HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952 ADVISORY REPORTTOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER
ADVISORY BOARD
REPORT
-1952-
CONTENTS --
I. Introductory Remarks
II. The 1952 Tax Rate
HI. Articles of the Warrant
to be voted upon at the
Annual Town Meeting
and Recommendations of
Your Advisory Board.
IV. Table of Recommended
Appropriations for Reg-
ular Town Departments
V. Your Tally-Sheet for Ar-
ticles Requesting Funds
ATTEND TOWN MEETING MARCH 15, 1952
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REPORT OF THE NORTH ANDOVER
ADVISORY BOARD
TO THE CITIZENS'OF NORTH ANDOVER:
Your Advisory Board respectfully submits the Report
to you with our recommendations for action on ,the Articled
appearing in the Town Warrant. In making our re. commenda-
tions to you, thc taxpayers of the To~vn, we have tried to
serve the best interests of all the citizens of the Town. We
have made a conscientious effort to investigate thoroughly the
conditions surrounding the various articles in the Warrant so
that our recommendations would give full ~consideration to the
petitioners and would still result in a sound expenditure for a
town thc size of North Andover.
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM
In the opinion of your Board, Articles 19 through 22
proposed by the School Building Committee and relating to
the construction of a new high school, are deserving of special
comment here. Last year the Town voted to raise and appro-
priate $17,000 for the purchase of the necessary land for the
new high school. In addition, last year, the Town voted to
appropriate $26,800 from unappropriated available funds in
the Treasury to be added to the Stabilization Fnnd under the
General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5-B. These actions have
represented strong public support for this project within the
Town. Added to this is the distinct advantage to be gained
from state aid, estimated at $500,000, which is likely to be
unavailable after Jnne of 1953.
An expenditure of $1,500,000 should no~ be undertaken
without considering both the short term and long term effects.
on the financial stability of the town, and the added cost to
the taxpayers. Your Board believes that the method of financ-
ing this new school proposed by the School Building Committee
is sound, and that increases in the tax rate resulting from this
large investment are within reason.
Your Advisory Board is recommending favorable action
on the new high school. However, since this is a major invest-
ment for the town, we suggest that each voter should carefully
read and study the report published by the School Ruilding
Committee and then arrive at his own dec~sion. ·
CHAPTER 80 OF THE GENERAL LAWS--AS AMENDEI)
In recent years,, your Advisory Board has proposed :that
certain articles in the Town Warrant relating to drainage and
resurfacing of streets be handled nnder Chapter 80 of the
General Laws of the Commonwealth. Chapter 80 relates to
"betterments". A betterment is a public improvement received
by a "limited area" of the town. Authorization for the Town
to undertake the improvement comes as a result o£ a vote of
the Town }~eeiJng. The law requires that the property owners
on the street will be assessed a proportionate share of the cost
of such improvement. The amount of the assessment aplJears
on the property owners' annual tax bill. Assessments bearing
~nterest at four per cent per annum, constitute a lien on the
land assessed. The Board of Assessors arranges with the owner
for payment of the assessments in equal portions extending ~or
not over ten years, l~Iowever, in the case of a betterment on
land which is not built upon, the Board of Selectmen, under
Section 13A, may extend the time of pay~nent of the assessment
until the land is built upon, or for a fixed time~ In such
circumstances, the landowner must pay interest at four per cent
annually on his share o~ the betterment assessment.
How does the application of Chapter 80 affect us as tax-
payers? During the year in which thc improvemen~ is made,
the cost of the improvemen~ ~nay be raised and appropriated,
or raised by a public bond issue, or be transferred from avail-
able funds in the ~own treasury. While the initial cost is paid
by the town, the proper~y o~vners who benefit directly from
the improvement are required to pay back the full cost. plus
interest The costs of improvements under Chapter 80 if ~rans-
ferred from available funds in the town treasnry, will not
reflect in your ~ax rate. However. if you vote to raise and
appropriate the funds necessary to make ~mprovemen~s under
Chapter 80. these amounts will reflecl directly in your tax rate.
Following the practice o~ recent years, your Advisory Board
recommends that the cost of improvements under Chapter 80
he i~nanced by transfer from available fnnds~
Chapter 80 permits the town to assist property owners to
improve the condition of their property by making these im-
provements on a sound businesslike basis. Many neighboring
towns have provided betterments under Chapter 80 with good
results.
55our Advisory Board has considered the application of
Chapter 80 ~o a number of articles in the ~,Varraut this year.
We feel that the best interests of the town will be served only
'~hen a substar~tial number of home owners will benefit directly
from the improvement and pay their full share of the cost
without the pbssibility of delay. For example, favorable action
has been recommended on Article 54 relating to t'embrook Road.
where all but one lot is now built upon. In contrast. Article 59
relating to Sawyer. Road ~vhere only one house has been con-
structed facing this road. the Board makes its recommendation
dependent upon actual construction being started on at least
one half the remaining lots of land before June 1, 1952.
II
The 1952 Tax Rate
BUDGET
Salaries
Expenses
Total
Articles
From taxes $45,700.00
"Free cash" 77,145.00
To be
raised by
taxation
1951 1952 (Decrease) Tax Rate
$407,578.00 $414,151.00 $6,573.00 $ .526 increase
382,013.00 375,094.00 (6,919.00) .553 decrease
$759,591.00 $789,245.00 ($346.00) $ .027 decrease
$42,925.00 (2,775.00) $ .222 decrease
128.083.69 $50.938.69 none
$835,291.00 $832.170.00 ($3,121.00) $ .249 decrease
III
~RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO ARTICLES IN THE
TOWN MEETING WARRANT
THE 1952 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
(Article 1 of the Warrant is the Call for the 1952 Town
Election, held March 3, 1952; under the Warrant, the 1952
Annual Town Meeting then stands adjourned, under the by-
laws, until Saturday, 5iarch 15, 1952, at 1:30 P. M., when it
reconvenes at the Town Hall to take action upon thc following
Articles :)
ARTICLE 2. To elect ali other officers not required by
law t.o be elected by ballot.
Recommended that this be referred to the Selectmen for
~action,
Ai~TICLE 3. To see if the town will Tote to accept the
~elrort of receipts and expenditures as presented by the Select-
Recommended that the report be accepted.
ARTICLE 4. To see 'what action the town will take as to
its unexpended appropriations.
Recommended that all unexpended appropriations be re-
turned to the Treasury, with the exception of the following
amounts as of January 1, 1952, which were originally appro-
priated under the Articles indicated:
Article 60 1950 Fire Hydrants $421.25
Article 64 1950 Water Mains 1,054.31
Article 69 1950 New High School Plans 9,032.69
Article 18 1951 Civil Defense Department 1,062.53
1951 Transfer from Reserve Fund
to Beverly Street Drain 800.00
Article 58 1951 Water Mains 643.30
Article 31 1951 Great Pond Road, Chapter 90 4,994.00
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 bo
considered separately. (See page 22).
ARTICLE 6. To see if the town wilt 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, .1952 and to issue a note or
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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.
ARTICLE 7. To consider the report of all special com-
mittees.
Recommended that the reports of all special co?mittees
be heard. It is further recommended that the Fire Department
Equipment 'Committee be released from further duty with the
thanks and appreciation of the Town,
ARTICLE 8. To see if the town will vote to authorize the
Board of Health to appoint one of their members to the position
of Board of Health Physician and to fix his eompensation, in
accordance with Section 4A, Chapter 41 General Laws.
Favorable action recommended on the basis of compensa-
tion in the amount of $750.00 for the year 1952. This amount
has been included in the Board of Health Budget recommended
by your Advisory Board.
ARTICLE 9. To sec 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 eompensation, in accordance
with Section 4A, Chapter 41, General Laws.
Favorable action recommended on the basis of compensa-
tion in the amount of $900.00 for the year 1952. This amount
has been included in the School Department Budget.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the town will vote to accept the
provisions of Chapter 781, approved by the legislature Novem-
ber 14, 1951: "An act providing for an increase in the annual
amonnts of certain pensions, retirement allowances, annuities
and other benefits, payable by the Commonwealth and its
political subdivisions, to certain former employees and persons
claiming nnder them."
Petition of the Board of Selectmen.
Favorable action recommended. Acceptance of the provi-
sions of the act named in the Article makes certain former
pensioned employees of the town eligible for certain benefits
under the County Retirement Program. North Andover will
be assessed its share of the costs of this program whether or
not it accepts the benefits as described to your Board in a letter
from Essex County Retirement Board.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of One
Hundred Ten Dollars '($110.00) for the purchase of three
weights, one ten ponnd, one five and one two pound Class C.
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avoirdupois and a series of glass containers (graduated con-
densers) as required by the Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Petition of the Board of Selectmen.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommeded $110.00
be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the town will vote to accept as a
public way, SiIsbee Road from Herrick Road to Lyman t~oad
as indicated on plan approved by the Board of Survey in 1924
and now on file in the office of the Board of Public Works.
Silsbee Road adjudicated December third, nineteen hundred
and fifty one.
Petition of the Board of Selectmen.
Favorable action recommended.
ARTICLE ]3. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or provide by transfer from available fnnds, the
sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) to be expended
by the Board of Selectmen toward the writb~g and publication
of a history of the Town of North Audover. Petition of the Board of Selectmen.
The year 1955 will mark She 100th anniversary of the
incorporation of the town of 51orth Andover. The historical
records of the town have not been assembled and published
since the year 1880.
If the taxpayers wish to have a history available for the
year 1955 the sum of money petitioned under this Article would
only be the first installment under such a program.
Your Advisory Board would suggest the voters use their
own discretion.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or provide by transfer from available funds, a
sufficient sum of money to paint the buildi~gs at the Town
Infirmary.
Petition of thc Board of Selectmen.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended
$2,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of
painting the buildings at the Town Infirmary. This work to
be performed under the direction of the Board of Public
Welfare.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the town wi!l vote to raise and
appropriate thc stun of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00)
for the purpose of purchasing uniforms and equipment for one
Little League Team to represent the town of North Andover
in the Greater Lawrence League, and also for four Farm teams
affiliated with same.
Petition o~ the Recreational Connc~l.
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Recommended this article be stricken from the warrant.
There is no provision in the laws of the Commonwealth for
expenditure of public funds for purposes of this kAud.
ARTJ~CLE 16. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Fourteen Hundred Dollars ($1,400.00) to be
used for salaries of six instructors and one supervisor (One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for salaries, two instructors at
each playground) and Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) to be
used to purchase supplies.
Petition of the P~ecreational Council.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended
$1,400.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this
article.
ARTICLE 17. 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 Police
Car, to purchase a new Police Car.
Petition of Alfred H. Mct£ee, Chief of Police.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $600.00
be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
Your board recommends advertising for bids.
AI~TICLE 18. To see if the town will vote to increase the
Reserve Police Force from seven (7) to fourteen (14) men and
have the Board of Selectmen appoint the Intermittent Police
Officers (present ones) as Reserve Oflqcers and petition the
Massachusetts Legislature to put under Civil Service.
Petition of David Roberts and others.
Unfavorable action recommended. This article conflicts
with the State Civil Service Laws. The present Reserve Police
Force is under Civil Service and appointments to the Reserve
Force must be made in a manner to conform with Chapter 31
of the General Laws.
AItTICLE 19. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing and
oril;qnally eq~ipping and furnishing a new high school, together
with the improving, landscaping, grading, and fencing of the
g'rounds for athletic and school purposes; and to determine
wl~ether thc money shall be provided by taxation, by transfer
from available fnnds in the treasury, by appropriation from
the s*abilization fund, or by borrowing.
Petition of the School Building Committee.
Your Advisory Board has discussed the School Building
Pregram in Introductory Remarks, Section I, of this Report.
Also, you have had opportunity to study the Report of the
School Building Committee on this matter.
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Your Advisory Board recommends favorable action on this
Article, the necessary funds to be raised as follows:
The sum of $1,500,000.00 be raised and appropriated for
the purpose of constructing and originally, equipping and
furnishing a new high school, and the improwng, landscaping,
grading, and fencing for athletic and school purposes of the
grounds thereof; and that to meet said appropriation the sum
of $$0,000.00 be appropriated from free cash of the Town
Treasury, and $20,000,00 be transferred from Stabilization
Fund, and the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen,
be and is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of $1,400,000.00
and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, said bonds
or notes to be payable in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended, the whole to be
paid in not more than 20 years from the date of issue of the
first bond or note, or at such earlier time as the Treasurer and
Selectmen may determine. ~
ARTICLE 20. To see if the town will authorize the School
Building Committee, created under Artiole 34 of tim Warrant
of the Annual Town Meeting hem March 16, ]946, to enter
into any and all contracts necessary for the purpose of carry-
ing out the votes passed under Artiqle 19 relative to the
bnilding and originally cqnippip~g of a new high school, to--
gether with the improving, landscaping, grading, and fencing
of the gronnds for athletic and school purposes.
Petition of the School Building Committee.
Favorable action recommended.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the town will vote to abandon
and discontinue a part of Parker Street, a public way, for a
distance of 1200 feet, beginning at the i~tersection of Parker
Street and Chiekering l~oad, so-called, and extending 1200 feet
in a general southwesterly direction on Parker Street, the full
width of said Parker Street, as shown on a plan entitled the
"Proposed Closing of Parker Street," which plan is on record
in the Town Clerk's Office, North Andover, for the purpose of
the erection of a new high school.
(G. L. Chapter 82, Section 21).
Petition of the School Building Committee.
Favorable action recommended.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the town will rais~ and appro-
priate, or transfer fr.om available fnnds, a sum of money to he
added to the Stabilization Fund ahthorized under Chapter 124,
Ac+~s of 1945, as created nnder Article 36 of the Warrant for
the Annual Town Meeting held March 16, 1946, and as recom-
mended in the Reeves School Building Survey.
Petition of the School Building Committee.
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If Article 19 receives favorable action, your Advisor~r~-
Board recommends this Article be stricken from the warrant..
In the event of unfavorable action on Article 19, your-
Advisory Board recommends the sum of $80,000.00 be trans-
ferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury t~
be added to the Stabilization Fund,
ARTICLE 23. To see if the town will vote to raise anff
appropriate the s~m of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00)
to pay unpaid bills ,of 1951.
Petition of Board of Fire Engineers.
Favorable action recommended to raise and appropriate'
the sum of $150.00.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00)
to purchase a pickmp truck to transport all emergency equip-
ment such as hospital beds, wheel chairs and oxygen tent, etc.
Petition of Board of Fire Engineers.
Unfavorable action recommended. Your Advisory Board
feels there is no need for further additional facilities for trans-
portation in the Fire Department at this time.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) to
purchase one thousand (1,000) feet of forestry hose.
Petition of the Forest Fire Warden.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $600.00
be raised and appropriated for the purchase of 1000 feet of
forestry hose, the money to be expended under the direction
of the Forest Fire Warden. Your Board recommends adver-
tising for bids.
ARTICLE 26. To see if ~he town will transfer from
insurance receipts to the fire department account the sum of
One Hundred Seventy-four Dollars and Thirty Cents ($174.30)
received for damages to fire alarm box.
Petition of Board of Fire Engineers.
Unfavorable action recommended. Sufficient funds have
been requested and recommended in the regular Fire Depart-
ment Budget Appropriation to cover fire alarm box installations
and replacement~.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Four Hundred Fifty-five Dollars
($455.00) to purchase new helmets for firemen. Petition of Board of Fire Engineers.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $455.00
be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article, the
money to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire
Engineers.
ARTICLE 28. To see if thc town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) to
purchase five hundred (500) feet of two and one-half inch hose.
Petition of Board of Fire Engineers.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $800.00
;be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article, the
:money to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire
.Engineers, Your Board recommends advertising for bids.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or otherwise provide a sum of money sufficient to install
a Fire Alarm Box at the corner of Hewitt and Minute Avenues.
Petition of Joseph L. Trombly and others.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $350.00
be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the town will vote to accept the
sum of One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) received from
various donors to be known as the "Kate H. Stevens Preser-
vation of Old Burying Ground Fund." The interest earned to
be expended by the Board of Public Works for the maintenance
,of said Burying Ground.
Petition of James J. Maker, Town Treasurer.
~'avorable action recommended with thauks to the donors.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or transfer from mmppropriated available funds
in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Main-
tenanee, or take any action in relation thereto.
Petition of James J. Maker, To~vn Treasurer.
It is recommended the sum of $2,000.00 be raised and
appropriated to meet the town's share of the cost of Chapter
90 Highway Maintenance, and that, in addition, the sum of
$1,000.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds
in the treasury to meet the State and County's shares of the
work, the reimbm'sements from the State and County to be
restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds
in the treasury.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or transfer fr~m nnappropriateO available funds
in the treasury, a sum of morley for Chapter 90 Highway
Construction, or take any action in relation thereto.
Petition of James J. Maker, Town Treasurer.
It is recommended the sum of $5,000.00 be rMsed and
appropriated to meet the town's share of the cost of Chapter
90, Highway Construction, and that, in addition, the sum of
$30,000.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds
in the treasury to meet the State and County's shares of the
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cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State and County
to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available
funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Twelve Thousand Five IIundred Dollars
($12,500.00) for the purchase of a Road Maintainer equipped
with searifier. A tractor grader to be sold and proceeds to be
turned over to the Town Treasurer.
Petition of the Highway Surveyor.
Unfavorable action recommended. The amount of use to
which the equipment Would be put would not justify its pur-
chase. Arrangements can be made to hire this equipment on
a daily basis when needed.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to be used
for a sidewalk project; the town to pay one-half the cost
and the applicant to pay the other half. Petition of the IIighway Surveyor.
Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be
expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Two Itundred Dollars ($200.00) for the
purpose of painting and replacing street signs. Petition of the Highway Surveyor.
Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be
expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to install
a surface drain on Sutton Street from the residence of William
Dryden to thc newly developed set'.Iement, a distance of about
five hundred (500) feet with twelve-inch pipe and two catch-
basins. This to eliminate a dangerous condition caused by
water from nearby fields.
Petition of the ttighway Surveyor.
The Betterment Act, Chapter 80, provides an equitable
solution to alleviate this condition. Your Ad~visory Board
recommends favorable action be taken on the article under the
provisions of this act.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for main-
tenance of any street in town under Chapter 90 of the General
Laws, said moncy to be used in conjuuction 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.
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Recommended to be stricken from warrant. Duplicate of
~rticle $1.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the
further rebuilding of Great Pond Road under Chapter 90 of the
General La~vs, said money to be used with any money allotted
by the State or County, or both, for this purpose; or take any
other action in relation thereto.
Petition of the Highway Surveyor.
Recommended to be stricken from warrant. Duplicate of
~a. rticle 32.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the town will authorize the Board
of Selectmen to sell a cement mixer which was bought with
W.P.A. funds, but now not used by the Highway Department.
Proceeds to be turned over to the Town Treasurer.
Petition of the Highway Surveyor.
Favorable action recommended.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the town will vote to amend
existing Zoning By-Laws by changing fram a genera], resi-
dential to business classification the following described parcel
of land:
A certain area in the Town of North Andover on the
easterly side of Winthrop Street (Lawrence), bounded and
described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the easterly line of said Winthrop
Btreet, said point being 965.58 feet northerly from the inter-
section of said easterly line of Winthrop Street with the
westerly line of Waverley Road; thence northerly by the
easterly line of said Winthrop Street 815 feet to a point;
thence easterly 700 feet to a point; thence southerly 660 feet
to a point which is 200 feet westerly from the westerly line
~)f Waverley Road; thence again southerly, by a curve which
is at all points 200 feet westerly from the westerly line of
Waverley Road, 261 feet to a point; thence westerly 596 feet
to the point of beginning.
Petition of Kastant J. Shay and others.
Favorable action is recommended. The Planning Board
has approved this amendment to existing zoning by-laws as
requested under this article.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the town wiI1 vote to raise and
appropriate a sufficient sum of money to widen and improve
with hard surface approximately Three Hundred Fifty (350)
feet on 5Iarblcridge Road between Dale and Salem Streets.
Petition of Tom F. Ingrain and others.
It is recommended $160.00 be raised and appropriated
under this article for the purpose of hiring mechanical equip-
me~t. The oil and gravel for this project to be obtained from
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the regular departmental appropriation. Your Advisory Board
has been informed ~here is adequate fill'available for the needs
ef this project.
AI~TICLE 4,9. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate a sufficient sum of money to hard surface Furber
Avenue front Wentworth Avenue to Moody Street.
Petition of Francis H. Magoon and others.
Unfavorable action recommended. Your Advisory Board
has been informed there is no surface drainage on Furber
Avenue from the intersection of Brightwood Avenue to the
intersection of Moody Street. Before your Advisory Board
would recommend any expenditure of money for road surfacing,
all necessary drainage systems should be installed so as to meet
the requirements such as the Highway Surveyor may impose.
It is suggested this article be reworded, for submission to
a later town meeting, to include provision for the necessary
drainage and road work on Furber Avenue from the inter-
section of Brightwood Avenue to the intersection of Moody
Street and thence along Moody Street for a distance of 300 feet
in the direction of Chadwick Street, all to be completed under
the provisions o~ Chapter 80.
The estimated cost of the project suggested by your
Advisory Board is $6,575.00.
'ARTICLE 43. To see if the to~vn will raise and appro-
priate the stun of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) to
install a hot top sidewalk on the westerly side of High Street
from tim junction of High and Sutton Streets to the Machine
Shop Depot, a. distance of approximately Sixteen Hundred
(1,600) feet.
Petition of Carolynn L. McQuesten and others.
Since it has been the established custom in the past for
all sidewalk projects to be paid for by the town paying one-half
the cost and the applicant paying the other half, it is recom-
mended by your Advisory Board that $750.00 be raised and
appropriated under this article for the purpose of paying the
town's share, which is 50% of the estima~ed cost of this project,
the abutters to pay the other half of the estimated cost. This
work is not to be started until requested by the abutters.
AI~TICLE 44. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or otherwise provide Three Thousand. Dollars ($3,000.00)
to install and operate equipment to apply fluorine to the
water supply.
Petition of the Board of Public Works on the recommen-
dation of the Board of Itealth.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended
$3,000.00 be raised and appropriated to install and operate
equipment to apply fluorine to the town's water supply.
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Recommendation of the North Andover Board of Health
is as follows:
"Your Board of Health recommends this procedure. This
decision is based on an extensive review of ali available
literature which includes approval ~nd recommendation by the
United States Public Health Service and the American Dental
and Medical Associations. All our local dentists and their
associations have expressed their approval.
"The fluoridation of drinking water is a definite step
forward in a pnblic health procedure that will, in a few years
hence, be a compulsory measnre in every town."
ARTICLE 45. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or otherwise provide Six IIundred Dollars ($600.00) to
erect a five-foot woven wire fence along the Marblehead Street
side of the Waverley Playground.
Petition of the Board of Public Works.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $600.00
be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article, to
he expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or otherwise provide Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)
to provide a chain link wire backstop at Grogans Field to
protect the Veterans' Housing area.
Petition of Board of Public Works.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $550.00
be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article, to
be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 47. To see i~ the town will raise and appro-
priate or otherwise provide Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00)
to install catch-basins on Waverley Playground at Massachu-
setts Avenue.
Petition of Board of Public Works.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $400;00
he raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article, to
be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 48. To see if the town will raise and appropriate
or otherwise provide Thirteen Hundred Dollars ($],300.00) to
purchase and install portable bleachers, seating three hundred,
at Waverly Playground.
Petition of Board of Public Works.
Unfavorable action recommended at this time. Your
Advisory Board feels the need for this equipment has not
been demonstrated.
ARTICLE 49. To see if the town will vote to rais~ and
appropriate, provide by bond issue, or transfer from available
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funds, Seven Thousand Five I-Iundred Dollars ($7,500~00) to
clean and cemen.t line water mains in the water works system.
Petition of Board of Public Works.
Favorable action recommended. This is a continuation of
the program your Board of Public Works has been employing
for the past several years. It is recommended $7,500.00 be trans-
ferred from unappropriated available funds for the purpose
of this article to he expended under the direction of the Board
of Public Works.
At~TICLE 50. To see if the town will appropriate from
available funds, the sum of Three Thousand Six Hundred
Eighty-three Dollars and Sixty-nine Cents ($3,683.69) being
the amount of water department receipts in excess of water
department operating expenses for 1951 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.
Favorable action recommended to appropriate from avail-
able funds the ~um of Three Thousand Bix ltundred Eighty-
three Dollars and Sixty-nine Cents to a Stabilization Fund.
ARTICLE 51. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or ~)therwise provide Nine Hundred Dollars ($900.00)
to be added to the nnexpended appropriation made under
Article 58, 1951 to make such extensions of the water main
system, under the regulations voted at the annual town meet-
ing, as the Board of Public Works, on October first, considers
most necessary, such extensions not having been petitioned for
at the annual meeting.
Petition of Board of Public Works.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended $900.00
be ra/sed and appropriated for the purpose of this article, to
be expended trader the direction of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 52. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to pipe the
ditch beginning at the culvert near 41 Chestnut Street and
running as far as the money will allow.
Petition of Ernest A. Brown, Jr., and others.
Unfavorable action recommended, Your Advisory Board
believes this matter could more properly be handled by the
Board of Health.
ARTICLE 53. To see if the town wi11 vote to raise and
appropriate or provide by bond issue or ~ransfer from available
fm~ds a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system
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on Mifflin Drive Three Hundred Fifty (350) feet from Massa-
chusetts Avenue towards Putnam Road.
PetitiOn of Ralph Duffy and others.
Favorable action is recommended. Sewerage facilities are
available to serve the house lots for which water is being
petitioned under this article. The petitioner advises he plans
to construct two houses once water is made available.
The sum of $1,850.00 is to be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works for the purpose
of this article, upon the following conditions:
1, That on or before June 1, 1952 the petitioners and or
owners make a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public
Works of 6% of the actual cost of contruction, as water rates,
for a period of fourteen years.
2. That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of
houses shall have been started.
A course of action to provide for installation Of drainage
and road resurfacing is suggested under Article 56.
ARTICLE 54. To see if the tow~ will vote to raise and
appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail-
able funds, a sufficient sum of money to install a surface water
drain in Pembrook Road from Lyman Road to :~fifflin Park
Drive, and to resurface Pembrook Road from Lyman to Mifflin
Park Drive so as to put said Road in condition for acceptance
as a public way, all of said work to be done under the provi-
sions of Chapter 80, of the General Laws, providing for the
proportionate assessment of cost against each abutter and
reimbursement of the total cost to the Town in accordance
with the provisions of said Chapter 80.
Petition of Ralph Dnffy and others.
Favorable action recommended. It is recommended
$3,100.00 be taken from Unappropriated Available Funds for
the purpose of this article and to be expended under the direc-
tion of the Highway Surveyor.
The assessments of betterments for this work to be made
under Chapter 80 of the General Laws, as amended; and the
Selectmen are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to
take such steps as provide for the assessment of betterments
therefor under said Chapter 80, as amended.
ARTICLE 55. 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 drainage
system on Mifflin Drive from Massachusetts Avenue to
Douglass Road under Chapter 80 of the General Laws provid-
ing for the assessment of Betterments upon the property
owners.
Petition of Ralph Duffy and others.
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Unfavorable action recommended. This drainage system
would be the lower end of a possibIe trunk drainage line
extending up Mifflin Drive, the continuation of which must be
studied. Any installation at this time which would be adequate
to handle the permanent drainage requffements on Mifflin
Drive would place an unreasonable financial burden o~ the
petitioner.
For further informati°n on this matter, see remarks under
Article 56.
ARTIC/~E 56. To see if thc 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 drainage
system on Pembrook Road, Mifflin Drive and Bradstreet Road
from Lyman Road to Greene Street under Chapter 80 of the
General Laws providing for the assessment of betterments
upon the property owners.
Petition of Andrew E. Alvino and others.
Unfavorable action recommended. As requested, the work
would be of a temporary nature and according to the Town
Engineer would overload the Lyman Road trunk drainage line,
which was constructed to drain the area west of Mifflin Drive
but not including Mifflin Drive.
According to the best information available to your
Advisory Board, the drainage in this area should properly be
handled by a trunk drainage ]in~ installed in Miffiin Drive,
which would be designed to serve Mifflin Drive and the area
to the east.
Adequate facts are not available at this time to make a
sound judgment on this drainage problem. Therefore, your
.Advisory Board suggests an immediate study be made of the
drainage in this area and a master plan be set up for future
development.
We suggest the Highway Surveyor and Town Planning
Board confer with the petitioners and ether interested parties
to work out a practical solution for this condition, from which
equitable assessments may be made upon all parties benefiting
from such an improvement.
At~TICLE 57. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate or transfer from*~available funds the sum of Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to install One Hundred (100) ~eet
of surface drainage pipe, and lower and clean out existing
:open ditch at Hewitt Avenue, ~
Petition of Joseph S. Betten~ourt and others.
Unfavorable action recommende& The proposed project
is not of a permanent nature ~nd would not improve the
~lrainage condition that exists in this area.
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ARTICLE 58. 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 drainage
system on Spruce Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Hem-
lock Street under Chapter 80 of the General Laws providing
for the assessment of betterments upon the property ownera
Petition of Rosario Mammino and others.
Unfavorable action is recommended. Construction of th~
drainage system on Spruce Street at this time would be
dependent upon receiving permission from the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts to enter their drainage system in Massachu-
setts Avenue. Your Advisory Board has been informed by com-
petent authority that the granting of this permission is unlikely.
The estimated cost of drainage and road resurfacing for
the area covered by this article, providing permission was
granted by the State to enter the Massachusetts Avenue drain,
is $3,020.00.
No building of houses on this street has been indicated to
your Advisory Board.
ARTICLE 59. 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 install a surface water
drain in Sawyer Road and to resurface Sawyer Road so as to
put said Road in condition for acceptance as~a public way, all
of said work to be done under the provisions of Chapter 80,
of the General Laws, providing for the proportionate assess-
ment of cost against each abutter and reimbursement of the
total cost to the town in accordance with the provisions of
said Chapter 80.
Petition of James W. Thomson and others.
The estimated cost of install/ng surface drainage and
road resurfacing, so as to meet the approval of the Highway
Surveyor is $2,800.00.
There is only one house at present facing on Sawyer
Road, the remaining eight lots are undeveloped.
Providing construction of at least four more houses is
started on Sawyer Road by June 1, 1952, your Advisory Board
recommends favorable action on this article subject to condi-
tions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws.
The sum of $2,800.00 to be taken from unappropriated
available funds in the treasury and to be expended under the
direction of the Highway Surveyor for the purposes of this
article, but only after he has been duly notified by the Select-
men that the conditions of this recommendation have been
met. The Selectmen are to provide for the assessment of
betterments for the installation of such drainage and road
resurfacing under the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General
Laws, as amended.
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ARTICLE 60. To see if the town wilLvote 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 from Middlesex Street to Pembrook
Road.
Petition of James W. Thomson and others.
Providing construction of at least four more houses is
started on Sawyer Road by June 1, 1952, your Advisory Board
recommends favorable action on this article.
The sum of $2,500.00 is to be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works, for the purpose
of this article, upon the following condition.
That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of four
or more houses shall have been started.
ARTICLE 61. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail-
able funds, a sufficient sam of money to extend the water
system on Sawyer Road from Middlesex Street to Pembrook
Road.
Petition of Jmnes W. Thomson and others.
Providing construction of at least four more houses is
started on Sawyer Road by June 1, 1952, your Advisory Board
recommends favorable action on this article.
The sum of $2,200.00 is to be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works for the purpose of
this article, upon the following conditions:
1. That on or before June 1, 1952 the petitioners and or
owners make a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public
Works, of 6% of the actual cost of construction, as water rates,
~or a neriod of fourteen years.
2~ That, on or befere June 1, 1952, the construction of
at least four more houses shall have been started.
ARTICLE 62. 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 Pembrook Road, Mifflin Drive and Bradstreet Road
a distance of Twelve H~lndred (1,200) feet from the present
terminus on Pembrook I~oad.
Petition of Andrew E. Alvino and others.
Providing construction of at least six houses is started on
Bradstreet Road by June 1, 1952, your Advisory Board recom-
mends favorable action on this article.
The sum of $$,000.00 is to be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works, for the purposes
o£ ~his Article, upon the following condition'.
That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of six
cr more houses shall have been started.
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ARTICLE 63. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail-
able funds, a su~cient sum of money to extend the water
system on Pembrook l~oad, Mifflin Drive and Bradstreet Road
a distance of Twelve Hundred (1,200) feet from the present
terminus on Pembrook Road.
Petition of Andrew E. Alvino and others.
Providing construction of at least six houses is started on
Bradstreet Road by June 1, 1952, your Advisory Board recom-
mends favorable action on this article.
The sum of $5,300.00 is to be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works for the purposes
of this article upon the following conditions:
1. That on or before June 1, 1952 the petitioners and or
owners make a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public
Works of 6% of the actual cost of construction, as water rates,
for a period of fourteen years.
2. That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of
six or more houses shall have been started.
ARTICLE 64. To see if the town will raise and appro-
priate or provide by bond issue or transfer from available
funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the sewer system
on Moody Street from Furber Avenue Two Hundred (200)
feet. towards Chadwick Street.
Petition of Howard Beeley and others.
Favorable action is recommended. The petitioner has his
house under construction and intends to complete the building
this year.
Your Advisory Board has viewed the area and finds
existing buildings on a large percentage of the lots. It has
been indicated further building is contemplated this year.
It is recommended $900.00 be raised and appropriated to
be expended by the Board of Public Works, for the purposes
of this Article, upon the following condition:
That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of a house
or houses shall have been started.
A course of action to provide for installation of drainage
and road resurfacing is suggested under Article 42.
ARTICLE 65. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate or provide by bond issue or transfer from available
funds a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on
Moody Street Three Hundred (300) feet from Furber Avenue
towards Chadwick Street.
Petition of Howard Beeley and others.
Favorable action is recommended. It is recommended
$1,200.00 be raised and appropriated to be expended by the
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Board of Public Works for the purposes of this article, upon
the following conditions.
1. That on or before June 1, 1952 the petitioners and or
owners make a guarantee, acceptable to the Board of Public
Works of 6% of the actual costs of construction, as water
rates, for a period of fourteen years.
2. That, on or before June 1, 1952, the construction of a
house or houses shall have been started.
ARTICLE 66. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate or provide by bond issue or transfer from available
funds a su~icient sum of money to extend the sewer system on
Spruce Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Hemlock Street.
Petition of Rosario Mammino and others.
Unfavorable action is recommended. The cost of the
project covered by this article is estimated at $2,250.00. So
far as is known at present, no building ~s contemplated on the
parts of the street named in the article. Therefore, your
A~visory Board feels that so large an investment by the town
is not justified at this time.
See recommendation under Article 60.
ARTICLE 67. To see if the town will vote to raise and
appropriate or provide by bond issue or transfer from available
fqmds a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on
Spruce Street Three Hundred Seventy (370) feet from Massa-
chusetts Avenue towards Hemlock Street.
Petition of Rosario Mammino and others.
Unfavorable action is recommended. See Article 66, same
conditions exist. The estimated cost of this project is $1,600.00.
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YOUR TALLY SHEET
for
ARTICLES REQUESTING FUNDS
REMEMBER:
Each time the Town votes to raise and appro-
priate approximately $12,500 nieans an increase
of $1.00 in yom' tax rate (per $1,000 of assessed
valuation).
Ar-
ticle Amount
No. Description of Article Requested
11 Weights and Measures $110.00
13 History of the Town 1,500.00
14 Painting Town Infirmary 2,000.00
15 Uniforms for Little League 750.00
16 Playground Wage & Expense 1,400.00
17 Police Car 600.00
19 New IIigb School 100,000.00~
22 Transfer to Stabilization Fund
23 Fire Department--Unpaid Bills 150.00
24 Fire Department--Pickup Truck 1,600.00
25 Fire Department--Forest Fire Hose 600.00
26 Fire Department~ Transfer 174.,30
27 Fire Department--Helmets 455.00
28 Fire Depa.r~ment--l~2 in. hose 800.00
20 Fire Department--Fire Alarm Box 350.00
31 Highway Maintenance--Chapter 90 3,000.00'~'
32 Highway Construction--Chapter 90 35,000.00'{'
83 Purchase Road Maintainer 12,500.00
34 Sidewalk Pro~eets 2,000.00
35 Painting of Street Signs 200.00
36 Drain on Sutton street 1,000.00
37, 38 Repeat of Article 31 and 32
41 Resurfacing Marbleridge Road 160.00
42 Resnrfaeing Purber Avenue 6,575.00~
43 Sidewalk~Iigh Street 1,500.00
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AdvisorY Vote ~t
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mendation Meeting
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44 Fluorine treatment of water 3,000.00
45 Waverley Playground Fence 600.00
46 Grogan Field--Backstop 500.00
47 Waverley Playground--catch basin 400.00
48 Waverley Playground--bleachers 1,300.00
49 Water Mains--cement lining 7,500.00'k
51 Water extensions 900.00
52 Pipe ditch on Chestnut Street 500.00
53 Extend water system Mifflin Drive 1,850.00
54 Drain and resurface Pembrook Road
under Chapter 80 3,100.009
55 Extend drainage on Mifflin Drive
under Chapter 80 3,000.00
56 Extend drainage to Bradstreet Road
under Chapter 80 11,000.00
57 Drainage pipe ttewitt Avenue 500.00
58 Drainage system--Spruce Street
nnder Chapter 80 3,020.00
59 Drain and resurface Sawyer Road
under Chapter 80
60 Sewer
61 Water
62 Sewer
63 Water
64
65
66
67
2,800.00
System--Sawyer Road 2,500.00
System--Sawyer Road 2,200.00
extension to Bradstreet Road 6,000.00
system to Bradstreet Road 5,300.00
Sewer system on Moody Street 900.00
Water system Moody Street 1,200.00
Sewer system on Spruce Street 2,250.00
Water system on Spruce Street 1,600.00
AdvisorM
Boaxd l~ecom-
raendation
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'ires
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Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
W/es
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Vo~e a~
Meeting
On Article 19, your Advisory Board recommends transfers of
$80,000.00 from available frmds and $20,000.00 from Stabilization
Fund.
Advisory Board recommends transfers from available funds of
$1,000, on Article 31; $30,000, on Article 32; $7,500, on Article 49;
and $3,100 on Article 54.
This estimated cost for resurfaeing covers Articles 42, 64, and 65.
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