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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 59
<br />'Care of Dumps and Removal of Ashes
<br />Expenses:
<br />Labor $1,880.79 $2,000.00
<br />Other Expenses 39.21 100.00 $1,900.00
<br />$1,920.00 $2,100.00 $1,900.00
<br />Garbage Collection
<br />Expenses:
<br />Contract $3,306.85 $3,310.00 $3,310.00
<br />Labor and Equipment
<br />Rental 334.80 0.00 0.00
<br />$3,641.65 33,310.00 $3,310,00
<br />During the year 1936, the contract for removal of garbage
<br />hold by Robert McAdoo expired and the Board of Select-
<br />men made a new contract with Albert Bieren for a three
<br />year period. The amount payable under this contract in-
<br />creases each year, but the first year the amount payable is
<br />less than the amount which was paid under the former
<br />contract.
<br />Highway Maintenance
<br />Personal Services:
<br />Superintendent $2,092.12 $2,350.00 52,183.34
<br />Consulting Supt. 1,200.00 1,200.00 1,200.00
<br />Assistant Superin-
<br />tendent
<br />Clerk
<br />577.50 1,2 00.00 1,200.00
<br />628.51 705.00 678.67
<br />$4,498.13 $5,455.00 $5,262.01
<br />Expenses:
<br />Labor and Other Items $34,640.00 $38,387.00 538,387.00
<br />The Appropriation Committee has approved a salary of
<br />$2300.00 per year for the Superintendent.
<br />Highway Curbing
<br />Wages and Expenses:
<br />For Labor, Curbing and
<br />Other Expenses .... $0.00 $1,250.00 $1,250.00
<br />It is recommended that the appropriation of $2500.00 be
<br />provided for as follows:
<br />By direct appropriation $964.55
<br />By transfer from the 1936 ac-
<br />count for Highway Curbing,
<br />Bedford Street 285.45
<br />IGO TOWN OF LEXINGTON
<br />Snow Removal
<br />Wages and Expenses;
<br />Labor $9,936.62
<br />Other Expenses 11,150.85
<br />$10.000.00 $7,500.00
<br />$21,087.47 $10,000.00 $7,500.00
<br />Traffic Regulation and Control
<br />Wages and Expenses:
<br />Labor $543.61 $500.001
<br />Other Expenses 873.89 1,100.00 $1,500.00
<br />Street Lights
<br />$1,417.50 $1,600.00 $1,500.00
<br />Expenses:
<br />For Lighting 522,129.931
<br />Other Expenses 95.66 $23,500.00 $22,500.00
<br />$22,225.59 523,500.00 $22,500.00
<br />The Board of Selectmen have requested an increased
<br />amount of $1,000.00 for the cost of increasing the candle
<br />power of the lights on Massachusetts Avenue from Wo-
<br />burn Street to the Arlington line. This recommendation
<br />has not been approved by the Appropriation Committee.
<br />:Street Signs
<br />Wages and Expenses:
<br />Labor $81.63 $800.00 5800.00
<br />Painting Signs 9.00 475.00 475.00
<br />Wooden Signs and
<br />Posts
<br />Other Expenses
<br />92.28 605.00 605.00
<br />17.09 302.00 302.00
<br />$200.00 $2,200.00 $2,200.00
<br />The increased appropriation recommended and approved
<br />for Street Signs is due to an opinion given to the Supt. of
<br />Public Works by the Town Counsel regarding the liability
<br />of towns to compensate for damages resulting from de-
<br />fects in ways. The Town Counsel, in his opinion, empha-
<br />sized the importance of warning signs at the junction of
<br />-public and private ways. The increased appropriation for
<br />Street Signs is approved in order that these warning signs
<br />-may be erected.
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