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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1931-07-14118 SELECTMEN'S MEETING JULY 14, 1931. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the 'Selectmenr s Room, Town Office Building, at 7:45 P.M. Messrs. Trask, Custanee, Blake, Shannon and and Gilcre-ist were present. The Supt. of Public Works and the Clerk were also present., At 7:45 P.M., James J. Carroll, Town Treasurer, , presented the bids on the $175,000. temporary loan to be dated July 15, 1931 and payable April 15, 1932: Bids received_werd as follows: Bids on Temporary Lexington Trust Co. 1992 dis. Loan. Blake Bros. 1.92 plus $1.35 additional Faxon, 'Gadde & Co. 2,03 Solomon Bros. & Hutzler 2.18 First Nat. Old Colony Corp. 2.04'plus $1.75 d.dditional The Board. voted to instruct the Town Treasurer to accept the bid of Blake Brothers, kt their bid of`! -.192 plus $1.35 in addition. The Board signed the Public Carriage License of Licenses. James F. Cavanaugh and approved the bond in connection with his application for a Public Carriage License. ' Common Victualler's License was granted to Ashley W. Partridge to do business at 1709 Mass. Avenue. Mr. William G. Pottdr of Walnut Street, mid Mr. Eugene T, Buckley came before the Board. Mr. Potter, representing the Athletic Association, requested that the Association be allowed to use the large baseball field. Mr. Potter explained that Mr. Garrity informed him that he thought the grass at the large diamond was too soft to be used. Mr. Potter stated that he felt as long as the field had been reseeded, he would not hesitate to drive a pair of horses on the field. He also felt that one game of football would take more out of the field than the baseball games would, inasmuch as they play football in the wet weather. He stated that the out-of-town teams they play with feel that the small diamond is too small. He also felt that they would be satisfied with the use of the field once a week, possibly one game in between. The Board informed Mr. Potter that they would talk with Mr. Garrity to see what he said about the matter and they would let him know later what the decision of the Board would be. Mr. Garrity later came before the Board and stated that if the field had all been plowed up and a good foundation put in, he would say that it could be used now for baseball, but inasmuch as the field was only reseeded on the top surface, there would be s ots 119 where the grass would pull right out if baseball were played there. He felt it should be left at least six, weeks more so that the grass could get rooted. He also stated that the small diamond is as large as a great many towns have. It was left with the Chairman to look over the field and make a decision whether the field should be used or not. At 8;15 P.M. hearing was declared onen by the Board of `Survey on the layout of a proposed street running from Allen Street in a northeasterly direction approximately 600 feet. Said street would be known as Allen Street. The Selectmen declared the hearing open on the intention to lay out Allen Street, beginning at what was formerly known as Allen Street and running in a northeasterly direction a distalmce of approximately 600 feet. Mr. Custance explained that the Board is laying out this part of the street at the present time and that a study is being made by the Town Engineer to lay the street out. Mr. nesse P. Faria, who owns land where the street is bo be laid out, stated that he had no gbjections to the street being laid out and he would Allen be glad to give the land provided there were no Street assessments of betterments inasmuch as he could not afford to pay any assessments. He also stated that he represented his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary B. Faria, and that she had no objections if there were no assessments of betterments. Jacintha S. Con dinho stated that he had no obje<�tions provided he would not be assessed for betterments. Mr. Swenson thought that the street should make a turn before it passes the school house property. He had in mind running a street through his property off of Allen Street. The Town Engineer informed him that the territory had been studied and the the lay out as far as the school would not be changed. There were no objections to the lay out's being made. The Board therefor approved the plan prepared by the Town Engineer of the Board of Survey la out of this street. The Board also adopted an ordep establishing a Selectmen's lay out of this street a distance of 600 feet. Letter was received from the State Dept. of Public Conference Works ih reference to a conference to be held Wednesday, re High July 15, 10 A.M., to discuss the construction of High Street. Street, Winchester and the extension of this street into ' Lexington. Mr. Custance agreed to attend the meeting. Letter was received -from air. Howard S. 0. Nichols in reference to the Selectmen's letter calling attention 120 to the report of the State. Accountants in which they Cemetery stated that the Cemetery Trust Funds should be placed funds. in the _hands of the town, and the funds paid through the 'Town Treasurer. Mr. Nichols stated that he was informed by the Secretary of the Cemetery Commissioners that this could be done and it was left with the Chairman to communicate with the Cemetery Commissioners to see if they would make arrangdments to have the funds paid in accordance with the instructions of the State Accountants.' Water List of outstanding.accounts of Section 3 water rates. rates was presented to the Board. Letter was received from the Supt. of Public Works in which he stated that he had a request from the Gas. Co. Lexington Oras Company for permission to construct a re Gover- new pit for the governor in that part of the street nor. between Grant Street and the right of way to the rear of thi Edison sub -section, on Mass. Avenue. he Supt. recommended that this be allowed to insure adequate service for the users in this Town. The Board voted to grant permission, and called attention to the fact that the Edison Company should be consulted about the matter to see whether or not they desired to do any work on their property before this was done. Letter was received from Willard C. Hill in which he enclosed an insurance policy covering insurance on the Adams School addition. He stated that he was placing this $50,000. additional fire insurance at the request of Mr. James Stuart Smith. He explained that they now carry $106,000. insuranceon this building, and this will make a total of $156,000. in all. -The insurance has been written for .28 rate, but this will be reduced later on when sprinklers are installed. Insurance Mr. Custance reported that the rate has been established for the Franklin School and that the schedule may be revised at an early date. Mr. Custance also called attention to the fact that if $16,000. or $18,000. were spent on the High School putting in the sprinkler system, they would save about $12,000. insurance each year on this building. He felt that this should be done. Letter was received from Mr. Robert H. Holt, Attorney for Mrs. Delia Mulvey, 15 Boston Ave., West Medford, relative to the order of the Board to have bathrooms installed at 2, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 'Mulvey Mine Street, and the rear of 20 Woburn Street. He (property• stated that he understood there was no sewer in Vine Street, and he was also uhable to find anything in the Statutes or the -Board of Health Regulations that justifies the orddr. The Health Inspector is in communication with Mr. Wrightington's office to endeavor to find what legal authority the Board has in making this order. The matter therefor, was laid upon the table for the 1 C D [7 1 121 present time. Letter was received from Roberta. Holt relative to the Stone property in which he asked whether or not the omission of Parcel #3 in the description given was an error or intentional. Also he felt that the price of $100. for Parcel #1 containing 1800 square feet was a very inadequate price for the area. Mr. Custance reported having'had a conference with Mr. Holt; who informed him that he had Mr. Charles E. Howe as appraiser for Miss Stone. As Attorney for Miss Stone he had to advise her that she could not give the Stone property away as trustee, but that she had to -receive Property.; as much for the property as it was worth. Mr. Holt, not knowing land values, employed Mr. Howe for this purpose. The figures presented by him would leave a net cost to the Town of $3500. Mr. Custance stated that he did not believe that the land was worth that much and he thought it was worth about $2000.. He felt that the Town Engineer should go over the land to see how much swamp land there was. It was voted to lay this matter of the Stone property on the table for one week. The Town Engineer was also to.go over the vote to be adopted by the,Park Commissioners to be sure the description was correct and the matter is to be brought before the Board nett Muesda7 evening. Letter was received from Russell I. Prentiss-,, Health Inspector, stating.that he had made an inspection of Ryder the Ryder property on Waltham Street, and on July"lst pigs. found no pigs were being kept there. Mr. Custance received a letter from Chas. W. Sherman Letter of Metcalf and Eddy, in which he enclosed a complete re tax showing of the distribution of tax money in Montclair, money. New Jersey. Mr. Custance reported that the Boston and Maine, R. R. did not want to spend any money on Bow Street, and inasmuch as the question of figures is the question Bow at the present time, he suggested a letter bo.be sent Street, to the County Commissioners requesting them to issue the decree on the widening of Bow Street. The Board voted to grant the joint location of the Edison Electric Ill. Go. and the New Engladd Pole Tel. & Tel. Co. to set and remove one pole on location. Meriam Street. The weekly report of the Supt. of Public Works was received. Report was received from Russell I. Prentiss on the property of the heirs of the estate of Nellie Shea as follows: 122 bPb July 14, 1931. *04 Hon. Board of Selectmen Town Office Building Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen:- Recently entlemen:- Recently you issued an order to Nicholas Shea, Cedar Street, to clean up the premises and the house that he lives in, or the Board would order it closed after July 11th. Qn July 13th, I made an inspection of the property and foind that some of the rubbish has been cleaned out ofthe house, but no real progress has been made towards cleaning it up.. Shea In my opinion, it would be impossible to clean property. this place up so that we could say it was satisfactory, and I therefor recommend that the Board carry out the original order issued to close the premises, Yours very truly, Russell I. Prentiss ' Health Inspector, The Board felt that inasmuch as the house had not been cleaned up that 3t should be closed and decided to inform the Health Inspector to communicate with Mr. Nicholas Shea present occupant, and inform him informally, that tie Board intended to close the premises. The Chairman reported that Mr. Pierce informed Aerial him that there was sufficientmoney in the 'Unclassified maps. Account to charge the aerial maps in the amount of $140 to that account. The Bca rd went out to view the stakes placed by the Town Engineer on the property of Enos Harrington at the junction of Winthrop Road and Vine Brook Load. All of the persons on Winthrop Road intended to have sidewalks, and Mr. Harrington stated that he would have a sidewalk on Winthrop Road, but he also desired to have the stakes put in to show where his property line came at the junction of Winthrop Road and Vine Brook Road. It appears that when Highland Avenue was orig- inally laid out, it was laid out sixty feet wide and came down on to what is now part of Winthrop Road. Vine Brook road .is 42 feet wide, and Highland Avenue was laid out around thecorner of the Harrington property, 123 It is not reasonable that this street, 60 feet wide, should turn a corner into a 42 foot street and therefor the Zngineer staked the property* out shoring considerable of Mr. Harrington's land lying in the highway. The Board felt that this land should be deeded to Mr. Harrington on his corner and that'there also should be land deeded on the opposite corner. The Supt. of Public Wcr ks thought that there were some records showing the layout of Vine Brook Road which should be looked up. The matter, therefor, was laid on the table for one week. Attention was called to the fact that all the per- sons desiring water connections on Wood Street have Water not signed the guaranty bond. It was left with the Wood 9t. Chairman to see that if any connections were madd-that they be shut off if the bond had not been signed.' The meeting adjourned at 10:33 P.M. A true record, Attest: - u 1 Clerk.