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Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
April 7, 2021
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Location and Time: Remote Meeting; 7:00 P.M.
Members Present (remote participation): Charles Lamb, Chair; David Kanter, Vice—Chair
& Clerk; Sandy Beebee; Rod Cole, Wendy Manz, and Frank Smith
Members Absent: None
Others Present (remote participation): None
Documents Presented:
• Notice of Public Meeting/Agenda CEC Meeting, April 7, 2021
• Mr. Lucente, Chair, Lexington Select Board; E-Mail to the Lexington Town Meeting
Members Association (LexTMMA) E-Mail List; April 6, 2021 10:19 A.M.; Subject:
Reconsideration of Article 16g [Center Recreation Complex Bathrooms &
Maintenance Building Renovation]
• Draft Minutes of this Meeting, April 7, 2021 (presented at the end of the meeting)
Call to Order
Mr. Lamb called this Remote (Virtual) Meeting, which had been posted as such, to order at
7:00 P.M. As all those present had been previously advised of the special conditions of this
meeting, he passed on repeating them (i.e., The requirement to have a physical presence of
a quorum had been suspended in an Executive Order by Massachusetts
Governor Charles D. Baker, on March 12, 2020, after having proclaimed, on
March 10, 2020, a STATE OF EMERGENCY in the Commonwealth due to the outbreak of
the 2019 novel coronavirus, known as "COVID-197).
Mr. Lamb further reported that the documents for this meeting, which had been provided
electronically to the Committee and would be available upon request, were those listed as
Documents Presented. Any votes during this meeting would be taken by a roll call. This
meeting is being recorded to assist in preparing Minutes, and the recording would be deleted
once the Minutes were approved. Mr. Lamb took a roll-call vote and confirmed that six
Committee members were remotely participating.
Ratify Prior Positions Taken: It was Moved and Seconded that the Committee's unanimous
position taken on April 6, 2021, to endorse an Errata #2 to the CEC Report to the 2021
Annual Town Meeting, be ratified. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0
Matters Related to the 2021 Annual Town Meeting (ATM)—Especially Those Related to
the Session Immediately Following This Meeting
Mr. Lamb raised that Mr. Lucente's e-mail reported: "The consensus was that the [Select]
Board will move reconsideration, and recommend Indefinite Postponement of Article 16g.
The Select Board will take a formal vote on Wednesday evening."
Mr. Kanter reported he watched this evening's Select-Board Meeting, the Select Board did
take that formal vote, and that process was unanimously supported. Mr. Kanter believes that
they felt that the Project currently has an incomplete definition of a proposed scope of work,
no rational for any selected scope (versus other options to be considered), and, therefore,
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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting
April 7, 2021
does not have an appropriate construction funding to be presented to a Town Meeting. There
was hope those circumstances could be resolved, with the existing funding, in time for the
Project to be presented to a Fall Special Town Meeting.
The Committee then discussed those circumstances that had changed since its Report to
this ATM which unanimously supported that Sub-Article.
It was Moved and Seconded that the circumstances since this Committee's Report on the
current ATM do warrant Reconsideration and a subsequent Indefinite Postponement—and
that Committee position should be reported to the ATM Session at which the matter is
presented. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0.
Approval of Minutes/Report
Mr. Kanter presented the Draft Minutes he had prepared during this meeting.
It was Moved and Seconded that those Draft Minutes for this Meeting, including what will be
the immediately-following time and vote to adjourn, be approved as presented with
Mr. Kanter authorized to make non-significant changes. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0
Adjourn
A Motion was made and seconded at 7:04 P.M. to adjourn. Roll-Call Vote: 6-0
This Minutes was approved by the CEC at this meeting on April 7, 2021.
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