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1 REGIONAL REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANNING connected disability pensions for fourteen veterans and or their dependents, burial allowance for nine widows, also under Title #38. We assisted a number of veterans to apply for as- sistance for education under the new G.I. Bill. Part of this office's duties involve the grave registration, which requires recording all veterans who are interred in Lexington cemeteries. All graves are decorated on Memorial Day, and inspected to see that they are in good condition. There were twenty veterans interred in 1967. Each grave received a flag, and if needed a headstone was filed for. Bernard J. Belcastro, Director Refuse Disposal Planning Committee Pursuant to the vote of the 1967 annual town meeting the moderator, on May 16, 1967, appointed a Regional Refuse Disposal Planning Committee consisting of three residents. On May 18, 1967 this committee met with similarly appointed three -man committees representing the towns of Bedford, Concord, Lincoln, Weston and the City of Waltham. Act- ing upon the authority of the enabling legislation (General Laws, Chapter 50, Sections 44A - 44K) these committees voted unanimously to join together to form the West Suburban Regional Refuse Disposal Planning Board, the duties of which, as prescribed by the enabling legislation, are to investigate and study the methods of refuse disposal and to prepare an agreement for submission to the participating communities. At the special town meeting held inJune, 1967, the sum of $3,000.00 (the maximum al- lowable under the enabling legislation) was appropriated as Lexington's share of the expense of the board. A like sum was appropriated by each of the other communities, making a total sum of $18,000.00 that became available for the board's expenses. Upon its organization, the board voted to create four committees as follows: (1) En- gineering; (2) Site Selection; (3) Finance; and (4) Legal. These committees meet at the call of their respective chairmen, and the full board meets on a regular basis at least once a month to receive and discuss the reports of the committees. Initial investigations by the engineering committee indicate that unless an inordinate amount of volunteer time can be devoted by board members to the studies and investigation required, it will be difficult for the board, with a limited budget of $18,000.00, to suggest a solution accompanied by plans and back -up data for the refuse disposal problems of the re- gion. Accordingly, initial application for a grant of $36,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was made in August of 1967. This application was rejected in November 1967 without prejudice to the right of the board to re- apply. At its November meeting the board voted to re- submit its application for these funds to aid in its study and investigation. To date, the appropriated funds have been kept intact. It is anticipated that the earliest likely date for submission to the participating com- munities of a final report with detailed plans and a draft agreement will be the Spring of 1970. 35 Arnold B. Briggs Richard H. Soule William R. Whalon, Chairman