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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1950 ADVISORY BOARDTOWN 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 $o~ Use at the Town Meeling REPORT OF THE NORTH ANDOVER ADVISORY BOARD March 18, 1950 TO THE CITIZENS OF NORTH ANDOXrER: Your Advisory Board respectfully submits its report to you with recommendations upon the Articles presented for ~-our consideration in the Warrants for ~the A~mual Town Meeting of 1950, and for thc Special Town Me~ting called for the same date. In coming to its conclusions, your Board has constantly kep~ in mind the fact that it is YOUR MONEY which will be spent under those Articles. and has made its recommendatio~is. 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 -- YOlY -- 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 in 1949. The rnnning of our Town is a business venture, and should be considered as such, especially in this year after the completion of the Revahmtion Survey. Since we all hope ~o establish a relatively stable tax cai,, yonr Board has formulated its recommendations ~o come as .lose as possible to the expenditure voted last year for tho ns. of the several Town Dm)artments, Your Board has, therefore, decided against favorable recommendations for any salary creases, except for the Call Firemen--and then only because it is expected that they will be called upon for additional services to the Town, Nevertheless, the budget proposed is above that of last year, and so is the total amount involved ~n the recommended "special Articles". THE 1950 TAX RATE--'$44 If its recommendations are followed, your Board antici- pates a $3 increase over the 1949 tax rate an increase which 'ma~- or may not be compensated for, to some extent, by moneys coming to the Town from the State. The £ollowing table, where the figures have been simplified to the nearest $1000.. tells the s~ory: Recommended Voted 1949 1959 Increase Bmdget' Items $660,000 $693,000 $~3,000 "~pecial Articles" 102,000 114J)00 12,000 TOTALS $762,000 $807,000 $45,900 From "Free Cash" 61,001) 66,000 5,000 To be raised by taxation $701,000 $741,000 $40,000 tIOW TtIE PIE IS CUT Your Advisory Board has done considerable research into the relative costs of the various Town services, and how these have varied over the past several years. It is needless to say 5hat those costs have spiralled upwards, since before the war. It is the hope of your Advisory Board that, during the next few years, a levelling off can be achieved; and all of its re- conunendations have been drafted with this policy well i~ mind. The f~l[owing "Pie" diagram graphically illustrates where your 1950 tax dollar will go, if the recommendations of your Board are followed: 'PC NEW ItlGII 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 Sehool. 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 finaneine' 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 both the old and new buildings together for ten to twenty years, thc most practical site appears to be that selected by Reeves, namely the eastern end of Tavern Acres. The building would then be m~ Main Street and the athletic field could bc on Town land across Parker Street. The School Building ~ommittee and your 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. Wc arc going to invest a million dollars and should have the best of expert advice on all phases of the matter in order to avoid wasting our 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 ~chool 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. "SCIIOOL 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 from the former law principall~ in the method of calcu- lating thc amount to be received annually from the State Treasury; under the new formula, North Andover will receive this year the same amount as last year, about $32,600.00. When it is received, it may be applied by thc 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 raight 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 Oommonwealth and the equaliza- tion of THE BURDEN OF THE COSTS OF SCHOOLS to the respective towns, the State Treasurer shall pay anr/nally 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 accurately state the purpose of "School Aid". Article 67 further sugg'es~s that ~he proposed increase would not "affect the tax rate". This also is not accurate: Any expenditure of town ftmds (and "School Aid" funds belong to the town) must obviously appear, either directly or indirectly, in the tax rate andwhat is a better ;est--in the dollars-and-cents'cost to each taxpayer. If Article 67 were adopted by the Town, the tax rate for 1950 would be about $1.25 more than it will otherwise be. }loreover, the Teachers' Association's proposed revision 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. However, 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 Salaries 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 1~1,864.16 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 thc members of the Committee appointed last year for the purpose of in- vestigating the matter of eqrdpment in lhe Fire Department. The recommendations of that Committee have been adopted by your Board, and form the basis of its recommendations hereinafter made on certain Articles in the Warrant. With the hope that most, ff 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 for another year, with the scope of its investigation broadened. It is your Board's belief, based upon the report of the Committee, that the whole sub.ject of persomml training and discipline within the department might well be reviewed, to the advantage of the Town as well as to that of the members of the department. WATER EXTENSIONS ON UNACCEPTED STREETS After a careful study of the problem, anc~ discussions of it with the Board of Public Win'ks, your Advisory Board's recommendations this year as to extensions of the water system of thc Town into unaccepted streets are based upon a new formula. As a practical matter, it has developed thst the requlre- men~ that thc petitioners pay cash for 75% of the cost of installing water on unacccptcd streets place too heavy a bnrden on those who are m the process of building. Consequently, this year it is recmnmended 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 Hand]ton and Holbrook Roads. in the Miff]in Park area, are in such deplorable condition tha~ the Highway Surveyor has been unable honestly to certify zo thc Selectmen, as re- quired by their Rules. that they are in condition for acceptance by the Town. They have therefore never been presented for acceptance, The several residents of the streets, paying substantial annual amounts in taxes to the Town. have frequently com- plained about, their condition, bnt neither they nor the Town have undertaken ~o puz them into cbndition. 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 can 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 axe not accepted. Since the sole purpose of accepting these streets is to achieve a result which we now find may be attained other- wise, there is no longer auy reason for adopting Article 76 at this time. Your Advisory Board feels that the Town should not 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 Snrveyor, ~vithout more reason than appears in this case. Your Board has therefore recommended that Article 76 be ~tricken from the Warrant. Article 77 is left for consideration. It is estimated that the total cost of installing drainage and thereafter resurfacing 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 the 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 them can be smnmorized as follows: Arguments ~or requiring the individual property owners to repair the streets at their own expense: 1. They purchased their land, knowing that thc streets were not accepted, and that they would have to be in reason- able condition before they would become public ways. 2. Their property values will be greatly increased by the installing of drainage, and they should thereforc bear that cost themselves, as they would have to stand the cost of paint- ing their houses or of making other improvements to their properties. 3. They have available to them, in common with other citizens of thc 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 can 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 ~or 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, expecting that they would live on Town ways like everyone else. 2. They pay taxes. 3. The Town might have done more tkan it did to assure the proper develop~nent of the Mi~in Park area. Your Advisory Board, having reviewed all of these argu- ments and many others, believes that the Town should not assume full responsibility for these streets. The solution seems to lie in Chapter 80 of the General Laws (the "betterment" act.) There are about 25 houses which will benefit from the proposed improvement. The cost per house, the% would run to slightly more than $200. If this cost were spread over a ten year period, the annual cost per property owner would be modest. Your Board has therefore recommended fa- vorable action under Article 77, upon condition that betterments be assessed under Chapter 80 of the General Laws~ CONCLUSION Your Advisory Board has fully investigated and disoussed a~ o~ the recommendations hereinafter made. It has viewed of the areas with which the speeiat Articles are coneer~ed, and has satisfied itself that its recommendations 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 information sought was promptly and accurately given, and all of the officers have been most cooperative and helpful at all times. Respectfully subnfitted, NORTH ANDOVER ADVISORY BOARD ARNOLD H. SAIASBURY, Chairman S. FORBES I~OCKWELL JOHN J. FITZGERALD KENNETH M. CRAWFORD WALDO H. HOLCOMBE HARVEY LEBOW EDWIN C, MURPHY RECOMMENDATIONS AS-TO ARTICLES IN THE TOWN MEETING WARRANTS THE 1950 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING (Article I of the Warrant is the Call for the 1950 Town Election, held March 6, 1950; under the Warrant, the 1950 Annual Town Meeting then stands adjourned, under the by- laws, until Saturday, 3~[areh 18, 1950, at 1:30 P. '>L, when it reeonvenes at the High School to take action upon the follow- ing Articles :) AI~TICLE 2. To elect all other officers not required by law to be elected by ballot. Recommended that this be referred to the Selectmen for action. ARTICLE 3. To see i£ the town will vote to accept the report of receipts and expenditures as presented by the Selectmen. Recommended that the report be accepted. ARTICLE 4. To see what action the town will take as to its unexpended appropriations. Recomraended that all unexpended appropriations be returned to the Treasury, with the exception of the following amounts which were originally appropriated under the Articles 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 53 137.01 1949 35 5,324.66 ARTICLE 5. To see what action the town ~vill take as to the recommendations of the Advisory Board. Recommended that each item of the proposed budget be 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. lO ARTICLE 7. To consider .the report of all special com- mittees. Recommended that the reports of all special committee~ be heard: and it is further recommended that the committee appointed under Article 30 of the 1949 Annual Town Meeting Warrant, be continued in existence for the purpose of making a further study of personnel and administrative problems within the Fire Department, and of reporting its findings to the next Annual Town Meeting, with recommendations, if any, as to the solution of any such problems. ARTICLE 8. To see if the to~vn will vote to authorize the Board of Hea~th to appoint one of'their members to the posi- tion of Board of Health Physician and ~o fix his compensation, in accordance with Section 4A. Chapter 41. General Laws. Favorable agtion recommended, on the basis of compensa- ti~ in the amount of $750.00 for the. year 1950. This amount has been included in the Board of Health Budget recommended by your Advisory Board. ARTICLE 9. To see if the town wil} vote ~o authorize the Schoo~ Committee ~o appoint one of its members ~o the position of School Physician and ~o fix his compensation ~n accordance with Section ~A, 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 snm of Two Hundred fifty Dollars ($250.00) to purchase a Basketball set, new table, ~wo benches and tw~ coucre;e seats for the Drummond Playground. Petition of the Board ot~ Selectmen on recom~ncndation 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 eqmpment necessary for the continuation of the commendable work of the Recreationa~ Council's program at the Drummond Playground. ARTICLE 11. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) to purchase a sand box, nexv shelter, concrete seats, new table and a basket- ball set for Grogan's Field Playground. Petition of the Board of Selectmen on recommendation of the Rec~reational Conneil. 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 el concrete .seats.,and a basketball set at the Gro~an's Fie~d~ P!~yground. 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 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) to the use of the Public ~'orks Department to grade the sandbank lots, from Marblehead Street to Massachusetts Avenue, with material on the site so that it can be used for playground purposes in accordance with the proposed plan of the Planning Board or such other nsc 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 restflt of the contemplated reconstructiou 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 placed the resulting fill in the at'ea. With this in miud, 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 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 converted 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 ~ay, and, in the meantime, will be a far more attractive area than it is at l~resent. ARTICLE 13. To see if the town will raise and appro- prime the sum of Eight Hnndred Fifty Dollars ($850.00) to be used for salaries of Playground Instructors for the six xveek schedule in the summer of 1950 and for Playground Handicraft supplies. Six tIundred 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 policy established under Articles voted 12 at the last two Annual Town Meetings. It is recommended 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, ~o 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 thc town will 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 fonntain in the Town Building. Petition of thc Board of Selectmen. Recommended that $300 be raised and appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen. ARTICLE 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 sun~ of Three Itnndred Dollars ($300.00) as .compen- sation for said inspector for the year 1950. Petitio~ of th~ Board of Selectmen. Because of the mandatory provisions of a 1949 amendment to General Laws, Chapter 166, Section 32, the following vote ~s recommended: That the Selectmen be, aud 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 ~. 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 of Abbie S. Armitage, otherwise known as Addle S. Armitage, under date of September 2, 1913; to be used for such charitable purposes as the Board of Public Welfare may from time to time decide. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Favorable action recommended. The bequest to the Town was of "whatever money I may l~ave at my decease on deposit in the Salem Five Cents Savings Bank and the Home savings Bank of Boston, Massachusetts, the same t~ be used for charity." 13 ARTICLE 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three tttmdred Twenty-five Dollars ($325.00) to purchase a set of swings and a seesaw for Massa- chusetts Avenue Sand lot. Petition of the Board of Selectmen on recommendatio~x of the Recreational Council. In accordance with your Advisory Board's recommenda- tion on Article 12, favorable action is recommended. ARTICLE 1S. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to postpone consideration or acceptance of the proposed new by-laws until some such time as the Selectmen may decide that said By-Laws are in order for au'omission the town for acceptance. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Favorable action recommended. 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 19. To see if the town will raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) to be used by the Highway Department for the improvement or elimination of the curve ~-m Sutton Street near High Street. Petition of the Board of Selectmen. Your Advisory Board recommends that the sum of $300.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of making this curve less dangerous, to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. Yom' Board believes that a satis- factory solution of the problem might 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. AI~TICLE 20. To see if the town ;viii raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) to purchase a stove for the kitchen 'of the Town Infirmary. Petition of Board of Public Welfare. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to ba expended under the dffection of the Board of Public Welfare. ARTICLE 21; To see if the town will raise and appropriate tbs, sum of One Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-five Dollars. ~$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 the Board of Public Welfare, together with the ~present 1935 pick-up truck, for the purposes of this Article. ARTICLE 22. To see if the town will vote ~o raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, a sufficient sum of money so care for and maintain the Old Burying Ground on Academy Road, opposite the Kittredge proper~y, in the same historical and picturesque manner as said Burying Ground has been cared for and maintained for a period of years by ~{iss Kate Stevens and to assign ~o 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 sec ff thc town will vo~c ~o grant a permanent increase of One Hundred Dollars ~$100.00) to the .annual salary of each Call Firenmn. Petition of the Members of the Fire Department. The Pire Department Equipment Committee has recom- mended that the CMl Piremen be asked to put in additional ~hne at the 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 n~der this Article to compensate the Call Firemen for this additional ~ervice. ARTICLE 24. To see if the ~own will vo~e ~o raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to provide n-ew window shades, wash walls, ceilings and wood- ~work iu the offices most used in the Town Bu~ld~ng. Petition of Joseph Duncan and others. Pavorable action recommended, the appropriation to be ,expended under the direction of the Selectmen, ARTICLE 25. To see if the town will vote ~o raise and :appropriate the sum of Two Huudred Ninety Dollars ($290.00) to purchase a new. electrically operated, adding machine, [o be used in the office of Town Accountant. Petition of Mary T. Finn and others. Favorable ac~on recommended, the appropriation to be .expended under the direction of the Accountant. ARTICLE 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and .appropriate the sum of Sixteeu Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) to he used with the present Ford Car to purchase a new car ~or the Beard ~f 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 6f 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 Police, together with the present Chevrolet car. for the purposes of this Article. AP~TICLE g8. To see if the town will vote to raise 'and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) to purchase nexv 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 ~.quipment 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 Truck now in use and unsafe for continued service. Petition of J.ames Hargreaves, Forest Fire Warden. It is recommended that the sum of 86,500.00 be taken from nnappropriated 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 30. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred 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 s~udy 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 It. 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 Andover, 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 Sarcione 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 Sarcione 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 33. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by changing the classification of a piece of property owned by Wasll Musichuck 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. Bara and others. 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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. Unlavorable action is therefore recommended. The petitioner should apply to tho Board of Appeals for a variance from the requirements ~f 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 thc sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the purchase of a new Dump Truck for the use of th~ Highway Department. A 1941 Dmnp Truck to be sold and proceeds to be turaed 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 town will raise and appropriate the sum of Thirteen IIundred Dollars ($1,300.00) for the pm'- chase of a new Pick-up Truck for the use of the Highway Department. A 1940 Pick-up Truck to be sold and proceeds to be turned over to the Town Treasurer. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Unfavorable action reeomruended. In view of the major expenditure recommended under the preceding Article, and after discussing the matter v~th 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 w~ll raise and appropriate the aura of Two Thousand I)o]]ars ($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 ttighway Surveyor. Favorable action recommended, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 37. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the stun of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for maintenance of any street in town m~der 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, 2O 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. ARTICLE 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 of 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 in relation thereto. Petition of the H~ghway Surveyor. It is recommended that the sum of $4,000.00 be taken from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury for the pur- poses ef this Article, to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor, 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 ~reater proportion than two dollars of Town money to each one dol]ar of such allotted funds. ARTICLE 39. To see ~f the town will raise and appropriate thc sum o~ Seventeen IInndrcd Eighty Dollars ($1,780.00) for the purpose of shaping, grading, graveling and oiling Baldwin Street. Petition of the Highway 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. Favorab~.e action is therefore recommended, the appropriation to be expended nnder the direction of the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 40. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum 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 recommended, the appropriation to be ex- pended under the direction ef the Highway Surveyor. ARTICLE 41. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the stun of Seven Hundred Sixty Dollars ($760.00) for the purpose of shaping, grading, graveling, and oiling Patriot Street from l~ailroad 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 sum of Three Itm~dred Seventy Dollars ($370.00) for the !~urpose of oiling Gilbert Street. Petition of the Highway Surveyor. Gilbert Street has not au 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 Beard recom- mends favorable action upon this Article, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. AI~TICLE 43. To see if the town will raise and appropriat~ the sum of Two Hnndred Dollars ($200.00) for the purpose of painting and rep]acing street signs. Petition of the IIighway 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 Hun- dred Dollars ($9,500.00) to install a trunk storm drain from the corner of Railroad Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue through 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 Pembrook 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 direction of the Highway Surveyor for the installation of a trunk storm drain from the corner of Railroad 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 vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hm~dred Dollars ($700.00) for the purpose of having thc 1950 real estate list printed for public use. Petition of Board of 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 vo~e To raise and appropriate, or provide by bond ~ssue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficiem s~m of money to extend the water system on Sawyer Road Five tIundred Fifty Feet (550) from Pcmbrook Road. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebury and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $2,265.00. It is recommeaded that the sum of $1.700 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 $565.00 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 Plahning Beard. 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 ~idewalks affected thereby shall have been so constructed and repaired, including the installation of a~l 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," (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 iss~e, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the sewer system on Sawyer Road Five ~undred Fifty Feet (550) from Pembrook Road. Petition of Mr. Thomas 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 ef Public Works for the purposes of. this Article, provided that 2B 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 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 stun of money to extend the water system on Pcmbrook Road and Mifflin Drive Seven Hundred Feet (700) to Bradstreet Road. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebury 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 th~ direction of the Board of Public Works for the l~urposes 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 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 24 of such ways under the Selectmeu's "Regulations for Laying Out Street." (as set forth on page 110 .of the 1949 Annual Town Report. AI~TICLE 49. 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 and Mifflin Drive Seven Hundred Feet (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 tho 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 s~ch 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 I-Im~dred 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 a~ailable 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 shah 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 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 conditiens precedent to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations fo~ Laying Out Streets," (as set forth on page 110 of the 1949 Annual Town Report). ARTICLE 51. 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 sys- tem on Duftou Court from the present terminns to Chickering' Road. Petition of Beatrice I. Gaumond and others. The cost of this 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 from Andover Street. Petition of 1Kr. 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 use of the Town, 26 of the sum of $190.00, to cover the balance of the cost of the project, and their making cf 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 cf such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets," (as set forth on page 110 cf the 1949 Annual Town Report). ARTICLE 53. To see if the town wilt vote zo raise anti. appropriate, or provide by bond issue, or transfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system on Turnpike Street Twelve Hundred Peet (12003 from ~he previous terminus near Chestnut Street toward Boston Stree~ Petition of Florence B. Allieon and o~hers. 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 ~ransfer from avail- able funds, a sufficient sum of money ro extend the water system on Foster Street Two Thousand Feet (2000) from the present terminus towards Winter Street. Petition of Mr. Albert Lavoie and others. Unfavorable action recomraended. The cost of this 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. ARTICUE 55. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a mfffieient sum of money to install a sewer system on Morris Stree; for a distance of One Hundred Eighty-eight Feet (188) from the southerly line of Second Street. Petition of Mr. Arthur MeAllister and others, 27 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 recomrnended 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 Layi~ag Out Streets." ARTICLE 56. 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 ttemlock Street Three Hundred Feet (300) from ~fassachusetts Avenue. Petition of Bennie 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 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 Plan~i~g 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 precede.ut to his certification of such ways under the Selectmen's "Regulations for Laying Out Streets." ARTICLE 57. To see if the town ~vill 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 Princeton Street about Two Hundred (200) Feet from Pleasant Street. Petition of Mr. Christgpher Kelly, Jr. and others. The cost of this project is estimated at $650.00, and total assessments or betterment charges established by Acts of 1906, Chapter 350, 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. ~.. The posting of a bond by the petitioners and/or owners with the Selectmen, in such form and amount as the latter may require, t~o 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." AI~TICLE 58. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum 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 tired 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 wilt 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 ~vi!l raise and appropriate Nine Itundred 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, Sevgn Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) to connect the water main from Peters Street to Anc~over 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 will vote to raise and appropriate, provide by bond issue, or transfer from available funds, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) to clean and cement line water mains iu 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 branches, replace gate boxes and manhole frames and covers, 3O replace ~mporary water line with water main and do other necessary work before Main Street and Greene Street are rebuilt under Chapter 90 reconszruction. 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 depar;mem receipts in excess of water departmen~ operating expenses for 1949 ~o 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 sown for capital improvements in the water ~vorks system m~.der the provisions of the above act. Petition of Board of Public Works. Your Board has been informed by the Commissioner 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. AI~TICLE 66. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money ~o place a catch basin a~ the corner of Princeton Street and Pleasant Street. Petition of Mr. Christopher Kelly, Jr. and others. Unfav6rable 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. :AR,TICLE 67. To see if the town will make available to thc School Committee from the Thirty-two Thousand Dollars ($32,000.00) allotted by the General Court for the purpose of increasing teachers' salaries, and now in the general fund, the sum of Eighteen Thousand 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 to~w~ will raise and appropriate the sum of Eighteen Thousand One Hnndred 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 stun 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 raise and appro- priate, transfer front the Stabilizatlon Fund, or otherwise provide a stun 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 arc 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 16, 1946, to enter into any contracts 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 he stricken from the Warrant. ARTICLE 72. To see if the to~vn will place at the disposal of the School Building Committee, for the purpose of eom- pleting the Kittredge School, landscaping the same, and surrounding the site by a suitable fence, and any other school expenditures deemed necessary by the said School Building Committee, the stun of Thirty seven Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($37,100.00) 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 Meetings of 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950. Petition of School Building Committee. The following vote (which, under the law, must be a two- thirds vote) is recommended: There is hereby appropriated, out of the Stabilization Fund, the stun 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. Brasseur, C. E. date(l 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 "Regulations for the Laying Out of Streets" have been observed. Petition of the North Andover Housing Authority. The Selectmen have informed your 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 town will vote to accept 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 l?,egistration Land Division of the North Essex 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 Lyman Road 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 Mifliin Drive, as shown on plan accepted by the Plarm~ng Board and recorded with the Town Clerk. Petition of Mr. Thomas E. Pendlebury 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 Holbrook Roads from l~Iassachu- setts Avenue to Putnam Road, all as indicated on plan ap- prevent by the Planning Board on September 25, 1946, said plan known as Mifflin Park plan, or plan of portion of Mifflin Park, recorded with the Town Clerk. Petition of Mr. Edwin W. Reinhold and others. As stated in your Board's discussion of the M~min 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 net 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 affirmative action is taken on the previous articlc,--to see if the town will raise and appropriate or other- wise provide the sum of Four Thousand One Hundred Fifty-five Dollars ($4,155.00) for installing drainage on Hamilton and IIolbrook Roads. Petition of Mr. Edwin V~r. 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 purposes 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 provision~ of Chapter 34 80 of the General Laws, as amended; and the Selectmen are hereby autherised, empowered and directed to take such steps as may be necessary to layout such systems, and to provide for the assessment of betterments therefor under said Chapter 80, as amended. THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING ARTICLE 1. 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 1945, Section 5B of Chapter 40. Petition of the School Building Committee. Reco~nwended that the Town appropriate the sum of $75,000.00 from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury to be added to the Stabilization Fund under General Laws, Ohapter 40, Section 5B. .25 BEE: PUBLISHING COMPANY REAL ESTATE TAKEN BY THE ASSESSORS OF TAXES 1950 VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE TAKEN BY THE ASSESSORS OF TAXES 1950 NAME AND RESIDENCE k~kro~,d, berber t; Same DESCRIPTION 445 Ra~l'ce~ Ave. TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPllON TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 9480 4960 114OO NAME AND RESiDeNCE DESC:RIFTION TOTAL lo?0 1210 ! 8O HAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 4O 4O lOO 6840 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIgTION TOTAL 6O0 576O NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 189o NAME AND R~IDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 6780 24O90 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Lots E9-~9 Inc. 66 Lon~vocd Ave. TOTAL 5110 4440 24O 1090 2410 45O0 100 5960 3??o 15o 4800 6z~O 6150 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 25O0 499O NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 190 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 1910 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Dale b~. Lots ~,64 TOTAL 240 /080 NA~E AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 4610 4O?0 11O9O NAIdE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 13050 ?00 NAM~ AND RESIDENCE BESCRIP~ON Lot 9, TOTAL 3?60 NAK~ AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPI1ON TOTAL 280 NAME ANO RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Dawe, Alfred F.C.& MaT A. 41 Marblehee~ St. Minute Ave. TOTAL 16'70 NAIdE AND RESIDENCE DESC:PJPllON TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDE~E DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL ~o 470 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 1480 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 1210 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Lots 1~, 1~, ~ up~azd st. 663O NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 12240 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAl. 9500 1770 670 3910 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Same TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Sam Same TOTAL 1O68O NAh4E AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 8go NAIVE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NA~ AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAIVE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Sam TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIFTION NAME AND RESIDENCE I)~,CRIPT1ON Lafomd, Albert George TOTAL 4170 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAIVE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Same Same TOTAL 6D30 1¢40 11o 192o NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPflON NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE D~SCRIPTION TOTAL 4470 8840 goo NAi'vlE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION 89O NA~E AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Same TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Sams TOTAL 1980 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Moody, George D. c/o 140 Prescott St. TOTAL 3940 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION NAME AND R~SIDENCE DE,SCR,~'T~ON TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION 8O 4).O NA~IE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 600 Lot 1, B1M. 1 TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 160 S10 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 4710 15270 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NA~ AN~ RI:SIDENC~: DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 4?0 6O ].00 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION 44 Rea 3t. TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 6?go 60 gooo 4550 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL i8o 4860 4990 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RF. SIDENCE DESCRIPllON 59 Maple Ave. TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION 9O NAME AND RES~DENC:E DESCRIFT1ON TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 1760 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 4O80 4OO 658O 4710 710 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 290 5?0O 4170 4210 9690 1820 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Bill Top Lot Beir Hill TOTAL 640 440 91O90 NAME AND RESIDENCE D~SCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIFTION TOTAL 488O 20~00 NAME AND RESIDF. NCE DESCRIPTION NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL 5010 2650 4880 1450 100 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Same 162 Gray Et. 60V Turnpike S~. Lot B TOTAL 60 1610 480 NAiVIE AND R~-SIDENCE DIcSCRIPI'lON TOTAL 100 5110 8420 NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION 71-75 TOTAL NAIWE AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Cheerer Land Stevens L~nd TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENC~ DESCRIPTION TOTAL NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION Lot 27 Phillips Breaks hd. NAME AND RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION ~LUE BLD~S. 'ALUI TOTAL