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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting January 19, 2016 be entirely privately funded —and especially as there is no intention to come to the Town for support —at least in FY2017. • Recreation & Community Programs: Granite Forest at Lincoln Park ($30,000): The Committee believes this is project should remain totally privately funded. Vote: 4 -0. • Public Facilities: School Traffic Safety Improvements ($25,000): Requested Funding Source is shown here as "GF Debt ", but it appears on Page XI -18 as "Free Cash ". • Public Facilities: Munroe School Roof ($298,000): The funding, however, is to be conditional on the Town being fully reimbursed for the cost. The Committee would like to see the licensing agreement with the Munroe Center for the Arts revised to explicitly hold the Center responsible for making the Town whole on all the costs for the project. Vote: 0 -4. • Public Works: Center Streetscape Improvements ($2,700,000): The funding, however, is to be conditional on there being a value- engineering analysis done first on the design elements. In any case, the Title should include "Phase 1 ". Vote: 0 -4. • Public Works: Minuteman Bikeway Wayfinding ($120,000): Vote: 1-4. Ms. Barnett felt this should proceed only after coordination with Arlington and Bedford. • Public Works: Implementation ($390,000): Expect this will be shown as "Comprehensive Watershed Stormwater Management Study and Implementation" as it is later. Mr. Cole joined the meeting using remote participation. • Public Works: Antony Park Construction ($60,000): The Committee believes this is project should remain totally privately funded. Roll -Call Vote: 5-0. • Public Works: Munroe Center for the Arts Parking Lot ($220,000): As with the Library project, Mr. Kanter felt this project should be removed from the funding tables as it is to be entirely privately funded. • General Government: Pelham Road Property Acquisition ($ TBD): In the absence of information on the progress of the negotiations with the seller, the Committee deferred taking a position. • Non - Governmental Projects: Lexington Arts and Crafts Society— Parsons Gallery Lighting Renovation ($24,280): While not challenging its eligibility under the Community Preservation Act, the Committee considers this particular interior renovation for a private entity is not a worthwhile use of the funding under that Act and creates a bad precedent. Vote: Roll -Call Vote: 5-0. Approval of Minutes: A Motion was made and seconded to approve Draft #4 CEC Minutes for the Meeting on January 12, 2016, as changed. Roll -Call Vote: 4-0 -1 (Mr. Cole abstained as he did not attend that meeting.) A Motion was made and seconded to approve Draft CEC Minutes for the Meeting on January 14, 2016 (Summit IV), as presented. Roll -Call Vote: 5 -0 Page 3 of 4