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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF APRIL 23, 2018 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in the Parker Room was called to order at 5:32 p.m. by Chair, Richard Canale with members Ginna Johnson, Charles Hornig, Nancy Corcoran- Ronchetti, and Bob Creech, and planning staff Aaron Henry, David Kucharsky, and Lori Kaufman present. ***********************2018 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING************************** Discuss Reconsideration of Town Meeting Article 42 Action: Mr. Canale said that after the Planning Board meets tonight they will meet with the Board of Selectmen (BOS) to discuss reconsideration of Article 42. Mr. Canale explained that he made the reconsideration of Article 42 because he was not aware that there could be resources made available to do work on Article 42 instead of adding it to the staff’s work load. If that information had been made available he would have recommended that Article 42 remain under the Planning Board’s control. He met with the chair of the BOS and Town Manager and if reconsideration was done there could be a reopening of Article 4 for additional resources. Mr. Canale met with the planning staff to discuss options and said they would ask for a $40,000.00 appropriation to hire the consultants. The BOS although may not be as well versed in this matter, but are anxious to learn. The question is does the Planning Board want to continue with the request for reconsideration since it may not be taken up until 10:00 p.m. and was not sure of the appetite of Town Meeting to take this matter up at that time. Mr. Henry spoke with the Town Manager to discuss that this is referred to the BOS it would be with the agreement to work with the Planning Board. Individual Board Comments:  This does not need to be referred to us for the Planning Board to work on it. It seems that reopening Article 42 just to change the name to the Planning Boards in the minutes and will still have the same outcome.  It was expressed that it is important for it to remain with the Planning Board as it is the legal responsibility of the Planning Board. The BOS did lead us to believe that they were going to listen to the robust conversation and that should have taken place and was surprised that an amendment was proposed to refer it back to them.  Does the Planning Board plan on making the motion to refer it back to the Planning Board? In principle how would the BOS handle this and from what point?  How does our Board want to interact with the BOS?