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-no Committee on Fire Dept. acc6mmoda- tions. SELECTMENIS MEETING JAN. 25th, 1940 A special meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Tom Office Building, at 7:30 P.M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Rowse, Locke and Sarano were present. The Clerk was also present. At 7:30 P.M. the committee appointed on December 27, 1938, to study Fire Department accommodations appeared before the Board. The following members of the committee were present: Mr. J. Milton Brown, Chairman and Messrs. James Stuart Smith, C. E. Ferguson and F. K. Johnson. Mr. Brown said that the committee considered the Barnes property as the most desirable location for the central fire station. Mr. Brown said the committee wanted to know if there were any definite plans for this property and if there was any known reason why it should not he utilized for fire house purposes. He thought that the frontage was wide enough for the fire station without moving the present building. Mr. Rowse asked if the committee had given any thought to bombining the police and fire departments so that the police department could be moved out of the base- ment of this building and Mr. Brown answered in the negative. The Chairman asked if it ever had been planned to place a building similar to the Town Office Building on the other side of the Cary Memorial Building. Mr. Smith said the original drawings planned a building similar to the Town Office Building on the other side of the Cary Memorial Building. Mr. Ferguson said that if a recommendation was made to put the fire station on the Barnes property, the recommenda- tion would include the taking of the Leary property. He said the feeling was not to recommend one central station, but to have one here in addition to the one in East Lex- ington. He said the committee was considering recommending the Adams School property and as far as the Town is concerned, all restrictions on thatproperty have been taken care of. Mr. Brown asked what the status of the bonded debt was. The Chairman said that the bonded debt would drop about $2. on the tax rate this year. We reached our peak in 1939 and beginning with 1940, the bonded debt will begin to go down. Mr. Brown said the committee wanted to make sure it stayed within the jurisdiction of the vote. They planned to make a report on present fire house conditions and per- haps make a recommendation as to location of the proposed buildings. He said he assumed that was all the voters instructed the committee to do. The Chairman said the committee had apparently given some study to possible future sites and Mr. Brown said that it had. The Committee retired at 7:52 P.M. J 1 1