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� -4- i Sewer def erm. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to redef er wHUE payment of sewer betterment assessments in the amount of $6,714.26 against property owned by G. C. C. Communications of Boston (WHUE) and located at #7 5 Concord Avenue. Minuteman Sch, Dr. Ronald Fitzgerald, Superintendent /Director of the Minute - Hotel /Conf. . man Vocational Technical School District, and members of the Min - Ctr. . uteman School Committee Jackson and Donovan, were in attendance Proposal for the purpose of presenting a proposal for a Hotel /Conference Center on the School grounds, which it is planned, will be sub- mitted to the 1985 Annual Town Meeting. Mrs. Batt in noted that the Selectmen would be taking no posi- tion on the proposal that evening and that positions of others in the audience were not sought at this time. Mr. Jackson introduced Chairman Donovan of the Minuteman School Committee who reviewed the effort of two years including two iterations of proposals to provide students with a hotel en- vironment as an educational /cooperative training ground. He reported that Massachusetts Innkeepers has now been ac- cepted by his Committee as the selected. developer but that there are many issues still to be addressed and approved by the full School Board. Dr. Fitzgerald was introduced to present particulars of the Massachusetts Innkeepers' proposal for a maximum 200 room /600 seat Conference Center; implementation of which, he noted, would require 1985, or later, Town Meeting approval. In ref erence to the existing traf f is situation on Marrett Road, he projected that the hotel operation would add .3' cars /minute to the existing flow at peak hours, which he felt to be a small impact. He noted that the current 1200-pupil op erat ion with the addition of a Hotel Learning Center would still fall within the 1500 population limit originally approved by Member Towns. He added that hotels by nature do not generate the clumps of high volume traffic associated with the morning and evening commuter traf f is on Route 2A. He noted studies which have shown that a hotel project would greatly improve the quality of training and placement opportunities for students in such areas as culinary arts, hotel management,, re- tail sales, maintenance support and others. Dr. Fit.zgerald referred to past efforts to involve local hotels in cooperative training which have not proven to be successful for more than a limited number of students due to severe problems en- countered regarding transportation to and from these facilities, With reference to benefits to Lexington, he noted that. Ch. 196 requires payment of taxes representing financial' as well as the ed- ucational gain of providing a technical program of high quality.