HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-11-12-CEC-min-SUMMIT2Minutes of the
Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
November 12, 2015 (Summit II)
Location and Time: Hadley Pubic Services Building, Cafeteria; 7:00 P.M.
Members Present: Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice -Chair & Clerk; Rod Cole;
Wendy Manz
Member Absent: Elizabeth Barnett
Others Present: (See the Board of Selectmen (BoS) Minutes of the event for the Others
Present)
Documents Presented:
• Notice of Budget Collaboration /Financial Summit II, November 12, 2015
(See the BoS Minutes of the event for other Documents Presented.)
Call to Order: At 7:07 P.M., after the BoS had called itself to order at 7:06 P.M. for the
Summit, Ms. Hai called this Committee's meeting to order and this Committee joined the
Summit. (See the BoS Minutes of that event for this Committee's further participation in the
Summit.)
At 9:08 P.M., it was moved and seconded by the BoS to go into Executive Session to
consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property — purchase of
20 Pelham Road —with the intent to reconvene in Open Session only to adjourn, but with
the Appropriation and School Committees to reconvene in Open Session for further
business. Further, the Chair of that Board declared that an Open Meeting may have a
detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the Town. The members of that Board were
individually polled.
Ms. Hai then individually polled this Committee for the same purpose (which is Open
Meeting Law Exemption 6) and with the intent to reconvene in Open Session only to
adjourn. As Chair, she declared the need for the Executive Session was for the same
reason cited by the Chair of the BoS. Vote: 4-0
This Committee was then in Executive Session. See the Minutes of the Board of Selectmen
for this meeting's Executive Session for this Committee's further participation in the
substance of the Executive Session.
At 9:38 P.M., a Motion was made by the BoS to return to Open Session. The members of
that Board were individually polled.
Ms. Hai then individually polled this Committee for return to Open Session solely for the
purpose of adjourning. Vote: 4 -0
Adjourn: A Motion was made and seconded at 9:39 P.M. to adjourn this Committee.
Vote: 4 -0
These Minutes were approved by the CEC at its meeting on November 17, 2015
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