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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Remote-Participation Meeting January 18, 2024 Page 1 of 3 Location and Time: Remote-Participation Meeting; 8:00 A.M. Members Present: Charles Lamb, Chair; David Kanter, Vice−Chair & Clerk; Sandy Beebee; Mike Boudett; and Lisah Rhodes Member Absent: Rod Cole. Others Present: Marilyn Fenollosa, Chair, Community Preservation Committee (CPC); Tom Case, Administrative Assistant to the CPC, Rosalyn Impink, Lexington Budget Officer; Glenn Parker, Chair, Lexington Appropriation Committee; Robert Pressman, Member, CPC; Melissa Battite, Director of Recreation & Community Programs. Documents Presented: • Notice of Public Remote Meeting/Agenda CEC Meeting, January 18, 2024 • CPC Slides for the 2024 Annual Town Meeting • Draft Minutes for the CEC Meeting, January 11, 2024 Call to Order Mr. Lamb called this Remote (Virtual) Meeting to order at 8:00 A.M. As the Committee members and the others joining this meeting had been previously advised of the special conditions of this meeting, he passed on repeating them (i.e., the authority to not require a physical presence of a quorum and other selected terms under the Open Meeting Law had, by legislation on March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed into law a supplemental budget bill which, among other things, extends the temporary provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2025, pursuant to Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2023). Mr. Lamb advised that the recording of this meeting is solely to aid in the preparation of the Minutes for this meeting and will be destroyed when this Minutes is approved. Mr. Lamb made a Roll Call of the Committee Members and found 5 Members present. Mr. Lamb advised that as the CPC slides had previously been made available to all the Members, he would initiate the following discussion of this meeting by asking each of the Members if they had questions. Ms. Beebee said that as our liaison to the CPC, she attended most of those meetings and, at this point, had no new questions. Ms. Rhodes said she, too, had been familiar with that data and had no new questions. Mr. Boudett asked, on a big picture, what Ms. Fenollosa felt was the biggest challenge facing her committee, now or in the near future, and how can our Committee help. She thinks it will be a matter of trying to accommodate all the funding requests that are asked of the CPC. The Affordable Housing Trust (AHT) made a large request this year ($3,200,000) but significantly less than its identified projections for funding by it in FY2025 ($8,350,000), which could not have been accommodated in any way close. Significant this year was the fact that we faced reduced overall Community Preservation Act (CPA) available funds. Although there was a small increase in the Town’s funding for the CPC, there was an about $1 million reduction in the CPA funding as there was no end-of-calendar-year supplemental funding as