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Minutes of the
Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC)
� Remote-Participation Meeting
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Location and Time: All-Remote Virtual (Zoom) Meeting; 7:30 P.M.
Members Present: Charles Lamb, Chair; Lisah Rhodes, Vice Chair; Rod Cole, Editor;
David Kanter, Clerk; Sandy Beebee; Michael Boudett
Members Absent: None
Others Present:
Invited Guests: Naomi Martin (Athletic Director, Lexington High School [LHS]), Andrew
Baker (LHS Principal), Carolyn Kosnoff (Assistant Town Manager for Finance), Melissa
Battite (Director of Recreation and Community Programs), Rick DeAngelis (Recreation
Committee Chair), Dr. Julie Hackett (Superintendent, Lexington Public Schools), Mike Cronin
(Director Department of Public Facilities), Kathleen Lenihan (School Committee)
Monitoring Only: Dawn McKenna, Steve McKenna, Robert Pressman (Lexington
Community Preservation Committee) Lisa O'Brien (Recreation Committee), Suzie Barry
(Select Board), Glenn Parker (Appropriation Committee Chair)
Documents Presented:
• Notice of CEC Meeting, August 20, 2024
• Information from Town's Summit Meeting, August 15, 2024, addressing the
circumstances associated with including a pool and/or a new fieldhouse in the scope
of the pending new LHS Project (NLHSP).
Call to Order: Mr. Lamb called this Committee's all-remote meeting to order at 7:30 P.M., As
the Committee members and the others joining this meeting 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 had, by legislation on March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed into law a supplemental
budget bill which, among other things, extends the temporary provisions pertaining to the
Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2025, pursuant to Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2023")
Mr. Lamb made successful incremental Roll Calls of all the 6 Committee Members and all of
the Invited Guests.
Mr. Lamb then proposed at this meeting CEC members should, in sequence, present their
initial questions—and then, again, for each later sequence—to the other staff member(s). In
turn, the staff should provide answers to the questions—with requesting assistance by other
staff if needed. Mr. Lamb's objective is that once the CEC members have received all the
replies, he would thank the staff for the support. While the staff was welcomed to leave or
remain, the focus would then be on the CEC members to collectively discuss their opinions
regarding what should be the Committee's programmatic decision(s) regarding the scope of
further program scope(s).
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Continued Minutes of the
Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC)
Remote-Participation Meeting
August 20, 2024
The current, ultimate consensus of the CEC members at this meeting was to:
(1) Maintain that the funding for the current, on-going, design & construction for the
NLHS and for the existing Field House require just a single Debt Exclusion.
(2) Recommend the next program scope for the on-going design & construction of the
NLHS & the existing Field House include the necessary, essential, improvements of
the existing Field House to eliminate fundamental deficiencies.
(3) Cancel any potential accompanying plans for the addition of a new pool.
(4) Approve Mr. Lamb to draft and submit the report to the Select Board of this CEC's
consensus—with reporting including an expanded basis— following distribution of it
to these Members—with Mr. Lamb to have authority for the further distribution. Roll
Call: 6-0
Approve CEC Minutes
(1) Mr. Kanter Moved final approval of the June 5, 2024, CEC Minutes (which was
initially approved at the July 24, 2024, Meeting); and to be finally approved today.
(2) Mr. Kanter Moved approval of the July 24, 2024, Minutes; and to be approved today.
Ms. Rhodes seconded for both. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0
Other Matters: Mr. Lamb advised that this Committee has been asked to meet with the
Organization Performance Management (OPM) and Designer leads on the 9/26/2024 and
10/24/2024 Lexington School Building Committee meetings to discuss any questions and
concerns that we have pertaining to the NLHSP.
Adjourn: Mr. Lamb called for a CEC Motion to adjourn. Mr. Kanter made it and Ms. Rhodes
Seconded at 9:12 P.M. to adjourn. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0
This Minutes was approved by the CEC at its meeting on October 17, 2024
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