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CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE REPORT TO 2018 ATM (incorporating Updates&Errata)
<br /> Conservation and Open Space 5-Year Capital Appropriation History (All Sources)
<br /> FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
<br /> Conservation Restriction Enforcement $25,000
<br /> Lexington Center Pocket Park $21,500
<br /> ACROSS Lexington $5,875
<br /> 5-Year Open Space&Recreation Plan $30,000
<br /> Update
<br /> Land Acquisition Off Concord Avenue $220,000
<br /> (Portion of Sellars Parcel)
<br /> Parkers Meadow Accessible Trail D&EI $34,500
<br /> Lower Vinebrook Paved Recreation Path $369,813
<br /> Wright Farm2'3 $376,980 $35,000 $87,701
<br /> Conservation Meadow Preservation $26,400 $40,480
<br /> Cotton Farm Conservation Area $301,300
<br /> Improvement
<br /> Totals $82,375 $254,500 $773,193 $35,000 $429,481
<br /> This project is the result of a joint request from the Conservation Commission,the Commission on
<br /> Disability,and the Recreation Committee.
<br /> 2Purchase of Parcel 2 of 43,446 sq ft(just under 1 acre)was authorized at the 2015 ATM,Article 9. Closing
<br /> date was February 11,2016.The purchase price was$520,000 and$98,000 was needed for
<br /> purchase—associated costs. The acquisition is for both Open Space(Conservation)and Community
<br /> Housing.The allocation of area and the same proportion of the total cost are 26,492 sq ft(61%)and
<br /> $376,980 for Conservation.(See Community Housing for the balance of the area and the cost.)
<br /> 32016 ATM,Article 8(g),funded structural and architectural analysis of the barn as well as an educational-
<br /> programming needs assessment.
<br /> Lexington Community Center
<br /> Lexington's Community Center (LexCC), at 39 Marrett Road, was purchased by the Town in 2013. A
<br /> Selectmen-appointed Ad hoc Community Center Advisory Committee (AhCCAC) worked to identify
<br /> short-term and long-term improvements to the building needed to support Town programs there.
<br /> Appropriations for the resulting renovations appear in the Department of Public Facility (DPF)
<br /> funding—history table on Page 29.
<br /> The LexCC incorporates previous functions of the Lexington Senior Center and provides expanded,
<br /> multi-generational services to the Town. To manage the LexCC and the closely associated Town
<br /> functions, the BoS created the Recreation and Community Programs Department. Programming began in
<br /> 2015 and includes drop-in programs such as yoga, table tennis, and billiards, as well as structured classes.
<br /> LexCC also provides much needed meeting and function spaces.
<br /> The 2016 ATM appropriated supplementary funds for debt service on the final stages of the LexCC
<br /> renovations. A Bond Anticipation Note (BAN) was issued for additional costs, but available CPA funds
<br /> allowed the BAN to be retired without the need to issue a bond, avoiding bond-issuance costs and
<br /> long—term interest.
<br /> While planned renovations of the LexCC have been completed, the AhCCAC suggested that two more
<br /> additions—a gymnasium and a larger, multipurpose, space—would allow the Center to offer broader
<br /> programming. The 2016 Town Meeting approved $8 million for the purchase of a parcel of land on
<br /> Pelham Road (adjacent to the LexCC) for school and municipal purposes. The building on the site had a
<br /> large gym and kitchen/cafeteria that might have functioned as the LexCC addition after renovations.
<br /> However, the Town decided to demolish the existing building as the renovation costs needed to bring the
<br /> facility to Lexington's educational standards was substantial, and build a standalone Lexington Children's
<br /> Place instead.
<br /> DiNisco Designs, was contracted to develop a master, campus, plan for the combined 39 Marrett Road
<br /> and 20 Pelham Road site. In January 2018, they presented three concepts to the Board of Selectmen for
<br /> the LexCC expansion. Two are for the expansion to be attached to the current LexCC building and use the
<br /> available property on 20 Pelham Road for additional parking. The third is a standalone LexCC addition
<br /> on the Pelham Road property. Funding for this site master plan has come from two appropriations for Bid
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