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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting Date, Place, and Location: January 31, 2012 8:00 a.m., Cary Memorial Building, Ellen Stone Room Members Present: Charles Lamb, Chair; Ted Edson, Vice - Chair; Bill Hurley; Shirley Stolz; David Kanter Other Attendees: Carl Valente, Town Manager; John Livsey, Town Engineer; Pat Goddard, Director, Department of Public Facilities; Bill Hadley, Director, Department of Public Works; Rob Addelson, Assistant Town Manager for Finance; Glenn Parker, Chair, Appropriation Committee Documents Presented: 1. Town of Lexington Parking Technical Assistance Final Report Jul, 2010 Nelson) Nygaard 2. Extract from Lexington Battle Green Area Master Plan 3/1/2011, Past Designs LLC, pages 86 -90, "Recommendation #7: Parking, Traffic Calming and Safe Pedestrian Access" 3. Fiscal Year 2013 Town Manager's Preliminary Budget & Financin Plan January 9, 2012 (the "White Book "), Page XI -21, "White House Stabilization" Call to Order: Mr. Lamb called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Battle Green Area Master Plan— Parking, Traffic Calming and Safe Pedestrian Access Study —Phase 1: Conceptual Plan (Proposed FY2013 funding of $60,000) Mr. Valente discussed the series of events that led to this request. Two years ago the Town received a "Downtown Initiative" competitive grant from the State of Massachusetts' Department of Housing and Community Development —which led to the NelsonlNygaard report on parking management in the central business district (CBD). There is an unspent $38,000 of an FY2012 appropriation in the Operating Budget for the Economic Development Office (Line 7300) to implement that parking - management study in the CBD, but the Battle Green area was excluded as its Master Plan was still in process. That Plan is now in the hands of the Board of Selectmen (BoS) and this request is to provide the funds so the follow -on work can now include the Battle Green area. Mr. Kanter asked whether there is an overlap between this proposed, now more - comprehensive, traffic - related study and the CBD Streetscape Engineering project (proposed FY2013 funding of $240,000) as he heard that one of the first things that engineering project would be doing is traffic- related studies? Mr. Valente said the engineering project will be looking at physical changes while the more - comprehensive traffic - related study will be focusing more on the management of parking —such as rate structure, short -term versus long -term parking, and private and public lots. Page 1 of 3