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Lexington Housing Assistance Board Monthly Board Meeting Minutes March 1, 2023– 4-6 pm – Conducted in the Hudson Room, Cary Hall Call to Order A meeting of the Lexington Housing Assistance Board (LexHAB) was called to order at 4:11pm. LexHAB members present were Bob Burbidge, Bob Phelan, Les Savage, Tara Mizrahi, Gerry Howell, Sarah Morrison (LexHAB Executive Director), and Regina Brown (LexHAB Financial Administrator). Henry Liu joined at 4:21. Guests: Eric Brown, Mark Sandeen, Russ Tanner Minutes review of February 2023 Meeting A motion was made and seconded to approve February 8, 2023 meeting minutes except to clean up dates to have for 2023 and not reference 2022. All approved. Executive Director Report: • Dana Home Request – upped request to $75,000 for 4 units • 3/20 Town Meeting request for CPC funds. Solar panels, purchase funds, rehab costs. Select Board voted unanimously in support for all articles. Questions are coming in related to the request. • $5,000 for Bill Kennedy funds – Thank you letters will go out soon. Draft out to a couple of board members. • Community Endowment grant –Sarah suggesting that we ask for Fall request of larger amount and to go towards capacity building and we can use towards transition. • Energy Audit and weatherization- Garfield, Locke, Muzzey, Emerson Gardens weatherization is complete. Wasn’t as substantial in amounts as had hoped. Sustainability—Regina is tracking all retrofits through LEAN and MassSaves program. Moving volunteer Gretchen Reissig to organizing building file sets. Still need to get energy audit for 9 Kimball. May need to wait for energy audit to get Minuteman students in. • Sustainability questions—should we be looking at better products to use- both for the environment (i.e. renewables) and people (healthy living or healthier production). Police station will be using all items that are “red list” compliant. Eric Brown has some ideas and Mark Sandeen recommends looking at the redlist. Bob Phelan says we do need to look at durability as well. • March 8th working on updating the 10 year CNA plan. • Citrix- shared cloud storge- will be moving ahead with this. Property Search and Development: • Kimball Rd—going to move on demo- waiting on permit • Bob P working on getting trees marked