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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1940-03-04-TE-WARRANT and 1940-03-25-ATM-WARRANT-1 OF 2 514 C.11 TOWN WARRANT '><4 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in their respective voting places in said town, PRECINCT ONE, ADAMS SCHOOL; PRECINCT T70, TIL EE AND FOUR, CARY MEMORIAL HALL, on MONDAY, the FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1940, at six olclock A. M., then and there to act on the follow- ing articles: Article 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers: One Town Clerk for the term of one year; One Selectman for the term of three years; One Town Treasurer for the term of one year; One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years; One Member of the School Committee for the term of three years; One Moderator for the term of one year; Two members of the Planning Board for the term of three years; Two Constables for the term of one year; One Member of the Trustees of Public Trusts for the term of six years; Seventeen Town Meeting Members in each Precinct for the term of three years; Four Town Meeting Members in Precinct One for a term of one year; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three for a term of one year; One Town Meetir,o. Member in Precinct Three for a term of two years; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Four for a term of two years . The polls will be open at 6:00 A. M. and will remain open until 8:00 P. M. You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in Cary Memorial Hall in said Town on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of March, 1940 at 8:00 P. M. at which time and place the following articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by the Town Meeting Members in accordance with Chapter 215 of the Acts of 1929 and subject to the referendum provided for by section eight of said chapter. Article 2. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees. Article 3. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1941, and to issue a note or notes there- for, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws . Article 5 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to refund any or all of the revenue notes issued in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1940, in accordance with the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of the year 1940 . 515 Article 6 . To see if the Town will make the usual appropria- tions for Town expenses for the ensuing year, by direct appropria- tion, by transfer from available funds, or by a combination of the two methods, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 7 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer un- expended appropriation balances in any of the Accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 8. To see what action the Town will take with ref- erence to authorizing the Assessors to use funds from the Excess and Deficiency Account toward the reduction of the 1940 tax rate . Article 9 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to pay any unpaid bills for prior years of the various town depart- mer'es . Article 10 . To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell and dispose of the property taken by the Town by foreclosure of tax titles. Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40 , Section 6, general Laws, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to petition the Director of Accounts of the State for an audit for the year 1940 . Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets as may be applied for during the year 1940 in accordance with authority contained in the By-laws of the Town, subject to the assessment of better- ments, and to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and to pay for the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the town. Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets as may be applied for during the year 1940 in accordance with St. 1897, Ch. 504, as amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and to pay for the same by direct appropriation, .by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town. Article 15 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the replacement and installation of water mains not less than six inches and not more than sixteen inches in diameter in the following street, and in such other streets as the Selectmen may determine: Percy Road, from Warren Street to Highland Avenue , and pay for the same in whole or in part by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town. Article 16 . To see if the Town will vote to install a water main in Grant Street from the present end at the so-called Richards property to the so-called Mabey property, a distance of approxi- mately four hundred and twenty-five feet, and to pay for the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town. Article 17 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for highway maintenance under authority of Chapter 90 of the General Laws. 151 cn Article IS. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to construct granolithic or bituminous concrete side- walks where the abutting owner pays one-half the cost, and provide funds for said construction by direct appropriation, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 19 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds , for providing co-operation with the Federal Government in unemploy- ment relief and other projects, of direct or indirect benefit to the town or its irbebitants, said funds to be expended by the Sel- ectmen. Article 20. To see if the Town 7111 vote to raise and appro- priate money for the construction of sanitary sewers either with or without co-operation of Agencies of the United States, and will authorize the Selectmen to accept on behalf of the Town for use in carrying out any such project grants or loans of Federal money for public projects; and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow such sums as may be necessary to meet any appropriation made and to issue bonds or notes of the Town in accordance with the law and to use any other available funds that may be raised by taxation or appropriated for that pur- pose, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be set apart and administered as a general unem- ployment relief fund in accordance with law, such money to be provided by direct appropriation or by transfer from available funds or by a combination of the two methods . Article 22. To see if the Torn will authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Winter Street; Wadman Circle; Hill Avenue; Summit Avenue . Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a aam of money for the purchase of the lot of land on Clarke Street known as the Isaac Harris Cary Educational Fund lot, and contain- ing 12,508 square feet, more or less, for any-appropriate munici- pal purpose, said money to be raised from the tax levy of the current year or by the issuance of bonds or notes of the town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the traffic control system in the vicinity of Clarke Street, and at the junction of Bedford Street and. Harrington Road, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the installation of automatic sprinklers in cer- tain school buildings, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift from Mr. Philip B. Parsons of 18 Revere Street, Lexington, of a painting of the Battle of Fiske Hill, to be placed in the Parker School, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 27, To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of providing proper facilities for public entertainment at the time of the national convention of the American Legion in Boston during the year nineteen hundred and forty, and of paying expenses incidental to such entertairment, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 115 of the Acts of 1939, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 28. To see if the Town will recormend to the Board of Selectmen that licenses be granted for public exhibition of moving pictures on Sundays to which admission may be charged. 517 Article 29 . To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift from the Lexington Caber of Commerce of the Shenandoah Flag System, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 30. To see if the Town will advise or instruct the Selectmen, in placing fire insurance on Town buildings, to include policies issued by mutual fire insurance companies, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 31 . To see if the Town will vote to demolish the building located at 758 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, known as the Old Adams School, and appropriate a sum of money to pay for said demolition, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 32. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of erecting a fence to enclose the new fields at the Center Playground, or act in any manner in relation thereto. • Article 33. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of an ambulance, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lex® ington Zoning By-Law and Map by inserting in Section 3 (b) , after R.2 Districts, 10, - the words • R.3 Districts , 1. Northeasterly by land of the Colonial Garage, Inc ., 160 feet, northwesterly by land now or late of Hutchinson and by land now or late of MacKay, 267 feet, southwesterly by Vine Brook Road, 160 feet, southeasterly by land of the Colonial Garage, Inc. , 265 feet; or act in any manner in relation thereto. And you are directed to serve this warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-Laws of the Town. Hereof fail not, and make due return on this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our bands at Lexington, this twentieth day of February 1940 . ARCHIBALD a. GIROUK A. EDWARD ac7sE WILLIAM G. POTTER GEO. W. S41RANO ERROL H. LOCI February 26 , 1940 . To the Town Clerk, I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Tarrant in the Cary Library, in the vestibule of the Town Office Building and six other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: PATRICK J. MAGUIRE Constable of Lexington.