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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting February 5, 2013, Open Session Date, Place, and Location: February 5, 2013, 8:00 A.M., Town Office Building, Reed Room (111) Members Present: Charles Lamb, Chair; Beth Masterman, Vice - Chair; Bill Hurley; David Kanter Member Absent: Jill Hai Other Attendees: Carl Valente, Town Manager; Maryann McCall - Taylor, Planning Director; William Hadley, Director, Department of Public Works (DPW); John Livsey, Town Engineer; Rob Addelson, Assistant Town Manager for Finance; Sara Arnold, Recording Secretary Documents Presented: • Hartwell Avenue Engineering Drawing • FY2014— FY2018 Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs), Department of Public Works • Sustainable Lexington Solar Taskforce — Update for Capital Committee, 04 Feb 2013 • Draft Minutes for the January 29, 2013, CEC Meeting • Draft Minutes for the February 4, 2013, CEC Meeting, Open Session Call to Order: Mr. Lamb called the meeting to order at 8:02 A.M. DPW CIP for Hartwell Avenue Infrastructure Improvements: Mr. Valente explained that several years ago the Town adopted a Transportation Management Plan for the Transportation Management Overlay District that includes Hartwell Avenue ( "Avenue "). Based on that plan, short -term and long -term projects are being pursued that would add amenities along the Avenue that will support current and potential businesses, and would demonstrate the Town's commitment to business development in that zone. The Hartwell Avenue Association, representing most of the property owners, is taking a lead role in outlining this effort. Short -term projects include: • A mixed -use sidewalk on the easterly side of the Avenue between Bedford Street and the Minuteman Bikeway (Bikeway); • Shuttle service to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Alewife station; • Amenities, such as food - service trucks and banks; • A gateway entrance: It is expected that a landscape architect will create a name to give the area some presence; a sign will be on State land and maintained by the Town; and • A bus shelter on Bedford Street: The adjacent Medical Care Center, operated jointly by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Children's Hospital, is asking to add parking spaces at its facility, and the Town is asking that they build a Bedford Street bus shelter and a sidewalk from their facility to the shelter in exchange for zoning relief. Page 1 of 5