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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1963-08-26 Board of Public Works Minutes 89 t August 26, 1963 LMeeting of the Board of Public Works opened at 7:30 P.M. in Room 16, Municipal Building. Present were Chairman Watt, Secretary Kenney, Board Member Cochrane and Superintendent Welch. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved as amended. Public hearing was held at 7:30 P.M. regarding the pro- posed extension of the Mystic Valley Gas Company main in West Street from Winslow Road Northerly to Edgemont Avenue and Northwesterly in Edgemont Avenue to the Alice M. Barrows Elementary School. Gas main will be located within the limits of West Street and Edgemont Avenue in the area usually reserved for such utilities. Mr. Louis Stockwell, representing the Mystic Valley Gas Company, attended the meeting. Mr. Kenney moved, Mr. Cochrane seconded and it was voted to approve the petition. The Board signed the above-described plan. The Chairman read note from the Superintendent requesting permission to attend the New England Water Works Annual Convention to be held at Lake Placid, New York, September 22 to September 25, 1963. Mr. Cochrane moved, Mr. Kenney seconded and it was voted to grant Mr. Welch permission to attend the Convention. Read note from Mr. Welch which stated that the Department has reason to believe that unauthorized persons have on three or four occasions entered the New Treatment Plant. The door locks have been reset and new keys made which will be given to personnel actually working at the plant. Mr. Cochrane moved, Mr. Kenney seconded and it was voted to accept the data as a point of in- formation. The Board adjourned temporarily at 7:45 P.M. to meet as the Board of Survey. The Board reconvened at 8:00 P.M. Public hearing was held at 8:00 P.M. in regard to the proposed extension of the main trunk sanitary sewer in Main Street at Minot Street. Mr. Robert Ooodoak attended the meeting. Mr. Kenney moved, Mr. Cochrane seconded and the motion carried to permit installation of the sanitary sewer at Main and Minot Streets and that a sewer frontage assessment be placed against the property of Regal Building, Inc. (Fireside Apartments ) at No. 307 Main Street. The Board conferred with H. Lee Donley, Chairman and Richard C. Evans of the Swimming Pool Committee. Mr. Donley pre- sented three possible sites for the swimming pool in order of their desirability, as follows: Northeast of what would be the intersection of Longfellow Road Extension and Hartshorn Street Extension; north of last year' s hockey area, almost directly east of Birch Meadow School; and west of the existing tennis courts and just north of the present wading pool at the corner where the hockey rink was formerly erected each winter. Advantages and dis- advantages of the three sites were discussed. Site #1 is under the jurisdiction of the School Committee, #2 and #3 under the Board of Public Works. '� : ) 1 LThe Board of Public Works, upon request, agreed to sur- vey and stake out the site; also, handle the contract and super- visory work. The Committee was informed that the Public Works could not supply ordinary or gravel borrow which would be needed at any location. It was suggested that a separate appropriation be requested for site preparation. Also, the Department is not equipped to take samples and boring tests but would assist. Mr. Welch advised Mr. Donley that the Public Works could not prepare design plans and specifications for the swimming pool because of the Department's backlog of work for the next six months. It was proposed that plans used by the M.D.C. be adapted for the Town of Reading. Mr. Donley stated that when the proposal for a pool was taken to the Town Meeting floor, he hoped to have the support, or at least the acquiescence of the major Town Board: The Board held conference on sewer study consultants as follows: - 8:30 P.M. Whitman & Howard, Inc. C. Roger Pearson and Harold Kilgore 9:00 P.M. Camp, Dresser & McKee Joseph C. Lawler and Frank L. Heaney 9:30 P.M. Cleverdon, Varney & Pike Waldo F. Pike and Floyd E. Brown The representatives of the various companies presented their quali- fications and outline of the work based on the duty specifications for the sewer study. The Board took no action on the selection of a consultant. ' It was moved, seconded and voted that the meeting con- tinue in Executive Session. Mr. James W. Killen, representing Town 92 Counsel J. Warren Killam, Jr. , conferred with the Board regard- ing the sewer contractor, A. Lucchetti & Son, Inc. Mr. Kenney moved, Mr. Cochrane seconded and it was voted to delegate the ad- miniatrative aspects of the problems to Superintendent Welch; any policy problems would be referred to the Board. The meeting continued in open session. Read note from the Superintendent with reference to in— stallation of water, sewer and gas pipes in the MacDonald Hamburger Stand on Main Street and his suggestion that Main Street be omitted from the recovering program this year, and that Sanborn Street from Lowell Street to Woburn Street be substituted. Mr. Kenney moved, Mr. Cochrane seconded and it was voted that the above recommendation be followed. The Board signed the following: - Commitment Sheets - Betterments - Various house connections Billroll dated August 23, 1963 Meeting adjourned at 10:45 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Secretary 1