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SEL`CREN'S '�,ETING
March 5, 1962
A regular meeting of toe Board of Selectmen was
held in the Selectmen' s Room, Town Office Building,
March 5, 1962, at 7:30 P.M. Chairman Morey, Messrs .
Ferguson, Richards and Cole were present . Mr . S*aples,
Executive Assistant, and Miss Murray, Executive Clerk,
and Mn . Carroll, Superintendent of Public Works, were
also present .
Mr . James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, met with the
Board for the drawing of three jurors . The following
individuals Were drawn for jury duty; George C . Gates, Jurors
17 Wheeler Road; Raymond H. Atwood, 17 Fairlawn Lane ;
Forrest K. Marcy, 167 Cedar Street .
Mr . Carroll retired at 7:45 P.M.
Mr . Carroll presented a plan showing proposed street
numbers on Emerson Road. He stated that one section of
the road has been constructed in the Burnham Farms area .
The Grove Sfreet subdivision, for which building permits Numbering
have been issued, is another section and there is the Emerson Roac
Maloney subdivision on Maple Street He said there should
be a numbering system on Emerson Road from Route 2 to
the Grove Street subdivision and he has started 1 at
Route 2 going to 370 at Grove Street . He exrlained
that this will necessitate changing some street numbers
in the Burnham Farm section and will pose some problem
as to whether or not letters should be used to designate
the various sections .
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted
to use street block numbers, Mr. Carroll to notify those
people whose present street numbers will be changed.
Mr. Carroll mentioned a previous discussion rela-
tive to lighting Worthen Road, and the annual charge
was $3100 a year with underground connected concrete Lighting
posts He felt that the cost to light just one street Worthen Roac
was excessive and. contacted the Boston Edison relative
to the possibility of butting the underground posts
every three hundred feet instead of every 150 feet .
This would reduce the cost to about $1500.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted
to authorize Mr. Carroll to make arrangements for the
installation of 11,000 lumen lamps three hundred feet
apart .
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Notice was received from the MDC with a statement
indicating the amount of water sold all municipalities
and the revenue -^eceived during the previous calendar
year.
Letter was received from the Division of Waterways
giving notice that a hearing will be held on Thursday,
March 15, 1962, at 10:30 A .M. , 100 Nashua Street, for
=Hearing all parties interested in petitions for the improvement,
development, maintenance and protection of tidal and
non-tidal rivers and streams, etc.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted
to petition the Department of Public Works to deepen
and widen Kiln Brook from the northwest side of Route
128 to the Shawsheen River in Bedford, approximately
Kiln Brook 4500 feet. The cost is estimated to be X60,000 .00.
Mr . Carroll suggested that a copy of thenotice
of the hearing be sent to Mr. John W. Kastler, Plant
Manager, Itek Corporation.
Letter was received from Mr. John A. Beilizia
relative to draining Tophet Swamp below the Pine Meadows
Country Club.
It was agreed to advise Mr . Bellizia that the Board
executed a petition to the Department of Public Works
requesting the deepening and widening of Kiln Brook from
Beilizia the northwest side of Route 128 to the Shawsheen River
Drainage in Bedford; approximately 4500 feet, and also to send
him a copy of the notice of the hearing to be held at
the Division of Waterways on March 15, 1962.
Letter was received from Mr. Richard Herzog stating
Whipple Hill that vandals have destroyed the bench on top of Whipple
Hill .
It was agreed to acknowledge the letter and tell
Mr. Herzog that appropriate action will be taken when
the weather permits .
Letter was received fronMr. Mitchell Spiris relative
Sidewalk to plowing side wa ks on Bloomfield Street .
plowing Upon motion dimly made and seconded, it was voted to
authorize Mr. Caroll to have the sidewalk on one side of
Bloomfield Street plowed.
Letter was received from A. Schofield Corporation, re-
Questing permission to move a house from 404 BedfordStreet
to the Bedford Town Line via Hartwell Avenue and Maguire
Road .
Mr . Carroll said that insofar as he war able to dete -
mine , there would be no problem.
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Upon motion duly made and seconded, it wa;: voted
to grant the request subject to the usual conditions .
Mr . Carroll retired 8 : 15 P.M.
Letter was received from Mr. Thomas W. Kelly, 31
Fairbanks Road, relative to a law or building code requir-
ing swimming pools to be fenced.
Mr. Richards reported that the only thing available
is a copy of a bill introduced in the 1960 and 1961 sessions
of the legislature and both times no action was taken. He
said what Mr . Kelly wants would have to be an amendment
to the Building Code . Fencing
Mr. Richards agreed to acknowledge Mr. Kelly' s swimming
letter,. pools
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it wasvoted
to approve the minutes of the Selectmen' s Meeting held Minutes
on February 26, 1962.
The Chairman read a letter from the Middlesex
County Commissioners explaining the increase in assess-
ment for the maintenance , care and operation of the Sanatorium
Middlesex County Sanatorium for the year 1961 . assessment
Letter was received from the Lexington Arts and
Crafts Society, Inc . , submitting two nominations for
associate members to the Historic Districts Commission. Nominations
No action to be taken until nominations are re- to Historic
ceived from the Lexington Historical Society. Dist . Comm.
A Certificate of Incorporation, on behalfof Peter
C . Fritsch, 48 Turning Mill Road, et als, was signed Cert . of Inc
by the Board, satisfactory character references having
been received from the Chief of Police .
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted
to grant a Taxi Driver ' s license to Melvin R. Peterson,
1105 Lexington Street, Waltham; satisfactory character Taxi license
• reference having been received from the Chief of Police .
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted
to abate the following 1957 ambulance bill= totaling $52 .00;
#79, DeWolfe ; #90, DiNapole ; #264, Donovan and #280, Yeomans .
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted • Abatements
to abate the following 1958 ambulance bills totaling
345.00 : #, 38, Patterson; #55, Markham; #67, McDonald;
#72, Thornton; #89, James and #203, Chaisson.
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Mr. Stevens arrived at the meeting at 8:45 P.M.
The Chairman read a letter froriJoseph J. Volante ,
Dated March 5, 1962, demanding thatthe two legal questions
raised in his letters dated February 17 to the Board of
Appeals and Town Counsel be referred to the Town Counsel
for rulings . He also asked for a definition of Section
14 (f) of the Zoning By-Law.
It was egreed to advise Yr . Volante that the Selectmen have
no authority over the procedures and the decisions of the
Board of Appeals and if he is aggrieved by any decision
of that Board, he bas statutory right of appeal; that it
is not the function of the Board of Selectmen to interpret
the Zoning By-Law.
The Chairman reported on the status of the Watertown
intersection.
The meeting adjourned at 9:15 P.M.
A true -record, Attest:
EExecitive Clerk, Selectmen