HomeMy WebLinkAbout1956-ATOBC-rpt booklet.pdf ADDITIONAL TOWN OFFICE BUILDING
ARTICLE 40—PASSED AT THE ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING HELD APRIL 4, 1955
ARTICLE 40 VOTED That the Moderator be and hereby is authorized and directed
to appoint an Additional Town Office Building Committee of five residents
of the Town, two of whom shall be members of the Board of Selectmen at
the time of their appointment, to retain architectural services and obtain
plans and specifications and cost estimates for the construction and original
equipping and furnishing of an additional town office building•, similar in
design to the present town office building, and to report to the 1956 annual
Town meeting, anti that the sum of $10,000.00 be appropriated for the
expenses of the Committee and be provided by transfer from the Excess and
Deficiency Account.
At last year's Annual Town Meeting, the necessity for a new Town
Office Building was recognized by the Board of Selectmen and the Town
Meeting Members by vote, authorized the appointment of a committee
to procure plans, specifications and an estimate of the cost.
The present Town Office Building was built in 1927 and at that time
the population of the town was approximately 8,000 people and the Police
Department had a complement of 12 In view of the then, reasonably
anticipated future growth of the town, the planning was very well done
At that time, it was planned that when additional space was needed
that an office building, similar in size and architecturally of the same de-
sign, would be built at an equal distance from Cary Memorial Hall on the
east side of the town property, this would give a balanced effect in
symmetry and beauty to the civic center of our town.
The time for the erection of this building has arrived. Our present
population numbers over 22,000 and our Police Department now has
thirty men and while a few of our other town departments can, for the
time being, get by in their present quarters, most departments are handi-
capped in their operations due to insufficient space accommodations.
In the past ten years, Lexington has experienced a period of rapid
growth in population and the number of new homes and if this rate of
growth continues, and it appears that it will, our population will reach the
50,000 to 55,000 mark within twenty years. In this period the number
of men in our Police Department would grow to 55 or possibly 6o and
the number of town office employees would increase proportionately
Our Police Department is doing an excellent job, but it is operating
under wholly inadequate conditions relative to equipment and in extremely
crowded quarters. It is handicapped by the lack of suitable rooms for
interrogation, fingerprinting, a proper assembly room for roll call and
instruction classes in keeping the officers up-to-date in the latest methods
of procedure in doing police work, accommodations for a matron, locker
room and toilet facilities among other present inadequacies.
The firm of architects, Kilham, Hopkins, Greeley and Brodie, who
designed the present Town Office Building and Cary Memorial Hall,
were selected by the committee to design the new building and thus carry
to completion the original architectural scheme.
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The basement and first floor of the proposed new building would be
occupied by the Police Department with locker and toilet room facilities
for 55 men, a garage, fingerprinting department and dark room, detention
cells, matrons quarters, a regulation pistol range, boiler, storage and
other miscellaneous rooms in the basement.
On the first floor would be located the general office, a Chief's private
office, space for clerks and assistants, rooms for interviews, a room for
handling juvenile problems and an assembly room.
The second floor would house the Building Department with room
for the Plumbing, Wiring and Building Inspectors, the Health Depart-
ment office with space for a laboratory and adequate space for the
Assessors' Department.
The removal of these departments from the present office building
will allow for the necessary expansion of the departments remaining
therein and also permit the moving of the departments, which are now
housed in the Barnes property, into the present building
It is the belief of this committee that the proposed additional new
building, together with the present building, will provide adequate space
for our Town Government for any conceivable growth in the future, up
to and including an estimated maximum population of 55,000
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Total amount requested for this appropriation $298,000.00
Suggested Financing
To be appropriated in 1956 $ 18,00o 00
Bond Issue 280,000 00
$298,000 00
Annual payments on principle $ 14,000.00
Average interest payment (at 21/2 Jo) 3,500 00
Average annual payments $17,500 00
ADDITIONAL TOWN OFFICE
Architects BUILDING COMMITTEE
KILHAM, HOPKINS, GREELEY & BRODIE Robert W Hunter
Frederic K. Johnson
At No 9 Arlington Street William E Maloney
Boston, Massachusetts Haskell W Reed
John H. Brooks, Jr , Chairman
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING TO BE HELD BULK MAILING
MARCH 19, 1956 U S. POSTAGE
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