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(SEE' WARRANT BOOK) SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 23, 1964 Meeting called to order at Cary Memorial Hall at 8:07 P. M. by Moderator, Charles E. Ferguson. Invocation offered by Rabbi Herbert Rosenblum. 8:08 P. M. There were 176 Town Meeting Members present. Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived. 8:10 P. M. Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, read the Constable's Return for the meeting. 8:10 P. M. Article 1. J. Harper Blaisdell, Jr. presented the Report of the Appropriation Committee, was accepted and placed on file. 8:11 `P. M. Van T. Boughton, Jr. presented the Report of the Capital Expenditures committee which was voted to be accepted and placed on file. 8:11 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Jules P. Sussman. VOTED: To appropriate an additional sum of $3,000.00 to the Conservation Fund established by vote under Article 9 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on June 8, 1964, and provide for payment by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 8:12 P. M. Article 3. Presented by Jules P. Sussman. VOTED: That the Conservation Commission, appointed under authority of the vote adopted under Article 9 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on November 25, 1963, be and hereby is authorized, on behalf of the Town, to expend from the Conservation Fund, established by vote under Article 9 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on June 8, 1964, the sum of $3,000.00 for the purchase, in the name of the Town, for conservation purposes as provided by Section 8C of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, a parcel of land shown as Lot B-2 on plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass.", dated October 16, 1964, by Albert A. Miller and Wilbur C. Nylander, Civil Engineers and Surveyors. Carried Unanimously 8:16 P. M. Article 4. Presented by Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. VOTED: That this article be indefinitely postponed. Carried Unanimously 8:17 P. M. Article 5. Presented by Robert C. Hargrove. VOTED: That this article be indefinitely postponed. Carried Unanimously 8:18 P. M. Article 6. Presented by Robert C. Hargrove. VOTED: - That the- Standing School Building Committee, appointed under authority of the vote adopted under Article 37 of the warrant for the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is authorized on behalf of the .Town to enter into a contract or contracts- for the construction-and original equipping and_furnishing- of a new elementary school school building on land situated on the southwesterly side of Middleby Road that was acquired for sehool_':and other public purposes -n1958, and to supervise the work; and that the sum of $1,345,000.00 be appropriated therefor and that paymentbeprovided by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the sum of $1,345,000.00; and that