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Minutes of the Community Preservation Committee Thursday, November 13, 2014 Parker Room, Town Office Building 1625 Massachusetts Avenue 3:00 pm Committee Members Present: Marilyn Fenollosa, Chair; Richard Canale, Norman Cohen, David Horton, Jeanne Krieger, Leo McSweeney, Bob Pressman, Sandy Shaw and Richard Wolk, Vice-Chair. Administrative Assistant : Nathalie Rice Also in attendance were David Kanter, Vice Chair of the Capital Expenditures Committee; John Livsey, Town Engineer; and David Pinsonneault, Operations Manager, DPW. The meeting was called to order at 3:02 pm. by Ms. Fenollosa. 1.State Matching Funds Announced Ms. Fenollosa reported that the State CPA Match had been announced and that Lexington had received 32.56% or $1,230,116. Mr. Kanter reported that this amount is $302,806 more than that estimated in the FY15 planning cycle by the Assistant Town Manager for Finance. The additional $302,806 he noted, will be appropriated to the CPF at the March Annual Town Meeting, unless there is a Special Town Meeting beforehand. Mr. Kanter also reported that the 2014 CPA surcharge was $3,777,676, (making the revenue for the CPF a total of $4,704,986). For the purposes of estimating monies available for the FY16 planning cycle, the figure of $4.7M will be added to the existing balances in the three buckets, in the Unbudgeted Reserve and in the Undesignated Fund Balance. 2.Receipt of Town Counsels Opinion on Conservation Applications presented on November 6th Ms. Fenollosa noted that Town Counsel, Kevin Batt had ruled on the two th CPA applications submitted on November 6 . Mr. Batt had advised that the Conservation Meadows Preservation Program was eligible under the designation of preservation of Open Space, and that the Lower Vine Brook Paved Recreation Path Reconstruction was eligible in its broadest sense under rehabilitation of a recreational resource. 3.Parkers Revenge Restoration, Ms. Jeanne Krieger, Mr. Dan Fenn, Friends of Minuteman National Park, $24,200 Ms. Krieger commenced her presentation by recusing herself from any and all CPC votes on the Parkers Revenge Project. She introduced former Selectman Dan Fenn, who recounted the remarkable courage of Captain John Parker who after losing eight men on the Lexington Green on the morning of April th 19, rallied his company for a later ambush of the British regulars on their hasty retreat from Concord. The site of the ambush is the focus of the CPA historic restoration project proposed by the Friends of MMNP. Ms. Krieger and Mr. Fenn explained that their 1