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272 <br /> • <br /> �-e <br /> SELECTMEN ' S MEETING <br /> February 5, 1962 <br /> A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was <br /> held, in the Selectmen' s Room, Town Office Building, <br /> on Monday, February 5, 1962, at 7:30 P.M. Messrs . <br /> Adams, Ferguson, Richards and Cole were present . Mr . <br /> Stevens, Town Counsel, Mr. Staples, Executive Assistant , <br /> to the Board, Mr. Carroll, Superintendent of Public <br /> Works, and Miss Murray, Executive Clerk, were also pre- <br /> sent. <br /> Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted <br /> to elect Mr. Adams Chairman for the evening. <br /> Mr. Richards reported that he had talked with Mr . <br /> Donald Noyes, Chairman of theLexington Historical <br /> Old Belfry Society, who advised that the Society is not, at this <br /> time , in favor of having an article in the warrant <br /> relative to moving the Old Belfry from its present <br /> site to the Common. <br /> Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted <br /> not to include an article in the warrant for the March <br /> Town Meeting relative to moving the Old Belfry. <br /> The Chairman brought up the subject of the Law <br /> Department budgets for 1962 . <br /> Mr. Stevens stated that he cannot give the Board <br /> Law Depart- any assistance unless it decides how it is going to <br /> tent budget operate , and said that the amount of the budget will <br /> have to be based on what the Board' s plans are . <br /> The Chairman asked if Mr. Stevens expected to be <br /> through April 1st and he replied in the affirmative . <br /> Mr. Stevens said there are some things that he will <br /> be handling and which he will be wil ing to finish, if <br /> that is what the Board wants, on some sort of a basis . <br /> He said if the Board has someone selected, then it will <br /> depend on how much he will take over. <br /> The Chairman asked if the Board named someone fairly <br /> promptly, would it be possible for Mr. Stevens to work <br /> with him at any time in the next month or so, and Mr . <br /> Stevens replied in the affirmative . <br /> Mr. Stevens said that inasmuch as a majority of the <br /> members of the Board will be carried over, undoubtedly <br /> whatever the Board decides to do will be carried out . <br /> Mr . Stevens referred to the Board' s question rela- <br /> tive to the item of Interest carried in the Water Depart- <br /> ment budget and said he wa: not prepared to give the <br />