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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-11-17 Adjourned Session, Subsequent Town Meeting Minutes279- ADJOURNED SESSION, SUBSEQUENT TOWN MEETING Reading Memorial High School November 17, 1980 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, John W. Faria, at 8:00 P.M. The invocation was given by the Rev. Lewis MacLean of the Church of the Nazarene, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. ARTICLE 17. Marvin M. Rosenthal moved that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to petition and /or approve the filing of a petition to the General Court for special legislation in essentially the following form which will transfer the parks, playgrounds and recreation areas and programs currently under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Works to the Recreation Committee which will then be known as the Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners in the Town of Reading and which will provide that the transfer shall not become effective prior to July 1, 1981. "An Act Establishing Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners in the Town of Reading. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. The current members of the Recreation Committee of the Town of Reading hereby are established as the Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners of the Town of Reading. Each such Commissioner shall serve for the balance of his or her original term as a member of the Recreation Committee pursuant to his or her appointment by the Board of Selectmen, and upon the expiration of the term of any such Commissioner his or her successor to the Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a term of three years. Section 2. The Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners shall have jurisdiction over and be responsible for the maintenance of all park, playground and recreation areas within the Town and over the park, playground and recreation programs of the Town excepting, however, those playgrounds and recreation areas and programs under the jurisdiction of the School Department. Section 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 118 of the Acts of 1921 and any other general or special law to the contrary, said Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners shall have all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities vested in a board of park commissioners under Chapter forty -five of the General Laws or any other general or special law, and upon the effective date of this act, said Board of Public Works shall cease to have any jurisdiction over the park, playground and recreation areas and programs in the Town, and upon such date, the Board of Public Works shall turn over to the Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Commissioners all contracts, papers, documents, plans and other property of any kind or nature whatsoever then in their custody, relating to their activities under Chapter 118 of the Acts of 1921 as Board of Park Commissioners. Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon the passage of this Act or July 1, 1981 whichever date is later to occur." On motion of Paul T. Metcalf it was voted that Article 17 be indefinitely postponed. ARTICLE 18. On motion of Maureen T. O'Brien, Board of Selectmen, as amended by John W. Price, it was voted that the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) be transferred from available funds and appropriated to hire consultants and other experts for the purpose of combating pollution and chemical problems emanating from the City of Woburn, such consultants or experts services to include participation, if necessary, in Court proceedings relating to this matter. Such funds to be expended by and under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. ARTICLE 19. On motion of Maureen T. O'Brien, Board of Selectmen, it was voted that the Town establish a line item under the Insurance Category for automobile property damage claim costs not covered by the Town's Motor Vehicle Property Damage Insurance whether by reason of the property deductible, or otherwise, and that the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) be transferred from the Casualty Insurance Appropriation and appropriated for this line item. ARTICLE 20 On motion of John W. Price, Board of Selectmen, as amended by Gail F. Wood, it was voted that the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition and /or approve the filing of a petition to the General Court for a special act or for leave of the 280 Adjourned Session, Subsequent Town Meeting November 17, 1980 General Court, pursuant to General Laws Chapter 45 and Articles 49 and 97 of the Articles of Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, authorizing that said land may be used as the site for a fire station and /or for other non -park and non - conservation municipal purposes. The land is that land on the easterly side of Main Street in Reading conveyed to the Town by deed of Mahlon E. Brande and Clara G. Brande dated June 29, 1920 recorded in the Middlesex County South Registry of Deeds in Book 4366, Page 253 bounded and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe on the easterly side of said Main Street at land now or formerly of J. E. Daley, thence the boundary line runs northerly by said Main Street, One Hundred Forty -Eight (148) feet to land now or formerly of Bent; thence easterly by land of said Bent, One Hundred Sixty (160) feet, more or less, to a passageway shown on the plan hereinafter referred to; thence southerly, southwesterly and southerly on said passageway to land now or formerly of J. S. Temple; thence southwesterly by land of said Temple, Seventy and Nine One Hundredths (70.09) feet to land now or formerly of said Daley; thence westerly by land of said Daley, One Hundred Nineteen and Sixty - Eight Hundredths (119.68) feet to said Main Street and the point of beginning. Together with the right -of -way over said passageway to and from Salem Street, in common with others entitled thereto. Said premises are shown on a Plan of Lots in Reading, Massachusetts belonging to Galen A. Parker, dated May 1913 by Clarence E. Carter, C.E. recorded at said deeds. Main Motion: 70 Voted in the affirmative 31 Voted in the negative Amendment: 50 Voted in the affirmative 44 Voted in the negative ARTICLE 21 On motion of Carl H. Amon, Jr., Board of Cemetery Trustees, it was voted that the Board of Cemetery Trustees be and they hereby are authorized to sell or exchange or otherwise dispose upon such terms as they may determine the 1964 Ford tractor with backhoe and front end loader, used by the Board of Cemetery Trustees and that the sum of Twenty -five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) be transferred from available funds and appropriated together with receipts, if any, from the sale, exchange or disposal of the said 1964 Ford tractor for the purpose of purchasing a new tractor with a backhoe and front end loader to be used by the Board of Cemetery Trustees. On motion of Douglass L. Barker it was voted that this meeting stand adjourned to meet at 8:00 P.M. on Thursday, November 20, 1980, in the Reading Memorial High School auditorium. Meeting adjourned at 10:59 P. M. 133 Town Meeting members were present. A true copy. Attest: Lawrence Drew Town Clerk