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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1930-12-16 366 SELECTMEN 'S MEETING ^Z] DECEMBER 16, 1930 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7 :30 P.M. Messrs . Burnham, Custance, Blake, Shannon and Traek were present. The Supt . of Public forks and the Clerk were also present. Letter was received from the Town Accountant calling attention to the fact that he had received a forest fire Forest payroll which exceeded the appropttation, and suggested Fire Acct. that the Approptiation Committee be asked to transfer 8125.00 to this accouht The board decided to cmmuni.catte with the Appropriat ion Oommittee. The Board signed an abatement of the charge against Abatement Alfred A. Adler, 82 Bedford Street, in the amount of A. Adler. $102 . for the care of his son, Robert, at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital. The Board signed a deed of land belonging to H. S. Bacon for which land a tax title was given by Deed the Tax Collector in 1911. Judge Brackett desired to J.W. Nilbur have the deed affirmed by the Town and given by the signed. Board of Selectmen. The Board signed the following building line Order Bldg. line to be recorded at the Registry of Deeds, in connection order. with the establishing of a building line over the property of Daniel J. O'Connell. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex,ss. Town of Lexington At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington held the 16th ddy of December, 1930, it is ORDERED, Whereas, the Board of Selectmen of the Tarn of Lexington, having determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require that a town building line be established as hereinafter described and having complied with the requirements of law relating to notice, did, on the 25th day of November, 1930, lay out a Built/ng Line on Massachusetts Avenue from the northerly terminus of the present street line on the former Town Hall property now 6*ned by Messrs . Rubin & Seligman to the property of Anstiss S Hunt, et al, and duly filed their report of such laying out with the boundaries and measurements of the same in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town on the 25th day of November, 1930, and whereas at a Town Meeting duly called, warned and held on the 2nd day of December, l9)0, in accordance with the provisions of law applicable thereto, it was 367 Voted: That the Town accept and establish a building line on Massachusetts Avenue prom the northerly terminus of the present street line on the former lawn Ha] , roperty now owned by Messrs . Rubin & ,iel ,gmin to the property of Anstiss S. Hunt, et al, alas laid out by the Selectmen and shown on plan on file in the lown Clerk' s Office entitled, "Plan Snowing Proposed duiloing Line on a Portion of Mass. Avenue, Lexingt_n, Octobet 17, 1930, ocale 1 in. - 20 feet, John f L,osgrove, Town Engineer,'" provided that any structure existing at the time of the establishment of the said bu_lding line sha 1 be permitted to remain am, be maintaned in its Present location, and for the purpose of establishing this building line the sum of 0500. be ao:ropriated, and tnat this sum be transfer-ed from the account of Purchase of Lang., Stuart-Marshall Realty Company. NO16 THEREI.ORE, e, the undersigned, being a majority of the Board of selectmen of the said lown of Lexington, duly elected, qualified and acting us such, do hereby under and by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws and of any and every power and authority us hereto in any way enabling take the right or easement to establish for all the purposes of a Building Line, and do hereby establish said Building Line as provided under General Laws , Chapter 82, Section 37, iescribed as follows '5.eginning a' the property line between lands now or formerly of Daniel J. O'Connell and Meyer Rubin & Harry G. Seligman, being distant (26.07 ) feet from the present norther- ly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue and running by two courses distant 119.99 fe t to a point in the property line between lands now or formerly of Daniel J. O'Connell and Anstiss S. Hunt, et al, said point being distant P30.00) feet from the present northerly exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue . The aforesaid line is shown on a plan entitled, "Plan Showing Proposed Building Line on a Portion of Mass . Avenue, Lexington, October 17, 1930, Scale 1 in. - 20 feet, John T. Cosgrove, Town Engineer, " which plan is on file at the iown Clerk's Office at Lexington, and a copy of which will be recorded at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds with a copy of this order. Provided that any structure existing at the t .me of the establishment of the said Building Line shall be permitted to remain and be maintained in its present location. And said Board having considered the question of damages sustained by the owners of lands across and through which said Building Line has been laid out and established as aforesaid, hereby determines that damages are sustained by Daniel J. O' Connell in his property by reason of such taking in the sum of $500. and awards to him the said sum, and said Board hereby declares that all acts herein are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments . 368 The area which it is expected will receive benefit or advantaTe other than the general advantage to the community from such improvement is described as follows : Northeasterly side of Massachusetts Avenue from land owned by Meyer Rubin & Harry G. Seligman to the property of Anstiss -. Hunt, et al, as shown on a plan entitled, "Plan Showing Proposed Building Line on a Portion of Mass . Avenue, Lexington, October 17, 1930, Scale 1.Lin. - 20 feet, John T. Cosgrove, Town Engineer, " which plan is on file in the Town Clerk's Office in the Town Hall. Witness our hands at Lexington aforesaid this- 16th day of December, A. D. 1930. Albert H. Burnham Clarence Shannon SECTMEN Hallie C. Blake Theodore A. Custance OF Robert P. Trask LEXIW TON Filed at the gown Clerk's Office December 18, 1930. John H. Kane Town Clerk111 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE ESTIMATED ASSESSMENT OF BETTERMENTS TO ABUTTORS. Daniel J. O'Connell $1.00 A duplicate of the order was to be filed at the Land Court Letter was received from the Town Counsel in which he requested instructions from the Board of Selectmen relative to the trial of the O'Connell case for the establishment of a building line. He asked what instructions the Board had in regard to the employment of experts. The Board considered the matter and suggested that Experts Mr. Wrightington comminicate with Mr. William H. Ballard re regarding the experts and that he be given permission to O'Connell use his own judgment on mploying experts and do anything case. that he feels is proper for the Town in preparing this case. Letter was received from Archibald R. Giroux for his wife Audrey M. Giroux , in which he stated that he would agree to the same c -nditions contained in the letter of Mr. Frederic L. Fischer, of December 5, whereby the Town was to fill in the front of his premises on Massachusetts Avenue with filling taken from Wood St. 369 A.R. Giroux The Board decided to acknowledFe receipt of the re filling. I letter. Selectmen's Mr. Robert P. Trask was requested to write up the report for report of the Board for the annual Town Repot. town Report Notice was received from the Standard Appraisal Company giving information regarding the appraisal Standard of property in the Town. Appraisal. The Board voted to lay the matter upon the table Notice was received from the Disabled Veterans Xmas Remembrance Committee in which they requested Disabled that the Board issue a proclamation to the people Veterans in the community for an appeal to help the Disabled Xmas Veterans Xmas Remembrance Committee. Committee. The '•oard decided to hand the communication over to the Lexington Times withoit any proclamation. Letter was received from the Supt. of Schools requesting the use of the Cary Memorial hall on Teachers M January 20, 1931 from 3 30 to 5 P.M. for the use of Club to use the Teachers Club. Cary Hall. The Board voted to -Grant the use of the Hall free of charge. I Notice was received from the Dept . of Corporations fond df and Taxations that the bond of the Treasurer and Tax Treas . & Collector eadh will have to be $47,000. Tax Collector. Hearing was declared open at 8 P.M. upon the application of William G. Potter to erect a two car stone garage on Walnut Street. Mr. Potter Potter appeared in interest of his application. No persons garage. appeared against the petition and it was voted to grant a garage license. Bids having been advertised on the Town of Lexington Revenue Loan of x$125,000, dated Dec . 19, 1930 and payable June 5, 1931 at the Atlantic National Bank of Boston, bids were received as follows Solomon Bros . & Hutzler 2.50 dis . Bids on Faxon, Gade & uo. Inc. 2.75 dis . $125,000 Lexington Trust 2.46 dis . Revenue loan. The bid was awarded to the Lexington Trust Co. The Supt . of Public Works presented the plan showing the sewer on Pottler Avenue and stated that Mr. I James Piccarielo, owner of a piece of land of a peculiar shape received no benefit from the sewer as it is now Abatement constructed, and asked whether or not the amount of of sewer $169. betterment tax could be abated. The Clerk called tax. attention to the ' ranolithic sidewalk bill on Shirley Street adjacent to the property of Mr. Piccarielo which has not been paid by Mrs . "ary Hallstrom, former 370 7 �J owner of the property now owned by Mr. Piccarielo. The amount of the sidewalk bill is $46.20. 11 It was decided to lay this matter on the table until a later date. It was decided to send a notice to Yrs . Viola C. Oliver of Bedford St. that the allowance being made to per for Soldiers Relief and State Aid will be discontinued. Letter was received from Byron C. Earle, Tax Collector, giving his estimate for 1931. Mr. Leustance brought up the fact that Mr Earle receives a percentage on the water rates he collects , and he felt it would be mach more satisfactory Salary if Mr. Earle received a definite salary as Tax Collector of Tax and Town Collector instead of receiving a percentage from Collector. the Water Department for these collections . It was decided to ask Mr. Earle if he would give a statement of the amounts received by him for collections so that this matter may he taken up again. 1931 Suggestions for the 1931 budget were handed to Budget. the various members of the Board for their consideration. The Board discussed the matter of employing non- citizens and decided that in cases of need that the non- Employ- citizens would be employed after the citizens were taken ment of care of. non-citi- zens . It was decided after the work on the Water Dept . was completed that there is work in the Park Dept . of cleaning up Tower Park and the Power Station property on Lincoln Street. Question of fundi to be used for this work was also discussed. Mr. Harry L. Fuller, 1468 Mass . Ave came before the Board to discuss the tatter of water rates charged to him. The 3oarw felt therefore that he should come Harry L. before them and they would be glad to explain any thing Fuller he might not understand. re Mr. Fuller explained that he thou ictthat the water water rates were ecessive and when he was first charged for rates . water the charge was $3.00 a quarter and he did not understand why he had to pay such excessive amounts now. Mr. Ross presented fi.iures shnsing that Mr. Fuller did not have a meter in his house for the first six months and the report showed that the family were away and the man could not get into the house to read the meter. After the meter was put in he showed the increase in the water rates and that four different meters had been put in and tested and found to be correct . There was one al] owance given to Mr. Filler on the water rates . He was aware of the fact that the increase was made from $3.00 to $3.75 a quarter for the minimum of water to be used and this rate was dropped from 1360 to 1250. he felt that any ordinary small family of two people in the house should not use any more that the $3.75 for the quarter. 371 Mr. Scamman informed Aim, however, that in his own house there was only he and his wife and the bills ran up to $6.00 and $7 .00 and in many oth-r families of the same size the water rates do run over. Mr. Fuller believed that this was an increase of 701 in the water rites which was entirely top much for a town or this size. Dr: Shannon explained to him that the old system of water pipes in the Town were being renewed; that the pipes nit in a number of yea-s ago wee inadequate and there was not sur'ficient pressure in certain parts of the Town and this was the reason that the Department was as expensive as it is at the present time. Mr. Fuller was informed that any information he desired further re-arding the Water Department would be given to him. Mr. Daniel J. O 'Connell came before the Board and asked if the Board had any ideas abort the term of lease he should give to a tenant who desires to hi-e the gara:-e on his premises. Mr. Burnham informed him that he did not see how the Board could rive him any advice. Dr. Shannon informer? M». O'Connell that he understood from the sown Counsel that if he leased, the property he would do so at his own risk. D.J. Mr. O'Connell was anxious that the Town L'ounsel be O'J3nnell instructed to proceed i.tinediately in the case, inasmuch re lease as he desired to have the assessment of betterments before of garage February. Mr. Eugene Kraetzer name before the Board to ask what was to be done about the taxes rpon the Marehall property and the Carbarn -iroperty, they did not desire E. Kraetzer to abate the taxes. re taxes . Mr. Kraetzer was informed that they would receive something fr'm the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co. and also rom mr. Abbott of the Misticke Co. on taxes which would reduce the amount. The Board informed them that they did not have any aepropriations wherein tne - could pay the taxes and felt that the matter should lay over. The following is the weekly report o- the Supt. of Public Works . For the week ending December 13, 1930. HIGHWAY DEPARTVENT Gravel spread and graded on Shade "ltreet, Walnut Street, Bcwman Street and Allen Str=et. Surface patches made in a number o" streets and catch basins cleaned. Drain constructed from Crov Street to brook thru land of McDevitt, one catchbason built doing away with draining surface water on kcDevit{ 's land. Catch basin built an connected with others at the corner of Old County Road and Ma s . Avenue, getting rid l J 372 7 of a soot which was always wet. �. Next week the regular maintenance will be taken care of. r MOTH & SHADE TREE DEPT . The deparmtment burned over Bowman park and treated gypsy moth nests with creosote Next week the depaxent will continue the work o1 treating the gypsy moth nests . PARK 'DEPARTMENT Regular maintenance looked after and will be attended to next week. WATER & SEWER 'DEPARTMENT Water Maintenance Water services installed as follows - Rose, Locust Avenue; Mason, Nottler Avenue. Repaired leak in service at Belfry Club. Water Construction We have laid approximately 2300 feet of 8" and 10" water pipe in Wood St-reet, making a total of 3890 feet of pipe laid to Sewer Maintenance Sewer servi, es installed as follows Rose, Locust Avenue ; Mason, 1' ottler Av nue. The manhole in the new bass. Avenue sewer line has been completed. The work contemplated for the week ending December 27th is as follows Wood Street ; water And sewer services . ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Highways Survey of Lincoln Street alternate line. Sewer Grades for house connection, Fattier Avenue. Drainage Completed srrvey of Vine Brook from Lowell Street to Hayes Lane. Miscellaneous Tied in Mass. Avenue stone bound oppo ite Hastings Park. Work on Bashian property plan regarding abandonment of old Lass . Avenue One man ( entire tAlme) with Wood Street water 373 II construction. Yours very truly, William S. Scamman Supt, of Public Works The meeting ad,joirned at 10:10 P.M. A true record, Attest %./14C-a•- C Clerk.