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April 25, 2007
Minutes
Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee
April 25, 2007
Place and time: Cary Memorial Bldg., Legion Room, 6:30 p.m.
Members present: Alan Levine (Chair), Deborah Brown (Vice Chair), John Bartenstein
(Secretary), Richard Eurich, David Kanter, Rod Cole, Pam Hoffman, Eric Michelson,
Mike Kennealy, Rob Addelson (ex officio, non-voting).
Also present: Michael Young (Budget Officer), Patrick Mehr
The meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. with a quorum present.
1. The first topic of business was the use of $103K of circuit breaker money
recently received by the Schools. Among the possible uses is application
of the funds to reduce the current fiscal year (FY 2007) school deficit; this
is 2007 money being spent on a 2007 expense. This was voted 9-0 in
favor.
2. The next topic was Peter Kelley’s amendment in regard to the proposed
joint facilities department. We are sympathetic to the goals of the
amendment, but the amendment appears to be “the tail wagging the dog”.
This was voted 7-1 against, with one abstention.
3. A concern was raised about the school budget overruns in FY2007. How
do we know the FY08 budget was properly built on true FY2007 costs as
opposed to budgeted FY2007 costs? How was the late-arriving $649K in
state money accounted for in forming the current proposed budget?
4. A brief discussion was held on Article 30 to repaint the flag pole on the
Town Green. This was voted 8-1 in favor.
5. A brief discussion was held on Article 42, and concerns with how the
movement of money is described were raised. It was agreed we need to
revise the write-up, and that we would meet Monday morning to do so.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Rod Cole
Approved January 3, 2008