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Home My WebLink About1967-11-06 Board of Selectmen Minutes~4,~'0ctober 30, 1967 (continued) SPECIAL TOWN NEETING: A special Town Meeting was held at 8:00 p.m in the high school auditorium to act on the following Articles: ~'~ Article E: ...To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $34,00, on account of Public WeLfare an~ an additional sum cf $1,009,on account of Veteran's benefits, and to determine whether said appropriation shall be met be a borrowing under Chapter 27 of the Acts of 1966. This article was approved and passed; by the Selectmen and Advisory Board. Articles 2 and 3 were voided to be inserted in Annual Town Meeting. No majority vo~e. Article 4: Article 5: ArtiCle 6: Withdrawn for annual Town 'Meeting consideration. Motion: To authorize the extension of the sewer system described in. the Article, total cost of the project to be without empanse to the Town. NaJorlty vo~.te to adopt the Motion. Notion: To Adopt the Article. EaJority to reject. Article 7: Stricken from Warrant. Alice M. Letarte, Secretary Clerk li'ovembar 6, 196~. The Board of Selectmen held. their regular meeting on this date with P. Oakes and Chairman William A. Fiunerau. JUROR: Juror drawn to serve December 4, 1967; -at Salem, by Selectman 0akes was Robert ~J. Burke, ... 14 Chlckering Rd., a real estate broker. .~ r:.-., POLE PETZTI~S: '" A' petition for pole and wire'locations on south and north side of Sutton'St wa~s~approved b~ the Board. Federal permission had been granted the electric company. Petition for Joint pole location on Long~ood Avenue was set for a hearing, Nov:;,20~. ~'~?. 7:30 p.m .... Abutters will be so notified. · - GAS EXCAVATI(N: Petition was approved to excavate on Young St., cor. of Lym~u Rd. and Milton, .fcor. of?.Thi~d.. STREET LIGET~NG: Notice of relocation of street light at corner of N~n St. and Tavern Road f0r.a~:ffre~alarm · :Notice of street light installations were received at' First and:Maple 'Ave.,.,~Harwood~. S.t,. Winter Street 'and ' Great pond .Road. '~'~ "' ' ....... ' ue ted that a letter be sent to have survey.made on.Stevens.Street~';from~Gre&t' .." The Board req s .. , . . ing at the intersection o£ ~ava.v'L.~y Road and Mass.' Ave. Letters from Building Inspector and Town COunsel, Arnold H. Salisbury, on the:Oates: com~- lsint revealed that the building code law was not being broken by.the type of additions Seymour was adding .to his buildings. Town Counsel advised in his letter that if Mr., Oates disagreed with 1these findings, he should engage the services of-private legal, eounsel..~ith whom he.would be glad' to confer; and upon such counsel take what steps that w~ere indicated. -_ He also stated that he was not required to attend the Selectman~s meeting and neither was the Building Inspector and did not intend to do so. ~he 0a~esx complaint was not'a,mun- icipal problem and sugested that tbs Board made this clear to him., , · _ CABLE ANTenNA F~R TELE~ISIGI: t letter from Town COunsel advised that it wou~d b'e' wise to cantac~ the F.C. 0. to asc~r~ t~in who had control of the proposed cablevision whan and if it was: installed in'the' .town of North ~ndover. He suggested we meet with the various applicants md ftn~ ~u~ the per- tinant data on the comp.unies. A letter requesting a meeting on the subject was received from Gadsby, Nequtre & Hannah and Irving Rogers to explain th.e purpose of the proposed installation. · A meeting was set for November 13, 1967, at 7.30 p.m. PARKER STREET $NE-WAY: A letter from Jacob Rerkover, District Highway E~gineer, stated Perker Street would be made a One-Way Street as soon as the Board signed an amendment copies. November 6, 196~ (continued) STOP SIMS: MARBLERiDGE RD, AT SAL~: A letter from the State advised the Board that on completion of the usual investigation, they would be contacted by the District Office. The Department of Public Works Commission recen- ly voted to authorize the District Highway Engineer to give written approval for the commis- ion of certain municipal traffic regulations, a procedure that will expedite the processing of such matters. AIR CARRIER SERVICE - AIRPORT: A letter.from the Lawrence Airport Commission requested the Board's support,in writing, to support renewal of air c~-~-ler service at the airport. Board voted to write the letter. POLLUTION: A lett~~ with counter proposals for a pollution abatement district from Mayor Kiley was taken under advisement% DEPARTMENT HFAD ~G: Novem~ar 20, 1967 was the date set to meet with various department heads to discuss 1968 budgets end needs of the departments. Fire Chief will be contacted for use of the VETERANS ' DAY PARADE: The Board of Selectmen received end accepted 'an i~vitation to perticip~te in the annual Veterens Day parade on November 11. NOTICES: ~PU hearing on railroad warning *~ystems. Postponed hearing re N.E. Tel. & Tel. regulations and serVices. Completion of work done on Contract No. 23749, Chap. 90, Salem St. Snow Removal assistance on Rt. 133, from Rt. 125 to Boxfo~dd line. Notice~of sum $18,016.10 apportionment by State Public Works for N.A.Streets. Postponement of Governor's conference on Bcusing~ NiddleseX.'Eegionai Fire Dept. end Training conference. Dept. fo Natural Resources report on Johnson and Farnum Streets pond Conference on Air and Water Pollution, Nov. 8, Office Bldg. Boston. Open House~to be held at Control Data Corp. Waltham, Nov, 21 .~. Neeting'by. Nanpower workshop at Rolling Green, NoV. 8, 9:3~0. a.m. - .. ~Samta' Claus Peradepreparattons. ~ NN~ ~POLICE STATI~: . ' After,conferring with Town~Treasurer after bids for new police station were perused, it · · Was determined by the Board that insufficient funds had been provided for the new police 'stationI in' the ~1967 Town Meeting &rticle. The bm~fl~ing of the station will have to be postponed until an appropriate amoun~ has been determined via another Article Town, Warrun~. The present amount in the budget will be held over for 1968. OATE~ · CONPIA~T: Leonard Oates~ once more appeared before the Board end in an,obnoxious,' unpleasant decreed~that the Building Inspector's letter on the Seymour building was out of order ~d that To~lmCoU~sel's letter was a farce. The ,B. card advised him to get his own private atto~rne~ if he was dissatisfied, · ~,;.ER HOUSE MOVING: ~The Board voted .to. contact mover re the Mil~ar House Novtng as, to date, ~ehad not done enything about it despite detailed instructions given to him by the Secretary. Al~ce.M.'Letarte,...Secretery ~ ; : ._ :~_~.--~ _-` - Clerk Thi~r.B'oard of Selectmen held their regular meeting on this date with the two- men Board present, Fred P. Oakes and Chairman William A. Finneran. CABLEVISIC~ NEETING: The'Board met with representatives of the Cablevision Co. The company stated that if the to~u p~ermitte~, television signal-%would be brought into homes by cable.instead of over air. The 'cablevision method started installing in homes located in mountains who otherwise could not have television. They stated that all large cities have cabled TV and that North.~. Andover was 'censidered au urbau part of Boston, end that 26 co,.,A~nities now have cabled TV. They stated the advantages as follow, s: 1. Black end k'nite- TV reception chry~tal clear. Colored TV perfect. 2. People can receive many more stations including 38,56,10,26,6,11 without a converter. 3. Time, weather and news received 24 hours. 4. Could be used locally as stations..all co~mmnity projects , emergencies, announcements by Police and Fire Depts could be broadcast, free of charge, as a service to the com- munity. 5. Cost: each license per dollar, per mile...Subscriber, ~4.95 per month per subscriber, $14.00 for installation.