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29 SELECTMEN'S MEETING January 15, 1973 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office Building, on Monday evening January 15, 1973 at 7:30 p.m. Acting Chairman Bailey, Mr. Buse, Mr. Brown, Mrs Riffin; Mr. O'Connell, Town Manager; Mr. Cohen, Town Counsel; Mrs. McCurdy, Executive Clerk, were present. Hearing was declared open at 7:30 p.m. on the petition of the Poles Boston Edison Company to install eleven poles with a guy wire and Wayden Ave. anchor on the tenth pole to provide service to W. R. Grace Co., Hay- den Avenue, Lexington. Notices of the hearing were sent to the petitioner and owners of the property as listed on the petitioner's plan, and also filed with the Director of Public Works. Mr.Louis Jones, representing the Boston Edison Company, was present; also, Mr. Van Boughton, representing W. R. Grace Company. Mr. Jones: The Boston Edison Company requests at this time that the petition be tabled because Dr. Fletcher, Ledgemont Laboratory, and repre- sentatives of W. R. Grace have met to explore ways of getting into new 11 construction. Mr. Boughton: We had been hopeful that we could work out a plan that would provide underground electric service to our building; we had understood that it was the general desire of everybody there that it belaced underground, and we had been workingwith Edison to that end. P 9 It developed that the cost would be high and Edison is trying to spread it around and make it equitable. We met this morning on a mutual satis- factory plan and Edison agreed to reconsider.,We hope to join forces with the Telephone Company, who has an underground system in the area, and come up with a plan we can afford. There seems to be hope that it can be done and Edison is starting to work on it. Dr. Fletcher: We started a real dialog with Boston Edison today for the first time in eleven years. There are two hurdles to overcome: (1) that Boston Edison get the Telephone Company to cooperate and to use the same trench, (2) There is a new 1969 law for going underground, and Lexington has not gone for that sort of thing. We hope things can be worked out for installation before June Ist. Mr. Boughton: We have temporary service and we can make the power do. Now, it depends on using the Telephone Company trench and it would perhaps be done by July. Acting Chairman Bailey: We look forward to hearing from you when you want to have the petition taken off the table. We hope your deliber- ations are fruitful. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to table the petition of the Boston Edison Company to install eleven poles with a guy wire and anchor on the tenth pole to provide service to W. R. Grace Co Hayden Avenue.