HomeMy WebLinkAbout1960-11-28-STM-Warrant TOWN 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 notify the inhabitants ofithe Town of Lexington qualified to vote in
elections and in Town affairs to meet in Cary Memorial Hall, in said
Town on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of November, 1960, at 8:00 P.M.
then and there to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1. To receive the reports of any board of Town officers
or of any committee of the Town.
ARTICT,E 2. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a Town
way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Worthen Road from
Massachusetts Avenue 3370 feet, more or less, southeasterly to Waltham
Street as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in
the office of the Town Clerk , dated September 12, 1960, and to take by
eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest
in land necessary therefor, and appropriate money for land acquisition
and for engineering services and provide for payment by transfer from
available funds, including any unexpended balances in current appropriations;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICTF' 3 . To see if the Town will authorize and direct the
Selectmen to take such action as they may deem necessary or desirable to
remove the conditions on the use of certain parcels of land situated in
the vicinity of the high school which were conveyed to the Town by the
late Augustus E. Scott in 1914 and 1915 by two deeds recorded respectively
in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 3953, Page 561, and
Book 3981, Page 109; which deeds restrict the use of the land to park and
playground purposes and one of which requires that certain portions of the
land shall always remain open as public ways; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
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AHTICTF 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Standing School
Building Committee to retain professional services and prepare preliminary
plans , specifications and cost estimates for the construction of a new
secondary school building on land in the vicinity of the senior high school,
and appropriate money therefor and provide for payment by transfer from
available funds , including any unexpended balances in current appropriations ;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto .
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen on behalf
of the Town to enter into an agreement with the United States of America,
or a department or instrumentality thereof, to furnish water to the Laurence
G . Hanscom Field upon terms which will provide for reimbursement to the Town
of a portion of the cost to be paid by the Town to the Metropolitan District
Commission for water improvements to be constructed in Lexington by the Com-
mission as provided in Chapter 590 of the 1959 Acts of the General Court
and of a portion of the cost of construction by the Town of a water main
from the end of the proposed new Commission water main at about the inter-
section of Waltham Street and Concord Avenue to the Lexington water stand-
pipes ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICT.R 6 . To see if the Town will vote to install a water main
from the end of the proposed new Metropolitan District Commission water
main at about the intersection of Waltham Street and Concord Avenue to
the Lexington water standpipes, in such accepted or unaccepted streets or
other land as the Selectmen may determine , and to take by eminent domain,
purchase or otherwise acquire any fee , easement or other interest in land
necessary therefor; appropriate money for such installation and land acqui-
sition and determine whether the money shall be provided by transfer from
available funds, including any special water funds and any unexpended
balances in current appropriations, or by borrowing, or by any combination
of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto .
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ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
abandon the portion of the drain easement in lot 10 on Rogers Road in
Lexington that is no longer needed by the Town and which is part of
the easement that was granted to the Town by George Avadanian by
instrument dated April 23, 1960 and recorded in Middlesex South District
Registry of Deeds, Book 9584, Page 29, and will set the minimum
amount to be paid for such abandonment; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
permit Joseph Trani, Incorporated, the owner of the premises numbered
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, in Lexington, said premises being now
represented by certificate of title No. 97890, registered in Middlesex
South Land Registry District, Registration Book 619, Page 140, to make
alterations in and to renovate the portion of the building on said
premises that is situated between the northeasterly side line of
Massachusetts Avenue and the building line established through the
premises by the Town in 1930, which alterations and renovations are
not now permitted by reason of the easement rights acquired by the
Town by the establishment of said building line, and to enter into
an agreement with said owner in relation thereto, and will set the
minimum amount to be paid for such permission; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Fire
Commissioners to sell the 1911 American LaFrance hose wagon that is
no longer needed by the Fire Department, or act in any other manner
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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 seventh day of November, A . D. ,
1960.
A true copy, Attest: , Selectmen
of
Constable of Lexington
t Lexington
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CONSTABLE 'S RETURN
To the Town Clerk November i g , 1960
I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a printed copy
thereof in five (5) public places in the Town and also by sending
by mail, postage prepaid, a printed copy of such warrant addressed
to every registered voter of the Town at his last residence, as
appears from the records of the Board of Registrars of Voters
days before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Constable of Lexington
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