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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2016 ATM [Brown Book, Page XI -25] Project Description (CPA Category) Amount Requested Funding Source Committee Recommends (g) Wright Farm Barn Needs Assessment and Feasibility Study (Open Space) $35,000 CPF (Cash) Approval (5 -0) "At the 2012 Annual Town Meeting, voters approved the purchase of a significant portion of the Wright Farm, a 12.6 acre parcel of land located on Grove Street. The Wright Family retained one lot (approximately one acre), including a house, garage and barn on which there was granted an option of later purchase by the Town. At the 2015 Annual Town Meeting, voters approved $618,000 to fund the purchase of the remaining parcel of land by the Town, including the barn, which is in some disrepair. This project requests funds to conduct a feasibility study of the barn to determine if it can be utilized as an environmental education facility. The feasibility study would consist of a structural analysis, needs assessment and architectural assessment." [Brown Book, Page XI -20] Project Description (CPA Category) Amount Requested Funding Source Committee Recommends (h) Antony Park Construction Fund (Recreation) $60,000 CPF (Cash) Approval (4 -1) "In 2010, the Board of Selectmen authorized the Tourism Committee to build a park within Tower Park to commemorate Lexington's sister city, Antony, France. The Town has worked with the Tourism Committee to install a water line at the site and complete initial grading but bids for further construction came back with exceedingly higher costs than what was raised in private donations. This request is for additional funds to complete the construction and supplement private donations. The design will include a sitting wall, pathways, landscaping and a memorial linking the two cities." [Brown Book, Page XI -23] The one member's opposition to this request is based on two concerns: 1) The appropriateness of this request in a time of extraordinary fiscal pressures; and 2) The precedent that funding this project may set for morphing what was an agreed -to privately funded project into a private- public partnership when the cost grows beyond the promised private - funding amount. While this Committee normally is averse to providing Town funds to supplement the funds raised privately for a project that originally was contemplated to be entirely privately funded, in this instance an exception is being made. This Committee finds completion of this Park as represented to the city of Antony, France, has become a responsibility of the Town. In addition to the funds requested here, the Tourism Committee has raised over $60, 000 and secured a $5, 000 grant received from the Community Endowment of Lexington to be applied to meet the expense of completing the Park.) Project Description (CPA Category) Amount Requested Funding Source Committee Recommends (i) Minuteman Bikeway Wayfinding Signs Implementation (Recreation) $120,000 CPF (Cash) Approval (4 -1) "The 2015 Annual Town Meeting approved $39,000 to fund the design of wayfinding and etiquette signage relating to the Minuteman Bikeway in Lexington. This FY17 request would fund the purchase and installation of approximately 220 signs containing information on bikeway access and etiquette and nearby attractions. The signage is one of the recommendations in the report entitled `Navigating the 36