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' part of the motor could not be repaired, and Chief Taylor said that he had received a figure of X1600. to $1700. for repairing the damage. The Chairman said that even though the truck was repaired, the Department would be without a ladder truck while that was being done. Chief Taylor said that he did not know where he could borrow a ladder truck. Mr. Rowse asked if some other town could cover it and the engineers replied in the negative and said the town would be without equipment for two weeks anyway. Mr. Sarano asked if the men at the Fire Department could repair the truck and Chief Taylor said that they could not. Mr. Potter asked why it would cost so much to repair the truck, and Chief Taylor read the estimate received from the American LaFrance Foamite Corp. There was talk of declaring an emergency and having the truck repaired, but Mr. Rowse said that in order to declare an emergency, an emergency would have to exist and the Board would have to be able to prove it. Mr. Potter said it sounded like an awful lot of money to him to do the job. The Chairman suggested that there be an article in the warrant for the next Town Meeting for the repair of the old truck and another article for the purchase of a new truck. The Fire Engineers retired. Mr. Fawcett said he had inquired in Cambridge this ' week and found that they had two extra ladder trucks. Mr. Potter said he would like to have the Chief get figures for the repair of the truck from other concerns. Someone said that Belmont and Maynard had purchased new ladder trucks at a much smaller figure than that which Chief Taylor quoted. The Clerk was instructed to write Chief Taylor and ask him to secure information, prices, and time of delivery on pieces of equipment such as .are found in Belmont and Maynard, and to further request him to secure competitive prices on the cost of the repair of the present truck. Pd'r. Potter said he would see if Cambridge would be willing to loan a ladder truck to Lexington. The School Committee, and Chairman Merriam and Yessrs. Emery, Hynes, Fawcett and Russell of the Appro- priation Committee, appeared before the Board. Supt. Grindle was also present. The Chairman said that there was some talk of bringing down the town tax to 430.00, but he thought it was practically impossible to go at it that way. He thought that.the approach was this: -to determine how much the boards were prepared to cut on a percentage basis. He asked what Tcir. Houghton thought of this. fF' r. Houghton said that that was part of the story. Last ' week they did not have in mind reducing teachers' sal - 271 Fire ,Dept. Ladder truck