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60 -319 <br />Selectmen's Meeting - July 1, 1996 <br />Mr. Tripi spoke that his intent was to give the people a voice, not to legislate anything. Mr. Tnpi <br />would like this question on the ballot to get a feel for what the voters feel about how the Town is <br />spending their money. <br />Perry Pollins, Precinct 5, spoke about the Town being spent deaf, dumb and blind. The school <br />budget is through the roof. Mr. Pollins is very angry and says there are a lot of people who feel <br />the same way. If you make this a public referendum, it will be divulged. Mr. Pollins wants <br />something done about getting the taxes down in Lexington. <br />Minute Man Tech Expansion Plans <br />Nyles Barnert wanted to speak on a few light things before talking about the expansion plans. <br />Mr. Barnert's term on the Minuteman Tech Committee is ending and he thanked the Board for <br />the support of himself and the School over the last nine years. Especially wanted to thank the <br />Board for the communication sent to the legislature recently. Also, in negotiations is a possible <br />solution to the satellite day -care through the Council on Aging. If it comes to fruition it will be <br />accomplished in much less time than appropriated. Finally, the combined salary budget was <br />passed so that we saved 9, 000. Next year that will not be the case. The middle school will be <br />separated. There is also a big influx in applications from Lexington. Overall the total budget <br />p g <br />might go up. Board should speak to the new representative in the fall. <br />Mr. McSweeney asked if the new legislation passed would it effect the budget. Kyles stated that <br />it depends on when it is effective. when effective it would have a lessening of the assessment. <br />Mr. Barnert wanted to update the Board on what has been going on at the Minuteman Tech for <br />nine or 10 months. The school is overcrowded. The high -tech labs require more space and there <br />is an increase in population. The school cannot handle the number of kids the school was built <br />for. Right now there are more than 100 choice students on a waiting list. The major deficiency <br />is in the high -tech area where they do not have a manufacturing -type lab available. The procedure <br />now is when the y want to train kids in the production manufacturing environment they are bussed <br />to Minuteman then to Boston or Cambridge to train; it is very inefficient. They would like to <br />have a lab on campus. <br />There are three possibilities. First possibility is to build an addition to the school. The problem is <br />it Would require a unanimous consent by all 16 towns, with a 2/3 vote from each town. They do <br />not think they would get all towns to agree. The second possibility is to have the construction <br />division stop what they are doing for Lexhab and build a mini -mall on campus and move the <br />bakery, ] restaurant cosmetology and gift shop out of the main building and reconvert the space for <br />a lab. The p roblem is it would take four or five years -and they would have to buy all materials for <br />construction and would have to stop work for Lexington. This is a last resort. The lasat <br />possibility ossibilit was a recommendation made to us by the BioTech Center for Excellence, which is a <br />