Lexington Select Board Unanimously Calls November 3 Special Town Meeting

LEXINGTON — September 15, 2025 — Lexington Select Board calls Special Town Meeting 2025-2 for November 3, featuring a debt exclusion vote and twelve draft articles. The three-member quorum — Chair Jill Hay, Vice Chair Joe Pato, and Member Doug Lucente, meeting via Zoom with Members Mark Sandin and Vanita Kumar absent — voted 3-0 to schedule the meeting for 7:30 p.m. in Batten Hall at Cary Memorial Building in hybrid format, per a Town Moderator letter dated August 26. Deputy Town Manager Kelly Axtell outlined the draft warrant, which includes routine budget and revolving fund adjustments — among them roughly $60,000 for the tree revolving fund and $50,000 for the compost revolving fund — alongside two tax relief articles: adoption of the HERO Act's Clause 22I tied to the CPI, and an increase in the senior tax work-off income threshold from $1,755 to $2,000. Citizen petitions, requiring 100 certified signatures, are due at the Town Clerk's office by noon on September 25.