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Highway Maintenance - Personal Services. The amount asked for for a clerk in this budget is to take care of the girl at the switchboard in the Selectmen's Office to April 1, 1946. This is as per request of the Board of Selectmen. Highway Maintenance - Wages and Expenses. The amount asked for' labor is divided up as follows: cleaning roads, 77,000.00, ' repairs to' pavements, 1500.00, repairs to road shoulders, $2,500.00,500.00, cutting rush-along side of roads,' �1,500.00, - patch_ing roads, 16,000.00; cleaning catch basins; .d!i1- 500.00; cleaning drains, 4500.00, cleaning out brooks, - >;p1,000.00, and miscellaneous work under draf_nage, 300.00. Rental of private equipment. This ; 300.00 is for the rental of a trailer to carry equipment around to dif- ferent locations. Sundry Items - includes kerosene and oil to be used around brooks at an estimate of 75.00, and repairing guard rt' is and fence maintenance at an estimated cost of 350.00, loaning and seeding, $500.00. Highway Construction - Chapter 90. Amount requested is to take care of Grove Street. If this- is approved at the Town Meeting, the State will pay one-half, County one-quarter and the Town one-quarter. Highway Maintenance - Chapter 90. The usual ;'1,000.00 is requested to do maintenance work on Chapter 90 roads. Highway Department - Road Machinery Account. Parts and repairs _ 3, 100.00. Colonel Barry stated that if we do not get new equipment asked for in the Capital Outlay Budget, this figure should be increased to over `,5,000.00. Snow Removal. This storm has cost us $3,490.50. Traffic Regulation and Control. No discussion on this budget. Street s.i_ghts. This budget was changed this evening by Colonel Barry as he stated that the Board of Select- men asked to include in this budget Sufficient money for all night lighting. Colonel Barry stated that the cost has been increased somewhat due to several new Tights being installed. Street Signs. Colonel Barry said that a number of the signs are missing. The old wooden signs have faded 7,t t and need to be replaced.