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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1934-12-26 237 II SELECTMEN'S MEETING DECEMBER 26, 1934. A regular meeting of the Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Off ica Building, at 7:30 P. M. Messrs. Trask, Ferguson and ilcreast were present. The Clerk was also present . Bids were received on the printing of 1000 copies Town of the Annual Town Report as follows: Report. Somerville Printitg Co. Inc. *1.50 per page. Spaulding Moss Co. 2.50 " Lexington Townsman, Inc. 2.50 " " Jordan & More Press 3.24 " " Garden City Press, Inc. 2.50 " " Memorial Press 2.50 " " It was voted to award the bid to the Somerville Printing Co. at their bid of $1.50 per page. The Board voted to grant Garbage Licenses to the following subject to the inspection of the Health Inspec- ' tor, all 1Bicenses now to expire on May 1st in accordance with the oard of Health Regulations: - Carroll Brothers Allen Street Robert A. MacAdoo Concord Avenue Chester A. Fogg Woburn Street Ryders Stock Farm Inc. Maple Street John Glennie Inc. 1745 Maple Street, N. Andover Garbage Lowell Rendering Co. Lowell, Mass. Licenses. A. C. Bierenbroodspot Wood Street,Bedford Frank Reynolds, Jr. South Road, Bedford Cornelius Shea R. F. D. , Concord Mass. Reformatory Concord Ernest K. Ballard Wood Street Frank Dias Concord Ave., Lexington John Sullivan 2407 Mass. Avenue William Potter Walnut Street Manuel Silva State Road, Lincoln Manuel Silva State Road, Lincoln John Connors Lincoln, Mass. D. J. Kelley Hartwell Rd. , Bedford John A. Janse 26 Greenwood St., Newton Centre Mildred E. Spooner Bedford Rd., Carisle Joan F. McGrath Blanchard Rd.,Burlington Joseph D. Douglas Crosby Rd. Bedford A. S. Duren Carlisle , bass . IIA. McHugh Lincoln, Mass. Manuel Chaves State Road, Linc In James F. Gaffney 103 Church St., Winchester. 238 orn cc Hearing was declared open on the application of Mary J. Hamblin for permission to maintain a one ear metal gar- Garage age at 45 Parker Street. Mrs. Hamblin came before the Hearing. Board and presented the plans which the Building Inspector had approved and the Board voted to grant the permit to maintain the garage. The following abatements were signed by the Board: Old Age Assistance abatement of bill rendered to the State Abatements. for care of John Mann, in the amount of $2.67, same hav- ing been paid by Town of Arlington; Public Welfare Dept. : $793.14 against the State (for care of Dorothy Babine, $173.85 and Dorothy Babine, $246.27 paid by .Boston; Bernard O'Rourke $54. disallowed by State, John Hawley, $319.02 - change of settlement. ) . Invitation was received from the Mass. State Guard in- Invitation. viting the members of the Board and their wives to attend the installation at officer.s. on Friday, December 28th, at Cary Memorial Hall. attend Invitation was received to/the meting of the Selectmen's Invitation. Association to be held January 4th and 5th at Gardner Auditorium. Letter was received from John W. Duff requesting the 'Appraisal. Board to make an allowance for an insurance appratiai in the 1935 accounts. Letter w as received from Mr. Gaylord W. Anderson of the State Dept. of Health in which he called attention to the fact that Concord had a clinic for the inoculation of Rabies. dogs making a charge of $.50 for dogs inoculated and wham the expenses of the clinic were paid for, it cost the Town only $28.50 to operate the clinic. The poard had already voted to insert an article in the Annual Warrant requesting the establishment of a clinic for the inoculation of dogs, but this should be a free clinic owing to the fact that they felt the people in the Town would not brie their does to the clinic if they had to pay a charge of 0.50. Letter was received from F. W. Dean of Eliot Road in which •he stated that he was astonished to know that num- bers on Eliot Road were to be changed and he felt that it was an unnecessary thing to have done. Another letter had been received from Stanley H. Eldridge of 23 Eliot Road and a petition was signed by all the residents of Eliot Road asking that the numbers of the street be not changed. The Board discussed the matter and felt that perhaps on this particular highway it might not be necessary to change the numbers owing to the fact that the street was 239 fairly well built up and there probably would not be any necessity for a change there for some time and decided to request the Chairman not to write a letter but to telephone to Mr. Adams and inform him to disregard the order as it was felt that if a letter were sent the Board might be re- quested to make other changes on the renumbering of streets in the Town. Mr. Garrity came before the Board to discuss the Park Park Department Budget, but owing to the fact that it was an B$dget. extremely windy night he had reports of three trees down and was excused to attend to the trees. State Aid return for the month of December in the State Aid. amount of $6. was signed by the Board. Letter was received from the Federal Emergency Admin- istration of Public Works in Washington enclosing five copies of an amended agreement in connection with the grant a1& in construction of a one million gallon steel stand- Standpipe. pipe and waterworks system changing the allotment of $11,000. to $7560. Letter was received from Mr. Ross in which they explained how they arrived at the $7560. In this no allow- ance was made for interest. The Board voted to adopt the following resolution authorizing the Chairman to execute the amended agreement on the part of the Town: RESOLUTION. At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen, the governing Board of the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts, held on Wed- nesday evening, December twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the following resolution was adopteds RESOLVED: That the Board of Selectmen approve the amended agreement submitted by the Federal Emergency Ad- ministration of Public Works for the United States of Am- erica relative to the construction of a 1,000,000 gallon elevated steel tank and the foundation for same in the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts, under the National industrial Recovery Act, And authorize the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, of Lexington, Massachusetts, to execute and de- liver said amended agreement on behalf of the Town of Lex- ington, Massachusetts. Notice was received from the Federal Emergency Admin- istration of Public Works that $300. would be deducted from the contract price omitting the final coat of aluminum paint on the McClintio Marshall contract. IIReport was received from John W. Rycroft, Sergeant of the Police Department in which he reported that Mr. DailF Pool Room. stated that he received a notice from the Selectmen stating 240 cn taz that the pool room should be closed at 11 o'clock, but he informed him that there was some question as to whether he had to close at 11 o'clock or not. The Chairman notified the Sergeant to enforce the re- gulation of closing at 11 P. M. and inform him that if he does not comply with this rule that his place of business will be closed permanently. Report was received from the Chief of Police in re- ference to the parking on Mass. Avenue adjacent to the Catholic Church in which he stated that at each mass there are a great many cars looking for a parkinn space and as tha re are fifteen driveways to private dwellings from Elm Ave. to Parker Street, the owners require that these driveways shall be kept clear and ungbstructed at all times. This forces ' Parking. the cars to park on orest Street at the Mass. Avenue end and it is difficult for a large car or truck to pass be- tween these cars. The Chief suggested that a ruling be passed prohibiting parking on one side of Forest Street and changing the parking on Mass. Avenue from Elm Avenue west- erly to Parker Street, from parallel parking to 45 degree parking. He also suggested that the Catholic Church be requested to open up a parking space in the rear of the church as there seems to be sufficient room for that pur- pose, and that suitable signs be erected indicating the re- strictions. The Chief did not report in reference to parking on Bedford Street and Hancock Street near the Masonic Hall and the Board decided to view the conditions and await the report of the Chief at the next meeting. The Chairman read a letter written to the Building Inspector in which he called his attention to shade which have been constructed in the rear of the Lexington Park and asking that he investigate as to whether or not these shacks complied with the Building Laws or had been built without a permit. Shacks near Mr. Longbottom came before the Board and stated that Lexington he had not had time to make a complete report but he had Park. investigated yesterday a family living in the house of Iovino on James Street consisting of a man, woman and six children. He understood they came from Woburn and had not been there very long. The man was working on E.R.A. and he was unable to talk with him. The Board decided to re- quest the Health Inspector to make an inspection of this house. He found another shack supposed to be occupied by Someone by the name of Avery who was working on the E.R.A. He understood that this shack had been moved from over the Bedford line into Lexington and that the people liv- ing in the shack had no title to the land but that it was owned by Griswold. In this case, the Building Inspector was requested to send a notice to the party living in the 241 shack that they were violating the Building Law. Another shack was occupied by a family by the name of Lecain on Pineknoll Road in the rear of two fairly good new houses. This party he was unable to locate as he under- stood that they were away for the holidays. The Board re- quested the Building Inspector to also send them notice that they were violating the Building Laws. Mr. William G. Potter came before the Board and stated that he had not received a bill for the rental of the hall by the Minute-Boys and the Minute Boys did not have any Rental funds and therefor requested that no charge be made for of Hall. the rental of the hall which was used January 1st for a show. The Board voted to grant the request. Mr. Gilcreast called attention to the fact that the conditions at the junction of Pleasant Street and the new Concord Agenue highway are dangerous inasmuch as per- sons coming down Belmont Hill do not know that the new highway is there and come upon it so suddenly there is apt Danger of to be many accidents there if something is not done to pro- Accidents tact the public. PleasantST. It was voted to send a letter to the Dept. of Public Concord Ave. Works calling attentionto the conditions at this point and requesting that they do something to remedy the same. In reference to the beer and wine license of Max Ber- man, Mr. Berman reported that he did not desire the Sun- day Sales License that he now has and therefor the Board Berman Beer voted to grant the beer and wine license and to revoke the and Wine Sunday Sales License now in force to Max Berman. License. It was voted to grant the following licensees Common Victualler 's Caroline A. Harrington & Phoebe E. M. Hutchins - 1661 Mass. Ave. Mike & Christy Hallos - 1717 Mass. Ave. Marshall L. Tebbetts - 314 & 316 Marrett Rd. Grace M. and Arthur L. Smith - 264 Bedford Street Licenses. Country Side Inc. - Cor. Woburn & Lowell Streets Sidney B. Heywood - 271 Marrett Road. Herbert M. Lawrence Denatured Alcohol1777Mass. Avenue Innholders Mary MacNeil & Josephine McKnight - 1556 Mass. Ave. (Battle Green Inn) 242 DO CC Manufacturing of Ice Cream A. W. Partridge Rear 316 Marrett Rd. Pasteurization of Milk Oak Knoll Dairy 24 Adams Street Sunday Sales Joseph A. Query 1765 Mass. Avenue Druggist's Liquor Licenses Ernest C. Martin 1793 Mass. Avenue Edgar J. Thivierge 1752 Mass. Avenue The time of closing for liquor licenses was discussed and was voted that the hours for the licenses should be from 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. Memorandum was received from the Town Accountant in which he stated that in all probability there would be an Soldiers overdraft in the Soldiers Relief Account for the year Relief . 1934 and he suggested that the Board declare an emergency so that if the 1934 bills exceed the amount of the balance which is $124.34, they may be paid. Another memorandum from the Town Accountant suggested that the balance remaining in the Public Welfare Account of $244.19 would not be sufficient to take care of the Public bills for the remainder of the year and he suggested that Welfare. an emergency be declared in this account also. The Board voted to declare an emergency on both the Soldier's Relief and Public Welfare Accounts so that the bills could be paid. Albert A. Ross came before the Board and presented a regulation for the approval of the Board to make a charge of $1.00 for testing meters at the shop inasmuch as they have a testing machine which tests meters in the cellars and people have not been satisfied with this test although almost every test has proven to be correct after the meter has been taken ott and brought to the shop and tested again, Water Dept. and he felt that people would not be so willing to request Regulation. them to remove the meters to be tested if there was a charge made inasmuch as it causes considerable work to re- move the meter and reinstall the same. The Board voted, on the recommendation of the Supt. pf the Water and Sewer Dept. , to adopt the following reg- ulation: "A charge of $1.00 is to be made for testing meters at our shop which are found to be registering accurately and which have been removed and tested at the consumer's request." Mr. Ross presented his budget for the year with his 243 expenditures for 1934 up to December 1st and estimates for 1935 expenditures in the Water Maintenance and oper- ation department giving a total of $68674.40. The Met- ropolitan Water Tax is the only item that was indefinite inasmuch as it is impossible to determine the 1935 figure. His estimate for the Water Construction if $8446. and for Sewer Maintenance Department $6041. He intended to charge one-half of Doris Dalrymple 's salary to the Sewer Mainten- ance Dept. and one-half to the Water Maintenance and this Water & increased the Sewer Maintenance Account. Sewer Dept: In regard to the construction work on sewers to be Budget. done in 1935, it was recalled that the Board promised to insert an article in the Warrant for construction of a sewer in Bow Street. The Town Engineer had prepared gig. urea and the cost of the sewer in Bow Street from the present end and these figures would prove exorbitant and he suggested that the sewer be installed from the other end. Mr. Ross was requested to prepare figures showing the cost of the installation of the sewer from the Arl- ington end. Request was also made for a sewer in Wadman Circle by Mr. Blake. Supt. of Public Works stated tet several requests had been made for the installation of a sewer in Grapevine corner. Mr. Ross called attention to the fact that water mains should be installed in Bedford Street, East Street, Maple Street from Mass. Avenue to Lowell Street, as a part of the Metcalf and Eddy program. Mr. Ross was requested also to get figures on the construction of a water main on Spring Street to the pro- perty of Mrs . Quinn who stated last year that she desired to have the water extended in the spring to a new house that was to be built . Mr. Ross recommended that for the 1935 program that water mains be installed in the following streets: Mass. Ave. from Child's Garage to Pleasant Street, 16 inch main for 1700 feet. - $10,020. Bow Street and Rindge Ave. from Mass. Ave. to Lowell Street - 12 in. main 4000 ft. 14,420. Bedford Street from Elm Ave. to Tewksbury St., 12 in. main, 2075 feet. 7.500. East Street from Vine Brook easterly to Doran's 12 in. main, 800 feet. 2,690. Maple Street from Mass. Ave. to Loweel St. 10 inch main, 5,300 feet. 15,360. Lowell St. from the Arlington line to Por- ter's 16 in. main, 5900 feet. 44,400. Mr. Ross stated that two of his trucks had to be py replaced laced and so much work needed to be done on p 244 cn on both the bodies and motors, therefor there was consi- derable requested for equipment and repairs. The Board voted to approve the suggested appropria- tions for the Water Maintenance and Construction Accounts and the Sewer Maintenance and Construction accounts. Drainage. Report of progress of the drainage in East Lexington was received from Mr. Ross. Supt. of Public Works presented a report that he had the representative from the Edison Company come out and go over the lights on Mass . Avenue between Pleasant Street and Charles Street and he suggested that the Town light Mass . Avenue in East Lexington with 600 candle light power and similar to those used in a Town like Lexington. Supt. of Public Works informed him that the Town would not want to go to the expense at this time. He therefor recommended that as suggested in Mr. Gilcreast 's report, that all of the lights be changed to 250 candle power lights and that one more lamp be placed on pole 64/30A. Street Mr. Scamman recommended therefor that the following Lights. changes be made on Mass. Avenue from Charles Street to Pleasant Street: Increase the present nine 80 candle power lights to sixteen 250 candle power lights, the pre- sent cost being $152.38 to be increased to 531.33, and to change the lights from Marrett Road to Munroe station from seven 80 candle power lights to nine 250 candle power light, present cost being $118.50 to be increased to $289.35. This made a total increase of $549.89. The Board authorized the Supt. of Public Works to im- mediately order the changes made as recommended in his letter. Under the circumstances, it was voted to increase the recommendation of the Street Light a000unt to $22, 500. Inxegard to the estimate for the Operation of the Public Works Department, the Board discussed with the Supt. of Public Works and Supt. of the Water and Sewer Depart- ment about having a man take care of the stock room at the Public Works Department. Mr. Scamman stated that before the C.W.A. and E.R.A. men were added onto the list there was very little property Stock stolen from the Public Works Building, but Mr. Seaman and Mr. Ross both stated that now they have so many strange Room. men around that there are some of the tools that are miss- ing. They both stated that on jobs where they do not have a truck come for them at night, that the men are apt to put the pick and shovel behind the stone wall intending to go back the next morning and get them and in that way sever- al tools are missing. Mr. Scamman suggested that instead of a wire being over the stock rooms that they be completely enclosed and new locks put on the doors inasmuch as the present looks are not very good. He stated thatthere are four stock rooms and Mr. Ross stated that the man that is there at present 245 does the best he can but when he is called out other per- sons go in there and take what they want . Mr. Ross stated that the only way they could be kept track of was to have a man responsible to bring his tools back at night. The Board requested Mr. Scamman, Mr. Ross, and Mr. Paxton to discuss the matter and bring some recommendation to the Board in regard to what they felt should be done in regard to the stock rooms. The Supt. of Public Works presented a letter written by M. J. Dalton, Civil Engineer of the State Dept. of Pub- lic Works in which he stated that he estimated the cost of constructing Pleasant Street from Watertown Streets from the end of the 1934 contract to the new Concord turnpike at $27,000. The meeting adjourned at 9:48 P. M. A true record, Attest: Clerk. 1