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TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS CONSERVATION COMMISSION MINUTES Tuesday February 9, 2016 6:30 P.M. Training Room, Public Facilities Building 201 Bedford Street Chair Phil Hamilton opened the meeting at 6:32 pm in the Training Room of the Public Facilities Building Commissioners Present: Alex Dohan, Kevin Beuttell, Dick Wolk, Phil Hamilton, Joyce Miller, Duke Bitsko Others Present: Karen Mullins, Conservation Administrator and Casey Hagerty, Conservation Department Assistant 6:32pm Informal Hearing Presentations by Dunback Meadow community gardeners Mr. Hamilton explained that the discussion of moving the Dunback Meadow Community Garden has been on the agenda of the Commission since 2012. He stated that a community garden subcommittee was formed with Mr. Beuttell and himself as the members. Alix Bartsch, the coordinator of the Dunback Meadow gardens and Marita Hartshorn, a longtime Dunback Meadow gardener, were included as consultants to the committee. They and other community gardeners were included in the conversations as well as in site visits to other potential garden sites. Mr. Hamilton stated that no time table has been set for moving the garden to another location and no vote has been taken to do so. However, the committee recommends moving the garden in the following way. An alternative garden location will be ready for the 2017 growing season. Dunback Meadow gardeners who choose to move in 2017 will have their choice of plots in the new location. Dunback Meadow gardeners who do not choose to move will be able to garden in the Dunback Meadow location for the 2017 growing season. They will be guaranteed a plot in the new location in 2018, but will be treated as new applicants and will be assigned a plot. The Dunback Meadow gardens will be closed permanently at the end of the 2017 growing season. Alex Bartsch, the Dunback Meadow garden coordinator, told the commission that she has been gardening there since 2008. She said that the universal feeling amongst the gardeners is that they