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January 3, 2008 Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee January 3, 2008 Place and time: Town Office Building, Room 111, 7:30 p.m. Members present: Alan Levine (Chair), John Bartenstein (Secretary), Deborah Brown, Richard Eurich, Pam Hoffman, Eric Michelson, Susan McLeish, Rob Addelson (ex officio, non-voting) Also present: Tom Griffiths (School Committee) 1. Member resignation . Rod Cole has informed the committee that he has resigned in order to pursue a campaign for the School Committee. 2. Minutes . Meeting minutes for 3/19/07, 3/28/07 and 4/25/07 were reviewed and approved. Meeting minutes for 4/30/07 and 10/08/07 were submitted and the committee is in the process of reviewing them. 3. School Issue – FY09 Budget . Pam distributed copies of the FY2009 Superintendent of Schools’ Recommended Level Service Budget (the “blue book”). The committee asked some preliminary budget questions: a) Will facilities expenses be found in the school budget? Rob answered stating that both school and municipal budgets will continue to carry facilities expenses for this town meeting’s budget as has been done in the past. A joint facilities budget will be created prior to the beginning of FY09. b) Will out-of-district SPED be budgeted in the school budget? – Tom reports that the School Committee supports a plan similar to that proposed by Alan Levine, that is, to create a separate education line item for out-of- district SPED. c) How will the revenue split be made, and how will the creation of an out- of-district SPED line item affect that split? - Rob reports that this has not yet been discussed. d) What recommendations do the Town Manager and Finance Department have on SPED reserves? - Rob reports that this has not yet been discussed. e) Now that the Central Office has moved to Old Harrington, will there be an increase in the Central Office staff? Tom reports that curriculum and print shop staff, which had been located outside of the Central Office, have now - 1 -