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TOWN OF LEXINGTON TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS Minutes of Meeting April 18, 2007 The meeting was held at the offices of Atlantic Trust at 100 Federal St., Boston at 12 :45 P. M. Present were Trustees Alan Fields, Thomas Taylor and David Williams, and David Ely and Dennis Dywer from SSGA. The minutes of the last meeting were approved with two changes: the Cary Library Endowment has not yet been turned over to the Trustees and the payment of $4000 to the Dept. of Social Services is to be made $2000 in February and $2000 in July. The Trustees voted to accept the Cary Library Endowment Fund. The assets at Morgan Stanley of about $912,000 will be sold and the proceeds transferred to State Street this month. The fund will be held by the Trustees as part of the Town of Lexington Investment Fund as a separate category with line items for the approximately 12 -15 separate funds within the account. The Library is in the process of identifying these line item funds. This is a change from the decision at the last meeting to set up a separate fund like the cemetery funds. Doing that would be very expensive. In the portfolio review we looked at our fixed income strategy. We examined two alternatives to the Pimco fund, but decided to keep the Pimco fund because it offered a more flexible strategy. We decided that we are holding too much money in the cash account and will move 5% of the cash to the Pimco fund and 4% to the IShares Select Dividend fund. It was decided to eliminate the Ssga Int. Growth Opps fund and put the money 3% in the Dodge & Cox Int, fund and 2% in ISharesEAFE. We voted to accept: Bathon Family Scholarship Fund Lexington High School Class of 1976 Scholarship Fund We were notified of the change of name of the William P. Fitzgerald Athletic Scholarship to The William P. and Wilma "Billie" Q. Fitzgerald Scholarship Fund. It was voted to make available from the Blossom Fund up to $1500 for flower barrels for the Center. David Williams was authorized to transfer the annual scholarship funds to the appropriate organizations. It was voted (David Williams abstaining) to make available up to $15,000 from the Gilmore Fund to construct the proposed Prince Estabrook Way at Depot Square. Next meeting: September 26 at 12:45 at Alan's office. Tom Taylor, Secy.