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Minutes
Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee (AC)
April 7, 2021
Place and Time: Remote Participation: in accordance with the Governor's March 12, 2020 Order
Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law; communication took place via a Zoom
teleconferencing session that was open to the public; 7:00 p.m.
Members Present: Glenn Parker, Chair; Sanjay Padaki, Vice-Chair; Alan Levine, Secretary;
Anil Ahuja; John Bartenstein; Vineeta Kumar; Eric Michelson; Meg Muckenhoupt;
Lily Manhua Yan; Carolyn Kosnoff, Assistant Town Manager, Finance (non-voting, ex officio)
Member(s)Absent: None
Other Attendees: None
Mr. Parker confirmed attendance, reviewed the authorization for meeting remotely, noted that the
meeting was being called to order at 7:04 p.m. on April 7, 2021, and stated that the meeting would
be recorded for the purpose of creating minutes. He also noted that materials for the meeting were
available on-line. Mr. Levine agreed to take minutes.
Article 16(g)
Mr. Parker stated that the Select Board voted to seek reconsideration of Article 16(g), which
requests funds for the renovation of the restroom/storage building at the Center fields, and then to
recommend indefinite postponement. Ms. Kosnoff noted that there was concern that the project did
not go through the usual vetting process. The process was apparently modeled after the process
used in the case of the Old Res bathhouse renovations. Ms. Kosnoff further noted that the designs
for the work in the present case were not vetted as extensively as those for the Old Res bathhouse
before the request for construction funds was submitted to town meeting. The designs for the
Center fields facility should be reviewed by the Permanent Building Committee, the Sustainable
Lexington Committee, and the Recreation Committee. If the article disposition is changed to
indefinite postponement, the intention is to obtain the reviews and then bring the request for
construction funds to a fall special town meeting. It was also noted that the restroom/storage
building has been maintained by the DPW and that responsibility for that maintenance was
transferred very recently to the Dept. of Public Facilities.
Mr. Parker asked whether the storage of sports team equipment in trailers near the restroom/storage
facility might be considered.
A motion was made and seconded to support reconsideration and then indefinite postponement.
Vote (roll call): 9-0.
Article 24
Article 24 is the request for funds for a feasibility study regarding Lexington High School to be
performed jointly with the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA). The MSBA Board
of Directors has a meeting scheduled every two months with the next one on April 14, at which time
they could announce their decision about the High School project. The article will therefore come
before town meeting on Wednesday, April 14,
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Minutes of Prior Meetings
Ms. Arnold had circulated draft minutes for the AC meeting of March 29 but not all members had
reviewed them, so approval was put off to the following meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 7:22 p.m. by a roll call vote. VOTE: 9-0
Respectfully submitted,
Alan Levine
Approved: April 14, 2021
Exhibits
Agenda,posted by Mr. Parker
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