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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1931-07-31 Board of Public Works Minutes Heading, Mass. , July 31, 1931.. The Regular Meeting of the Board of Public Works was , called to order at 7:30 P.M. All Members and the Superintendent were present. Minutes of July 24th meeting read and accepted. Letter received from the School Committee, relative to driveway construction at Junior High School, Lowell St. and Highlands School. Board to assist them in this work, and charges to be paid by them. Board signed a permit for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to install a 24" pipe drain from Main St. , along Charles St. to brook as shown on a plan. Board signed plans, showing proposed 6" gas main on High St. and Forest St. , for Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co. , Letter read to Board from Sampson & Weston relative to the results of their investigation of our present water supply and their recommendations. Board voted to order special sand for filters. - Hearing on Park St. Layout at 8 P.M. Mr. H. C. Wood appeared. Laid on table until next meeting. Reading Laundry, represented by Mr. Weeks; Soft Water Laundry and Ns. Ida appeared relative to the expense of using sewer and the entrance charges. Hearing on the Extension of Hancock St. at 8:15 P.M. No one appeared. Board signed approval. -2- July 31, 1931 Cont. Board voted to place six (6) Articles in Town Warrant Aug.10, Glen Rd. , Hancock St. Extn. , Transferring $100. to B. & M. Prom HighwayMaint. , Summer Ave. & Willow St. Taking, High & Lowell St. Taking, Birch Meadow $1000.00. ; and Transfer of approximately $400.00 from Shackford Road to General Highway appropriation, to draw up all the articles and motions covering same. Board to hold a Special Meeting at 7:30 P.M. Aug. 3rd and Superintendent to notify abutters on Glen Rd. and Hancock Street Extension to appear at that time. Weston & Sampson to obtain prices for laying approximately 2000 feet of suction pipe at the new water development . Contracts to be drawn up and approved by Town Council, with a time limit in- cluded in same. Letter received from Max W. Rosenthal relative to a claim resulting from water drainage to property of Geo. Dinkel, Salem St. , caused by recent cloudburst July 14, 1931. Refer to Law Committee. Adjourned at 10 P.M. A True Record:- Attest:- Frank M. Merrill SECRETARY L ARTICLE $ , August 10 Town Meeting, 1931. Moved: That the down accept and adopt the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of Glen Road. -- TOWN WARRANT F b . 4 'a x m� ffff i pPyq COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTSMiddlesex, et. To either ! the Comrades of the Town of Themes N. 18°-08'-10' S. by the EgsbmiY Heaing. of side Ise of said Willow atxiimr a aintnuse a[ In the name of the Commmwe.lth of 9.'2 feet: m . enMeuteay dlrec- Memxhwetm, ye a hereby repuirtT b TI'evre by cu n tib suit w the inhabitenM f the Town tsea Me F+dlue of wcFich Is Foot Fcee of Heading, quvt[led to vote In iderp e, d Rodedda f M. .meet land 1 the aid m.n affido, to meet to SmuriV HSR Roderick M. d John W. Huean: Woburn Street In vaid Beetling, on Thence N. 49'-29'-80" R,ms dummor f MONDAY. THE TENTH DAY OF AUGUST, 42.68 feet to Hesitate t the point of be- A. M 1981 amusia, .—retain 1848 So. Fi- at e n forty, five o'clock m the evening, to The above dmcdbed li as being a lolly act on I a following artiet a! h— o Mn entitled "PLAN OF Article 1 To Fear end vat o the P09ED CHANCED at Ne Junction f SI1M- pore of Town OMcea and ap cul '4 M Ade"daWt¢S� �� 19811 by Dew"e�A time and determine what inetrue400s will be gbbat4 other Engineema Resalne. Mase., said n town oSlcere and special comml.[en. plan being a part of ehie duseriptin. g'Article 2. To see how much money the Such highways Mug relocated or Iterb Tawe will rake end wenropwrlate for Aid, In rdmce 'tF len duly ppmved I Based d Gee or what it 111 da in eNr µe Board f Pablic large and a1led in @e tion @veto. .Rmrd of Public We,. inches of the Town Clerk, m mNance Itthe h TowvLMMryeec Ht r the nmlomtn ore 1ltethe m- ArBe,, 8. To see how much money the On ofWill accept Avenue and Willow Street. Town 111 mad nd appropriate for 801- m shown n easel plan, or what it Will do In aier'. Roue[ or what m will do n lotion relation h rete. . thereto. Board of Public Work. Hoard of Selectmen Article 8. To See I[ The Town III to Article d. To how much money the to apt [M1e report ! Me Board of Publle Town ill were d pbrocriate far the Ro- Works oe the relomtine ar shcoung 1 High serve Fund or what alt will do in relation 91-1 and Lowell 9tree4 swh hlBM1waye tF.eMn Finance Co:emlNae bean¢ hinted o Itered In cc rdance lin plena duly approved by the Board of Public Article b. To ree if tFe T^wn ill vote be Wok. and flnled in the Mee e! the Tows rcept the poR of tae ➢oeedwof PabFc Clerk, In c rdence with the tarmary re- "'t apo. lav'ae nut ae a public dgM1wpy iremente, a. to See H @e Town will cept Middlesex Avenue Extension, M1 Mehww, the locatio. V[eeetion P Aieh terse' being laid oor in aerordmce with plain dub d Lowell Street shown on d plan. approves by the Board of Covey and filed j what I[ ill do in relation tMreW. in the office I the Town Clerk in imud-I if the [Town W Warks_ with the countery requirements d Article 9. To H the Town ll solea to Leee if the Town Will t the public d ppropri.ta tae n of One TM1amend highway laid out by the Board of Pub is (1.000) Dollars for the further development Works, end hereafter re be known Glm 1 Me playgvovnd m SImM1 Meadow, what Round, or wM1at It will ao In elation Hereto. I[ wIll do m gelation Ogmre f• Public Wmit Based of Public War" HgvL Article 6. To em 1[ Ne Town will v^ la Artule 10. To see It-the Town Ill nice e pt tae report o! the Based of Fublie d appawrlate Me eu of two hundred or Weeks upon la9i.e nt • e public highway dollen (6800.00) !or ink ncmdmt to the of priests w v Fembfn-e known n Han- further development ofwtM1a Towe Foeact. ae k 6traet Ertemian, each highway being wlwE It will do In releTieif— tM1ereto. laid t In rdence with plane duly ap Tbwn Forest Commiee pro cat by tae Howl of Sorvey end filed Ie ANele ]h To ee if the Town will raise the aMce I the Town Clerk i emednnw ing,lana(S28.o01tebh 9w!..... �eoi¢1-eight do Ito tM1e edtutory igmemm�and to see for Herbert L. %oberlao. o m sunt of Iv- I[ the Town ill a sept Me public highw—,j IoM net by the Hoard f Public Woks, and Drtlow manae d ie the Ibne of duty t e fire h.fore known Hancock Street Ex 'n Mwv 22. 1981, oe abut it will do an com. jum d ro if the Tbwn ,11 autI.= tin Fampub. said Bowel m Oke land for the pu-pine f O. O. Ordway, Chief Fire Dept. .aid a . a to it Apra rimev the And yn a directed to . this --r- were un hnarea(soul d.l,are to ne the t by p«Nne appealed[n ffieemf ryenu of mon Lying out, including all rant t lmsE ten public plsem in M. Town land Samoan a peki.ge incident hereto at sins man 'even day. nor b Aagaet He or what it ill do in r latam MCMn. 1981. @e dere Set foe Me meetisse s e Id Bard of Public Wode v_.amanq d to publish M1b wain t In the Article 4. To "' 'S the Town 111 L toj Hough., ClwaA. o.e day at least prior sceept Me report of th.Board of Public Works to said date. I relovoii.. oe Ibohm of S.mmer HeimT tell n t and m lee due serum o! Avnue and WIllaw 6treep Mroaeh lead tbL area t 't6 your doing. the—, to a[ Red M. d e ohv W. Hneeo, ra - the Town Clerk et r before the time ¢p- ug a 'oke t print of c ve is Po'" far id --"a @e Noetheely ids Ilne of Summer Avenu! Given .dee r Sande tine Miro-fleet d at land o[ ^pderick M. and JOM1u W. Any of July, A. D. 1981. Hgnv, the live re w M e of 811.60 W. HOMER MORRISON fact diol len[tH .f t2e.62 feet, by tae MOLLIE A. SWEETS" ..id N..'irly Ibne S bummer Avenue, b ALBERT N. LEMAN Bonn. Bound at Me june[iou o[ Willow Selselmm of Heeding Street: . LCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. Town of Reading Office of the Board of Public Works August 3, 1931 Laving Out of Glen Road The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require that a town way be laid out as and in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time. and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a town way for the use of the Town running easterly from .Summer Avenue to its . intersection with a private way known as Hancock Street Extension, substantially in the location of the private way known as Middlesex Avenue Extension. The boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows: _ The NORTHERLY line of said Glen Road commences at a point on the Easterly side line of said Summer Avenue at land of Annie L. Canty et al, at a point of curve, said point being S. 160 - 45' - 00" E. , a distance of 213.74 feet, measured along the Easterly side of said Avenue, from a Stone Bound marking the Southeasterly corner of said Summer Avenue and Mineral Street; From thence the said NORTHERLY line runs with a curve to the Left on a radius of 10 feet, a length of 15.87 feet across land of the said Canty at al, to a point of tangent; Thence N. 720 - 19' - 00" E. , by land of the said Canty \ et al. land of John M. and Mary G. Widell. Charles E. Reck. Laying Out of Glen Road cont. -2- Lillian F. Field, Mary L. Muse, Laura W. Adams, Catherine Reilly, Phillip Reilly, other land of Catherine Reilly, and land. of Richard Dooley, a distance of 660.72 feet to a point of curve; Thence with a curve to the Left on a radius of 20 feet, a length of 35.14 feet across land of the said Dooley, to a point of tangent on the Westerly side line of said Hancock Street Extension and at the end of this layout; The SOUTHERLY line of said Glen Road is parallel with and Forty Feet distant from the above described Northerly line. Said lines being more fully shown on a plan entitled "PLAN AND Profile of Glen Road" , made under date of Febriiary 1931 by Davis & Abbott, Civil Engineers , Reading, Mass . , said plan being a part of this description. We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement. No betterments are to be assessed for this improvement. The laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public town way and named Glen Road. Martin B. Hartshorns Ch. Harold W. Putnam William T. Fairclough Frank M. Merrill Members of the Board of Public Works , Town of Reading. AITICLE 6 August 109 Town Meeting, 1931 Moved: That the Town accept and adopt the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of extension of Hancock Street, and that said Board be, and hereby is, authorized to take lands for the purpose of said way, and to appropriate to pay the expense of such takings, and land damages incident thereto, the sum of One Hundred (100) Dollars, by transferring from the enexpended balance of the annual appropriation for the construction, maintenance and repairs of highways previously voted by the Town at the annual meeting held March 1931, and that the Town Accountant be, and hereby is , ordered to make this transfer. L COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. Town of Reading -, Office of the Board of Public Works August 3, 1931. Lavine Out of Hancock Street Extension The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require that a town way be laid out as and in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof .and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a town way known as Mineral Street, to its intersection with a town way known as King Street. The boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows: The WESTERLY line of said Hancock Street Extension commences at a point on the Southerly side line of said Mineral Street, said point being N. 720 - 181 - 30" E. , a distance of 640.64 feet from the Southeasterly corner of said Mineral Street and Summer Avenue; From thence the said Westerly line runs with a curve to the RIGHT on a radius of 10 feet, a length of 13.85 feet across land of Jesse S. Thorn, to a point of tangent; Thence S. 280 - 21' - 30" E. , by land of said Thorn, land of now or formerly Lillian G. Wild, Richard Dooley, - across the easterly end of a private way known as Middlesex Avenue Extension butnowcalled Glen Road, by land of B. J. y� Lehan, E. V. Kerans, and land of Grace 0. Kimball, a distance u of 469.85 feet to a point of curve; Laying Out of Hancock Street Extension -2- Thence with a curve to the RIGHT on a radius of 20 feet a length of 3 . 59 feet, across land of the said Kimball, to a point of tangent on the Westerly side line of said King Street and at the end of this layout; The EASTERLY line of said Hancock Street Extension is parallel with and Forty Feet distant from the above described Westerly line, running across land of the Boston & Maine Railroad and thence by land of the John Hickey Estate. The above described lines being more fully shown on a plan entitled "EXTENSION OF HANCOCK STREET" made under date of May 1931 by Davis & Abbott, Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass . , said plan being a part of this description. We award damages to the Boston & Maine Railroad, by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement, in the sum of One Hundred (100) Dollars, and we determine that no damages will be sustained by any other person or persons in their property, by reason of the taking to be made for such improvement. No betterments are to be assessed for this improvement. The laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public town way and named Hancock Street. Martin B. Hartshorn, Ch Harold W. Putnam William T. Fairclough Frank M. Merrill Members of Board of Public Works Town of Reading r ARTICLE 9 August 10, Town Meeting, 1931. Moved: That the sum of One Thousand (1000) Dollars be raised and appropriated for the further development of the playground in Birdh Meadow.