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� _3- 'November 14, 1988 Selectmen' Meeting 1. Any homeowner, renter, lessee, or other resident, and any renter, lessee, or owner of business or other establishment or building, other than a municipal building, having a burglar or hold -up alarm or a medical alarm or a fire alarm other than a box alarm connected with lines into or under the control of the Police Department or the Fire Department, shall arrange to have said alarm monitored at a privately owned alarm monitoring station of choice. A special line or lines may be designated by the Department Head or a designee for alarm companies to notify Police and Fire Departments of alarm activations. This regulation will not effect or prevent installation and maintenance of the Municipal Fire Alarm Box System. 2. Any homeowner, renter, lessee, or other resident, and any renter, lessee, or owner of business or other establishment, or building, other than a municipal building, having a burglar or hold -up alarm which transmits an audible signal shall have said alarm programmed to emit a signal not to exceed fifteen (15 ) minutes. Said alarm shall be programmed to sound or cycle not more than twice during any single activation. 3. The Department Head may suspend response to any alarm monitored by an alarm monitoring station, or to any alarm which sounds an audible signal, where the Department Head or a designee shall determine that an undue number of false alarms have occurred. The Department Head or a designee may suspend response to any alarm activation when it has been determined by the Department Head or a designee that the specifications as outlined in these rules and regula- t ions have not been followed* Town authorities will -be instructed to explore the possibility of ti me reduction from 15 minutes to 14 minutes for audi bl P sound alarm. REPRESENTATIVE STEPHEN DORAN Stephen noran reported to the Board on the status Cf Representative Step p scheduled to be sev eral Nome Rule eti ti p ons from the Town that, � were sche sev p . end of the month, u foresaw no voted on by the Legislature ature before the � p problem gettinc� them passed. He also discussed pending fiscal hills i n t reform loc al 1 aid , state budget and land bank. Lean the area of county � i years ears were predicted by Rep. Doran. He expl his p i ti on wth Dukakis' veto of the distribution of $91 mi l l i cn in respect to Gover lottery funds to cities and towns as being fiscally prudent and responsible for the entire commonwealth even though towns such as Lexington that operate soundly were penalized. several areas were of concern to him and Mr. . Marshall stated that Bank f the MMA Finance Comm. With respect other members cit in the MMA area have little interest o t to the Land Ba in it because they bill the citi have run out o space ; f e available to preserve, MMA has i n i Leg � s l at , ve proposal, broadened the b i l l to appeal to a lar ger base without l osi na the open space component. the Mr. Marshall then referred to the $91 mi llion loss to communities which represented five quarters of lottery mane \i revenues. He declared that the cities and towns want more control of their destin and � t p is imperative that the Cherry Sheet figures continue to � become available before town meetings begin, P asked what areas, other than the lottery 3 would M sr . 1�C_ Wee . y affect the final figures not coming out to the advan ±age of the towns. R ran replied that Federal Tax reform resulted in l ess Rep. Da p revenues and combined t.� l l grows ng but a t a i with the cooling down of the economy, which s s • much slower rate and too much sperd ng by the government, will . result in serious cutbacks is