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Minutes
Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC)
March 19, 2025
Place and Time: Remote participation via a Zoom teleconferencing session that was open to the
public; 7:30 p.m.
Members Present: Glenn Parker, Chair; Sanjay Padaki, Vice-Chair; Alan Levine, Secretary; Anil
Ahuja; John Bartenstein; Eric Michelson; Vinita Verma; Lily Yan; Sean Osborne (8:10 p.m.); Car-
olyn Kosnoff, Assistant Town Manager, Finance (non-voting, ex officio)
Members Absent: none
Other Attendees: none
At 7:35 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
There were no reports.
Report to the 2025 Annual Town Meeting (ATM)
Mr. Parker posed several questions that came up while he was drafting the introduction to the re-
port. These concerned the amount from the tax levy put into the Capital Stabilization Fund for
FY2025 and water/sewer program improvement requests for FY2026. Ms. Kosnoff answered the
questions.
In regard to Article 4, Ms. Kosnoff stated her concerns about school operating budgets. The school
administration has imposed a budget freeze for the current fiscal year (FY2025). For FY2026, the
administration made reductions in the requested budget which appear to allow it to fit within the
budget allocation but, in practice, may tend to lead to a budget overrun.
In regard to Article 5, Mr. Bartenstein noted his acceptance of a 10% increase as the MWRA assess-
ment placeholder.
Mr. Parker then went through each of the financial articles seeking comments and asking whether
any members had any objections to the associated motions. There were discussions of Article 10(h),
which would fund part of field construction at the site of the old Harrington School, and of the cor-
rectness of numbers in several other articles. The Committee decided to issue the report including
analysis for Articles 26 and 27 but to not make recommendations regarding approval or disapproval
for them. After the Committee went through all of these articles, the Committee voted to confirm
the positions of each member and, thereby, the Committee position. The positions are all affirma-
tive. The vote was 9-0. Details are shown in the attachment.
Minutes of Prior Meetings
Minutes of the Committee meeting on February 27, 2025, were approved by a vote of 9-0.
Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned by roll call vote at 9:29 p.m.
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Respectfully submitted,
Alan M. Levine
Approved: March 26, 2025
Exhibits
● Agenda, posted by Mr. Parker