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MEETI1G, AUGUST 14, 1923.
n regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen and Public Works
war held in the Selectmen's Room, Town full, Lexington, on Tuesday,
august 14, 1923 at 8 P.ai. The following members of the Board were
present, namely iieerre. Scamman, Make, hutchinson, Burnham and
%ioulton; the Town Clerk and the Xe:''t 2own Slerk were also present.
The Town Counsel was absent.
vir. Dodell of the Edieon Co, and sir. Howard -`.�iunroe came
before: the Board relative to the petition of the Edison Co. for
location of 12 poles on voburn St. 400 ft. east of Lowell St.
.:.r. Munroe appeared at the last meeting of the 13oard and objected
to this location being granted. The petition wav therefore held up.
::r. wodell explained that this was a high tension lire and that they
felt they- should 'nave the location. i. -r. Liunroe claimed that the
Edison Go..pany owed him a bi11 for rental of land upon which the
poles were located.
The Hoard requested Lir. Munroe to take this matter up with
uir. Iodell and straighten out -is claim, but that they felt thie
had no particular bearing upon the petition. The Board therefor
voted to grant the petition.
,r. C• a. Ryan of 10 Bedford Wit. carve before the Board with
the request that the Board lay a granolithic sidewalk in front of
' his house, t1r. Britton's house and �+r. 'Tobin'v houre. Lir. yan
felt that thio should be done while the work on Elm live. and
Bedford at, ie beinp� done by contractor John 'l. ,dales. 1r. Ryan
war informed by the -Board. that they would have the Supt. of Public
corks look up the appropriation and if there was sufficient in the
appropriation to have the work done to do so.
Kusa 3ros. of Lowell St. came before the Board with the
request that they be furnished mith a two inch pipe and :peter in
place of the one inch pipe now installed eo that they could get
pressure from the w_.ter through the pipe.` They claimed that at
prevent they were unable to water their garden crops properly.
it was left with the Oupt. of Fublic Works to look into this
matter and install a two inch pipe and meter vo that they could.
f;et better -�,ater service.
Theodore H. Custance, urairman of the Board of %F-eesore,
came before the Board and stated that the r.esessore department
.,ould have to close dorm unless they got some money. The Board
were all in favor of a transfer from the he -nerve round and consulted
with Charles P. Tvunn, John L. h. W.ulliken and +Yilliam S. Stickel of
the appropriation �o=dttee, who were all in favor of the transfer.
It was, therefore, voted by the appropriation Com .ittee that j500
be transferred from the Reserve Fund. to the rieveseors ticcount.
There appears to be $500 more needed to run thio department for the
balance of the year and for that amount an article v,ill be placed
in the ,arrant for the to;Nn meeting.
Letter was received from the Breck-Robin:lon hurnery Co. asking
the Board to write to the Boston Laine RR. Co. requesting them to
place signal signs at the crossing near the r,unroe Station as re-
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quired by the Statute. Before
do -ng this the Board decided to
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consult the 'Town Counsel as to
sv,hether
tLie particular crooning
is public or private, as the Board
has
only authority when the
croreing is public to request
signale
be placed there.
The Board having learned
that, the
Building Lav, Committee
'
had not yet met to revise the
building
laws, requested
Yr. 3reeley to call a meeting
of the com;:ittee together.
Registration of the Town
hall for
internal Revenue was
signed by the chairman.
Opinion was received from the Town Counsel on the liability
Of the Town if they order the building at 119 Lace. nve. torn doyen
when there is ,a mortgage on the property. Town Counsel ddvieed
that all partie- inter(^ted in the property be notified, and then
to proceed under the statute. The 6ommittee, therefore, consisting
of' the 'iown Lngineer , Building Inspector and vhief of the Fire
Department, were notified of the Town Jouneel's opinion and that
they were novr to proceed to act under the Statute and the Town
Counsel's direction.
In connection with the above matter the Board considered
.gain the application of John 1. Zunino of Bedford to erect a
filling station at 119 i:•aso . .-.ve. upon which a hearing was held
on July 24, and voted phot to grant a permit to said Zunino to.
erect and maintain a station.
tipplication -of +ary K. Rowland of Lowell St. for a Sunday
Sales permit was refused by the Doard. '
Letter was received from A. oilson �', Sons in regard to
bill of $39.03 due from the heseesore Dept. and asking that came
be paid. They were informed that the Board intended calling a
town meeting; in •�ep,teribtr and at that time would endeavor to
secure funds for the Assessors Department, with which to pay
their bills due.
Letter was received from John L). Curran in which he informed
the Board that he was surprised at the decision of the Board in
regard to the chargee he made against Chief of Police, Edward
Leavitt. He explained that he was the party talking to Chief
Leavitt and felt that he should have a hearing before the Board.
The Board therefore notified Lr. Curran that they would be
in session on Sept. 11, 1923 to hear his complaints.
The Board voted to transfer to Ashley 9. Partridge the license
formerly ieeued to the ;Morse Sisters at cor. -�altham St. and State
Rd. ,also the license formerly issued to i.lr. Pattridge to do
busineve at Depot Square, to ;lase. Ave.
Upon application of +ors. nrthur H. :Lcionald of 568 Mass. Ave.
for Soldiers' Relief for her mother in law, the Board voted to
grant Soldier's Relief to Mrs. V'hastine kcDonald, widcw of
Albert S. civil war veteran, to the amount of $10 pr. month to '
date from nugust let.
The application of krs. agnes Hall of Lake St. was con-
sidered.
,Ars. Hall's husband was recently con.itted to i`ertboro
State Hospital, and she was left with two children ,to support.
The Board felt that inasmuch as ire. Hall owned property
assessed for $1600 they could not readily place her upon the
Overseers of the Poor pay roll.
�z. �illiam L. Denham's attention was called to the fact
that no audit of the town scales books has been made for three
Nears and asking that he bring his books to the Town Accountant.
Letter was received from '4m. h. Ballard of the Planning
Board informing the Board that the Planning Board would take up
the matters of Forest St.. Extenl-ion and extension of street from
Massachusetts revenue at the Lexington Oentre Garage to Vine Brook
Road, as soon as a quorum of the Board could be obtained.
Stanley Hill Poet was requested to furnish the .Board vrith a
co;rplete list of persons enlisting in service from Lexington, so
that a bronze tablet could be made up for a permanent memorial.
The 3oard voted to adopt the following regulations relative
to water services:
"rill water services. shall be laid by the Public -Yorke
Department. Applications for such service piper shall be made
upon blank forms furnished at the office of raid Bepart1:�ent. Shen
the estimated cost of the applicants part has been deposited, the
pipes shall be laid. From the main to the shut off which shall be
located as near the curb line as practicable and the adjoining
edge of the sidewalk, the work shall be done at the expense of
the toern unlern an applicant wishes a :service pipe laid when there
it frost in the ground, in ^;.rich cave he shall pay the extra
expense caused by the front, the. remainder at the coot of the
applicant. The account shall be adjusted and any balance paid be-
fore the water is turned on."
Letter was received from, the J'upt. of Public :corks relative
to r.igp and calling attention to the fact that unless permits
to keep pigs are either refused or granted no prosecution can be
made. he therefore asked that the 3oard take some action. The
Board. discussed the matter and decided that the erupt. should con-
sult with the `rows_ Oour�el to see whether or not the Board could
refuse to grant all of these permits. Then pe3ehape action could
be taken to prosecute pernone having piggeries.
Bid was received from Frank Dogger for the painting of the
atone Building . Before having this work done the Building Instiector
users reouested to look over the building and make an estimate of
repairs and also give advice ar to blinds being used on only part of
the house.
Letter together With plan was presented by the Supt. of Public
1"corks relative to work to be done on the Lexington Playground in
anticipatinn of the Pageant.
' better and plan were turned over to u:r. 31ake crho was to F;o
over the matter and report to the Board.
application of yrs. agnes Fardy of Bedford St. for a gravel
sidewalk in front of her home was turned over to the Supt. of Public
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k:. 6arroll through a letter requested that the Board replace
the wire fence on 'Jaltham 6t. that war at one time fired by the
Board and is now falling down.
the oard requested the Supt. of lublic .tor_�r to notify this
party that, they did not intend continually to fix this fence.
In regard to the application of the Birsch 5ig;n Co, to move
the sign at the junction of6chool and ;::arrott Sts. back from the
present location, the board voted to grant permission.
The -board authorized the Supt. of Public +orks to order eight
electric lights to be placed on xllen Jt. and 9 on Lowell St. in
accordance with the eug-gestion of the Ldison Co.
erupt. of Public Works presented letter in re-;ard to the order
of removal of sign at the junction of :-iaple and Lowell Sts.
The Supt. also read a letter from F. 7. Lmcry objecting; to the
sign at the function of sample and Lowell Ste.
The Supt. of Public borks war requested to look up the plan of
Depot Park to see how rauc}i wL.r to be cut off. .,:r. ;Make called
attention to the fact th:t the bili of n. ". Burgess for,the NTk
done and. cc;ntracted for by4r. zmery ,sill not be paid by Robert P.
Clapp until the work ie done properly.
Lieeting ad4;ourned at 12 o'clock midnight.
�. true record, "ttest:
Clerk.
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