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Sustainable Lexington Committee Minutes of Meeting of February 27, 2025
A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held jointly with the Permanent
Building Committee (PBC) on Zoom and at the 201 Bedford St 2nd floor training room. A
quorum was present throughout.
Members Present: Cindy Arens (chair), Todd Rhodes (vice chair), Andy Joynt, Celis Brisbin,
Dan Voss, Kavitha Venkatesan
Members Absent: Paul Chernick, Rick Reibstein, Lin Jensen
Staff Present: Maggie Peard
The meeting was called to order at approximately 6:10 pm
Full, detailed meeting minutes can be found with the February 27, 2025 PBC meeting minutes.
There were no votes taken by the SLC.
Mass Timber
Three options were provided to the SBC: Option A $24m – entire structure; Option B $19m –
steel for columns; and Option C $2m – gym, dining, and media center only. The SBC decided
not to use Mass Timber at all.
● Cindy asked for the embodied carbon calculation that was requested at a previous SLC
meeting. Brian Black of SMMA said their Sustainability team would put that together.
EV Charging
● Mark Sandeen recommended breaking out the EV charger cost and the PV cost.
● Dan Voss made the point that the percentage of EV chargers to install was intended to
be based on the number of new parking spots.
● Dan identified that the number of EV Charger numbers were agreed to at an SBC
meeting.
● Discussion of the distinction between the goal of a net zero building and the separate
analysis of how much PV would be required to cover the expected demand and
assessment of whether that PV can be added to the site.
● Maggie said that for 11 town chargers they consumed 86,000 kWh – so the reported
numbers may be low.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:41 pm.