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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting April 3, 2019 Ms. Manz arrived. After being advised of the nature of the earlier-taken votes regarding the Center Track & Field Project and the Draft Minutes for this Committee's meeting on April 1, 2019, she added her votes in favor of both—making them both 6-0. Preparation for the 2019 Annual Town Meeting (ATM)—Westview Cemetery Building Project. This Committee then discussed the Interim Report by the Ad hoc Crematory Study Committee (Study Committee) as it will later advise the Board of Selectmen as to whether it considers the addition of a crematory at the Town's Westview Cemetery to be warranted. While its report affirms that it will take several more months before it can provide that advice, it explicitly reported that the new operations/maintenance building at the Cemetery (Article 20(g), Westview Cemetery Facility Construction, at this ATM), with the last adjustments already made to its design, is "addition-ready" with regard to any adjacent crematory. Therefore, it voted in favor of that design and found no need to delay that project at this ATM. This Committee discussed that some recommendations have surfaced that "space-mining" and other interior work at the current operations/maintenance building would be sufficient and prudent at this time while awaiting a decision on adding a crematory at the cemetery. This Committee reviewed, again, the current condition of the existing, 2,300 sf ft building; the extreme inadequacies of it to properly support the activities by the Town staff and the needs of those doing business at that building; and that the new-building design—at 4,400 sf—was needed to properly address the established program and use. This Committee then reaffirmed its support for resolving those problems now with the building as proposed and welcomed the Ad hoc Crematory Study Committee's endorsement to proceed with the construction funding at this ATM. This Committee also reaffirmed its opposition to any funding for a crematory at the Westview Cemetery—as is before this ATM under Article 6—as it is premature without the Study Committee's recommendation to pursue a crematory at the Westview Cemetery and the Board of Selectmen's endorsement to do so. Adjourn: A Motion was made and seconded at 7:23 P.M. to adjourn. Vote: 6-0. These Minutes were approved by the CEC at its meeting on April 8, 2019. Page 2 of 2