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Minutes of the
Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
November 23, 2015 (including Summit on School Buildings Projects)
Location and Time: Cary Memorial Building, Battin Hall, 7:30 ..
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Members Present: Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk; Rod Cole;
Wendy Manz
Member Absent: Elizabeth Barnett
Others Present:
See the Minutes of the Board of Selectmen (BoS) for this meeting for any other
persons present during the Summit.
Joining, at approximately 9:45 .., in the closing Open Session of the CEC meeting:
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Kathryn Colburn, Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC); Andrei Radulescu-Banu,
AC; Jessie Steigerwald, Chair, Lexington School Committee (SC); Alessandro
Alessandrini, SC; Nicola Rinaldi, Lexington Resident
Documents Presented:
Notice of Public Meeting Summit Meeting, November 23, 2015
See the Minutes of the BoS for this meeting for any other documents presented during
the Executive Session
Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order in Open Session at 7:35 .., following
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the same call by the Chair, BoS, and concurrent with the same calls by the Chairs of the
AC & SC.
See the Minutes of the BoS for this meeting for this CommitteeÈs further participation in the
substance of the Summit.
At approximately 9:10 .., the Chair of the BoS recessed the Summit for it to continue in
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Executive Session in the Town Office Building, SelectmenÈs Meeting RoomÄand all
participants in the Summit relocated to that room.
At 9:11 .., it was moved and seconded by the BoS to go into Executive Session to
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consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property at 20 Pelham Road,
Lexington, with the intent to return to Open Session to address other business. Further, the
Chair of that Board declared that an Open Meeting may have a detrimental effect on the
negotiating position of the Town. All its members present were individually polled and
responded in the affirmative.
Ms. Hai individually polled this Committee for the same purpose (which is Open Meeting
Law Exemption 6) and same intent. She declared the need for the Executive Session was
for the same reason cited by the Chair of the BoS. Vote: 4Ã0
This Committee was then in Executive Session. See the Minutes of the BoS for this
meeting for this CommitteeÈs further participation in the substance of the Executive
Session.
At 9:40 .., a motion was made by the BoS to return to Open Session. All its members
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present were individually polled and responded in the affirmative.
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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
November 23, 2015 (including Summit on School Buildings Projects)
Ms. Hai then individually polled this Committee for return to Open Session and to continue
its business related to the Summit. Vote: 4Ã0
Ms. Hai then recessed this Committee and it relocated to the Town Office Building, Reed
Room (111).
At approximately 9:45 .., Ms. Hai called the Committee back to order in the new location.
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There was discussion by this Committee and the members of the SC & AC regarding what
had been learned and discussed at the preceding Summit with the focus being on the
amount of the cost savings that had been achieved with the program that the SC had
recommended at the Summit. This Committee recommended that additional information
should be prepared by the SCÄwith the assistance of the Department of Public FacilitiesÄ
to reflect what had been the program costs just before the SC made its changes to what
had been presented to the Summit.
A Motion was made and seconded that the CEC would, at this point, stand with its position
as presented at the Summit. Vote: 4Ã0
Adjourn:A Motion was made and seconded at 10:18 .. to adjourn.Vote: 4Ã0
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These Minutes were approved by the CEC at its meeting on January 5, 2016.
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