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Town of Lexington Lexington Center Committee Minutes for the meeting of April 14th, 2022, Estabrook Hall, Cary Hall Building, Basement, Lexington, Massachusetts 8:30 am. Center Committee members present: T. Eric Ballard, Richard Brown, Frederic Johnson, Pamela Lyons, Innessa Manning, Jerold Michelson (chair), Pamela Shadley, Jon Wakelin Liaisons: Doug Lucente (Select Board), Mike Beaudett, Capital Expenditures Committee, Sandhya Iyer, Economic Development Director, Casey Hagerty, Economic Development Department, John Livsey, Chief Engineer, Matt Weisman, Senior Civil Engineer Guest: Koren Stembridge, Director of the Cary Library; Maggie Peard, Sustainability Director We began with everyone introducing themselves and welcomed our two new members, Eric Ballard and Jon Wakelin. John Livsey discussed the upcoming parking lot reconstruction projects in the Center. Town Meeting funded design work for two parking lots. It is likely that the Muzzey lot (aka Michelson’s lot) and a “big one” will be chosen (one large and one small lot.) John will be coming back to the Center Committee with some concepts. John also noted that everything is taking longer, staffing, consultants, materials due to supply chain and general dislocation issues. Jerry Michelson and Doug Lucente expressed concern that all construction be completed prior to 2025. John indicated that all work would be done before then. Pam Shadley strongly urged that the CVS lot be chosen because it is in “total failure” and reconstruction would provide a significant public benefit – we would get the ‘biggest bang for our buck.” Pam also reported that she withdrew from the consulting position, even though it was permissible, out of caution and there could be a perception of a conflict of interest.