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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting March 13, 2014 Location and Time: Town Office Building, Reed Room (111), 6:30 .. PM Members Present: Jill Hai, ChairDavid Kanter, Vice-Chair; Bill Hurley; Wendy Manz; ; Beth Masterman Members Absent: None Others Present: None Documents Presented: Notice of Public Meeting/Agenda for CEC Meeting, March 13, 2014 (posted March11,2014) Plot Plans & Accompanying Estimates for Walkway Options 1 & 2 at Lexington Community Center, 39 Marrett Road, dated February 5, 2014 (GCG Associates, Inc.) Draft #7 CEC Report to 2014 Annual Town Meeting (ATM) & March 24, 2014, Special Town Meeting (STM) (distributed electronically earlier today) Draft Minutes of the CEC Meeting, March 11, 2014 (distributed electronically March 11, 2014) Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order at 6:37 .. PM Continued Discussion of the Fiscal Years 2015Ã2019 Capital Program considering the FY2015 Recommended Budget and Financing Plan (the ÅBrown Book) including any later information on Specific Projects The Committee reviewed the plans and estimates for a sidewalk portion that would, by connecting with an existing sidewalk, provide a continuous sidewalk from Marrett Road to the Community Center. Although the proposed routing required the yet-to-be-obtained agreement of the Scottish Rite of Masons upon whose property the sidewalk portion would run, the Committee agreed that what had just been received provided sufficient design and costing information for the Committee to support the construction funding being proposed at the 2014 Annual Town MeetingÄunderstanding agreement with the Masons was required. Continued Discussion of the CommitteeÈs Report to the 2014 ATM and the accompanying March 24, 2014, STM Mr. Kanter led the Committee through the Draft #7 of that report and it was Moved and Seconded to re-vote all positions so as: (1) to consider new information (e.g., the earlier discussed Community Center sidewalk) and (2) to include Ms. MastermanÈs vote as she th had not been able to attend the CommitteeÈs previous meeting (on the 11) when the other four members had participated in a vote on Draft #4 of the report. Vote: All members other that Ms. Masterman re-affirmed their prior votes; Ms. Masterman voted to join in approval of all Articles and sub-Articles, including on Article 10(l) (Traffic Island Renovation) where the prior vote had been 3Ã1 to recommend disapproval. (Her vote thus made the CommitteeÈs position 3Ã2 for disapproval.) Thus, every vote included votes by all members. Page 1 of 2