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61-434 Selectmen's Meeting - November 8, 1999 Minutes Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to approve the minutes of the meeting of October 18, 1999. Report of Lexington 20/20 Vision Steering Committee Chair of the Steering Committee Fernando Quezada gave the Board an overall recap of the activities of the Committee to date, a summary of the October 2, 1999 Fall Forum, the participant roles for the next stage and an outline of future process steps. Mr. Quezada thanked all the members of the Committee for their hard work and praised the assistance of Candy McLaughlin, and Michael Baker from the Town Manager's Office. Mr. Quezada also asked that the Board appoint two new members to the Steering Committee. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to appoint James Hoyte and Heather Hartshorn Sweeney to the Steering Committee. Mr. Enrich thanked Mr. Quezada and reiterated that there has been a lot of work done by an extraordinary group of people and the Committee has a long way to go although the harder part of the work is done. Budgets Public Works DPW Director George Woodbury reviewed the Public Works budget requests for FY2001 for the following: DPW Administration $413,857; Engineering $319,109; Street Lighting $325,264; Parking Operations $63,348; Highway Mainenance $890,322 Road Machinery $538,437; Snow Removal $347,125; Park Division $788,411; Tree Maintenance $231,725; Cemetery $268,917; Refuse Collection $720,000; Recycling $517,769; Refuse Disposal $1,453,674; Building Maintenance $571,795; Lexpress $265,839; Chair Car $15,895; Water Operation and Maintenance $1,620,451; Water Debt $82,136; Water Regional Charges $2,696,066; Sewer Operation & Maintenance $1,041,185; Sewer Debt $1,557,798; Sewer Regional Charges $6,393,719. Mr. Woodbury also reviewed three service demand requests. Mr. Woodbury spoke of taking on the maintenance of the Senior Center, Libraries and the Fire Stations. The Lexpress operation is now in the Public Works Office. There has also been continual growth in the Recreation programs that DPW supports. There has also been an increase in the maintenance of the infrastructure. Along with the increases there has been a 10% cut in manpower. Emphasis has been put into productivity, reexamining operations, looking at alternative ways of doing things and looking for additional sources of revenue. The biggest challenge to DPW is managing customer expectations. There is a need to look at predicting an annual work plan and the cost of what the plan is going to entail. Public awareness is increasing in the trash disposal area. We need to prepare ourselves for 2005 when the contract expires.