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Approved 11.24.2015 Minutes for Antony Working Group meeting of the Lexington Tourism Committee on July 1, 2015 Meeting began at 7:22 PM - -- adjourned at 9:05 PM Place: Parker Room (Town Office Building, 1625 Massachusetts Avenue) Present at meeting: Dawn McKenna, Kerry Brandin, Dave Pinsonneault, Colin Godfrey, Kitty Galaitsis, Sandy Gasbarro, Christina Gamota, George Gamota, Maureen Poole, Al Pincince Absent: Fred Johnson, Marie - Tristan Rago, Tony Galaitsis Documents available for review: 1. Minutes of May 28, 2015 2. Lexington- Antony Sister City Treasurer's Report, 5 June 2015 3. Compensation Sheet - -- Lump sum totals for design services of Studio 2112 Landscape Architecture, Inc. 4. Attachment 1 - -- Fees for professional services and reimbursable expenses, appended to and constituting a part of the Agreement for landscape architectural services between Studio 2112 Landscape Architecture, Inc. and the Town of Lexington, dated March 15, 2021 5. Maureen's statement of intent to relinquish her role as "minutes taker" for the Antony Working Group Antony Park a) Construction Status -- -Dave Pinsonneault Phase I: The company is committed to coming in the next week or two to finish grading. The waterline is now connected to the main. In -house staff will do spigot and irrigation in next three weeks or so. They will also add a "meter pit." All of this work will conclude Phase I. Phase II: the wall and pathways. A couple of stone people have taken a look and walked the wall. Final estimates should be available in the next one to two weeks. With winter being especially tough on trees, plan to take those there now out. The trees are coming out now, or first part of next week. This and grading done in early autumn. Then the wall can be added. The plants now at Seasons Four will go back into stock and we will reorder. In the available budget, we should have by mid - October: grading, wall, water connection, irrigation, electrical box, pathways and trees - -- completing Phase II. Various points made in discussion that ensued as we seek to understand expenses: It's been two years since starting the project. There was a problem with the initial work stemming from the purchasing office. Costs escalate over time. DPW have and will contribute as much as they can in labor and materials. Dawn brought up the stairs and two plaques on either side that are part of the stone work. The purchase involves cap and stone together, curved cap, special cut. DPW worked with the architect and changed the stone material slightly to lower the costs. George raised the concern about the trees being put in again in November. Response was "NO." The definite goal for the stonework is mid - October. The trees will be ordered this fall but not planted until the spring. There will be no ordering of plants until parterres are ready. The beds' plantings would realistically be done in Spring, late April /early May. Phase III: Given that plantings and other pieces not able to be funded as part of Phase II, Kitty enquired about the $6000 set aside - - -how flexible can we be in using that? George: When will the park be in a state that an event could take place there?