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<br />November3, 2010 <br />Minutes <br />Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee <br />November 3, 2010 <br />Place and time: Town Office Building, Room 111, 7:30 p.m. <br />Members present: Glenn Parker (Chair), John Bartenstein (Vice Chair and Secretary), Joe Pato <br />(Vice Chair), Susan McLeish, Alan Levine, Eric Michelson, Richard Neumeier, Mollie Garberg, <br />Rob Addelson (non-voting, ex officio) <br />Also present: Peter Kelley, Dawn McKenna <br />The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. <br />Announcements. <br />1. <br />Moderator’s Meeting <br />(Glenn Parker). At this meeting, there was a discussion <br />regarding how much time we need for our report to the Special Town Meeting to be held <br />on November 15. Article 1 (Reports of Committees) will be covered under general <br />comments by Glenn. Most of the line items will be covered under thegeneral comments <br />under Article 1. Expectation is that Article 2 (Amend FY2011 Operating and Enterprise <br />Budgets) will be voted as one item with our oral comments split into two: 5 minutes for <br />healthcare (Joe) and 5 minutes on Estabrook (Alan). <br />Amendment to Article 2 <br />(Peter Kelley). Selectman Kelley offered his <br />perspective that extraordinary expenditures for remediation of PCBs at Estabrook were <br />unwarranted and in any event should have been handled with existing funds. <br />Consequently he will present an amendment eliminating the proposed transfer of funds to <br />the School Department and those to replenish the Reserve Fund. <br />Presentation on Commercial Assessments <br />(John Bartenstein). Steve Foster and <br />Bill Jackson (Board of Assessors) would like to have Steve present his briefing on the <br />commercial assessment process to a meeting of the Appropriation Committee. <br />Minutes. <br />2.Minutes for October 27 were unanimously approved.Revised drafts of the <br />minutes for the August 26 and October 13 meetings will be disseminated andreviewed at our <br />next meeting as well as minutes from the Board of Selectmen summits. <br />3.Review of proposed budget changes for the SpecialTown Meeting (Rob Addelson). <br />Budget-neutral transfers: <br />1.Funds from healthcare line to each salary line ($500 per employee pro-rated <br />for part-time employees) as per new health benefits contract, totaling $684,400. <br />2.Transfer of $25,400 from the School budgetto the Dept. of Public Facilities <br />budget for school custodians. <br />1 <br /> <br />