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1O8 SPECIAL TOWN- MEETING HELD JUNE 20, 1966 1-2 Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Robert B. Kent, ate r� 8:06 P . M. There were 175 Town Meeting Members present. Rabbi Herbert Rosenblum gave the invocation. 8:07 P. M. Town Clerk, Mary R. McDonough, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived by the Moderator. 8:08 P. M. The Town Clerk read the Constable's Return of the Warrant. 8:09 P. M. Article 1. The Report of the Appropriation Committee plus a Supplemental Report of said committee, as presented by Frank T.- Parrish, Jr., was voted to be accepted and placed on file. 8:10 P. M. The Report of the Capital Expenditures Committee, as presented by Hugh M. Chapin, was voted to be accepted and placed on file. 8:10 P. M. The Final Report of the Lexington School Sites Committee, . as presented by Gordon E. Steele, was voted to be accepted, placed on file and the committee discharged. 8:15 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Robert Cataldo. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized, on behalf of the Town, to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of alterations and additions to the Town Public Works Building located at 201 Bedford Street, and to supervise the work; and that the sum of $66,000.00 be appropriated for the alterations to and the equipping and furnishing of the present building and that payment be provided by the transfer of $15,000.00 from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of sewer mains in a portion of Worthen Road voted under Article 8 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on November 25, 1963, the transfer of $3,100.00 from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for engineering services voted under Article 14. of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on November 25, 1963, the transfer of $31,900.00 from the unexpended balance of the appropria- tion for the installation of sewer mains voted under Article 16 of the Warrant for the 19614 Annual Town Meeting, and the transfer of $16,000.00 from the un- expended balance of the appropriation for final plans and specifications for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of alterations and additions to the Town Public Works Building voted under Article 37 of the Warrant for the 1966 Annual Town Meeting; and that the sum of $339,000.00 be appropriated for the con- struction, original equipping and furnishing of said additions and that payment be provided by the transfer of $11,000.00 from the unexpended balance of the supple- mentary appropriation for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an addition to the Cary Memorial Library building voted under Article 16 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on November 19, 1956, and by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the balance of $328,000.00; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and she hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $328,000.00 and issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 144 of the General Laws, as amended, within a period not exceeding ten years from their dates. 8:18 P. M.