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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting March 17, 2015 Location and Time: Town Office Building, Reed Room; 8:00 .. AM Members Present: Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk; Elizabeth Barnett; Rod Cole; Wendy Manz Members Absent: None Others Present: Sara Arnold, Recording Secretary Documents Presented: Notice of Public Meeting/Agenda for March 17, 2015 Draft #3 Minutes of the CEC Meeting February 24, 2015 (Distributed by Mr. KanterÈs e-mail, March 3, 2015 7:24 .. to the other CEC Members and Ms. Arnold) PM CEC Report to the 2015 Annual Town Meeting (ATM) & 2015 Special Town Meetings, March 23, 2015 (STM); Released March 16, 2015 Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order at 8:00 .. AM rd CommitteeÈs Report to the 2015 ATM & March 23 STMs: Mr. Kanter distributed their printed copies of the report to the Committee members and confirmed that the CommitteeÈs required distribution (i.e., to the Town ClerkÈs Office, the Cary Memorial Library, and on-line and printed copies for Town Meeting Members), its courtesy distribution (e.g., to the Board of Selectmen and key Town Staff), and notification of that availability to the Town Meeting Members AssociationÈs e-mail list had been completed yesterday. Labeled, printed copies for each Town Meeting Member had been placed in the Police Headquarters foyer. He said that we would not have made our deadline of yesterdayÈs release of our report without Mr. Cole having met with him for a working session that created several of the major tables in the report and the two working sessions with our Chair over the past weekend that dealt with all the clean-up actions authorized by the other Committee membersÄwith finalizing the CommitteeÈs Five-Year Capital Plan having been the most significant of those actions. Capital Projects in the TownÈs FY2016ÃFY2020 Capital Program: No action needed. Updating of CommitteeÈs Positions or the Five-Year Capital Plan: No action needed. M atters Related to the CommitteeÈs Role in the ATM: Using this CommitteeÈs report to the Town Meetings, members of this Committee who would be making comments about specific Articles or elements of specific Articles during the Town Meetings were identified. It was agreed that Ms. Hai would report this CommitteeÈs position on all Articles for which assignments were not specifically designated. Suggested comments were discussed for some of the Articles. It was agreed that comments should be succinct, although if this Committee is opposing an Article the position should be clearly explained. It was noted that the proponent of an Article would be presenting the merits of it, and this Committee should not be repeating what has already been said. It was noted that minority positions are explained in the report and are not reported on verbally by this Committee unless questioned during Town Meeting. Any member who Page 1 of 2