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Lexington Community Preservation Committee Draft Minutes 10 January 2007 Members present: Joel Adler, Norman Cohen, Marilyn Fenollosa, Wendy Manz, Leo McSweeney, Richard Pagett, Sandra Shaw, Betsey Weiss, Richard Wolk. Others present included Charles Lamb from the Capital Expenditures Committee and David Kanter from the Appropriations Committee. Betsey Weiss, Chair, called the meeting to order shortly after 4 PM. After a group photo was taken for the Annual Report, there was a brief, but inconclusive, discussion of the merits of re-visiting our individual votes on each proposal after we have discussed and voted on all of the proposals. To the extent there was consensus, it was acknowledged that any member could make a motion to reconsider any previous vote; if that motion passed, there would then be a new vote on the proposal in question. The committee then proceeded to discuss and vote on the four proposals before us that deal with affordable housing issues: 1. Window Replacement at the Greeley Village Elderly Housing Development. The Committee voted unanimously to recommend to Town Meeting that they act favorably on this request for $228,404 to replace 350 windows at Greeley Village. 2. Douglas House: 15 Units of Affordable, Supportive Housing. Supportive Living Inc.’s proposal requested $750,000 (slightly less than 10% of the total cost of this 15 unit housing development) to help cover acquisition, construction and development costs of this project. A motion to recommend to Town Meeting the approval of a $300,000 contribution was defeated by a 4-5 vote, with Adler, McSweeney, Pagett, and Weiss voting in the affirmative. A second motion, not to forward this proposal to Town Meeting, was approved by a 5-4 vote, with Cohen, Fenollosa, Manz, Shaw and Wolk voting in the affirmative. 3. Muzzey Condominium Building Evaluation Study. By an 8-1 vote (Pagett against) the Committee voted to forward the Muzzey Condo Association’s request for $53,500 to fund an evaluation of the existing building conditions to Town Meeting for consideration.