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v,sM Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting RECEIVED
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April 13, 2022
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Location and Time: Remote Meeting; 7:00 P.M. LEXINGTON
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CEC Members Present (remote participation): Charles Lamb, Chair; David Kanter,
Vice-Chair & Clerk; Rod Cole; and Frank Smith
CEC Members Absent: Sandy Beebee; Mike Boudett
Others Present (remote participation): None
Documents Presented:
• Notice of Public Meeting/Agenda CEC Meeting, April 13, 2022
• Draft #2 CEC 2022 Minutes for February 10th & 24th; March 3rd 10th 15th 17th & 18th
• Draft CEC 2022 Minutes for March 30th
• CEC Executive Session Minutes, June 22, 2021 (approved August 18, 2021, but not
then for public release)
• Taylor Singh, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 6, Basis for Moving Reconsideration
of 2022 Annual Town Meeting Articles 10(e), Center Recreation Complex Bathrooms
& Maintenance Building Renovation, and 10(f), Park Improvements—Hard Court
Surfaces
Call to Order
Mr. Lamb called this Remote (Virtual) Meeting, which had been posted as such, to order at
7:00 P.M. As the Committee members present had been previously advised of the special
conditions of this meeting, he passed on repeating them (i.e., the authority to not require a
physical presence of a quorum and other selected terms under the Open Meeting Law in
legislation signed on February 15, 2022 (Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2022) by Massachusetts
Governor Charles D. Baker with an extension of that relief until July 15, 2022).
Mr. Lamb advised that materials provided electronically to the Committee or presented at the
meeting, would be available upon request and are those listed in the Minutes as Documents
Presented. Any votes during this meeting would be taken by a roll call. Further, this meeting
would be recorded to assist in preparing Minutes, and the recording would be deleted once
the Minutes are approved. Mr. Lamb took a roll-call attendance, determining that four
members were present.
Approval of Minutes
• Mr. Kanter Moved and it was seconded to approve the Draft#2 CEC 2022 Minutes for
February 10th &24th; March 3rd 10th 15th 17th & 18th, and the Draft CEC 2022 Minutes
for March 30th, with the Vice-Chair authorized to make non-substantive changes.
Roll-Call Vote: 4^0
• Mr. Kanter Moved and it was seconded to approve public release of the CEC
Executive Session Minutes, June 22, 2021 (previously approved, without public
release, on August 18, 2021), based on authority to do so earlier this year. Roll-Call
Vote: 4^0
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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
April 13, 2022
Committee Position on Ms. Singh's Basis for Moving Reconsideration of Articles 10(e)
and 10(f)
Mr. Kanter displayed this Basis extracted from Ms. Singh's e-mail to the Town Meeting
Members on-line forum, April 12, 2022, at 3:52 P.M.:
...I will be moving reconsideration on both Articles 10e and 1 Of.
My basis for reconsideration is a statement our Director of Public Facilities made during
the debate on the LHS Feasibility Study last night.
I think there was enough information shared last night about all 54 acres being
considered for a school project and nothing being off the table that directly contradicts
the assertion that the bathroom and courts wouldn't be part of a High School project -
which qualifies as new information.
This new information should persuade Town Meeting that these articles are worth
reopening.
After discussion among all the present Committee members, it was unanimous that: (1) The
numbering of the acres did not change the acknowledgement before the votes on those two
Articles that all of that area would be considered, (2) The overwhelming general position in
discussions before those votes had qualifications of one kind or another regarding the
expectation that neither of those projects would be impacted by the placement of any new or
renovated Lexington High School, and (3) Therefore, that Basis does not qualify as the "New
Information" that warrants approving the single vote for Reconsideration on either of those
two Articles—which bundling to a single vote was prescribed by the Town Moderator and,
also, if Reconsideration achieves the two-thirds majority, there would be separate debates
and votes for each of those Articles.
This Committee then discussed whether its position, when requested before debate by the
Town Moderator, should be given then or deferred until at the end of debate but before that
Town Meeting vote—based on a caucus then. It was agreed that as this meeting had a
quorum, a common agreement, and our position should be given before the debate to take
a leadership role.
A Motion was then made and seconded that this Committee's position be opposed to the
Motion to Reconsider and that position be given before the debate. Roll-Call Vote: 4-0
Adjourn
A Motion was made and seconded at 7:20 P.M. to adjourn. Roll-Call Vote:4-0
This Minutes was approved by the CEC at its meeting on April 29, 2022.
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