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Town Meeting CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2018 ATM
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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2018 ATM <br /> Five-Year Capital Plan <br /> The table on the next four pages summarizes the five-year capital plan that this Committee is submitting <br /> for Town Meeting's consideration. It reflects the expected FY2019 appropriations at the 2018 ATM or <br /> expected at a Special Town Meeting later in FY2019 that this Committee endorses and the FY2020– <br /> FY2023 requests that this Committee anticipates and endorses. We started with the amounts and timing <br /> shown in the Brown Book, Page XI-4 for FY2019, and XI-27 for FY2020–FY2023. Those requests have <br /> been updated based on any information we received after it was published and we have made additional <br /> entries or changes where we feel, based on earlier studies, design&engineering (D&E) (also <br /> architect/engineer [A/E]) work), or the existence of a multi-phase project, that there might be future <br /> requests, although no formal position has been taken by the Town. In that vein, there are important <br /> caveats to that table: <br /> • Please see the footnotes for information on the status of many of the entries and how this <br /> Committee's position differs from that presented by the Town in the Brown Book. <br /> • Excluding the many tens of millions of dollars of to-be-determined (TBD) entries, the total in this <br /> Committee's Plan for FY2020–FY2023 is already just over $116 million. The TBD entries <br /> include future construction phases and yet to be determined elements of projects for which there <br /> may be additional phases not yet specified or entire major facility projects (e.g., Lexington High <br /> School renovation/reconstruction and the Police Outdoor/Indoor Firing Range at Hartwell <br /> Avenue). The TBDs will exceed the total estimated amounts. <br /> • The Capital Stabilization Fund (CSF) is receiving another meaningful appropriation for FY2019. <br /> (See Article 26.) For several years we have been building the resources of this Fund so that we <br /> can use them toward mitigation of the tax impact of the debt service from our capital projects. <br /> Given the current proposed and possible out-year projects in our Capital Plan, it is expected that <br /> the use of the CSF to mitigate our debt service will fully deplete that reserve before the debt <br /> service for the projects currently contemplated in this Plan is completed. On December 4, 2017, <br /> the voters approved a debt exclusion for funding of the Maria Hastings Elementary School, the <br /> Lexington Children's Place (the pre-kindergarten school), and the new Fire & Rescue Department <br /> Headquarters. <br /> • Compounding the challenge of the next five years, inevitably there will be "Big-Ticket" projects <br /> facing the Town in the years past FY2019 (e.g., the Police Headquarters, the High School, <br /> Community Center Expansion, etc.). <br /> • Because of the on-going challenge this Town faces with regard to the <br /> renovation/replacement/renewal of its Capital Assets, this Committee urges the BoS to continue <br /> to refine a formal, Town-wide, Facilities Master Plan—including a financing plan that also <br /> identifies the likely debt-exclusion referendums. This Committee stands ready to assist in any <br /> way it can. <br /> • This Committee appreciates the Town's concern about citing a preliminary estimate for projects <br /> that are not yet well-defined and hence, the Town's out-year amounts generally do not reflect the <br /> costs in then-year dollars. As this Committee does not have the means to reasonably adjust <br /> current-year values to then-year values, we are using the Town's dollar values unless we have <br /> made a change for another reason—in which case there will be an explaining footnote. <br /> 10 <br />
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