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The Appropriation Committee held a meeting, at 7:30 P.M. , on Monday,
June 12, 1972, in room 111, Town Office Building, Lexington. Pre-
sent were Edward F . Furash, Chairman, Jack L. Mitchell, Vice Chair-
man, Elizabeth M. Flynn, Secretary, J. Harper Blaisdell, Howard L.
Levingston, H. Bigelow Moore, Donald B. White and Richard M. Perry,
Comptroller.
The Secretary was directed to send flowers to Member Arthur Bernier
and Mrs. Bernier to express the Committee' s concern for the serious
injuries of their son.
meeting was held at 9:00 P.M. , with Selectmen, A. Kenney, Chairman,
F. Bailey, A. Busa, N. Riffin and S. Brown. Town: Manager, W. O'Con-
nell and Town Counsel D . Legro were, also, present .
The following subjects were discussed:
1. A common Town Maintenance Superintendent - the Selectmen
are to meet with the School Committee, on July 10, 1972,
with respect to this .
2 . Special Town Meeting - it is rumored that the Regional
School Committee will be requesting a Special TM, for funds .
Chairman Furash requested that the TM be held in late September.
3 . Bonding - concern should be given to the question of bonding
sewers in the interest of freeing funds for land acquisitions.
4. Land Acquisition Committee - a standard operation procedure
is being prepared by this Committee, now, and will be pre-
sented soon to all Boards and Committees .
5. Reserve Fund Transfers - Chairman Furash stated his Committee' s
concern for the lateness of these requests and requested the
Selectmen and the Town Manager to have all Boards submit their
requests prior to November 1, 1972.
6 . Timing of budget dead-lines - Chairman Furash requested, this
year, that legal closing dates be adhered to, particularly
with the 18 month year coming up. He requested Expense budgets
by November 1 and with Personell Services, held up by collec-
tive bargaining, at least a sense of the structure of needs and
body counts should be made .early.
7. Trustees of Public Trusts - there are areas here where funds
are available to relieve some budgets . Can they be used?
Selectman Kenney and Town Manager O'Connell will meet with
The Trustee Board with respect to this question.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, Executive Session was Voted at
9:30 P.M.
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Land acquisitions were, again, discussed. Reimbursements for the
Cooke , Ballou and Titelbaum acquisitions of last year will not be
received. Two reasons are that Lexington has been reimbursed
generously, in the past and that the Town does not have any low or
moderate income housing. HtJD will probably also not reimburse.
Chairman Furash questioned the handling of large land acquisitions .
Attention should now be given to the possibility of bonding sewers
to ease land acquisitions. The Appropriation Committee, the Town
Treasurer, the Town Comptroller, the Town Manager and the DPW will
look into this and come back with ideas .
With respect to a new Town Counsel, interviews are beingheld.
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U A By-Law Personnel Board was discussed. In the complex system,
there is a need for periodic changes . The M scale was down to the wire
last year and Appropriations would like to see a Board or system to
deal with this question. Also, Appropriations would like to be more
informed on personnel decisions . In the Fall the Selectmen and Ap-
propriations will meet to discuss this problem.
Executive Session and the meeting was closed at 10:30 PM.
Appropriations reconvened in room .11l.
RESERVE FUND TRANSFER:
Acct. #3450 Health-Exp. $200. Extra funds needed due to
the large number of dogs
handled at the rabies clinic
A second request for transfer was tabled. Upon motion duly made and
seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the requested amount to Acct. #3450.
The next meeting is scheduled, at 7:30 P .M. , on Monday, June 26, 1972 .
The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth M. FlyniK
Secretary