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127 will be of sufficient size to meet the needs of the Town for many years . We believe , from the estimates which we have secured that such a building could be erected and the grounds graded at a cost 6f from $85 , 000 to :> 90 000 . Additional furniture and fixtures might cost a further sum of $ 5000 . , so that the whole project could be completed ready for use for from $95 , 000 . to $ 100 , 000 . The proposed building should provide quarters for the following Officers and Departments of the Town : Board of Selectmen Supt . Public Works Town Clerk and Treasurer Inspectors Collector Water & Sewer Department Auditor Engineering Department Assessors Police Department We recommend that before the Town enters into any agreement to sell the present Town Hall property , it authorize this Committee , or appoint a new Committee and authorize them to have working plans and specifications prepared for the proposed office building and secure firm bids on the sane so that the Town may proceed on the basis of actual rather than on an estimated cost . estimates •�:• Tf the . estimates which we have secured are verified by the bids received , we recommend that the Town proceed to sell the present Town Hall property . In arranging a sale of the property , the Town should either 'retain the right to continue its occupancy without the payment of rent for the length of time necessary to complete the new office building , or a more advantageo, ) s sale . ght be arranged if the Town retain a purchase lease at a fair rental:,- ll The lease to run for a year with the- privilege of cancellation -••by the Town at any time on sixty days ' notice , so that rental under such a lease would core to an end as soon as the new office building was completed and ready for occupancy . If the procedure suggested is followed ,d , the project can be financed by short term notes subject to call. ' and payment by the • Town as soon as proceeds of the sale of the present Town Hall are received : the balance required for the di. ffelzence between the proceeds of the sale of the present Town Hall ' and the cost of the new Office Building to he financed at that time by a bond issue . We understand that the Selectmen expect presently to complete a sale of the Rindge property . The sale of. the Rindge property and the present Town Hall property should yield in excess of $ 650000 which could be appropriated from the General Revenue and Surplus Account for this purpose . • we recommend an appropriation of e3500 . be made f_ oa the expenses of such a Committee , the funds to be provided by a transfer from the General Revenue and Surplus Account , - The larger part of which would be expended for architects services . Al ] of the money so expended would , in the event of the project going forward to completion , be credited against the usual ar. ch. itect ? s cor..pensation . and is therefore Included in our previous estimates . H . Ballard Albert II . Burnham Norman C . Hooper Edwin B . Worthen James G . Robertson Francis Chamberlain Theodore A . Custance George w . Nary Arthur N . I,7 a d d i s o n Under this article on motion of William R . B . Eaton it was ,