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• Mr . Theodore A . Cu.s t ance of the Board of Selectmen gave a lengthy list of expenditures of the appropriation for Highway Maintenance last year , naming various items that might be called construction work that were charged to the Highway Maintenance . Mr . William H . Ballard offereda motion to substitute the sum of $65 , 000 . for 470 , 000 . Questions were asked andrematbks were also made by Mr . Richard McCabe , Mr . William J . Marshall , Mr . George E . Briggs , Mr . Orville B . Denison and Mr . W . Benjamin C . M e a dy . Mr . Robert P . Trask stated that he had in his possession a program showing very definitely work to be done on forty- eight of the different streets in the Town , many of the items running from two to five hundred dollars , andhe felt that the Selectmen needed the entire amount of the appropriation to carry out the program planned for the maintenance work . Zhe motion of Mr . William H . Balls rd to amend the original motion was voteddown by vote of the meeting and the original motion was then carried . Arts.. 16 and 36 . Mr . Theodore A . Custancets motion to reconsider this article was voted down . Art . 34 . Under this article , Mr . Theodore A . Custance offered the motion that Article 34 and article 2 be taken up together . Under article two Mr . Frederick L . Emery , Chairman of the Planning Board , offered the following report of the Planning Board : REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD The Selectmen , Town Offices , Lexington , Mass . Gentlemen : We submit herewith the report of Metcalf & Eddy , Engineers , upon the general subject of the drainage and development of the Vine Brook drainage area , dated September 29 , 1928 . For many years the Planning Boardhas been impressed with the necessity for draining and improving this arca and has given much time and consideration to the subject . With your authority, Metcalf & Eddy were engaged to make a study of the entire Vine Brook drainage area and to report upon the practicability and probable cost of draining such area with a view to 1-he eventual use for residential occupancy of as much of the area as possible and to suggest means to that end , including a layout of the most practicable scheme of streets andthoroughfares to make it accessible . The report is exhaustive and outlines not only the drainage necessary but the roads which should be built to make the area available for use , and includes also an exhaustive study ©f the subject of betterments as a guide to the Town in covering the cost of such work as may be done . Since the drainage work so intimately involved the playground area , as well as the eventual attractiveness of the entire area for building purposes , the Planning Board called into conference Mr . A . A . Shurtleff of Boston , who is p��4��lf"& , . '. � ��do s cad i��t ty , 1n thc ountry � etc of collaboration with Mr , Shurtleff in determining the recommendations contained in this report .