1949-06-30 Special Town Meeting Minutes

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Special Town v' eetin;_;, June 30, 1949 158 w. the date of posting being more than seven days prior to the date set for the meeting in this warrant, and I also caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in tie toadin,-; ' Zronicle, in the issue of June 23, 1949, the date of publication bein„ more than one day prior to the date of the meetin;. LEON �. B ;ivT Constable of rieadin" SPACIAL TOWN 1IL 1I vu Shepardson Hall June 30, 1949 Pursuant to the warrant and the Constable ' s Return thereon, a Town P eetin�- was held at tze place specified in t:le warrant, and was called to order at :3:10 p.m. by t.ie Ioderator, Charles P. Toward. The Clerk taen partially read tine warrant when on motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to dispense with the further read- in, of the warrant except for the officer' s return, which was then read by the Clerk. Article 1. On motion of Kenneta C . Latham it was noted that Article 1 be laid on t_ne table. Article 2. On motion of iienneth C . Latha-,,i it was voted that Section 4 of Division No. 1 - Administration of the By-Laws for the Construction of Buildins - be and t-ie same aereby Is amended by insertin` after the first para`;raph t:nereof tine followin ,: No buildinc; permit for a dwellinr- house stall be issued until the Board of health '_ias approved of the proposed lot as suitable from a sanitary point of view for TaLunan habitation, and no building permit shall be issued for a dwellinj house on an unsewered str,,et until a permit for a cesspool has been obtained from the 3oard of ilea.lt_n. Article 3. On motion of Charles _'. 'wilkinson it was voted that tiie term of office of the three members at lar e of the Capital Lxpenditures Planning Committee be fixed at three years, and t.-,at the Selectmen sAall appoint one for a terra of one year, one for a terra of two years, and one for a term of three years, and -that annually t'_iereaf ter there shall be a-,poirnted by the Selectmen a member for tze term of t:iree years in t_ne place of t1ne member whose term is to expire; and t iat u-aon tae appointment and qualification of tie t-nree members as provided in tris vote, the terms of office of tne three then existin- members shall terminate, and that in the event tiat a vacancy occurs in the membership of the three appointed at large the same scall be filled fortawitli by the Board of Selectmen for the unexpired term. Article 4. On motion of C. Lawrence Roberts it ; as voted gnat Section 2A of rirticle I of the By-Laws of the Town be and the same ':nereby is f urt:ier amended by makin the Chairman: of the Personnel Board a Town Meeting, T-iember at lar ;e, so as to read as follows: Section 2A. Any representative 'town Leetin, held under the -provisions of Chapter 7, of the r'�cts of 1943, shall be limited to the voters elected under Section 3 thereof, to-ether witri the following; desi`;nated as Town Iti eetin- Ii embers at lar_-re; namely, any member of the General Court of the Commonwealth, from the Town, the Moderator, tae 'Town Clerk, the members of the Board of Selectmen, the Chairman of the Scnool Committee, the Chairman of the Finance Coramittee, the Chairman of the Board of Public `Works, the Chairman of the Paiunicipal Light Board, the Chairman of the