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Town of Lexington
Capital Expenditures Committee
Draft
Meeting Notes
January 15, 2003, 6:00 p.m.
Lexington High School Library Media Center
Committee members present: Bhatia, Burnell, Hornig,
Rosenberg, Stolz
Meetings Schedule (new items highlighted)
Thursday, Jan. 16,CEC 6:30 p.m., Summit IV 7:30,
Harrington School gym
CEC, 7:00, Special Town Meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 22,
preparation Lincoln Park; 8:30, Clarke
Special Town Meeting,
Lincoln Park/Field Renovation Presentation
The committee revised its report to the Special Town Meeting
on the Lincoln Park fields renovation, which will be mailed
tomorrow with reports from Appropriation and Recreation; an
attachment will be the April 2002 Special Town Meeting
report on the Lincoln Park fields renovation article amended
to remove the words “Conservation Commission” since that
body did not formally vote to recommend the renovation
project; the report as amended will be marked to indicate
that it is corrected.
Cash-Capital Priorities
A couple of items pertaining to cash-capital priorities:
•Stolz has heard from the schools administration that
the state will qualify for 59% SBA reimbursement the Clarke
and Diamond gym floor repairs (Clarke appropriated prior FY,
work completed; Diamond under current consideration), and
the LHS acoustical modification. If confirmed, the latter
item, which is big-ticket, would receive immediate priority
for Town borrowing, construction, and qualification for
reimbursement.
•Bhatia reported on DPW’s priorities, in descending
order of importance:
—Landfill closure $450k
—Building Envelope
—Buckman Tavern roof (new item) $60k
—Building Envelope update study $100k
—Cary Hall retrofit post library $150k
—Visitor Center electrical system $100k
—ADA work $50k
—Town Office Building lighting $300k
—Vehicles and equipment
—Skyworker $110k
—Ford rack dumptruck $50k
—Ford dump $40k
—GMC utility $35k
—Two steel sander units $24k
—(Water/sewer enterprise: Chevy 1-ton utility
$35k)
—Street improvements (Prior override and Ch. 90),
$965k
—Traffic/safety projects fund $25 k
—Sidewalks $105 k (Bowman $55k, Hastings $50k)
Based on this information and prior reports by all
departments and the committee’s earlier priority-setting
exercise, it agreed on the following preliminary cash-
capital priorities (which assume the $965,000 of road and
street improvements funded in the prior operating override
and via Ch. 90 funds). Note that this list excludes big-
ticket items like the LHS acoustical modifications; and the
committee has recommended that planning and design funding
requests (Senior Center, DPW facilities, and next round of
elementary schools) be deferred from this year’s Town
Meeting.
1.Landfill colosure $450k
2. Diamond gym floor (reimbursable $49%), $125,000
3. Cary Hall $150k
4. Harrington gym floor $65k
5. Fire engine $327 k (Burnell questions on policy
grounds, Rosenberg questions on operating budget at-risk
list which puts an engine and East Lexigton at risk)
6. Buckman Tavern roof $60k (committee has not yet been
briefed)
7. DPW equipment: skyworker, $110k
8. Fire department air compressor unit $35k
9. Remaining DPW equipment/vehicles $149k (enterprise
fund item excluded from this list)
10. Building Envelope $100k (Burnell questions)
Remaining questions: feedback on school roof repairs?
Other vehicles?
All other items not funded
Meeting adjourned 7:30 p.m.
John S. Rosenberg