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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-09-16-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 of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet in Cary Memorial Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the sixteenth day of September, 1957, 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. ARTICLE 2, To see if the Town will vote to appropriate an additional sum of money for Insect Suppression--Wages and Expenses for the balance of the year 1957, and provide for payment thereof by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the alteration and relocation as a town way of Rowland Avenue as altered and relocated by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk dated May, 1957 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and provide for payment by transfer from available funds; or act in any other manner in re- lation thereto. ARTICLE L . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Eldred Street from the southwesterly sideline of Justin Street to Grove Street, a distance of 1330 feet more or less, as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk dated May, 1957, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement -2- or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the con- struction of said street and for land acquisition and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including funds received from the State under the provisions of Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, or by borrow- ing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to "Board of Survey" construct a/street over town land from Waltham Street to land now of Ernest J. Corrigan and formerly of Lexington Estates Trust pursuant to a written agreement between the Town and said Lexington Estates Trust dated September 22, 1947 that was entered into under the authority of a vote adopted on September 29, 1947, under article 6 of the warrant for that town meeting, appropriate a sum of money therefor and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare and its welfare agent to execute in the name and on behalf of the Town instruments taking and discharging liens under Section 4 of Chapter 118A of the General Laws, as amended, on real estate of persons receiving old age assistance, and to ratify all such instruments heretofore executed by them; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Street School Building Committee to prepare final plans and specifications, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an addition to the Maria Hastings School Building and for making alterations in the existing building, and to super- vise the work; and appropriate a sum or sums of money for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by transfer from available funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. -3- ARTICTR 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Maple Street School Building Committee to prepare final plans and specifications, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an addition to the Harrington School Building, and to supervise the work; and appropriate a sum or sums of money for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by transfer from available funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen on behalf of the Town to purchase, take by eminent domain, or otherwise acquire for school and playground purposes and for access thereto land in Lexington to be added to the land between Adams Street and Burlington Street already acquired by the Town as a site for a junior high school building, appro- priate money therefor and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTJ 10, To see if the Town will vote to accept grants for educa- tional purposes from the Ford Foundation and from the A. D. L. Foundation and authorize the School Committee to expend the same for such purposes; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase or lease of voting machines; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 12, To see if the Town will vote a supplementary appropriation to be used in conjunction with and in addition to the money already appro- priated for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of an additional town office building and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. -4- ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to purchase, take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire for playground or recreational purposes a parcel of land situated on North Street containing 10.9 acres more or less and shown on a plan entitled "Land of Albert H. Burnham at Lexington" dated May 1928, F. P. Cutter, C. E. , recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 415 as Plan 32, appropriate a sum of money therefor and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. 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 twenty-sixth day of August, A. D., 1957. azecar-ciete my /� Selectmen /1 - ,4010111 .:. of Lexington CONSTABLE IS RETURN To the Town Clerk Aid 9, 1957 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 /2- days before the time of said meeting, Attest: Constable of Lexington