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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1950-05-31-min 79 SELECTMEN'S MEETING May 31, 1950 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on Wednesday evening, May 31, 1950 at 7:00 P. M. The meeting was held on Wednesday in- asmuch as two members were unable to be present on Monday. Chairman Emery, Messrs. Gay, Nickerson and Driscoll were present. The Clerk was also present. Mr. Harold E. Stevens, Town Counsel, Chairman Foley and Mr. Person of the Recreation Committee, Mr. Garrity, Supt. of Parks and Playgrounds and Mr. Leonard Currie, architect, met with the Board for the opening of bids for the construction of toilet facilities at the Center Playground. There were six other persons present. Bids were received as follows: Base Other work Plumbing Alternate Bagely & Mucci 1b0$51 8 811 X1,540 4p1,000 Thomas Mulcare 12,210 10,670 1,540 Win Cons. Corp. 9,999.99 8,459.99 1,540 999.99 J. A. Graziano 10,899.49 9,359.49 1,540 J. S. Smith Co. 9,980 8,440 1,540 1,207 Rich Bros. 9,013 7,473 1,540 1,359 D. C. Loveys Co. 12,767 11,227 1,540 927 Mr. Stevens suggested that the architect and Dr. Foley review the bids. The group, with the exception of Mr. Stevens, retired at 7 :20 P. M. Mr. Joseph H. DeFoe, Supt. of Public Works, met with the Board. Mr. Stevens referred to the proposed extension of a water main in Coolidge Avenue and said that it has now been discovered that water is already :in Water main Coolidge Avenue except for about 500 feet. It is Coolidge in front of land divided into house lots on a re- Avenue corded plan. Mr. DeFoe presented a sketch of Coolidge avenue from Hancock Street to Adams Street. Mr. Stevens said that he thought it would be better to let the street go through with a fifty foot width and said also that there is no particular I need for installing the water from the present end to Hancock Street. Mr. DeFoe said that he felt the main should be installed all the way, probably laying it in the sidewalk, so The Chairman explained that the County Com- missioners desire to know if the TowA wants them to take the two strips in question or not. He asked Mr. DeFoe if it would be agreeable to him not to take the strips. Mr. DeFoe replied that he would prefer to know how the Town Counsel felt about them. Mr. Stevens said that he thought it would be better not to take them. The Chairman, with the approval of the Board, instructed Mr. DeFoe to advise the County Commissioners that the Town is not interested in taking the stripe. Mr. Stevensreported r po ted that he thought the Raimo work would proceed now with reasonable promptness and that he will have further inform- ation for the Board next week. Letter was received from William R. Cook, attorney for the Boston Edison Company , with reference to certain lots taken in fee in connection Boston with the transmission line. A copy of the commun- Edison ication had also been sent to Town Counsel. Mr. Stevens explained that Mr. Cook claims there are some parcels of tax land that is not valid. The Boston Edison Co. will pay whatever the unpaid taxes are for a release from the Town of all right, title and interest. He asked the Clerk to find out from the Tax Collector what the unpaid taxes amount to and to call him. The Selectmen can then vote to sell the lots and the deeds can be prepared. Mr. Stevens retired at 7:40 P. M. Mr. DeFoe presented estimates as follows for repairing the Barnes property: Remove piazza $ 495 and garage $264 Paint building 1,000 total $759 Repair roof 695 Complete new roof 1,300 The Chairman informed the Board that he had discussed this with Mr. Hoyt who is more or less Barnes in favor of following recommendations made by Mr. Property Goodell. Mr. Goodell was of the opinion that it would be better to remove the piazza and put in regular size windows, replacing the present long windows. It was agreed by all members of the Board that the garage and the porch should be taken down. 81 Messrs. Foley, Garrity, Person and Currie returned to the melting. Dr. Foley stated that the low bid for the construction of the toilet facilities was received from Rich Brothers - $9013.00, plus $901.30 for architect's fees, advertising $30 and contingencies or $55.70, making a total of $10,000 for a painted concrete blobk building. This cesspool and de- molition of the present building is included in this price as is the lighting. The Selectmen felt that the amount for con- tingencies should be increased, making a total figure of $10,500. Dr. Foley explained that the Figures for a brick building are as follows: $10,372, plus $1,037.20 for architect's fees, advertising $30, contingencies, 480.71, making a total of $11,520. The Chairman asked if the Recreation Committee Toilet wanted to take a definite stand and Dr. Foley said Facilities that his Committee simply wanted a building. Mr. Chairman asked if the Recreation Committee wanted to take a definite stand and Dr. Foley said that his Committee simply wanted a building. Mr. Garrity said that his personal recommendation ' would be a brick building, but if it meant that they would not have a building at all he would go along with the concrete bleak. The Chairman suggested the motion be made for a concrete block building and then it could be amended. Mr. Nickerson said that he was not in favor of the additional money for a brick building. Mr. Currie stated that either brick or painted concrete block would look good and that from the appearance point of view he did not think it would really matter once the building is constructed. He said that the only practical advantage of a brick building, thinking in long terms, there will not be the maintenance. However, in a building as small as this one, it will not be necessary to paint the blocks more than o4cin in about every five years. Mr. Gay moved that the motion be put for the concrete block building end an additional appropria- tion requested in the amount of $2,000. Mr. Driscoll seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Upon motion of Mr. Driscoll, seconded by Mr. Bay, it was voted to award the contract to Rich $ota., the low bidder, subject to the five-day referendum and an additional appropriation of sufficient funds; the type of construction to depend upon the vote of the Town Meeting on June 1st. 82 cc C7 The Clerk was advised by Mr. Currie, to retain the checks accompanying the bids of Rich Brothers and the James S. Smith Co. , but to return the other checks. Messrs. Foley, Garrity and Currie retired at 8:15 P. M. Mr. DeFoe presented each member of the Boa d costs for the installation of a new boiler in Cary Boiler for Memorial Building with provisions for burning. oil. Cary Bldg. . The Chairman explained that the Appropriation Committee is not in favor of burning oil and will ask for indefinite postponement of this article. A lengthy discussion was held on the subject during which the Clerk was not at the meeting. Mr. Stevens and Mrs. Sexton met with the Board at 8:40 P. M. Mrs. Sexton requested an appointment to discuss the Leary property on Waltham Street, and the following discussion was held: Mrs. Sexton: I am here about the Waltham Street property. Mr. Stevens told me I was troublesome, but I try not to be and I don't1 like it a bit. I don't think this has been handled very well. You people know the situation. You know how we feel. Chairman: As I understand the situation, we have offered to take the wall down or leave it. Mr. Stevens: That is right. It was some time during the winter that Mr. DeFoe and I went there and met Miss Leary and Mrs. Sexton. We agreed that the steps needed to be fixed and explained that in the winter cement could not be poured and that if an easement could be obtained to maintain the wall, the Town would put in wooden steps and then put in cement steps when warm weather came. Mrs. Sexton was disturbed over the necessity of a wall and felt it would cause water to back into the cellar. We told her to have someone look at it. I had a M.D.C. man look at it and he saw no solution but the wall and no da " of water backing up into the cellar. We told her the instrument giving an easement would state that any time they 83 wanted to build out to the sidewalk, the wall would be removed. She then said that it *as difficult to get into the driveway. At that time Mrs. Sexton felt that the wall was not necessary. The last time we talked, she said her under- standing was that they would go right in and put in wooden steps. We did not however, make any such arrangement. She thought the wall was not necessary and felt the thing to do was for the Town to pay damagesin the amount of $3,000. I told her that was beyond all out of question and we did not seem to be getting very far. She said that she did not want to cause any trouble and I felt that she was being troublesome, that is where the word troublesome came in. However, since then another builder has looked at the place and he thinks the wall should be there. There were other walls put in on other properties on Waltham Street. No one else has raised any objection to the walls. Some people claimed damages for the amount of taking, but one of those has signed the instrument for the wall. This is the only piece of property where any objection is being made to the wall. Chairman: Before you came, we took down part of the wall at the Catholic Club. It went the entire length of the property and we took down part of it. Mr. DeFoe: The wall there was not strictly necessary. Chairman: What do you want us to dot Mrs. Sexton: I would like to know if it is customary to put up a wall without the consent of the owner and then ask them for an-ease- ment for the construction and maintenance after it is already up there. Chairman: I think it is not customary. Mrs. Sexton: I am not going to dispute some of the things we said. You told me I was being II troublesome and I resent it very much. cD You gentlemen know from the beginning that this thing has been bungled. There was not going to be any work done on the right-hand side. Mr. Stevens:I apologize. 4hairman: No land takings. Mrs. Sexton:I understood that the land taking was to be made on the other side of the street. I understand that there was a deal with the Spencers. The story goes that the Town made a deal with Spencers and in that way they signed. May agreed to allow the wall to re- main there, for a flzneral business. Chairman: They said they would be very glad to give the Town a slope easement if they got a license for a funeral home. Mkt had nothing to do with the Board of Selectmen. Mrs. SextonaI think the Town trespassed up there . You can have all the experts you want here. If an expert did the joW, he did a very poor job. The wall is cracked, what does that melon? In order to put up a wall so that we would have no more trouble with it, just how far should you go down? Mr. DeFoe: Walls like that usually go down about two feet. Mrs. Sexton:Have they gone down two feet on that wall? Mr. DeFoe: I don't know. Mrs. Sexton:I understand it is not down two feet. It may be down eighteen inches. We have been told that the wall is inferior. Suppose it falls on the sidewalk and someone gets hurt, wouldn't -we be ref= sponsible? Mr. Stevens:No. The easement that was requested was to give the Town the right to have the wall there. 85 Mrs. Sexton: Don't you think it would have been wise to have the easement before the wall was put up? Chairman: Definitely. Mrs. Sexton: My sister is sick over this. We pay a lot of taxes in this Town and we have lived here a long time. I think we have rights here. Chairman: We don't claim that the job was done with a great deal of skill in some ways, particularly about not getting an easement. We should have an easement first. I admitted that publicly on Town Meeting floor. The wall is in there and what do you want us to do? Mrs. Sexton: Mr. Stevens said that we agreed. You can't deny but that the last thing we said was that there would be temporary wooden steps put up there. Mr. DeFoe: I said I would have Mr. Custance come up the following week and put up tme- porary steps there. Mrs . Sexton; You mentioned two granite slabs there. Mr. DeFoe: You did say that when the work was done you wanted to have them put in the back. Mr. Stevens : There were to be temporary wooden steps put up. We did have stormy weather. I did say that we could not do work at that time of the year anyway. I said we would leave the steps there until Spring. I never heard any more. Mrs. Sexton: The steps are very dangerous. There is bound to be an accident there. I think that we should make up our minds to do something one way or another. Chairman: Do you want the wall taken out? Mrs. Sexton: Yes, I think it should be taken out. There will be a circular drive there some day. 86 Chairman: If we take out the wall and put in steps would that be all right? Mrs. Sexton: No. I think some grading should be done and some adjustment made. A lot of the soil taken out to make the wall was pushed back on the property. Chairman: If we took the wall out, sodded the bank and put in new steps would that satisfy you, having in mind we admitted the easement should have been taken first. Everyone makes mistakes. Mrs. Sexton: I feel that if the sod was put in and the job done so bad in the beginning, I hav6 not confidence enough to say now that it would be done well. I would have to know first before I could agree to that. Chairman: Have to know what? Mrs. Sexton: We might have to pull the piazza down. Chairman: Would you have confidence in Jack Garrity. Mrs. Sexton: I don't know his work. He would be on your side and not on mine. Chairman: Don't you think if we told him to sod it the best he knows how it would give you a job that you would be satisfied with? Mrs. Sexton: I don't know what he would run into. I have an idea they would have to go back under the piazza. Suppose they get under the piazza and then we might find that the piazza would have to be removed. Why should we go to that expense? Chairman: I can't see that the repairs to the piazza would be on us. We don't think we have undermined the piazza. Mrs. Sexton: If you start grading now, you don't know what we will run into. That is something we will have to look ahead to see. Chairman; I don't know how the other members of the Board feel. I was just trying to find out on what basis we could satisfy you. If we 87 Mrs. Sexton: Suppose we find that there is a weakness there and the piazza has to be taken away. What are we going do? We will have to build a new piazza which was not necessary if the thing was left alone. Chairman: If what I tentatively suggest does not satisfy you, what do you want? Mrs. Sexton: I want the wall down, the steps fixed by the Town, grade it and suitable damages for trespassing that would cover any damages that we might have. Chairman: What damages do you call suitable? Mrs. Sexton: I mentioned $3,000. I would not be surprised if we would have to go into the cellar even. Chairman: If the posts have been undermined, that is one thing. I they have deteriorated by age, that is something else. Mrs. Sexton: If you start grading, you must realize that you have to run into something. Chairman: I can't see that there would be any trouble if it were sodded. Mr. DeFoe: Supposing we do not change the grade appreciably and move the wall off your property, put the wall on the sidewalk and out the. sidewalk back a foot. It• will still be seven feet wide. We won't change the fill and put in whatever grade you say. Chairman: You mean put it back the way it was before? Mr. DeFoe: That is right. Mrs. Sexton: That is a new angle I had not thought about. What kind of a wall would be there. I � Mr. DeFoe: One high enough so that the fill will not go out onto the street. We will build the wall high enough to take the natural slope of your' land prior to our interfering with it at all. Then the wall would not be on your property and the slope would be substantially as it is now; only the wall would be out on Town property. Mrs. Sexton: I don't know if that will make sense or not. 88 Chairman: The wall would be off your land and the - slope would be restored to what if was before. Chairman: If the wall stays there and we seed the bank, I know the Town Counsel would insist that you give us an easement. Mr. Stevens: There would have to be a grant. Mrs. Sexton: The wall would not have been there if you had come and consulted us. We don't want the wall there, Chairman: I think the Board will take the wall out or leave it there and fix the steps and sod it. If on top of that you want 0,000, that is something which we will have to discuss further. Mrs. Sexton: Do you want me to get a lawyer and let the Court decide? Mr. Stevens: I think that is the only way it will be brought to a head. Mrs. Sexton: You don't think we are entitled to damages. Mr. Stevens: I don' t know anyone else who has asked for damages and instruments have been obtained. Mrs. Sexton: MacKay got damages. Mr. Stevens: That was for the land taking. Mrs. Sexton: There was 78 sq. ft. taken on our side. Mr. Stevens: The land was not taken. The wall was put in. There is a technical difference. It is not the same thing. The land was not taken. Mrs. Sexton: I still think we are entitled to damages. Why doesn't someone else have something to say. What about you Mr. Driscoll. Mr. Driscoll: Our Chairman spoke on Town Hall floor about it as he explained. Mr. Stevens was not Town Counsel at the time the work was done on Waltham Street. Mrs. Sexton: Do you think we are entitled to any damages. I think we should look out for our own rights. I feel we are entitled to some adjustment. If I am wrong that is another thing. 89 Chairman: This Board is trying to reach an agreement. Any suggestions made have been with the idea that we are honestly trying to reach a settlement. If we think that one or more persons is asking, as a final settlement, more than we feel we are warranted in pay- ing, we feel we can ask the Court to settle it. Mr. Gay; If we put the wall were Mr. DeFoe suggested, are you asking 4.3,000 for the land ta)ing? Mrs. Sexton/ Let us say trespassing. Mr. Gay; If we put the wall where Mr. DeFoe suggests and give you back the land in its original condition, how would you feel? Would you feel that you should be receiving 0,000 damages for trespassing? Mrs. Sexton; I am figuring on what results there would be after the thing is done. I have been told it can be sodded by the Town, but we will probably have some trouble with the piazza. Air. Gay: If we put it back in the original condition, the piazza will be in the original condition. Your land will be just as it was previously and the wall will be on Town property. Mrs . Sexton: We don' t want the high wall there. Would the sodding take care of it without the wall. Mr. DeFoe: The sodding would take it down to the street. Gradually it would become washed out. You would have to take care of it otherwise the • mud would be coming down onto the sidewalk. Mrs. Sexton; You don't know what you are going to get into. If you put up a wall we still want space so that if we have a circular driveway we will not have a wall in the way. Furthermore, the wall depreciates the value of the property. Mr. Emery: You will have to have the wall or have it sodded. They could have put the wall on Town property and you could not have stopped that. You would not have had any control over that at all. The suggestion Mr. DeFoe makes would be as it would have been done if you stopped us in the beginning or if it were put originally in the proper taking. There would have been a wall there anyway on account • of the slope. 90 Mrs. Sexton: If the soil had been taken away it would not have required as high a wall. Mr. 9DeFoe: I believe it was taken away and not pushed back. Mrs. Sexton: We always had a green lawn out there and there is none now. How high would the wall be? Mr. DeFoe: High enough to hold your land back, that, is all. It might be slightly lower than the existing. Mrs. Sexton: I want to do the right thing. Mr. Gay: Might I suggest that Mr. DeFoe go up and give Mrs. Sexton a description of what can be done. We can then take a look at it and see if we can't come to some satisfactory arrangement. Mrs. Sexton: I have a good idea now. I am willing to go along with that suggestion, but I am still wondering if there will be a high wall there. Mr. Gay: Let Mr. DeFoe show you how high the wall will be . Mr. DeFoe: We can go out with a rule and show how high the wall will be. Mr. Gay: Would you feel better if he did that? Mrs. Sexton: I will do that, I will do anything to be reasonable. Do you feel we are not entitled to any damages if the wall is removed? Mr. Gay: I think we should discuss that as a Board. Mrs. Sexton: I still think an adjustment should be made. I think we have been put to a considerable amount of discomfort. It is not a matter of dollars and cents, but a matter of right and wrong. I would like to get this thing straightened out. Chairman: We would like to get it straightened out. Will you report to us or do you want, Mr. DeFoe to report to us on the geographical and physical things you want changed. Then if you want to discuss damages further, we frankly feel that we would rather have it go to Court. Mrs . Sexton; I would be tempted to let it go to Court. If I had to go to the expense personally, I would 91 be inclined to go to Court just to see if I am right or wrong. Mrs. Sexton retired at 9:30 P. M. Mr. A. B. West met with the Board relative to the Oak Street Sewer. He said that the Board is familiar with the agreement which was transferred to him when he purchased the Nichols property. He said that he assumed the responsibility when Howard Nichols tranaf erred it and he took his word and also had some lawyers look over the agreement. The passed on it and he accepted it. He said that he considered it his responsibility and not Mr. Nichols' . He stated that his only reason for meeting with the Board this evening was to ask the Board to leave Mr. Nichols out of it. The Chairman explained the reason that Mr. Stevens had contacted Mr. Nichols was because of the fact that Mr. Nichols was the one who signed the original agree- ment with the Town. Mr. Stevens explained that the Town has no con- tact with Mr. West, but that the contract is with Mr. West Nichols. Oak Street Mr. West asked what he could do to assume the responsibility. Mr. Stevens asked him if he were willing to pay the betterment assessment on Larsen's land and Mr. West replied that he did not say that. He said that he was asking as• a personal favor that the Board leave Mr. Nichols out of this. He said that he took over the contract with the property. Mr. Stevens said that the agreement states that Mr. Nichols would pay the Town so much per square foot when he sold any part of the land. When he sold the land to Mr. West he became obligated to pay the Town and the money has been due• since that date, Mr. Weat said that was not Mr. Nichols ' understanding nor the understanding of the Board at that time. Mr. Stevens explained that is what the agree- ment says. Mr. Westtstated that no one is trying to get out of paying the Town the money. He said that the Town would receive the money, but the question is how it is going to be paid. The Chairman said that the Town's contract was with Mr. Nichols; naturally when the Board did not know his agreement with Mr. West, Mr. Stevens was told to go to Mr. Nichols to collect. Mr. Stevens said that the money was due, according to the contract, at the time the land was sold. 92 Mr. West said that the contract reads that it is a covenant to go with the property and he under- stood that it would go along. He said that he assumed the responsibility of paying the interest at 1%. He is willing to pay that and has paid it when he received the bill. Mr. Stevens explained that the contract applied to the entire tract and when Mr. Nichols sold the property to Mr. West, he sold the whole parcel. Mr. Stevens impression is that the money became due when the land was Bold. However, Mr. West then sold part of it. The amount for the part sold became due at once as it had not been due before. Mr. Larsen divided the land into house lots. He has built and sold house and lots. Still no one has paid the Town any part of the principal, and Mr. Larsen says he will not pay. It has gone on along the whole process and still the Town has not been paid. Mr. West said that he feels responsible insofar as Mr. Nichols is responsible, and that if the Board feels Mr. Nichols is responsible for all of it, he would like to have him left out. He said that he made the same kind of an agreement when he sold the land to Mr. Larsen. Mr. Stevens explained that on the date of the sale to Mr. West, Mr. Nichols became indebted to the Town. Mr. West said that he does not interpret the contract the way Mr. Stevens does. Mr. Stevens said that he thought Mr. West would agree that someone owes the money to the Town now and asked if Mr. West had any suggestion as to how the Town might receive the money. He aaid that Mr. Larsen will not pay and the Town has no contract with Mr. West. Mr. Stevens said that he would be glad to sit down with Mr. Larsen and Mr. West to discuss this subject. Mr. Stevens and Mr. West retired at 9:45 P. M. to discuss this subject with Mr. Larsen and his attorney, Mr. McCormack who were in the Selectmen's Office. Mr. Stevens reported on this later in the evening, Mr. Edward J. Conley, of Shoppers Haven, met with the Board. He said that the passageway between his store at 316 Marrett Road has been blocked bei Shoppers ' tween the two stores. Haven The Chairman asked him if he would follow the law as outlined in the letter written to him by Town Counsel. Mr. Conley replied in the affirmative and said that he had called Mr. Stevens and thought that rather than write to the Board he preferred to meet with them. 93 The Chairman asked if Mr. Conley agreed with what Mr. Stevens said and he replied in the affirmative. The Chairman said that he thought the Board would act on his applications this evening. Mr. Conley retired at 10;00 P. M. Upon motion of Mr. Driscoll, seconded by Mr. Gay, it was voted to grant Edward J. Conley, d.b.a. Shoppers' Haven, a Sunday Sales License at 316 Marrett Road for a term expiring April 30, 1951. It was further voted to grant a Common Victuallers license, expiring December 31, 1950. Further consideration was given to Mr. William Curley's offer of $150 for lots 189-192 inclusive on Cliffe Avenue. The offer was advertised in the May 25th issue of the Lexington Minute-Man but no further offers were received as result of the advertisement. Upon motion of Mr. Gay, seconded by Mr. Nickerson, Tax Title it was voted to accept the offer and to sell and convey lots 189-192 Cliffe Avenue to Mr. Curley; it to be definitely understood by Mr. Curley that there is no Town water main which would serve any of these lots, that the Town has no present intention of installing a water main and that if and when water is installed, these lots will be subject to a better- ment assessment. Mr. DeFoe informed the Board that he had receive a verbal request for permission to move a house from Lexington Street, Burlington to Lowell Street, Lexington. He has had Mr. Garrity check the proposed route and he felt that the building can be transported without any appreciable damage being done to the trees. The Chairman instructed Mr. DeFoe to contact the Chief of Police before the house is moved on the highway. Mr. DeFoe brought up for consideration the pos- sibility of installing a sewer main in a section of Liberty Ave, Liberty Avenue and Hamilton Road. He said he merely Hamilton Rd. wanted to call the Board's attention to the fact sewer that there is no sewer in these two sections and to get the members reaction as to having it installed before the streets are constructed. The Chairman suggested that Mr. DeFoe write to all the abutters and inquire as to how they feel about the sewer being installed before the street is com- pleted. Letter was received from W. S. Couette, on behalf of Mr. Henning Swenson, requesting the extension of a Water main down Allen Street, a distance of approximately 400 feet. 94 Mr. DeFoe was requested to find out if Mr. Swenson and Mr. Slocum own all the land involved and if so, whether or not they would be willing to sign for the water. Petition was received from residents on Waltham Street and Concord Avenue requesting a hearing re- lative to surf ace drainage and mosquitoes at the Drainage property near and at the intersection of Concord Avenue and Waltham Street. Mr. DeFoe was requested to have a report on the drainage prepared by the Town engineer and it was agreed to invite the petitioners to meet with the Board on Monday evening, June 19th. Mr. DeFoe retired at 10:30 P. M. Mr. Stevens returned to the meeting and reported that Mr. Larsen will give the Town the five feet Oak Street necessary on Oak Street, will pay the water betterment on all his land on Oak Street, will give the town a forty foot street, running b< ck from Oak Street to Town land, but does not want to pay anything for the construction of the forty foot street, and wants it understood that there will be no betterments assessed to him on the new forty foot strip. Mr. Stevens suggested that the Board advise him that this will be discussed by the Selectmen with the Planning Board. Letter was received from Capt. Cushman, 140 Grant Street, expressing appreciation to officials and employees of the Town. Mr. Driscoll moved that the communication be printed in the Lexington Minute-Man. Mr. Gay seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Mr. Stevens retired at 11:25 P. M. Letter was received from Mrs. Ruth A. Sullivan, on behalf of the Community Nursery Sbhool, Inc. requesting Permit permission to have a parade on Friday afternoon, June 2nd, which would include a loudspeaker, to advertise the Children's Fair to be held on June 3rd. The Chairman agreed to cheek with the Chief of Police on this. Upon motion of Mr. Gay, seconded by Mr. p iscoll, Special it wgs voted to re-appoint David Govan, 32 Woodland Road, Police as a Special Police officer in the Town of Lexington for a term expiring March 31, 1951. Deed Upon motion of Mr. Driscoll, seconded by Mr. Nick- Orson, it was voted to sign deed, prepared by Town Counsel, conveying lots 24, 25 and 26, Block 73, Valley Road, Lexington to William H. McCullough and Blanche R. McCullough, 73 Valley Road, Lexington. 95 Application was received from Earl B. Sukeforth, Acting Principal, requesting the use of Cary Hall on June 15 for a rehearsal and on June 16 for Junior Use of Mall High School Graduation. Mr. Nickerson moved that the use of the hall be granted free of charge. Mr. Driscoll seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Upon motion of Mr. Gay, seconded by W. Driscoll, it was voted to grant the following licenses: Countryside Associates Lowell Street Sunday Golf Licenses Lexington Theatre, Inc. Mass. Avenue Sunday Movies Ralph J. White 56 Woburn St. Junk Upon motion of Mr. Nickerson, seconded by Mr. Driscoll, it was voted to sign an order for the Robbins Rd. installation of a water main in Robbins Road from Water Order Locust Avenue northeasterly, and distant approximately 220 feet. (Copy of Order in Selectmen's files under Water Orders, 1950). Upon motion of Mr. Nickerson, seconded by Mr. Driscoll, it was voted to continue the policy of operating the Town Offices with skeleton crews on Saturday mornings during the months of June, July and August. Letter was received from the Planning Board with reference to inspections required by the new Subdivision Rules and Regulations. The Selectmen were .asked to request the Public Works Department to provide such personnel as is necessary. The Chairman agreed to advise Mr. DeFoe, Superintendent of Public Works, of this communication. The meeting .adjourned at 11:30 P. M. e lectmen.