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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting March 30, 2016 Location and Time: Lexington High School, Building B, Room 154, 7:00 .. PM Members Present: Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk; Elizabeth Barnett; Rod Cole; Wendy Manz Members Absent: None Others Present: None Documents Presented: Notice/Agenda of CEC Public Meeting, March 30, 2016 Ms. Hai’s e-mail, 3/20 Meeting, March 28, 2016 10:01 .., with Lexington AM Police Chief Corr’s Statement regarding funding of the 2016 Annual Town Meeting (ATM), Article 10(p), Parking Meter Replacements—Phase 2 Mr. Kanter’s e-mail, Amendment to Grain Mill Alley Design Implementation Project (2016 ATM, Article 8(o)) to Do Only the Bikeway End, March 29, 2016 10:38 .., AM with Lexington Economic Director Melisa Tintocalis’ request to reduce the scope and costs of that project Draft #3 Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 1, 2016 Draft #4 Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 8, 2016 Draft #2 Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 10, 2016 Draft #2 Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 15, 2016 Draft Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 18, 2016 Draft Minutes of CEC Meeting, March 30, 2016 Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order at 7:12 .. PM Discussion on any matters included in the Committee’s Report to the 2016 ATM: Article 10(p), Parking Meter Replacements—Phase 2 The Committee took under advisement Chief Corr’s statement that explained why, in his opinion, failure to fund the second phase “puts the parking plan in a big bind”. However, the Committee’s position is only that it is premature to request that funding before all the results of the pilot program—the last of whose meters were only installed this month—are presented and vetted. At that time, the Committee would welcome seeing the Phase 2 request brought forward—even if then in any Special Town Meeting that might otherwise be called. A Motion was made and seconded that the Committee retain its recommend disapproval of Article 10(p) at this ATM. Vote: 4–1 (Ms. Manz in opposition) Article 8(o), Grain Mill Alley Design Implementation Project The Lexington Community Preservation Committee (CPC) has received a request from Ms. Tintocalis, the proponent of that project, to amend it by eliminating the work at the Massachusetts Avenue end of the alley; leaving just the work adjacent to the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway—with the attendant reduction of the total cost from $219,114 to $132,838. (An approximately $5,000 balance remains from a previous appropriation that would still reduce the requested appropriation amount.) The CPC hopes to discuss and vote on that request at a meeting tomorrow. (If not, the change could be accomplished as an amendment at the on-going Annual Town Meeting.) Mr. Kanter reported that at the Board of Selectmen’s meeting earlier this evening, it endorsed the reduced-scope project. Page 1 of 2