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223 REGULAR MEETING, APRIL 102 1928. C"± A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was .held at the `r: Selectmen's Office at 7:30 P.M. Messrs._ Burnham, Custance,'-Ballard, Robertson, and Chambe-slain were present. Mr. Ballard left the meeting I very early in the eveniig owing to his health. Mr. Robertson reported that he attended the meeting at the Parker House on Thursday., April 5, 1928 when the Chairman of Boards of Select- men and Mayors of cities of the twenty communities of the Metropolitan Water District were invited to assemble for the purpose of discussing the serious burden imposed upon them by the statutes requiring the financing of the additioncl loan of the -Metropolitan Water District y short loans of twenty ye-.rs to meet the _proposed obligations of 65,300,000, which was the cost of the Ware River water works project. Mr. Robertson stated that it was a very interesting meeting, and the information was brought out that It would be at least one hundred years to come before any i'urther construction of this kind will be needed for water purposes,'and inasmuch as it wds left with the Governor to decide the term of the loans, it was felt that the matter was put through so quickly th-t the towns and cities did not have -suf- ficient opportunity to realize what the interest expenditure would mesn-' tothem. Result of the meeting was that they decided to -ask the Governor to reconsider the tine -of bonds and voted to ask that he extend the duration of the loan to fifty years with the possible chance of a com= promise of forty years at the least. Mr. Robertson felt that this was an important matter, and that the ' thanks of the Board should be extended to Mayor Nichols for taking the initiative -in bringing about this meeting, and stating that the Board was willing to cooperate with him in his efforts to induce the Governor to extend the time of the loan. The increase in pay of the members of the Fire Dep=;rtment was called to the --attention of the Board by the Town Accountant, who felt that according to General L-ws, Chapter 48, Section 42, that the Board of Selectmen should approve the pay of the memVers of the Fire De- partment, inasmuch as the Chief placed the increases in pay on the pay roll which had not been approved by the Board,.,, he felt that the matter should be brought up. The Board did not a -)prove of the increase being granted at present, and it was voted to instruct the Town Accountant to return the payroll to the Chief of the Fire Department to be revised to the old schedule of salaries. The Supt.'s attention was called to the fact that an inspection of the trees about the Common was to be made this- year by a tree expert. He therefor agreed to get in touch with Mr. Allen Chamberlain and look over the trees. Written report was received from the Supt. of Public Works in regard to storage of the tanks of the fire -alarm apparatus) The Supt. ad- vised that ther would not be'sufficient room in the garage of Mr. O'Connell which is to be occupied by the Water Department fear the storage of these tanks withc:taking too much space from the Water