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Minutes
Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC)
December 18, 2024
Place and Time: Remote participation via a Zoom teleconferencing session that was open to the
public; 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Members Present: Glenn Parker, Chair; Sanjay Padaki, Vice-Chair; Alan Levine, Secretary; Anil
Ahuja; John Bartenstein; Sean Osborne; Carolyn Kosnoff, Assistant Town Manager, Finance
(non-voting, ex officio)
Members Absent: Lily Yan; Vinita Verma; Eric Michelson
Other Attendees: Dawn McKenna
At 7:36 p.m. Mr. Parker called the meeting to order and took attendance by roll call.
All votes recorded below were conducted by roll call.
Announcements and Liaison Reports
Mr. Levine announced that he and several other people are working on submitting a warrant article
for town meeting on zoning under the MBTA Communities Act.
Ms. Kosnoff informed the Committee that the Select Board voted to make final allocations of
ARPA funds which need to be committed by December 31, 2024, and spent by December 31, 2026.
The allocations include $40,000 for a study of the impacts of development under the section of the
zoning bylaw related to the MBTA Communities Act and partial funding in FY2026 of the expan-
sion of the townwide compost collection program. She noted that the tax rate had just been ap-
proved by the Department of Revenue and that free cash was not yet certified.
Mr. Padaki was not able to attend the Recreation Committee meeting that was held at the same time
as the present meeting. The recreation capital projects plan was on the agenda for that meeting. Ms.
Kosnoff noted that staff had discussed that capital plan and whether to recommend that certain pro-
jects be deferred.
Mr. Padaki stated that the Select Board discussed a crematory study committee and expressed an
interest in having an Appropriation Committee member act as liaison to the study committee.
Minutes of Prior Meetings
Minutes for the meetings of December 4, 2024, and December 12, 2024, were approved by a vote of
6-0.
Future Meeting Schedule
The next meeting of the Committee will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2025.
Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 7:59 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Alan M. Levine
12/18/2024 AC Minutes
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Approved: January 16, 2025
Exhibits
● Agenda, posted by Mr. Parker