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Town of Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee Meeting Notes November 6, 2002 Town Hall, Room 111 Committee members present: Bhatia, Burnell, Hornig, Rosenberg, Stolz Appropriation Committee liaisons present: Karen Dooks, Sheldon Spector Department of Public Works presenters: Peter Chalpin (Town Engineer), Derek Fullerton (Senior Engineer), Brian Gilbert (Operations), Bill Hadley (Director), Ralph Pecora (Water and Sewer), Kelly Zeoli (Policy Analyst) Minutes of the October 30 meeting were approved, as corrected, and will be forwarded to Appropriation Committee liaisons. DPW staff presented “Town of Lexington Capital Improvement Program FY 2004 to FY 2008” in summary form and with background information. Reference is made to that document throughout, and it should be considered a part of these minutes. The DPW listed its 10 priorities in the following order, highest to lowest: landfill closure, DPW operations facility, traffic improvements, equipment replacement, street improvements, building envelope, water distribution system improvements, storm sewer improvements, sanitary sewer improvements, and sidewalk improvements. At the committee’s request, presentation and discussion of these priorities began with number 5, street improvements, and then cycled through the list; discussion of planning and construction funds for a DPW operations facility will be reserved for later review at a separate meeting, pending progress from the Selectmen’s DPW/201 Bedford St./Senior Center advisory group. Street improvements (FY 2004 request $1.045 mil., with a like amount, inflating, each subsequent year. $460,ooo from Ch. 90, $500,000 from original debt exclusion, $85,o0o from cash capital. Note that this total EXCLUDES the effects of the four-year, $7-million program approved in the spring 2002 debt exclusion; initiation of this program depends on