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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1939-03-18479 Ad,lourned Annual Town Meeting March 18~ 1939. Article 2. Voted that this article be referred to Selectmen. Article 3. Voted to accept. Article 4. Voted that all unexpended balances be turned into · the treasury. Voted that the sum of $4042.78, be appropriated from the surplus revenue of the town to provide for overlay deficits of 1938. Voted that the Assessors be authorized to use such sum, not excecding $20,000.00, from the surplus revenue, toward the reduction of the 1939 tax rate, as the commissioner will allow. Article 5. Voted to consider each item separately. The following is the list of departmental appropriations voted under this article. Departments Salaries Expenses 1. Select~en '750.00 270.00 2. Auditor 600.00 1300.00 3. Treasurer * 1050.00 1500.00 4. Collector * 1050.00 1899.50 .'5. Assessors * 1550.00 ?00.00 6. Town Clfirk. 350.00 100.00 V. Election, listing etc. 200,00 2000.00 8. Police Dept. 10416.00 1584.00 9. Fire. Dept. including Engineers & ambulance13838.00 10. Dog Warrant ll. Building Inspector 50.00 12. Sealer of Wts. and Measures 250.00 13. Insect Pest 14. Brush Cutting 15. Tree Warden 300..00 16. Fish Warden 5.00 1V. Board of Health 300.00 Physician 400.00 18. Garbage Disposal 19. Vital Statistics 20. Refuse Disposal 21. Highway Surveyor 3000.00 22. General Maintenance Street Department 23. Snow Removal 24. Street Lighting 25. Board Pub. Welfare 300.00 26. Supt. & Matron,Outside Relief & Repa}rs, (Agents salary $400.00)1600.00 2V., Public Parks and Triangles 28. Discount on Notes 29. School Dept. 90236.00 ~'. (Physicians salary $500) 30. State Aid and Soldiers Eelief 31. Stevens ~emorial Library 32. ~1emorial Day .~3b Board Public Works 300.00 ~34~ Maintenance and Const. Water Department 35. Maintenance ahd Const. Sewer Department 2662.00 90.00 3000.00 4500.00 25000.00 22000.00 Totals. $ 1020.00 1900,00 2949.50' 2050.00 450.00 2200.00 12000.00 16500.00 150.00 50.00 340.00 3700.00 500.00 3300.00 5.00 5200.00 1800.00 200.00 3000.00 3000.00 32000.00 5000.00 8500.00 300.00 '26600100 2000.00 1000.00 112236.00 6000.00 6000.00 350.00 300.00 25000.00 4000.00 480 Article 5 ~ents. Amounts forward 36.Contingent Fund 37.Forest Fires 38.Forest Fire Warden 39.Itemized Annual Report 40.Insurance ~Annual Town~ March 18, 1939. Salarie.____~s Exoenses Totals____.__~ 100.00 41.Maintenance County Hospital 42.Maintenance Town Bldg. (including clerks) See Art. 15 43.Town Hall, Janitor 300.00 44.Playgrounds 260.00 100.00. 45.American Legion (rent) 46.Interest on East Side Sewer Notes 47.Redeeming East Side Sewer Notes 48.Interest'on New Schoolhouse Notes 49.Redeeming New Schoolhouse Notes 50.Board of Survey 51.Animal Inspector 52.Expense on Dump 53.Tov~ Forest 54.Bathing Beach 55.0Id Age Assistance 86.Aid for Dependent Children 57.Interest on N. R. A. Water Notes 58.Redeeming N. R. A.' Water Notes $9.Tax Titles 60.License Commissioners 61;Reserve Fund 62.Armistice Day 200.00 * Item 3 to include bond. * Item 4 to include bond. 1000.00 500.00 100.00 950.00 7900.00 3467.84 5600.00 300.00 900.00 450.00 1232.50 2000.00 '573.75 3000.00 200.00 260~00 200.00 1150.00 32400.00 8000.00 187.50 1000.00, 500.O0 !00.00 3000.00 100.00 Item 9. A motion for reconsideration of the amount voted under this item was lost. 183 voted for and 241 voted against. Item 17. It was voted that the Board of Health be authorized to appoint one of its members as Board.of Health Physician and that his salary be fixed at $400.00, to be taken from the appropriation made for this department. Item 29. It was voted that the School Committee be authorized~ to appoint one of its members as School Physician and that his salary be fixed at $500.00, to be taken from appropriation made for the School Department. Article 6. Voted: that the Tovm Treasurer, with ~he approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is a~8=~ed^~o~orrow mone fro to time in anticipation of the/financial y~r~$ginning J~n ~ time and uar 1,1@39, to issue a note or notes therefor,payable within oue year; and t'o renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with s~ction 17, chapter 44, of the General The vote was unanimous and so declared. ~Article 7. No reports. Article 8. Voted that the Board of Public Works be a committee to care for the public parks and triangles. Article 9. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of five huu~red dollars to be used by the Planning Board in connection with a W.P.A. project, also the sum of one hundred dollars for incidental expenenses of this Board. , Article lO.Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars for cleaning, painting and general repairs of the Town Office Building. 48:I. Adjourned ~unual Town Neetin= March 18~ 1939. A~ticle Il. Voted to raise and appropriate the s~m of seven hundred dollars for the installation of a separate heating unit in the police station. That three bids be secured from competent heating contractors bidding on the~same specifications. Article 12. Voted to ~aise an~ approprza~e the su~ of twenty-five thousand ($28,000.00) dollars, to carry on the various projects of the W. P. A. Article 13. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred fifty dollars ($3S0.00) to purchase a new police car. Article 14. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred ($400.00) for the purchase of a new motorcycle, fully equipped, to replace the present mgtorcycle which is eight years old. Article 15. Voted to transfer the sum of one thousand two hundred forty-oight($1245.00) dollars , from the s_mount already appropriated for Town Building maintenance and clerks, to the Assessors department, this mone~ to pay for the clerk of the Board Of Assessors. Article, 16. The town voted to indefinitely postone the matter of specifying the number of members of the reserve polce force . Article 17. Voted to indefinitely postpone action which would petition the Nassachusetts General Court to abolish the reserve force in the tova2 of No~th Andover, under chapter 147, section l~A of the General Laws, which the Attorney General says was established in 19~, but was void because it did not specify in the article, the nuraer of men. Article 18. Voted to direct the B~ard of Selectmen to petition the legislature for the enactment of a statute as Follows: "Au Act to make the provisions of Chapter ~l of the ~eneral ~aws and the rules and regulations made thereunder to hereafter apply to James' Hargreaves, the. Chief of the Fire Department of the Town-of North Andover, witho~trequiring him to take an examination." ;Article !9. Voted'that this article be referred to the Board'''. of Selectmen'for action. Article 20. Voted that this article be referred ~o. the Board -~ of SeIectmen for action. - ........ · Article 21. Voted that the town extend its sewer system for a distance of eight hundred(@00) feet on Massachusetts Avenue From Linden Avenue and that the sum of a~ thousandI$~000.O0), d61La~s~ba'.. aIlocated from the amount appropriated under Article l~,~ft~is warrant and that the work be done with the assistance/Works Progress Administnation. ::Y~vticle S~. It was voted not to make this water extension. Article S~. It was voted to extend the water system of the to'~n from Nass~chusetts Avenu?, southerly along Chickering Road'fbV a distance of ~pprbx'imately one thousand three hundred eighty(l~80) feet, and that the town raise and appropriate the,sum of one thousand six hundred ($1800.00) d611ars, and-that a W. P. A. project be drawn up by ~he Board of Public Works~ provided the petitioner furnishes a satisf~ct0ry, gua~antee t6 pay 4~ of the cost of this construction annually,-fo~ a period of ten years and further provided that th~s guarantee be made on or before July first of the current yea~. Avtlc~s 24. Voted to extend the water main from $ohnson Street through Mill Road to the residence of Charles W. Tucker and install a hydrant;.and that for this purpose the town raise and. appropriate the sum of on~ thousand, four hundred ($1400.00) dollars and that a W. P. A. project'be dravm by the Board of Public Works, providing the petitioner furnishes a satisfarory guarantee.to pay to the to~n 4% of the cost of construction annually, for a period of ten years and further provided that this guarantee be made on or before ~uly first of the current year.. Article 2S. Voted that the tovrn raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand one hundred fifty (~t~$0.00) dollarsr to be expended with or without the ~a. sistdnce of'the'Works P~6gresa Admins- t~ntion or other such Federal Agency, in replacing temporary water lines on Bacon Avenue,Stevens Street and Wood Lane and to provide necessary additional fire hydrants l~ various parts of the town. 482 .Adjourned Annual Tovm Meeting March Article 26. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of seven hundred(S?00.00) dollars,to purchase a one-half, ton pick-up truck for the use of, the Highway Department. Article 27. Voted to raise and appropriate the. sum of two thousand ($2000.00) dollars, to finish three hundred feet on Boxford Street and continue on Salem Street, under Chapter 90, of the General Laws, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County or both, for this purp6se. Article 28. Voted not to appropriate money for this construction.' Article 29. Voted to postpone indefinitely. At,idle'30. Voted to postpone indefinitely. Articl~'31Q Voted to postpone.~ifid6finit~y. Article 32. Voted to accept two hundred feet of Buckingham Road, running from Herrick Road to Lyman Street, when the require- ments, of the Planning Board are met. Article Sa. Voted~. Harwood Street accepted by the town when the requirements of the Planning Board are met. Article 34. Vote~ to accept that part of Beverly Street from the corner of Harold Street, southerly to land o? the town, a distance of seventy-five feet. Article 35. Voted to accept the By-Law as outlined in this article, a by-law kmo~,m as Regulation of Advertising 'Signs and Billboards. Appropriations voted under other articles in the warPant. Article 9. Article 10. Article 11. Article 12. Article Article 14. Article 23. Article 24, Article 25, Article 26 Article 27 Aricle 6. Planning Board; project $$00.00, expenses $100 Town Building; cleaning., painting etc. Police Station; heatlng'~unit W. P.A. projects. ~' -~-~ Police car Police motorcycle Chickering Rd.. watermain (conditional) Mill Road water main (conditi0na.1) 'Water m~ins and'hydrants ~ ~treet Dept. truck Boxford and Salem Streets Ite~ 42 of.A~t. $, Town Building Art, 15.' Transferred to Assessors Dept. Item $ of Art. 8 Assessors; Salaries $1550.00 dArticle 1~. From 'Town Building Acct. Total for Assessors account $ 600.00 500.00 700.00 23000.00 550.00 400.00 1600.00 1400.00 "3150,00 700.~0 2000,00 $ 6o0.oo .A 4 .oo $4 2.oo Expenses $?00.00 1248.00 John W. Hegarty, Alfred Garneau, Leo Murphy, Irving Howes, Tom Ingram, Lillian Dearden and Alice May checked voters into the hall. Russell Dimery, Earle B..Tracy~ C. Mason Tucker, J. Newton Frye, Leo H. Murphy and RussellChase assisted the Moderator in taking hand count of voters. About five hundred fif~yvoters were present. The meeting adjourned at 4:45 o'clock P. M. A true copy, Attest: wn Clerk. Additional Town Meetln~ March 18~ 1939. At two thirty o'clock a recess was declared in the conduct of business pertaining to the ~nual Meeting to consider articles in warrant calling for Special Meeting to be held in conjunction with Annual Meeting of the Town. Under Article 1 of this warrant it was Voted to appropriate the sum of six thousand five hundred ($6500.00) dollars from the Highway Fund, prov£ded by Chapter 2, of the Acts of 1939, for any of the purposes mentioned in said chapter. The town voted that this amount be appropriated for' General ~aintenance of the Street Department.. . Article 2. It was voted not to make this appropriation for the reason that no authority'was obtained from the town for the purpose mentioned in this article and that the town does not recognize any obligation. A true copy, Attest: WARRANT Essex ss. To.either of the Constables of. the' Town of North Andover: Greeting:- In the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify andwarn the inhabitants of North Audover, qualified .to vote in Town Affairs, to meet in the Court Room, Town Building, in said North Andover, on Monday t~e tenth dayof April 19~9, at seven-thirty~..o'clock P. M., then and there to act upon the following business: A~ticle !. To see'if the 'town Will vote to raise and' appropriate a sum not exceeding five thousand ($$000.00)dollars, for snow removal. Article 2. To see if the town w~ll'vote to autho~iz~ Town ~reasurer, with the approval of, the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1940, and to~issue~a note or notes therefor, payable within one yea~, and to renew any note or notes as may be given'for a period of loss than one yea~ in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws. And you are directed to serve thlswarrant byposting true a~d attested copies thereof at the Town Hall and at five or more publicplaces in eachvoting precinct. Said copies to be posted not more than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon~to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding said m~eting. Givenunder our hands at North Andover,Massachusetts this twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine. Am~hur A. Thomson F~ankLHilton James P. Hainsworth Officer,s Return S~lectmen of North Andover I have notified the inhaoltants of the town of North Andover qualified to vote in elections and town affairs,by posting true and attested copies of this warrant at the Town Hall and at five or more public places~ln each voting precinct;said copies having been posted not more'than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time of holding said meeting. Augustine J. Walsh, Constable.