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• The Appropriations Committee held a meeting at 7:30 P.M., Monday, February 9, 1970, in the Comptroller= s Office, Town Office Building, Lexington. Members present were Edward E. Furash, Vice Chairman, Robert M. Gary, Chairman, Elizabeth M. Flynn, Secretary, Richard M. Perry, Comptroller, J. H. Blaisdell, Jack L. Mitchell, H. Bigelow Moore, Donald B. White and. Louis A. Zehner. Photographs for the Town Report were taken prior to the formal meeting. Meeting was held at 8:00 P.M. with Dr. Cosgrove and Mr. Heustis of the Health Department. The Article on the Warrant requesting $5,000. for an engineering survey before installation of flouride into the Town water supply was discussed. Questions as to point of entry, cooperation with adjacent towns and the actual final cost of the program were discussed. 74 The Health Department representatives did not have complete answers to in these questions and Chairman Gary requested them to return to Appropria- tions within two weeks with more definitive plans and answers. The meeting with the Health Dept. was adjourned at 8:40 P .M. Meeting was held at 8:45 P.M. with members of the Capital Expenditures Committee. C . E . members present were Van T. Boughton, Chairman, Carl Blake, John Cogan and A. Lee Whitman. With respect to Article #48, purchase of the Woburn School site, at approximately $120,000., C . E. feels that although the School Cofruaittee really wants this land, they are reluctant to go beyond their proposed budget outlay of t. $2,70(,O00. for capital expenditures. Chairman Boughton questioned priority of placing the school site over other wet land purchase rewuests. Member Whitman suggested possibly lumping all land purchases together and letting some other projects go. With respect to the Library addition, both Committees agreed that a great deal more information and definite plans are needed and although the Article request for $11,000. for professional plans and direction is considered high, probably only professional ser- vices in planning is the only answer. Appropriations member Zehner sug- gested that postponing the Library addition for a year would not cause any hardship to the Town and that this was probably the year to pick up available lands. Both Committees will meet again to iron out differences, if there are any, on capital expenditure. C . E. hopes to cut $100,000. and get closer to $1,400,000. The meeting was adjourned at 9:25 P.M. Executive session was held at 9:30 P.M. with the Board of Selectmen. Selectmen present were Robert Cataldo, Chairman, Irving Mabee, and Roland Greeley and Town Manager Walter O'Connell. Chairman Cataldo stated that the Union and the Selectmen had agreed upon a 7 across the board cost of living increase and the Selectmen so voted. With respect to the M schedule the Selectmen granted a 0 general increase if job per- formance merited it. They did not change the first three grades, but tool top grades and added 0 . They did not adjust bottom steps. The Town Treasurer' s salary was left as is to give the Town Manager latitude when he appoints a Treasurer. Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Appropriations Committee VOTED to accept the M schedule as proposed by the Selectmen and also the 7% across the board increase accepted by the union.