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January 5, 2006 Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee January 5, 2006 Members Present: A. Levine (Chair), D. Brown (Vice Chair), J. Bartenstein, R. Cole, P. Hamburger, P. Hoffman, D. Kanter, R. Eurich. Additional attendees: M. Young (Town Budget officer); H. Cohen (School Committee); Bob Bicknell, Betsey Weiss, Marilyn Fenollosa (“CPA for Lexington”); G. Burnell The meeting was called to order at 7:36 by Al Levine in Town Office Bldg. Rm. G15. PM 1. P. Hamburger volunteered to take minutes. 2. A. Levine made the following announcements: a. A. Levine and J. Bartenstein will attend Jan. 7, 2006 meeting with finance committee members from four other towns. b. Eph Weiss wants to meet with the AC to discuss his warrant article for an Energy Committee. The AC agreed that while this was not really a financial issue, we would take a time-limited meeting with Mr. Weiss on this subject. It was pointed out that it would be reviewed in the TMMA information meetings. c. Paul Chernick wants to meet with the AC to discuss the $150,000 warrant article for a study of a municipal electric utility. It was agreed we should do that. A. Levine will set it up. d. The town will hold three seminars on “Productive Meetings” on Tuesday Jan. 17, Wednesday Jan. 18, and Tuesday Jan. 24. AC attendance is optional. 3. The three members from the CPA advocacy committee made a presentation using Powerpoint slides (available on the web at www.cpaforlexington.org—click on “CPA basics” then “View CPA Presentation”). The following notes attempt to capture the answers to questions asked by members of the committee and to capture additions stated by the presenters not on the slides, but not to reproduce the presentation except for clarification. a. Funds can be banked or spent. b. Repeal is possible after 5 years. c. The percentage (3% in the March vote) can be reduced to an arbitrarily small percentage, e.g., 0.01%, in any year after passage.To effect either a 1