do that, and we're just sharing this information with you all now so that we can make a plan to

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talk to our legislative partners and U.S. commission members can talk to them about how important it is that you

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are able to access the funds for the commission in the next fiscal year as well. I wanted to see if there is any questions

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about those two items. Alex.

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>> Alex: Thank you so much. This is Alex Green speaking.

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Just for clarification, is it correct that -- is it

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the -- sorry. My screen is doing weird things. Is the Ways and Means, is the committee that approves the funding

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for, like, that's where the budgeting goes that would allow

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us to advocate for this or let them know about this? >> Emily: I believe so but we'll make that confirmation and

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get that information back to you once we make sure that's the right group. >> Alex: Okay. Thank you so much.

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>> Emily: Yeah. Any other questions? >> Andrew: Yeah, I apologize. I can't recall

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offhand. Does the commission have a separate line item for its funding or is it tied to a DDS --

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>> Matt: Andrew, can you introduce yourself. >> Andrew: Andrew Levrault,D. P. P. C. Thank

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you, Matt. >> Emily: My understanding is that it is a

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separate line that needed to be moved to an agency to facilitate

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the payment. So I believe it was -- it was in the process of being moved to D. D. S. so D. D. S. could

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make payments on behalf of the special commission. I would invite Victor Hernandez or Gabriel Cohen, if you have any

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additional information you would like to share about that at this time to please go ahead and do so. Victor, you

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are on mute. >> Victor: Yeah. After all these years. Good

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afternoon, everybody. Emily is correct. The money now sits with D. D. S., and we develop what Emily referred

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to as the ISA. So CCDER can do their work and get paid for it. And the sponsor, legislator knows of the need for

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the leftover funding to roll over to next fiscal year. So it's on everybody's table, and it's being worked on.

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>> Andrew: Sounds good. We need the prior appropriation language in the line item and we should be all set.

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>> Victor: Let's hope. When it comes to budget items I stay

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away from the firm all set but anyway -- >> Andrew: sounds good. Okay. Thank you.

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>> Emily: Thank you, Victor. The next item that we wanted to review with you all is itself idea of a YouTube

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channel -- the idea of a YouTube channel for this special commission. My understanding is that this is a topic that

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you all as commission members have discussed previously, and there has been some discussion of maybe a commission

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member setting this up. I wanted to offer as part of our support going forward, we could set up a YouTube channel

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for you as the commission where you can post videos of your

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meetings. Right now, I believe they're being posted on a different channel. So I want to pose this question for open discussion

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about whether you would like us to support you in that manner. Kate?

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>> Kate: Hi, this is Kate Benson. Initially I had volunteered to do that. I've been sick for a few months

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so I need to take that off of my plate just so everybody knows. >> Emily: Thank you, Kate.

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>> Matt: This is Matt Millett again. I would be okay with

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CCDER taking over the YouTube channel for us. >> Emily: Okay. Thank you. I will go to our next meeting

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agenda in one minute. I believe, Matt, we may have had some commission members join. I just wanted to see if you

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wanted to take a moment to acknowledge or introduce them or you want me to move forward. [Pause]

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>> Matt: Hi, this is Matt Millett here. Reggie, Elise, can

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you both hear me? [Pause]

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>> Jennifer: It appears that, well, Reggie may be on mute.

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>> Matt: Reggie is here though, right? I see him as a

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panelist. >> Jennifer: Yes. >> Matt: I want to make sure, Elise, are you here too, now?

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>> I'm sorry, say again. >> Matt: Is Elise here now.

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>> Yes, I am here. >> Here she is. >> Matt: I wanted to make sure. >> Thank you, Matt.

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>> Matt: We can move on now Emily, thank you. >> Emily: Thank you. I saw you had your hand

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raised. Did you still want to make a comment? Okay. Go ahead, please. >> Am I muted?

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>> Emily: No. >> Mary: You can hear me? Okay., I'm Mary Mahon McCauley, and I was just curious to

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know, I believe Gabe had spoken to my communications manager, Lily, and she was going to download

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the information from these meetings on to the YouTube channel. So should I ask her to cease in that regard,

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to stop doing it as of the end of this meeting today or as of the next? >> Emily: Let us connect with you, Mary. We

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want to make sure we always have a live channel for the videos to exist. As soon as we get ours up and running and

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tested and we're ready to receive those video, we'll let you know and then you can cease that work.

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>> Mary: Oh, okay. Will you be putting it on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts YouTube channel? >> Emily: No, I believe the commission would

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prefer to have its own YouTube channel, but the videos will be connected to the site for the special commission.

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>> Mary: So it won't be under the structure or the auspices of Commonwealth of MASS YouTube? >> Emily: I don't think it will be. That's

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not what we discussed but I'm open to input on that. >> Mary: I'm not sure how YouTube works so I was just

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curious, thank you. >> Emily: The next item we have on the list

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is a presentation template. So my understanding is that prior

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meetings have used a standard template from the Commonwealth,

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and the template we're using here is from our center here at CCDER. We wanted to ask the commission members whether

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they would like us to draft a template for the special commission to use that's their own and distinct from the

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state's template that has been used previously. Are there any

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comments remitted to that question? >> Mary: This is Mary Mahon McCauley again. I guess I

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would, I would be interested in knowing what the changes would be and how it would be shifted around before I would

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just say yes openly. >> Emily: We could come back to the commission with a proposal of what that would look like.

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>> Mary: Yeah. That's my personal thought anyway. Not sure what other commissioners think. >> Emily: Any other comments on that idea?

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>> Rania: This is Rania Kelly. I think I agree. I need

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more clarification, for example, what does the current template that you are using look like? Like Mary mentioned so it's hard to make a

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decision based on not knowing what we're deciding on, thank you, Mary. >> Emily: We'll come back to you with more

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information. Essentially it would be a template that is specific to the special commission. So it would have the name

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of the commission on it. It would not just be a state template that's used, but we'll show you some more

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options in a future meeting on that. >> Rania: One more comment, this is Rania Kelly. There

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will be screen reader accessible and have -- >> Emily: Yes, absolutely, that's a requirement for any

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presentation that we put forward and we'll continue with transcription of this and captioning of the videos and all

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of those sorts of things. >> Rania: Thank you. >> Emily: Next point we wanted to raise with you is an idea

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to form some working groups toe help the commission with

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the work that you are doing. So there is five areas of work related to records of people who used to live in

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institutions, burial sites, memorial. Each of these has a lot of detail behind it

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as we'll discuss when we share our updates. We had an idea to form some informal working groups where

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some of the commission members can choose to focus on some of the topics and work more closely with CCDER. These would not be formal subcommittees of

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the commission such that they would need to hold open meetings or things of that nature, but they would be small working

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groups that would help us review some of the information we're finding and help make recommendations back to the

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commission on these specific sets of work. So we've envisioned potentially 3 working groups. One

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focused on the records, access to them, their storage. Another focused on cemeteries and burial sites and the

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information related to those. And a third focused on remembrance or memorials. So we'd like to get your input

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as a commission as to whether you would like to proceed with forming informal working groups on these topics. Are there any comments?

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>> Kate: This is Kate Benson. I think that's a fantastic

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idea. I'm very interested in being part of those working groups and I think keeping them informal in order to go

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through the information already gathered is a good next step. >> Emily: Thank you, Kate. Any other comments?

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>> Matt: This is Matt Millett. I, sounds like a good idea.

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>> Emily: So toe form the informal working groups. We do have one rule and we can't have more than a quorum so we

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can't have more than the commission members as part of the working groups. We'll send out information to each of you

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via e-mail from our support e-mail and ask you to let us

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know if you would like to be a part of one or more of these working groups. If we get more than 9 members who are interested,

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we'll work with Matt and Evelyn to make sure we have a fair process for participation, but we'll use e-mail to

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permit you to sign up for these working groups, which brings me to the next topic which is a meeting schedule.

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Because you seem to feel like or many of you feel that

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the working groups are a good process, we thought about using those to meet more frequently on the three topics and

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then having working groups coming back to report to the commission at regular meetings. That would allow the commission to meet perhaps

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every two months or so to permit time in between for the working groups to work with us and make progress.

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And then the commission would be able to hear everything the working groups are doing, any decisions with come

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back to you. So we wanted to propose a meeting schedule of something like every two months and see if people had comments

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on that. [Pause]

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>> Mary: This is Mary Mahon McCauley. I think that's

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sounds like a good cadence. Every two months. >> Emily: Thank you. Alex, did I see you raise

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your hand? >> Alex: Yeah, this is Alex Green I agree with what Mary said. There is the thumbs up again but I do

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agree. Every two months sounds terrific. That would be good. If it needs to then change-based on how things are

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going, just let I think letting us now and we'll adapt as needed. >> Emily: Thank you. Any other comments?

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Okay. We'll coordinate the scheduling of those meetings

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with you all via e-mail. We've received some information that you have shared previously about schedules.

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We'll refresh that with you and try to come up with dates and times that allow the most commission members to

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participate. So we'll be in touch about meeting scheduling. Thank you for your input on these

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topics. This is a really helpful set of next steps to allow us to move forward with our work. So I appreciate

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your input on these topics, and at this point I'm going to turn it back over to Matt to handle the next set of the

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agenda. >> Matt: Thank you, this is Matt Millett again.

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So Power Point 3 please. This article published in 9 "Globe" that was talked about the Fernald State School.

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Medical directors, former residents there, a copy of that was e-mailed to the members on Tuesday, hopefully

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everyone had a chance to read it. We want to share the article with the commission and see

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what peoples' thoughts were. Reggie was actually quoted in the article. Reggie, if you want to talk about this,

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do you want me to say something or quote from the article?

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>> Reggie: The article was very good, I would say. I would say the article is very good. Just talked about people

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having records that belonged to people that were there and

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everything and talked about how messy they were and how the state didn't take care of them. Also looking into building

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something there at the institution so people can recognize who was there, who lived there back then. Some type of memorial.

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>> Matt: This is Matt Millett. Could we have the next slide

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that tells what we can say if I remember correctly. So this

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has some ideas we thought of, me, Evelyn a couple of other

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people, letters to response to the globe, letter inquiry

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to look at the facts are -- do nothing publicly. It's a

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fact that the "Boston Globe" article was not written by I believe a "Boston Globe" writer. It was an add on if I got

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that correctly. It was someone who does -- does anyone want to respond if we should respond to the "Globe" or do

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nothing publicly or settle it -- I can't say that word, into

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the facts? >> Mary: This is Mary Mahon McCauley, I hear

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some whistling in the background. I don't know what that is but I can't hear you quite clearly, if you could say what

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you just said again, I would really appreciate it. Thank you. >> Matt: This is Matt Millett. So we have

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three options of what we can do to respond to the globe article. Letter, or a response to the "Globe." Second would

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be a letter of inquiry into the facts. The third option we

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do nothing publicly. We saw the article. It's horrible. It's sad. >> Mary: Yeah.

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>> Matt: But so that, these are the three we thought of.

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>> Mary: I guess this is Mary Mahon McCauley again. The

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article was -- it was extremely sad. It was disgusting that, you know, to see the factual information of how PII

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or personal identifying information was strewn around the

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place, papers, personal information of people was disrespect and it gave us, gave me a stronger reason for,

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to thank all after you that had to, were really involved with getting this commission up and running because

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obviously it's very important that we are doing this so that the past never repeats itself. I shared it with my agency, the "Globe" article,

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and made some comments. I'm not sure as far as replying

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back to the "Globe" unless, you know, I believe there

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has been articles in the past making note of this particular

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commission, and what we're doing and why we're doing it. So if there hasn't been something like that in the "Globe," you

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know, it might be nice for it to be either printed again or kind of a follow-up to the article in stating what we're

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doing now, which is, you know looking at things and trying

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to -- you can't right the wrongs. You can't make them correct. They are the wrongs, you know.

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There was a lot of bad things that happened, but at least we can look at things and try to straighten them out going

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forward and as we've said here before, you know, give dignity and respect to the individuals that were injured,

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hurt or died within any of the institutions including in Waltham. >> Matt: Thank you, this is Matt Millett.

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Alex, I see a hand is raised up. >> Alex: This is Alex Green. Mary, I agree with you.

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Thank you for your comments and I, I've thought a lot about this and obviously been involved especially with the

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Fernald and med state for sometime. I've some thoughts I

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can share. I, I, but, first of all just Reggie, thank you

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for putting your name in print is a brave thing and saying

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the things that you said is a brave thing. It's a big deal to see that. So I know a lot of people have expressed their

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gratitude about your remarks in there. I have been in, in the interest of transparency

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I've been contacted by a "Globe" reporter because I worked so much on these things, and my feeling has always

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been that I knew that from time to time things like this may

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occur because I know about some of these issues. But that it's not my place as an individual member of the commission

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to represent in any way what the commission as a whole body is doing. And I didn't intend to do that and

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I don't intend to do that. So I think that if comments go out to the media those

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things should go through the chairs and they should go through a meeting of the entire group and be somebody that everybody agrees on or else we should not be representing

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ourselves as speaking on behalf of the commission, those are my thoughts. I think these are intentionally potentially issue that is can be politicized

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in ways where that is maybe not good for the commission.

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If those of us choose individually to be involved in those things, that's a very separate sort of thing.

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So I'm more hesitant about the idea of any kind of letter of response to the "Globe" because I don't know -- we

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didn't do this. We're looking into this but this is not something that we did. And I think there are clearly

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accountable parties that need to be held accountable but they're not us and our work is already sort of looking into

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some of this. I think the letter of inquiry to look into the facts is closer to our mandate which is, I do think

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we simply need to know what happened. Because some of what we're looking at is how do people

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access records and what are the barriers to them accessing those records? Obviously, this would seem to have presented

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a significant barrier for people to access those records. And so I don't think that a single article

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in the "Boston Globe" is enough to go on for the quality of verifiable information that the kind of report we want

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to have at the end should have. And at the same time, I'm

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not sure who we ask or what a letter of inquiry to look into the facts would actually look like. That's where for

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the millionth time today I feel very grateful that we've CCDER on board for that, but I would love to know what those

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of you who have experience on the commission would think about that, whether that is a good idea or bad idea and

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where you, you would think we should be asking to look into this and similarly with Emily and just to be specific,

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I think that what the article outlined to me and certainly are things that have been known in the community for

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sometime, is that, yes, D. D. S. is a stakeholder where this is an issue that goes to them, but it also appears to go to

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a large number of groups. This is a city-owned property and it was left open by a city. That's part of, I think, what

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I would like for us to know and have in our report, if it seems germaine at the end. Sorry to talk so much but that

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is my two cents on it all. >> Matt: I see a hand raised. Do you mind if I ask Richard

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to speak for a second about what D. D. S. did since the

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article. >> Kate: Absolutely. >> Good afternoon, yes, I visit, made me go back a little

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bit. Before the article even appeared, D. D. S. was

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contacted by the author. He contacted the commissioner about the condition of the campus and the documents that

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he said were located around the property. We immediately contacted city of Waltham who,

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as Alex said, owns the property to allay those concerns from the family member. We also offered to take custody of

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any documents that were located on the grounds. We then followed up regarding the concerns about the potential

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for any documents onsite. We sent some people just to -- a lot much places were locked up but we did see some

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papers and by collected them there. It was difficult at the time goat in but we saw -- we did collect. It wasn't

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much at the time. Then we were in contact with the city of Waltham.

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We made plannings to meet at the campus there at Fernald

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to assess the situation. And about that time, this was a little bit before -- it was avenue about the time when

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the "Globe" article appeared on-line before the print, and we have met with the city of Waltham and assessed the

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situation. We've located documents. Were able to get into buildings. Begun efforts to retrieve and secure those

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documents and the, the key words there are "Retrieve and secure." We can collect them but the question is what

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do we do with them? And we are keeping them in storage at a separate site. We

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would be mean to provide the commission with more information about this once we have all the documents and

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they've been secured, and also, to the extent possible reviewed because you have to go through them. With privacy

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staff or privacy lawyers to determine, you know, if we -- what we do with them. You know, are they personal

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items or are they documents can be shredded? Those are the things that only a privacy lawyer

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can really assess. We're, we're in the process of doing that actually. When we visited the campus a couple

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of weeks ago, privacy lawyer was there. And went through what buildings we could at the time.

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Once this is all done, this project, all said and done,

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documents collected. Reviewed, cataloged, you know, we'd

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be happy to provide an update to the commission to let them know essentially what we've done and what we found and what

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we've taken since then. So, you know, it's provided that

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information and it's, we want to move forward with this.

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Like Mary said, can't undo anything. It was done. You

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know, and you know we heard some of the comments, and we

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really want to, as Mary said, this is, this just shows the

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importance of this commission. >> Mary: Yeah. >> Victor: It shows the importance, you know, even though

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the priorities are, well the charge is not in any sense of

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priorities I don't think it was a mistake that priority one was records. Very important. So this is a way to look

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forward and to provide, again, some guidance in terms of what do we do in the future? So that's really all I can say at this time

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about this. We're still working on this. >> Matt: Thank you, Victor, this is Matt Millett. Kate, you like to say something.

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>> Kate: Hi, this is Kate Benson. I wanted to echo what Alex Green had said. As individuals we've shared and

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commented on the "Globe" article to the extent that we have our resources and our networks. I think as a commission,

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responding to that "Globe" article the only thing that I could say would be a positive is that a lot of these articles

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happen, there was a list of them on the previous site. A lot of the articles come out and there isn't much comment

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from certain types of groups and now that we do exist, maybe

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it would be interesting to respond. But I don't think to

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Alex's point, that it really upholds the mission of what we're trying to do right now. I, too, would like to know

38:26

what a letter of inquiry could look like, who it could go to, what we'd want to achieve with the letter of inquiry

38:33

knowing that D. D. S. is already trying to step out in front of some of this, you know, where we're also, where would

38:40

we be going on that path? And what would it look like? But I think at this point, the article has done what we hoped

38:50

it would do, and hopefully the traction will keep on moving

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without us having to wade into that potentially political quagmire. >> Matt: Thank you, Emily, likes to say something?

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>> Emily: Thank you, Matt. There has been some questions from commission members about what a letter of inquiry

39:18

might do. And I wanted to just provide some more information about why you might want or not want to have

39:25

that option. A letter of inquiry could be used to gather more information, and it can also be used to put

39:32

pressure on groups to act. In this situation, and thank you, Victor for the update, you are hearing that D. D.

39:40

S. is already acting even before the article came out. So I think that is something to consider. There are other

39:47

groups involved. There is the city of Waltham. There is the state agency DCAM which is responsible for

39:53

state properties, all have had a role here. You can use a letter of inquiry, going forward to say something like,

40:03

this situation exists. What are your plans to do something about it and what are the storage procedures and to try to

40:11

obtain some more information for your work. You can also use a letter of inquire toe ask about what happened and why

40:20

it happened and so if you are looking to go backwards and try to understand was there a gap in the process of closing

40:27

down an institution so that it isn't repeated in the future, you can use a letter to try to understand more about that.

40:35

A letter of inquiry doesn't mean that you are going to get a response necessarily or that response will be fully satisfying to you or have all the things that you are

40:42

looking for but it's a normal effort to try to get some

40:47

more -- get more information, I wanted to share those two possibilities but those are two examples of how you could

40:56

consider using a letter of inquiry. And those letters can go to one party. It is could go to multiple parties. So

41:04

if you wanted to target a letter of inquiry to many groups involved, it doesn't have to be just to one group like DDS

41:11

or DCAM or the city of Waltham. It can be directed to all of those or a different point like the governor. Thank

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you. Matt, for that opportunity. >> Matt: Thank you, this is Matt Millett again.

41:26

If, so we want to propose to draft the content from

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the meeting or do we want to realize that, and leave it at

41:38

that and try to work on our commission?

41:45

Any suggestions? Anyone want to propose a working group or

41:52

-- >> Alex: This is Alex Green. I would propose

41:57

a working group for a letter of inquiry to look into the facts. I would not, for the "Globe" end so I don't

42:05

know if there is agreement on that, but I would, if you need me to make a motion nor that, could I make a motion for

42:13

that. And I, I agree with Emily's characterization of that,

42:19

that it's, to me I guess most important to know what happened. These places closed down. I don't think any of us

42:27

has a really good sense of what happens when they close down and I'm very grateful to Victor for the transparency and

42:33

forthrightness in getting in front of this. We may meet with

42:39

the exact same transparency from some of the other agencies and folks along the way and just knowing will help,

42:46

I think, us understand the landscape of what we're tasked with looking into.

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So if that's useful, I will make a motion to propose that

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we create a working group to draft content for a letter of inquiry to look into the facts related to what was revealed

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in the "Boston Globe" article. >> Matt: Thank you, Alex, this is Matt Millett.

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Do you have a second to the motion of that. >> Kate: That is Kate Benson. I second it. >> Matt: Thank you, so I will do a role call

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now for the motion. Elise.

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[Pause] Elise still here.

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>> Sorry, just had to unmute. Looking for a group to draft

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a letter of inquiry, yes or no. Are you voting yes or no?

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>> No. >> No. >> Matt: Okay. Thank you, Elise, Kate. >> Kate: Yes.

43:59

>> Matt: Thank you. Reggie. Reggie, you have to unmute

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yourself. Sorry. Reggie, you are still muted. We can't

44:20

hear you right now, Reggie. Reggie,can someone help you

44:36

unmute yourself so we can hear you? >> Mary: Reggie it's star 6 to unmute on a

44:43

phone to let you know. >> Matt: Thank you, thank you. >> Rania: Maybe Reggie can nod yes or no so

44:53

he can answer since we can see him. >> Matt: Reggie, do you approve the motion, yes, nod.

45:07

[Pause] >> Rania: He may not be hearing us.

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>> Matt: Yeah. Not sure what to do. >> Alex: Admin. privileges, whoever the host

45:27

of the meeting is, should be able to unmute him as the admin., Gabe, is that in your court or --

45:35

>> Jennifer: This is Jen from CCDER. I've been pinging

45:41

Reggie to ask to unmute. That is the limit of my ability. I'm not able to manually unmute him. I wish I would do

45:48

that. >> Alex: Got it. Sorry about that.

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>> Emily: Perhaps we could come back and see if we could get Reggie's vote by the end of the voting. >> Matt: Sure, thank you. Anne, yes, no, for

45:59

the motion? >> Anne: Yes. >> Matt: Okay. Miss Kelly. >> Rania: Yes.

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>> Matt: Andrew. >> Andrew: Present. >> Matt: Mary. >> Mary: Yes.

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>> Matt: Vesper. >> Vesper: Yes. >> Matt: Brenda is not here, Conner. >> Conor: Yes.

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>> Matt: Thank you. Mary-Louise is not here. Evelyn is

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not here also, I'm a yes. Reggie, can you, can unmute

46:41

yourself? We can't hear you, Reggie. This is Matt Millett

46:52

talking. You are still muted.

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>> Brenda is here, too, I just wanted to add. >> Matt: I'm sorry about that.

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>> That's okay. > We're right here. Do you want a yes or no. >> Brenda: Yes. >> Can you hear that.

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>> Matt: We heard that. Sorry about that. >> You are fine. >> Alex: This is Alex Green. I made the motion but I didn't

47:22

make a vote. I'll vote yes on that. >> Matt: I skipped right over you, Alex, I'm sorry, I

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believe the motion passed. >> Reggie: Hello, I would vote for the letter

47:39

but I would also say that, that the motion, most important

47:45

thing is to find out what records are good and which ones can go back to the people that we served, the people are

47:52

going to ask for that. >> Matt: Thank you. >> Reggie: I would put a motion on that, I

47:59

know some other people that were in institutions but I can tell you guys later.

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>> Matt: Thank you, Reggie. This is Matt Millett. I

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believe the motion passed if I got my numbers correct.

48:21

Thank you for that. If you want to meet in the record group e-mail

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the scsi@umass.edu. Thank you. Now I would like

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to go to the plans of the goals of the commission, like to invite Emily back to plan this special with the group.

48:45

>> Emily: Thank you so much. This is Emily Lauer again.

48:51

As follow up to your recent vote we'll communicate with you via e-mail to allow you to just reply and indicate whether

48:57

you want to be a part of the working group to form a draft of the letter of inquiry. So as we had proposed earlier, we have made

49:07

some groups of your growls. The first group is on existing records and the process to request them. Goals 3 and 4

49:16

relate to the burial locations and 5 is about what was called

49:21

the framework for public recognition which might be a memorial or an event. What I would like to do today is to share with you some

49:31

information about what CCDER has found to date. We've been very busy digging through news articles and records and

49:40

things that we have been able to find and gather. So we want to share some high-level details with you.

49:47

We may not get through all the details today but whatever we don't get through we'll pick up next time. And I will

49:54

add for those of you who will join the working groups, we're going to get into a lot more details about these things when

50:02

we talk together. So this is just a preview to help you, help share at a very high level what we're seeing.

50:11

Next slide please. Thank you.

50:17

So before I even get into the goals, our research to date

50:27

has shown us that we need to become very specific about what we mean by "Institution." And the reason for that I'll show you an example

50:38

of the language that has been used over time to refer to different types of settings which could be considered

50:47

an institution. So there are some we know about. I'll take Fernald as a good example. That were labeled as institutions,

50:56

they are more recent, we probably have a better chance of understanding burial locations and records

51:03

related to them, but there's a whole array of others. A lot of groups, a lot of different types. As a commission,

51:13

we're going to advise that at some point we need to decide how you're defining what is in of what you are looking

51:21

at and what is not in that group. It's not as clear-cut as it may sound just by using the term "Institution."

51:30

So we're going toe share more information about this with some of your working groups. We'll come back with a

51:37

premise the working groups but I want to give you a little preview of the types of things we're talking about.

51:46

So if we could go to the next slide please. Thank you. Overtime these institutional settings were called

51:55

different things, between 1830 and 1930, there were many

52:01

different sites. Sometimes they were called schools or

52:06

farms. They might have been called things like almshouses or sanatoria or used institutions. They were created for

52:18

different groups of people at the time. Some of them were for people with developmental

52:24

disabilities. Some of them were for youth that were involved with law enforcement. Some of them were involved

52:32

for people who were considered to be poor and didn't have the means to support themselves. And some were for

52:38

particular conditions like tuberculosis or leprosy or

52:44

other types of disabilities. So all of these things could potentially be

52:50

considered institutions, they all look different. The

52:55

buildings and the structures are different. Sometimes it's one house. Sometimes it's a school. Sometimes it's a

53:02

campus. What happened to them differs, where the records are may differ. So this is the type of sets of groups that

53:12

we're going to need to work with you on to figure out do we, for example, include alms house ors do we just focus on

53:21

psychiatric hospitals and bigger institutions that were more recent? So we'll share more information with you about

53:29

this but I wanted to share this amount of information with you as one of our first questions for you all to think

53:37

about. Any comments or questions on this? >> Mary: I have a question. I'm sorry, should I raise my

53:49

hand? I didn't raise my hand. >> Emily: Go ahead. >> Mary: This is Mary Mahon McCauley. I had

53:56

thought, I'm happy to be corrected if I'm incorrect. Tell

54:02

all the other commission members I'm fine with that if I'm saying something that is not correct but I thought

54:07

that we were specifically looking at institutions that were for individuals with intellectual developmental

54:14

disabilities as well as mental health issues which would

54:19

mean that we would immediately take out the T. B. hospitals and a few of the others that you mentioned. So I, I

54:29

thought that within the information of the formation the commission, it was specific to I. D. D., intellectual developmental

54:36

disabilities which I think at this point in time would

54:42

include autism spectrum disorders as well as any mental illness, mental health which I'm not sure if the, even

54:51

though it may be a lot of the juveniles had mental health issues, it may have been more of a corrections institution

54:59

and not looked at at a mental health institution. Then the T. B. was more for medically ill so that's my comment.

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Thank you. >> Emily: Thanks, Mary. Kate. >> Kate: It's Kate Benson. Alex and I were having a side

55:17

conversation. A lot of these institutions did purport at one time or another to specifically provide care for those

55:24

two groups so it does muddy the water a little bit. The reform schools were loaded with juveniles with

55:34

disabilities, disproportionately so. But I agree with knocking off the sanatoria.

55:40

You are correct, the tuberculosis hospitals typically stayed to their own purposes. But I think, to Emily's

55:50

point, we need to figure out what our target is because we could open up a huge can of worms then talk about things

55:57

like truant schools and hospital schools and other institutions

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that could sort of fit the bill but don't really and, you know. Unfortunately becomes where are we getting

56:11

the biggest bang for our buck in understanding the history of this process I guess.

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>> Emily: Thank you, Kate. Vesper? >> Vesper: Hi, I think it raises a really

56:27

good question. I mean if you consider unsightly and beggar ordinances at the time or ugly laws houses for the poor

56:39

as well as psychiatric institutions and, you know institutions for people with disabilities would be considered

56:45

under the same umbrella because those who were considered unsightly were both poor or disabled. So I think it's an

56:56

important consideration when we talk about it. I would say our current charge really seems to be.

57:04

(Screen froze). But I can see the overall applicability.

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>> Emily: Thank you, Vesper. I will emphasize that the

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definitions are not clear underneath the different locations. So even how mental health conditions

57:25

were diagnosed, the labels that were used, there

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were people who were in institutions for people with developmental disabilities who may not have had developmental disabilities.

57:39

So there is not a very clean sorting of if you are focused

57:46

on people with mental health and developmental disabilities, they were exactly here and only here. That makes this work a little bit harder. And I

57:55

think the likelihood of success of getting information about certain records, certain burial locations will differ

58:03

depending on how many time has gone by, how much of a formal structure the locations had. So there is a lot more

58:12

to look into here. But I appreciate all the comments to date. I think we can try to take that focus of population

58:21

and see what, how it aligns with these and come back to you all with, with the working group, some suggestions on how

58:31

we might move forward for that. We don't have to decide that right now. We're not going

58:36

to stop our work until we figure that out. We're going to keep going but just know we need to clarify that at a certain point going forward. Thank

58:46

you. Next slide please. So next I would like to

58:51

share with you more about what we've learned about records and the request process. Next slide. So we have observed there

59:01

is many different types of records. There is medical records that contain health information about people who

59:09

were served by institutions. These are generally protected by laws. There is federal laws, there is Massachusetts

59:17

laws. And these laws limit access to recent records

59:22

of people, especially who were receiving services. Those laws may be a little bit different for records that

59:30

are much older, and we also need to understand that there's

59:36

a portion of times when the laws are followed and a portion of times where perhaps they are not. So we'll look for

59:44

that. There is also information that we're calling registration information. This might be a list of people

59:51

who lived at certain locations. It may have things like the date they came to the institution, how old they were.

1:00:01

Things about their family. So not necessarily health information, but other information that would record who

1:00:08

lived there and at what times. Sometimes these records have been returned

1:00:14

to people and their families when institutions have closed. Sometimes they have not. And in some cases, it's not

1:00:22

clear that those records are still available. We'll talk more about that. There is also what we're calling business

1:00:29

records and reports. So this is information about the

1:00:34

institution, maps of the facilities, sometimes including burial grounds, numbers of people that were there

1:00:42

at a given time or who may have left the institution or who died and the types of services the institution provided.

1:00:52

Next slide please. Where these records are now varies. There

1:01:00

are many collections at both public and private universities and we have some more details on those. They are

1:01:09

in state and city archives. How you access those records also

1:01:16

varies. So sometimes there is restrictions on the records

1:01:21

that are not always the same. For patient records, medical privacy laws usually restrict the record for about

1:01:30

75 to 80 years after the file was created. So usually after

1:01:36

an adult's life time. But some records exist in libraries

1:01:41

where a librarian or archivist can choose a restriction

1:01:47

that is even greater than that, and in many cases they do. So it's at least 75 to 80 years but it maybe longer.

1:01:55

Based on how that library has set up their rules.

1:02:00

There's not that we could find consistent guidance to libraries or archives that it should be this. It's a case

1:02:08

by case decision. Who gets access to records in archives

1:02:15

can also be made on an individualized basis. I see some hands raised. Kate. >> Kate: It's Kate Benson again. Taking up

1:02:25

a lot of air space today. Alex and I have also identified

1:02:30

that a lot of these records are held in private collections because they have been either scoured from institutions

1:02:38

or purchased off of eBay. There are local historical societies that hold some of these collection, my nonprofit

1:02:46

holds some records. So there are some less regulated

1:02:56

groups that also hold a lot of patient records just so everyone is aware that's out there as well. >> Emily: Thank you. Conner.

1:03:05

>> Conor: Yes, this is Conor Snow. I thought I want to

1:03:11

provide a little bit of contextual background being at the state archives. So we do have various permit nonactive

1:03:20

records from various institutions including almost all of the institutions that you had on the previous slide.

1:03:27

Hospitals, different institutions like Fernald. We are subject to the public records law which is under the

1:03:34

secretary's office and this public records law restricts medical and mental health information indefinitely. Thereto is no sunset law, there is no 75 had

1:03:44

ever 80 years, it's forever, we cannot make records accessible without a court order. If that happens providing access

1:03:52

to records does happen. Someone who would like to request the records will have to obtain a court order Granting

1:04:01

them to be the temporary administrator of on estate and then

1:04:06

the,we'd make records available not through ourselves but through a contact D. D. S. D. D. S. would then make

1:04:11

records available so there are streps and processes but it's always a headache, it's a lot of hurdles to get through.

1:04:19

It's not something that archives wants to do because we want to make records accessible especially for people who

1:04:25

have been in the institutions and to be able to say you can't look at them is heart-breaking so I wanted to give

1:04:33

background on that. And yeah, I guess this is one comment I had about the article

1:04:40

released from the "Boston Globe." Article did state in one sex that state archives many of the records found in the building that Fernald

1:04:49

were all of the case files and that the state archives

1:04:54

does not have those and they only have the administrative records much Fernald. We do have about 186 boxes of patient

1:05:01

in case files. So that is not the only thing that we have here. So, yeah, I wanted to provide some background

1:05:10

on how the archives handles these records when they're requested for access. But unfortunately, there's no sunset

1:05:18

law in Massachusetts, and the records are permanently sealed by statute. >> Emily: Thank you, Conor. And we'll talk about gathering

1:05:29

that level of detail as well in some of our next steps. So I appreciate that context. Next slide please. We have some additional

1:05:42

information here about some of the laws that restrict the rights as Conor was mentioning. Sometimes there are

1:05:50

ways to get the records. These could be by people who are put in charge of the estate which is the money or property

1:05:58

someone have when they died. Lawyers who have permission from the person if they're still alive or their estate

1:06:07

and court ordered as Conor was saying, times when information can be shared. There is often fees you have to procure

1:06:15

legal services. You might have to pay a lawyer, sometimes that is a few thousand dollars to help get the

1:06:21

records if things go fairly smoothly. Next slide please.

1:06:30

For this part of the discussion I've put in bold blue for those of you who are reading the screen the questions

1:06:37

we want you to think about. You don't need to fully answer these today but these are things for us to discuss going

1:06:44

forward. We'll need to figure out with you when we talk about records what types of records do you want to include?

1:06:53

We also will be planning to talk to more people like Conor and Kate and Alex and others who have been working on this

1:07:02

for quite a while. So we want to learn more about where, records are kept and start to record that for you to know

1:07:10

more about which of the records exist and which are missing. We want to get some experiences of what it has been like

1:07:18

to try to get the records from people who have tried. So we want to speak to people who work at libraries and

1:07:26

archives. People who have studied these records and that may include the historical groups Kate was mentioning or

1:07:34

who may have been in charge of the records when an institution was closed or during the time it was open.

1:07:41

We're also looking for suggestions about who else you think we should talk to. It doesn't have to be a name per

1:07:48

se. It could be this type of person or a person who had this type of role. Whether there are other steps you would like,

1:07:57

for this particular set of goals about records. I'll open it up to some comments to see if anyone wants to share

1:08:05

some thoughts. Raising hands works well. If you are able

1:08:11

to do that, please go ahead and do that. Alex.

1:08:23

>> Alex: This is Alex Green. One group that just comes to mind are local historical societies. I know the Waltham

1:08:30

one has stuff. That may just be on your list as part of archives, but I, that came to mind. I don't know about any

1:08:40

others offhand but this is one at least. >> Emily: Thank you. Any others? Okay.

1:08:52

Let's move on to the next slide. So let's talk a little bit about what we've found for goals 3 and 4 related to

1:08:59

burial locations. Next step, next slide, thank you.

1:09:05

So there are, we found there are cemeteries on the grounds of former state institutions. Some of these are still

1:09:13

owned by the state of Massachusetts so we have gotten the list of cemeteries that Massachusetts still owns. So

1:09:22

we're able to see that there are cemeteries from institutions for people with developmental disabilities

1:09:30

and institutions for state hospitals that are still listed as property sites owned by the state of Massachusetts. We have learned that there are some people

1:09:41

who died in institutions that were buried in what are called pauper cemeteries or local parish cemeteries. These

1:09:50

may not have had individual markers or locations. They

1:09:56

may not have had individual coffins and so it may be challenging

1:10:01

to identify who is buried there and exactly where they're buried. We have observed also that many of the cemeteries

1:10:12

may not have marked graves. Where there are markers,

1:10:17

they may only show either an identification number or a

1:10:22

code as to whether people were of a certain religion like Catholic or Protestant but to know who was buried there

1:10:30

you would need the key to unlock what does the code mean and what was the person's name and more information about them.

1:10:38

So there's much more to dig into here, but we are finding

1:10:45

many different types of circumstances where people are buried. Next slide please. New Mexico in some cases

1:10:54

the records of who is buried where have been lost and we know that -- sorry, it has been reported for the

1:11:02

north Hampton sites and Foxboro those records are no longer available. Sometimes the burial records are held by a

1:11:11

state agency. They may or may not be available to the public upon request. And for some cemeteries it's not clear how

1:11:21

many former residents or people who lived in institutions are actually buried there. So we don't know the total counts

1:11:29

of the people who are buried. Next slide please. So we are aware of some folks in the state

1:11:39

who have been some more work related to this particularly historical societies. And some of your commission members.

1:11:48

But we will need to talk more about who else we should be talking to about these sites and which cemeteries

1:11:56

are in scope. I think that that question relates back to which institutions are in scope for you.

1:12:04

I'll open it up to see if people have questions or comments.

1:12:18

I think Anne has her hand raised. [Pause]

1:12:25

I'm wondering if there are staff -- see Anne is the name

1:12:41

on the screen. Can we hear more? >> Sorry. Brenda is animated just listening,

1:12:53

no question at this time. Thank you. >> Emily: Thank you so much. I just wanted to -- >> I appreciate it. >> Emily: All right. Let's move on to the

1:13:04

next slide please. >> Emily: My apologies. One moment. >> Emily: As we're waiting for the slide the

1:13:28

next goal we'll talk about is related to the memorials. We've

1:13:34

spend sometime looking at what other locations have done. So there are some memorials. Go to the next slide

1:13:41

please, that exist in Massachusetts. So those include the Wrentham state schools memorial walk and friends

1:13:49

much Belchertown state school. There are cemetery restoration projects as well. These can be run by different

1:13:57

groups. Sometimes it's people who lived at the institution or family members or disability advocates or

1:14:04

community members. Next slide please. We also looked

1:14:09

at other states. So many other states have created some different types of memorials. Some of them have standing

1:14:17

memorials that are a physical site that you can visit. Some of them hold anniversary events like Vermont. Some

1:14:26

of them have an actual museum that you can go and visit. So there's a whole different set of types of things you

1:14:34

can do for remembrance. We will share more about these projects with the working group. Next slide please. So as

1:14:44

we looked at the process to create these different things, we have pulled out some lessons learned. The first

1:14:53

is that many of these projects especially to build a physical memorial or a museum take time and often many years

1:15:03

and lots of planning. So this is, unless it's an event

1:15:08

that can be more easily planned it's not going to happen very quickly. It also needs a really good action plan that

1:15:17

identifies the goals and questions like, who will be involved?

1:15:23

How are they going to be organized? What do we want to develop and who is going to do that? Does it require an architect or a planner?

1:15:32

Who is going to build it? Do we need permits? Do we need a site? How do we pay for it?

1:15:38

And if it it is something that goes on over time or needs maintenance, how do we pay for that? So there are a lot of questions to be formed

1:15:50

and both answered here and this will be what we take to the working group to start to consider and to come back

1:15:58

to the commission with ideas and opportunities for decisions. Next slide please. So within this working

1:16:10

group we're going to review what other states have done and our state. Start drafting what we're going to call a

1:16:16

planning document. This is kind of a road map how you get to where you want to go. So not yet a set of plans

1:16:25

for what it is you want to build, but kind of a plan to plan where we have to take what was in the prior slide and add

1:16:32

some more details to it and understand all the different decision points that you need to make in order to move forward

1:16:40

to have whether it's an event or a memorial or a museum or whatever it is you want to form.

1:16:47

So if there are ideas that you have about people who we should talk to next, for this goal, we're happy to hear some

1:16:55

recommendations from you all today. Alex. >> Alex: This is Alex Green. I, what I can

1:17:07

share just briefly is from the drafting of the bill that led to the creation of the commission. Just so you know

1:17:12

what some of the stakeholders then including the political folks who were involved had envisioned in recommending

1:17:20

this portion of the statute which was that I think there

1:17:27

was a widely held sense some kind of museum was a good idea, that memorialization was a good idea thinking big

1:17:40

was an important aspect of this. That that the state

1:17:49

should be a central party to owning that responsibility because these were public institutions and our charge ask

1:17:57

to look into those public institutions and that the composition of the commission which includes people who currently

1:18:05

or formerly lived in state-run facilities, that those

1:18:10

folks should have a central voice in saying what they would

1:18:16

like to see above all else even if that meant saying we don't want a museum. We want something else. So those were the,

1:18:24

some of the big thoughts that went in early on. And I hope that's just helpful for broad thinking.

1:18:30

>> Emily: Thank you, I appreciate your sharing that thinking. Certainly this will be the commission's decision. Going forward, Kate.

1:18:40

>> Kate: It's Kate Benson. The Belchertown State School friends have worked for over 13 years to try to put a museum

1:18:50

at the former state school. The process has been maddening, frustrating, and very difficult. But I'm

1:19:00

looking forward to sharing that process with everyone and what success has looked like for us so far and getting

1:19:09

everyone here especially, getting everyone's thoughts and

1:19:14

opinions and directions as far as what we would like to see

1:19:20

in a museum memorial, the campus is going to be a mix of all of that so I'm really excited about this particular goal

1:19:29

because I think it's going to go nicely hand in hand with what we're already starting to do. And how we can kind of

1:19:37

take this even further. So I really appreciate that this

1:19:43

is going to be a part of this conversation. >> Emily: Thank you, Kate. Certainly your

1:19:49

experience and the friends' experience would be part of what we'd want to tap into to understand what you've learned

1:19:55

already from the a very long 13 years of work it sounds like.

1:20:01

Very good. Other comments on this topic?

1:20:07

Okay. Let's see. Next slide please. So we will e-mail

1:20:19

you all as commission members to allow you to sign up for the works groups. That includes for the letter of inquiry. So

1:20:27

you are welcome to reach out to us at this e-mail address. Don't feel like you need to take the first step.

1:20:32

You are going to get a note from us that specifies the working groups and gives you a chance to sign up but you are

1:20:39

welcome to contact us at any point if you have further thoughts from today. You will get a copy of this presentation so

1:20:46

you have these details and this will all be available to you. And we look forward to working with you all

1:20:54

more closely and the next steps on this. So next slide is -- just questions. Turn it over to Matt.

1:21:06

>> Matt: Thank you, Emily. This is Matt Millett. I guess

1:21:14

to wrap up. What Emily said make sure to have the new

1:21:22

e-mail address book, that way it doesn't go to spam. Sometimes I have to with my e-mails address. So the, yeah.

1:21:31

So if there is no other -- I like to -- there is no other

1:21:37

items to discuss we have a motion to adjourn or someone want to talk about something else right now? >> Mary: That is Mary Mahon McCauley, I want

1:21:46

to thank Emily. I feel good about this meetings meeting and would like to make a motion to adjourn.

1:21:52

>> Matt: Thank you, Mary, do I have a second. >> Alex: This is Alex Green, I second.

1:21:59

>> Matt: Thank you. Role call to adjourn. Elise I believe

1:22:05

just left. Kate. >> Kate: Yes. >> Matt: Reggie. >> Reggie: Thank you, thank you for this meeting,

1:22:18

thank you for everything you do. Alex, I hope you have that book out so we can show the book to the people that,

1:22:24

that been at institutions. >> Alex: Publishing is slow, sorry Reggie. >> Reggie: Very good, take your time, throws

1:22:34

probably a lot to add to -- there's probably a lot to add

1:22:42

to it. Thank you for everything.

1:22:49

>> Matt: Yes motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Reggie: Yes.

1:22:57

>> Matt: Thank you. Reggie. Anne. >> Anne: Yes. >> Matt: Thank you, Anne. Alex, I won't skip you this time.

1:23:06

>> Alex: Yes. >> Matt: Ms. Kelly. >> Rania: Yes. >> Matt: Andrew.

1:23:13

>> Andrew: yes. >> Matt: Thank you. Mary Mahon McCauley.

1:23:19

>> Yes. >> Matt: Thank you. Vesper. >> Vesper: Yes. >> Matt: Thank you. Conor.

1:23:27

>> Conor: Yes. >> Matt: Thank you. Mary-Louise is not here.

1:23:33

Evelyn is not here. Yes for me to adjourn the meeting,

1:23:41

thank you, Emily, thank you, everyone. Hopefully see

1:23:47

you. >> Andrew: thank you. >> Victor: Bye, everyone. >> Versus nice evening.

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