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SELECTMEN'"S MEETING
January 2, 1973
A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the
Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office Building, on Tuesday, January
2, 1973, at 7 30 p.m. Chairman Kenney, Messrs. Bailey, Buse, Brown, and
Mrs. Riffin; Mr. O'Connell , Town Manager; Mr. Cohen, Town Counsel;
Mrs. McCurdy, Executive Clerk, were present.
Precinct Mr. O'Connell discussed the notification to voters of the proper
Notifica- polling place due to reprecincting from 6 to 9 precincts as of
tion Cards January I , 1973.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to instruct the
Town Manager to make arrangements for M. Stieffel Associates, Chelmsford,
to supply, print and address approximately 19,000 precinct notification awards
to be sent 'to ,Lexirtgtoq voters, total price not to exceed $2,500 including
postage,
Request Chairman Kenney read a request from Mrs. Lucille Mahakian,
Blind 12 Watertown Street, for a blind driveway sign to be installed due to
Driveway heavy traffic on the street.
Sign Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to refer the
request to the Traffic Committee fN,r a recommendation.
Com. Vict. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to sign the
Licenses following Common Victualler's licenses:
George R. Reed & Son 1721 Mass. Avenue
Brewster's 903 Waltham Street
McManus Shoppe 399 Lowell Street
Marikspa Inc. 20 Massachusetts Avenue
Wardrobe's Pharmacy 807 Massachusetts Avenue
Cert. of Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to certify the
Incorp. character of Gordon D. MacKay, 180 Grove Street, who has applied for
Certificate of Incorporation "Urban Dynamics Advisory Committee, Inc."
Liquor Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to to, buthorizeithe
I . D. Chairman to sign the Liquor Identification Card for Charlene Louise
Maxner, 462 Waltham Street.
Printing Chairman Kenney informed the Board that it is not necessary to
Town advertise for bids for the printing of the 1973 Annual Town Meeting
Warrant Warrant and the Lexington Press, 9 Oakland Street, has submitted
a quotation of $25 per page.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to award the
contract to the Lexington Press to print the 1973 Annual Town Meeting
Warrant at $25 per page.
Selectmen's Chairman Kenney informed the Board that additional information was
Insurance received on Public Official Liability Insurance. The policy has been
extended to include the Town Manager, and if we have it for the Board,
we can include Mr. O'Connell. We wouldn't need insurance for the Town
Clerk as she is bonded.
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The Board discussed the application received from Secretary
Davoren for certificate of incorporation "Lexington Friends Community Cert. of
Residence, Inc." 3 Forest Street, Lexington. Incorp-
The Board agreed to approve the location if it is used for 3 Forest
mail purposes only. Chief Corr's approval has been received as to the Street
good character of the persons named.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to certify the
character of the following Lexington residents who have applied for
Certificate of Incorporation "Lexington Friends Community Residence,
Inc." The location at 3 Forest Street was approved for mail purposes
only.
Robert E. Reynolds 3 Forest Street
Anthony L. Mancini 115 Reed Street
Lester E. Goodridge, Jr. 24 Freemont Street
William E. Rice 5 Raymond Street
Frederick J. Conroy 5 John Poulter Road
David A. Lavender 20 Avon Street
Mr. Thomas Costello, Lexington representative to SILC, and SILC
Mr. Donald Graham, member of the Planning Board, met with the Board Vaster
to discuss a proposal for Public Transportation in SILC during and Transporta-
after the Bicentennial Celebration of 1975 and 1976 tion
Chairman Kenney We had a call from Howard Forbes, Chairman of
SILC Sub-Committee on Transportation and he said that Weston had
approved an Article for the Warrant for $1 ,500 to join with SILC on
master transportation. Their general idea is if Weston went in for
$1 ,500, Lexington and Concord should double that amount. They are
asking for money now to engage Arthur D. Little as consultants
to set up a master plan; Arthur 0. Little said it would cost approx-
imately $200,000, of which the federal government would fund $100,000,
State-$50,000, and local government to come up with the other $50,000.
Chairman Kenney to Mr. Costello As our representative to SILC,
what is your recommendation?
Mr. Costello: The Town should do it. They are looking for $50,000.
While the study is going on, they will look for funds to buy rights-
of - way; they are looking for a tool to approach the State and federal
government with.
Mr. O'Connell They are asking for seed money to go looking for
federal and state funds, and it is a wild goose chase.
After discussion, the Board agreed not to join with SILC and to
inform them that it has been decided not to include an Article in our
1973 Warrant for funds to employ a consulting firm to begin work on
the project for public transportation.
Mr. Louis Zehner, Chairman of the Town Report Committee, met with Bids for
the Board to recommend that the contract for printing the 1972 Town Printing
Report be awarded to Semline, Inc. , 180 Wood Street, Braintree, in the
amount of $4,776. Four bids were received and opened on December 21 , 1972,
as follows Courier Color, Lowell- $7,919; Somerville Printing, Somer-
�ille $6,800; Acme Printing Co. , Inc. , Medford-$4,975, Semline, Inc. ,
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Braintree-$4,824, which was reduced by $48 due to a reduction in the
number of copies of Part 1.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to award the
contract for the printing of the 1972 Town Report to Semolina, Inc. at the
bid price of $4,776. for the base contract; with delivery of a mini-
mum of 9,500 copies of Part I and 700 copies of Partil , with accept-
ance of an overrun of 3%.
Articles The Board discussed the Articles to be inserted in the Wartant
for 1973 for the 1973 Annual Town Meeting.
Annual Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to insert the
Town Meeting following Articles in the Warrant for the 1973 Annual Town Meeting:
A complete list of Articles is to be typed into the Record Book.
Executive Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to go into
Session Executive Session for the purpose of discussing, deliberating or
voting on matters which, if made public, would adversely affect
the public security, financial interests of the Town or the repu-
tation of a person.
After discussion of matters of financial interest to the Town,
it was voted to go out of Executive Session.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to adJoirn .at
9:20 p.m.
A true record, Attest
, Executive Clerk, Selectmen
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