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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1950 ADVISORY REPORTTOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER ADVISORY BOARD, REPORT- .... 1950 IT CONTAINS: · All Articles to be voted upon · Recommendations as to each Article · Information which you should have before you vote PLEASE PRESERVE IT FOR YOUR USE AT THE TOWN MEETING OF MARCH 18, 1950 Please Preserve This Report [or Use at the Town Meeting REPORT OF THE NORTH ANDOVER ADVISORY BOARD March 18, 1950 TO THE CITIZENS OF NORTH ANDOX/ER: Your Advisory Board respectfully submits its report to you with recommc~dations upon the Articles presented for your 'consideratio~ in the Warrants for the Annual Town ~ieeting of 1950, and for the Special Town Meeting called for the same date. In coming to its Conclusions, your Board ha's co~stantly kept in mind the fact that it is YOUR MONEY which will be spent under those Articles, and has made it~ recommendations, therefore, with YOUR POCKETBOOK in mind. A balance must be struck between the cost of services which the Town is to offer its citizens and the ability a~d willingness of those citizens- YOU- to pay that cost. Your Board has agreed that the cost of running our Town should be kept, in 1950, as close as possible to that ia 1949. The running of our Town is a business venture, and should be considered as such, especially in this year after thc completion o~ the Revaluation Survey. Since we all hope to establish a relati~rely stable tax rate, your Board has formulated its recommendatio~s to come as close as possible to the cxpendit~uce voted last year for the use of the several Town Departments. Your Board has, therefore, decided against favorable recommendations for any salary in- creases, except for the Call Firemen--and then only because it is expected that they will be called upon for add/tional serv/ces to the Town. Nevertheless, the budget proposed iS above that of last year, and so is the total amo~mt involved in the recort~mcuded "special Articles". TIIE 1950 TAX RATE $44 If its recommendations are followed, yonr Board antici- pates a $3 increase orer the 1949 t. ax rate an increa~qe which ,rosy or may not be corapensated for. to some exter_t, by moneys coming to the Town from the State. Thc .followh;g.table, where the figurea have been simplified to the nearest $1000., tells ~he story: Recommended Voted 1949 1950 Increase Badget Items $660,000 $693,000 $33,000 "~pecial Articles" 102,000 114,000 12,000 TOTALS $762,000 $807,000 $45,000 From "Free Cash" 61,000 66,000 5,000 To be raised by taxation $701,000 $741,000 $40,000 HOW TIlE PIE IS CUT Your Advisory Board has done considerable research into the relative costs of thc various Town services, and how these have varied over the past several years. It is needless to say that those costs have spiralled upwards, since before thc war. It is the hope of your Advisory Board that, during the next few years, a levelling off can he achieved; and all of its commendations have been drafted with this policy well in mind. The following "Pie" diagram graphically illustrates where your 1950 tax dollar will go, if the recommendations of your Board are followed: oo( 3 NEW HiGH SCHOOL Everbody who has had anything to do with our High School has realized for a long time that sooner or later we must have a new High School. The Reeves Survey says that it will probably have to be built in two installments. The first, consisting largely of academic classroom units "should be commenced as soon as financing is possible after 1953". Under present conditions it is estimated that a new high school building complete will cost over a MILLION dollars. Even with State or Federal Aid this would be too much for the Town to swing all at one time. So, as Reeves says, we probably should build one half in the next ten years and the other half around 1970. Since it will be necessary to use bot}~ the old and new buildings together for ten to twenty years, the most practical site appears to be that selected by Reeves, namely the eastern end of Tavern Acres. The building would then be on Main Street and the athletic field could be on Town land across Parker Street. The School Building Committee and your Ad- visory Board are unanimous in that this land should be purchased now while it is still available. Therefore, we recommend favorable action on Article 70. The design of a modern high school is a very complex problem. There are a great many questions which have to be answered before the actual plans can be drawn. We are going to invest a million dollars and should have the best o2 expert advice on all phases of the matter in order to avoid wasting oar money on something which will very shortly become ob- solete. We need expert advice on how many pupils to build for, what kind of courses we are apt to have 25 and 50 years from now, which part of the building should be built first, what will it cost, what should it contain, where should it be placed on the lot, etc. The School Building Committee asks in Ar- ticle 69 for authority to spend up to $10,000.00 on a preliminary survey. We feel that it is only sound common sense to look into the matter thoroughly before committing ourselves to spend over a million dollars. It is our hope that by this means the School Building Committee will be able to place before the Town Meeting next year, a sound and carefully worked out program so that the meeting can decide intelligently whether it wants to go ahead or not. "SCHOOL AID"-- TEACHERS' SALARIES For many years the Town has been receiving "State Aid From Income Tax For Public Schools"under Chapter 70 of the General Laws. A 1948 statute replaced the old Chapter 70 with a new one entitled "State Aid For Public Schools", which differs £rom the former law principally in thc method of calcu- lating the amount to be received annually from the State Treasury; under the new formula, North A~dover will receive this year the same amount as last year, about $32,600.00. When it is received, it may be applied by the Town against the total of ~218,000. which we must raise for the support of our schools in 1950. "School Aid" is not dedicated to any particlar use by the Town. It is not, as might seem from the wording of Article 67 of the 1950 Warrant, "allotted by the General Court for the purpose of increasing teachers' salaries." The first section of the new Chapter 70 states its sole purpose: "To promote the equalization of educational oppor- tunity in public schools of the Commonwealth and the equaliza- tion of THE BURDEN OF TI-IE COSTS OF SCHOOLS to the respective towns, the State Treasurer shall pay annually to the several towns sums as provided in this Chapter, which sums shall be known as School Aid." A glance at the "pie" chart of town expenditures for 1949 will show you the present staggering "burden of the costs of schools" in our town. Such "School Aid" as we receive--and our allotment may decrease substantially in 1951--is badly needed to assist us in paying ALL such costs. Your Advisory Board feels it to be its duty to call to the attention of the Town the fact that Article 67 does not accm'ately state the purpose of "School Aid". Article 67 further suggests that thc proposed increase would not "affect the tax rate". This also is not accurate: Any expenditure of town funds (and "School Aid" fnnds belong to the town) must obviously appear, either directly or indirectly, in the tax rate and--what is a better test--in the dollars-and-cents cost to each taxpayer. Jif Article 67 were adopted by the Town, the tax rate for 1950 would be about $1.25 more than it will otherwise be. Moreover, the Teachers' Association's proposed revisioh of the teachers' salary schedule calls for expenditures in 1951 and thereafter of about $28,000 more than the present schedule--a permanent tax rate increase of something in excess of $2. The data presented to your Board by the petitioners in- dicates that our teachers are not as highly paid as those of certain larger and wealthier municipalities, ttowever, during the past ten years, the figures show that they have had far better salary treatment than any other class of Town employee. The steady rise of the School Department salary budget is shown by the following schedule: Year Staff Salar~s 1940 $72,695.76 1941 74,577.27 1942 78,483.27 1943 81,774.80 1944 88,798.45 1945 93,892.24 1946 109,948.75 1947 121,864.16 1948 130,085.52 1949 134,331.72 One of the principal functions of the School Committee, which is charged by law with the duty of maintaining the School Department, is to set salary schedules so as to strike a balance between the Town's ability to pay and the needs 'of its teachers. Your Board is satisfied that the School com- mittee has attempted to do so in its 1950 Budget. It believes that the matter of teachers' salaries should be left entirely to the School Committee, and therefore recommends unfavorable action on Article 67. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT COMMITTEE Your Advisory Board wishes to commend the members of the Committee appointed last year for the purpose of in- vestigating the matter of equipment in the Fire Department. The recommendations of that Committee have been adopted by your Eoard, and form the basis of its recommendations hereinafter made on certain Articles in ~he VFarraut. With the hope that most, if not all, of the present members of that Committee can be per- suaded to remain on the job, your Board has recommended under Article 7 that the Committee be continued in existence ~or another year, with the scope of its investigation broadened. It is your Board's belief, based upen the report of .the Committee, that the whole subject of persomM training and discipline ~vithin the department might well be reviewed, to the advantage of the Town as ~vell as to that of the members of the department. WATER EXTENSIONS ON UNACCEPTED STREETS After a careful stm'lv of the problem, and IL;sc, nssions of it with the Board of Pu~blie Works, yom' Advisory Board's reeommendations this year as to extensions o~ the water system of the Town into unaecepted streets are based upon a new formula. As a practical matter, it has developed that the require- ment that the petitioners pay cash for 75% of lhe cost of installing water on unaeeepted streets place too heavy a burden on those who are in the process of building. Consequently, this year it is recommended that the terms be changed to allow them to pay on the installment plan, 25% down and 6% per year for ten years. MIFFLIN PARK STREETS llami]ton and Holbrook Roads, itl the Mi~[n Park area, are in such deplorable eondition that the Highway Surveyor has been unable honestly to eertify to the Selectmen, as re- quired by tkeir Rules, that they are in condition for acceptance by the Town. They have therefore nbver been presented for acceptance. The several residents of the streets, paying substantial annual amounts in taxes to the Town, have frequently eom, plained about their condition, but neither they nor the Town have undertaken~ to put them into condition. Articles 76 and 77 squarely raise the question of what should be done. Relying on a previous ruling that the Town could not properly consider the question of installing a drainage system in these roads until they were accepted: the Selectmen have waived their Rule requiring roads to be in good condition before they eau be adjudicated, and have "laid out" the streets, which are now presented for acceptance by Article 76. It now appears that these streets can be properly drained, to the satisfaction of all concerned, even though they are not accepted. Since the sole purpose of accepting these streets is to aehieYe a result which we now find may be attaiaed other- wise, there is no longer any reason for adopting Article 76 ~t this time. Your Advisory Board feels that the Town should ~ot give its approval to a waiver by the Selectmen of their rules relative to a certification of the satisfactory condition of streets by the Highway Surveyor, without more reason than appears in this ease. Your Board has therefore recommended that Article 76 be stricken from the Warrant. Article 77 is left for consideration. It is estimated that the total cost o~ installing drainage and thereMter resnrfaeing these two streets will be $5,355. It should be borne in mind, however, that if a precedent were established by the Town's assuming full responsibility for these two streets, it might later be asked to do the same job throughout tire entire Mifflin Park Development, at a presently estimated cost of $50,000.00. There are arguments, all of them well explored, on either side of the question. A few of the most important of ~hem eau be smnmorized as follows: Arguments ~or requiring the individua! property owners to repair the streets at their own expense: 1. They pnrehased their land, knowing that the streets were not acee;oted, and that they would have to be in reason- .able eonditio~ before they would become pnblie ways. 2. Their property values will be greatly increased by the 5nstalling of drainage, and they should therefore bear that ,cost themselves, as they would have to stand rite cost of paint- 'lng their houses or of making other improvements to their properties. 3. They have available to them, in common with other citizens of[ the Town, all Town services, including schools, fire and police protection, rubbish disposal, water, sewer, etc., and are lacking only a properly surfaced street in front of their homes--a completely localized problem of no town-wide sig- nificance. 4. The Town has done what it eau to require the original developers to put these streets into condition: It is not the Town's fault that these attempts have been unsuccessful. The individual property owners, whose rights against their sellers may be more direct, should now take appropriate action against them if any is warranted. Arguments for the Town's taking some appropriate action to assist the property owners: 1. They are our friends and neighbors, and purchased their homes in good faith, expeetiug that they would live on Town ways like everyone else. 2. They pay taxes. 3. The Town might have done more than it did to assure the proper development of the Mifflin Park area. ~ Your Advisory Board, ha%ng reviewed ali of these argu- ments and many others, believes that tt~e Town should not assume full responsibility for these streets. The solution seems to lie in Chapter 80 of the General Daws (the "betterment" act.) There are about 25 houses whieh will benefit from the proposed improvement. The cost per house, then, would run to slightly more than $200. If this cost were spread over a ten year period, the annnai eos; per property owner would be modest, Your Board has therefore recommended fa- vorable action under Article 77, upon condi[ion that betterments be assessed under Chapter 80 of the General Laws. CONCLUSION Your Advisory Board has fully investigated and discussed all of the recommendations hereinafter made. It has viewed all of the areas with whieh the speeial Articles are eoneerned, and has satisfied itself that its reeommendations are warranted by the information which it has gathered. The thanks of your Board are extended to the many Town officers who have been called upon for assistance during the past two months. In every instance, the i~lformation sought was promptly and accurately given, anal all of the craters have been most cooperative and helpful at all times. Respectfully submitted, NORTH ANDOVER ADVISORY BOARD ARNOLD H. SALISBURY, Chairman S. FORBES ROCKWELL JOHN J. FITZGERALD KENNETH M. CRAWFORD WALDO H. HOLCOMBE HARVEY LEBOW EDWIN C. MURPIIY RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO ARTICLES IN THE TOWN MEETING WARRANTS THE 1950 ANNUAL TOWN FiEETING (Artic, le 1 of the Warrant is the Call fer the ].950 Town · II Election, held $~arc fi, ~50; under the Warrant, the 1950 Annual Town Meeting' then stands adjourned, under the laws, until Saturday, March 18, 1950~ at I :20 P. M., when reeo~venes at the High School to take action upon the follow- ing Articles :) ARTI~I;E 2. To e}ect ail other offieez% not required by law to be elected by Ballot. Recommended that this be referred to the galectmen for action. A~TICLE g. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of receipts and expeudit~res as presented by the Selectmen. Recommended that the repo~ be accepted. A~TICLE 4. To see what action the town will take as to its unexpended appropriations. Recommended that M1 unexpended appropriations be returned to the Treasury, with the exception of the following amounts which were orig[nally appropriated under the A~icles indicated: Year Article Amount 1948 58 $76,641.55 1949 37,38,39,40 14,148.15 1949 48 160.00 1949 2 356.98 1949 54 702.41 1949 61 112.24 1949 63 387.66 1949 69 32,000.00 1949 53 !37.01 1949 35 5,324.66 ARTICLE' 5. To see what action the town will take as to the recommendations of the Advisory Board. Recommended that each item of the proposed budget he considered separately. (see Page 18.) ARTICLE 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, 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, 1951 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws. Favorable action recommended. 10 ARTICLE 7. To consider the report, of all special com- mittees. Reccmmended that the reports of all special committees be heard: and it is further recommended that the committee appointed under Article 30 of the 1949 Annual Town Meeting' Warrant, he continued in existence for the purpose of making a further study of personnel and admiuistrative problems within the Fire Department, and of reporting its findings to the next Annual Town Meeting, with recommenda~tions, if any, az to the solution of any such problems. ARTICLE 8. To see if the ~own will vote to authorize the- ~eard of Health to appoint one of their members to the posi- tion of Board of Health Physician a~zd to fix his compensation, in ae,'o-,da~ee wlth Section dA, Chapter 41, General Laws. Favorable action recommended, on the b,~sis of compensa- tic.si in the ammmt of $750.00 for the year 1950. This amount has been included in the Board of Health Budget recemmended hy your Advisory Board. ARTICLE 9. To see if the town will vote to authorize the School Committee to appoint one of its members to the position of School Physician and to fix his compensation in accordance with Section dA, Chapter 41, General Laws. Favorable action recommended, on the basis of compensa- tion in the amount of $750.00 for the year 1950. This amount has been included in the School Department Budget recom- mended by your Advisory Board. ARTICLE 10. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate the sum of Two Hundred fifty Dollars ($250.00)to purchase a Basketball set, new table, two benches and two concrete seats for the Drummond Playground. Petition of the Board of Selectmen on recommendation of the Recreational Council. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works. This amount is required for equipment necessary for the continuation of the cemmendable work of the Recreational Co,;ncil's program at the Drummond Playground. ARTICLE 11. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($$00.00) to purchase. a sand box, new shelter, eonere:'e scats, new table and a basket- ball set for Orogan's Field Playground. Petition of the Board of Selectmen on recommendation of the Recreational Council. It is recommended that the sum of $100.00 be raised and appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the installation of concrete seats and a basketball set at the Grogan's ,.Field Playground. Your,Ad- 11 visory Board believes that the purchase of the other items listed in this Article should be postponed until the neighboring Veterans' Housing Development has been completed, when there will be a better basis for a decision as to whether, and where, such permanent installations should be made. ARTICLE ]2. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) to the usc of the Public Works Department to gradd the sandbank lots, from Marblehead Street to Massachusetts Avenue, with material on the site so that it eau be used for playground purposes in accordance with the proposed plan of the Planning Board or such other use or disposal as the town may decide. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Your Advisory Board has been informed by the Highway Surveyor that, as the result of the contemplated reconstruction of Main Street this summer, there will be large amounts of fill, which he intends to place in the sand-bank area. Your Board believes that a first-class grading job cannot be done at the sand-bank unless more fill is made available, and therefore feels that no work should be done there until after the High- way Surveyor has completed the 1950 Main Street project and !01aced the resulting fill in the area. With this in mind, it is recommended that the sum of $1,500.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to he expended nnder the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purpose of grading the sand-bank lots so that this site may more safely be used as a play area by the children of the district. Your Board does not recommend the expenditure of more than this amount at this time, nor until the Town is fairly warned of the ultimate expense of the rather elaborate project proposed by the Planning Board. As a sandlot playground, into which this area can be cmwerted for $1,500.00 or less, it will lend itself, in later years, to any kind. of development for which the Town may see fit to pay, and, in the meantime, will be a far more attractive area than it is at present. ARTICLE 13. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate the sum of E~ght Hundred Fifty Dollars ($850.00) to be used for salaries of Playground Instructors for the six week schedule in the summer of 1950 and for Playground ~andieraft supplies. S}x Hundred Dollars ($600.00) for salaries and Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to be used to purchase supplies. Petition of the Board of Selectmen, on recommendation of the Recreational Council. Favorable action recommended. These expenditures are a continuation of the poldcy established under Articles voted 12 at the last two Annual Town Meetings. It is recom~aended that the sum of $600~00 be raised and appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Recreational Council for the in- struction and supervision of children upon the playgrounds of the Town, and that an additional sum of $250.00 be raised and appropriated, ~to be so expended for the purchase of supplies, including handicraft and other expendible items for the use of children, instructors and supervisors on said play- grounds. ARTICLE 14. To see if the to,un ~vill vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) to be used for the installation of a drinking fountain in the Town Building. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Recommended that $300 be raised and appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen. ART£CLE 15. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Wiring Inspector for the town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 529, Acts of 1949 and to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the suni of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) as compen- sation for said mspeetor for the year 1950. Petition of %ha Board of Sel~ectmen. Because of the mandatory provisions of a 1949 amendment to ~eneral Laws, Chapter 166, Section 32, the following vote is recommended: That the Selectmen be, and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed annually to appoint an inspector of wires under General Laws Chapter 166, Section 32; and that the sum of $225.00 be raised and appropriated for the payment of the salary of such inspector for the balance of the current year. ARTICLE 16. To see if the town will vote to accept the sum of Three Thousand Six Hundred Seventy-three Dollars and Forty-nine Cents ($3~673.49) as directed in the will off Abble S. Armitagc, otherwise known as Addie S. Armitage, under date of September 2, 1913, to be used for such charitable purposes as the Board of })ublic Welfare may frown time to time decide. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Favorable action recommended. The bequest to the Town was of "whatever money I may have at my decease on deposit in the Salem Five Cents Savings Bank and the Home Savings Bank of Boston, Massachusetts, the same to be used for charity." 13 ARTICLE 17. To see ]f the town will vote to raise an4 appropriate the stun of Three Hundred Twenty-five Dollars, ($325.00) to purchase a set of swings and a seesaw for Massa- chusetts Avenne Sand lot. Petition of the Board of Selectmen on recommendation of the Recreational Council. In accordance with your Advisory Board's recom~nenda- tion on Article 12, favorable action is recommended. AIITICLE 15. To see i~ the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to postpone consideration or acceptance of the proposed new by-h~,ws nntil some such time as the Selectmen may decide that s'aid By-Laws are in order for submission to the town for acceptance. Petition of ~he Board of Selectmen. Favorable action recmnmended, it is further recom- mended that the proposed revision be submitted to a special town meeting to be called in the near future for the sole purpose of considering the same. ARTICLE 1.9. To see if the town will raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars (,~';1,$00.00) to be used by the IIig~hway Department for the improvement or elimination of the curve nu Sutton Street near IIig'h Street. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Your Advisory Board recommends that the sum of Sa00.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of making this curve less dangerous, to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. Your Board believes that a satis- factory solution of the problem m~ght be effected by the re- moval of not more than one tree, by the erection of a short section of protective fence, by the installation of additional traffic control devices or markings, or otherwise, and does not recommend approval of the extensive reconstruction of the curve contemplated by this Article. ARTICLE 20, To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) to pnrchasea stove for the kitchen of the Town Infirmary. Petition of Board of Public Welfare. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare. ARTICLE 21. To see if the town will raise and appropriate thy sum of One Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-five Dollars i$1,325.00) to be used with the present 1935 Chevrolet Pick-up truck to purchase a new truck for the Town Infirmary. Petition of Board of Public Welfare. It is recommended that the sum of $1,325.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be used by 14 lhe Board of Public Welfare, together with the present 1935 ~pick-up truck, for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 2~. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, a sufficient sum of money to care for and maintain the Old Burying Grouhd ~on Academy Road, opposite the Kittredge property, in the .same historical and picturesque manner as said Burying Ground has been eared for and maintained for a period of years by Miss Kate Stevens and to assign to the Board of Public Works the care and maintenance of said Burying Ground. Petition of the Board of Selectmen.' It is recommended that the sum of $250.00 be raised and appropriated for the purposes of this Article, to be expended · under the direction of the Board of Public Works. ARTICLE 23. To see if the town will vote to grant a permanent increase of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) to the ,annual salary of each Call Fireman: Petition of the Members of the Fire Department. The Fire Department Equipment Committee has recom- mended that the Call Firemen be asked to put in additional time at thc station, for the purpose of an orderly training and cleaning of equipment program. It is recommended that this program be put into effect by the Fire Engineers, and that the sum of $1,500.00 be raised and appropriated under this Article to compensate the Call Firemen for this additional ~ervice. ARTICLE 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and .appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to provide new window shades, wash walls, ceilings and wood- work in the offices most use~l in the Town Building. Petition of Joseph Duncan and others. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen. ARTICLE 25. To see if the town Will vote to raise and appropriate the stun of Two Hundred Ninety DotIars ($290.00) to purchase a new, electrically operated, adding machine, to be used in the office of Town Accountant. Petition of Mary T. Finn and others. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the directiou of the Accountant. ARTICLE 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) to be used with the present Ford Car to purchase a new car _for the Board of Health. Petition of Board of Health. 15 It is recommended that $1,600.00 be taken from unappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to be used by the, Board of Public Health, together with the present Ford car, for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) to be used with the present Chev- rolet Car, to purchase a new Police Car. Petition of Alfred H. MeKee and others. It is recommended that the sum of $600.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be used by the Chief of Po]ice, together with the present Chevrolet car. for the purposes of this Article. AI~TICLE 28. To see ff the town will vote to raise and appropriate 'the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) to purchase new hose for the Fire Department. Petition of Board of Fire Engineers. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Fire Engineers and the 1949 Fire Department Equipment Committee, acting as a unit, after the Fire Engineers have taken steps to provide some suitable means for drying and storing hose. ARTICLE 29. To see if the town will raise and appropriate Sixty-five Hundred Dollars ($6,500.00) to replace the twenty- six year old White Forest Fire Trnek now in use and unsafe. for continued service, Petition of James Hargreaves, Forest Fire Warden. It is recommended that the sum of 86,500.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire Engineers and the 1949 Fire Department Equipment Committee, acting as a unit, for the purposes ~f this Article. ARTICLE 30. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Five I~undred Dollars ($1,500.00) to purchase new ladders for Ladder Truck. Petition of Board of Fire Engineers. It is recommended that the sum of $1,500.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire Engineers and the 1949 Fire Department Equipment Committee, acting as a unit,, for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 31. To see if the town will vote to authorize. the appointment of a committee to study the town manager form of government, and also submit a legislative act for insertion in the Warrant at the next annual Town Meeting; 16 at which time the voters at said meeting will determine whether or not the above mentioned act will be submitted to the State Legislature, for further action. Petition of Leo H. Murphy and others. It is recommended that the Moderator be instructed forth- with to appoint a committee of five citizens of the Town to study and investigate the advisability of a Town Managership :form of government for North Andfver, said committee to report to the next Annual Town Meeting, giving its recom- mendations, if any, together with a draft of such legislation as would have to be enacted by the General Court, to carry such recommendations into effect. ARTICLE 32. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by changing the classification of a piece of land-property owned by Mrs. Mabel Sareion6 from a residential to a business district. Said property is located at the corner of Andover Street and Prospect Terrace, and is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the corner of Andover Street and Prospect Terrace, thence northerly by Andover Street 102.08 feet to a point: thence easterly 110.05 feet to a point: thence southerly 100 feet to a point in the northerly line of Prospect Terrace: thence westerly, by the northerly line of Prospect Terrace 89.05 feet to the point of beginning. Petition of Mrs. Mabel Sareione and others. Under General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 27, no zoning by-law amendment can be voted by the Town until the Plan- ning Board has made recommendations to the Town Meeting concerning it. The Planning Board, after a public hearing on this Article, has unanimously voted against the proposed change. Your Advisory Board, therefore, also recommends unfavorable action. Ai~TICLE 83. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by changing the classification of a piece of property owned by Wasil Musiehuck from a residential district to a business district. Said property is located on Beverly Street and is bounded and described as follows: "Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Beverly Street, said point being 145 feet northerly from Middlesex Street, thence north- erly by the easterly line of Beverly Street 250 feet to a point; thence easterly, at an angle of 90 degrees with the first described line, 195 feet to a point; thence southerly 250 feet to a point; thence westerly 195 feet to the point of beginning. Petition of Andrew J. Bard and others. The Planning Board has voted to recommend the adoption of this Article, ',subject, however, to the restriction and con- dition that said property is not to be used for any purpose other than for the remodeling of the present existing building , ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :,,4~ ; : ; : : : : : :; ' :~ : : ' '~ : ........ .......... : .~) . . : :0 . : ; : : : :~0 ; · ~ · . ~ . .,, . ..... ~ .... ~ ....... ~ · . :~:~ .......................... ================================= .~..rm~ - : : ' :2; : :~ : :~ : : :~; : : ; : : : :~ : ¢i :~ · .tm .~ · .~ .,, .... M~ ....... x., · · ~ .~,_,~ · .~ .~ . .~ ~ . . -~ . . -~ · . .~ . . ~ ~ ; :~ ;~ ' :~ ; - ; ~ ...... : · or the erection of new buildings which are to be used exclu- sively for dwelling purposes." However, once this area has been re-zoned for business use under this article, the present or any future owner of the property would be entitled legally to ignore any such restriction. Un2avorable action is therefore recommended. The petitioner ~hould apply ~;o the Board of Appeals for a variance from the requixements of the zoning by-law, which could be granted by that board subject to the restriction suggested by the Planning Board. ARTICLE 34. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the purchase of a new Dump Truck for the use of the ttighway Department. A 1941 Dmnp Truck to be sold and proceeds to he turned over to the Town Treasurer. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. It is recommended that the sum of $5,000.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be used by the Highway Surveyor for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 35. To see if the towii will raise a~ld appropriate the sum of Thirteen IIundred Dollars ($L300.00) for the pur- chase of a new Piek~up Truck for the use of the Highway Department. A ].q40 Pick-up Truck to be sold and proceeds to be turned over to the Town Treasurer. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Unfavorable action recommended. In view of the major expenditure recommended under the preceding Article, and after discussing the matter with the Highway Surveyor, your Board feels that the Town's best interests do not require the purchase of this piece of equipment this year. ARTICLE 36. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to be used for a sidewalk project; the town to pay one-half of the cost and the applicant to pay the other half. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. AI~TICLE 37. To see'if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for maintenance of any street in town 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 purpose; or take any other action in relation thereto. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. It is recommended that the sum of $2,000.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury for the pur- poses of this Article, to be expended by the Highway Surveyor, 20 under Chapter 90 of the General Laws, together with any money which may be allotted for such purposes by the State or County, or both; but in no greater proportion than two dollars of Town money to each one dollar of such allotted funds. A1ZTICLE 38. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the con- tinuation of the rebuilding of Main Street from St. Paul's Church as far as the money will allow, under Chapter 90 the General Laws, said money to be used with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both for this purpose; or take any other action ]n relation thereto. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. It is recommended that the sum of $4,000.00 be taken from nnappropriated available funds in the Treasury for the pur- poses of this Article, to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor, under Chapter 90 o£ the General Laws, together wSth any mo~ey which may be allotted for such purposes by the State or County, or both; but in no greater proportion than two dollars of Town money to each one dollar of such allotted funds. ARTICLE 39. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Seventeen tlundred Eighty Dollars ($1,780.00) for the purpose of shaping, grading, graveling and oiling Baldwin Street. Petition of the Ilighway Surveyor. A portion of Baldwin Street was legally accepted by the Town under Article 49 of the 1938 Annual Town Meeting Warrant, and the remainder under Article 13 of the 1945 Warrant. It is therefore the obligation of the Town to keep this way in repair. Favorable action is therefore recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 40. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the stun of Seven Hundred Eighty Dollars ($780.00) for the purpose of shaping, grading, graveling and oiling Francis Street. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Francis Street was also duly accepted in 1938. Favorable action is therefore recmnmended, the appropriation to be ex- pended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 41. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Sixty Dollars ($760.00) for the purpose of shaping, grading, graveling, and oiling Patriot Street from Railroad Avenue to Gilbert Street. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. 21 This portion of Patriot Street has also been a Town way since 1938. Favorable action is therefore recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the High- way Surveyor. ARTICLE 42. To see if the town will raise and appropriat~ 'the stun of Three I:[undred Seventy Dollars ($370.00) for the purpose of oiling Gilbert Street. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Gilbert Street has not as yet been accepted by the Town; Article 73 of this Warrant presents it for acceptance. It is recommended that Article 73 be considered at this time; and if favorable action is taken on that Article, your Board recom- mends favorable action upon this Article, the appropriation ~o be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 43. To see if the town will raise and appropriat~ %he sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for the purpose of painting and replacing street signs. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Favorable action recommended, the sum raised to be ex- pended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 44~. To see if the town will raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Ninety-five Itun- tired Dollars ($9,500.00) to instM1 a t~unk storm clrain from the corner of Railroad Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue throagh Massachusetts Avenue and Lyman Road to Middlesex Street. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. After full discussion of this Article with various officers of the Town, your Advisory Board believes that the proposed trunk storm drain need be installed, for the present time, only to the intersection of Lyman and l~embrook Roads. It is there- fore recommended that the sum of $7,650.00 be taken from .unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be ex- pended under the dh'ection of the Highway Surveyor for the installation of a trunk storm drain from the corner of l~ailroad Avenue and. Massachusetts Avenue through Massachusetts Avenue and Lyman Road to the intersection of Lyman and Pembrook Roads. ARTICLE 45. To see if the town will rotc to raise and .appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Dollars ($700.00) for the purpose of having the 1950 real estate list printed for t)ublic use. Petition of Board o{ Assessors. Favorable action recommended, this sum to be expended 'under the direction of the Board of Assessors. 22 ARTICLE 46. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on Sawyer Road Five Hundred Fifty Feet (550) from Pembrook Road. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Penrllebury and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $2,265.00. It is recommended ~at ~e sum of $1,700 be taken from uuappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to he expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The payment by the petitioners and/or owners to the Treasurer, for the use of the Town, of the sum of $565.00 to cover the baIance of the cost of the project, and their making of a guaran- tee, acceptable to the Board of Public Works, of annual payments of 6% of the cost of the project, as water rates, for a period of ten years. 2. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planhing Board. 3. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so constructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage system therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such w~ys under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets," (as set forth on page 110 of the 1949 Annual Town Report). ARTICLE 47. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the sewer system on Sawyer Road Five Hundred Fifty Feet (550) from Pembrook Road. Petition of Mr. Thoma~ E. Pendlebury and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $2,400.00, and the total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 380, Section 6, as amended, will amount to approximately $1,600.00. It is recommended that the former amount be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that 25 the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 2. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form mud amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage system therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets." ARTICLE 48. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on 'Pembrook Road and .~[ifl~in Drive Seven Hundred Feet (700) to ]qradstreet Road. Petition of ]~ir. ~l~homas E. Fendlebury and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $3,300.00. It is recommended that the sum of $2,470.00 be taken from unappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The payment by the petitioners and/or owners to the Treasurer, for the use of the Town, of the sum of $830.00 to cover the balance of the cost of the project, and their making of a guaran- tee, acceptable to the Board of Public Works, of annual payments of 6% of the cost of the pro- ject, as water rates, for a period of ten years. 2. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 3. The posting of a bond by the petitioners mud/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assttre the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification 24 of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Street." (as set forth on page 110 of the 1949 Annual Town Report. ARTICLE 49. To see if the tbwn will vote to raise and appropriate or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the sewer system on Pembrook Road and Mi~in Drive Seven Hundred lq~eet (700) to Bradstreet Road. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebury and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $3,400.00, and the total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 380, Section 6, as amended, will amount to approximately $2,000.00. It is recommended that the former amount be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 2. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets." ARTICLE 50. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on Moody Street from Furber Avenue Three Hundred Feet (300) towards Chadwick Street. Petition of Mr. George F. H. Moody and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $1,150.00. It is recommended that the sum of $860.00 be taken from unappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the dffection of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The payment by the petitioners and/or owners to the Treasurer, for the use of the Town, of the sum of $290.00 to cover the balance of the cost of the project, and their making of a guaran- tee, acceptable to the Board of Public Works, of annual payments of 6% of the cost of the project, as water rates, for a period of ten years. 2. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 3. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six mouths after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets," (as set forth on page 110 of the 1949 Annual Town Report). Ai~TICLE 51. To see if thc town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer ~rom avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water sys- tem on Dufton Court from the present terminus to Chickering Road. Petition of Beatrice I. Gaumond and others. The cost of th~s project is estimated at $665.00. It is re- commended that this sum be taken from unappropriated avail- able funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the petitioners and/or owners, on or before July 1, 1950, shall have made a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public Works, of annual payments of 6% of the cost of the project, as water rates, for a period of ten years. ARTICLE 52. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, sufficient sum of money to extend the water system One Hundred Sixty Feet (160) on Cotuit Street frmn Andover Street. Petition of Mr. Alfred DeFusco.and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $770.00. It is re- commended that the sum of $580.00 be taken from unappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The payment by the petitioners and/or owners to the Treasurer, for the nsc of the Town, 26 of the sum of $190.00, to cover the balance of the cost of the project, and their making of a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public Works, of annual payments of 6% of the cost of the project, as water rates, for a period of ten years. 2. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 3. The posting of a bond'by the petitioners and/er owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and~ repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of ~uch ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets," (as set forth on page 110 of the 1949 Annual Town Report). ARTICLE 53. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by boi~d issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on Turnpike Street Twelve Hundred Feet (1200) from the previous terminus near Chestnut Street toward Boston Street. Petition of Florence B. Allieon and others, Unfavorable action recommended. The cost' of this project is estimated at $4,560.00, and your Board does not believe that this expenditure is warranted at this time. ARTICLE 54. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water syste~n on Foster Street Two Thousand Feet (2000) from the present terminus towards Winter Street. Petition of Mr. Albert Lavoie and others. Unfavorable action recommended. The cost of thhs project is estimated at $7,900.00, and your Board believes that this proposed extension of the Town's water system is not war- rented at this time. ART~C[~ 55. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sutiieient sum of money to install a sewer system on Morris Street for a distance of One IIundred. Eighty-eight Feet (188) from the southerly line of Second Street. Petition of Mr. Arthur MeAllister and others.' The cost of this project is estimated at $780.00, and the · total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 380, Section 6, as amended, will amount to approximately $300.00. It is recommended that the former amount be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 2. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regula- tions for Laying Out Streets." AI%TICLE 56. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate~ or provide by bo*~d issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the sewer system on Itemloek Street Three Hundred Feet (300) from Massachusetts Avenue. Petition of Bonnie Gioco and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $1,600.00, and the total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 380, Section 6, as amended, will amount to approximately $1,000.00. It is reconnnended that the former amount be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that the following conditions shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 2. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such 28 requirements as the Highway Surveyor nmy im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets." ARTICLE 57. To see if the to;vn ;rill vote to raise and :appropriate or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient stun of money to extend the sewer system on Princeton Street about Two Hundred (200) Feet from Pleasant Street. Petition of Mr: Christopher Kelly, Jr. and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $650.00, and tho total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 380, Section 6, as amended, will amount to approximately $300.00. It is recommended that the former amount be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article, provided that 'the following condit!.ons shall have been met on or before July 1, 1950: 1. The approval of the layout and plan of the street involved by the Planning Board. 2. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, to assure the Town that, six months after the completion of the project, the roads and sidewalks affected thereby shall have been so reconstructed and repaired, including the installation of all neces- sary drainage systems therein, as to meet such requirements as the Highway Surveyor may im- pose as conditions precedent to his certification ef such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets." ARTICLE 58. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the stun of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to paint the bleachers at Grogan's Field. Petition of Board of Public Works. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works. ARTICLE 59. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) to purchase a small rubber th'ed tractor and gang mower for use on the public parks, playgrounds and cemetery. Petition of Board of Public Works. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works. 29 ARTICLE 60. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to place fire hydrants on Chestnut Street, Dale Street and other necessary locations. Petition of Board of Public Works. It is recommended that the sum of $2,000.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 61. To see if the town will raise and appropriate Nine IIuudred Dollars ($900.00) to install a drain at Drum- mond Field so that the entire field can be used. Petition of Board of Public Works. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works. ARTICLE 62. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, provide by bond issue, or transfer from available funds, Seven Thousand Dollars (87,000.00) to connect the water main from Peters Street to Andover Street on Turnpike Street so as to provide better domestic supply and fire pro- tection for the Wilson Corner Area in accordance with the recommendation of the New England Fire Insurance Rating Association. Petition of Board of Public Works. Unfavorable action recommended. Your Advisory Board has carefully considered the recommendations of the New Eng- land Fire Insurance Rating Association referred to in this Article. However, since the existing water supply for the Wilson's Corner area is presently conceded by the Board of Public Works to be adequate for all foreseeable contingencies, and since your Board believes that the Town has other obliga- tions which should first be met, it cannot recommend the major expenditure called for by this Article at this time. ARTICLE 63. To see if the town w/il vote to raise and appropriate, provide by bond issue, or transfer from available funds, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) to clean and cement llne water mains in the water works system. Petition of Board of Public Works. Unfavorable action recommended. It is believed that, this expenditure can be postponed for some time, without detriment to the Town's interest. ARTICLE 64. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) to replace water services to the property line, gate hydrant branehe~, replace gate boxes and manhole frames and covers, 30 replace temporary water line with water main and do other necessary work before Main Street and Greene Street are rebuilt m~der Chapter 90 reconstruction. Petition of Board of Public Works. It is recommended that the sum of $3,000.00 be taken from Unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, to be ex- pended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 65. To see if the town will appropriate from available funds, the stun cf Four Thousand Five Dollars and Ninety-seven Cents ($4,005.97) being the amount of water department receipts in excess of water department operating expenses £or 1949 to a Stabilization Fund as provided for by Chapter 124 of the Acts of 1945, with the understanding that it is to be used by the town for capital improvements in the water works system under the provisions of the above act. Petition of Board of Public Works. Your Board has been informed by the ~ommissioner of Corporations and Taxation that he will not approve the trans- fer of this amount from "free cash", so that unfavorable action on this Article is recommended. ARTICLE 66. To see if thc town will raise and appropriate a sufficient snm of money to place a catch basin at the corner of Princeton Street and Pleasant Street. Petition of )Ir. Christopher Kelly, Jr. and others. Unfavorable action recommended. The petitioners did not appear before your Advisory Board at its public hearing, and no evidence of the need for or the cost of such an installation has been made available. Your Board has made an indepen- dent survey of the area, and believes that the proposed ex- penditure is not warranted at this time. ARTICLE 67. To see if the town will make available to the School Committee from the Thirty-t~vo Thousand Dollars ($32,000.00) allotted by the General Court for the purpose of increasing teachers! salaries, and now in the general far, d, the sum of Eighteen 'i~housand Eight Hundred Sixty Dollars ($18,860.00) to raise the maximum salary of teachers since this raise will not affect the tax rate. Petition of the North Andover Teachers Association. Your Advisory Board directs your attention to its lengthy treatment of this Article on page 5. It is not true that "School Aid" is "allotted by the General Court for the purpose of increasing teachers' salaries." It is not true that affirmative action of this kind "will not affect the tax rate." Since this Article is based upon both of these false premises, and since your Advisory Board believes that the matter of the teachers' 31 salary schedule should be left, under the law, to the School Committee, unfavorable action is recommended. ARTICLE 68. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of Eighteen Thousand One Hundred Sixty-five Dollars ($18,165.00) to be added to the Stabilization Fund under Chapter 124, Acts of 1945, as created under Article 36 of the Warrant for the Annual Meeting held March 16, 1946, and as recommended in the Reeves' School Survey. Petition of School Building Committee. Favorable action recommended. This is a continuation of the policy, established by the Town in 1946, of annually setting aside a proportionate share of tax money for the financing of the long range school building program of the Town. ARTICLE 69. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the snm of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) to be used by the School Building Committee for research, educational speci- fications, sketches, plans, and such other disbursements as may be preliminary to the building of a high school. Petition of School Building Committee. The following vote is recommended: That the sum of $10,000.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in: the Treasury for the purposes of this Article, to be expended under the direction of the School Building Committee, which is hereby authorized to enter into such contracts as may be necessary for such research and the procuring of such specifi- cations, sketches, plans and other materials. ARTICLE 70. To see if the town will r~ise and appro- priate, transfer from the Stabilization Fund, or otherwise provide a snm not to exceed Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) for the purchase of two parcels of land needed for access to the proposed site of. the new high school: one- parcel of approximately ten acres belonging to the Stevens Estate, and the other parcel the adjoining lot on Main Street owned by Daniel Valpey of Methuen. Petition of School Building Committee. The following vote is recommended: That the sum of $15,000.00 is hereby raised and appropriated for the purposes: of this Article; and the Selectmen are hereby authorized, em- powered and directed to expend the same, and to execute, in~ the name and in behalf of the Town, such agreements or other legal documents as may be necessary or advisable, for said' purposes. ARTICLE 71. To see if the town will authorize the School Building Committee, created under Article 34 of the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting held March ~6, 1946, to enter. into any eontr~tcts necessary for the purpose of carrying out~ 32 the vote passed under Article 69, relative to "research, edu- cational specifications, sketches, plans, and such other disburse- ments as may be preliminary to the building of a high school." Petition of School Building Committee. In view of your Board's recommended vote under Article 69; it is recommended that this Article be stricken from the Warrant. ARTICLE 72. To see if the town will place at the disposal of thc School Building Committee, for the purpose of com- pleting the Kittredge School, landscaping the same, and surrounding the site by a snitab]e fence, and any other school expenditures deemed necessary by the said School Building Committee, the stun of Thirty-seven Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($,?7,100.00) now held in the Stabilization Fund created under Article 36 of the Warrant for the Annual Meeting held on March 16, 1946, and having been added to _at the Town Meeti~gs of 1947, 194S, 1949, and 1950. Petition of School Building Committee. The following vote (which, nnder the law, must be a two- thirds vote) is recommended: There is hereby appropriated, out of the Stabilization Fund, the sum of $37,100.00 to be expended under the direction of the School Building Com- mittee for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 73. To see if the town will vote to accept Gilbert Street as shown on plan, R. Brassenr, C. E. dated December 1, 1948 on record with Town Clerk, which is located in the Grogan's Field tract, adjacent to the Veterans Housing Development, and runs from Patriot Street to Baldwin Street. The layout of said Gilbert Street was approved by the Board: of Survey and the "Reg'ulations for the Laying Out of Streets" have been observed. Petition of thc North Andover Housing Authority. The Selectmen have informed youx Advisory Board that they have duly laid out the street under the governing pro- visions of law. The present Article is therefore in order for. consideration at this meeting, and favorable action, is recom- mended. ARTICLE 74. To see if the to~vn will vote to a~eept as a public way, Lyman Road from Middlesex Street to that section of Lyman Road already accepted as a public way, all as shown on plan No. 8813A on record in the Registration. Land Division of the North ~ssex Registry of Deeds. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebury and others. The Selectmen have informed your Advisory Board that they have taken no action to lay out the section of Lyma~n Roaxt 33 referred to in this Article. The Town, therefore, cannot take any action on this Article, and it is recommended that it be stricken from the Warrant. ARTICLE 75. To see if the town will vote to accept Pembrook Road from Lyman Road to Miffin Drive, as shown on plan accepted by the Planning Board and recorded with the Town Clerk. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebnry and others. The Selectmen have informed your Advisory Board that they have not laid out this section of Pembrook Road under the governing provisions of law. Action therefore cannot be taken on this Article, and it is recommended that it be stricken from the Warrant. ARTICLE 76. To see if the town will vote to~accept as public ways, Hamilton and ttolbrook Roads from l~Iassachu- setts Avenue to Putnain Road, all as indicated on plan ap- proved by the Planning Board on September 25, 1946, said plan known as Mifflin Park plan, or plan of portion of Miffin Park, recorded with the Town Clerk. Petition of Mr. Edwin W. Reinhold and others. As stated in your Board's discussion of the Miffin Park roads appearing on page 7, it is not necessary that these streets be accepted in order to reach a satisfactory solution of the problem. Your Board also feels that the Town should not give its approval to the waiver by'the Selectmen of their Rule requiring the Highway Surveyor to certify to them that the streets are in proper condition for acceptance, a certification which, in this instance, he has quite properly refused to make. For these reasons, it is recommended that this Article be stricken from the Warrant. ARTICLE 77. If affirn~ative action is taken on the previous artiele,--to see if the town will raise and appropriate or other- wise provide the sn~ of Four Thousand One Hundred Fifty-five Dollars ($4,155.00) for installing drainage on Hamilton and Holbrook Roads.. Petition of Mr. Edwin W. Reinhold and others. In accordance with the views of your Advisory Board set forth on page 9 of this report, the following vote is recom- mended: That the sum of $4,155.00 be taken from unappro- priated available funds in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor for the pm'poses of this Article, but only after he has been duly notified by the Selectmen that they have taken all action necessary to lay out adequate drainage systems for Hamilton and Holbrook Roads, and to provide for the assessment of betterments for the installation of such systems under the provisions of Chapter .24 80 of the aenera! Laws, as amended; and the Selectmen are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take such steps a~ may be necessary to layout such systems~ and to provide for the assessment of betterments therefer under said Chapter 80, as amended. THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING ARTICLE ]. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money to be added to the Stabilization Fund under Chapter 124 of the Acts of ~945, Section 5B of Chapter 40. Petition of thc School Building Committee. R~commended that the Town appropriate the sum of $75,000.00 from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury to be added to the Stabilization Fnnd nnder General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5B. 35 BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY Qua[itel Printers CONCORD STREET, LAWRENCE, MASS.