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x:06 <br />SELECTMENIS MEETING <br />MARCH 14, 1940. ' <br />A special meeing of the -Board of Selectmen was held <br />in the Town Office Building, at 3230 P. M. Chairman Giroux <br />Selectmen Locke and Messrs. Beach, Russell and Cosgrove were <br />present. The Clerk was also present. <br />Mr. Cosgrove said that Mr. Raymond and he had had several <br />oral requests for sewers from the Arlington Five Cents <br />W.f.A. Savings Bank, owners of a house in Lexington Manor, which were <br />sewers* received before the pumping stationwasready for use. There <br />have been many requests for sewers from others since.it #td <br />been ready. <br />Mr. Locke said that the matter of the amount of the <br />betterment assessments might come up at the Town Meeting <br />and Mr. Giroux said that the present figure turas the lowest <br />in years. Mr. Cosgrove said it was the lowest since the <br />betterment system was started in 1956, he said that the rate <br />was not the same every year because the assessablO area varies <br />in every street. <br />Mrs Russell said that the assessment figure for North <br />Haneob7s Street and the whole Manor would be $1.16 per foot. <br />Mr. Cosgrove said that regardless of the number of <br />intersecting streets, the abutters had to carry the -whole ' <br />cost which is apportioned among them. He said the price <br />this year is $3.74 per foot of sewers constructed and the <br />Town will get 50% regardless of how many abutters there are. <br />If there were no intersecting streets, the cost would be <br />$0.94 per foot for each side of the street. <br />The Chairman said that the Manor and Merriam Street <br />sewers were figured on a depth of 100 feet and Liberty Heights <br />on a depth of 90 feet. <br />It was decided to take up the article oft W.P.A. sewers <br />before the W.P.A. article. <br />The meeting adjourned at 4:25 P. M. <br />A true record, Attests <br />t <br />Clerk, <br />1 <br />