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May 2, 2005 Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee May 2, 2005 Time and Place: Reading Room, Cary Hall; meeting called to order at 6 pm. Members Present: Alan Levine (Chair), Deborah Brown (Vice-Chair), Paul Hamburger, Eric Michelson, Richard Eurich, John Bartenstein, David Kanter, Ron Pawliczek, Rod Cole 1. RC agreed to take minutes 2. There was a discussion of the White House article. It was noted that: a. $240K would go back to BANs b. Loren Wood would drop his amendment c. Susan Elberger would drop her amendment 3. There was a discussion of Article 29, which included: a. $165K for building supplemental b. $1.575M overrun for Fiske added to existing capital override c. $83K moved from article 35 DK moved to approve, subject to consideration of the Permanent Building Committee increasing contingency. The vote in favor of the motion was 9-0. 4. There was a discussion of moving $60K from Article 30B to 30A. The AC voted to approve the change by a vote of 9-0 5. There was a discussion regarding the need for a study to get the NSTAR rebate for upgrading the Clarke heating controls. Where is the money to do this? How will it be done? [Note: after the meeting adjourned we learned from the CEC that this was already taken care of and the cost and schedule are covered by the Article authorizing the heating upgrade.] 6. There was a discussion of Article 35 to increase the Reserve Fund. Recent past needs were discussed, as well as other unusual events like police presence for the White Revolution demonstration. The vote to approve was 9-0. th 7. Noted that there is a May 16 BOS meeting on health care benefits. 8. The Committee decided not to meet next week. 9. It was noted that next week there is a meeting between town staff and BOS regarding fiscal policy, and we need to have a couple of people from the AC attend. - 1 -