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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting March 8, 2016 Location and Time: Town Office Building, Reed Room (111); 8:00 .. AM Members Present: Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk; Elizabeth Barnett; Rod Cole; Wendy Manz Members Absent: None Others Present: Jon Himmel, Chair, Permanent Building Committee; Sara Arnold, Recording Secretary Documents Presented: Notice of Public Meeting for CEC Meeting, Agenda, March 8, 2016 Draft #4 Capital Expenditures Committee Report to 2016 Annual Town Meeting (ATM) & 2016 Special Town Meeting (STM) 2016-3, to be released March 21, 2016 Draft Planning Department description for the CEC Report to the 2016 ATM & STM 2016-3, prepared by Ms. Manz Town's 5-Year Capital Plan (FY2017–FY2021) (including FY2017 Deferrals) with Comparable-Year Data from Last-Year's CEC 5-Year Capital Plan (FY2016-FY2020) Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order at 7:32 .. AM CEC Report to the STM 2016-3 and 2016 ATM: Using the current draft of the report, there was a review of the text and this Committee’s votes on the Articles for which this Committee is taking a position. It was noted that the Planning material prepared and distributed by Ms. Manz would be incorporated into the report. Suggested changes/additions to the report’s text were identified. Additional comments regarding the STM 2016-3 were made as follows Article 2: Appropriate For Middle Schools—Additions and Remodeling: Because some of the requested funding will be contingent on a debt-exclusion referendum, there will be a contingency element in the Motion. Norman Cohen, Selectman, is preparing the wording for the Article; Pat Goddard, Public Facilities Director, is preparing the dollar amounts that will be used. Additional comments and/or changes in votes regarding the ATM Articles were made, as follows: Article 8: Appropriate the FY2017 Community Preservation Committee Operating Budget and Community Preservation Act (CPA) Projects (Multiple Categories): (o) Grain Mill Alley Design Implementation (Open Space):It was reported that neither the Police Chief nor the Fire Chief has safety concerns related to this project; John Livsey, Town Engineer, does not have concerns related to the coordination of this project with future projects that are expected to abut the Grain Mill Alley project’s two nodes. It was noted that the cost for the Massachusetts Avenue node, which does not incorporate a safety-related element, was only about $77,000 and the Streetscape project that could eventually abut this area would not be implemented for several more years, at the earliest. Ms. Barnett continued to oppose the project because of safety concerns related to traffic flow and potential conflicts related to future abutting projects. Page 1 of 3