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Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
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Location and Time Cary Memorial Building, Cotton Room 7 00 P M
Members Present Jill Hai, Chair; David Kanter, Vice-Chair & Clerk, Elizabeth Barnett,
Rod Cole, Wendy Manz
Members Absent None
Others Present None
Documents Presented
• Notice/Agenda of CEC Public Meeting, April 13, 2016
• CEC Report to the February 8, 2016, STMs 2016-1 & 2016-2, released
February 1, 2016
• Lexington Town Warrant for April 25, 2016 Special Town Meeting (STM) 2016-4,
released March 28, 2016
Call to Order Ms Hai called the meeting to order at 7 15 P M
Discussion on any matters included in STMs 2016-2 & 2016-4
Ms Hai advised the Committee that it will participate in a joint meeting to be held next
Tuesday evening (April 19th) with the Appropriation Committee At that meeting, two
members of the Board of Selectmen (BoS) will provide an update, for open-session
discussion, regarding the BoS information on the two, current, potential, land purchases
The property at 20 Pelham Road (STM 2016-2, Article 2) and the Belmont Country Club
land (STM 2016-4, Article 5) All previous information on the status of both potential
purchases has been discussed by the BoS only in its Executive Sessions (The Committee
had taken a "Pending" position regarding the Pelham Road purchase in its report to
STM 2016-2 on February 1, 2016 )
As STM 2016-4 will be opened on Monday, the 25th, this Committee needs to release its
report on as many of that STM's Articles as practical, as soon as possible (That will be
later than the usual 1-week-in-advance-of-deliberation publication schedule ) As
STM 2016-2 is expected to be called back into session on May 9th, this Committee will
need to produce a supplement to its earlier report to provide an updated position unless it
remains "Pending" for even later, additional, information
The Committee then reviewed the Articles in STM 2016-4 to determine which warranted
reporting by this Committee Motions were made and seconded regarding each Article with
the following results
Article 1, Reports of Town Boards, Officers, Committees At least for the Committee's
report to be received and placed on file Vote 5-0 (Has no beanng on the report's content.)
Article 2, Minuteman Regional School Bonding Authorization Not to report. Vote 5-0
Article 3, Accept Easement-482 Bedford Street. To report. Vote 4-1 (Mr Kanter in
opposition as he considers this matter outside the scope of this Committee's
responsibilities Ms Barnett is to prepare the draft-report language before next Tuesday's
CEC meeting)
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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
April 13, 2016
Article 4, Amend General Bylaws—Capital Expenditures Committee To report.
Vote 5-0 (Ms Hai is to prepare the draft-report language before next Tuesday's CEC
meeting)
Article 5, Purchase of Belmont Country Club Land (Town has the right of first refusal on
that purchase, the Lexington Montessori School has signed a Purchase & Sale Agreement
with that Club) To report. Vote 4-0 (Ms Hai recused herself from this matter as she is a
member of that Club No member was assigned to prepare draft-report language as it will
not be until next Tuesday's CEC meeting that needed information would first be available)
Next Meeting To begin the review and approval of this Committee's reporting to the
May 9, 2016, session of STM 2016-2 and, if needed, also to a continued session of
STM 2016-4, this Committee agreed to have a meeting on April 26, 2016, at 7 30 A.M
Adjourn A Motion was made and seconded at 7 35 P M to adjourn Vote 5-0
These Minutes were approved by the CEC at its meeting on April 19, 2016
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