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11.80
$ 499.91
Railings
Payroll
$165.88
Materials
133.98
$ 299.86
Snow Removal
Payroll
$858.87
Truck and team hire
769.35
Trucks, etc., upkeep
453.14
Oil and Gasoline
260.89
Tools
17.45
-
85
Sand Storage of Equipment Mileage Freight
18.65
80.00
33.78
7.85
-$
2,499.98
4,691.38
Street Lighting Old Sudbury Road
Lumber
$ 72.85
Truck hire
62.25
Gasoline and Oil
25.70
To State Treasurer
350.00
To County Treasurer
413.14
$
923.94
Highway Dept. Equipment Building
Maffei Sand & Gravel Co.
(Contractors)
$7,237.59
Preliminary survey, etc.
50.00
Hardware. Cable, Paints, etc.
123.90
Plumbing
782.00
Doors
945.00
Water Installation
23.10
-$
9,161.59
Concord Rd .- Relocation and Construction
D. Cerulli & Sons (Contractors) $14,844.68
D. Cerulli & Sons-Catch basin
106.82
Labor (under Highway Dept.)
15.00
Advertising and Notices
21.65
$ 14,988.15
Pond Street Sidewalks
Labor (under Highway Dept.)
$310.13
Materials (Highway Dept.)
396.90
Survey, grades, plans
48.25
Warren Bros. Roads Co.
972.32
$
1,727.60
Street Signs
Labor
$15.50
Materials
40.10
Freight
1.20
Traffic Signs
52.50
To State Treasurer
140.93
-
-$
56.80
86
Charities
Board of Public Welfare
Salaries of Board
$ 150.00
Expenses of Board
77.50
Mothers' Aid
730.00
Rents
1,093.10
Fuel
509.48
Provisions
2,990.42
Clothing
16.54
Board
100.00
Board of State Ward
212.86
Hospital Bills
119.75
Medical Attendance
386.00
Nursing
236.20
Medicines
6.00
Auto Hire
12.00
$
6,639.85
State Aid
Sundry Persons
$ 598.00
Soldiers' Benefits Sundry Persons
$ 882.05
Schools and Libraries
Committee's Salaries
$ 150.00
School Department Salaries
Superintendent
$1,750.00
High School
8,000.00
Part-time High and Elemen- tary Schools
3,762.50
Elementary Schools
17,688.40
Special Teachers
1,080.00
Substitute Teachers
674.50
Transportation
7,475.47
School Nurse
500.00
Attendance Officer
60.00
Janitors
2,000.00
Textbooks
1,067.94
Music
109.73
Gas Equipment
86.78
Pupils Equipment (Type-
87
writers. desks, etc.)
769.49
Pupils' Supplies ( paper, chalk, etc.) 1,063.97 Telephones 131.95
Traveling Expenses of Supt.
105.82
Buildings, repairs, etc.
1,307.77
Vent-hood
180.00
Showers
758.50
Janitors' Supplies
156.94
Express and Freight
11.10
Electricity
235.36
Water Rates
30.00
Fuel
1,402.08
$ 50,408.30 $ 19.34
Vocational Tuition
City of Newton
Libraries
Librarians
$1,955.21
Books
676.34
Magazines
79.50
Catalogue and desk supplies
50.33
Binding Books
21.68
Telephones
45.71
Auto Hire
75.75
Janitors
524.00
Rent-Reading Room
300.00
Upkeep of Lbirary
67.06
Fuel
291.75
Electricity
106.45
$
4,193.78
Library
Painting and Redecorating $ 1,705.00
Recreation and Unclassified
Park Commission
Labor
$287.40
Materials
50.81
Equipment
118.36
Freight
1.38
$ 457.95
Memorial Day
Wreaths and Plants
$ 87.20
. Flags and Markers
14.50
88
Programmes
16.50
Band
238.00
Transportation
43.75
Refreshments Ammunition Express and Postage
89.33
7.00
3.72
500.00
Town Clocks
Care of Clocks
$35.00
Repairs
3.50
38.50
Insurance
Town Buildings and Contents
$1,224.24
Highway Dept. Trucks
179.20
Cochituate School Boilers
235.00
Pumping Station
77.25
Fire Dept. Equipment
68.16
1,783.85
Surety Bonds
Treasurer
$ 90.00
Collector
200.00
Water Board Clerk
5.00
295.00
Town Reports
Preparing
$ 25.00
Reports
$382.70
$
407.70
Aid to Agriculture
$
300.00
Unpaid Bills of 1928
Town Clerk
$ 1.75
Assessors
387.70
Board of Health
68.00
Highways
1,744.62
Sudbury Rd. and Bridge
443.30
Park Commission
41.00
Cemetery Commission
3.15
Public Welfare
334.34
Water Dept.
47.07
Miscellaneous Express
13.75
$
3,084.68
89
-
-$
- -$
-
-$
-$
Notices of Meetings
Warrants for March Meeting $70.28
Warrants for October Meeting
29.72
-$ 100.00
Enterprises and Cemeteries
Water Department
Payroll
$3,569.16
Salaries of Board, 1928-1929
844.00
Labor and Teaming
53.33
Equipment, Truck
850.00
Insurance, Truck
62.52
J. J. Ducey Con. Co., Changes in Pipe, etc., at Five Paths
555.28
Pipe, fittings, valves, gates, etc.
4,948.24
Meters and connections
441.27
Waste, packing, etc.
42.56
Tools and repairs on tools
130.99
Coal, fuel oil, etc.
474.65
Trucks upkeep
264.99
Gasoline and oil
114.96
Electricity
10.11
Telephones
99.15
Freight and express
468.07
Stationery, printing, postage
61.84
-
$ 12,991.12
Water-Main Extensions, Sherman Bridge, Lincoln and Concord Rds., and Old Connecticut Path
J. J. Ducey Con. Co.
$46,717.01
Town Inspector
828.00
$ 47,545.01
Lake View Cemetery
Payroll
$485.27
Tools and sharpening
76.37
Gasoline, etc.
25.85
Teaming
62.38
Gravel, etc.
31.28
Plants, seeds, fertilizer, etc.
11.95
Freight
.58
North and Center Cemeteries Payroll
-$
693.68
$579.72
90
Teaming Tools and sharpening Gravel, etc. Seeds, plants, fertilizer, etc. Blue prints
10.00
36.70
5.50
60.65
5.50
-$
698.07
Cemetery-Water Installation and Lake- view Repairs
Water Connections
$ 50.00
Pipe and fittings
129.77
Labor
220.23
-$
400.00
Interest and Maturing Debt
Interest
On Temporary Loans
$3,402.93
On Loan in anticipation of re- imbursement
96.57
On Water Dept. Note
20.00
On Schoolhouse Addition Bonds
640.00
On Schoolhouse Bonds
80.00
On Bd. of Pub. Welfare Note
125.00
On Library Funds
20.00
$
4,384.50
Temporary Loans
Note No. 104
$10,000.00
Note No. 106
10,000.00
Note No. 109
10,000.00
Note No. 110
7,000.00
Note No. 111
10,000.00
Note No. 112
20,000.00
Note No. 114
4,000.00
Note No. 140
15,000.00
-$ 86,000.00
Maturing Debt
Cochituate Schoolhouse Loan
$1,000.00
Cochituate Schoolhouse- Addition Loan
2,000.00
Water Dept. Loan
500.00
-$
3,500.00
Deferred Revenue Public Welfare Loan $ 2,500.00
91
Trust Funds
Trust Funds' Income Library Funds Exchange of Securities Library Books
$160.00 990.09
-$
1,150.09
Cemetery Funds
Exchange of Securities
$ 35.42
Labor at Cemeteries
726.28
$ 761.70
Poor Funds
Sundry Persons
$ 175.25
Trust Funds' Principal
Cynthia G. Roby Library Fund
$3,000.00
Jonathan M. Parmenter Library Fund
1,000.00
Newell Heard
Cem. Perpetual Care Bequest
100.00
Cecil I. Flint
Cem. Perpetual Care Bequest
125.00
Robert Erwin
Cem. Perpetual Care Bequest
150.00
Cem. Perpetual Care Funds
1,000.00 $
5,375.00
State and County Charges
State Income Tax
$6,120.00
State Highway Tax
1,025.52
State Highway Tax. Snow Removal
93.23
Auditing Accounts
1,047.57
County Tax
6,963.62
County Tax. Tuberculosis Work
467.53
$ 15,717.47
Excess and Deficiency
Refund of Taxes
(1924 Discrepancy)
$ 4.86
Total Expenditures
$328,796.38
92
Excess and Deficiency
1929
1929
Mar. 31
Auditor's Adjustments
$2,767.75
Jan. 1 Balance Apr. 1 - Dec. 31
$23,849.08
Apr. 1 - Dec. 31 Tax Refund
$ 4.86
Unpaid 1928 Bills
1,596.73
Appropriations closed
7,514.79
Architect New House
1,000.00
To adjust tax levy
800.00
Public Welfare
1,038.11
Tax Titles' Costs
4.79
Tax Titles
1,592.53
To balance
23,955.08
93
$32,759.85
$32,759.85
Reserve Fund
Moth Extermination
$ 30.46
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Insurance
133.85
Interest
584.50
Board of Health
116.92
Tax Collector's Salary
20.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
16.45
Certification of Notes
18.00
Tax Titles Redeemed
1,266.01
Tax Title to Taxes 129.97
To balance
1,079.82
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
Indebtedness
Net Bonded Debt
$41,700.00
Schoolhouse Bonds
$1,000.00
Schoolhouse Addition Notes 14,000.00
Watermain Extension Notes 26,700.00
$41,700.00
$41,700.00
94
Trust Funds Account
Securities
$45,400.00
Poor Trust Funds
$ 4,300.00
Cash-Library Funds
400.00
Cemetery Trust Funds
14,725.00
Cash-Cemetery Funds
125.00
Library Trust Funds
26,900.00
Cash-Income
1,505.33
Cemetery Funds Income
1,059.78
Library Funds Income
270.30
Poor Funds Income
175.25
$47,430.33
$47,430.33
Balance Sheet, Dec. 31, 1929 $ 2,785.45 Tax Titles Deposits
$ 52.00
Taxes Uncollected
Overlay
1926
191.10
1926
50.11
1927
2,536.18
1927
47.94
1928
14,102.95
1928
432.98
1929
51,674.12
1929
704.22
1929 Polls
688.00
Poor Funds Income
175.25
1929 Excise
5,974.03
Library Funds Income
270.30
1926 Moth
.75
Cemetery Funds Income
1,059.78
1927 Moth
28.50
1928 Moth
52.25
Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves
503.00
1929 Moth
162.25
Temporary Loans
40,000.00
Water Revenue for Approp.
2,241.61
Traffic Signal
67.21
Highway Dept. Equip. Bldg.
434.12
Concord Road Construction
324.01
Pond St. Sidewalks
72.40
Street Signs
119.55
Architect for New High School
1,000.00
Redecorating Library
295.00
Watermain Extensions
2.46
Life Preservers
23.93
Old Sudbury Road
63.16
Memorial Hall Sidewalk
5.30
Widening at Cochituate Rd. and
95
Tax Titles uncollected
3,494.46
Water Bills uncollected
6,910.72
Cash
School Street 50.00
Traffic Signs 6.15
Pond Street Repairs
22.24
Special Assessment Revenue
6,217.78
Water Revenue
6,910.72
Tax Title Revenue
3,494.46
Excess and Deficiency
23,955.08
88,600.76
$88,600.76
Respectfully submitted,
Wayland Mass, February 1, 1930
MABEL T. S. SMALL, Town Accountant
96
REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER
CASH STATEMENT
1929
Jan. 1 Cash Balance $ 1,678.75
Total Receipts 329,903.08
$331,581.83
Total Payments
328.796.38
Dec. 31 Cash Balance
$ 2,785.45
Tax Notes Borrowed in Anticipation of Taxes
1929
Jan. 1 Notes Outstanding No. 104 due 3- 5-29
$10,000.00
No. 109 due 6-28-29 10,000.00
No. 106 due 9-18-29 10,000.00
Jan. 18 No. 110 Natick Trust due 11-18-29 5% 7,000.00
Mar. 8 No. 111 Natick Trust due 11- 8-29 5% 10,000.00 Apr. 3 No. 112 Natick Trust due 12- 3-29 512% 20,000.00 June 5 No. 113 Natick Trust due 6- 5-30 51/2% 10,000.00 July 1 No. 114 Natick Trust due 12-15-29 512% 4,000.00 Aug. 20 No. 140 Natick Trust due 12-20-29 512 % 15,000.00 Sept. 5 No. 141 Natick Trust due 9- 5-30 51/2% 10,000.00 Oct. 1 No. 143 Natick Trust due 4- 1-30 51/2% 20,000.00
$126,000.00
Note No. 114 borrowed in anticipation reimbursement State and County, account oiling.
Tax Notes Paid
1929
Apr. 9 No. 104 Natick Trust due 3- 5-29 $10,000.00
July 10 No. 109 Natick Trust due 6-28-29 10,000.00
97
Nov. 14 No. 106 Natick Trust due 9-18-29 10.000.00
Nov. 8 No. 111 Natick Trust due 11- 8-29 10.000.00
Nov. 18 No. 110 Natick Trust due 11-18-29 7,000.00
Dec. 3 No. 112 Natick Trust due 12- 3-29 20.000.00 Dec. 15 No. 114 Natick Trust due 12-15-29 4.000.00
Dec. 20 No. 140 Natick Trust due 12-20-29
15,000.00
$86.000.00
Tax Notes Outstanding
Dec. 31 No. 113 due June 5, 1930
$10.000.00
No. 141 due Sept. 5. 1930 No. 143 due April 1, 1930
10.000.00
20.000.00
Total Paid and Outstanding
$126.000.00
Notes and Bonds Outstanding
1 Schoolhouse Bonds 4% due annually
$1.000.00 $ 1,000.00
School Addition Notes 4% due annually
2.000.00
14.000.00
1 Water Main Extension Note
415℃ due July 1. 1930
1.700.00
1.700.00
24
WaterMain Extension Notes 410% due annually
2.000.00
24.000.00
1 Water Main Extension Note 412 due July 1, 1942
1.000.00
Due in 1930
$6.700.00
Total Outstanding
$41.700.00
Interest Account
$3,800.00
Appropriation Payments
Schoolhouse Bonds
80.00
Schoolhouse Addition Notes
640.00
Water Main Extension Note
20.00
Board of Public Welfare Note
125.00
To Trust Funds
20.00
Tax Notes
3.499.50
Transfer from Reserve Fund
584.50
$4,384.50
$4,384.50
98
$40,000.00
Insurance
$1,650.00
Appropriation
Insurance on
Tractor
$ 32.20
Highway Trucks
147.00
Fire Dept. Equipment
68.16
Cochituate School Boilers
235.00
Pumping Station
77.25
Town Buildings
1,224.24
Transfer from Reserve Fund
133.85
$1,783.85
$1,783.85
Trust Funds
In accordance with instructions from the Director of Accounts, Theodore N. Waddell, all Trust Fund invest- ments are now carried on the books at par.
Adjusting transfers were required as follows:
Sarah Webster Heard Fund to Library Funds In- come $15.74
J. S. Draper Fund to Library Funds Income 20.00
Cynthia G. Roby Fund to Library Funds Income 92.00
Harriet Coburn Damon Fund to Library Funds In- come 3.37
J. M. Parmenter Fund to Library Funds Income 3.13
J. M. Parmenter Fund to Cemetery Funds Income 48.50
Investment of Trust Funds Poor Funds
Loker Fund
2 Boston & Albany Railroad 4% 5-1-1934 $2,000.00
Allen Fund
1 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4% 3-1-1958 1,000.00
Donation Fund
1 4th Liberty Loan Bond 41/4 % 10-15-1938 1,000.00
3rd Liberty Loan Bonds 41/4 % 10-15-1938 300.00
$4,300.00
Cemetery Funds
J. M. Parmenter Fund
2 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. 41/2% 6-1-1957 $2,000.00
99
1 Boston Elevated Railroad 41/2% 10-1-1937
1,000.00 2 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 41/2 % 5-1-1961 2,000.00
$5,000.00
Other Funds
1st Liberty Loan Bonds 414 % 1947
$2,400.00
4th Liberty Loan Bonds 41/4 % 1938 2,700.00
1 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 5% 1952 500.00
2 Boston & Albany R. R. 4% 1934 2,000.00
2 Chicago & Northwestern R. R. Co. 5% 2037 2,000.00
Provident Inst. for Savings 125.00
$14,725.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Received in 1929 and Included Above
Newell Heard Fund
$100.00
Robert Erwin Fund
150.00
Cecil I. Flint Fund
125.00
Library Funds
J. M. Parmenter Fund
2 Pennsylvania Ry. 41/2% 6-1-1965
$2,000.00
2 Union Pacific Ry. 41/2% 7-1-1967
2,000.00
2 Southern California Edison 5% 9-1-1952
2,000.00
3 N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 414% 5-1-1961 3,000.00
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013
1,000.00
Grace Campbell Draper Fund 1 City of Boston 4% 10-15-1937 Ada H. Wellington Fund
$1,000.00
4th Liberty Loan Bonds 41/4 % 10-15-1938 Cynthia G. Roby Fund
$ 500.00
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013
$1,000.00
2,000.00
2 Northern Pacific Ry. 5% 7-1-2047 Provident Inst. for Savings
200.00
Harriet Coburn Damon Fund 3 N. Y. Tel. Co. 41/4% 11-1-1939 $3,000.00
James Draper Fund Ella E. Draper Fund
1 St. Paul & Duluth Ry. Co. 5% 2-1-1931
$1,000.00
Sarah Webster Heard Fund
3 Edison Elec. Illum. Co. 41/2% 11-1-1930
$3,000.00
100
100.00
Provident Inst. for Savings James Sumner Draper Fund
1 Boston & Albany Ry. 4% 5-1-1933 $1,000.00
1 Delaware & Hudson 4% 5-1-1943 1,000.00
1 Chicago, Burlington Quincy 4% 3-1-1958 1,000.00
1 B. & M. & Fitchburg 5% 5-1-1940 1,000.00
1 B. & M. 4-5% 9-1-1941
1,000.00
Lydia Maria Child Fund
Provident Inst. for Savings
$ 100.00
Total
$26,900.00
Reinvestment Various Trust Funds
Library Funds :
Cynthia G. Roby Fund
3 Am. Tel. & Tel. Bonds Matured 7-1-29 Invested
$3,000.00
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013 1,058.75
2 Northern Pacific Ry. 5% 7-1-2047 2,042.50
J. M. Parmenter Fund Withdrawn Provident Inst. for Savings 1,000.00
Invested
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013 1,058.75
Charged to Library Funds Income Account above investments 160.00
Cemetery Funds
Withdrawn Provident Inst. for Savings 1,000.00
Invested
1 Chicago & Northwestern Ry. 5% 5-1-2037 1,035.42 Charged to Cemetery Funds Income Account investment 35.42
Tax Titles
1929
Tax Titles taken in 1926 for 1923 Taxes
Jan. 1 Balance $ 142.10
1929 Taxes added 21.44
$ 163.54
Paid in 1929
25.65
Dec. 31 Outstanding $ 137.89
101
Tax Titles taken in 1926 for 1924 Taxes
Jan. 1 Balance 1929 Taxes added
$1,268.98 55.74
Charged off in 1929
$1,324.72 107.63
Paid in 1929
867.05
Dec. 31
Outstanding
$ 350.04
Tax Titles taken in 1928 for 1926 Taxes
Jan. 1 Balance 1929 Taxes added
$2,454.68 564.13
-$3,018.81
Charged off in 1929
94.60
Paid in 1929
820.05
Dec. 31
Outstanding
$2,104.16
Tax Titles taken in 1929 for 1927 Taxes
Sept. 21 Total
$ 635.16
1929 Taxes added
316.06
$
951.22
Paid in 1929
48.85
Dec. 31 Outstanding
$ 902.37
Total Outstanding
1923 Tax Titles
$ 137.89
1924 Tax Titles
350.04
1926 Tax Titles
2,104.16
1927 Tax Titles
902.37
- $3,494.46
FRANK G. MacKENNA, Town Treasurer
102
$1,217.09
$2,924 .. 21
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT
1926 Taxes
Uncollected December 31, 1928 Collected Abated
$ 905.13
$596.16 117.12
$ 713.28
Balance Interest collected on Taxes
$
191.85
$ 98.62
1927 Taxes
Uncollected December 31, 1928
$18,701.64
Collected
$15,241.73
Abated Tax Titles
323.08
16,136.96
Balance Interest collected on Taxes
$ 1,559.38
1928 Taxes
Uncollected December 31, 1928
$41,803.48
Collected
$27,246.76
Abated
181.02
Tax Titles
220.50
27,648.28
Balance Interest collected on Taxes
$14,155.20 $ 830.31
1929 Taxes
Committed for collection
$143,184.58
Collected Abated
$83,041.14 687.67
103
572.15
$ 2,564.68
Tax Titles
957.37
84,686.18
Balance Interest collected on Taxes
$58,498.40 $ 51.09
WILBUR C. GORMAN Collector of Taxes
104
REPORT OF BOARD OF ASSESSORS 1929
The Board of Asessors met April 1, 1929 at Town Hall. Daniel Brackett was chosen chairman and Clarence S. Williams, clerk, having been reelected at annual Town Election.
New books for entering the new Motor Excise Tax were purchased. A total of 1280 automobiles were regis- tered and taxed to people claiming Wayland as principal garaging place. Of course, many of these were traded in and a rebate given. At a State rate of $29.65 per thou- sand the amount of $12,557.22 was levied. Abatements for over valuation and trade ins were $550.61. Estimated personal property tax on automobiles for 1928 was $9,000. New motor excise tax shows a gain of $3,006.61 for 1929.
Some confusion was accasioned by insufficient in- formation regarding model letters and numbers given to insurance companies and the Registry of Motor Vehicles and in turn passed on to the Assessors who needed this information to properly classify the automobiles in order to get the same value given in the State Valuation Book.
Personal property valuation will show a large de- crease owing to the automobiles being removed from this tax to the new Motor Excise Tax.
Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1929 $4,839,791.00 Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1929 403,257.00
$5,243,048.00
Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1928
$4,663,826.00
Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1928 583,371.00
$5,247,197.00
Increase on Real Estate
Decrease on Personal Estate
175,965.00 180,114.00
105
1900 Omitted Assessment Valuation
872 Polls Assessed
5 Supplemental Polls
102 Horses Assessed
367 Cows
39
Neat Cattle
270 Swine
4650
Fowls
1150 Buildings used as dwelling
Abatements
1926
$ 53.22
1927
367.72
1928
82.95
1929
122.50
$ 626.39
Number of Motor Vehicles assessed, 1280
Value of Motor Vehicles Assessed
429,365.00
Tax on Motor Vehicles
12,557.22
Abatement on Motor Excise Tax
565.17
Moth Tax
367.75
Tax rate on property, $24.50
State Tax rate on motor vehicles, $29.65,
Recapitulation
Town appropria- tions
$153,514.89
Income from
State Tax
6,120.00
State $15,799.47
State Highway 1,025.52
Water Revenue
8,000.00
State Snow 93.23
Motor Vehicles
9,000.00
State Audit
1,047.57
Estimated re- ceipts 7,000.00
County Tax
6,963.62
County Tuber-
Tax Levy
130,202.96
culosis Hospital
467.53
Overlay
770.07
$170,002.43
$170,002.43
Receipts
DANIEL BRACKETT SIDNEY LOKER CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS Assessors of Wayland
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THE WAYLAND PLANNING BOARD IN 1929
Among concrete results that have been achieved dur- ing the past year as a result of suggestions made in pre- vious years by the Planning Board, or from assistance given by the Board to other town boards and officials, have been the completion of the highway work at the Three Bridges on Old Sudbury Road, a project initiated by the Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen two years ago to make this point safer for travelers; the re- building of a long stretch of the Concord Road under di- rection of the County and State engineers in which project the Board cooperated with the Board of Selectmen and interested citizens; the building of the sidewalk on Pond · Street in Cochituate, for which the Board prepared the plans and estimates; and the practical completion of the work of providing street signs for the important street junctions up to the amount of the appropriation of one thousand dollars.
The Board also feels gratified that the proposal of the State engineers to relocate the State Road in a man- ner that would have permanently injured the appearance of the town and would have made the lives of pedestrians less- safe, has been at least postponed as a result of the vigorous protest of this Board and the Board of Select- men, and as a result of their presentation of a feasible plan for a by-pass around the village.
New Developments
The Board of Survey Act, accepted by the town a few years ago, has already proved its worth. The Select- men, acting as a Board of Survey, have called the Plan- ning Board into consultation several times with regard to proposed developments of real estate. The outcome of this joint action has been the elimination of projected
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dead-end streets, sharp street corners, and unsuitable street lay-outs in new developments.
Unfortunately, in two recent developments, it has not been found possible to prevent the sale of lots laid out only twenty or twenty-five feet in width. We believe that the sale of such small lots is a distinct harm to the town. We anticipate that public sentiment will soon com- pel the adoption of a zoning ordinance in Wayland similar to ordinances adopted in Lincoln, Bedford, Needham, Weston, Walpole and many other towns situated like Way- land, on the edge of the rapidly developing Metropolitan district. This would prevent real estate speculators from injuring the town by bad developments.
Plans and Surveys
A large percentage of the Board's work this year has been in preparing plans and surveys.
Complete plans have been prepared for two long-used rights of way which the abuttors have previously asked the town to accept as public highways. Other work has been connected with several dangerous corners about which the town should take action in the near future. Prints have been made of a number of large tracts, the owners of which made their plans available for the Board's use. In the future these maps will prove valuable for many purposes.
Betterment Act
There are numerous private ways in the town, quite fully lined with houses, which the town has never ac- cepted. At times they are impassable for the fire depart- ment as well as for those who live on them. The owners are dissatisfied because they are denied streets and lights and proper police and fire protection. On the other hand, the town cannot afford to accept them and be saddled with a heavy burden of taxes for the benefit of a com- parative few.
We believe that the time has come for the town to accept the principle of the Betterment Act which provides that property owners whose property is benefitted by town improvements may be asked to pay a reasonable amount toward the improvements.
With this Act in force, the town could proceed grad- ually with a program of needed improvements on these
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ways that would be much appreciated by many citizens, without at the same time adding a heavy burden to the tax rate. The result would be better satisfied citizens and more valuable properties.
We recommend that the town continues the practice begun in 1929 of providing for the building of a stretch of permanent main road each year; and that the building of sidewalks where needed be continued also.
Shade Trees
The Board also urges that the Tree Warden be given a certain sum each year for the planting of trees where they are needed. Nothing about this beautiful town is more attractive to strangers or more satisfying to the townspeople than our handsome shade trees. We ought to take better care of what we now have, and add to their number each year.
Much thought has been given to the matter of build- ing lines, or set-backs, and numerous authorities have been consulted. The Board expects shortly to make some definite recommendation on this matter to the Selectmen.
The Board wishes to thank the citizens for the num- erous suggestions made to its members, and for the ex- cellent support that it has received. Its thanks are also tendered to the Board of Selectmen and to other town officers and committees who have worked so harmonious- ly with it during the year for the good of the town.
With all the citizens of the town we look forward to making the town of Wayland an even better and more at- tractive place to live in than it has so far come to be.
FRANK I. COOPER RONALD CAMPBELL CORNELIUS McGUIRE JJAMES BOLTON GILBERT SMALL HOWARD S. RUSSELL
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REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE
For Year Ending December 31, 1929
Cochituate, Mass., Jan. 15, 1930 192
Number of Arrests:
Disturbing the Peace
.23
Drunkenness
25
Larceny
9
Operating under influence liqour
11
Liquor Violations
13
Violation of Auto Laws
77
Assault
1
Lewdness
6
Robbery while armed
5
Gaming on Lords' Day
11
Present at Gaming
2
Malicious Mischief
4
Delinquent Child
4
Promoting a Lottery
1
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This list includes arrests made by the State Patrol.
EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER, Chief of Police
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REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS
A feature of the year was the large number of grass and brush fires at the Center. Most of these were caused by carelessness an dintention. We ask the cooperation of the citizens of Wayland in curbing this menace.
The largest fire was at tea First Parish Unitarian Church caused by an oil stove. The unoccupied Randolph house on Connecticut Path was burned the night of July 3. The home of Arthur West on Lakeview Road, Cochi- tuate, was destroyed by fire caused by an oil stove. The home of Fred Clough was partly damaged by the same fire. A cottage on the end of Beechwood Point, Dudley Road, owned and occupied by Edward A. Melanson was badly damaged by fire caused by the wiring. A small fire in the home of Knox T. Brown, East Plain Street, Co- chituate, was caused by the wiring.
The other building fires consisted of summer cottages or camps of which there were seven.
There were four chimney fires.
Alarms answered, 85.
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