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58 SELECTMEN'S ;MEET I eG Feb. 9th, 1940 A special meeting in- of the Board of Selectmen was held in t}7e Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 4:30 P. M. Chairman Giroux, IViessrs. Potter, Sarano and Locke were present. The Clerk was also present. The Chairman seid he talked with Mr. Paxton regarding the meetings wnich were held last year when town employees met in the eveni:_g and superintendents and other individuals Employees talked to them about public works enturorizea, ate. The meetings Chairman said he t`.ourlit it wo-ld be a good idea if t:.e employees met so thatthebudiZe's could Ice explained to them. The Chairman told Mr. Paxton that he could have such a meeting either in the Selectmen's Room oi4 Estabrook Hall. The Board had no objection to this. The Chairman said he also told Mr. Parton he thought it would be a good idea to have the employees meet every month or two and that the superintendents and others discuss departmental work with them. At 4:50 P.M. Mr. Crocker Snow, Director of the Mass. Aeronautics Commission, appeared before the Board. Mr. Snow said the Commission was interested in seeing an airpdrt built in the vicinity of Lexington, Concord and Bedford, He said that the Boston Airport was getting very much overcrowded, ' and it was just a question of time before a great deal of private flying would have to be taken from there. There is a comparatively large field in Canton now and also one in Framingham and another in South Weymouth. However', there is Airport nothing northwest of Boston. There are a great many people northwest of Boston w':o fly, and they have to use the Boston Airport. Mr. Snow felt that there were some people in the .vicinity of Lexington that would benefit individually from an airport in this section. There are a number of northern air -routes that come down over this part of the country and there are no facilities for landing alon&hese routes. He said that a landing field was not to be confused with an airport. An airport is a very large expensive affair having runways, lights, radios, etc. and is designed to be used for large commercial aircraft. There are landing fields that will be used chiefly for private owners of aircraft to land. Mr. Snow did not believe that a landing field would have the dis- ad�antages connected with a large airport. He said that landing fields that are used by small aircraft do not seem to affect abutting properties adversely. As a matter of fact, he thought that Hyannis was greatly improved 'because of its landing field. People go there that would not otherwise go there if the town did not have an airport. He thought that there were going to be more and more people would went-, ' to live in tie country, but who would want to use aircaft. Mr. Snow asked why the Selectmen felt a landing field would not be approved 'here.