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t Is ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING HELD MARCH 22, 1972 Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. , at 8 :12 P. M. in Cary Memorial Hall. There were 199 Town Meeting Members present. Invocation offered by Rev. Harold T. Handley, Rector of the Church of Our Redeemer. 8 :13 P. M. The Moderator stated that he had letters to the effect that the following Town Meeting Members would not vote on certain articles in accordance with the. Code of Ethics: Roy Edward Cook and William T. Whiting - Articles pertaining to the Fire Department: Articles 4, 35, 36 and 37. Richard Souza - Article 34. Arthur T. Bernier - Article 39. Norman P. Cohen - Articles 32 and 33. Article 2. Robert H. Kingston moved that the Supplementary Report of the Capital Expenditures Committee be accepted and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8 :17 P. M. Article 32. Presented by Erik L. Mollo-Christensen. MOTION: To raise and appropriate the sum of $16,640.00 for the purpose of paying the Town's apportioned share of the operating and maintenance costs for the current fiscal year of the Minuteman Regional. Vocational Technical School District consisting of the towns of Acton, Arlington, Belmont, Box- borough, Carlisle, Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Stow, Sudbury, Wayland and Weston. Carried Unanimously 8 :19 P. M. Article 33. Presented by Vernon C. Page. MOTION.: That this article be indefinitely postponed. Carried Unanimously 8 :21 P. M. Article 34. Presented by Fred C. Bailey. MOTION: That the Permanent Building Committee, appointed under authority of the vote adopted under Article 73 of the Warrant for the 1967 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is authorized to retain professional services and prepare final plans and specifications and to obtain bids for the remodeling of and additions to the Cary Memorial Library building and for the original equipping and furnishing of said remodeled building and said addition; and that the sum of $112 ,000.00 be appropriated therefor, and that payment be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. 8 :22 P. M. Robert V. Whitman, Chairman of the Permanent Building Committee, shows slides and answers many questions. Elizabeth H. Clarke moved to strike all the remaining words beginning "and that the sum. . . " and to replace these words with: . . .and that the sum of $140,000 be appropriated therefore and that payment be provided by transfer of $112 ,000 from the Excess and Deficiency account and by raising the balance of $28 ,000 in the current tax levy. 8 :43 P. M. Edward E. Furash stated that the Appropriation Committee unanimously opposed Mrs. Clarke' s motion to amend. 9:01 P. M.