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Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Minutes, 12/10/08, 8:30 am, Town Office Building, Room 111 Members Present: David Kanter, Shirley Stolz, Bill Hurley, Ted Edson, Charles Lamb (Chair) Others: Susan Bennett (Lexington Historical Society [LHS]), Marilyn Fenollosa (Lexington Community Preservation Committee [CPC]), George Burnell (Lexington Selectmen), Ann Whitney (Lexington Housing Authority), Steve Keane (Lexington Housing Authority), Martha Wood (LexHAB) Hancock-Clarke (H-C) renovation is nearing completion; estimated at 12/31/08. It was started in January 2006 with astudy$SOK. Total project cost is $L1M, including that study and a 15% contingency. Funding is $600K Community Preservation Act, $SOK State, $200K from the LHS endowment, and the remainder from fund raising. LHS has raised $200K of the $250K needed. Capital Needs Assessment of Munroe Tavern (Susan Bennett Munroe doesn't have the structural problems that H-C had. They want to know if they can recapture any of the original historic features of the building. They'll replace the sprinkler systems. The historic part of Munroe Tavern is not heated. There are many historic artifacts in the building. They need to make the building Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant. They want to add a restroom (there's none present now). They have a rough schematic from 2 years ago. The scope of construction would be substantially less than H-C. They're happy with their contractor at H-C. Re: State grant from Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC). MHC is not generally interested in systems repair. Susan is willing to help with grant writing for the Stone Building, but the MHC won't allow two Lexington projects. Committee sentiment is unanimous in support. Stone Building (SB) Discussion H-C versus SB: square-footage is approximately the same. $43K was spent on SB study last year and is roughly equivalent to the $SOK spent for the H-C study. Susan believes the report for the SB is deficient relative to the H-C study. Also believes that the firm which did the SB study (HKT Architects, Inc.) is not up to standards for a historic building. Marilyn Fenollosa: Contributing to the issue with the SB study is that the town packaged it along with two other buildings into one study Request for Proposal (RFP). Susan Bennett shared the RFP for H-C with the Town staff before the consolidated study RFP was written. Believes the SB study's figure of $271K for design & engineering is too high. Marilyn Fenollosa: CPC has not analyzed the $271K line-by-line.