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Minutes
Town of Lexington Appropriation Committee
April 28, 2010
Place and time: Room 207, Town Office Building, 6:30 p.m.
Members present: Alan Levine (Chair), Glenn Parker (Vice - Chair), John Bartenstein
(Vice -Chair and Secretary), Rick Eurich, Susan McLeish, Eric Michelson, Joe Pato
Also present: Micah Niemy, Jim Wood, Charles Hornig, Ingrid Klimoff, Dawn
McKenna, Betsey Weiss
The meeting preceded the ninth session of the annual town meeting. It was called to
order at 6:30 p.m.
1. Resolution on the Munroe School (Article 36). Jim Wood presented to the
Committee the latest version of his proposed motion for a resolution under Article 36
addressing the process to be followed in disposing of the Munroe School building.
Several members of the Committee stated that they were sympathetic with the goals of
the proposed resolution but did not agree with the language of the draft motion. The
Committee voted not to support the resolution in its current form by a vote of 1 -7.
2. Town Office Building Renovation (Article 8(1)). Betsey Weiss, Chair of the
Community Preservation Committee (CPC), discussed with the Committee the views of a
minority of four members of the CPC who had voted not to support the current proposal
under Article 8(1) to expend $1,185,000 in CPA funds to partially fund renovations to the
Town Office Building. She expressed concerns that the CPC had not been given
adequate information about the details of construction project on a timely basis; that the
contingency and soft costs were extremely high; that some of the items included in the
construction plans were excessively costly; that the use of CPA funds for this project
would deplete the funds available for other projects down the road that some members of
the CPC felt were of a higher priority; and that the approval of this project could have
negative political repercussions. She stated that the CPC would have unanimously
supported Article 8(1) if the project were limited to the ramp and bathroom reconstruction
components proposed to improve handicapped accessibility. The Committee decided not
to reconsider its earlier vote to support this article.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
John Bartenstein
Approved September 22, 2010
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