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Capital Expenditures Committee November 30, 2005 – 4:00 p.m. Town Office Building – Room 111 TE, CWL, RB, SS, WH, Kanter, Paul Chernick Approved minutes from 10/26/05, 10/24/05, 10/20/05, 10/19/05, 10/11/05 SS: still going to Senior Site Access meettings. Looking at approx. 23K s.f. SS to send more info about what program they're looking at. Muzzey site includes Clean Air Act issues because Recreation has been using it (open space). Munroe brings the arts community into play. Waldorf would have problems. Sacred Heart Church might be a possibility. 41 Worthen revisited, but eliminated. Considered Lex. center. Unclear if they will request an appropriation this year. TE: DPW facility. Met w/ Hadley and Brooks. Don't have a contract yet. Engineer was going to come back w/ an idea of the s.f. needed. TE not optimistic that they'll have something for TM. HKT is the architect, Gannet-Phillips is the engineer. Chernick: Legislation H.4240 is now out of joint committee (JC on Municipal Affairs). NStar didn't show up at the home rule petition hearing, but did show up at the overall bill hearing. Speaker and Senate President still have to let it get to the floor for a vote. Close to getting approval of takeover. NStar would have to give us a value for equipment in Lexington. If can't be negotiated, then DTE would arbitrate. Legislation gives DTE authority to make the valuation. After a price is agreed on, NStar would have six months to turn over the assets. If this happened, Lexington would contract w/ Belmont and Concord Munis to get the Lexington system started up. General order of events is Study, DTE determines price, 6 months to get an STM going to appropriate the money and approve debt, but no referendum (or 2.5 override) is required because this is not exempt (2/3rds vote required). RB: Need to change Town Manager Act? PC: No, doesn't change existing operation of town government. DK: When is $150K appropriation? [this ATM in 2006]. $20K legal, $130K tech. engineering study. Study would say how many trucks, employees would be needed, where are lines needed? DK: Won't we run into questions like we had w/ street lights?