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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2011 ATM <br /> Warrant Article Analysis and Recommendations <br /> The cites to the "Brown Book"refer to the "Town of Lexington Fiscal Year 2012 Recommended Budget <br /> &Financing Plan", February 28, 2011. <br /> Article 7(3rd Fund Only): Fund Funding <br /> Establish and Continue Authorization Source Committee Recommends <br /> Departmental Requested <br /> Revolving Funds— $115,000 (out of DPW Compost Approval(5-0) <br /> DPW Compost total of$499,000) Operations RF <br /> Operations <br /> Project Description(CPA Category) Authorization Funding Committee Recommends <br /> Amount Source <br /> Requested <br /> DPW <br /> (a) Culvert Replacement $65,000 Compost Approval(5-0) <br /> Operations RF <br /> "The three corrugated metal pipe arch culverts under the access road to the Hartwell Avenue Compost <br /> Facility have failed due to rust and separation at the pipe connection joints. Significant sinkholes have <br /> developed in the roadway as a result. Replacing these pipe culverts will allow for continuous and safe <br /> access to the compost facility as well as proper storm water flow through the culverts. This request is for <br /> survey, design and permitting of the repairs...." [Brown Book, Page XI-15] <br /> . <br /> Project Description(CPA Category) Authorization Funding Committee Recommends <br /> Amount Source <br /> Requested <br /> CompostGreen DPW <br /> (b) Facility <br /> $52,000 CompostApproval(5-0)Waste Facility) Stud pp <br /> (Anaerobic y Operations RF <br /> • <br /> "The Board of Selectmen has requested staff to assess the Hartwell Avenue compost site as a location for <br /> a privately operated "green waste" processing facility. Such an operation, through a process known as <br /> anaerobic digestion, would convert green waste (food stuffs and vegetative matter) into energy and <br /> compost." [Brown Book, Page XI-15] <br /> 30 <br />