HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-06-09-STM-Warrant-1 of 2 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 second day of June, 1969, 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 authorize the Selectmen to retain
professional services to prepare final plans and specifications and to obtain
bids for alterations and additions to the Town office building and alterations
and additions to the police building, 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 any combination of
these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Permanent Building
Committee, appointed under authority of the vote adopted under Article 73 of
the Warrant for the 1967 Annual Town Meeting, to retain profess onal services
and prepare final plans and specifications and to obtain bids for the
construction and original equipping and furnishing of a new Junior High
School on the parcel of land situated on and off Marrett Road that was
acquired for school, playground and other public purposes under the authority
of the vote adoped under Article 3 of the Warrant for the Special Town
Meeting of June 7, 1965; appropriate money for such purposes and determine
whether the money whall 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.
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ARTICLE L . To see if the Town will (1) authorize and instruct the
Permanent Building Committee, appointed under authority of the vote adopted
under Article 73 of the Warrant for the 1967 Annual Town Meeting, on behalf
of the Town (a) to initiate and carry on discussions with the contractor or
contractors for the construction and original equipping of a new Junior High
School on the parcel of land situated on and off Marrett Road that was
acquired for school, playground and other public purposes in 1965, concerning
employment on the project of minority-group trainees and skilled workers, in
order to meet labor shortages, maintain an ample force of workers and
tradesmen, and provide more equal opportunities for minority-group employment
in the construction trades; and (b) from time to time to submit requests to
the contractor to utilize, in such manner as the Permanent Building Committee
shall specify, particular referral agencies and training programs for
minority-group employment in the construction trades; (2) authorize said
Permanent Building Committee on behalf of the Town to agree with the
contractor that any such specific request be treated as a change in the work
pursuant to the provisions of the contract, and (insofar as compliance with
any such specific request can be shown to occasion additional expense to the
contractor) to pay additional compensation therefor as provided by the
contract; (3) appropriate money for such purposes 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
any combination of these methods; or (L{.) act in any other manner in
relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the Board of
Selectmen, or to the School Committee, for sewer, water, drain, street, school
and playground purposes, and for all purposes incidental thereto, the care,
custody, management and control of part of the land on and off Marrett Road
that was acquired by the Town in 1965 for conservation purposes, and to
transfer to the Conservation Commission for conservation purposes as
provided by Section 8c of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, the care, custody,
management and control of part of the land on and off Marrett Road that was
acquired by the Town in 1965 for sewer, water, drain, street, school and
playground purposes, to authorize the Board of Selectmen, the School
Committee and the Conservation Commission, and each of them, to take such
action as may be necessary or required by State and Federal authorities to
effect the foregoing transfers, including the execution cc any contracts
with said authorities as may be required, and to instruct the Selectmen to
petition the General Court for enactment of any legislation that may be
required to effect the foregoing transfer; or act in any other manner in
relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase,
take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire for off-street parking and other
public purposes all or any part of the land on and off Massachusetts Avenue
containing 20,146 square feet, more or less, described in three deeds
recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 671,5, Page 321,
Book 6851, Page 225, and Book 6914, Page 337; appropriate a sum of money for
such acquisition, 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.
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ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for
consulting services to be contracted for by the Planning Board for studies
and plans for a traffic operations program to increase capacity and safety
of existing streets and intersections, to improve traffic conditions and to
install and modify traffic safety and control devices; 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 any combination of these methods; and authorize the Planning Board
and the Board of Selectmen, or either of them, to apply for and obtain on
behalf of the Town any state or federal technical assistance, grants or
reimbursements of the cost of such studies for which the Town may be
eligible; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Cemetery Commissioners
or some other committee of the Town to retain professional services and
prepare plans and specifications for an addition to the existing building
at Westview Cemetery, to enter into a contract or contracts for the
construction of said addition, and to supervise the work; appropriate money
for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by the
current tax levy, or by transfer from available funds, including the Westview
Sale of Lots Fund, 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 vote to amend the General By-Laws
by inserting in ARTICLE XXI thereof a new Section 2. to read substantially
as follows:
Section 2. All boards, officers, committees, and other agencies of
the Town, which deal on behalf of the Town in making contracts for the
purchase of goods or services, or for the construction, renovation, or repair
of buildings or other improvement of real estate, may make appropriate
arrangements for special programs of recruitment, training, and employment
of minority-group members in the various grades and classes of work performed
pursuant to such contracts, and, subject to appropriations specifically
designated for such purposes, may expend Town funds and may make such
arrangements, when appropriate, in the form of requirements, to be included
in such contracts, that contractors engage in such recruitment, training,
and employment as a part of the work to be performed, or may make such
arrangements in the form of cdlateral agreements or informal working
arrangements with contractors.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will appropriate an additional sum of
money to be used in conjunction with money appropriated under Article 6 of
the Special Town Meeting held on June 12, 1967 for the purpose of meeting
the Town's share of the expenses of the West Suburban Regional Refuse
Disposal Planning Board formed by the regional refuse disposal planning
committees of the towns of Lexington, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln and Weston
and the city of Waltham, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 40,
Section li4B, of the General Laws, as amended; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
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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 twelfth day of May, A.D., 1969.
A true copy, Attest:
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CONSTABLE'S RETURN
May , 1969
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 it/
days before the time of said meeting.
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