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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01841 7219
TOWN OFFICERS
of the
GC 974.402 P74PLYA, 1944-1946
Town of Plymouth
1820.
For the Year Ending December 31,
1944
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
TOWN OFFICERS
of the
Town of Plymouth
1820.
For the Year Ending December 31, 1944
PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE MEMORIAL PRESS PLYMOUTH, MASS.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1944
Selectmen: James A. White, John A. Armstrong, Wil- liam H. Beever, Howard M. Douglas and James T. Frazier.
Clerk of Selectmen: Norman W. Gray.
Town Clerk: Herbert K. Bartlett.
Town Treasurer: Herbert K. Bartlett.
Collector of Taxes: Harold W. Baker.
Town Accountant: Elmer R. Harlow. Mr. Harlow retired December 3, 1944. Mrs. Cora B. Grady appoint- ed December 4, 1944.
Assessors: James S. Swanton, chosen 1942 for three years; Thomas L. Cassidy, chosen 1943 for three years; George E. Blackmer, chosen 1944 for three years.
Overseers of Public Welfare: A. Rodman Hussey, Jr., chosen 1942 for three years; Edmund J. Priestley, chosen 1943 for three years; Gordon S. McCosh, chosen 1944 for three years.
Water Commissioners: John H. Damon and John L. Morton, chosen 1942 for three years; Edward R. Belcher chosen 1943 for three years; Daniel F. Mulcahy, chosen 1943 for one year; Richard T. Eldridge and Daniel F. Mulcahy, chosen 1944 for three years; C. Brooks Hudson, chosen 1944 for one year.
School Committee: E. Harold Donovan and Fannie T. Rowell, chosen 1942 for three years; David A. Cappan- nari and William E. Curtin, chosen 1943 for three years; J. Frankland Miller and Francis E. LeBaron, chosen 1944 for three years.
Cemetery Commissioners: Arthur E. Blackmer, chosen 1942 for three years; Richard T. Eldridge, chosen 1943 for
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three years; Edward R. Belcher, chosen 1944 for three years.
Burial Hill Committee: Cemetery Commissioners.
Agawam & Halfway Pond Herring Fishery Commit- tee: Emil C. Birnstein, Elmer P. Boutin and Fred E. Morton.
Park Commissioners: Arthur Sirrico, chosen 1942 for three years; Edward J. E. Hand, chosen 1943 for three years; John A. Siever, chosen 1944 for three years.
Board of Health: Paul W. Bittinger, chosen 1942 for three years; Medora V. Eastwood, chosen 1943 for three years; Herbert S. Maxwell, chosen 1944 for three years.
Planning Board: Arthur E. Blackmer, George L. Gooding, Francis C. Holmes, Allen D. Russell, and Amedeo V. Sgarzi.
Field Drivers and Fence Viewers: William LaRocque and Chester Torrance.
Surveyor of Wood and Bark: Harold E. Giles.
Committee on Inland Fisheries: Frank L. Bailey, George L. Gooding and Howard M. Morton.
Committee on Town Forest: Abbott A. Raymond, Frank Thomas and Arthur W. Weston.
Board of Registration: Joseph R. Stefani, appointed 1942 for three years; Walter R. Roberts, appointed 1943 for three years; Enrico Ferrari, appointed 1944 for three years.
Committee on Sewers: Selectmen.
Sexton: James M. Martin.
Pound Keeper: Russell L. Dickson.
Sealer of Weights and Measures; Harold E. Giles.
Superintendent of Streets: Elmer C. Chandler.
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Superintendent of Water Works: Theodore Brink.
Beach Committee: Selectmen.
Collector of Water Rates: £ Addie H. Burgess.
Harbor Master Elmer P. Boutin.
Members of Retirement Board:
Russell P. Dearborn, Herbert K. Bartlett, and Elmer R. Harlow.
Superintendent of Oak Grove and Vine Hills Ceme- teries and Burial Hill: Alexander H. P. Besse.
Superintendent of Chiltonville Cemetery: Charles B. Howland.
Superintendent of Manomet Cemetery: Gordon S. McCosh.
Superintendent of Infirmary: Russell L. Dickson.
Fire Commissioner: Henry Walton.
Town Engineer: Edward Chase.
Chief of Police: Russell P. Dearborn.
Tree Warden: Abbott A. Raymond.
Forest Warden: Henry Walton.
Local Moth Superintendent: Abbott A. Raymond.
Town Counsel: Alfred P. Richards.
Building Inspector: Thomas A. Bodell.
Dog Officer: John O. Cadman.
Inspector of Animals: Frederick Bradley.
Inspector of Slaughtering: Hillery J. Bergman.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 25, 1944
AMEDEO V. SGARZI, Moderator
Article Three:
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That the reports of the several boards of officers and committees of the town be accepted and placed on file.
Article Four:
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That the Town 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 be- ginning January 1, 1945, 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.
Article Five:
Mr. Hugh L. Garrity moved: That the salary of the Chairman of Selectmen be set at seven hundred and twenty-six (726) dollars.
That the salary of the other Selectmen be set at three hundred and sixty-three (363) dollars each,
That the salary of the Chairman of Assessors be set at twenty-three hundred seventy-one and 60/100 (2,371.60) dollars.
That the salary of the other Assessors be set at nineteen hundred and thirty-six (1,936) dollars each.
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That the salary of the Town Clerk be set at nine- teen hundred and eighty (1,980) dollars.
That the salary of the Town Treasurer be set at nineteen hundred and eighty (1,980) dollars.
That the salary of the Collector of Taxes be set at twenty-nine hundred and seventy (2,970) dollars. That the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Public Welfare be set at four hundred and twenty- three and 50/100 (423.50) dollars.
That the salary of the Chairman of the Board of Public Welfare be set at fifty (50) dollars.
Mr. Garrity's motion was put before the meeting and carried.
Article Six:
Mr. Hugh L. Garrity moved: That the Town appro- priate the sum of $954,059.25 to defray the expenses of the Town and for other purposes, of which sum $421,665.14 shall be for salaries and personal services, and $532,394.11 for other purposes including all labor payrolls, all as . printed in the recommendations of the Advisory and Finance Committee, except that the appropriation for Snow and Ice Removal is reduced to $8,000.00 and the Contributory Retirement System Pension Fund increased to $21,729.64.
Mr. Garrity's motion was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Seven:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $9,800.00, including the dog tax of $1,600.07, in aid of the Plymouth Public Library.
Article Eight:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $3,560.00 to be expended by the Plymouth Public Library for the Loring Library.
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Article Nine:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 in aid of the Manomet Public Library.
Article Ten:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $400.00 for the observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Eleven:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the observance of July Fourth, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Twelve:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of main- taining, during the ensuing year, the Mosquito Control . Works constructed in the Town of Plymouth, as esti- mated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board. Article Thirteen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the employment of one or more District Nurses. Said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Fourteen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $150.00 for the use of the Plym- outh County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, and choose a Town Director.
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That James S. A. Valler be chosen Town Director for County Aid to Agriculture.
Article Fifteen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town
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authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
Article Sixteen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to control, regulate or prohibit the taking of eels and any or all kinds of shellfish and sea worms within the borders of the Town of Plymouth and such other authority as is provided in Section 52 of Chapter 130 of the General Laws, as inserted therein by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941.
Article Seventeen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to issue licenses for private shellfish grants in accord with the provisions of Section 57 of Chapter 130 of the General Laws, as inserted there- in by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941.
Article Eighteen:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the use of the Plym- outh Committee on Public Safety, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Select- men.
Article Nineteen:
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of forty-five hundred (4,500) dollars, to be used for the purchase of a new Bucket Loader and snow re- moval attachment for the Highway Department.
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 19.
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Article Twenty:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 for improvement of two miles of Long Pond Road.
Article Twenty-one:
Mr. Hugh L. Garrity moved: That the Town author- ize the School Committee to acquire by purchase from Mrs. Esta Pederzani the land described in Article 21 with the buildings thereon and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 therefor, and authorize the School Committee to dispose of said buildings as it may see fit. Three Hundred Thirty voting in the affirmative and One in the negative, the necessary two-thirds having voted in the affirmative, the motion was carried.
Article Twenty-two:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That no appro- priation be made and no Recreational Commission be elected. That a committee of seven be appointed by the Moderator to study the matter, at no expense to the Town, and report at the next town meeting.
Article Twenty-three:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town vote to pay Adrian P. Whiting and others for the timber which was standing on the lot of land at Little South Pond conveyed by them to the Town, and appropriate therefor the sum of $255.39, including the $155.39 which has been received by the Town for timber already cut, and to permit the removal by them of the timber already cut.
Article Twenty-four:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the observance of
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Armistice Day, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Twenty-five:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,800.00 to be used to purchase a complete radio system for the Police Department to replace the present system.
Article Twenty-six:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Assessors, in making the tax rate for the current year, are authorized to use, for reducing the rate, $40,000.00 from money in the town treasury not otherwise appro- priated.
Article Twenty-seven:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $40,000.00 from money in the town treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be invested in United State War Bonds under the provisions of Chap- ter 5 of the Acts of 1943; said sum to include $1,000.00 received as interest on U. S. bonds already owned by the Town.
Article Twenty-eight:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate from money in the town treasury not other- wise appropriated the sum of $5,000.00 to the Reserve Account in the hands of the Advisory and Finance Com- mittee and authorize the transfer of the sum of $10,000.00 from the Reserve from Overlayings of Taxes to the said Reserve Account.
Article Twenty-nine:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town vote to adopt the following by-law: There shall be an
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annual audit of the Town's accounts under the super- vision of the Director of Accounts of the Department of Corporations and Taxation in accordance with the pro- visions of Section 35, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article Thirty:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town vote to accept twenty-three (23) cemetery perpetual care funds, amounting to four thousand and five hundred and twenty-five dollars ($4,525.00) received and deposited in the Plymouth Savings Bank in the year 1943, in accord- ance with the usual votes of the Cemetery Commission- ers and Selectmen, and listed as new funds in the town report for that year.
Article Thirty-one:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $900.00 to be used for the pur- chase of a new car for the Chief of the Fire Department, to replace the one now in use.
Article Thirty-two:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 to be expended by the Park Commissioners for further development of the play- ground now under construction on the land given to the Town on Standish Avenue by the Plymouth Cordage Company.
Article Thirty-three:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $450.00 to be expended by the Park Commissioners to continue classes in swimming and life saving, which first were put into operation last year.
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Article thirty-four:
Mr. Hugh L. Garrity moved: That the Town take no action under Article 34.
Mr. Walter Haskell moved to amend by substituting the following motion: That the Town appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) said money to be expended by the Park Commissioners to purchase play- ground equipment, and the motion was carried.
Mr. Garrity's motion, as amended by Mr. Haskell, was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Thirty-five:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $200.00 to be expended by the Park Commissioners for work to be done on shade trees coming under the jurisdiction of the Park Department.
Article Thirty-six:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town authorize the Board of Health to appoint a member of said Board Physician to the Board, and hereby fixes the salary of the appointee at $600.00 per annum.
Article Thirty-seven :
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town approve the collection of garbage in Manomet, authorize the Board of Health to provide for such collection, and that the sum of $6,000.00 be appropriated for this pur- pose.
Article Thirty-eight:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town vote that the sum of $9,000.00 be appropriated from money in the town treasury not otherwise appropriated to meet the Town's, State's and County's shares of the
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cost of Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance; all reimburse- ments from the State and County for this work to be restored, upon the receipt, to the Excess and Deficiency Account.
Article Thirty-nine:
To see if the Town will accept section Forty-two A and sections Forty-two B. to Forty-two F., inclusive, of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as amended, which pro- vide that if the rates and water charges due to a town for supplying or providing for water or rendering serv- ice or furnishing materials in connection therewith to or for any real estate at the request of the owner or ten- ant are not paid within sixty days after their due date as established by local regulations or by-laws, such rates and charges, together with interest thereon and costs relative thereto, shall be a lien on such real estate in the manner therein provided.
Mr. Hugh L. Garrity moved: That the Town take no action under Article 39.
Mr. Edward R. Belcher moved: That the Town accept section Forty-two A and sections Forty-two B. to Forty- two F., inclusive, of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as amended, and the motion was carried.
Mr. Garrity's motion, as amended by Mr. Belcher, was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Forty:
To see if the Town will vote to reserve surplus Water Department revenue for the Water Department, deter- mine how any deficit in the Water revenue shall be pro- vided for; or do any other thing in relation thereto.
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town take no action on the subject matter presented in Article 40. That a committee consisting of five or more be appointed by the Moderator to study this question, and
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all possible contingencies that might arise from such change of policy in handling of Water Department in- come, and report at the next annual town meeting.
Article Forty-one:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the purpose of carry- ing along the Assessors' Plans from the southerly end of Clifford Road, south along both sides of Warren Avenue. Said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Assessors.
Article Forty-two:
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for the Plymouth War Price and Rationing Board No. 249, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Select- men.
Article Forty-three:
To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire by purchase from Miss Laura Brewster a parcel of shore property lying easterly of Water Street, oppo- site Brewster Street, for the sum of five hundred (500) dollars. (By Petition of Jules H. Toupin et als.)
On motion of Hugh L. Garrity, Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 43.
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REPORT OF ADVISORY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE ON THE ARTICLES IN THE TOWN WARRANT
MARCH 25, 1944
Your Committee presents its report and recommendations on the articles in the warrant for the annual town meeting.
The total of appropriations, from the tax levy and other revenue, has, for several years approached one million dollars and on at least one previous warrant the amounts requested by the departments and others were in excess of that sum.
This year, for the first time, the amount recommended by the committee is just over this mark. Two items recom- mended provisionally will, however, if dropped, reduce it below one million by a few thousand dollars.
In a year when no new activities or special outlays for construction or improvements were expected, this may well call for some explanation. To make this clear, we have taken each of the three appropriation totals, separately.
1st. Salaries and Personal Services, in Article 6, $421,954.
The town voted, in 1943, to increase salaries by 10%, ap- propriating for salaries $410,860., which provided for such increases from April 1st, three quarters of the year. In this and subsequent years approximately 21/2% more salary ap- propriation is, of course, required. This, with adjustment of the established step-rate increases in the several departments, is all that is included in our recommendations.
2nd. Other Expenses, Including Labor Payrolls, in Article 6,
$535,337.
This is the most complex as well as the largest of the three component sums. It is also the hardest to estimate and control. Labor payrolls are a considerable item in it
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and the increase voted last year adds its quota to this amount, as in the salaries section as set forth above. Labor shortage and curtailment of certain maintenance work, on the other hand, has had the opposite effect. A great many expenditures for fixed charges are included in these department budgets. Heating is a big item in some departments and its cost is not much subject to control by the town under present war con- ditions. Last year, two items that ordinarily appear in the Highway Department budget were omitted; one because there was an available balance held over from the previous year; the other because necessary materials were unobtain- able. These two items are now again included in this 1944 list.
Welfare and other relief aid shows no increase, except in Old Age Assistance. Only a few departments are asking for more money in their general maintenance appropriations and these have been quite thoroughly gone into by your committee through its organization into Sub-Committees on the major town departments.
The fact that a large amount of last year's appropriations was returned to the town treasury because materials and equipment were not to be had, would, at first thought, seem to be reason for withholding corresponding sums from this year's appropriations, but we have considered that if the heads of departments, being in touch with their usual sources of supply, have reason to think that their needs will be supplied, the necessary funds should be provided. If it remains unexpended, it will be again returned.
3rd. Special Appropriation Articles, $48,160.
Examination of the printed list will show that, outside of routine annual appropriations, these are mostly for depart- mental needs. There are no new projects inserted on petition, except Article 37, for collection of garbage in the Manomet district. This has the approval of the Board of Health. The amount asked for this purpose is only a rough estimate, as we understand that no definite plan has been decided upon.
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Article 27. U. S. Bond Investment, provides for double the amount appropriated and invested in 1943. In order that all of the voters may know the provisions of the law under which these investments are made, those sections of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943 that apply are printed at the end of this report.
The uses of the proceeds from the sale of these bonds, after the termination of the war and without the special ap- proval of the State Committee, "For purposes for which the town may borrow money for a period of not less than ten years," includes everything for which we have ever issued, or proposed to issue, bonds, excepting the laying of water pipes of less than six inches in diameter, and the purchase of departmental equipment.
Article 5. To see what action the Town will take with regard to fixing the salaries of elected town officers.
Recommended that the salaries of elected town officers remain fixed as they now are, viz:
Chairman of Selectmen
$ 726.00
Other Selectmen (each
363.00
Chairman of Assessors
2,371.60
Other Assessors (each)
1,936.00
Town Clerk
1,980.00
Town Treasurer
1,980.00
Collector of Taxes
2,970.00
Secretary of Board of Public Welfare
423.50
Chairman of Board of Public Welfare.
50.00
Article 6. To make the necessary appropriations to defray the expenses of the Town, and for other purposes, and to raise such sums of money as the Town shall deem expedient.
Recommended by Departments Recommended by Committee
Salaries Personal Services
Other Expenses
Salaries or Personal Services
Other Expenses
Selectmen's Dept.
$4,672.60
$1,200.00
$4,672.60
$1,200.00
Accounting Dept.
4,626.00
400.00
4,626.00
400.00
Treasury Dept.
3,084.74
785.00
3,084.74
785.00
Tax Collector's Dept.
4,543.00
1,346.75
4,543.00
1,346.75
Assessors' Dept.
7,553.35
300.00
7,553.35
300.00
Law Department
1,100.00
150.00
1,100.00
150.00
Town Clerk's Dept.
3,084.74
160.00
3,084.74
160.00
Engineering Dept.
810.00
165.00
810.00
165.00
Planning Board
100.00
400.00
100.00
400.00
Election and Registration
1,931.00
1,105.00
1,931.00
1,105.00
Town House Maintenance
968.00
1,675.00
968.00
1,675.00
Town House Repairs
500.00
500.00
Old High School Maintenance (Offices)
1,633.50
1,450.00
1,633.50
1,450.00
Town Hall Maintenance
2,256.22
2,890.00
2,256.22
2,890.00
Police Dept.
43,365.66
5,230.00
43,365.66
5,230.00
Fire Dept.
51,266.73
7,335.00
51,266.73
7,335.00
Inspection of Buildings
171.60
25.00
171.60
25.00
Sealing Weights and Measures
1,430.00
700.00
1,430.00
700.00
Moth Suppression
1,694.00
3,470.00
1,694.00
3,470.00
Tree Warden's Dept.
822.80
2,066.00
822.80
2,066.00
Forest Warden's Dept.
2,651.00
800.00
2,651.00
800.00
Forest Fire Payrolls
1,800.00
1,800.00
Forest Warden's Radio
450.00
450.00
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Recommended by Departments Salaries Other Expenses Personal Services
Recommended by Committee Salaries or Other Expenses Personal Services
Inland Fisheries
300.00
300.00
Plymouth County Hospital Maintenance
14,387.52
14,387.52
Health Dept.
6,582.74
14,111.00
6,582.74
14,111.00
Garbage Collection
534.82
9,545.80
534.82
9,545.80
Public Sanitaries
2,135.00
350.00
2,135.00
350.00
Sewers
3,000.00
3,000.00
Street Cleaning
5,000.00
5,000.00
Roads and Bridges
6,968.00
35,000.00
6,968.00
35,000.00
Highway Construction and Reconstruction
13,600.00
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