HomeMy WebLinkAbout1942-03-02-TE-WARRANT and 1941-03-23-ATM-Warrant TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss.
To 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
their respective voting places in said Town,
PRECINCT ONE, AD KS 80:-TOOL: PRECINCT TWO, THREE, AND FOUR,
CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING, on MONDAY, the 2nd day of March, A. D.
1942, at 6 o' clock A. M. , then and there to act on the following
articles:
Article 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers:
One Town Clerk for the term of one year;
Two Selectmen for the term of three years ;
One Town Treasurer for the term of one year;
One Collector of Taxes for the terra of one year;
One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years ;
One member of the School Committee for the term of three years;
One Moderator for the tern of one year;
Two Members of the Planning Board for the term of three years ;
Two Constables for the term of one year;
One Trustee of Public Trusts for the term of six years ;
Seventeen Town Meeting Members in each Precinct for the term of
three years ;
Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct One for a term of two years ;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Two for a tern of two years;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Two for a term of one year;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three for a tern of two years ;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three for a term of one year;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Four for a term of one year.
The polls will be open at 6:00 A. M. and will remain open
until 8:00 P. M.
You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in
Cary Memorial Hall in said Town on Monday, the twenty-third day
of March, 1942 at 8:00 F. M. , at which time and place the following
articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by the
Town Meeting Members in accordance with Chapter 215 of the Acts
of 1929 and subject to the referendum provided for by section
eight of said chapter.
Article 2. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees.
Article 3 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow
money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the
financial year beginning January 1, 1943 , and to issue a note or
notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or
notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in
accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Annual Warrant -2- March 2 , 1942
Article 4. To see if the Town will make the usual appro-
priations for Town expenses for the ensuing year, by direct
appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by a combina-
tion of the two methods, or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer unex-
pended appropriation balances in any of the Accounts to the Excess
and Deficiency Account, or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
Assessors to use money from available funds toward the reduction
of the 1942 tax rate, or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money
to pay any unpaid bills for prior years of the various town departments.
Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of
Selectmen to sell and dispose of the property taken by the Town by
foreclosure of tax titles.
Article 9. To .see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum
of money for the Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40, Section
6, General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
Selectmen to petition the Director of Accounts of the State for
an audit for the year 1942.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains
in such accepted or unaccepted streets as the Selectmen may determine
during the year 1942 in accordance with authority contained in the
By-laws of the Town, subject to the assessment of betterments, and
to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and to
pay for the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from available
funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer
mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets as the Selectmen may
determine during the year 1942 in accordance with St. 1897, Ch.
504 as amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain any
necessary easements therefor, and to pay for the same by direct
appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue
of notes or bonds of the Town.
Article 13 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen
to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets:
Robbins Road; Rangeway; Revolutionary Road; Constitution Road.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds
for providing co-operation with the Federal Government in unemployment
relief and other pro_jc s of irecct, qtr indirect benefit to the town
or its inhabitants, ai un s o e pended by the Selectmen; or
act in any other manener in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town mill authorize the Selectmen
to increase the pay of some or all of the employees of the Public
'Works Department and to pay them the equivalent of one and one-half
times their regular hourly pay rates for overtime and contract with
them for employment aggregating at least forty-four hours per week
and appropriate money therefor, or act in any other manner in re-
lation thereto.
Annual Warrant -3- March 2, 1942
Article 16. To see if the Town will establish and appropriate
money for a separate fund under authority of Statute 1939, Ch. 46
and General Laws, Ch. 40 , sec. 5. , para. 3 for expenditures whereby
employment may be afforded citizens of the Town determined to be in
need thereof, or for the purchase or hire of materials, supplies
and equipment and the employment of labor for the furtherance of
a contribution of the Town to any Federal unemployment relief project
undertaken or to be undertaken within the Town, and to meet the
appropriation in whole or in part by transfer from the account of
the proceeds or bonds issued under the authority of St. 1939, Ma-eters
72 and 453 for expenditures in conjunction with funds of the
Federal Government, or from other available funds; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to revoke in whole
or in part the authorization it voted at its meeting of March 25 ,
1940 under Article 20 of the Warrant for that meeting for the
construction of certain sewers with funds procured by the issue of
bonds under authority of St. 1939 , Chapters 72 and 453 , so far as
the said authorization has not yet been executed by constructing
the said sewers, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 18, To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money
to pay the necessary expenses of School Officers incurred outside
the Commonwealth in securing information upon matters in which the
Town is interested or which may tend to improve the service in the
School Department.
- Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a
sum of money for the installation of automatic sprinklers in the
Munroe School, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money for highway maintenance under authority of Chapter 90 of the
General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money for the installation of fire alarm boxes, or act in any othe r
manner in relation thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money
for the purchase of a billing machine for the Water Department, or
act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen
to petition the Legislature for legislation authorizing the Town
of Lexington to revoke its acceptance of the Tenement House Act
for Towns which is now General Laws, Chapter 145 ; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a
sum of money to cover the expenses of printing, publishing, and
distributing the proposed Building, Plumbing, and Gas Fitting By-laws,
and provide for the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from
available funds, or by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town; or
act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will amend its Building By-law
by substituting therefor a new Building By-law, substantially in
accordance with the copy on fl. e in the office of the Town Clerk
and open to public inspection, printed copies of which will be mailed
to the Town Meeting Members; or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Annual Warrant -4- March 2, 1942
Article 26. To see if the Town will amend its Plumbing
By-law by substituting therefor a- new Plumbing By-law, sub-
stantially in accordance with the copy on file in the office
of the Town Clerk and open to public inspection, printed
copies of which will be - mailed to the Town Meeting Members; or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to adopt a new
Gas Fitting By-law, substantially in accordance with the copy
on file in the office of the Town Clerk and open to public in-
spection, printed copies of which will be mailed to the Town
Meeting Members ; or• act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town w ill authorize the Selectmen
to petition the Legislature for legislation authorizing the Town
to appropriate money for the removal of snow and ice from private
ways within the Town which are open to public use.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to amend the
Lexington Zoning By-law as follows:-
By changing "Section 16" to read as follows:-
Section 16. There shall be a Board of Appeals of five members,
who shall be appointed by the Selectmen for terms of five years
each, the term of one appointee to expire each year. The Sel-
ectmen shall also appoint in like manner four associate members
of the Board of Appeals one or more of whom may be designated
by the Selectmen from time to time to take the place of a
regular member or members of the Board of Appeals as to cases
arising under this by-law in case of vacancy, inability to act
or interest.
Article 30, To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington
Zoning By-law as follows :-
By adding the following to Section 6. (a) second paragraph: -
However on such lots there shall be provided on each
side of each dwelling or other permitted main structure a side
yard .which shall be kept open from the front line of the main
structure to the rear line thereof as follows:
On lots recorded previous to July 19, 1929 the side yard
shall be at least 7. 5 feet in width and on lots recorded after
July 19, 1929 but before October 6, 1938 the side yard shall be
at least 10 feet in width.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington
Zoning By-law as follows : -
By changing under Section 3 . (b) C,1 Districts paragraph 7,
which now reads:- "Upon the northerly side of Massachusetts Avenue
beginning at Vine Brook and extending westerly to the easterly
line of Merriam Street, throughout its length extending
northerly to the Railroad property"
to read as follows:- Upon the easterly side of Massachusetts
Avenue beginning at a point southerly and distant 164 feet
from the center line of Grant Street and extending northerly to
the southerly line of Merriam Street, throughout its length
extending easterly to the Railroad property,
Annual Warrant -5- March 2, 1942
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington
Zoning By-law and Map as follows : -
By changing under Section 3. (b) C.1 Districts paragraph 8,
which now reads :- "Upon the westerly side of Massachusetts
Avenue beginning at the northerly line of Winthrop Road and
extending northerly to a point opposite the southerly line
of Merriam Street and of a depth of 100 feet from the west-
erly line of Massachusetts Avenue throughout"
to read as follows:- Upon the westerly side of Massachusetts
Avenue beginning at a point northerly and distant 568 feet
from the center line of Winthrop Road and extending northerly
to a point opposite the southerly line of Merriam Street and
of a depth throughout of 100 feet from the westerly line of
Massachusetts Avenue
or take any action thereon.
Article 33 . To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to
petition the li?gislature for legislation amending St. 1922, Ch. 1,
striking out/ section 1 of that Statute , the words, "Overseers
of the poor, " and providing for a Board of Public Welfare separate
from the Board of Selectmen to be established either by election
under General Laws, Ch. 40, or by appointment by the Board of
Selectmen and Public Works as the Town shall determine or any
similar legislation; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 34. To see if the Town will approve a Program recommended
by the Board of Selectmen and the Appropriation Committee for the
establishment of a policy relative to the operation of the various
administrative departments of the Town and relative to Town
finances during the present war and for a reasonable period there-
after; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 35. To see if the Town will authorize the acquisition
of an easement for surface drainage and appropriate money therefor
or provide for the payment therefor by transfer from available
funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money
for the erection of a temporary structure to contain the names of
those Lexington citizens serving with the armed forces of the
United States of America, said structure to be placed at some con-
spicuous public place, the location to be selected by the Board of
Selectmen; 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-law
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 meetinc.
given under our hands at Lexington, this sixteenth day of
February, A. D. , l242.
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