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KNEELAND CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION DON'T MOVE OUT MOVE UP CUSTOM STYLED 5 YEAR GUARANTEE By Robert Knox GLOBE CORRESPONDENT While Quincy's mayor considers vetoing a rule limiting noise, officials and residents are questioning whether the pending law will protect neighbors from loud nightclubs. Lacking testimony from sound experts or any concrete demonstration of what the decibel levels specified in the measure actually sound like, the City Council voted 5-4 on June 8 for loose standards that the rule's chief proponent said would be useless for enforcement. The legislation, which is still being amended, would limit noise to 75 decibels during the day and 65 at night. Seeking to shield Marina Bay residents from loud music that keeps them awake at night, Councilor Brian McNa-mee had proposed limits of 65 decibels during the day and 55 decibels at night. "The mayor is taking the changes very seriously," said mayoral spokesman Chris Walker.

"The folks at Marina Bay do deserve some sort of ordinance." But the council's vote for the less-stringent noise limits may have resulted from a lack of clear knowledge of what the numbers mean, some councilors acknowledged. "I'm not sure anyone has a visceral sense of what the numbers translate to," said City Councilor Kevin Coughlin Wednesday. Hearing testimony from a sound engineer would have helped before the council took action, said Coughlin, who voted for McNamee's numbers. "That was the first thing we talked about, bringing in an expert." Coughlin said he's still puzzled over why that didn't happen. City Council president Jay Davis, who voted for the looser limits, said the council needed more technical information in order to go along with the stringent limits proposed by McNamee.

Davis also said the rule's backers failed to produce any demonstrations such as a horn of what the numbers meant. If the council had heard examples of noise levels in their chamber, said Marina Bay resident Edward Thomas, they would have understood that 65 decibels the nighttime standard the majority voted for is too loud when you're trying to fall asleep in your bedroom. Councilors were told that 65 decibels is comparable to discussions in a public setting, said Thomas, copresident of the Marina Bay Civic Association. But "if you're sleeping and somebody appears in your bedroom having a loud discussion in a noisy restaurant," he said, "your sleep is going to be disturbed." Ten decibels the difference between the number he proposed and what the council Id WITH DORMERS ADDITIONS SECOND LEVELS FREE ESTIMATE 77A COMPLETE REMODELING SERVICES AND HOME BUILDING MA Reg. 113869 councilors worried that McNamee's rule would drive away business.

"Marina Bay is a vital commercial area," Davis said. He also said that Marina Bay residents knew they were moving into an area with nightclubs. The neighborhood's nightclub owners argued that McNamee's standard was so low that normal conversation in a restaurant would violate the ordinance a claim that may have added to the confusion over where the noise would be measured, Thomas said. According to McNamee, peculiar sound conditions at Marina Bay, an upscale beach-side community of 2,000, aggravate the noise problem for certain residents. Sound carries long distances over the bay's still water, and the two large Marina Point condo towers funnel sound into sections of those buildings, where most of the complaints come from.

Responding to concerns over the numbers, the still-divided council backed an amendment last week that would create a three-tired noise limit system 65 decibels during the day, 60 between 5 and 10 p.m., and 55 between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. After making these changes, the council decided to hold another public hearing on the noise ordinance within the next two weeks. Once it approves a new version, the mayor will have 14 days to sign or veto it. If he signs it, the law would take effect right away.

approved may not seem like much to laymen, but ears would hear a difference. "It's not a linear scale consisting of units of equal measure," McNamee said of the decibel measurement system. "It's more like a difference in magnitude." Experts say that an increase of three units on the decibel scale means twice as much sound. Federal agencies that regulate sound, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and Housing and Urban Development, have concluded that 55 decibels is a reasonable regulatory standard for background noise. Another source of confusion involves "where the sound would be measured," Thomas said.

Based on ordinances adopted by other cities, the Quincy rule called for sound to be measured at the point of complaint rather than at its source. "It was very clear in the discussion at the council that some people were not understanding and confusing source and receptor," he said. It makes a big difference. Music generated by a club after dark may be considerably louder than 55 decibels the standard McNamee sought and still be in compliance with the rule by the time it reaches the nearest neighbor. Monitoring sound from the point of reception means that if you can close the door or shut the windows and solve the problem, there is no basis for a noise complaint, Thomas said.

"People are confused about how it's applied," said Coughlin. But in the absence of more solid evidence, partnership with YXHOOF. bostonglobemedia.comyahoo It's about getting your stuff in front of the people who are looking for your stuff. Call Lisa DeSisto, VP Advertising, Boston.com 617.929.7032 lisaboston.com Robert Knox can be reached at rc.knox2gmail.com. Little-known bequest is being doled out BEQUEST Continued from Page 1 Before bequeathing the cash to the town, Shuttleworth left $10,000 for a new library and another $10,000 for the current Historical Society building formidable structures that would cost millions today, officials say.

Town fathers and mothers dedicated the 1888 "Early Record of the Town" to the memory of this quiet philanthropist. "Her munificent bequests will make her name a household word. Generations to come will speak her praise," they said. That, alas, has not been the case. Shuttleworth's name is not a household word.

But here's to second chances, now that lawmakers have fine-tuned the process to distribute her money. Residents can now apply for $500 grants to help with high fuel bills, pricey prescriptions, and other types of "worthy" needs, said Michael Winbourne, a lawyer who heads up the town's Commissioners of Trust Funds panel and a member of the Shut- BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY EVERY DAY, EVERY Affordable way to brighten any home Installs in just 2 hours Visit www.SunlightSystemsNE.com from his years at Harvard, "she became a font of knowledge about the old days in Dedham." After she died, in 1886, Shuttleworth was already buried when friends and others realized that no image existed of her. So, they had her exhumed. "It had been three or four days when they brought someone in from Boston to make a plaster death mask," Hanson said. That, according to town history, was "Gariboldi," a statuary maker.

Shuttleworth's friends described her features to Dedham resident Annie R. Slafter, who drew the crayon portrait now on display at the Historical Society. So is the death mask, which spent several generations in a box on a shelf, Hanson said. And the black frilly bonnet she had on at death. In the 1888 Dedham history book, editors Don Gleason Hill and Carlos Slafter said Shuttle-worth deserved a permanent memorial to her memory.

"But the most suitable memorial, as well as the most enduring, will be the gratitude in the hearts and the praise upon the lips of our people, who, from generation to generation, shall receive entertainment and instruction from our literary institutions to the increased facilities of which she so liberally contributed or shall be the recipients of the fund which her bounty has provided." erine Cardinale. As of early June, Dedham had seven applications for funds from the Shuttleworth Fund, Reyes said. One grant was distributed through the town's Youth Commission for a student who needed help buying sports equipment. Another boost was given to a family facing homelessness. Reyes is encouraging more people who have legitimate needs to reach out.

Requests can be sent to Robin Reyes, Town Treasurer, at Dedham Town Hall, 26 Bryant Dedham, MA 02026. The Shuttleworth Committee will spend no more than 10 percent of its expendable balance each year; the will also states that the original $32,000 investment must be left intact. Hannah Shuttleworth gave almost everything she had to the town, yet little is known about her. Born in 1800, at 16 she was taken in by her uncle, Dr. Nathaniel Ames.

Later, she inherited the doctor's money and put the entire sum in the bank. "Women in previous centuries were not considered that important," explained Dedham Historical Society executive director Ron Frazier. "The earliest settlers in Dedham traced men's lines, not women's." Shuttleworth didn't go out, said Hanson, the unofficial historian, "but people came to visit her." After sorting through her uncle's diaries and other relics tleworth Committee. "We're especially looking for those who have fallen between the cracks of other service agencies," Winbourne said. "Like people facing shut-off" by utilities, added town treasurer Robin Reyes.

"We've had a couple of those." Dedham has a series of trusts established by citizens' wills over the years. But unlike Shuttle-worth's, most are for scholarships or nursing services. And when Winbourne went to probate court recently to read the wills, he discovered a surprise: Although the Shuttleworth Committee was formed last winter to distribute the money, Hannah Shuttleworth's will specified that funds be approved only by official "overseers of the poor." Dedham does not have an overseer of the poor, he said. Like most cities and towns, Dedham once had a specific governmental body that kept track of the indigent who often worked, lived, and died at a community's poor farm. But Dedham abolished its version of the oversight panel in 1976 to cut down on "superfluous committees," Winbourne explained.

To make things legal, voters at the May Town Meeting revised bylaws to designate selectmen as Dedham's overseers of the poor. They, in turn, officially appointed the Shuttleworth Committee to hand out the cash. Members include Winbourne, Reyes, assistant town administrator Nancy Baker, and health director Cath Sunlight Systems of NE Solatube Premier Dealer i If. 781-331-7100 IBfll SOLATUBE. P' Innovation in DayliaMnit fTTTTTTTTXYTYXYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT' FIND MORE LOCAL JOBS ONLINE AT In Michele Morgan Bolton can be reached at mmboltonl verizon.net.

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