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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1934-06-1248 C.71 SELECTMEN'S MEETING JUNE 12, 1934 A, regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was. held in the Selectmen's Roo*, Town Office Building, at. 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Trask, Gilereast, Ferguson, O'Connell and Lyons were present at the meeting. The Clerk was also present. The Board voted to tp:point the following as Special Police during the duration of their work on the Concord Special Ave. State Highway: James Collins, George E. Rudd,,Jamee Police A. Guthrie, -James McKenzie, Robert Cady, Daniel F. Coughlin and Thomas J. Doherty. Commitment of water rates, $7.95, water service and Commitment miscellaneous charges, $3$. and sewer service and rentals, $206.34, was signed by the Board. It was voted to grant the following licenses: Anna Hannaford. Sunday Sales License Licenses Gustave Bunzel Slaughter License John McHugh. Garbage License The Board also approved a license, for Sunday Golf for the Sundays in June and July, of Cyril Wood and.Carl Peterson, at Merrett Gardens. Order of the Board of Appeals giving their.decision on the application of Fanny P. grown for permission to install a gasoline filling station, 4000 gallon capaelty, at 859-863 Mass. Avenue in which they denied the application on the grounds that the street is narrow at this point and. Crown that there is no necessity for additional aceomodations for Petition a gasoline station, was received. The Board of Selectmen also voted teloeny the petition of Fanny P. Crown. The Chairman of the Board.cal led attention to the fact that on Watertown Street, owing to the work being done on the Concord Avenue job, there has been parking on the street and inasmuch as the street is very narrow he felt t4at there should be a regulation passed whereby no parking would be allowed and the Chief of Police could then enforce the regu- lation. It was therefor voted to.adopt the following regulationst WATERTOWN STREET ' "There shall be no parking on either side of Watertown Street from Pleasant Street to the Belmont Line." 1 u Hearing was declared open on the application of John J. Brady for permission to maintain a two car garage at 143 Bedford Street, Lexington. Mr. Brady appeared and stated that he had come away without his plans but he explained to the Board that this was formerly the Kelley place on Bedford Street and the Brady garage was to be put in the addition to the house and he garage would comply with all the Building Laws such as wire, lath- ing, Ste. The Board voted to grant the permit subject to the approval of the Building Inspector. The Board decided to revise the Jury List on next Jury Tuesday evening. List Attention was called to the fact that there will be a special meeting of the Board of Selectmen on Monday evening June 18th at 7:30 P.M. for a hearing on the layout of Gleason Gleason Read, from Fuller Road to Simonds Road, Road Letter was received from the Town Counsel in which he stated that a hearing would be held before the Dept. of (Public Utilities can. Tuesday, June 19th, at 10:30 A. M. at which time he desired to have the Chairman of the Board, Heai!ing the Town.Engineer and Mr. Earle present at the meeting. Letter was received by Mr. O'Connell from Edward L. Kelley, 8 Muzzey Street, in which he asked that he be sent to some hospital. The application was made out by the Middlesex Co. Sanatorium for his admission to Rutland pend- ing admission to'Middlesex, and owing to the young mants very poor condition, it was voted to send him to Rutland pending his admission to Middlesex. Application was made out by Dr. Nm. L. Barnes for admission of Mrs. Theodore Sheffres of 11 Lisbeth Street to Middlesex -Co. Sanatorium and also for admission to Rutland. Mr. Sheffres was at the veterans Hospital and was called home owing to his wife's condition. She, being alone, has been unable to sleep and is now in very poor conditiox^and Dr. Barnes recommended that she be taken to the sanatorium immediately. Mr. Sheffres explained that they had no relatives and,he had almost $500. with which he was going to buy the burial lot and p rovide money for, funeral expenses for both of them in case anything happens' to them. They have a mortgage on the house of $2650. and 2fe,�was.anxioue to sell the house, but if he could not 3611 Itlaw,wanted to rent.1t. He; stated that he could now pay $5• a^'week, for her Bare at Rut -land The Board noted to send Mrs..Sheffres to.Eutland paend- ing her admission to Middlesex Co. Sanatorium. It was voted to renew the blanket fire insurance in the amount of $44,300. expiring on July 9, 1934, through' the office of Robert Whitney. K01INy T.B. Case Sheffres Case 50 n Letter was received from Miss Margaret E. Walsh calling attention to the fact that she understood that ' a blanket fire insurance policy expires on July 9th and Insurance asking for consideration of re-apportionment of the in- surance. No action was taken on the matter. Letter was received from S. R. Wrightington addressed to the Building Inspector in which he called attention to previous proceedings in reference to the Pasquale Moretti case where Mr. Moretti has violated the Zoning Laws by maintaining a two family house at Melrose Avenue in a one Moretti faully district. He stated that on account of the death, Zoning of Mr. Tibbetts, the matter had not been followed up and Case in view of the fact that a decree was entered at the written consent of his counsel, that he would have served by the sheriff a copy of the formal decree on Moretti- if the Board so desired. f The Board voted to instruct the Town Counsel to have a cops of the decree served on Moretti for violation of the Zoning Law in accordance with his suggestion. In reference to the application of Mary E. Landry for Old Age Assistance, Mrs. Landry's husband had been Landry giviri work as a watchman on the Concord Avenue highway Old Age job and no tion would be taken on the Old Age applica- Case tion providing there were sufficient fundsfor her support ' received by'-him. The matter of compensation was to be checked up, however, Mr. Gi.lcreast reported that he had taken up the mat- ter of Breeds Old Age .Resistance which had been refused by _the Bureau of Old Age Assistance of the State, and that he talked with Mr. Bardwell, State Super#icor, Breed Old in regard to the case explaining to him that application Age Case. had been made to the home Loan Assoc. for Mrs. Breed's house and Mr. Bardwell stated that he would consider the at" but no definite approval had been received. Mr. Dertdwell stated"that they had 48,000 applications for Old Age Assistance on hand, some of which would have to be refused. In regard to the request of Dr. Clarence Shannon that the sewer rental charge above $1.88 be abated owing to the fact that there was no one in his house during the summer Shannon months and he paid they $1.88 on the basis of a $10'.50 water sewer rental bili. The total amount of the water bill for that p4rIft bill was 445.83 a the sewer rental was therefor $6.48. The figures showed that during the winter months he used $15. worth of water as compared with $25. during the period when the water was used. , The Board therefor voted to abate the sum of $4.60 sewer rental charge. ' Letter was received from the Town Counsel in which he gave an opinion in regard to transient vendors and hawkers and p eddlers. He explained that the regulation adopted by the Board at the last meeting was a valid reg- ulation governing vendors and he explained the provisions of the Law in regard to hawkers and peddlers. 1 Letter was received from the Town Counsel in which he stated that the draft of agreement between the Town of Lexington and the Town of Arlington in respect to surface drainage around Stickle and Mill Brook, Bast Lexington, did not have his approval. He enclosed draft of a paragraph which he thought should be inserted after the fourth para- graph,rl,o8e gave his opinion that he felt that the Town of Arlington desired too much in the way of an agreement with reference to the Great Meadows. He felt that the Town of Le*Ington should not engage in a $20,000. construction job and then be ordered to abandon the work on thirty days notice from the Town of Arlington. The Town Engineer was present at the meeting of the Beard and stated that he had talked with the Town Engineer of Arlington and felt certain that the Town of Lexington oould sedure an agreement from Arlington to-do the drainage work from Bow Street to Fottler Avenue, and as that was all that was necessary to be done this year, he felt that the other drainage work could be done at a later date. The matter was therefor left in the hands of the Town Engineer to talk over with the Town Engineer of Arlington again; to find out whether or not they desired to have formal application made by the Town of Lexington and if they would give permission in writing by letter to have the work dont from Bow street to Fottler Avenue. In reference to the claim of Leslie J. Wood for accident while working on the removal of snow last winter, the Clerk reported that on checking up with the Insurance Company, it was found that independent contractors were not included in the pay roll but that all regular employees doing snow re- moval work were covered and also employees of contractors would also be taken into the pay roll audit. It was therefor decided to deny any responsibility in the case of Leslie J. Wood and in the fixture the Supt. of Public Works was either to get a certificate of compensation insurance of independent contractors or to place them on the regular pay roll. 51 Hawkers Peddlers Drainage Wood Claim Mr. Lyons called the attention of the Supt. of Public Works to the street in East Lexington which had not as yet Painting been painted with white lines in the middle of the street Street and there had been another accident in East Lexington and he felt that the street should be painted right away. 52 Cn n. The Chairman reported that the Board of Public Works of Arlington desired to continue dumping in Lexington on ' Shore and Leary properties. Dumping It was decided to inform them that the Town of Lexington, had no objection providing the owners did not object to their filling it in. Mr. Harry Johnson did not appear before the Board, but his Attorney, Mr. Russell, communicated with the Chairman in reference to the agreement for Mr. Johnson to sign. Mr. Johnson now left the matter with his Attorney to attend to and the Chairman stated that Mr. Russell is to oommunieste with Mr. Wrightington and have some agreement drawn up that would belagreeable to our Town Counsel. The dhairman recommended further that the article 'Se inserted in the warrant calling for the water and sewer in this development providing the proper agreement is signed. Johnson The.Board again discussed the matter as to whether or Property not the liens for water and sewer on the property would come after the mortgagees claims, and it was finally voted to insert an article in the Warrant to request the Town to in- stall water and sewer in the Johnson property subject to the agreement of the Town Counsel with respect to liens. Warrant The Bard signed the Warrant for a Town Meeting t© be held on June 25th. It was voted to leave the matter of closing the hall ' Closing on June 18th to the Chairman, he to be governed by whether Hall or not the towns of Winchester and Belmont close their town offices. The Chairman explained that the Supt. of Public Works had been approving bills of ell the departments of the Town whether or not they were under his ..jurisdiction, such as.the Public Welfare Dept., Board of Health, ate. The Chairman felt that the Supt. should approve only such bills as were incurred in the departments directly under his control. The original vote of the duties of the Supt. of Public Works was presented to the Board, and the duties of the Supt. were described as quite general although specific departments were given to his Supt. jurisdiction. The Supt. came before the Board and stated that approving it has been his practice to approve all bills, but he did not bills know very much about some of them, but as long as they were . approved by the head of the department he then approved them. He desired, however, to be relieved of the work of approving all these bills as it took considerable time. The matter was left to the Chairman to make out a list of the departments to be approved by the Supt. and those he would approve himself. Mr. Ferguson reported in reference to the insurance ' appraisal made on the. Munroe School Building,, but owing to the fact that this building was in very good condition, it perhaps did not show the difference that might show up in a building that is older than the Munroe dchool. After consider- ing the matter, it was decided to request John Duff & Sons to make an appraisal of the Hancock School under the same con- ditions which they proposed to make the appraisal of the Munroe School. .At the last meeting, the Board decided to refuse to grant a license to Country Side Filling Station, Inc. for a Common Victuallerts Entertainment license. The Chairman stated that Mr. Currier had talked withiim in regard to the matter and informed him that the request of the Board that he light up the back end of his field came when he made his application for a beer license. He did not do any- thing further about it, inasmuch as he did not desire the beer 53 Appraisal License. license. He felt that all objection to his radio had been -over- come inasmuch as there were no complaints last year, and he asked that the Board reconsider his request for an Entertainment License. The Chairman recommended that the Entertainment License be granted, and it was so voted. The meeting adjourned at 10;30 P.M. A true record, Attest: 1 Cle rk.