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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1927-03-28-ATM-MIN 126 ,�rJ • CD ADJolIMED rl Q'7r, MmETPiG , Mn ; CH 28 , 1927 The Meeting was called to order by th.-) Moderator at 8 : 00 P . M . Upon unanimous consent of the meeting article 14 was taken up . Article 14 . On motion of Theodore A . Custance , Chairman of the Board of Selectmen , it was " Voted that that part of the vote passed under Article 14 appropriating :n 10 , 910 . for Sewer ' "aintenance .- ccount be resci 'Ided , and that in place thereof the folloyJi , f vote be passed : Voted that the sum of $ 10 , 910 . be appropriated and assessed for senor Maintenance Account . • Article 24 . By unanimous consent it was voted to take up again Article 24 , and on motion of Theodore A . Custance it was Further Voted : Under Article 24 that the vote adopted111 March 14 , 1927 be amended by correcting therein a typographical error so that the date of the mflual agreement of. LeRoy S . Brown , eLt, als , which was stated as March 13 , 1916 shall be corrected so as to read March 1 , 1917 . , . rticle 26 . Under this article Theodore A . Custance read the following report : March 26 , 1927 . REPORT OF THE TO':'IST OFFICE BUILD :MG COMMITTEE . At the Town Meeting held on January 31 , 1927 , it was voted : " That a committee of eleven be appointed to confider the advisability of the erection of a town office building , or of repairs to , or sale or other disposition of the Town Hall building or property , said committee to consist of the five Selectmen and six citizens to be appointed by the Moderator . " Your Committee has examined the present Town Hall building and feels that it is unwise to spend the amount necessary to put the building in repair and construct a vault , which it is estimated would cost : 25 , 000 as even with this expenditure the th i lding would continue to mm et the needs of the Town for only a few years . your Committee recommends to the Town that the present Town Hall property be sold and a town office building be constructed on the land , corner Massachusetts Avenue and Vine brook , adjoining the new Cary Memorial 'Building . "fe have had prepared for us by Kilham , Hopkins & Greeley and ' 1 . D. Brown , Associate Architects , two sets of sketches illustrating a two story building with a finished basement which will be suitable to house the police department and available for other purposes . "Jo be ' i. eve such a town office building 127 will be of sufficient size to meet the needs of the Town for many years . We believe , from the estimates which we have secured that such a building could be erected and the grounds graded at a cost 6f from $85 , 000 to :> 90 000 . Additional furniture and fixtures might cost a further sum of $ 5000 . , so that the whole project could be completed ready for use for from $95 , 000 . to $ 100 , 000 . The proposed building should provide quarters for the following Officers and Departments of the Town : Board of Selectmen Supt . Public Works Town Clerk and Treasurer Inspectors Collector Water & Sewer Department Auditor Engineering Department Assessors Police Department We recommend that before the Town enters into any agreement to sell the present Town Hall property , it authorize this Committee , or appoint a new Committee and authorize them to have working plans and specifications prepared for the proposed office building and secure firm bids on the sane so that the Town may proceed on the basis of actual rather than on an estimated cost . estimates •�:• Tf the . estimates which we have secured are verified by the bids received , we recommend that the Town proceed to sell the present Town Hall property . In arranging a sale of the property , the Town should either 'retain the right to continue its occupancy without the payment of rent for the length of time necessary to complete the new office building , or a more advantageo, ) s sale . ght be arranged if the Town retain a purchase lease at a fair rental:,- ll The lease to run for a year with the- privilege of cancellation -••by the Town at any time on sixty days ' notice , so that rental under such a lease would core to an end as soon as the new office building was completed and ready for occupancy . If the procedure suggested is followed ,d , the project can be financed by short term notes subject to call. ' and payment by the • Town as soon as proceeds of the sale of the present Town Hall are received : the balance required for the di. ffelzence between the proceeds of the sale of the present Town Hall ' and the cost of the new Office Building to he financed at that time by a bond issue . We understand that the Selectmen expect presently to complete a sale of the Rindge property . The sale of. the Rindge property and the present Town Hall property should yield in excess of $ 650000 which could be appropriated from the General Revenue and Surplus Account for this purpose . • we recommend an appropriation of e3500 . be made f_ oa the expenses of such a Committee , the funds to be provided by a transfer from the General Revenue and Surplus Account , - The larger part of which would be expended for architects services . Al ] of the money so expended would , in the event of the project going forward to completion , be credited against the usual ar. ch. itect ? s cor..pensation . and is therefore Included in our previous estimates . H . Ballard Albert II . Burnham Norman C . Hooper Edwin B . Worthen James G . Robertson Francis Chamberlain Theodore A . Custance George w . Nary Arthur N . I,7 a d d i s o n Under this article on motion of William R . B . Eaton it was , hrin Voted that the report of. the Committee appointed under Article 4 of. the Warrant for. the Town Meeting held January 31 , 1927 , to consider the advisability of the erection of a town office building , or repairs to , or sale or other disposition of the Town Hall building or property be accepted and placed on file . On motion of 7Villiam R . S . Eaton it was Further voted that this Committee be constituted a Building Committee and authorized and directed to procure plans , speci - fications , and estimates for , a new town office building , and further voted that for this purpose the sum of 83 , 500 be appro- priated and that the same be transferred from General Revenue and Surplus Account . On motion of Edwin B . Worthen the above motion was amended as follows : " That the committee report to the citizens in print . " Article 27 . On motion of Theodore A . Custance it was Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed . • Ar. tici 37) . Under this article on motion of William Roger Greeley , It was voted that the Building Law be amended by incorporting therein the amendments recommended by the Committee for the Revision of Building Laws , whose report was accented by the Town at the Town Meeting held December 6 , 1926 . Article 34 . On motion of Theodore A Custance i. t "ras Voted that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to petition the Director of. Accounts of the State for an audit of the 1927 accounts . Article 35 . Voted that this article be i ' idefini tele postponed . • • Article := 6 . Voted th- t this article be Indefinitely postponed . Article 37 . Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed . Article 38 . Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed . 1 . rticle 3 . Voted that Edward () . Maguire and John C . Russell be elected Field Drivers . Article 2 . Under this article it was voted under motion made by George E . Briggs that the Building Committee appointed for the purpose of constructing the school house at trth Lexington he discharged . Meeting dissolved at 9 : 47 P . M . A true re ord , Atte t : egczA9kliz Town Clerk . :164.19 BUILDING LINE - MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex , ss . Town of Lexington . At a meeting of the Board of selectmen of the Town of Lexington held the 14th day of. December , 1926 , it is Ordered , Whereas , the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington , having determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require that a town building line be established as hereinafter described and having complied with the requirements of law relating to notice , did on the 23rd day of November , 1926 lay out a Building Line On Massachusetts avenue f rom land now or formerly of Daniel J . O ' Connell and the Town of Lexington to the junction of massachusetts Avenue and Woburn Street and on Woburn Street to the westerly side of Fletcher Avenue and duly filed their report of such laying out with the boundaries and measure - ments of the same in the office of the Town (Jlerk of said town on the 15th day of November , 1926 , and whereas at a town meeting duly called , warned and held on the 6th day of December , 1926 in accordance with the provisions of law applicable thereto , it was Voted : That the Town establish Building Lines on Massachu- setts Avenue from the Northeasterly line of the Town Hall lot to Woburn Street and thence along the Northeasterly side of said Woburn Street to Fletcher Avenue , as laid out by the board of Selectmen November 23 , 1926 , and shown on a certain plan on file in the Town Clerk ' s Office , entitled , " Plan showing rroposed Building Line on Massachusetts Avenue , Lexington , from Woburn Street to lwleriam Street , September 3 , 1926 , Scale 1 inch 40 feet , Clarence t3 . French , Town Engineer . " NOW , Therefore , We , the undersigned , being a majority of 111 the Board of Selectmen of the said Town of Lexington , duly elected , qualified and acting as such , do hereby under and by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws and of any and every power and authority us hereto in any way enabling , take the right or easement to establish for all the purposes of a building line , the land in said town bounded and described as follows : Beginning at the property line between lands now or formerly of Daniel J . O ' Donnell and Town of Lexington being distant twenty- six and seven one -hundredths ( 26 . 07 ) feet from the present northerly exterior line of Massachusetts avenue and running S 42 . 07 ' 40 " E to a point of tangency at the property line between lands now or formerly of Rubin & Seligman and Town of Lexington , said point of tangency being nineteen and fifty one -hundredths ( 19 . 50 ) feet from the present northerly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue , thence running with a curve to the left with a radius of one thousand two hundred thirteen and sixty- six one hundredths ( 1213 , 66 ) fdet distant about three hundred thirty - two and five - tenths ( 332 . 5 ) feet to the westerly side of Grant Street being one hundred ( 100 ) feet distant from the present southerly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue at the westerly side of Grant Street and from the easterly side of Grant Street to a point of tangency about one hundred sixty- three ( 163 ) feet easterly of the property line between lands now or formerly of tsaac xarris nary Educational r'und and William L . Barnes ( said point of tangency being opposite and thirty ( 30 ) feet distant from a stone bound marking a point of tangency in the present northerly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue ) , one hundred ( 100 ) feet distant from and parallel to the present southerly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue , thence bearing to the left with a curve with a radius of two hundred sixty-eight and forty -five one - hundredths ( 268 . 45 ) feet distant one hundred fifty and thirty- one one hundredths ( 150 . 31 ) feet to a point of tangency said point of tangency being twenty ( 20 ) feet distant from the present northerly exterior line of Woburn btreet , thence to the westerly side of Fletcher Avenue twenty ( 20 ) feet distant from and parallel to the present northerly exterior line of Woburn Street . 130 O CalW All the aforesaid lines being shown on a plan entitled , " Plan showing Proposed Building Line on Massachusetts Avenue , Lexington , from Woburn Street to Meriam Street , September 3 , 1926 , Scale 1 inch 40 feet , Clarence H . French , Town Engineer , " which plan is on file in the Town Clerk ' s Office in the Town Hall . And said Board having considered the question of damages sustained by the owners of lands across and through which said building line has been laid out and established as aforesaid , hereby determines that no damages are sustained and no damages are awarded , and said Board hereby declares that all acts herein are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments . All existing structures within the building line may remain until demolished or otherwise disposed of . The area which it is expected will receive benefit or advan- tage other than the general advantage to the community , from such improvement is described as follows : Northeasterly side of tvlassachusetts Avenue from land now or formerly of Daniel J . O ' Connell and the Town of Lexington to the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Woburn Street and on Woburn Street to the westerly side of Fletcher Avenue as shown on a plan entitled " Plan showing Proposed Building Line on Massachusetts Avenue , Lexington , from Woburn otreet to Meriam Street , September 3 , 1926 . Scale 1 inch - 40 feet , Clarence B . French , Town Engineer , " which plan is on file in the Town Clerk ' s Vffice in the Town Hall . Witness our hands at Lexington aforesaid this 14th day of December , 1926 . Theodore A . custance William H . Ballard Selectmen James G . Robertson of Charles H . Miles Lexington . • Albert H . Burnham MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE . ESTIMATED ASSESSMENT OF BEL . A1Villl'Y i$ TO ABUTTORS . Town of Lexington $2990 . 00 Meyer hubin & Marry E . Seligman 5285 . 00 Caroline Harrington 719 . 00 Isaac Harris Gary Edu . Fund 2786 . 00 William L . Barnes 984. . 00 Mary L . Leary 263 . 00 Cambridge , Mass . December 17 , 1926 . At 2 o ' clock and 30 minutes P . M . received and entered with Middlesex So . Dist . Deeds , Book 5045 , page 468 . Attest , Thos . Leighton , Jr . , Reg . x31 P ::ARPETUAL CALE . Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled on the 2nd day of November , A . D. 1875 , the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred Fifty Dollars 0150 ) from Lirs . George H . Hartley , the interert of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote and adendments thereto , and Chapter 2 ` 5 of the Acts of 1870 upon Lot 187 in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , rall; r , ? nd avenues adjacent thereto . John H . Kane , April r , 10,-7 .7 Town Treasurer . PERPETUAL CARE . Pursuant to Et vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled on the day of November , A . D . 1875 , the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred dollars ( $ 103 ) from Mrs . Edgar V. Moffaitt , the interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote and amendments thereto , and Chapter 2.25 of the Acts of 1870 upon Lot 345 in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , walks , and avenues adjacent thereto . John H . Kane , April 27 , 1927 . Town Treasurer . 111 PERPETUAL GLEE • Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in tow meeting assembled on the 2nd day of November, A . D . 1875 , the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred Dollars ( „ 100 ) from Thaddeus Baker and Ferdinand Schwab , the interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote end amendments thereto , and Chapter 1f-5 of the Lets of 1870 upon Lot 156 H in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , walks , and Dvenues adjacent thereto . John H . Kane , /i aril 30 , 1927 . Town Treasurer . PERPETUAL CARE . Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled on the 2nd day of November , A . D . 1875 , the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred Dollars ( $100) . from Est . Charles Watt , the interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote and amendments thereto , and Chapter 1'25 of the Acts of 1870 upon Lot 376 L in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , walks , and avenues adjacent thereto . John H . Kane , Town Treasurer June 9 , 1927 . 122 0- PERPETUAL CAFE . _? Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled on the Thd day of November , A . D . 1375 , the Town Treasurer hereby i: cknov:ledges the receipt of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ( $150 ) from Ida May Meserve , the interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote and amendments thereto , and Chapter ?25 of the Acts of 1870 upon Lot 407 in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , walks , and avenues °.djacent then to . John H . Krne , Town Treasurer . June 9 , 1927 . PERPETUAL C 1RE. ursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled on the `end day of November , A . D . 1875 , the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred Dollars ( $ 100) from Annette L . Locke , the interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote and amendments thereto , and Chapter ?" 5 of the Acts of 1870 upon Lot ?89 in the Munroe Cemetery , in dressing and care of said lot , monuments , walks , and avenues adjacent thereto . John H . K :._ne , Town Treasurer . September 9 , 1911 .