1998-03-02-TE-Warrant-and-1998-03-23-STM-and-ATM-Warrant

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DESCRIPTION: This request is for$560,000 to complete the third phase of a five-phase program to connect the remaining unsewered dwellings to the sewer system. Recently the State has made requirements for existing and replacement on-site sewerage disposal systems much stricter under the so-called Title V requirements. These new regulations require strict visual inspection of the existing components of an on-site system and strict liquid testing of an existing system when a dwelling is sold. All of Lexington is presently sewered by the Town's Sewer Collection system except for 29 street segments. This project will sewer two street segments and install 4650' of sewer pipeline. ARTICLE 10 SEWER SYSTEM REHAB PROGRAM To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to remove infiltration of ground water from the sewer system; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, including any special sewer funds, by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by the Board of Selectmen) FUNDS REQUESTED: $3,000,000 DESCRIPTION: This request proposes to accelerate the sewer rehabilitation program for completion over a five-year period at a cost of$3,000,000 per year. ARTICLE 11 STREET RELATED IMPROVEMENTS To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for highway improvements under the authority of Chapter 90 of the General Laws and any other applicable law; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; authorize the Selectmen to apply for, accept, expend and borrow in anticipation of state aid for such projects; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by the Board of Selectmen) FUNDS REQUESTED: $1,255,000 DESCRIPTION: This article requests $1,255,000 to pave approximately seven miles of streets. Street resurfacing is part of a systematic replacement program to resurface all 122 miles of Town streets once every twenty years or less. Although this program has been in place for fourteen years, only 61 miles rather than 84 miles have been resurfaced, as this program has not been fully funded in most recent years. 15