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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1933-03-06-TE-WARRANT and ATM-03-20-ATM-Warrant 7 TOWNWARRANT 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, EMERSON HALL : PRECINCT TWO, THREE AND FOUR, CARY MFMORIAL HALL) , on MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1933, at Six o' clock, A. M., then and there to act on the following articles; Article 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers; One Town Clerk for the term of oney ear Two 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 Moderator for the term of one year, One Member of the School Committee for the term of three years, Two Constables 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 two years, Seventeen Town Meeting Members in each Precinct, for the term of threeyears ' One Town Meeting Member in Precinct One for the term of two years, �, Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct Four for the 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 twentieth day of March, 1933 at 8 :00 p . H. , 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. 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 authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purposes, in anticipation of revenue for the current year,,,_or act in any manner v relating thereto. t_. Art. 5. To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town expenses for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Suppression of Gypsy and. Brown Tail Moths, in accordance with Chapter 132, General Laws, or act in any mariner 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 Enrd as provided by Chapter 44, Section 6, General Laws, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Toun will appropriate funds for the pa,yment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments, under v/ Chapter 32, General Laws, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 9. 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 1933. Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the support of a Posture Clinic, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health or by a committee appointed by saild Board, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for O1L Age Assistance in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 118A inserted by Acts of 1930, Chapter 402, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 12. To see if the Town will rescind its vote of June 20, 1932, amending Article VIII of the Code of By-Laws of 1922. Art. 13. To see if the Town will amend Article VIII of the Code of By-laws of 1922 by adding at the end thereof the following: "Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall not apply to ay extension of water mains made in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 80 with respect to the assessment of betterments." Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of 41804.8? to the Cary Library Account, the same being the sum received from the Middlesex County for dog fees. Art. 15. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in Bowker, Brandon and Utica Streets, and Oakmount Circle. Art . 16. To see if the Town will vote to transfer sums from the following accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account : Clarke Street (Drain) 41.62 Crescent Hill Avanue, Highway Construction, 3.04 Independence Independence Avenue, Highway Construction, .36 Smith Avenue, Highway Construction, 46.31 Allen Street, Highway Construction 5.49 Public Works Bldg. , (Equipment & Material ) 20.98 Public Works Bldg. , (Equipment & Repairs ) .26 Art. 17. 70 5. ee if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex as required by law, the Town' s share of the net cost of care , mairtenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital and for care and treatment of tubercular patients up to June 30, 1932 under Acts of 1928, Chapter 385 as amended by Acts of 1931, Chapter 60 including interest or discount on temporary notes issued therefor as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of t1 General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and i addition thereto, or take any action ir relation thereto. Art. 18. 'To see if the Town will ratify the action of the Selectmen in petitioning the Legislature for legislation extending the Metropolitan Sewerage District to include the entire To of Lexington or any portion of that part of the Town not now included in the District. Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to reimberse the State Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. , the sum of 0_218.35 for water pipe laid in summit Road in the years 1916, 1922 and 1926, and to provide funds for same by direct appropriation or by transfer from other accounts. Art . 20. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install sewers in the following streets : Bedford Street , from Shirley Street northerly a distance of approximately 120 feet , Summit Road, from the present end southerly a distance of approximately 325 feet, _Eustis street, from present end a distance of approximately 115 feet , appropriate money for said sewer construction by direct appropriatto;, and by transfer of fundsfrom other accounts. Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in the following streets, subject to the usual guarantee : Allen. Street from the present end in Blossom Street a distance of approximately 1400 feet ; Outlook Drive from Wachusett Drive easterly a distance of approximately 100 feet ; Harbell Street from the present end southerly a distance of approximately 190 feet ; Colony Road from the present end northeasterly a distance of approximately 100 feet ; Tewksbury Street from Bedford Street to Sargent Street and in Sargent Street from Tewksbury Street to Shirley Street a distance of approximately 550 feet ; and to provide funds for said installation by transfer from the Water Department Available Surplus to the Water Department Construct- ion Account . Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to complete the construction of Wood Street, same to be cone under Chapter 90 of the General Laws. CA 10 Art . 23. To see if the Town will assent to and approve Chapter 12 of the Acts of 1933, being an Act authorizing the dissolution of The Trustees of the Lexington Ministerial Fund and the distribution of its property. Art. 24. To act upon the recormendations of the Committee on the Amendment of the By-Laws of the Town, and to see if the Town will amend the By-Laws by the adoption of any or all of the recommendations of said. Cormittee. Art. 25. To see if the Town will accept the relocation or alteration as a town war of Winter Street, from Bedford Street for a distance of approximately 360 feet, as 6hown on the plan dated February 13, 1933, and filed in the office of the Town Clerk, and authorize the Selectmen to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, or otherwise for that purpose lands or easements or rights therein including the right to have the land of the location protected by having the surface of adjoining land slope from the boundary of the location, and to appropriate moneytherefor, or for specific repairs on the said way, or for construction of the said way, as so relocated or altered, to be raised by loan or otherwise. Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to set aside a parcel of land, containing approximately ten acres, now used for park purposes for a Town Forest, said parcel being described as follows; A parcel of Park property known as Town Meadows bounded northwesterly by the north branch of Vine Brook, and bounded south- westerly, southeasterly and northeasterly by lands of Charles W. and Robert L. Ryder, Trustees of Lexington Estates Trust. Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote upon petition of Frank W. Perkins to amend the Zoning By-Law and map of the Town by changing from an R.1 District to a 0.1 District the lot of land at the westerly corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Oak Street, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 28 . To see if the Town will vote upon petition of Daniel J. O' Connell to amend the Lexington Zoning By-Law and map by changing from an R. 1. District to a C . 1. District the following described parcel of land; A triangular parcel of land bounded on the northwest by Fletcher Avenue distant 183.90 feet, on the southwest by Woburn Street distant 320.22 feet, and on the northeast by the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corp. right of way distant 317.40 feet, containing 27, 994 scuare feet. Art . 29. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Zoning map by establishing a new type of residence district, to be called R. 3 Districts, restricted as to location, wherein there may be permitted apartment houses, multiple dwellings or similar 111 structures, restricted as to height, bulk, area, coverage, or construction, or otherwise restricted so as to protect health, safety, and the general welfate, or act in any manner thereon. Art. 30. To see if the Town will amend the Zoning By-Law and. Zoning Map so as to establish an R. 3. District between Clarke and Muzzey Streets, Lexington, Mass. bounded and described as follows; Beginni#g at a point in the southwesterly side of Massach- usetts Avenue opposite the southerly side of Merian Street, said point narking the northeasterly corner of the 0.1 District as established under the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By- Law and. Zoning Map dated March 17, 1924; thence northwesterly along Massachusetts Avenue distant - 135 feet to its junction with the southeasterly line of Clarke Street ; thence southwest- erly along Clarke Street by lands of Town of Lexington and Isaac Harris Cary Educational Fund distant -246 feet ; thence southeasterly by various courses and distances by lands of Gertrude R. Hadley, Franklin F. & Henry S. Raymond, James J. & Florence C. Carroll, and. Olive C . Myers distant -514 feet ,to , Muzzey Street ; thence northeasterly along Muzzey-Street by lands of William E. Denham and. Lexington Trust Co. , distant -136 feet to a point, said point being southwesterly and distant-100 feet , -- from the southwesterly sideA-of Massrusetts Avenue ; thence northwesterly along a line (parl.alle with the southwesterly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue and distant 100 feet there from, said line marling the southwesterly boundary of the 0.1 District herein before mentioned, over lands of Lexington Trust Co. , George E. Smith, Lois M. & Lillian G. Marshall and Town of Lexington distant -229 feet to a point marking the northwesterly corner of the C.1.-District hereinbefore referred to ; thence -100 feet to the point of beginning, all as shown on plan entitled -'"Plan Showing Pronoeed Amendment to the Zoning Map of the Town of Lexington Mass., Establishing an R.3 District Between Muzzey and Clarke Streets. Scale - 1 inch - 40 feet, Feb. 17, 1933 - John T . Cosgrove, Town Engineer" on file with the Town Clerk, or act in any manner relating 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 hands, at Lexington, this fourteenth day of February, A. D., 1933. Robert F. Trask, SELECTIMI Theodore A. Custance, John E. Gilcreast, OF Charles E. Ferguson, LEXIEGTON. Daniel J. O'Connell. 12 0-1 February 25, 1933, 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 Office Building and six other public places in the Torn, 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 ; Patrick J. Maguire, Constable of Lexington.