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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1928-03-05-TE-WARRANT and 1928-03-12-ATM-WARRANT 149 TOWN WARRANT 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 electtns and in town affairs to meet in their respective voting places in said town , ( Precinct One , Emerson Hall ; Precinct Two , Town Hall) on MONDAY , the Fifth day of March , A . D . , 1928 , at six o ' clock A . M . , then and there to act on the following articles : Art . 1 . To choose by ballot the following town officers : One town Clerk for the term of one year ; one Selectmen 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 ; two Constables for the term of one year ; one Moderator for _ the term of one year ; two members of the Planning Board for the term of three years ; one member of the Planning Board for the term of one year ; one Trustee of Public Trusts for the term of six years . The polls will be open at 6 : 00 A . M . and will remain open until 5 : 00 P . M . You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in Town Hall in said Town on Monday, the twelfth day of March 1928 , at 7 : 30 P . M . to act on the following articles : Art . 2 . To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of. any Committee of the Town, and to appoint other Committees . Art . 3 . To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination . Art . 4 . To see if the Town will grant such sums of money as may be thought necessary for the uses and expendes of the Town the ensuing year for the following departments or accounts , direct how the same shall be raised or act in any manner relating thereto : Public Schools ; Public Welfare ; Highways ; Street Lights ; Fire Department ; Appropriation Committee ; Public Parks ; Town Engineer ' s Department ; Milk Inspector ; Plumbing Inspector ; Inspector of Slaughtering ; April 19th Celebration ; Street ($i Jns ; Cemeteries ; Tire Inspector ; Sidewalks ; Memorial Day Ob- servation ; Deepening and Widening ' Brooks ; Waltham Street Damages ; Bedford Street Damage . . Art . 5 . To see if the Town will make the usual appropri:-. tions fir Town expenses tho ensuing year , not specified in other articles , or act in any manner relating thereto . • :: rt . 6 . To see if the Town will make an Eppropriati n for the :'uppres - sion of Gypsy :rid Brown Tail Moths , in acc : �rdance i th Chapter 13 , General Laws , or act in any manner ralL. ting thereto . Art . 7 . To see if the Town will make n. n appropriT- tion to provide funds for the payamt of pensions to retired town veterans under Chapter '5 , rection 52 - 55 General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 8 . To see if the Town will vote ti) approprihte and assesr an amount of money to be used Ps a Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40 , ► ecticn 6 , General Laws , or take any action relating thereto . Art . 3 . To see if the Town will appropriate funds for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments under Chapter 3? , General Laws , or : : ct in any manner relating thereto . 150 a 0 Art . 10 . To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer , under the1h411 direction of the Selectmen , to borrow money for any necessary purposes , in anticipation of revenue for the current year , the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenuo , or nct in any manner relative thereto . Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to rals, e and appropri ,. to the sum of $300 . 00 or soiii . other amount , : nd elect a director , the money to be expended by cnd the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middle - sex County Extension service , under the provisions ( 'f Sections 40 to 45 , Chapter 128 , General Laws of Massachusetts . Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the Water and Sewer Department and to provide same by issuance of bonds , notes or by direct appropriation or by any or all of such methods , or take any other action relating thereto . Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money either by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise , for the construction of Massa- chusetts Avenue from the end of the present permanent construction about opposite Oak Street to Middle Street . Art . 14 . To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works , Divisionof Highways , for the construction of any State highway which may be laid out or constructed in the town during the present year or take any action with respect thereto . Art . 15 . To see if the town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massa - chusetts against any and all claims for land , grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out , alteration or re- construction of any State highway or section of State highway in Lex- ington , and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign indemnity agreement therefore in behalf of the town, or take any other action in respect thereto . Art . 16 . To hear the report of the Board of Selectmen giving their re- commendation aS to the purchase of land to be used by the Public Works Department for storage of material and equipment , and as a site for a new building to house the Fire Department in accordance with a vote of the Town under date of December 8 , 1927 , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 17 . 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 1928 . Art . 18 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to construct a fence around the Colonial Cemetery, or act in any manner relating there - to . Art . 19 . To see if the Toon will vote to extend water mains in the following unaccepted streets , subject to the usual guarantee and appro - priate money therefor , either by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise : Independence Avenue , t.1-_ chu: ett Drive , Crescent Hill Avenue , Franklin Avenue , Fair Oaks Drive , debb Street , Shade Street , Smith Avenue , Robbins Avenue , -Tower Street , Watson Road , Farmcrest Avenue , and Cedar Street (Accepted ) , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 20 . To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to petition the County Comulission .rs to lay out to a width of . sixty ( 60) feet and to relocate and order specific repairs on Unithaui Street from its junction with Massachusetts Avenue to Middle Street , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 21 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to be ex- t pended by or under the direction of the Traffic Committee , said Com- mittee having been appointed by the Selectmen to investigate traffic con- ditions in Lexington , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 22 . To see if the Town will make an appropriation to be used for further study and completion of plans for Vine Brook Dr< < inage , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 23 , To see if the Town will recommend to the Selectmen , acting as 151 a Board of Health , that an order or regulation of the Board of Health be adopted prohibiting the exercise of the trade or employment of keeping sone within the limits of the Town of Lexington and desig - m. ting 'Lila number of swine the keeping of wAich shall be deemed the exercise of such trade ur employment , .ur otherwise defining or specify - ing practices which shall be deemed the exercise of such trade or ern ployment . Art . 24 . To see if the Town will vote to construct serrs in the following streets : Upland hoact , from Glen Roam to Chandler Street ; Glen Road , from Meriam Street to Upl nri hoau ; Tower Street ; Independence Avenue ; Locust Avenue ; Smith Avenue ; and Robbins Road , and appropriate the sum of $5 , 000 . and any additional amount , and issue bonds or notes therefor or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . f- S . To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making en Aerial Survay of the Town , or to continue the Block Plan System , or for a Town Plan , Or for any or all of these projects , or act in any manner rel; . ting thereto . Art . 26 . To see if the Town will a.ppropriL to a sum of money to install granite curbing on the southerly side :of Mass . Avenue from Walth;- m Street to Winthrop Road , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 27 . To see if the Town will vote to change the name of the Section of Middle , 'Parrett and School Streets acid Massachusetts Avenue , commonly known as the State Road , to be hereafter n^med "Mohawk Trail " , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . `. 8 . To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new pumping apparatus for the Fire Department or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 29 . To see if the Town will make an appropriation and appoint a committ _ e to investigate the advisability of constructing a swimming pool on the Lexington Playground or to develop the Lexington Reservoir property on Middle Street for swimming purposes , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 30 . '� Tsee if the Town will vote to appropriate money to place the fire alarm wires under ground on Massachusetts Avenue from Woburn Street to the Hayes Fountain, and on Bedford Street from the H _yes Fountain to Elm Avenue , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 31 . To see if the Town will appoint a committee to confer with the memorial committee of the Lexington '"inute Men , Inc . with reference to their offer to erect on Hastings Park a memorial dedicated to the Lexington minute men of 1775 , whose courage and sacrifices for Justice n reedom brought forth a new nation, or act in any manner relating thereto . Hereof , fail not , and make due return of thiswith`', arr�.nt , your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk , on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Lexington, this seventh day of February, A . D . , 1928 . THEODORE A . CUSTANCE Selectmen JAMES G . ROBERTSON CLLILII H . BALLARD of ALBERT H . BURNHAM FRANCIS CHAMBERLAIN Lexington . X52 Co p Lexington , Mass . , February 25 , 192 8 To the Town Clerk ; - I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office , in the vestibule of the Town Hall and in six other public places in the town , and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town nine days before the time of said meeting . Attest ; • James J . Sullivan Constable of Lexington . Lexington, Mass . larch 8 , 1928 . This is to certify that I have this day appointed Helen C . Whittemore , Assistant Town Clerk of Lexington , and that she has been sworn to perform the duties of said office to the best of her knowledge and ability . Attest : Jk-Sn Town Clerk .