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SELECTMENIS MEETING
MARCH 14, 1940. '
A special meeing of the -Board of Selectmen was held
in the Town Office Building, at 3230 P. M. Chairman Giroux
Selectmen Locke and Messrs. Beach, Russell and Cosgrove were
present. The Clerk was also present.
Mr. Cosgrove said that Mr. Raymond and he had had several
oral requests for sewers from the Arlington Five Cents
W.f.A. Savings Bank, owners of a house in Lexington Manor, which were
sewers* received before the pumping stationwasready for use. There
have been many requests for sewers from others since.it #td
been ready.
Mr. Locke said that the matter of the amount of the
betterment assessments might come up at the Town Meeting
and Mr. Giroux said that the present figure turas the lowest
in years. Mr. Cosgrove said it was the lowest since the
betterment system was started in 1956, he said that the rate
was not the same every year because the assessablO area varies
in every street.
Mrs Russell said that the assessment figure for North
Haneob7s Street and the whole Manor would be $1.16 per foot.
Mr. Cosgrove said that regardless of the number of
intersecting streets, the abutters had to carry the -whole '
cost which is apportioned among them. He said the price
this year is $3.74 per foot of sewers constructed and the
Town will get 50% regardless of how many abutters there are.
If there were no intersecting streets, the cost would be
$0.94 per foot for each side of the street.
The Chairman said that the Manor and Merriam Street
sewers were figured on a depth of 100 feet and Liberty Heights
on a depth of 90 feet.
It was decided to take up the article oft W.P.A. sewers
before the W.P.A. article.
The meeting adjourned at 4:25 P. M.
A true record, Attests
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Clerk,
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