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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-01-18 Board of Selectmen Minutes3~anuary 11, 1982 (continued) S.electman DiFrus¢io advised the Board that Thomas Leavitt had contacted him requesting that action on the application be.postRoned o~e.week. $o, "out of courtesy to Mr. Leavitt" a motion was ma~e ant seconoed to postpone the application until next Monday's meeting, January 18, 1982. J.J. BOYLE RESTAURANT: Letter received from the Board of Health stating that renovations must be made in the Restaurant before it could be re-opened. LICENSE RENEWALS APPROVED: Common Victualer: Hy-Way Grocery, 476 Chickering Rd. K Mart Store, North Andover Mall Richdale Superette, Chickering Rd. Coin-operated Machines: Christopher Adams, 1591 Osgood St. (4 machines) K Mart Store (1 machine) N.A. Mall Crystal Manor, 80 Chickering Rd., (1 machine) Auctioneer (Town Wide) I David Axelrod, 1'7 Poor St. · Joseph Axelrod, 17 Poor ~St.. Alice M. Letarte, Secretary. **************** JANUARY i8, 1982 The Board of Selectmen held their regular meeting on this date with all members present except Selectman Salisbury. Present were Selectmen Joyce, Graham, DiFruscio with Chairman McEvoy presiding. The minutes and warrant were approved as submitted. GLSD: John Finneran and~'Donald George of the Greater'Lawrence Sanitary District appeared before the Board to discuss a proposal from Salem, N.H. to join the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District. George stated that the EPA ~and DQE were anxiousJ~-to have this proposal accepted, that the GLSD will not increasE, personnel will not have to be increased and the plant can absorb theijoiding of Salem and it would not be a strain on the plant. Selectman Joyce stated that it would benefit the Town as well as Salem to clean up the river. He made a motion, which was seconded, that the Board acknowledge that .the District is proceeding in the direction to accept Salem's proposal and that any final agreement, the Board sanction this movement. In other words, the Board wants to see the contract before it is implemented. Vote was unan- imous. HUD ARCHITECTURAL & DESIGN CONTRACTS: Gayton O sgood~ appeared before the Board requesting the Board to authorize :he Chairman to sign the Contracts. A discussion ensued and it was voted to amend paragraphs 2.4 and 2.5 in the'Z, ar~hiteetural contract to read that architect will provide the engineering services and land survey." In ~the second contract concerning market analysis,Sc amended to read "which approval, shall not be unreasonably withheld," and under Task 9..the sentence which read, "Based on this additional work,etc.", the word, "additional" was deleted. It was voted unanimously to authorize the Chairman to sign both contracts with the amendments as noted. CONSTABLE APPOINTMENT: Richard L. Hayden, 31 Tenney St., Law. Mass,applied for an appointment as Constable in order to conduct Civil business in the Town of North Andover. Letters of affirmative reference were received from Atty. Elias, Alderman Terrance D. Schiavone and Chief Donnelly together with his necessary bond. Upon motion of Selectman DiFruscio, it was voted to table the appointment until next meeting, January TOWING CONTRACTS: ~r~'~F ct, It was /OrEF,. 5 ~ /, . to award the Towing Contract to the three companies who submitted their bid; Coady Towing Service, Great Pond Service, and Trombly Service Station, Inc. with.'the stipulation that the rates charged be .the same by all companies. JANUARY 18, 1982 (continued) ESSEX COUNTY BUDGET '83: Selectman Joyce reported to the Board that on Saturday, January 16th, they passed the Essex County Budget for fiscal year '83. For the first time, the budget will be going before the Town Meeting. The Town paid $365,000 last year to the County and this year the payment will be $16,.000 less. 343 NEGOTIATIONS: Members~Of the Board were assigned to the following departments for future negotiations: Town employees: Selectmen Joyce and McEvoy. Public Works: Selectmen Joyce and McEvoy. Fire and~.~Police Departments: Selectmen Graham and DiFruscio. ZEROX MACHINE: A petition was received from the Town Hall employees concerning the ~ of the Zerox machine on the first floor. Brian advised'the Board that the~.i problems wire the result of lack of p~oper.mazntenance, tha? Jo~ Vi~-t~" not followzng through properly with hzs mazntenance responszbilztze~ ~he machine should be cleaned after every 8,000 copies but no one was called for over~50,000 copies when the machine broke down. Brian stated that he had called in a Zerox representative to,meet with him and Gayton Osgood to discus~ the problems. From that meeting, Brian and Gayton agreed the best way to proceed to solve said problems involved 3 steps: 1~) Designate a?person in the Town Building to be responsible for properly maintaining the machine and calling the service man on a regular basis. 'Anna Donahue has agreed to do this. 2~) LoOk into the possibility to purchase a key system for the machine to eliminate the practice of everyone using the machine. 3,). Explore the possibility and advantages of other machines, possibly two smaller machines rather than the large one so that each floor would have a machine at no and little extra cost. The Selectmen voted to authorize Brian to find out what the cost would be on No. 3. LICENSING COM~{ISSIONERS: THEWOK: A.hearing was held on an alleged liquor liquor law violation of The Wok restaurant, 733 Turnpike Street. Reports from the police department stated that minors ha~ been served liquor at the restaurant. Chairman McEvoy and Selectman Joyce expressed the concerns of the Board re the serving of minors and accidents resulting from teenage drinking. Selectman Joyce explained the violation procedures adopted by the Licensing Commissioners and that on the first offense a letter of strong reprimand will be issued to the establish- ment~ involved and filed. Attorney for the Wok stated that they have run a clean and organized establishment and it was difficult to screen minors espec. iallyduring the holidays. He stated that waitresses would be instructed to be especially concerned with the patrQns ~nd to screen I D's for false ones. EN~IGHT LICENSE: The application for a wine and malt license, tabled from last week upon quest of Thomas Leavitt, was considered once more. Chairman DiFruscio read pe~ttions against the license signed by approximately 211 people and petiti~ from'people in favor of granting the license approximately 205. Letter from Mrs. Nelinda DeCola was read in favor of granting the license. Ail petitions and letter were voted to be accepted. A discussion re the expansion of the premises took place. Jay Enright stated that the store would be expanded so all grocery items would be on the left, coffee and sandwiches would be to the right and that all delivery trucks would be zoinM in the back of the building · · a n ~ . znstead of ~n front. Selectman McEvoy/s~ate~Y~gat a long hearzng had been held on the license last week, that letters received from the police dept., the Minister, trustees of the building and others had all been in the affirma- tive, that all problems stated by the opponents have existed prior to the application of the license and that no additional facts had been presented. The hearing had been continued out of courtesy to Mr. Leavitt who didn't have the courtesy to attend the continuance. Selectman Joyce made a motion that the license be granted with the stipulation that the store close at 7 p.m. It was seconded. Selectman DiFruscio had more questions to ask. 34~JANUARY 18, 1982 (continued) After this discussion ended a new motion was made to grant the license with the stipulations that the store close at 7 p.m., the occupy 10% of the floor space, that beer to be sold in six pack, only, no breaking up of six pack. Vote was 3-1, Graham opposed. JILLY'S RESTAURANT: The Board approved an application for 4 coin operated machines at-Jilly's' Restaurant. Selectman McEvoy stated that the matter of how many machines should be allowed in one establishment should be taken up at one of their working session2. CAHOOTS, INC. An application for the transfer of the liquor license of Cab~m~ts, Inc. restaurant, 815 Turnpike Street, was set for a hear~n F~y 1, 1982. at 7:30 p.m. . /C. ? / // Alice M.. Letarte, Secretary ****************~k JANUARY 25. 1982. The Board of Selectmen held their regular meeting on this date with all 'members present except Selectman Salisbury. Present were Selectmen 'Graham, ~' . ~.o~ce, DiFrusclo with Chairman McEvoy presiding. The minutes and warrant ~re approved as submitted. Selectman Graham asked that the minutes be tabulated in sequence. INSURANCE: Mike Roberts appeared before the Board to discuss the possibility of the Town placing their Workers Compensation Insurance with American Mutual-. By so doing this the Town would have an excellent opportunity to save money on their insurance account; it would be a savings and advantage to the Town.. He stated that the Town was throwing extra money away every year under their present set up. Robert's company, American Mutual,is willing to take the Town out of the Assign Risk Pool, pay a dividend which the Town is currently not receiving and budget the payments on a i2 month basis without interest. Placing the Town's Workers Compensation Insurance with American Mutual would not effect the Town's other coverages, that the Workers Compensation is~ separate unto itself. After discussion it was voted to refer the insurance proposal to the Town's Insurance Committee and to clarify With Town Counsel the 10% premium fromAmerican Mutual. SPECIAL MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEE: Mike Roberts also requested that he be designated as a Special Municipal Employee due to the membership he held on the Planning Board. He feels that his insurance proposal might be viewed as a conflict of interest be- cause of this membership. Brian advised the Board that the Selectmen voted several years ago to designate all Town Employees, with the exception of a few officials, as Special Municipal Employees in accordanoe with Ch. 268A. Question is, is Mike Roberts already a Special Municipal Employee by virtue of this vote. It was voted to refer the r.~quest to'2own Counsel and table until next week's meetinz. PHILA SLADE: HAZARDOUS W~STE PLANT: Phila Slade, Chairman of the Local Assessment Committee, appeared before the Board to discuss her status report.on the proposed Hazardous Waste Treatment Plant for Haverhill. In North Andover's principal interests she proposed four requirements: 1. Traffic to be routed over 114 to 495, avoiding 125. 2. Aquifer monitoring. 3. Air Quality monitoring, and 4. Free public source processing. Police Chief Donnelly recommended the above routes, also. The aquifer flow tests were requesed the the N.A. Board.of Public Works, and the fr~e public source processing was recommended by DEQE. Reports are ex- pected by the end of February from the Environmental Impact and Socio- Economic Commissions. In the meantime, Haverhill as a City, a separate en- tity,may enter a lawsuit against the Site Safety Council. MVPC representa- tives will act as negotiators for abutting communities, acting as a unit, or oo~nunities may choose to go separate ways. The Selectmen congratulated Ms. Slade for her work and excellent report. ELEVATOR INSPECTION CONTRACT: etter received from Town Counsel a~proving Contra~t. Board voted to award~' ontract to Elevator Safety Inspectzons, Inc. of Bzllerioa, ~ass' and appointed Joseph E. Morrissey, Elevator Inspector, for the Town.