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Report To The Voters Of Lexington
Your committee has studied the requirements of a new Senior High
School building and developed preliminary plans of a building which we
believe will satisfy the Town's needs. Our reasoning in the development
of these plans is outlined in the following report.
We recommend that the Torun consider the following program:
I 1. Accept the preliminary plans as presented.
2. Authorize the preparation of complete plans and specifications so that
test bids may be procured and presented to the 1948 Town Meeting.
To do this, favorable action must be taken on Article 44 of the Warrant.
3. If reasonable bids are received at the 1948 Town Meeting, authorize the
issuance of bonds for a term of twenty years to finance the construction
of the building.
4. Start the building construction during the summer of 1948 so that the
a new building may be occupied in the Fall of 1949. However, if it is
3 found at this time that the current construction costs seem unreasonable
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we would recommend postponing action until the following year when
it could be reconsidered.
We advise this program because it is the recommendation of both the
School Committee and the Nichol's Report that the new building is needed
now. Even by following this program, the earliest we could hope to occupy
the building would be the fall of 1949, at which time the need will have
become even greater.
Charles G. Davis, Chairman H.Webster Thomas
Katherine M. Gleason, Sec. Russell H. Kettell
Adolph W. Samborski Ruth Morey
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Why We Need A New Building
At the present time our junior-Senior High School is badly overcrowded
with an enrollment of 1100 students.
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Due to this large enrollment our regular classrooms are congested and it
has been necessary to convert for classroom use basement rooms that are
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far from satisfactory.
The Cafeteria is so overloaded that our children do not have time to be
served properly, or eat what they are served in a healthy manner.
These conditions are far from conducive to the maintainance of the high
standard of education desired by all of us for our children.
By 1949 we anticipate an enrollment of at least 1200 in the Junior-Senior
High School which will aggravate these conditions still more. By 1960 this
total is estimated at 16001
What Shall We Do?
The report published last year by the School Committee, recommended
the construction of a new Senior High School and the use of the present
building for a junior High School only. We have based our program upon
this recommendation.
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The New Building
The architects, Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, have designed a building for
the particular needs of Lexington. It is traditional in character but modern
in construction and arrangement--no compromise having been made with
either efficiency or economy in making a design that is sympathetic with our
colonial history and the houses on the green.
A new building should satisfy our needs for at least ten years, quite
possibly longer. We find from an examination of present elementary school
enrollment as well as our rapidly increasing birth rate that it is highly
possible that we will have 800 senior high school students by around 1960.
In order to hold down present costs we have designed a building to have a
capacity of 800 students (our estimated enrollment in 1960) and have so
arranged it that additional classrooms can be added later to increase its
capacity to 1000 or 1200 without overloading such facilities as the gym-
nasium, auditorium and cafeteria. We have planned these facilities in this
manner as we do not believe that it is practical to add to them later.
The complete building contains 82 usable rooms in addition to toilets,
closets, corridors and stairways. Grouped according to general type, they are
as follows:
Regular Teaching Rooms (35) Service Roosts (34)
22 Standard Class Rooms. 2 'T'eachers' rooms.
3 Science Classroom-laboratories. 1 General office.
2 Household Arts Laboratories and suite. 4 Private offices.
4 Industrial Arts rooms. 1 Health center,
2 Mechanical Drawing and related work 3 Science supply rooms.
rooms. 5 Departmental offices, conference &
1 Music room. supply rooms.
1 Arts and Crafts room. 1 Kitchen,
1 Sewing room.
Special Use Roams (5) 1 Faculty dining roam,
S Store rooms.
1 Library with work and conference 1 Boiler room.
rooms. 1 Engineer control room.
1 Social studies map and reference room. 2 Janitors' rooms.
1 All purpose lecture, debating and as- 1 Maintenance room,
sembly room. 2 Clothes drying rooms.
1 Projection room. 2 Dressing rooms.
1 Student activity room. I Bicycle room,
General Use Rooms (8)
1 Auditorium with seating capacity including balcony of 980.
1 Cafeteria---Study Hall with seating capacity of 400.
1 Gymnasium with folding partition and movable seating capacity of 1200.
2 Locker and shower rooms with facilities for visiting teams.
l 2 Gymnasium apparatus and storage rooms,
1 Special exercise room.
The assistance of our Superintendent of schools, Mr. Grindle and our
Senior High School Principal, Mr. Warren, has been invaluable in the
study of our educational.requirements for the new building.
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What Will The Building Cost?
We have had a building estimate made which is based on present day
costs. These prices are admittedly higher than ever before in our history
but they do represent a yard stick by which we may measure our possible
future expenditures.
1. Costs of building 1,590,000
2. Architectural and mechanical engineering fees
a. Bid plans and specifications for architectural, structural.
87,450
heating, plumbing and electrical work
b. Architectural and engineering details and supervision of
construction 31,800
3. Furniture and fixtures 9$,000
4. Roads, grading and landscaping 141,400
Total estimated costs 1,918,650
Total cubic feet-2,054,000 Cost per cubic foot--95 cents
Since building costs are excessively high at this time, due not only to high
prices for material and labor but also the scarcity of both, it is quite con-
ceivable that cubic casts will decline 80 to 85 cents. This would not seem
to be an unreasonable figure for which to hope.
This would mean a total cost of approximately $1,700,000.
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How Can We Pay For The Building?
Your committee suggests the possibility of issuing twenty-year bonds to
finance the costs of building this school. Upon the advice of a leading
Boston brokerage firm we have prepared the following schedule on the basis
of paying interest at 1/ percent.
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Present estimates indicate that our town's assessed valuation will reach
$25,000,000 during the current year and with the home building plans now
contemplated we believe that the increasing assessed valuations shown in
our tabulation are reasonable and conservative.
Bonded Payment on Annual Assessed Cost in Year
Principal Principal Interest Value of Tax Rate
Town
1,700,000 85,000 25,500 27,000,000 4.09 1949
1,615,000 85,000 24,200 29,000,000 3.77 1950
I,530,000 85,000 23,000 31,000,000 3.48 1951
1,445,000 85,000 21,700 32,000,000 3.34 1952
1,360,000 85,000 20,400 32,0()0,000 3.30 1953
1,275,000 85,000 19,100 32,000,000 3.27 1954
1,190,000 85,000 17,800 33,000,000 3.12 1955
1,105,000 85,000 16,700 33,000,000 3.08 1956
1,020,000 85,000 15,300 33,000,000 3.04 1957
935,000 85,000 I4,000 34,000,000 2.91 1958
850,000 85,000 12,800 34,000,000 2.87 1959
765,000 85,000 11,500 34,000,000 2.83 1960
680,000 85,000 10,200 34,000,000 2.80 1961
595,000 85,000 8,900 35,000,000 2.67 1962
510,000 85,000 7,700 35,000,000 2.64 1963
425,000 85,000 6,400 35,000,000 2.61 1964
340,000 85,000 5,100 35,000,000 2.57 1965
255,000 85,000 3,800 36,000,000 2.46 1966
170,000 85,000 2,500 36,000,000 2.42 1967
85,000 85,000 1,300 36,000,000 2.40 1968
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April 1, 1946
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VOTED: That the town determine that a new High School should be
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located on the property of the Lexington Estates Co. and property of the
estate of William E. Mulliken, upon acquisition of title of the said land by
the Town and the approval of such location by the Board of Appeals under
k the Zoning by-law, and that the Moderator appoint a committee of seven
consisting of three members of the School Committee and four other citizens
to obtain preliminary plans, estimated cost and incidental expenses for the
construction of such high school and report not later than the next Annual
Town Meeting; and for the expenses of such committee a sum of$4,000.00
be appropriated to be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency
Account.
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i October 1, 1946
VOTED: That the sum of $6,000.00 be appropriated in addition to the
amount previously appropriated to defray the expense of obtaining pre-
liminary plans and an estimate of the cost of construction of the proposed `
new high. school, which said sum shall he provided by transfer from the
Excess and Deficiency Account.
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