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410 Mr. Smith said that Raytheon is not "in compliance" at this time. Mr. Smith said that ten days before the next meeting he will send Mrs. llalko to check the Raytheon cafeteria out for a non-smoking area -if they are not in complian at that time we will bring them to the next board meeting. Mr. Smith said that Gracies has finally complied. 'Alen Mrs, Flalko went back for re -inspection they had a section set aside. CANCER The Board briefly discussed the "cancer Survey" and Mr. Litant. Dr. Roemer SURVEY said that a letter should go out to Mr. Litant stating that they were looking into the situation. She said she would draft the letter to be sent. MR. FRIEDMAN Mr. Smith explained that a couple of residents have filed a form with the APP'T tocsin clerk that they do not want to be sprayed on their property for mosquitoes. He explained that the forms came from the Audubon Society and the resident must send it certified mail to the Town Clerk before March 1,1984. The names and addresses of their abuttors must also be included. They have to distinguish, also, their prop- erty by some method. The two people that filed had stated that their's would be white rags flying on top of a pole. At 8:p.m. Mr. Friedman came before the Board. He explained how he had filed with the Town Clerks office that he did not want to have mosquito spraying on his property. Dr. Erdos said that we accept his comments. He did explain that he thaught the form that the Audubon Society has put out could stand some improvements, es- pecially for The Town of Lexington. We would prefer to make some changes. Dr. Erdos told Mr. Mr. Friedman there are a number of commercial pesticide operations around that should he checking with the Town Clerk's office to see who had filed for no spraying. The board explained to Mr. Friedman that they had no intention of ordering spraying if they don't feel there is a need for it. If they feel the threat of 'EE is around this year, then they will have spraying but they monitor the mosquito spraying program pretty closely. 4r. Friedman's feeling is that he thinks the State should control the program rather than a local town. The 3oard explained to him that when the State gets involved they will come in and spray everything and the town will lose control over the program completely. They explained it is better for the town to have control over this program. They told Mr. Friedman that there was `LE2 around last year and that the State just sat back and did not do a thing. `7e started our own program and followed the situation closely and we are able to control the mosquitoes. The 3oard explained again how it is better to control the program locally rather than depend on the State. Mr. Friedman said that the Board was doing a good job!!!! 1 4r. Friedman thanked the Board and retired. 111 The 3oard discussed that they should start doing some preparation for the Town Meeting in regard to mosquito control, that begins on April 2nd of this year. The '3oard feels that more preparation will be needed than just the March Board Meeting.