Lee Finance Board Approves All 17 Town Meeting Articles
The Finance Committee approved all 17 articles for Monday's special town meeting but voiced conflicts over available funds. Chairman Davis questioned the reported 401,000 in free cash, insisting actual funds are far lower and opposed several articles totaling over 70,000 funded from available sums. Fellow members urged approving transfers including 26,000 for revaluation, 30,000 for prefab classrooms, and 14,000 for a Bailey bridge, to avoid tax rate impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Finance Board
Lee
Finance Committee
Richard P. Davis
Davis
Cleanor
Powers
John J. Nagle
Henry G. Greiner
Davis's Objections on Articles Overridden by Finance Committee
The Finance Committee approved five town meeting articles ranging from 150 to 14000 dollars despite Chairman Davis opposing two items. The Bailey bridge project at 14000 dollars includes anticipated state reimbursement and a 1 and a half day erection time, while a 500 dollar air conditioning request faced Davis's opposition as nonessential. Other articles covered a gas inspector position with 108 dollars salary, a 2300 dollar dump truck purchase, and 1400 dollars to extend a water line, with funding from available balances. The committee also endorsed a water line extension on Devon Road to West Road after noting potential savings from contractor cooperation. The gas inspector item had previously been rejected but was approved again by the committee based on town meeting support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard P. Davis
Greenwater Brook
Chapel Street
Church
Town Clerktown
Town Hall
State Department of Public Works
State Flood Relief Board
Davis
Joouen
Henry G. Greiner
Waller Commission
Devon Road
West Road
Louis Naventi
Garrity Brothers
Devon-West Roads
Naventi
Finance Unit Backs 275000 Sewer Bonds in Town
The Finance Committee unanimously approves a 275000 bond issue to finance sewer-line extensions, while 300000 in accrued state and federal depollution grants will be moved to the town general fund to retire the 900000 Land issue for the main interceptor. Bell argues extensions require details, notes doubtful odds of passage at Monday's special town meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
William Bell
Milton Gordon
Bell
Artlccles
Richard P. Davis
Gordon
Davis
Henry 4G. Greiner
Portable Classrooms Proposed For Town Meeting Vote
A town meeting article seeks 30,000 to buy two ready-to-use modular classrooms outside the Central School gym. The plan, sponsored by the School Committee, allows funding by appropriation or borrowing with 3,200 from the School Budget and 30,000 from town funds or future funds. N. Hommes Corp. of Weston to supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Committee
Supt. of Schools
Maurice J. Boulanger
James E. Hannon
National Hommes Corp
Weston
Hinsdale recital by Sears students at Kittredge School
A piano and accordion recital by Clifton L. Sears students will be held tonight at 8 at Kittredge School Hinsdale. Lions Club is spotting the programs.
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Tinsdals
Clifton L. Sears
Kittredge School
Lions Club
Bell Sees Misuse of Sewer Funds in Town Meeting
Bell accuses sewer department funds of being spent without department or commission knowledge or signed vouchers, with about 3 000 repaid and 5 000 allegedly missing from other accounts. Article says 9 128 transferred to cover deficits funded a pickup truck and other items, state audits deeming it legal for the truck purchase but Bell disputes the whereabouts of the remaining sum.
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Sewer Department
F. William Bell
Selectmen and Finance Committee
Department
Commission
Bell
State Department of Audits
Milton Gordon
Lown
Finance
Henry G. Greiner
Cornelia Brooke Plans England Study Abroad
Miss Cornelia Brooke daughter of Mr and Mrs Join L Brooke of Villanova Pa and Jenox is among Vassar College juniors who will study in England next year She will study history at New Hall a Cambridge University women’s college A Foxcroft School graduate she is on the 1968 honors list and has worked with Horizons Unlimited tutoring program for school children
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Lenox
Cornelia Brooke
Join L. B. Brooke
Villanova
Jenox
Vassar College
England
New Mall
Cambridge University
Foxcroft School
Middleburg
Brooke
Vassar
Horizons Unlimited
Lenox hearing holds nursing home plan to cost 1 million
The Lenox Zoning Board of Appeals continued a public hearing on Paul T. Ford of Amherst seeking to build and operate a $1 million nursing home on Pittsfield Road. Ford and partner George T. Decker presented plots on land owned by Bertha and Meyer Garbarsky, about seven acres, with no objections raised.
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LENOX
Zoning Board of Appeals
Paul T. Ford
Amherst
Pittsfield Road
Ford
Amherst Nursing Home
George T. Decker
Binghamton
N.Y
Bertha and
Meyer Garbarsky
Pittsfield
Wong Pittsfield Road
Ting Haddad’s
Motor Safes, Inc
John T. McPhillips
George Haddad
Haddad's Motor Sales
Haddad
Gaybarskys
Ronald Albert Ordained to Deacon at Trinity Church
Lenox Ronald Lee Albert son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Albert of 109 Hubbard St was ordained deacon Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church. The service featured Bishop Robert M Hatch and several clergy members. Albert, a Lenox School graduate, earned degrees from Clark University and Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary and will intern at St Andrew's Church Longmeadow. He is married to Mary Waddington with a daughter Monica.
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Lenox
Ronald Lee Albert
Ernest Albert
Hubbard St
Trinity Episcopal Church
Robert M. Hatch
Western Massachusetts
Edward W. Knight
Stockbridge
A. Leonard LePoidevin, Vicar of St. Luke’s Church
Springfield
St. Helena's Chapel
Robert L. Curry
Lenox School
Epistoler
Donald F. Burr
St. Helena’s
William H. Weigle
Sheffield
Albert
Robert 8. S. Whitman
Trinity
Mr. Albert
Clark University
Worcester
Bexley Wall Episcopal Seminary
Rochester
N.Y
Cranbrook School
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Longmeadow
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Ward R. Smith
Mary Waddington
Marion Waddington
Sydney Waddington
Lancaster
Ohio
Monica
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Ralph Conroy
Ronald Albert
Utilac SprRay
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