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The Appropriation Committee held a meeting at 7:30 P .M., on Monday,
November 29, 1971, in Room 111, Town Office Building, Lexington. Pre-
sent were Edward E . Furash, Chairman, Jack L. Mitchell, Vice Chairman,
Elizabeth M. Flynn, Secretary, J. Harper Blaisdell, Levi G. Burnell,
Howard L. Levingston and Donald B. White and Richard M. Perry, Comp-
troller.
The Chairman read to the Committee a letter from Governor Sargent in
reply to our telegram of October 26th to the Governor with respect to
SB 909 . The letter is attached to the original copy of the Minutes .
After discussion on the Conservation Commissions report to the Plan-
ning Board, it was decided to invite the Conservation Commission to
m our next meeting.
• In discussing the letter of the Planning Board to the Capital Expen-
U ditures Committee it was determined that with respect to Recreation
• budgets the break-up between the DPW and Recreation accounting masks
the real amount spent for recreation. Comptroller Perry will ask
the Town Manager if it would be possible to have all recreation ex-
penses in both Departments lumped into one Account. Users fees
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RFSFRVF FUND BALANCE: 599,247.00
RESERVE FUND TRANSFERS:
1. Acct. #4150 - Fire Exp. $4,000. Repairs to engines
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED to
transfer the amount requested.
The meeting was adjourned to the Ward Room of the Police Station due
to the failure of electrical power at the Town Office Building.
Meeting was held at 9:15 P.M. with Library Trustees F. Bailey and
I . Mabee, Library Advisor S . Stolz, Library Director R. Hilton and
Assistant Library Director S . Nialet. With respect to the proposed
expansion of the Library building, Chairman Furash stated that the
relationship between users and the amount of money requested, the
size and cost of the facility and the Trustees' concept 6T what a
library should be and what it should provide need to be determined
to persuade the Committee that the amount of money requested for
the expansion is justified. It was suggested that, perhaps, a ran-
dom sampling of users could provide a picture of the most popular
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President Bailey said that at their meeting on November 30th, the
Library Truatees would discuss the questions and points brought out
at this meeting . Phases of library expansion will also be discussed.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:20 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth M. Flynn
Secretary
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FRANCIS W. SARGENT
GOVERNOR
November 19, 1971
Edward E. Furash, Chairman
Appropriation Committeee
Town Hall
Lexington, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Furash:
Governor Sargent has asked me to
acknowledge your writing him to urge his
veto of S 909, the police and fire chiefs
salary bill.
As you are undoubtedly aware, the
Governor did sign that legislation, and
I am enclosing a copy of the statement
outlining his reasons for that action.
The Governor appreciates having had
your views on this measure, and has asked
me to convey his best wishes.
Sincerely,
Edward S. Morrow
Legislative Secretary
to the Governor
GOVERNORtS PRESS OFFICE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON 727-3600
FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 15, 1971 RELEASE # 1/NV/70
STATEHOUSE, BOSTON - Governor Francis W. Sargent
today signed S. 909,"An Act increasing the annual rate
of compensation of certain heads of fire departments and
police departments." He issued the following statement:
"I have today signed legislation which provides
that police and fire chiefs obtain a salary of from 1.5
to 2.0 of the compensation of a police officer or fire
fighter, as the case may be.
"I take this action with reluctance. Last year I
did not approve this legislation. Representatives of
the cities and towns agreed with my contention that sala-
ries of chiefs should be upgraded, but on a local basis.
All agree that there are inequities, with some chiefs
getting little more than those they supervise.
"There has been little action on the local level
in the past yearto correct the situation. I urged the
Legislature to give the local community the option of
accepting a general bill, but my amendment was not adop-
ted. I felt, therefore, that I had no alternative but
to approve the bill."
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