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• SELECTMEN'S MEETING January 17, 1942. A special meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building at 1230 P.M. Chairman Giroux and Messrs, Rowse, Locke, and Sarana were present. The Clerk was also present. At 1:50 P.M. Mr. Garrity appeared before the Board to discuss his budgets, as follows: Park Department -Personal Services. Mr. Garrity said that h s secretary was getting through today, and that he still wanted a full time clerk. He talked with Mr. Paxton on the subject, and the latter suggested that Miss McNamara, the girl in the WPA office, work part time on WPA and part time on Park Department work. Mr. Garrity said that he did not like this arrangement, as he tried It a few years ago and it did not work out satisfactorily. Park Department -Wages & Ex enses. This budget has an item o or equipment rental and express, and Mr. Garrity said that he figured on the use of trucks four hours per day, at the rate of .50 per hour. The Chairman said that this item was set up in accordance with the recommendation of Mr. Paxton, but the Board thought that this was a poor year to start the system. The item of $350.00 for grass seed and fertilizer in- cludes loam. Mr. Garrity said that fertilizer was going to cost more this year. Mr. Garrity said that he had estimated $270.00 for flag pole maintenance and flags. The flagpole at the Center Playground is bent and it should be straightened out. It will cost $125.00 to do this. The flagpole at the Common will probably last another year. It is full of weather cracks about 25 to 30 feet below the cross strip. The pole is 26 years old. The item of $505.00 for Equipment and Repair includes the following items: Tennis nets, Center, $75.00; paint- ing swimming pool, $250.00; new slide for wading pool, $80.00; back stop for North Lexington, $25.00; swings,, teeter boards bottom for slides at East Lexington, ;25.00 tennis nets for North Lexington, $25.00; tennis nets for East Lexington, 25.00. The sum of 200.00 was requested for transportation. Mr. Garrity said that they transported the boys and girls two days a week. When they do this, they average 120 children from East Lexington. He said that $100.00 would take care of transporting the children from East Lexington to the Center Playground. 37#1 Park Dep budgets