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Minutes for the Meeting of November 22, 1993 3 ON" group, and Mr. McSweeney thanked him publicly for all his work. On November 4, there was a meeting with all the representatives from Belmont, Waltham and Lexington that have an interest in housing. The Housing Authority, LExHAB, and the Fair Housing Committee were well represented. The traffic group is being headed up by David Dixon who is a consultant for the state and they have met with the traffic representatives from each community. On December 1 there will be another tri-- community meeting in Lexington at 7 p.m. in Cary Hall. The purpose will be to explain the results of the three fact -- finding groups and obtain Comments and concerns. Question and comments from the Board included what role the state is playing in the process. Mr. McSweeney thought the state has responded with resources to keep the process going by hiring Mr. Dixon as well as a golf expert. Mr. white added that the state has learned from the long vacant Boston State Hospital that they need to get involved in reuse process early. The state engaged the three commu- nities first; helped get the Executive Office of Transportation. and Construction (EOTC) grant, and encouraged communities to look at alternatives. They have been deferential to the three communities in hopes of disposing of this property quickly. The Board thanked Mr. McSweeney for his report. EXECUTIVE SESSION Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted 5 -0 by roll call vote; Mr. Dailey, Mr. McSweeney, Mr. Busa, Mr. Fenn, Mrs. Eddison; to go into executive session at 7 :50 p.m. for discussion of matters of litigation, the disclosure of which might adversely affect the inter- est of the Town, with intent to resume open session. Open session resumed at 8:52 .m. Mr. Dailey reminded the Board that as part of their outreach program, the December 8 Selectmen's meeting will be held at the Harrington School, NESWC Mr. White indicated there have been many changes in the North East Solid Waste Committee (NESWC), including a change in leadership with a new executive director as well as some new directions in management. Mr. Spiers and he thought this was a good opportunity to update the Board on NESWC and to introduce the new executive director of NESWC, Steven Rothstein. Mr. Spiers, as Lexington's NESWC repre- sentative for seven years, has been a workhorse for the committee and is probably responsible for the new charter and the new directions. Mr. Spiers introduced Mr. Rothstein who began by highlighting some of the things the NESWC board has done in the past few months, and some of the challenges to be faced. He noted that in the late seventies the State went to several communities to promote a waste -to- energy plant that would result in zero tipping fees in the mid -90s since the State would soon be closing the unlined landfills. He added that Lexington and 22 other forward - looking communities formed the NESWC consortium. Mr. Rothstein explained that trash is taken to a plant in North Andover owned and operated by Wheelabrator Environmen- tal Technologies, in turn 589 owned by Waste Management, the largest waste disposal company in world. Wheelabrator operates 14 plants, with others getting permitted; North Andover, which came on line in