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9;1q (WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING - SEE WARRANT BOOK) ' SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 6, 1961 Meeting called to order by James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, acting Moderator Pro-tem. 8:05 P. M. There were 180 Town Meeting Members present. James J. Carroll asked for nominations for a Moderator Pro-tem for the meeting. 8:05 P. M. Nomination made by Ruth Morey for Judge Joseph R. Cotton to serve, duly seconded. 8:05 P. M. Judge Joseph R. Cotton unanimously elected. 8:06 P. M. Judge Joseph R. Cotton sworn as Moderator Pro-tem for meeting by Town Clerk, James J. Carroll. 8:06 P. M. Invocation offered by Rev. Nathan. W. Goff. 8:10 P. M. Town Clerk read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived. 8:10 P. M. -Town Clerk read the Constable' s Return. 8:10 P. M. Article 1. Appropriation Committee Report presented by J. Harper Blaisdell, Jr. which was voted to be accepted and placed on file. 8:10 P. M. Austin W. Fisher, Jr. reads Interim Report of the Standing School Building Committee which was voted to be acceptedand placed on file. 8:11 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Austin W. Fisher, Jr. VOTED: To appropriate the sum of $30,000 as a supplementary appropriation to be used by the Standing School Building Committee, in addition to funds heretofore appropriated or made available to the Committee, for the preparation of preliminary plans, specifications and cost estimates for the construction of a new secondary school building or buildings on land in the vicinity of the senior high school, and to provide for payment by the transfer of $15,000 from the unexpended appropriation of $15,000 voted for preliminary plans and specifications for a new elementary school under Article 45 of the Warrant for the 1961 Annual Town Meeting and by the transfer of $15,000 from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried by voice vote. 8:20 P. M. Article 3. Presented by Ruth Morey. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are author- ized to abandon the easement to enter upon and to flow the water of Butterfield' s Pond and its tributaries over the parcel of land described as "10. A parcel of land in Lexington on the northwesterly side of Adams Street con- taining about 0.3 acres and being a portion of land now or formerly of Mary Trupasso.", in the order of taking by the Town dated February 13, 1939 and recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 6279, Page 318, such easement in said parcel being no longer required by the Town; that the minimum amount to be paid for such abandonment shall be $1.00; and that the instrument of abandonment shall be in such form as the Selectmen, by the execution thereof, shall approve. Carried Unanimously 8:21 P. M.