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Agency and Trust Transactions
69,781.90
Refunds.
1,857.90
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue.
625,000.00
Tax Titles Bid in by Collector
60.27
$ 696,700.07
Payments as shown in Appropriation Schedule of Revenue Accounts
1,307,779.27
Payments as shown in Appropriation Schedule of Non-Revenue Accounts.
350,888.74
$2,355,368.08
Deducting: Accounts Payable Items 12 /31 /28
$5,188.84
Excess Operating Credits 4,246.74
9,435.58
Equals Warrants Issued to and Paid by Treasurer
$2,345,932.50
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TOWN OF NORWOOD, BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1928 REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Liabilities
Accounts Receivable
Taxes 1928
$133,079.55
Taxes 1927
35,833.17
Taxes 1926
357.69
Taxes 1925
66.83
Taxes 1954
67.62
Supplemental Taxes
$ 645.49
Special Assessments
Reserve Accounts
Moth
204.49
Special Assessments
5,870.71
Sewer
5,666.22
Deferred Assessments
54,123.24
5,870.71
Departmental Revenues (Cemetery)
3,025.29
Deferred Assessments
Premiums on Loans
1,281.10
Betterments
43,147.06
Accounts Payable
5,188.84
Sewer
10,976.18
54,123.24
Departmental Accounts Receivable 36,691.97
Departmental Accounts
Electric acs. rec.
19,032.12
3,096.49
Water acs. rec.
17,659.85
5,900.47
36,691.97
Special Appropriation Balances Washington Street Widening Police Signal System Park Takings
801.00
Outstanding Revenue Loans $125,000.00
$169,404.86
645.49
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106,181.15
Assets
Overdrafts
As shown in Accountant's Report Water Works
4,415.97 3,414.67
Junior High School Addition 1,420.00
16,293.98
Overlays (1928)
11,621.18
Overlays (1927)
195,91
$248,120.62
Overlays (1926)
601.75
Overlays (1925)
312.25
Overlays (1924)
867.57
21,502.11 Excess and Deficiency Surplus 72,673.01
111,155.28
Cash
$360,275.90
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$360,275.90
NON-REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Assets
Liabilities
Cash Special Fund Loan Authorized not Borrowed
$ 14,398.18
Morrill Memorial Library Addition
$ 14,398.18
168,000.00 Addition Junior High School 168,000.00
$182,398.18
$182,398.18
Alterations at Lock-up
160.45 Furnishings Municipal Building 4,915.57
Soldiers' Exemptions (1928)
72.81
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Assets
Liabilities
Securities
$18,000.00
Perpetual Care Funds
$ 25,501.60
Special Deposit N. T. Co. 9054
2,727.54 Perpetual Care Income
177.22
Special Deposit N. T. Co. 21334
510.10 High School English Fund
500.00
General Cash
7,962.10
Warren H. Cudworth Fund (Library)
500.00
Warren H. Cudworth Income
10.10
$29,199.74
Deposits for Services
479.82
Deposits Prepayment (Electric)
2,031.00
$ 29,199.74
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EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS
Payroll
Other
Totals
Highland Street
$ 234.81
$ 6.00
$ 240.81
Broadway, Winter to E. Hoyle Street
443.00
15.00
458.00
Washington Street
361.05
282.18
643.23
Short Street
190.34
480.92
671.26
Highview Street
234.16
91.03
325.19
Lincoln Street, Prospect and Elm Streets
306.01
196.93
502.94
East Cross Street
1,139.95
1,922.84
3,062.79
Everett Avenue
301.83
218.33
500.16
Wheelock Avenue
383.62
238.87
622.49
School Street
441.30
61.67
502.97
Fulton Street
281.16
17.05
298.21
Parkway, Bond Street to Everett Avenue
411.44
19.06
430.50
Walkhill Road
109.74
108.24
217.98
St. Joseph Avenue
116.16
222.06
338.22
Cleveland Street
.75
.75
Fairview Road
1,668.59
1,668.59
Beacon Park Tract
2,013.13
2,013.13
$12,517.22
(Material used in Private Extension and included extension of street mains in Statement of Payments)
249.10
$12,766.32
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TABLE OF HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNTS
Location
Payroll
Material and Supplies $1,512.23
Totals
Beech Street
$ 807.13
$ 2,319.36
Monroe Street
50.00
Monroe Street
50.00
50.00
Lenox Avenue
469.07
1,297.14
1,766.21
Willow Street
498.71
498.71
Lenox Street
227.58
9.04
236.62
Central Street
1,828.83
1,542.58
3,371.41
Day Street
1,127.99
2,355.27
3,483.26
Saunders Road
272.85
250.23
523.08
Plimpton Avenue
271.60
86.68
358.28
Highland Street
345.20
222.71
567.91
Hillside Avenue
1,037.90
1,445.03
2,482.93
Allen Road
543.85
1,260.96
1,804.81
East Hoyle Street
1,474.32
2,201.43
3,675.75
Walnut Avenue
2,498.05
3,547.61
6,045.66
Pleasant Street
1,047.57
1,047.57
Washington Street
1,294.77
95.20
1,389.97
Cleveland Street
1,037.48
1,599.26
2,636.74
Old Cemetery
109.54
50.90
160.44
Bond and Winter Streets
50.00
50.00
Maple Street
21.45
21.45
Guild Street
630.92
630.92
Neponset Street
1,395.45
1,395.45
Sundry Other Items
42.18
General and Public Works Overhead
2,249.45
$36,808.16
Credit from Stock of Prior Years
369.38
$36,438.78
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CRUSHER OPERATION
Payrolls
$1,696.59
Gasoline and Oil
39.13
Stable Expense
18.03
Repairs, Equipment
85.24
Compensation, I. A.
324.00
Electric Power
116.80
General and Public Works Overhead
226.42
Other
96.78
Excess Operating Credits
568.61
Charged Other Accounts
$3,171.60
Garage and Gasoline Account
Gasoline and Oil
$3,570.47
Repairs, Equipment
670.08
Insurance
384.81
Payrolls
334.49
Public Works Overhead
68.22
$5,028.07
Expended from this Appropriation
2,093.36
Other Appropriation
5,719.48
$7,812.84
Excess Operating Credits for Gasoline used
and Trucking Service furnished
2,784.77
$5,028.07
$2,602.99
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CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
$24,076.60
Balance January 1, 1928
Receipts for year 1928:
Lot No.
From
Amount
689
O'Connell, M. J.
$ 125.00
118 Chandler, M. Etta
150.00
620 Higgins, Hannah
150.00
138
Fales, Jennie F.
150.00
10
Fales, Jennie F.
150.00
278
Everett, Melinda
150.00
1301-G
Folan, Norah )
50.00
1315-G Folan, Norah S
423
Rea, Jeanette
125.00
141-2-G
Downes, Lillian E.
50.00
714 Murphy, Delia et al
150.00
540-2
Curran, John P.
175.00
1,425.00
$25,501.60
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ALICE H. PLIMPTON Morrill Memorial Library Trust Fund
Cash, N. Trust Co. 14449, December 31, 1927
$14,166.51
Liberty Loan Bonds
35,550.00
City of Lynchburg, Va., Bonds
5,000.00
City of Woonsocket, R. I., Bonds
5,000.00
Interest Receipts for year ending December 31, 1928
On Deposits
594.94
On Securities
1,292.93
On Securities Sold
$ 71.66
Less Commission and Expense
6.00
65.66
$61,670.04
Action of Town Meeting of December 27, 1927. Appropriated entire bequest and accrued in- terest for construction of an addition to Mor-
rill Memorial Library. Expenditures under this authority, total
52,418.33
Less, item of expense
7,500.00
$44,918.33
Actual expenditures from Trust Funds to Decem- ber 31, 1928 44,918.33
Balance of Appropriation, December 31, 1928 $16,751.71
Vote of Town Meeting of December, 1928, that all unexpended balances be returned to Trust Fund.
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WATER WORKS
WATER RATES
Outstanding January 1, 1928
$18,758.35
Commitments for Domestic Use
52,054.99
Commitments for Industrial Use
20,574.19
$91,387.53
Collections
$73,124.28
Abatements and Refunds
603.40
73,727.68
Uncollected December 31, 1928 Income for Year
$17,659.85
Water Rates
73,124.28
Hydrant Rentals
7,500.00
Fees
359.00
Sales of Service and Material
6,356.52
Other
89.60
Expenditures for Year
General Maintenance, Operation
39,395.10
Construction and Sales
26,402.98
Appropriations
Insurance and Other
1,150.00
Debt
12,000.00
Interest
3,410.00
$82,358.08
Surplus for Year
5,071.32
$87,429.40
$87,429.40
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PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNT
School Property, Land and Buildings
Balch
$146,500.00
Beacon
30,000.00
East
10,400.00
Everett
39,000.00
Guild
42,600.00
High, Junior
564,000.00
High, Senior
386,300.00
Shattuck
53,000.00
West
8,600.00
Winslow
55,300.00
School Site, Pleasant Street
13,500.00
Furnishings
72,000.00
$1,421,200.00 142,000.00
Morrill Memorial Library
Central Fire Station
$ 20,100.00
Fire Apparatus
34,000.00
Fire Alarm System
6,400.00
Traffic Signal System
3,300.00
Police Signal System
4,400.00
Water Works
619,000.00
Sewerage System
543,000.00
Crusher Plant, Land Old
3,000.00
Crusher Plant, New
6,500.00
Gravel Pit Lot, Pleasant Street
1,000.00
Gravel Pit Lot, Pleasant Street
1,000.00
Cemeteries
60,000.00
Electric Lighting Plant
454,000.00
Park Lands
60,000.00
Municipal Memorial Building
364,000.00
Other Personal Property
58,000.00
$2,237,700.00
$3,800,900.00
Outstanding Debt
1,182,600.00
Surplus in Public Property over Fixed Debt
$2,618,300.00
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Statement of Revenues
Electric Sales and Disposition of Same
Accounts Receivable January 1, 1928
Departmental Balance Sheet
$ 59,317.01
Sales January 1 to March 31, 1928 Committed F. S. Barton for collection
108,693.95
Sales June 1 to December 31, 1928 Committed H. W. Gay for collection
139,887.59
$307,898.54
Discounts and Corrections
$ 24,491.27
Abatements
7,503.05
Cash from F. S. Barton, collections
140,728.97
Cash from H. W. Gay, collections
116,143.14
$288,866.34
Outstanding Accounts Receivable December 31, 1928 (balance sheet)
$ 19,032.12
Cash on Hand, January 1, 1928
10,313.48
Total Receipts Electric Sales
256,872.11
Other Receipts
General
3,167.04
Special Deposits
2,031.00
Erroneous Receipts (refunded)
223.41
Deposits (refunded)
30.00
$272,637.04
Expenditures as Shown
Payments (Town Accountant's Report)
$210,210.35
Note Payments
5,000.00
Interest Payments
450.00
Refund of Erroneous Receipts
223.41
Refund of Deposits
30.00
Cash Returned to Town Treasury
34,156.21
Reserve of Special Deposits
2,031.00
Appropriations from Receipts
9,325.00
Accounts Payable, December 31, 1927 (re- mainder of $8,225.67 shown elsewhere in Payments)
11,211.07
$272,637.04
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Operating Revenues
Metered Sales to Consumers
$179,344.55
Metered Sales to Street Railways
11,587.92
Municipal Revenues
25,654.75
Other Operating Revenues
68.60
Rental of Poles
497.65
$217,153.47
Income Statement
Operating Revenues as Shown
$217,153.47
Operating Expense as Shown
193,073.74
Gross Income
24,079.73
Deductions from (Interest)
412.50
Net Income
$ 23,667.23
Profit and Loss Credits
Balance January 1, 1928 (Credit)
$208,095.77
Credit from Income Account
23,667.23
$231,763.00
Debits
Notes Paid
$ 5,000.00
Transfer of Cash to Town Treasury
34,156.21
Other Charges
4,625.38
Balance, December 31, 1928 (Credit)
187,981.41
$231,763.00
$216,655.82
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Operating Expenses
Electric Energy
$ 92,689.60
Transformer Station, Labor
5,315.80
Transmission Lines, Operation
6,674.99
Inspecting and Testing Meters
1,011.32
Maintenance of
Station Structures
1,736.39
Station Equipment
2,601.20
Distribution Lines
17,273.37
Underground Conductors
48.90
Consumers' Meters
98.28
Transformers
681.75
Street Lamps
1,841.06
Commercial Lamp
965.98
Lighting Equipment
414.10
Consumers' Installation
466.65
Salary of Manager
3,760.38
Office Wages
11,151.45
Office Expense
7,339.69
Insurance
4,251.14
Transportation Expense
2,258.83
Payment to Town in Lieu of Taxes
9,654.25
Other General Expense
10,567.70
Depreciation
12,150.00
Material Inventory
120.91
Total Operating Expenses
$193,073.74
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT Comparative Balance Sheet Assets
Balance Jan. 1, 1928
Balance Dec. 31, 1928
Increase
Decrease
Investments
$307,959.93 Plant Account.
$326,264.02
$18,304.09
6,149.55 General Equipment
6,147.55
Current Assets
10,363.48
Cash General.
50.00
$10,313.48
Special Deposits
2,031.00
2,031.00
59,317.01
Accounts Receivable
19,032.12
40,284.89
7,370.64
Material and Supplies
11,875.07
4,504.43
4,625.38
Other Assets.
Prepaid Accounts
1,479.00
Insurance
3,916.70
2,437.70
$397,264.99
Total.
$369,316.46
Liabilities
$ 10,000.00
Notes Payable
$ 5,000.00
$ 5,000.00
19,734.63
Accounts Payable
9,906.96
9,827.67
75.00
Interest Accrued.
37.50
37.50
159,359.59
Loan Repayment
164,359.59
5,000.00
Reserve (Special Deposits)
2,031.00
2,031.00
208,095.77
Profit and Loss Credit.
187,981.41
20,114.36
397,264.99
$367,316.46
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT Plant and System Statistics
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
Overhead System:
Transmission Lines in Miles
Distribution Lines in Miles
of Wire
299
321.75
331
339
344
Street Lighting Lines in Miles
Poles in Public Ways (Wood)
1,575
1,645
1,632
1,748
1,782
Poles Elsewhere (Wood)
70
70
97
97
63
Jointly Owned (Wood and Steel)
442
442
442
424
424
Conduit, Feet of .
16,087
16,087
21,982
21,982
24,492
Cables in Conduits, Feet of
21,714
21,714
34,295
34,295
41,400
Consumers:
Using Electricity for Lighting
3,342
3,671
3,900
4,067
4,217
Using Electricity for Power Only.
1
1
3
3
3
Using Electricity for Light and Power
80
105
107
107
117
Street Lamps:
Number in use
730
867
777
789
765
Total Hours of, During Year
4,001.35
3,996.15
4,000.20
3,991.20
4,008
Electric Energy:
Purchased Kilowatt Hours.
.5,758,000
5,999,000
6,594,000
6,942,000
7,312,000
Supplied for Street Lighting.
249,488
264,771
273,802
319,155
372,392
Supplied for Municipal Power
512,565
472,052
634,673
617,541
622,585
Supplied for Metered Lighting.
1,441,955
1,577,766
2,025,358
1,990,804
2,115,296
Supplied for Metered Power.
.2,010,107
1,986,934
1,933,188
2,104,171
2,304,322
150
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Supplied for Street Railways ....
456,826
469,584
519,127 802,786
962,311
912,457
Maximum Station Load.
1,800
1,940
2,075
2,180
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Original Cost
$
9,636.68 Land.
Book Value Jan. 1, 1928 9,636.68 $
Addition
Depreciation
Book Value Dec. 31, 1928 $ 9,636.68
38,661.00
Structures.
24,084.91
$10,576.13
34,661.04
118,388.67
Transformer, Station Equipment
87,452.52
5,599.88
$ 3,000.00
90,052.40
130,924.52
Poles, Fixtures and Overhead Structure
78,640.66
5,678.65
6,000.00
78,319.31
26,416.20
Underground Conduits
20,274.46
3,067.73
23,342.19
9,173.41
Underground Conduits
9,173.41
9,173.41
43,114.38
Consumers' Meters
30,466.95
1,435.44
2,000.00
29,902.39
5,956.64
Line Transformers.
5,770.93
185.71
5,956.64
37,120.63
Meter Installation
25,563.31
1,706.05
1,150.00
26,119.36
6,812.53
Transformer Installation.
6,375.36
437.17
6,812.53
15,002.19
Street Lighting Equipment
10,520.74
1,767.33
12,288.07
$441,206.85
$307,959.93
$30,454.09
$12,150.00
$326,264.02
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509,168
538,680
Kilowatt Hours Unaccounted for
303,834
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REMARKS OF THE TOWN CLERK AND ACCOUNTANT
To the Selectmen of Norwood,
Thomas B. Mulvehill, Chairman,
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit the foregoing as the Annual Statement of Abstracts of Records of Town Meetings together with records of Vital Statistics for the year 1928, and the Financial Report of Receipts and Payments of the Town of Norwood.
The audit of accounts of the Town, conducted this year by the Division of Accounts of the Commonwealth, has been practically completed. The report on this audit has not been received at date of this writing. It ap- pears that the report of the audit will show differences in the outstanding accounts of taxes and other accounts receivable. For this reason the Collector's accounts shown elsewhere in this report, are set up as balances per commitment and adjustment will be made on these accounts after further conferences with the representatives of the Division of Accounts.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.
C. A. Bingham, Manager. J. A. Halloran, Town Counsel.
J. E. Pendergast, Clerk and Accountant
NORWOOD BOARD OF SELECTMEN-1928
H. H. Miller
HI. W. Baker
T. B. Mulvehill Chairman
E. G. Dalton
A. J. Forrest
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GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT
January 29, 1929.
To the Board of Selectmen,
Norwood, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen:
Your Town Manager appreciates the confidence placed in him by your Board in selecting him as your Manager after an absence of ten years. It is gratifying to return to Norwood and find projects which he had more or less to do with the preliminary planning, now completed; as example the Norwood Square. He cannot refrain from regretting that Central Street was not widened from the Town Hall property to the Electric Light Sta- tion, as originally planned in 1917 by the Town Engincer and himself. This could then have been done for a few hundred, whereas it now will cost thousands. The same holds true of the extension of Fulton Street northerly to the State Highway and southerly to Prospect Street; the latter end now being covered with many more houses than when originally suggested and planned. Fortunately no building has been erected in the path of the Nahatan Street underpass. It is to be hoped that the citizens can appreciate the great necessity of this street being opened under the railroad because it is so plain to any stranger or visitor coming within our bounds.
In writing this report we will attempt to break away from the customary stereotype form of dry reading and voluminous details. The picture on the following page shows that others feel likewise. £ A start has been made and a dozen photographs are included this year. The report, we hope, will be somewhat smaller than heretofore and more personal in its tone. During the coming year it is our hope to so record and maintain our departmental records than an interesting report may be submitted a few days after the close of the year by merely adding the records for the month of December to the previous eleven months already completed. We hope hereafter to meet the three principal requirements of municipal reports; to be prompt, clear and brief.
Before passing to the departmental reports a few lines will be written concerning the Manager's Office. It has been our endeavor to have the Manager accessible to any person at any time, because ever if the details must later be referred to a clerk or to some other department, the citizen always feels he must see the Manager personally. This naturally inter- feres greatly by interruptions to matters of importance, upon which the Manager should be giving undivided attention. However, we have always felt that in a community which expects personal attention, it should be given. We do hope, however, that the citizens will realize that when the
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Manager is out of the office on inspection or other duties, that those in the office can really take care of the matters without forcing the visitors to wait or to call again.
The Manager wishes to state that while it may often appear that he is encroaching upon ground sacred to some other department, it is really unintentional. He will surely be forgiven when it is realized that for the past ten years he has been working under Standard Manager Charters and not where the duties and powers are limited as in the Norwood Charter of 1914.
Dear Mr. Bity Blesk- Iacknowledge receipt of your annual report and dam giving it the attention which it deserves.
mr.a. Citizen
ANNUAL CITY REPORT MEANINGLESS TABLES AND HOCUS POCUS
MR AVERAGE CITIZEN
-TALBUT
"How OFTEN THIS IS TRUE"
Courtesy of Kilpatrick and American City
These remarks will be followed by a summary in short sentences of some of the major accomplishments during the year past. The individual de- partmental reports will then follow, with short remarks as to the work expected to be done during the ensuing year.
The constant advice and valued counsel of the Selectmen is herewith gratefully acknowledged, as is the co-operation of Department Heads out- side of the Manager's province. To our loyal Chiefs, Superintendents and
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Co-Workers, we record our appreciation for their continual loyalty, inter- est and unfailing courtesy. It is only by this spirit and work on the part of all, that so much has been accomplished in such a short time, and with the limited funds at hand.
Most respectfully submitted,
This twenty-ninth day of January, 1929
C. A. BINGHAM, Town Manager.
MANAGER'S OFFICE
Over $20,000 of overdue electric accounts collected which had accumu- lated during the past three to five years.
Over $4,000 of overduc water bills collected which had accumulated during the past three to five years.
Weekly reports for each Selectman typed and bound in loose leaf form complete with indexes.
Appointment of local man as Town Engineer and local man as Superin- tendent of Public Works. The latter having built the Norwood Sewer System twenty-one years ago.
Examinations held and three appointments made in Public Works clerical force, all filled by local boys.
Mutual arrangement for School Superintendent to purchase small sup- plies, eliminating large amount of time formerly required of Manager's office.
Cash and Trade Discounts amounting to $2806.00 in 1928 as compared to $245.00 in 1927.
Saving of $90 made by eliminating useless printing of Town seal in ad- vertisements.
Every licensed place, as well as applicant, examined and reported upon.
Pooling of annual bids saved $1745.
Board of Survey Regulations drawn.
Twenty-eight reports to Selectmen covering 120 items during nine months.
Mutual insurance policies secured on large amount of Town property reducing cxpenses 20 per cent and upwards.
Cleaned up unsightly, unhealthy and hazardous junk yard.
Budget for ensuing year presented December 18, two months ahead of usual date.
Old pole agreements straightened out.
Supplies purchased locally whenever possible.
Over $300 collected on toll calls of officials overdue during past two years.
Taxi regulations in course of drafting.
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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Installation of gasoline tank at Public Works Yard saved $639 on pur- chase of gasoline during the past six months.
Gas Tank installation paid out of savings.
Stone Crusher moved from old quarry to gravel pit and placed in opera- yion without special appropriation, profits from operation paying for erec- tion.
Visits by Selectmen during progress of Public Works.
Poorly constructed private ways not accepted as Public Streets.
Motor trucks substituted for horses on rental; doing approximately three times the work for the same total expenditure.
Department stopped dangerous practice of selling dynamite.
Distribution of gasoline to municipal cars checked continuously and ab- solutely.
4332 feet of Sewers installed. All sewer work called for in budget in- stalled for $835 less than estimates and in addition a $400 sewer built on Vernon Street which was not in original estimates.
4559 feet of drains built for $200 under budget and in addition a drain at the Hospital and Civic, costing $2734, a drain at Prospect Street and Up- land Road for $1277 and a drain in Public Works Yard, $223; none of which were provided for in the budget but were built within the amount provided by savings made on other construction.
Water mains of 4904 feet laid covering all work estimated in budget and in addition 140 feet in St. Josephs Avenue, and $1500 saved towards the extra line ordered in East Cross Street.
Bituminous Construction of 19,140 square yards and 7555 yards of oil gravel completed including every item listed in budget and $3712 worth of extra construction secured within the appropriation.
Bituminous gutter at Hospital, widening of Central Street and Railroad Avenue and repairing of granite pavement secured without extra appro- priations.
Meters installed until the Department is now 100% metered.
Extension of 8-inch water main on East Cross Street to Neponset.
Fifty promiscuous illegal dumping places cleaned and warning signs erected.
Public dumps cleaned, and regraded.
Ash removal increased.
Old Town horses disposed of and motor equipment purchased in place of new horses.
Washington Street Widening secured with concrete from curb to curb in place of macadam shoulders.
Water Guarantees reduced from 10% to 7% as payment required by new consumers.
Upwards of 40 new street signs installed.
Removal of abandoned Hose House No. 2 without expense to Town.
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House connections to be built to street line with installation of main sew- ers hereafter.
Raising of low fire hydrants commenced. Inspection and recording of all fire hydrants and repairs where necessary.
No hydrant now set without an auxiliary valve.
Shed repaired and yard completely cleaned.
Old Ford cars traded in, thus eliminating continual repairs.
Traffic signs erected throughout business district and danger signs erccted throughout the Town.
Minimum charge of $3.00 established for water used during construction of buildings.
Rifle range repaired and maintained.
Faulty check valves removed where factory pond water might cause epidemic by leaking into Town mains.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Two members of Department now sent annually to State Police Training School.
Repairs on old Dodge car in Police Department discontinued by securing new automobile.
Charges instituted for ambulance service and over $100 collected in first six months.
Police Patrol Routes arranged and mapped. Nine police call boxes in- stalled. Policemen required to meet all in-coming trains.
Regulations passed for operation of portable amusements.
Manual of duty under preparation.
Advertising matter not allowed on electric poles.
Arrests for Liquor Violations increased 33% over previous year.
Stolen property reported $8000 below last year.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
New Municipal Building reduced annual insurance rate on public buildings from 41 cents to 35 cents per hundred.
Speed of apparatus reduced from fifty to thirty-five miles per hour.
Factory inspection by department instituted.
Fire prevention lectures and literature given to all school children.
Owners neglecting to remove fire hazards summoned to Court.
Additional Fire Alarm boxes placed.
Call men fined for absence.
PLAYGROUND
Fullest cooperation given playgrounds by other departments in improv- ing and maintaining grounds.
New Pond Bathing Beach given full cooperation by Police, Electric_and Public Works Departments.
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CEMETERY
Regulations being revised.
Roads in Cemetery built on permanent bituminous construction instead of annual oiling.
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