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MEETING DATE 11/2/1999 Hi: Attached are the prospective minutes of the November 2nd meeting of the Capital Expenditures Committee. Items 9 and 14, below, suffer from poor note taking. If anybody has better notes, particularly for proposed spending on library capital equipment, I would appreciate getting an upgrade. Item 14, general Town spending on big-ticket items is less important, because we will have a gazillion spreadsheets with all of that itemized before long. I have not included the usual schedule of upcoming meetings. HOWEVER, I do want to remind you that the Monday, August 8th, Selectmen's Meeting will hear departmental capital spending requests. -Tom G- Capital Expenditures Committee Minutes November 2, 1999 Meeting 1) Meeting was called to order by the Chairman at 7:30pm. All members present: Shirley Stolz, Narain Bhatia, Tom Griffiths, and new member George Burnell. The Appropriation Committee was represented by its liaison member Deborah Brown. The Library was represented at the Meeting by Carol Mahoney. The Town Manager, Rick White, also appeared at the meeting. 2) The Clerk passed out minutes of the October 26th meeting and a list of future meetings to those who hadn't received them by e-mail. 3) Condition of the East Lexington Branch Library: Carol Mahoney began with a discussion of the East Lexington Branch Library. It had a leak on the side of the roof that is 25 years old, but the leak was small and caused no damage to the library's books. The branch has structural problems, a bowed beam in the roof, among them. The branch can continue to operate, however, until 2002, at the earliest. At some point, serious consideration will be in order for the East Lexington branch. 4) Function of the East Lexington Branch Library: The branch will operate with extended hours during the main library renovation. It cannot, however, accommodate much overflow from the main library. The branch serves, in part, as a reading room, a quieter, less intense place than the main library. Its collection contains items like popular fiction and books from the NY Times bestseller list; the collection is not a research collection. Circulation at the branch is about 35,000 items a year, compared with about 600,000 at the main library.