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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 102 Article 18. The Appropriation. Committee recommends that under this article the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated and transferred from Excess and Deficiency Account. Article 19. The Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of $,2,000.00 be appropriated and transferred from Excess and Deficiency Account. Article 20. Tlie Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of `{908.60 be appropriated and transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Article 21. The Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of .$22.75 be appropriated and transferred from Excess and Deficiency Account, Article 22. By reason of the absence of adequate and con- vincing information to show the need of an additional school building the Appropriation Committee does not approve the adoption of this article. Article 23. By reason of the absence of adequate and con- vincing information to show the need of an additional school building the Appropriation Committee does not approve the adoption of this article. Article 24. The Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of $1,450.00 be appropriated and transferred from the Tnsuran.ce Account. Article 25. The Appropriation Committee makes no rec- {nnrnendation under this article. Article 2(. The Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of $1,000.00 be appropriated and transferred from Excess and Deficiency Account. Article 27. The Appropriation Committee makes no rec- ommendation under this article. Article 28. The Appropriation Committee recommends that under this article the sum of .$1,000.00 be appropriated and transferred from Excess and Deficiency Account. 104 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Article 29. The Appropriation Committee does not ap- prove the adoption of this article. The Appropriation Committee wishes to state that two meetings wore hell to consider the articles contained[ in this 'Town Meeting Warrant for July 22, 191,a. One of the meeting's was held on June 27th and the other meeting on July llth. Mr. Charles R. Ferguson, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and Kr. Robert P. Trask, Superintendent of Public Works, ap- peared before the committee to explain the reason for the ap- propriations as requested. Also Mr. Randall. B. Moughton, Chairman of the School Commitice, together with Kr. Frederic L. Fischer, one of the School Committee members, appeared be- fore the committee to discuss the maf ter of increased school accommodations. The committee members were all furnished with advance copies of the 'Report of the Committee of Eleven on Increased high School Accommodations prior -to the time when .Messrs. Houghton and Fischer appeared before the com- mittee, and this report was given very careful consideration. On June 27t!i the committee, made a. personal inspection of many of the town projects including the proposed highway con- struction in Kendall Road and 1?armcrest Avenue. The com- mittee also viewed the proposed location o1' the Hancock Street Thain, the highway- construction project. in Pleasant. and Watertown Streets, the highway construction project in Lin- coln Street, ;Ind the Lowell Street drainage project. GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE WARRANT Article 2 is a repeat of a similar article which was con- tained in the annual warrant and on which action was in- definitely postponed by request of the property owner involved. Request, has now been again niatle for the sewer which will be subject to the assessment of betterments. tinderArticle I; additional money- is asked for to supply materials for projects on which the labor is almost entirely- paid for out of Federal funds. Article 7 and 8 provide merely for amendments. to the votes passed at the anneal town meeting in March and neither article calls for the appropriation of any additional money. Tt is necessary that the original vote be amend- ed in each case for the reason that the wording was such that the town -could not expend airy- part of the money unless