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RECEIVED 11/17/2021 AC Minutes 2022 27 J ain, °12:36 1p unni 'TO ' Cl'1.E R ilk Minutes Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC) �. qCt� A November 17, 2021 Place and Time: Remote Participation: in accordance with Section 20 of Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2021 "An Act Relative to Extending Certain COVID-19 Measures Adopted During the State of Emergency", communication took place via a Zoom teleconferencing session that was open to the public; 7:00 p.m. Members Present: Glenn Parker, Chair; Alan Levine, Secretary; Anil Ahuja; John Bartenstein; Eric Michelson; Meg Muckenhoupt; Lily Manhua Yan; Carolyn Kosnoff, Assistant Town Manager, Finance (non-voting, ex officio) Members)Absent: Sanjay Padaki, Vice-Chair Other Attendees: none Mr. Parker called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm, reviewed the authorization for meeting remotely, and stated that the meeting was being recorded for the purpose of creating minutes. Mr. Levine agreed to take notes and draft minutes for this meeting, and Mr. Parker agreed to assist. Preparation for Special Town Meeting (STM) 2021-1 The discussion of Article 5: "Appropriate for Police Station Architectural Design and Swing Space Construction" was restarted. The two parts of the article are: • Part (a)to fund the design of a new police station. • Part (b)to fund renovations for swing space that is needed during construction of a new police station. Mr. Parker noted that the Committee previously voted to support both parts of the article. Mr. Michelson noted that his comments at the previous Appropriation Committee meeting regarding the appropriation of the funds for the swing space at 173 Bedford St for the Fire Department were inaccurate. He did not notice that appropriation was contingent on the approval of the debt exclusion referendum for the full construction funds. Dawn McKenna has announced her intention to move a substitute motion that would delete part (b). In order to be prepared for town meeting, a motion was made and seconded to recommend approval of a motion to substitute. The motion was unanimously disapproved by a roll call vote (VOTE: 0-7). To be prepared for further contingencies, there was discussion of what to do if the substitute motion was adopted. The sense of the Committee was to then recommend approval of the main motion including part (a) only, since that would be better than no appropriation for work connected with replacement of the station. This strategy was approved by a roll call vote (VOTE: 7-0). Ms. Kosnoff stated that if part (b) was not approved, leaving $615,000 unappropriated, staff would recommend that the planned appropriation into the Capital Stabilization Fund (CSF)under Article 3 be augmented with the $615,000. A motion was made and seconded to recommend adding $615,000 to the appropriation into the CSF, in the event that part (b) of Article 5 is not funded (VOTE: 7-0). 1