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i SELECTMEN'S MEETING August 6, 1930 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held on Monday, August S, 1990, in the selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 Pon* Chairman Smith, Mr. Eddison, Mr. Dailey, Mr. McSweeney; Ms. Radway, Acting Town Manager; Mr. Lahey, Town Counsel; Mrs. Snow, Executive Clerk, were present. LEXINGTON I -MAN DONATION Jon Towne, Manager Editor of the Lexington Minute --Man, was present to present a check for $100.00 to the Town on behalf of Fred Karten, Editor, and Beacon Communications Inc. Mr. Towne told of his firm's participation in the State Lottery in an attempt to win a substantial amount of money to donate to the towns within the readership of his paper. Since the plan did not succeed, it had been deQided that a token donation of $100.00 would be given to each community for charitable use. A new fund has been established through the Trustees of the Public Trusts to assist those in need of emergency funds and will be administered by Stephen Baran, Human Services Coordinator. The $100 donation will be applied to this fund. Mrs. Smith thanked Mr. Towne on behalf of the Trustees of the Public Trust and the Town for the newspaper's thoughtful gesture of goodwill. NEW POLI PERSONNEL Chief Furdon was present to introduce new Police recruits Kathleen Desmond and Susan Doyle, and Bigelow Moore, Parking Control Officer, The Chief explained the duties of Mr. Moore as the Town's civilian "meter minder" and the status of Police Academy training of Patrol Officers Desmond and Doyle and complimented all on their performances. Mr. Dailey noted that the officers had been recruited into an excellent force and said that he was sure they will be a credit to the Department. NOISE CONTROL HANSCOM FIELD Mrs. Smith left the meeting at this time to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest because of her involvement with Massport . She req*&sted that Mr. Eddi son take over Chairmanship of the Board during discussion and any decisions relative to Hanscom Field. Maya Ruettger- Cruciana, Bedford resident, Patrice Hurley, Chairman of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission and John Taylor, Lexingon's H.F.A.C. representative, were present to share their experiences involved with the Part 250 Noisy: Study being conducted at Hanscom Field. Also present were concerned citizens of Lexington. Ms. Ruettger- Cruciana noted that materials on the study had been made available to the Selectmen, with a draft agreement among the Towns of Bedford, Concord, Lexington and Lincoln regarding the hiring of legal counsel to assist in reviewing and monitoring the conclusions of the study, as it is being conducted. She felt that the Towns have an important opportunity to participate to the study procedures. She proposed that serious use be made of that opportunity by seeing that ways of interpreting the impact of noise are redefined and by providing input on mitigating measures.