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8/23/2016 AC Minutes-Open Session Minutes–Open Session Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee(AC) August23, 2016 : ParkerRoom,Town OfficeBuilding,7:30p.m. : Glenn Parker, Chair;Kate Colburn; Alan Levine;Eric Michelson; RichardNeumeier;Andrei Radulescu-Banu, Rob Addelson (non-voting, ex officio) Members Absent:John Bartenstein, Vice Chair and Secretary;Mollie Garberg; Membership Note:There is one vacancy on the Committee which has yet to be filled. Others Present:Peter Kelley, Board of Selectmen (BoS); Joe Pato, BoS; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk, Capital Expenditures Committee; Pat Goddard, Director,Department of Public Facilities; Elaine Ashton, Town Meeting member The meetingwas calledto order at 7:36pm. 1.Executive Session –Exemption 6 to consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property: At 7:37 p.m., following a declaration that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the Town, a roll call vote of the Committee was taken on a motion to go into executive session to discuss a potential purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property under exemption 6 and to reconvene in open session. The motion was unanimously adopted; each member present having voted in the affirmative. VOTE: 6-0 The Committee returned to open session at 8:24 p.m. 2.Articles for Special Town Meeting (STM) 2016-5 The articles were discussed, as follows: Article 2: Land Purchase –171-173 Bedford St: This article was discussed during the Executive Session. Article 3: Supplemental Appropriation for Middle Schools –Additions and Remodeling: This article is a placeholder, dependent on the bid that is to be submittedin early September for renovations at Diamond and Clarke Middle Schools. Sub-contractor bidsindicate that the bid couldbe as much as $3.0 million less than the budgetedamount.It is likely that this article will be indefinitely postponed. Article 4: Supplemental Appropriation for School Facilities Capital Projects: This article is included to supplement previously appropriated fundsfor renovations and installing modular units forthe elementary schools. There was no response to the Town’s first effort to solicit bids for the project. The second such effort resulted in a bid that is approximately $1.4 million more than previously appropriated for the project if six modular units are to be installed. Installing five units reduces the additional amount required.The School Committee will vote on September 6 whether to request funding for five or six modular classrooms. 1