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10/3/17 AC Minutes Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC) Oct 3, 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) Members Absent: None Other Attendees: Dawn McKenna, Tourism Committee Chair. The meeting was called to order at 7:38 p.m. 1. Announcements John Bartenstein distributed a draft Special Town Meeting (STM) article vote summary spreadsheet, listing article votes as of Oct 3, 2017 taken by Appropriation Committee (AC) members in past meetings and requested corrections. Mr. Levine and Mr. Bartenstein reported on a Chairs Plus One meeting they attended immediately before this meeting. Mr. Bartenstein summarized the positions taken by the School Committee (SC), the Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) and the Board of Selectmen (BoS) on whether Article STM 2.2, Appropriate for Hastings School Construction, should be contingent on the results of the anticipated Prop. 2.5 debt exclusion referendum. Mr, Levine and Mr. Bartenstein noted that the attendees agreed it would be desirable for the AC and the other committees to come to a consensus on this issue before reporting to Town Meeting. They also noted that the Town Manager had suggested that if the debt exclusion referendum failed, a Special Town Meeting could still be called to consider funding the Hastings School construction within the levy, without necessarily jeopardizing support from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA). Assistant Town Manager for Finance Carolyn Kosnoff reported she expected to have available the following day an update to the financial model for capital projects funded with excluded debt. Taxpayer impact will be shown for the combined projects but not individually for each project. Helen Yang, Lily Yan and Richard Neumeier announced they would not be able to attend the upcoming Budget Summit on Thursday Oct 5. 2. Review of Prior Meeting Minutes Draft minutes from Tuesday Sept 14th and Thursday Sept 26th were reviewed. Eric Michelson, Alan Levine and Sanjay Padaki suggested minor adjustments. Motion to approve the minutes from Sept 14th and Sept 26th passed, 9-0-0.