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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE-ATM 2018 Article 29: Appropriate for Prior Years' Unpaid Bills Funds Requested Funding Source Committee Recommendation none IP As of publication, the Committee was not aware of any unpaid bills from prior years. The Committee an- ticipates that this article will be indefinitely postponed. Article 30: Amend FY2018 Operating, Enterprise, and CPA Budgets Funds Requested Funding Source Committee Recommendation unknown Pending A recommendation from the Town Manager, Town staff, and the Board of Selectmen regarding actions, if any, under this article is not expected to be available until after press time. Consideration of this article, which is routinely included in the annual town meeting warrant, is normally deferred until a session near the end of town meeting to allow Town staff to gather the latest data, project expenses for the fiscal year, formulate recommendations, and coordinate final adjustments to the current year's budget in a single mo- tion. This Committee will report on any recommended actions when the article is taken up by Town Meeting. Article 31: Appropriate for Authorized Capital Improvements Funds Requested Funding Source Committee Recommendation unknown Pending As of publication, no action is planned under this article. This Committee will make a report when the article is taken up. Article 32: Amend General Bylaw - Regarding Financial Committees (citizen article) Funds Requested Funding Source Committee Recommendation none Approve (9-0) State law provides, in G.L. c. 39, §16, that every town having in excess of one million dollars in assessed valuation "shall . . . provide for the election or the appointment and duties of appropriation, advisory, or finance committees, who shall consider any and all municipal questions for the purpose of making reports or recommendations to the town." The statutory language being very general, different towns have implemented this requirement in different ways. At least since the adoption of the Selectmen-Town Manager Act in 1968, the Town of Lexington has fulfilled the statutory mandate with two separate, coordinate committees, an Appropriation Commit- tee with a broad mandate in the bylaws to consider "any and all municipal questions" —but customarily focused on matters with a discernible financial impact on the Town -- and a Capital Expenditures Com- mittee with a more particularized mandate to consider and make recommendations on capital questions. 52