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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2016 ATM • !Town Office Building • !Cary Memorial Building (CMB) • !Police Station • !Fire Department Headquarters •!East Lexington Fire Station • Samuel Hadley Public Services Building • Stone Building (previously used as the East Lexington Library) •' Cary Memorial Library • Visitors Center • Lexington Community Center (LexCC) • Council on Aging Facility (Senior Center in the Muzzey Condominiums, 1475 Massachusetts Avenue) (now in caretaker status as Senior - Center activities are now at the LexCC) • Westview Cemetery • Hammond A. Hosmer House • Nine schools • Schools' Central Administration (in the old Harrington School). DPF has taken a systematic approach to solving problems that affect both Municipal and School buildings, including roofs, flooring, building envelope, and school paved parking and sidewalk areas. In a few cases the solutions have been programs with annual funding and could be considered more as on -going maintenance than capital expenditures. However, as the needs exist and the work will be funded using GF cash, the Committee supports these projects being in the Capital Budget. This year's request for DPF Capital funding includes a wide range of important work to both enhance buildings to meet the programmatic demands of the programs that occur in them as well as to attend to the extraordinary repairs and maintenance that are essential to extending the useful life of the buildings. (See Article 15) The renovations to the property at 39 Marrett Road for the LexCC were completed. The funding for the renovations was as follows: Appropriations for LexCC Renovationst Amount Primary Purpose 2013 ATM, Article 14(n) (part of DPF Bid Documents funding) $100,000 D &E for Code - Compliant Actions & Schematic Drawings 2013 STM, November 4, 2013, Article 5 $3,169,000 Phase 1 Renovations (Initial Occupancy) 2014 STM, March 24, 2014, Article 3 $3,051,000 Expand Phase 1 as Phase 2 has been indefinitely deferred 2014 STM, June 16, 2014, Article 10 $500,000 Bid- Document Estimate over available appropriation after value- engineering exercise, including soft-cost reductions, produced savings of $466,838. Totals $6,820,000 t Does not include any appropriations for a new sidewalk leading to the LexCC; that would be executed by DPW The LexCC accommodates expanded programming for all ages in the community, and the Culture and Recreation & Community Programs staff that manages those activities. The CMB renovations contract still has a few punch -list items to clear as well as addressing what will be the final completion of the sidewalk in front of the building and extending in both directions to Massachusetts Avenue, to the Police Headquarters, to the Town Office Building, and down to the rear parking area. The funding for the renovations has been as follows: 24