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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-02-12-AC-MIN.pdf 427 The Appropriation Committee held a meeting, at 8:30 A.M. , on Sat- urday, February 12, 1972, in room 111, Town Office Building, Lexing- ton. Present were Edward E . Furash, Chairman, Jack L. Mitchell, Vice Chairman, Elizabeth M. Flynn, Secretary, Arthur T . Bernier, J. Harper Blaisdell, Levi G. Burnell, Howard L. Levingston, H. B. Moore, Donald B . White and Richard M. Perry, Comptroller. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED that the Expense Budgets be accepted in the amount of 035,393 . , as per the attached schedule . Discussion was held on Planning Board Acct. #1090 and Planning Board Article #82. Acct. #1090, professional services, also includes other departments . The planning board' s portion is $1,500. �—► Article #82, requests •$8, 500. for a study of soil and drainage. Meeting was held, at 10:30 A.M. , in the Selectmen' s Room. Pre- sent were Robert Cataldo, Chairman, Natalie Riffin, Alfred Busa and Town Manager Walter O'Connell. '.'lith respect to Town Personal Service budgets, Chairman Cataldo reported that the Selectmen were recommending a 5 increase . In the DPW there would be, in 1972, 2 year contracts with a 5% raise. In 1973 there would be a 4ig 4-gincrease . The Fire Department have accepted their contract, but the Police Department, at this time, have not . Chairman Furash reported that his Committee, with respect to new personnel, were favoring the 4 firefighters, and probably favoring the Sanitary Land Fill Working Foreman, but were not convinced that this was the year to add a Building Maintenance Engineer. The Selectmen reported that with respect to Art. #64-Bow St. Lay- out they were recommending the use of Chapter 616, 678, and 679 funds in the amount of $14,000. In Art . #65-Mass . Ave. Layout (Central Block) they were recom- mending that $4,019 .41 be transferred from Art . #65 of 1965. With respect to Art. #56-Pinard land- they were recommending that the Warrant should read "for general purposes" and not just con- • servation. The Appropriation Committee adjourned to meet with the Capital Expenditures Committee, at 12:15 P.M. , in room 111. CE members present were Robert Kingston, Chairman, George Silver- man and William Dailey. Chairman Kingston reported that Debt Service would be down $1.00, this year. Their recommendations on capital items are as follows: Sewers $600,000. Water Mains 0 Streets 71,000. ) $10,000.-engr &design 5,000.-Curbing 2.0,000.-St. lights 36,000.-Drains ;x 28 Minutes of meeting held on February 12, 1972 - page 2 Capital Expenditures Committee recommendations - cont . Chapter 90 $ 60,000. Sidewalks 50,000. $75,000. in 173 DPW equipm. 78,000. FD Articles 70,500. ARTS . 35, 36, 37 Land acquis. 200,000. Recreation 16,000. 60,000. in 173 Lincoln St. Site 2.0,000. The CE Committee retired from the meeting. ACCT . #1090 - Professional Services - upon motion duly made and. seconded, it was VOTED that W00. be inserted for the requested • 2,000. The Motion was defeated. Another motion being made and seconded, that the sum of $2,000. remain was VOTED. ACCT ;#2480 - Recreation Committee - upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED that the line sum should read $13,850. $3,000. was allowed for PTSA.not 46,000. The meeting was recessed for lunch at 1: 00 P.M. and was reconvened at 2:00 P.M. Fred Bailey, President of Library Trustees, joined the meeting at 2:40 P.M. Discussion was held with respect to the proposed Library addition and requested new personnell. ACCT . #7550 - Library - upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED that the sum of $6,562.00 be approved. This would allow for the addition of 2 pages, a Library Techinician and Sunday openings of the children' s Library ACCT . #)4100 - FD-PS - upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED to approve the addition of 4 new men. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED to approve the addition of a Working Foreman at the Sanitary Land Fill. This was by majority vote . Upon motions being duly made and seconded, on each Article, it was VOTED, as follows: ARTICLE 1 No recommendation 2 No recommendation 3 No recommendation L. Recommendations in Report 5 Favorable action 6 Favorable action — 7 Favorable action 8 Recommendation $100,000. 9 Favorable action L_ 0 Minutes of meeting held on February 12, 1972 - page 3 ARTICLE - continued 10 Recommendation $28,500. - PD - pensions 16,500. - FD 11 No recommendation 12 Unfavorable action 13 Favorable action 14 Favorable action 2,500. 15 Favorable action 4,000. 16 Favorable action 5,000. 1--I 17 Favorable action 36,000. M 18 4/Favorable r'act.iom rmi 19 Favorable action 50,000. 20 Recommend 480,000. am Lam.) 22 Recommend 120, 000. L 22 Recommend 6,000. 23 41Ya.vorable action- 24 Recommend 60,500. from E & D 25 Recommend 10,000. 26 Recommend 9,800. 27 Recommend 18,346. by majority 28 Favorable action 11,957.25 29 t,y Favdrab1e.'•action . . 30 „,ti Favorable action 31 Favorable action 60,000. by majority 32 Favorable action 16,640. 33 postponed 34 Favorable action 112,000. 35 Postponed 36 Favorable action 57,000. 37 Postponed 38 Favorable action 39 Unfavorable action 44, 000 . 40 Favorable action 56,000. 41 Favorable action 20,000. 42 Postponed 43 Unfavorable action 3,000. 44 Favorable action 1,500. 45 Unfavorable action 2,500. 46 Favorable action 3,500. 47 Favorable action 20,000. 48 Favorable action 300. 49 Favorable action 50 Favorable action 51 Favorable action 52 Favorable action 53 thru 61 Supplemental Report 62 Postponed 63 Postponed 64 Favorable action 11,000. Minutes of meeting held on February 12, 1972 - page 4 ARTICLES - continued 65 Favorable action $ 4,019.41 66 thru 77 No recommendation 78 No recommendation 79 No recommendation 80 No recommendation 81 No recommendation 82 Postponed 83 - Postponed €1t. No recommendation 85 - No recommendation 86 No recommendation 87 No recommendation 88 Favorable action 89 No recommendation 90 No recommendation 91 No recommendation 92 No recommendation 93 No recommendation 94 No recommendation 95 No recommendation 96 Voted to refer to Recr. 97 No recommendation 98 - No recommendation 99 Postponed 100 Unfavorable action 101 Unfavorable action The next meeting night is scheduled for Monday, February 14, 1972 . The meeting was adjourned at 5:45 P.M. Respectfully submitted, -da- 7r- 4 Elizabeth M. Flynn r Secretary