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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting Date, Place, and Location: February 7, 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 Attendee: Mary Ellen Dunn, Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Business Operations Documents Presented: 1. Pending Draft, Lexington Public Schools 2013 School Committee Budget "REVENUE OFFSETS ", cover dated "as of January 3, 2012 ", interior dated "as of February 15, 2012" 2. "Strawman" Capital Expenditures Committee Report to the 2012 Annual Town Meeting & 2012 Special Town Meeting, April 2, 2012 distributed February 6, 2012. ("Strawman Report ") Call to Order: Mr. Lamb called the meeting to order at 8:00 A.M. Approve Meeting Minutes: A Motion was made and seconded to approve the Minutes of the January 31, 2012, meeting as presented. Vote: 5 -0 Committee's "Strawman" Report: The Committee reviewed that draft and also confirmed the voting indicated in it reflected the earlier "strawman" votes the Committee had taken. Proposed Changes to the FY2013 School Committee Budget. Ms. Dunn explained the revenue offsets, which include selective use of FY2012 operating funds for some things originally planned for FY2013 capital funding, in order to address $632,645 of needs not previously addressed in the School's FY2013 budget. Those included deferring a reduction in the Occupational Therapist /Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant staffing, elimination of the fee for Kindergarten, reducing the busing fee for Estabrook School student by 50% for the two years of construction of the new Estabrook School, and eliminating elementary - school music fees. The Committee asked whether there are additional uses of the School's currently anticipated FY2012 surplus that could further mitigate the need for additional FY2013 funding. Ms. Dunn said not at this time as there are no other School efforts planned for FY2013 that can be properly executed in FY2012. As in the past, any FY2012 School surplus remaining after accounting for all the FY2012 actions flows back into Free Cash which, once certified, is available for any Town need — School or Municipal —in FY2013 or later. Ms. Stolz asked what indication was there that additional parents of Estabrook students would be willing to put their children on buses because of the lower busing fee. Ms. Dunn said that the full fee is a deterrent so the 50% fee should be an important factor and that the Page 1 of 2