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5. Certification of Bonds and Notes.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $400.00.
6. Finance Commission.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $350.00.
7. Law (a) Salary (b) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation (a) the sum of $1,750.00, and (b) for inci- dental expense the sum of $350.00.
8. Election and Registration.
Voted: By taxation for salaries the sum of $300.00, and (b) for incidentals the sum of $650.00.
9. Town Offices (a) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,205.00.
10. General Manager. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals.
Voted: For salary the sum of $5,000.00 (by taxation the sum of $3,800.00 and by transfer the sum of $1,200.00) and (b) by taxation the sum of $100.00.
11. Engineering. (a) Salary, and (b) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation (a) the sum of $3,000.00, and (b) the sum of $1,732.00.
12. Board of Survey. (a) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.
13. Planning Board. (a) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $800.00.
14. Town Game Warden. (a) Salary.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $150.00.
B. Protection of Persons and Property.
1. Police Department (including prosecutions of illegal sale of non-intoxicating beverages).
Voted: By taxation the sum of $40,610.00.
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2. Fire Department. (a) Salary, and (b) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation (a) for salaries the sum of $16,436.00; (b) for incidental expenses the sum of $7,764.00, and (c) for new appa- ratus the sum of $16,500.00.
3. Maintenance and Extension of Fire Alarm System.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $2,590.00.
4. Inspector of Buildings. (a) Salary and (b) Incidentals.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $800.00 for salary, and (b) $100.00 for incidental expenses.
5. Inspector of Cattle.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.
6. Sealer of Weights and Measures. (a) Salary and (b) Inci- dentals.
Voted: By taxation (a) for salary $450.00 and (b) for incidentals $200.00, and that all fees be paid into the Town Treasury.
7. Inspector of Wires. (a) Salary.
Voted: No action.
8. Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth and other Insect Pest Exter- mination.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $2,520.00.
9. Care and planting of Shade Trees.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $2,470.00.
10. Street Lighting.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $7,300.00.
C. Health and Sanitation.
1. Board of Health. (a) Sanitation. (b) Contagious diseases, gar- bage disposal and other incidental expense. (c) Maintenance of Town Dump.
Voted: By taxation (a) for salaries $250.00, (b) Contagious Dis- eases, Garbage disposal and incidental expense, $16,240.00, and (c) Maintenance of Town Dump, $1,550.00.
2. Sewer Department. (a) Maintenance, and (b) Particular Sewers.
Voted: By taxation (a) for maintenance of Sewer Department the sum of $8,450.00, and (b) for construction of particular sewers the sum of $9,070.00.
3. Sewer Construction.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $14,090.00 and by transfer the sum of $5,000.00.
4. Maintenance and Construction of Main Drains and Cleaning Brooks and Drains other than Main Drains.
Voted: By taxation (a) for maintenance of drains and cleaning brooks and drains other than main drains the sum of $3,560.00, and (b) for construction of Main Drains the sum of $23,482.00.
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5. Removal of Ashes.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,700.00.
D. Miscellaneous.
1. Maintenance, repairs and construction of highways, culverts and bridges, highway equipment, paving gutters, building sidewalks, setting edgestones, removal of snow and ice, sanding sidewalks, street signs and guideboards and operation of stone crusher plant.
Voted: That the sum of $60,000.00 be appropriated by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account and that the additional sum of $44,421.00 be raised by taxation, that the sum of $15,000.00 addi- tional be raised by taxation for the removal of snow and ice; of the first amount $16,265.00 be made available for the construction of granolithic sidewalks.
2. (a) Institutional and Outside Relief. (b) Aid for Dependent Mothers.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $23,000.00
3. Salary of Town Physician.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.
4. Soldiers' Benefits.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,750.00.
5. Support of Schools.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $346,253.00.
6. Support of Morrill Memorial Library.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $11,950.00, and the further sum of $1,319.28, being money received from Dog Licenses.
7. To defray the expense of the observation of Memorial Day. Voted: By taxation the sum of $600.00.
8. Recreation and Parks.
Voted: By taxation (a) for maintenance the sum of $1,000.00, and (b) $5,000.00 for C. W. Eliot Park Partial Development.
9. Printing and Distribution of Town Reports.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,600.00.
10. Defraying incidental and other necessary expense not other- wise provided for.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,000.00
11. Band Concerts.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $500.00.
E. Public Service.
1. Electric Light Department. (a) Maintenance. (b) Operation. (c) Depreciation. (d) New Construction. (e) Repairs.
Voted: The following sum from the treasury of the Electric Light Department: (a) Maintenance, Operation and Repairs, $146,800.00; (b) Depreciation, $11,172.00; (c) New Construction, $17,900.00; (d) Interest, $890.00; (e) Debt, $7,000.00; (f) In lieu of Taxes, $8,700.00.
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2. Water Department. (a) Maintenance. (b) Construction.
Voted: From current receipts the sum of $80,391.03 and the sum of $6,658.97 from unexpended balance as follows: (a) Maintenance, $37,625.00; (b) Construction, $33,035.00; (c) Interest, $4,090.00; (d) Debt, $12,000.00, and (e) Insurance, $300.00.
F. Cemeteries.
1. Maintenance and Improvement.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $3,000.00 and from the treasury receipts of the Cemetery Department the sum of $8,694.00.
G. Interest and Debt Requirements.
1. Interest Requirements.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $50,114.00.
2. Bonds and Notes due in 1927.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $95,752.00; from premiums the sum of $948.00.
H. Insurance.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $4,250.00; by transfer from the receipts of the Water Department, $300.00, and from the receipts of the Electric Light Department, $400.00.
I. Reserve Fund.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $5,000.00.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to maintain an Evening School as provided by law, and raise and appropriate money for such purpose, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: Action taken under Article 6, Sub-division D, Section 5.
Article 8. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate for industrial educational purposes, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: Action taken under Article 6, Sub-division D, Section 5.
Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the establishment and maintenance of continuation schools or courses of instruction, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: Action indefinitely postponed.
Article 10. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to pay not more than the ordinary and reasonable com- pensation for care actually rendered or furnished by the Norwood Hospital or other hospitals in the vicinity of Norwood to such per- sons as may be in whole or in part unable to care for themselves, the same to be in addition to sums appropriated for the care of con- tagious diseases and for institutional relief, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,500.00.
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Article 11. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the employment of district or other nurses, or take any other action in the matter. 1
Voted: That Article 10 and Article 11 be considered and acted upon together.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Assessors to take appropriate action as provided by law for the earlier collection of poll taxes, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To so instruct the Assessors.
Article 13. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate as required by the provisions of Section 39, of Chapter 33 of the General Laws; namely for providing of suitable quarters for and the maintenance of an Armory for the use of Co. G, 101st Infantry, Massachusetts Guard, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,150.00.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to lease a part of the building of the Norwood Civic Association, Inc., for the purpose of providing suitable headquarters for Post No. 70, American Legion, for the current year, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for said purpose, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To do so and appropriated the sum of $300.00.
Article 15. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate to meet the expense of the care and maintenance of the Norfolk County Hospital as apportioned by the County Commis- sioners of the County of Norfolk.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $6,386.07.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to petition the General Court for appropriate legislation to permit regular or permanent members of the fire department other than the chief of said department to be included in the classified civil service, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To so authorize the Selectmen, if it appears necessary.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 88 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws relating to pensions to families of policemen, firemen, etc.
Voted: To accept.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of Railroad Avenue, and that the same be called Forest Avenue or take any other action in the matter (On petition of Joseph F. McAuliffe et al.).
Voted: Not to change.
Voted: That this meeting be now dissolved.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST,
Town Clerk and Accountant.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING March 23, 1927.
On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated March 10, 1927, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton, Arthur J. Forrest and Harold W. Baker, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly accepted by J. Irving Reid, Con- stable of the Town of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the Articles contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to reimburse the Water Department of the Town of Norwood for hydrant service for fire protection.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $7,500.00.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way a new way as laid out by the Selectmen northwesterly from Nichols Street Extension and raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $3,285.00.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way a new way as laid out by the Selectmen running south- erly from Bellevue Avenue, and raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: Voted to accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $2,675.00.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote and allow as a public way a new way to be known as an Extension of Bond Street as laid out by the Selectmen and raise and appropriate a sum of money suffi- cient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $1,400.00.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as public ways an Extension of Rosemary Street and an Extension of Chickering Road and an unnamed Street to connect said extension of Rosemary Street with said Extension of Chickering Road or any of them as laid out by the Selectmen, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow as public ways.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Neponset Street and a portion of Dean Street as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and raise
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and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $800.00.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Railroad Avenue and a portion of Monroe Street as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and raise and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $960.00.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Prospect Street and a portion of Prospect Avenue as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and raise and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $390.00.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Nichols Street and a portion of Prospect Avenue as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and raise and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To accept and allow and by taxation the sum of $785.00.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a Committee to study the business of the Norwood Gas Company, particularly with respect to methods, rates and other factors which relate to the manufacture, distribution, cost and proper sales price past, present and future of its gas product, and to report with recommendations to a future town meeting, or take any other action in the matter. (On request of Finance Commission.)
Voted: That a Committee of five to be appointed by the Moderator be and hereby is appointed to study the business of the Norwood Gas Company, particularly with respect to methods, rates and other factors which relate to the manufacture, distribution, cost and proper sales price past, present and future of its gas product, and to report with recommendations at a future town meeting.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Trustees of the Morrill Memorial Library to expend a sum not in excess of $1,000.00 from the accumulative income of the Alice H. Plimpton Fund for the purpose of securing plans for a proposed addition to the Morrill Memorial Library, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To so authorize.
Article 12. To see what Municipal Board or Officers the Town will authorize the powers conferred by Section 14 of Chapter 45 of the General Laws respecting public playground activities and what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate for public playground purposes, or take any other action in said matter.
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Voted: That the Selectmen as Park Commissioner be authorized to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred and imposed by Section 14, Chapter 45 of the General Laws.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to purchase or take by eminent domain the following described parcel of land for use for school purposes and appropriate a sum of money for such purpose, or take any other action in the matter; namely, a parcel of land owned by Fred L. Fisher and located on Pleasant Street.
Voted: To so authorize and by taxation the sum of $3,000.00 for said purpose.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to purchase or take by eminent domain the following described parcel of land for use for park purposes and appropriate a sum of money for such purpose, or take any other action in the matter; namely, a parcel of land owned by Stanislovas Seveniautskas and located on a proposed street sometimes known as River Street.
Voted: To so authorize and appropriate the sum of $800.00 by taxation.
Voted: That this nieeting be now dissolved.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING May 12, 1927
On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated May 12, 1927, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton, Arthur J. Forrest, Phillips Dennett and Harold W. Baker, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by William J. Barrett, Constable of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the articles contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept, authorize and allow an alteration by widening of a portion of Central Street on the easterly side thereof and extending northerly from the southerly line of Lyman Place as made, laid out and reported by the Select- men and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of such alteration by widening, or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To so authorize, accept and allow and appropriate the sum of $1,855.00 the same to be taken from the annual appropriation for construction of Highways under Article 6, Sub-division D.
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Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept a certain main drain leading from Nichols Street across Beech Street to Bullard Street, as laid out and reported by the Selectmen and to authorize the taking of an easement or right of way therefor and appropriate a sum of money to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said main drain, or take any other action in said matter.
Voted: To authorize and accept and appropriate the sum of $5,100.00 the same to be taken from the annual appropriation for maintenance and construction of Main Drains under Article 6, Sub- division C, Item 4.
Article 3. To hear and act upon a report of the Planning Board with reference to a Zoning By-law so-called, and to see if the Town will make a new By-law providing for the limitation of particular classes of buildings, structures and premises according to their use or construction to specific districts or zones, and for the exclusion of them from or the prohibition of any of such uses in specified parts of the town, providing for the division of the town into dis- tricts or zones and for the regulation and the use of premises in each district or zone and otherwise to act under the provisions of Section 25 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended relating to zoning, or to act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Voted: That the following by-law to be known as the Zoning By- law be and hereby is made and adopted as a By-law of the Town.
Voted: That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING June 15, 1927
On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated April 21, 1926, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton, Harold W. Baker and Phillips Dennett, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by William J. Barrett, Constable of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the articles contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To hear and act on the report of the Committee on Municipal Memorial Office Building.
Voted: That the report be accepted and placed on file.
Article 2. To see what further sum the Town will vote to raise by taxation and borrow and appropriate under any general authority
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that the Town may have with reference thereto for the erection of a Municipal Memorial Building, said sum to be in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for such purpose.
Voted: To appropriate the additional sum of $62,000.00, of which $7,000.00 was raised by taxation and the sum of $55,000.00 be bor- rowed on notes payable not later than the year 1947.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the purchase by the Selectmen from W. Cameron Forbes, as owner thereof, of a certain parcel of land containing about nineteen acres and located on Everett Street for use as municipal sand and gravel pit, and to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum of money to meet the esti- mated expense of said purchase or take any other action in relation thereto.
Voted: That action be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING December 29, 1927
On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated December 30, 1927, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton and Harold W. Baker, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by William J. Barrett, Constable of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the Article contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to receive and accept by way of gift a Carillon for the Norwood Memorial Municipal Build- ing. (Article submitted by Municipal Memorial Building Committee.)
Chairman Francis J. Foley of the Memorial Municipal Building Committee read to the meeting a statement explaining the nature of the gift as tendered by Mr. Tilton together with the story of the history of this gift which statement is as follows:
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Norwood:
Care of Francis J. Foley, Chairman,
Memorial Municipal Building Committee.
It is with great pleasure that I tender to the Town of Norwood, by way of gift, a carillon of fifty bells in complete form, installed ready for use in the tower of the Norwood Memorial Municipal Building now under construction and for which I am informed the
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tower will be admirably adapted. In the event of acceptance it is my purpose and expectation that the carillon will be available for use when the building is ready for dedication.
It is my desire that the gift be subject to a single condition only, which its acceptance will impose upon the town, viz .: that the super- vision and operation of the carillon shall be committed to a com- mittee of three citizens appointed for the term of three years begin- ning March 1st, 1928, and each and every third year thereafter, on or before March 1st, by the Moderator of the Town so long as Norwood remains a Town, and thereafter in such manner as its citizens by appropriate action may determine.
It is my wish that this carillon may for all time serve as a memorial to and a reminder of the patriotic service and devotion of all Citizens of Norwood who have given of their lives, their health, their strength, their thought, their comfort and means that this nation might live. It is my wish that these bells may keep fresh the memory of that sacrifice and service, and by such reminder, ever sound the call of Good Citizenship.
The excellent services which Mr. Francis J. Foley and his asso- ciates on the Memorial Municipal Building Committee have rendered the Town in the conception and planning of the important municipal enterprise which this combined memorial and office building repre- sents, have excited my admiration and prompted my desire that the impressive features of the memorial tower be completed by the installation of a carillon.
WALTER F. TILTON.
Norwood, Mass.
December 28, 1927.
On motion offered by Charles J. Prescott, Chairman of the Finance Commission and duly seconded by Moderator, James A. Halloran, it was unanimously
Voted: That the gift of a Carillon for installation in the tower of the Norwood Memorial Municipal Building made by Walter F. Tilton be and hereby is received and accepted in accordance with its terms, and be it further Voted: That the installation of the Caril- lon be supervised by the Memorial Municipal Building Committee, and that said committee be and hereby is authorized and directed to provide and place in the Memorial Municipal Building as incident to its erection a tablet suitably inscribed to commemorate this gen- erous and lasting gift, and that the town clerk inform the donor in a formal manner of this action of the citizens in town meeting assembled and express to him the deep appreciation of the citizens for such munificent evidence of his civic interest and public spirit through such a worth while gift.
Article 2. To see if the Town will authorize the Trustees of the
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Morrill Memorial Library to expend the available income of the Chickering Trust Fund for the purchase of books for the Morrill Memorial Library and to appropriate said income for said purposes. (Article submitted by Trustees of Morrill Memorial Library).
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