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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1935-03-04-TE-WARRANT and 1935-03-18-ATM-Warrant 134 cn •ffiV PM'ai T OWN 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 nitify 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 MEMORIAL HALL, on MONDAY, 'IMP FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1935, 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 tern of one year; 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 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 Planniiy- 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 three years ; Three Town Meeting Members in Precinct One for the term of two years ; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Four for the term of two years ; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Four for the term of one year, And to take action on the following question: "Shall the operation of section one hundred and five B of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws, requiring for the taking of fur-bearing animals the use of traps that kill at once or take such animals alive unharmed, be suspended within this town? YES NO 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 eighteenth day of March, 1935 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. 1[35 Article 2. To receive the report 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, 1936, and to issue a note or notes therefor, 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, Chanter 44, General Laws. Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the a-proval of the Selectmen, to extend as much as is necessary of the revenue loans of 1935 for a period not to exceed six months beyond the maximum term provided by law for an original revenue loan, under authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1933, or take any action relative thereto. Article 6. 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 1935, in accordance with the orovisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws ; any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of the year 1935. Article 7. To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town expenses for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 8. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths, and other pests, in accordance with Chapter 132, General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to transfer funds to the Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40, Section 6, General Laws, or take any action relating thereto. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to 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. Article 11. 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 1935. Article 12. 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 said Board, or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 13. To see 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 the care, maintenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto Or take any action in relating thereto. Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1720.16 received from the Middlesex County for dogs fees to the Cary Memorial Library Account. Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in Pine Knoll Road. Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept the recommendation of the Selectmen for the changing of the names of certain streets, or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to establish a clinic for the free immunization of dogs against rabies, and appropriate money for said clinic. Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds for labor and materials on public works and for other expenses in connection therewith, to be expended by the Selectmen for aid to persons employed on various projects. Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the following balances to the Excess and Deficiency Account; Highway Construction, Blake Road .06 rr f' Eaton Road, .15 rr n Fletcher Avenue 1.64 r' Valley Road .04 Bridge Construction, Sherman Street .05 Sewer Construction, Sundry 260.18 Sewer Construction, Robbins & Plymouth Roads 781.23 or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the unpaid bill for the year 1933 of the Health Department. Article 21, To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the unpaid bills for the year 1934 of the following accounts : Town Office and Cary Memorial Building S38.82 Snow Removal 29.01 Highway Maintenance 66.70 Parks and Playgrounds 27.55 or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to complete the construction of Pleasant and Watertown Streets to the new Concord Avenue Turnpike, a distance of approximately 2600 feet, under Chapter 90, of the General Laws , and amendments : Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to construct Lincoln Street, from Marrett Road in a northeasterly direction a distance of 3600 feet, unser Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and amendments . Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to establish the compensation of the Collector of Taxes, Town Clerk and Town Treasurer. 137 Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for a compressor for the use of the Highway Department. Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to establish a new account to be called Water Department, Stock Account, and ap-oropriate money for said account by transfer from other funds. Article 27 . To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in the following unaccepted streets, subject to the assessment of betterments, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easement therefor; Pinewood Road, from the present end, to Follen Road, a distance of approximately 360 feet; Summit Road, from the present end a distance of approximately 250 feet; Blake Road, from Nichols Road to a point beyond Nowers Road, a distance of approximately 1500 feet, and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation and by transfer from other funds. Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in the following accepted streets : Massachusetts Avenue, from Child' s Garage to Pleasant Street, a distance of approximately 1700 feet; Bedford Street, from Elm Avenue to Tewkesbury Street, a distance of approximately 2075 feet; and Provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation, by transfer or by issue of bonds or notes therefor. Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in such accepted or unaccented streets as may be applied for during the year 1935 in accordance with authority contained in the By-Laws of the Town, subject to the assessment of betterments, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easement therefor, and appropriate money for said installation of mains by direct appropriation and by transfer from other funds . Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to establish a new account to be called Sewer Department, Stock Account, and appropriate money for said Account. Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from other funds or appropriate additional money for the Trunk Line Sewer Account. Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the construction of a trunk line sewer extending from the Boston & Maine RR at the Arlington Line northeasterly a distance of approximately 1600 feet to a point just easterly of Rindge Avenue, and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation, by the issue of bonds or notes or otherwise. Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install sewers in the following accepted and- unaccepted streets, subject to the assessmentof betterments, and to take by Eminent Domain the necessary easements therefor: 138 :4E Blake Avenue, from Edgewood Road to Wadman. Circle, a distance of approximately 185 feet; Wadman Circle, from Blake Ave. to end, a distance of approximately 200 feet; Pinewood Road, from the present end a distance of approximately 125 feet; Belfry Terrace, from the present end a distance of approximately 65 feet, and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or by transfer from other funds. Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the completion of the disposal of surface drainage in East Lexington as authorized by the vote of the Town, March 19, 1934. Article 35. To see if the Town will make provisions for the disposal of surface drainage in Haskell Street, Lowell Street and private lands by the construction of drains or conduits, or diversion or relocation of brooks and for that purpose take lands or easements by Eminent Domain and provide for the payment therefor by direct appropriation. Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to purchase and accept from Peter J. and Margaret E. Knnneen the conveyance of deed of a parcel of land comprising approximately five and one half, acres and located on Burlington Street the same to be used as a skating rink or for other park purposes , and place the same in the control of the Board of Selectmen, acting as Park Commissioners. Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law as follows : By inserting after Section 3, C-1 Districts, Paragraph 30, a new paragraph which shall read as follows; 30a. At the :Unction of East and Lowell Streets, in the southeast corner of the intersection, extending 196 feet along Lowell Street and 250 feet along East Street, and of a depth of 200 feet throughout. Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to establish the office of Information Clerk, the position to be filled by appointment by the Selectmen, for a term not to exceed one year, and that the sum of 450 be appropriated therefor. Article 39. 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 40. To see if the Town will appropriate money to pay the necessary expenses of the Superintendent of Schools incurred outside the Commonwealth in securing information upon matter in which the Town is interested or which may tend to improve the service in the School Department and for the purpose of meeting the appropriation and to establish the new account to be opened for that purpose the sum of $90 be appropriated. 139 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 twelfth day of February,, A.D. , 1935. ROBERT P . TRASK SELECTMEN JOHN E. GTLOR7AST CHARLES F. PPRGITSON OF JOHN W. LYONS LEXINGTON February 23, 1935. 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 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