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Minutes
<br />Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee
<br />3.18.09
<br />Place and time: Ellen Stone Room, Cary Memorial Building, 6:30 PM.
<br />Members Present: John Bartenstein (Vice Chair), Rick Eurich, Mollie Garberg, Pam Hoffman, Mike
<br />Kennealy, Al Levine (Chair), Susan McLeish, Eric Michelson, Glenn Parker, Rob Addelson (Ex Officio)
<br />Meeting called to order 6:30 PM
<br />Preliminary Report — 20, 34, 35, 38, 39 — goes to Al to edit, then email to the list
<br />Report 1— 4, 8, 28, 29, 43 Report needs to be on the table by March 25
<br />Report 2 — 9, 30, 44, 48, 49 Report needs to be on the table by April 15
<br />Eric will send shell to everyone Thursday morning. Everyone else can circulate edits by Friday AM.
<br />Rob indicated that there was a $270K reduction in local aid in Brown Book - $270K more than proposed
<br />by Governor. We kept that amount in our budget in case Legislature cut budget by more than the
<br />Governor proposed. If we get confirmation Legislature isn't going to cut by this amount, this amount
<br />could be put into the Stabilization Fund.
<br />Report 1: Include currently no plans to put funds in stabilization fund, however we're carrying potential
<br />$270K extra revenue if this $270 K reduction doesn't materialize. If this money isn't allocated to
<br />anywhere it will fall to fund balance at the end of FY2010.
<br />Article 43 scheduled for April 1 5t
<br />March 23 — Articles 3, 32 — 40 (32 and 36 to be IP'd) (We will make recommendations on these four
<br />articles: 34, 35, 38 and 39)
<br />March 25 — Reports of Town Manager, Superintendent, maybe Superintendent of MM Tech, Article 41,
<br />42, 20, 21
<br />March 30 —Jay Kaufman to recognize high school students, AC report, possible report from Mike
<br />Kennealy, School Finance Committee Report, Article 4 (split out the health benefits line item until April
<br />1), 5, 6, 7,8 and 10
<br />April 1, 6, 8, 13, 15 — Article 43, then continuing numerically from there
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