2018-06-27-CEC-ATM-rpt (Combined Report with Updates & Errata)

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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2018 ATM (incorporating Updates&Errata) The Projects Agenda The following is a comprehensive list of big-ticket items that are under consideration in Lexington. Except for the first three items identified by the BoS as the Town's highest priorities—with which this Committee agrees—no priority ranking is intended;the rest of this listing is simply alphabetical. • School Buildings—Expansion, Renovation&Reconstruction. (See Article 12.) • Fire Station Central Headquarters—Replacement. (See Article 13.) • Police Headquarters—Renovation or Replacement(See Article 14.) • Carriage House (next to Lexington Community Center)—Determine Use and Renovation • Community(Affordable)Housing—Development and Acquisition(See Article 10(j).) • Conservation/Open Space Land—Acquisition and Enhancement • Center Streetscape Improvements • Greenways Corridor—Implementation. These are projects to link open spaces with trails. The major West Lexington Greenway Project—the proposed trail network west of I-95/Route 128 linking all Town-owned open space and the Minuteman Bikeway with the Battle Road Trail in the Minuteman National Historic Park via accessible trails—has been studied. • Hammond A.Hosmer House, 1557 Massachusetts Avenue (previously called the White House)—Determine Use and Renovation. This structure has been stabilized, but is not code compliant nor suitable for use without further renovation or build-out. • Hartwell Avenue Transportation Management Overlay District Improvements • Munroe School • Muzzey High Condominium Unit (former Senior Center), 1475 Massachusetts Avenue— Determine Use and Renovation • Recreation Facilities—A continuing need(See Articles 10(f–h), and 15.) • Roads—A continuing need (See Article 16(k).) • Sidewalks—A continuing need(See Article 16(g).) • Stone Building (previously the East Lexington Library), 735 Massachusetts Avenue—Determine Use and Renovation. This structure has been stabilized, but is not code compliant nor suitable for use without further renovation or build-out. • Transportation Mitigation—This is a continuing need. (See Article 16(m).) (Actions taken are often an element of road-related projects,rather than being solely to achieve specific mitigation) • Visitors Center—Expansion&Renovation(See Article 22.) The BoS, School Committee, CPC, and Permanent Building Committee will continue to evaluate, refine, prioritize, and schedule these projects for the next several years. Realistic cost proposals should be incorporated in the 5-year projections. The Town-wide Facility Master Plan, still a work in progress, will contribute to that process. The Community Preservation Act (CPA) The CPA is an opt-in, State funding mechanism for municipal projects which, while clearly valuable, may sometimes be crowded out by more-urgent municipal needs. CPA funds may be used for capital projects proposed by municipal and non-municipal entities within the four categories of Community Housing, Historic Resources, Open Space, and Recreational Use as provided in the enabling Act. This separate pool of money can help accomplish some of our Town's traditional needs, but only those that fall within the limited purposes of the Act. (See Article 10(a–j).) On March 6, 2006, Lexington voters approved adopting the CPA for our Town at the level of a 3% surcharge on local property taxes. In addition to the funds provided by that surcharge on municipal taxpayers, the CPA provides a process by which all municipalities that have adopted the Act are eligible for supplemental State funding provided from surcharges on the transaction fees charged by the State's Registries of Deeds. Those fee surcharge amounts are transferred to the State's Community Preservation Act Trust Fund (CPATF) from which the State supplemental funding is distributed according to a formula based on each municipality's prior–fiscal-year's property-tax surcharges. The State supplement can theoretically be as high as a 100% match to each municipality's own surcharge revenue, but the percentage is not guaranteed and has not 6