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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1929-03-04-TE-WARRANT and 1929-03-11-ATM-WARRANT 253 TOWN ti"V ARRAN T Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex , ss . To either of the Com: tables 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 Une , Emerson Hall ; Precinct Two , Cary Memorial Hall ) , on MONDAY , the FOURTH day of March , A . D . , 1929 . 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 ; two Selectmen fot 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 CommissiDner 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 . The polls will be open at 6 : 03 A . M . and ;ill remain open until 8 : )0 P . M . You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in Cary Memorial Hall in said Town on Monday , the eleventh day of larch , 1929 , at 7 : 30 P . M . to act on the following articles : Art . 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 re .iuired by law and are usually chosen by nomination . Art . 4 . To if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town expense., ? he ensuing year , or act in any manner relating Art . 5 . To see if . the Town will make an appropriation for the Suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths , in accordance with ', Chapter 13 , General Laws , or act in any anner relating thereto . Art . 6 . To see if the Town will make an appropriation to provide funds for the payment of pensions to retired town veterans under Chapter 32 , section 52 - 55 General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess an amount of money to be used as a Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40 , Section 6 , General Laws , or take any action relating thereto . hrt . 8 . To see if the Town will appropriate funds for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments under Chapter 32 , General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto . Lrt . 9 . To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer , under the 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 skid revenue , or act in any manner relative thereto . Art . 10 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 . or dome other amount , and elect a director , the money to be expended by and the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees of County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service , under the provisions of Section 40 to 45 Chapter 148, General Laws of 9 74 Aist 0 C, Massachusetts . Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the water and sewer departments and to provide same by issuance of bonds , notes or by direct appropriation or by any of all of such methods , or take any other action relating thereto . , Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money , by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise , for the construction of a part or all of Waltham Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Marrett Road . Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise , to complete the construction of Massachusetts Avenue from Waltham Street to Bedford Street , and Bedford Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Elm Avenue . Art . 14 . To see if the Town will authorize the Board of 0 Selectmen to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works , Division of 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 which repect thereto . Art . 15 . To see if the Town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land , grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out , alteration or construction of any State Highway or section of State Highway in Lexington, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign indemnity agreement therefor in behalf of the Town , or take any other action in respect thereto . Art . 16 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to place curbing and granolithic sidewalks adjacent to the town property . Art . 17 . To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant Stanley Hill Post ##38 , the American Legion , Lexington , Mass . , the use of the auditorium in the Cary Memorial Building without charge on April 19th , November 11th , and four other evenings in each year , also the use of Estabrook Hall in said building without charge , for the regular meetings of the American Legion, or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 18 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install sewers in the following streets : Robbins and Watson Roads , Chase , Baker , Tarbell , Smith and Taft Avenue , 0ak , Charles and Waltham Streets , appropriate money for said con- structian and to issue bonds or notes therefore or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 19 . To see if the Town will vote to rescind the loan of $50 , 000 . being the unused portion of the authorization made at a Town Meeting held September 2:41 , 1927 whereby the Town was author- ized to borrow $95 , 000 . forthe purpose of constructing and equipping a new Town Office Building , in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 , Chapter 44 of the General Laws . Art . 20 . To hear the report on the review of the present Zoning Laws by the Committee authorized by vote of the Town December 17 , 1928 to review the Zoning Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 21 . To see if the Town will add to , alter , correct , amend , repeal or modify the present Zoning By-Law of the Town by adopting the general revision recommended by the Committee for the Review of the present Zoning Laws , appropriate money for the printing of said by- laws or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . ?P. . 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 19E9 . 955 r.. �w .wl Art . 23 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate construct a fence around the Colonial Cemeteryoract mineto manner relating thereto . any Art . 24 . To see if the Town will appoint a Building Committee of seven , of which three shall be the School Committee , to secure architect ' s pla-ris and contractor ' s bids for a new Elementary School Building in the southern part of the town and provide by appropriation and assessment , or otherwise , the money necessary for such purpose , or take any other action relative thereto . Art . 15 . To see if the Town will authorize the SelectTen to sell and convey a portion of the land conveyed to the Town by deed of George V . Spaulding dated April 7 , 1906 and recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds , Book 3? 43 , page 385 , adjoining the premises of Lillian G . & Lois M . Marshall , or to exchange the same for other land of either of the said arshall.s , or purchase such other land or abandon , convey or release any ease- ment in Land of the said Marshalls , or either of them , appropriate money for such purpose or purposes by the issue of bonds , notes or by direct appropriation , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 26 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to construct a swimming pool on the Parker Field -Playground , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 2:7 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of 1090 . 8: , being the balance to the credit of Westview Cemetery Account for purchase of land , to the credit of sewer construction . Art . 28 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase from the Stuart Marshall Company the land and building forming the front 25 - feet in depth from Massachusetts Avenue of the so- called Central Block corner of Meriam Street , Massa- chusetts Avenue and Depot Park in order toprovide for a widening of Massachusetts Avenue when recuired and in order to induce the Stuart -Marshall Company , instead of remodelling the present building , to demolish it within the next two years and erect in its place a new 3- story and basement building containing stores and apartments . Also to authorize the Selectmen to grant to the Stuart -Marshall Company an option for not more than six months to purchase the property of the Town on Meriam Street known as the Center Engine House , said option to purchase to contain the right on the part of the Town to occupy the Center Engine House for a period of two years and to have the right to cancel said two-year occupancy at any time by six months ' notice , appropriate money for such purpose by the issue of bonds , notes or by direct appropriation , or take any action in relation thereto . Art . 29 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to secure proposals for the sale to the Town of a site or sites that may be required and to secure architect ' s plans and contractor ' s bids for two new fire stations in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee to Investigate the Fire and Water Departments , and provide by appropriation and assessment or otherwise , the money necessary for such purposes or take any other action relative thereto . Art . 30 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in Brookside Avenue and Moreland Avenue or act in any manner kelating thereto . Art . 31 . To hear the report of the Appropriation Committee in respect to the report of the Committee appointed to study the Fire and Water Departments which was presented to the Town on January 7 , 1929 . Said report of the Appropriation Committee was authorized by the following vote : " Voted : That the report be submitted without either approval or disapproval to the Appropriation Committee for their consideration with instructions that they submit to the citizens of the Town a report as to the financial condition of the Town, and their recommendations as to the feasibility of the program for proposed expenditures as outlined in the report , " and upon acceptance of said report of the Appropriation Com- mittee to see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to carry out any or all of the recommendations of said report appropriate 2 ) C rP casp money by the issue of bonds , notes or by appropriation and assess - ment , or act in amy manner relating thereto. hereof , fail not , and make due return of this wn rrnnt , with your doings thereon , to the Town Clerk , on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Lexington , this nineteenth day of February , A . D . , 1929 . Albert H . Burnham Francis Chamberlain Selectmen Theodore A . Custance Of James G . Robertson Lexington . VYilliam H . Ballard . Lexington , idass . February , < 5 , 19f;9 . 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 Town Office Building , 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 seven days before the time of said meeting . Attest : James J . Sullivan . Constable of Lexington . iiexing ton , Mass . march 6 , 199 . This is to certify that I have this day appointed helen C . Yhittemore , 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 : -P/ (97 " own Clerk .