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06/01/2017 AC Minutes; Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC) June 1, 2017 Place and Time: Parker Room, Town Office Building, 7:30 p.m. Members Present: John Bartenstein, Chair; Alan Levine, Vice -Chair & Secretary; Ellen Basch; Eric Michelson; Richard Neumeier; Andrei Radulescu-Banu; Sanjay Padaki; Lily Manhua Yan; Jian Helen Yang; Carolyn Kosnoff, Assistant Town Manager, Finance (non-voting, ex officio) Member(s) Absent: None Other Attendees: Kate Colburn, School Committee (SC); Bob Pressman, Community Preservation Committee The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. 1. Announcements Mr. Bartenstein reported the following: • Ms. Colburn will be serving as SC liaison to this Committee. • Deborah Brown, Town Meeting Moderator, will attend this Committee's July meeting to review the recent Annual and Special Town Meetings (ATM and STM -1), the use of the Town Meeting Members' Association's list -serve, and Open Meeting Law (OML) issues. • The Board of Selectmen (BoS) chair, Suzie Barry, is holding a June 5 Chairs+1 meeting at 9 a.m. Mr. Neumeier volunteered to join Mr. Bartenstein as the second AC representative. • In response to questions, the Attorney General's office has informally taken the position that the use of Google Docs to permit serial editing of meeting minutes by Committee members would be an OML violation. Mr. Bartenstein will review this issue further. In the meantime, Ms. Arnold will continue to circulate a Word version only and comments on draft minutes should be sent only to Mr. Bartenstein and Ms. Arnold. • Mr. Padaki is working on setting up a mailing list of committee members. • The next meeting will be held on July 11, 2017. • There was a recent article in Commonwealth Magazine stating that Eversource, the Town's electricity supplier, proposes to cut the net metering rate by 41%. This rate cut must be approved by the Department of Public Utilities. If approved, Lexington could lose $372,000 in annual revenue. This is a topic for further consideration. 2. Options Related to 20 Pelham Road The Committee reviewed and discussed the May 30 joint meeting of the BoS, SC, Capital Expenditures Committee, and this Committee regarding future use of the facility on the recently purchased Pelham Road property. At that meeting, it was noted that: • The current facility includes classrooms at one end and a gymnasium and cafeteria at the other end. • Three renovation alternatives have been identified for both the Lexington Children's Place (LCP) and an annex for the Lexington Community Center (LexCC). • The classroom portion could be demolished and a new LCP constructed on the property. 1