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Selectmen's Meeting Minutes March 4, 2002 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held on Monday, March 4, 2002 in the Selectmen's Meeting Room at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Krieger, Mr. Enrich, Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. McKenna, Mr. McSweeney; Mr. White, Town Manager; Mr. Lahey, Town Counsel and Ms. Smith, Executive Clerk were present. Public Comments Appropriation Committee Chair Paul Hamburger reported that at a meeting on February 27, the Committee discussed the Lincoln Park article for the Special Town Meeting and the majority are convinced that the fields are badly in need of work and do not object to the proposed type of work to be done. However, seven out of eight present do not support the financing plan. The Lincoln Field Restoration Committee has estimated that 45% of the use of the fields at present is devoted to private groups and with the artificial turf solution there would be over 2000 field uses per season possible on the three fields combined. We believe it is entirely realistic for a significant portion of the private use portion of the project to be funded from the Recreation Enterprise Fund. The Committee proposed that $1.5 million be funded from the enterprise fund over a 15 year period realizing that the Board would need to raise field use fees to accomplish that. Mrs. Krieger thanked Mr. Hamburger and indicated that this is an issue that will have subsequent debate. Social services representative of the Metro region Ellen MacDonald spoke of her concern of the reported sexual harassment incident at Fiske School and how the Town responded. She said she was looking for advice about who to direct her inquiries to. Mr. White responded that it is the appropriate domain of the School Committee. The School Department has procedures they try to follow. They may interact with the Police Department. Your questions more appropriately could be directed to the School Committee. If there were a 51A filed, it was a process that the Town would be involved in. We do not have any responsibility for school matters. The School Committee is a politically accountable body. Consent Agenda Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to make the following water and sewer commitments and adjustments: Commitment of water charges for 12/1/2001 to 12/31/2001 $52,862.77 Commitment of sewer charges for 12/1/2001 tol2/31/2001 $142,211.87 Commitment of water charges for 12/30/2001 (billing cycles 01, 02) $1,901,730.57 Commitment of sewer charges for 12/30/2001 (billing cycles 01, 02) $2,837,160.57 Adjustments of water charges for 12/1/2001 to 12/31/2001 - $150,515.79 Adjustments of sewer charges for 12/1/2001 to 12/31/2001 - $372,455.12