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Minutes from Capital Expenditures Committee Meeting O1 /11 /11, 8:00am, Town Office Building, Rm 111 Members Present: Bill Hurley, David Kanter, Shirley Stolz, Charles Lamb (Chair) Member Absent: Ted Edson Other Attendees: Joel Adler (Community Preservation Committee [CPC]), Dawn McKenna (Tourism Committee) Documents Presented and Reviewed: Capital Request Summaries (Battle Green Master Plan Implementation & revisit of the Battle Green Monument[s] Restoration and of the Schools' Food Service Equipment) Discussion of Battle - Green - Related Projects Lexington/Concord is the 4"' most visited joint - community area in the State. (Boston, Cambridge, Salem are 1 -3.) Proposal is $100K: (1) $50K for the Department of Public Works (DPW) project, Battle Green Monument[s] Restoration Project, already presented to this Committee by their Dave Pinsonneault (Director of Public Grounds), and which has already been approved by the CPC. That project is just for the monuments —not the walkways or surfaces surrounding the monuments —and is not dependent on those walks and surfaces being done at the same time. (2) $50K for the Battle Green Master Plan Implementation Project, and which has already been approved by the CPC for just work ancillary to the monuments —such as walkways and adjacent surfaces. It is proposed to put granite on the most heavily used walking paths and stabilized composite for the rest of walkways and surfaces. McKenna reported that the intent is to have both projects combined into one. If they can combine them, they will, but they at least want to do the monument restoration this year. The projects aren't combined yet as the Town Manager did not want to get ahead of the Board of Selectmen as it has yet to have a discussion of the Implementation Plan. The public comment period on the draft Implementation Plan is until 2/1/11. Restoration of the Hayes Fountain (at the base of the Minuteman Statue) is also a high priority of the Tourism Committee, but it was questioned whether the Lexington Field & Garden Club —which has maintained the plantings in the fountain for decades—is in agreement on that restoration. As the current estimates for the walkways and surfaces is $40K and $20K for the restoration of the Hayes Fountain, the Tourism Committee would want the Implementation Project to be increased to $60K making the FY2012 total for both projects be $11 OK. As an estimate for all years is about $850K, if the $10K for the fountain is not made available in FY2012, a current projection of the split would be the $100K in FY2012, about $340K in FY2013, and about $410K in FY2014. Those will be offset by grant amounts, if obtained. Schools' Food Service Equipment Project The request is for $83,763. $63,763 is for ovens and mixer; $20K is for the cafeteria security gates. We had recommended the gates work not be included as a capital request. Adjourn: 9:20am These Minutes were approved by the CEC at its meeting on February 8, 2011.