HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968-06-03-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 third day of June, 1968, 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 appropriate an additional sum
of money for Engineering - Personal Services for the balance of the year
1968, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current
tax levy, or by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended
balances in current appropriations, or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to
petition the General Court for the enactment of legislation authorizing the
establishment of a Selectmen-Town Manager form of government in the Town of
Lexington, such legislation to be substantially in accordance with the
proposed legislation prepared and submitted by the Structure of Town
Government Committee, or as the same may be amended by vote of the Town
Meeting, a copy of such proposed legislation being on file in the office
of the Town Clerk; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to continue or to revive
the committee called the Structure of Town Government Committee established
under Article 49 of the Warrant for the 1966 Annual Town Meeting, and
determine the time and purposes for which said Committee shall be continued
or revived; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for
highway construction under the suthority of Chapter 90 of the General Laws,
and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
or by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended balances in
current appropriations, or by any combination of these methods; or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen
to petition the General Court for the enactment of legislation to provide
for placing on the official ballot used in the Town at each biennial state
election a question whether licenses shall be granted in the Town for the
sale therein of all alcoholic beverages by certain clubs and war veterans'
organizations; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen
to petition the General Court for the enactment of legislation to provide
for placing on the official ballot used in the Town at each biennial state
election a question whether licenses shall be granted in the Town for the
sale therein of all alcobolia beverages byrestaurantshating a ht ung a dining
room capacity of not less than ninety-nine persons; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will appropriate money to be used in
conjunction with money previously appropriated for the construction of a
sewer main or mains, and the acquisition of land or interests therein
necessary therefor, in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land
as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments
or otherwise , in accordance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, as
amended, or otherwise, and determine whether the money shall be provided
by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds, including any
special sewer funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
purchase, take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire, for street, play-
ground and recreation purposes, all or any part of land described as
follows: Lot 61 on Map 47 consisting of 20.9 acres, more or less, said
map being a Property Map of the Town of Lexington prepared by James W.
Sewall Company of Old Town, Maine, dated 1962, as modified and updated
by the Town from year to year; and appropriate money therefor and
determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended balances in
current appropriations, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these
methods; or act in anyother manner in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law
by striking out Sections 1 through 20, inclusive, thereof, m amended,
together with all zoning maps referred to therein, and by substituting
therefor Sections 10 through 40, inclusive, as set forth in the Zoning
By-Law attached hereto and incorporated in this Article by reference, and
the Zoning Map referred to therein on file in the office of the Town Clerk;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to cover such elected or
appointed officers of the Town under the Workmen' s Compensation Act as the
Selectmen may, from time to time, designate, under the authority of
Section 69 of Chapter 152 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 401
of the Acts of 1966; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to retain professional services for design of a suitable veterans'
memorial to be located at Emery Park or other suitable place in the Town
and appropriate a sum of money for such services, and determine whether
the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, or by transfer from
available funds, including any unexpended balances in current appropriations,
or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in
relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will authorize the construction and
installation of additions to the Civil Defense warning system and the
relocation of three existing warning devices ; appropriate money therefor,
and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
or by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended balances in
current appropriations, or by any combination of these methods; or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE ll}. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of
money for development of a parking area on land abutting on Worthen Road
and adjacent to the south side of the Senior High School Field House, and
determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by
transfer from available funds, including 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.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will appropriate an additional sum
of money for Cemetery Department - Expenses for the balance of the year
1968, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax
levy, or by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended balances
in current appropriations, or by any combination of these methods; or act
in any other manner in relation thereto.
5.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will authorize the Conservation
Commission to purchase or otherwise acquire, and will authorize the
Selectmen to take by eminent domain upon the written request of the
Conservation Commission, for conservation purposes as provided by
Section 8C of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, all or any part of land
described as follows: Lots 99, 128 and 129 on Map 83, consisting of
9.25 Acres, more or less, 100,960 square feet, more or less, and 2.7 Acres,
more or less, respectively, said maps being Property Maps of the Town of
Lexington prepared by James W. Sewall Company of Old Town, Maine, dated
1962, as modified and updated by the Town from year to year; and
appropriate money therefor and determine whether the money shall be provided
by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds, including 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.
li ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
release lots 102 to 104, inclusive, on Taft Avenue from the restrictions
imposed in a certain deed from the Town to Jennie C. Coye and Edward E.
Coye conveying lot 99 on Taft Avenue, which deed is dated October 27, 1958
and reccrded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 9259,
Page 263, and will set the minimum amount to be paid for such release;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will appropriate an additional sum
of money to be used in conjunction with money appropriated under
Article 26 of the Warrant for the 1968 Annual Town Meeting for the purchase
by or with the approval of the Selectmen of equipment for the Department
of Public Works, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the
current tax levy, or by transfer from available funds, including any
balance in the Fire Loss Recovery - Public Works account, or by any
combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
6.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to retain
professional services for the preparation of plans and specifications for
the development of the so-called Old Reservoir area off Marrett Road for
recreational use, including swimming, and to develop all or a portion of
said area; and appropriate money therefor, and determine whether the money
shall be provided by the current tax levy, or by transfer from available
funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
(Inserted at the request of one hundred or more registered voters. )
ARTICLE 20. A. To see if the Town will vote to amend the General
ByLaws by striking out Section 2 of Article XXVII in its entirety and
inserting in place thereof a new Section 2 to read as follows:
Section 2. No dog owned or kept in this Town shall be allowed to be
off the premises of its owner or keeper except in the immediate
restraint and control of some person by means of a leash. The owner
or keeper of any such dog that is not so restrained or controlled off
the premises of its owner or keeper shall be punishable by a fine of
ten dollars for each offense.
B. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money
for personal services and expenses for such enforcement of this By-Law
and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax
levy or by transfer from available funds or by a combination of these
methods or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
(Inserted at the request of one hundred or more registered voters, )
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 thirteenth day of
May, A.D. , 1968.
A true copy, Attest:
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CONSTABLE 'S RETURN
May 23 , 1968
To the Town Clerk:
I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a
printed copy thereof in the Town Office Building and
in a public place in each of the precincts of 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
7 days before the time of said meeting.
Attest : % te'
Constable of Lexington