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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting April 30, 2013 Date, Place, and Location: April 30, 2013, 8:00 A.M., Town Office Building, Reed Room (111) Members Present: Charles Lamb, Chair; Beth Masterman, Vice - Chair; Jill Hai; Bill Hurley; David Kanter Others Present: Aaron Henry, Lexington Assistant Planning Director; Bob Pressman, Lexington Community Preservation Committee; Deborah Mauger, Chair, Lexington Board of Selectmen Documents Presented: • Presentation: Westmetro HOME Consortium Update for Lexington, December 3, 2012 • HOME Materials for Next Week's Meeting (Mr. Aaron's e-mail, April 23, 2013, with four attachments (HOME Investment Partnerships Program Summary, Outline of HOME Project Requirements, Lexington's HOME Program Summary, & Massachusetts Income Limits) • Background Information on the Federal HOME Program (Mr. Kanter's e-mail, April 29, 2013, to the Committee members. • Charge for the Ad hoc Community Center Advisory Committee (AhCCAC) (Adopted by the Board of Selectmen [BoS] on April 23, 2013) • Outline Minutes of the CEC Meeting, April 30, 2013 Call to Order: Mr. Lamb called the meeting to order at 8:00 A.M. Lexington's Continued Participation in the HOME Consortium As the BoS had requested this Committee's input on the pros and cons of the proposed changes to the administration of the MetroWest HOME Consortium —of which the City of Newton is the lead entity and Lexington is currently a member —and whether Lexington should continue its participation, Mr. Henry had been invited to brief the Committee on the Federal HOME program that was created by the Federal HOME Investment Partnerships Act and is managed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That program provides local governments that would not otherwise qualify for funding to meet their affordable housing needs may join with other contiguous units of local government to form a consortium that can directly participate in the HOME program for Federal funding. The Lexington BoS plans to address whether Lexington should continue its participation at its meeting on May 6, 2013. Because of the need for each member to be geographically contiguous to another member, and as Lincoln has already discontinued its participation, if Lexington were not to continue its participation, then Bedford, Concord, Sudbury, Wayland, Natick, and Framingham would lose a contiguous relationship with a remaining member of the consortium which, in turn, has a contiguous relationship to Newton and, thus, those named municipalities would not be eligible to continue as members. Page 1 of 3