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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1965-06-21-min 213 SELECTMEN'S MEETING June 21, 1965 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, on Monday, June 21, 1(65, at 7 30 P.M. Chairman Cole, Messrs Cataldo, Sheldon and Mabee were present Mr Legro, Town Counsel, Mr Gray, Executive Assistant, Mr Carroll, Superintendent of Public Works, and Miss Murray, Executive Clerk, were also present Hearing was declared open upon petition of the Boston Edison Company and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company for permission to locate one Pole pole on Theresa Avenue location Mr. Serverson, representing the Boston Edison Company, was the only person present at the hearing . Notices of the hearing were mailed to the petitioners, owners of property listed on the petitioners ' plans and also filed with the Superintendent of Public Works Mr Carroll approved the proposed location. No one present recorded in favor or in opposition the hearing was declared closed Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to grant the petition and sign the order for the follow- ing j/o pole location: Theresa Avenue, northeasterly side, approximately 150 feet northwest of Cliffe Avenue, -- One Pole (One existing j/o pole to be removed. ) Mr. Serverson retired Mr. Legro said he had prepared an Order of Taking of the Vasseur land, lots 211-215 Rindge Avenue, and ex- plained the time for conveyance is about expiring and he Rindge Ave. may have to ask for an extension. Order of Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted Taking to execute the Order of Taking in the following form COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, SS TOWN OF LEXINGTON At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington held this 21st day of June, 1965, it is ORDERED :- Whereas by vote duly adopted by a Town Meeting duly called, warned and held on the 1st day of March, 1965, CO 214 Pt namely at an adjourned session thereof duly yield on March 15, 1965, the Selectmen were authorized on behalf of the Town of LexinEton to purchase, take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire for playground, recreational and other public purposes, the land hereinafter described and an appropriation of money was made therefor NOW, THEREFORE, we, the undersigned, being a majority of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington, duly elected, qualified and acting as such, do hereby, pursuant to said vote and under and by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, Chapter 263 of the Acts of 1926, and Chapter 79 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto , and of any and every other power and authority us hereto in any way enabling, take in fee simple in the name and on behalf of the Town of Lexington for sewer, water, drain, street, playground and recreati nal purposes a certain p rcel of vacant land on the easterly side of Rindge Avenue in said Lexington, being shown as lots 211-215, inclusive, on a plan entitled "Arlington Heights Terrace Lexington, Mess owned by J. W. Wilbur", dated October 15, 190d by A. L. Eliot, Surveyor, recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 175, Plan 35, and bounded and described as follows : Westerly by Rindge Avenue, 150 feet; Northerly by lot 216 on said plan, 82 feet ; Easterly by land now or formerly of Arlington Water Works, on said plan, 150 feet ; and Southerly by lot 210 on said plan, 87 feet . Containing 12,675 square feet of land , according to said plan All trees upon said land and buildings and structures affixed thereto are included in this taking . We award the damages sustained by persons in their property by reason of the taking made as follows Arthur E. Vasseur and Agnes J Vasseur, husband and wife, the sum of One Dollar In so awarding damages we have awarded them to the sup- posed owner of record of the land hereby taken as of the date hereof, but if the name of the owner of any interest in said land is not stated or is not correctly stated , it is to be understood that such interest is owned by an owner or owners unknown to us and in such case our award is made to the lawful own r or owners thereof. 215 ' No betterments are now to be assessed for the improve- ments for which this taking is made WITNESS our hands and seals in said Lexington, the day and year first above written TOWN OF LEXINGTON By /s/ Lincoln P. Cole, Jr /s/ Robert Cataldo /s/ I H. Mabee /8/ George C. Sheldon Majority of the hoard of Selectmen COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. June 21, 1965 Then personally appeared the above named Lincoln P. Cole, Jr , Robert Cataldo, George C Sheldon and Irving H. Mabee, known to me to be a majority of the duly elected, qualified and acting Selectmen of the Town of Lexington, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their free act and deed, before me, /s/ Donald E. Legro Notary Public My commission expires : March 14, 1970 Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to renew Stephen Russian's Auctioneer 's License for a License period expiring May 1, 1966 Mr. Legro referred to tax title lots on Circle Road for which the Board had received an offer from Busa Circle Rd. Realty Trust. He said the Board would recall enough about the subject to know it involved, in this transaction, the sale of several tax title lots, construction of Circle Road, the water, sewer and drain utilities in the road. He reported there have been no plans showing the profile of the road or the confirmation of the utilities contemplated He stated it is Mr. Carroll 's feeling, and his, that a plan 216 CI alts- should be presented and the Board should request it. Mr . Carroll reported that Mr. Busa told him a plan was being worked on He told Mr Busa there would probably be a bonding of $30,000 maximum Mr. Legro stated that if Mr. Busa is planning to prepare plans, there is nothing further to be considered except the votes from the Town of Arlington Mr. Gray stated he received the votes today and he proceeded to give them to Mr. Legro Copy of Mr. Legro 's letter to Mr. Irwin in regard to a zoning violation complaint from Manuel Baptiste, Zoning 140 Marrett Road, was received Mr. Legro explained he received a letter from Mr. Irwin, Building Inspector, and this letter relates to procedures to be followed by the Inspector. Letter was received from the Mystic Valley Gas Company requesting permission to locate a 4" welded Gas main steel gas main in John Poulter Road, to serve lot 18. Mr. Carroll said this is a private way and he did not know why the request was sent to the Board . The Chairman said he would advise the gas company that the Board of Selectmen has no objection. The Chairman read a letter from Mrs . Roger Kaufman, 14 Larchmont Lane, requesting installation of curbing along Bedford Street in front of the Maney and Moore properties . Curbing Mr. Carroll said he planned to install some curbing along there. He said he thought he might be able to do it with this year 's funds It was agreed to advise Mrs . Kaufman that as much curbing will be placed as there are funds for; no appropri- ation having been made for this specific location. Mr. Fred Sgrosso's letter relative to a water con- dition at the end of his driveway was held over Mr. Carroll rported that men from his department tried to take care of the puddle and he thought they did Drainage a good job. However, there is still a puddle in front complaint of Sgrosso 's driveway. He said he felt the Town could do no better and has done as much as it can Mr Cataldo stated Mr Sgrosso 's concern is not the water in the summer, but ice in the winter. Mr. Carroll said he could go in and do it all over, but it is a lot of money to eliminate a very small puddle; a condition normally found after a rainfall . 1 217 Letter was received from Richard H. Soule, 640 Lowell Street, together with a newspaper article relating to Vandal vandal alarm in the schools Mr. Soule expects to have alarm more details which he will relay to the Board. Upon motion duly made arri seconded, it was voted to certify the characters of Horace Besecker, 8 Eastern Cert. of Avenue, James Gallagher, 181 Follen Road, and Edwin M. Inc. Schur, 81 Hancock Street, all applicants for Certificates of Incorporation, satisfactory character references having been received from Acting Chief Corr Mr. John Doherty's inquiry about the possibility of purchasing tax title lot 217 Spring Street was held over, Tax title waiting for a report from the Planning Board Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to grant the following uses of halls Uses of halls Temple Scanlon/Accion Estabrook Hall June 24 c 25 American Ass ►n. of University Women Estabrook Hall Oct . 6, Nov. 3, Jan.5, Feb. 2 Mar 2, Apr.6 The Chairman read a letter from Mrs . Mary Bartel resigning her position as a Woman Police Officer effect- Resignatim ive with the last day of school this term Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to accept the resignation. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to grant a Yearly Dump Permit to Kerrigan Tree Service Dump permi of Woburn Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to appoint the following Special Police Officers for terms expiring March 31, 1966 : SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS March 31, 1965 --- March 31, 1966 Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. Selectmen Robert Cataldo Levi G. Burnell George C Sheldon Irving H. Mabee Albert Gray, Jr. Executive Assistant 218co CT CI SPECIAL POLICE OFFICEES (CONT '') ) I Bernard J. Belcastro Chief Engineer, Fire Department John J. Carroll Superintendent, Public Works Department Paul Mazerall Superintendent, Park Department Thomas Bentley Custodian George Doughty, Jr. School Department Thomas F. Ryan 11 11 Thomas Sullivan n 11 William P. Casey It It Clyde L. Hayne " It Oscar Heimlich n n DuncanF. Swan " }1 Edward P Stevens It 11 John Blodgett " t1 Nicholas J. Delfino It 1/ Ralph P. Brun 11 " Joseph Bluteau " It Raymond Stevens " 11 Lyman Cousins " It Kary E. Nyren Cary Memorial Library,Director William F Buckley 11 11 t1 Asset. Director Edward T McDonnell 11 " 1/ Custodian II Robert E. Ames 11 11 " Teacher Monitor Frank Langone it it t1 Custodian Philip Nyren reacher Monitor Karl E. Nyren Cary viemorial Library, Director William F Buckley 11 " It Ass 't Director Edward T. McDonnell 11 It t1 Custodian Robert E. Ames 11 11 11 Teacher Monitor Frank Langone t1 11 11 Custodian Philip Nyren 11 11 11 Teacher Monitor Robert F Ingram Middlesex County Sanatorium Mario DiNallo " it it Edward Sorli n it 11 Anthnny Zarella If " It Bernard J. Link " if It Lawrence Kolbrook, Jr. it it " Lt. Charles E. Benedict Itek Corporation Mass . Institute of Technology John E. Ewers Arthur L. Goodfellow John A. Carroll Howard D. Ryder Hobert J. Vinsec William L. Spiers, Jr. Bertram H Adams, Jr. Edward T. Gallagher John E. Barnes Arthur J. Kee Lexington Trust Company 21:) IIUpon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to approve the minutes of the Selectmen's Meeting held Minutes on June 14, 1965 Mr . Gray reported he received two bills from harry Erickson, architect, for the Public Facilities Building Public Committee, for the Board 's approval. He said one bill, Facilities in the amount of $231 65, was for architect 's services Building and the other bill, in the ameunt of •$323.75, was the building result of changes in the plans Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to authorize payment of $231.65 for architect ' s services. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to authorize payment of $323 .75 incurred due to change in plans . (See Executive Session - same subject) . Mr. Gray reported he received a letter from the Lexington Housing Authority advising that Wil iam H. Lexington Brown has been appointed architect The principal Housing agents will be Temple Scanlon and Director, Stilliman Authority P Williams Mr Gray read a letter from James R. McInnes, Administrative Assistant, Lexington Public Schools, School confirming discussion relative to the possibility of Buses the Town allowing a successful bidder for bus trans- portation for the schools to park 25 or 30 buses on Town land. Mr. McInnes would like a ruling from the Board Mr . Gray reported that the School Department re- ceived only one bid and he understood from Mr . McInnes that it will be voted to reject the bid. Mr. Cataldo asked if Mr McInnes explained why they did not wait for the Middlesex & Boston to straigh- ten out its problems, as requested Mr . Gray replied he did not know Mr. Cataldo stated he asked that they wait because this was going to be a problem. He said he would be opposed to parking buses on Town property. No one knows what is going to happen at the Public Works Build- ing anx the problems parking buses would create would outweigh any advantage . He said if the Board proposed going into something like this,. he would be in favor of going all the way and the Town have its own buses Mr. Carroll said he could visualize a myriad of problems . He could visualize a situation where the bus does not start and it would be towed into the barn. He co 220 ar C, said this could end up with the Town taking over the maintenance . Mr. Cataldo said if there were twenty-five buses parked, there would also be twenty-five cars. Mr. Legro asked iihy they did not include an alter- ate and request bids both ways . Mr. Cataldo said then the Board would have to live up to letting them in Mr. Carroll said they could reserve the right to reject them Mr. Sheldon asked where the buses would be parked if the Board denied this . The Chairman replied in the company' s garage . Mr. Gray said if the Middlesex & Boston were in- volved, there would be no problem. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to deny the use of the Town barn property for parking school buses. Mr. Mabee refrained from voting . Mr. Gray referred to Loran Wallace and Ernest Kitchen' s offer to purchase tax title lots 50 and 51, Hillside Avenue. He said street betterments amount to $741 .69 Tax title and water betterments amount to $195.29. Mr. Wallace is offering $1500 for the lots, clear. Mr. Cataldo pointed out that they would be paying $550. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to reject the offer. Mr. Cetaldo said if these lots were sold, he would be in favor of thestipulation whereby only one house could be erected on the cowbined lots . Mr Cetaldo reported the Route 2 Committee held a meeting and it was decided to recommend to the Selectmen that it make an appointment with Commissioner Warner to bring them up to date officially. He said a member of Route 2 the Board of Selectmen, a member of the Planning Board and Mr. Carroll should meet with the Commissioner. It was agreed that Mr. Cataldo would arrange a meeting with the Commissioner and advise the Chairman and Mr . Mabee. Mr. Sheldon reported that the Auxiliary Committee of the Planning Group, 701 Study, had a second meeting. 701 Study The Chairman res been elected, some have accepted and some have not. He said nine separate pages have been worked out to guide theChaasran and probably work will not go any further until September when the Chairman will form the committee . 221 Mr. Cataldo asked Mr Carroll what his schedule plan was for the Lyon property Mr. Carroll replied, do some construction the late couple of weeks in July. He said he had a question the other day as to when the Board wanted the work done. Lyon Mr. Cataldo said the work should get done as fast property as possible so the land can be sold and reflected in next year 's tax rate. He said he would like to have the building built before the end of the year Mr. Gray reported he had a talk with one of the local rubbish collectors, who had a problem. He said, in dumping rubbish he collected, there was a lot of Rubbish garbage in it . The problem is, when they take boxes or rubbish from a person 's house , they do not know that the paper bags contain garbage, and he does not knww how to solve this problem Mr. Sheldon said the householder puts the material in barrels and while the collector does not examine each piece,he does get an opportunity If he sees any- thing suspicious, he can look The burden of proof is on the collector Mr. Carroll said he agreed, the burden is on the contractor. He should be able to trace the bag to the family it came from, and as far as he was concerned, it is the contractor's problem Mr . Carroll retired at 8:12 P.M. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to go into Executive Session for the purpose of discussing, deliberating or voting on matters, which, if made public, might adversely affect the public security, the financial Executive interest of the Town, or the reputation of any person. Session Following discussion pertaining to a police matter, architect 's fees, public Facilities Building, Insurance and Lexington Center, it was voted toresume the open meeting. The Appropriation Committee met with the Board and Mr . Parrish, Chairman, said what the committee had to Executive discuss should be in Executive Session. Session Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to go into Executive Session for the purpose of discuss- ing, deliberating or voting on matters, which, if made public, might adv rsely affect the public security, the financial interest of tae Town, or the reputation of any person. Following discussion with the Appropriation Comittee on the Accounting Department, timing for budgets, elected 222 co atift offices, salary guide, and special town meetings,it was voted to resume the open meeting. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to adjourn at 10 :04 P.M. A true record, Attest : ec_ ive ler .: , Select 4J k / e