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(2) Minutes from August 2012 - attached as PDF file and on our website

Minutes from August 2012 Safe Schools Coalition meetings are attached as pdf files and are also on the Archived Minutes page of our website here:
http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/meet_minutes.html

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