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practice field along Worthen Road, the Little League baseball/JV softball field, the center track and associated parking area will be rehabilitated. He noted that the bids for Phase II will go out in January. There was a discussion of artificial turf, which Mr. Pinsonnealt told the Committee presented too many long term maintenance issues when installed on such unstable soils as those underlying the Center Playfields. Ms. Stolz asked him whether he completed borings for the soils underlying the track, to which Mr. Pinsonneault replied he had not. 6.Updates – Ms. Rice informed the Committee of four new applications for CPC funding: LexHAB’s request for $500,000 in Set-Aside Funding, the Historical Society’s Historic Records Preservation ($77,268) and their request for an Historic Structures Report/Needs Assessment for Buckman Tavern ($65,000), and The Housing Authority’s project to construct four accessible units at Greeley Village ($555,337). Ms. Manz updated the Committee on a recent meeting of the Board of Selectmen with LexHAB and the Housing Partnership, at which housing opportunities for the Busa property were discussed. She reported that LexHAB agreed, at the request of the BOS, to do a pro forma for up to eight units on the property. Ms. Manz quoted LexHAB’s report to the Selectmen that if the Town is to stay current in complying with MGL Section 40B, it will have to construct three new affordable units per year. There was a general discussion of this projection. th Pictures for the Town Report will be taken on December 5 at the Stone Building at 2:30. Ms. Rice will post the meeting to begin “off-site” and resume at 3:00 in the Legion Room. 7.Paint Mine Barn Restoration – Karen Mullins, Lexington Director of Community Development, met with the Committee to describe this restoration project request for $34,770. She said the barn needed new windows and roofing work, and that its renovation would be accomplished with the help of Minuteman Technical High School students. The barn will be used by the Conservation Commission for much needed equipment and supply storage. Ms. Mullins stated that the Conservation Commission had made a request to the Historical Commission during the summer about the historical status of the barn. As a result of the HC’s discussion of the property at that time, the barn was tentatively placed on Lexington’s Comprehensive Cultural Resources Inventory (“the Inventory”), pending further study. Once on the Inventory, Ms. Fenollosa stated that the Paint Mine Barn is afforded the same level of protection as those properties which have received full study. Ms. Manz sought further clarification of this policy, and there was a general 3