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RECEIVED 2022 21 l uir, 139 pim Town Of Lexington TOWN C.LERK Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) February 17th, 2022 LEXINGTON Meeting Minutes Minutes for the meeting of February 17, 2022. This meeting was held remotely pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of G.L. c. 30A, section 18 and subsequent orders imposing strict limitations on the number of people who may gather in one place. EDAC Members present: Rick DeAngelis (Chair), Larry Smith, Charles Minasian, David Pronchick, Bridger McGaw, Lisa Murray, Adrienne Ortyl Liaisons and Town Staff: Mark Sandeen (Select Board), Joe Pato (Select Board), Charles Hornig (Planning Board), Sandhya Iyer(Economic Development Director), The meeting was opened with a quorum present. The EDAC voted and approved the minutes from December 2021 and January 2022 by a roll call vote with Orytl, Minasian/Pronchick/Murray/McGaw/DeAngelis voting in affirmative and none in the negative. Members opened the meeting with a discussion of how to better utilize the meeting minutes and agenda capturing the context of the discussions at meetings and not just noting the decisions to the extent possible. Ms. Iyer provided the EDAC received an update on the dispersal of ARPA Funding through the Town of Lexington's Grant process. The first dispersal was for $250,000. There were 30 applications received and 12 awards made, including to 3 restaurants in town. The EDAC had previously supported grants going to restaurants as a particularly vulnerable small business. Ms. Iyer informed the Committee that the Economic Development Office is continuing to hope for additional funding for an additional 14 grantees. The EDAC requested that the Town post the recipients on the Town Website to highlight the success of this effort. Ms. Iyer also shared the RFP and plans to allocate $100K for a consultant to create a pop-up incubator space in Lexington Center with an RFP going out from the Town. EDAC members offered to help amplify this effort and the importance of activating the businesses in the Center. She also shared the town is looking at how a Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) for Life Science development and that she had joined the Town Manager in recently visiting a newly opened facility at Takeda. While visiting with Takeda, the Town Manager and Ms. Iyer discussed with officials opportunities for starting an internship program for Lexington High School students and faculty with the goal to try and initiate Pilot this spring. It was noted that MassHire is going to help support the LHS administrative work associated with the effort and that the State is interested in similar job training programs specific to supporting the growth of life science job opportunities. The EDAC received updates from Charles Hornig regarding Planning Board activity around 475 Bedford Street project and the 95-99 Hayden Street project. There was no update available on the 440 Bedford Street proj ect.