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Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-laws as follows :
To change from a residential to a business zone that por- tion of land on the southerly side of State Road East, owned by Lilian E. Benson and by John J. Cassidy, bounded and described as follows: easterly by Pine Brook Road; westerly by land formerly of Eugene and Annie L. White and of Mary Frances White, and to have a depth of 300 feet from said State Road.
The Finance Committee's recommendation with respect to this article is covered by its report under the previous article.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-laws as follows :
To change from a residential to a business zone that por- tion of land on the northerly side of State Road East, owned by James H. Lee, bounded and described as fol- lows: easterly by roadway of Peter Bianchi; westerly along State Road to land of Charles Wheelock and northerly to a depth of 300 feet.
The Finance Committee's recommendation with respect to this article is covered by its report under Article 22.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to have the neces- sary number of copies of the Town By-laws printed so that each of its voters may have a copy, if he so desires, plus a reason- able number of additional copies to be kept in the Town Hall at Wayland and at the Cochituate Branch of the Public Library.
The Finance Committee has, for a number of years, recognized the necessity for compiling and print- ing, not only the Town By-laws, but also the Building Code, the Zoning By-laws, the regulations of the Board of Health, the Police Department, Fire Depart- ment, Water Department and those governing the use of the Town Dumps, and therefore recommends the approval of the article, with the inclusion of the above- mentioned by-laws and regulations, the work to be done by the Planning Board with funds provided for in their budget, one copy to be sent to each voter and a charge to be set by the board for each section for additional copies to be distributed from the Town Hall and the Cochituate Branch of the Library.
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Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to amend that part of the by-laws of the Town, known as the Building Code, by adding to Chapter 3, Section 4, MASONRY, Par. 3.4.1. the following new paragraph, or make any amendment of said para- graph of a similar nature, or do or act :
EXTERNAL, PARTITION or BEARING walls may, if approved by the BUILDING INSPECTOR, be built in part, or whole, of iron, steel, concrete or combination of such or like materials and when so built may be of less thickness than is hereinbefore required, provided that all constructional parts are thoroughly protected from fire by brick, terra cotta, cement or plastering upon metal furring, and provided the strength of all bearing sup- ports is equivalent to that of brick, masonry or concrete walls otherwise herein required, including floor and roof construction.
This article calls for a change in our Building Code, allowing for the use of modern type construction and meets with the approval of the Building Inspector. Specifically, it permits the use of non-frame materials of lesser thickness than that which is now required in present frame or masonry construction.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
Article 27. To see if the Town will adopt a resolution affording the people of Wayland an opportunity to express to their representatives in Congress, in the Executive Department of the United States, and in the United Nations, their deep feel- ing regarding war and peace and requesting such representa- tives to take such steps as may be necessary to help make the United Nations into a World Government capable of enacting, interpreting and enforcing world law to prevent war.
This article was inserted at the request of a num- ber of the townspeople and, while recognizing the very worthy purpose, the Finance Committee believes that the matter lies outside the province of town govern- ment and does not, therefore, call for comment by your Finance Committee.
Article 28. To see what sum, if any, the Town will vote to transfer from available funds to meet any of the appropria- tions made under the foregoing articles.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval
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of such action as may be suggested by the Town Treasurer.
And you are required to serve this Warrant by posting copies thereof, attested by you, at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in Town, and at the Legion Hall, at Cochituate, seven days, at least, before the time of holding said election.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before March 1, 1948.
Given under our hands and seal this seventh day of Feb- ruary in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.
GERALD HENDERSON, JOHN W. LEAVITT, WILLIAM A. LOKER, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.
A true copy, attest :
Constable of the Town of Wayland.
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REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
The Finance Committee feels it has an obligation to report directly to the Town at each Annual Meeting on its transfers from the Reserve Fund during the year. A fund of $7,000 to $8,000 is about 2% of the current yearly operating expenses. It is practically impossible to gauge closer than this, actual re- quirements of the various departments. The availability of a fund of this size, this year, made it possible to: (1) handle the unforeseeable and unusually large payrolls for snow removal in the month of December ; (2) provide funds for the Water De- partment, occasioned by the installation of a large number of new services incident to new house construction; and (3) take care of increasing costs of supplies and wages in the School Department. The major transfers were as follows: Snow Re- moval $1,807.81, Water Department $1,708.80, Schools $1,630.85, Fire Department $518.01, Welfare Department-Aid to Dependent Children $500, Police Department $499.42, Cem- etery Department $490.80, Collector $352.06 and miscellaneous small amounts $403.36.
The full effect of advancing wages and salaries, and of increased costs of materials and supplies, has finally caught up with the Town. Government (Federal, State and local) is subject to the same forces with respect to costs, as is private business. The Finance Committee recognizes its responsibility to the Town to be particularly diligent with respect to examin- ing requests for additions to the cost of government at a time such as the present. It is not satisfied that the Town could not be run more economically in some respects, but the savings that it envisages are relatively minor in the overall basic picture, for salaries and materials constitute the bulk of all expenses, and, without consolidating positions or departments, or reducing the quantity and quality of services to the public, it will be difficult to materially alter our total outlay. Since the voters cannot be expected individually to check into the matter of compensations of those who earn their livelihood by working for the Town, the Finance Committee considers it has a primary obligation to see that, in appropriations recommended, schedules of pay for em-
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ployees, particularly those on full time, are kept on a reasonable basis and are commensurate with work performed, and likewise, that the pay levels do not lag behind and are kept comparable with those of similar lines of work in private industry. Accord- ingly, something like $22,000, or more, of the total increase recommended this year is for higher wages and salaries.
.As pointed out last year, it seems to your Finance Com- mittee that some of the increase in the cost of local government in Massachusetts will have to be picked up by the State through a broadened tax base, for the property owner is bearing the expense to such a degree that we may be discouraging, and in effect, prohibiting home ownership.
In 1948, the budget recommended of $330,000 exceeds that of 1947 by $60,000 and comes on top of an increase last year of $20,000. The items in which there were increases of more than $500 are as follows :
Elections
$ 621
Police Department
1,700
Building Inspection
900
Highway Department
7,500
Welfare: Temporary Aid
2,000
Aid to Dependent Children
3,000
Old Age Assistance
12,000
Schools :
Salaries .
14,687
Other Expenses
3,700
860
Cemeteries
In addition, the appropriation included in the budget for Gar- bage Removal is up $1,000 and for Reserve Fund $8,000 over last year because these amounts were then taken from other available funds. The only principal decreases from last year are as follows :
Park Dept .: Expense $1,000
New Equipment
1,200
Insurance Vocational Tuition
400
500
In 1948, the articles recommended, total $23,050 as com- pared with $27,300 recommended and $12,300 voted last year. The principal items for 1948 are: Chapter 90 work $5,000. Riverview Terrace roads and water $13,000, Adelaide Avenue road and water $3,450, Dump, fencing and maintenance, $1300 and Lake Cochituate area, park study, $300.
The Town will be required to face squarely this year the two largest capital expenditures in its history-additions to the
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school plant and to the water system. As pointed out a year ago, the first may run from $500,000 to $600,000 and the sec- ond, from $100,000 to $300,000. The expenditures for water system improvements and additions need not necessarily place an added burden on the Town, if the matter is handled intelli- gently by the Town and if the water rates are revised. Those for the school additions are bound to affect the tax rate for a number of years to come.
The heavy expenses ahead, both budgetwise and for im- provements, point up the necessity that assessments be complete- ly reviewed and that inequities in the relationship of assess- ment to fair cash value be corrected, for it is only when there is confidence in the equality of taxation that our resident tax- payers can be expected to bear the burden of heavy taxation.
The Finance Committee's budget for the year 1948 is as follows :
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Finance Committee's Budget for 1948
1947 1947 Appropriated Expended
1947 Balance
1948 Recommended
GOVERNMENT Moderator Selectmen : Salaries :
$ 10.00 500.00
$ 500.00
175.00
Clerk
175.00
3d Member Expense
400.00
304.55
95.45
400.00
Accountant & Secretary to
Board of Selectmen :
Salary
1,900.00
1,900.00
2,100.00
Expense
170.00
170.00
225.00
Treasurer : Salary
900.00
900.00
1,000.00
Expense
400.00
400.00
450.00
Tax Title Sales Account
400.00
154.05
245.95
250.00
Collector :
Salary
2,200.00
From "Reserve"
352.06
2.552.06
2,500.00
Expense
500.00
365.82
134.18
500.00
Assessors :
Salaries :
2,200.00
2,158.34
41.66
Chairman
1,200.00
2d Member
500.00
3d Member
500.00
Expense Assessors' Maps (Town Atlas)
500.00
497.84
2.16
600.00
1,000.00
999.62
.38
1,000.00
$ 10.00
$
10.00
Chairman
150.00
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Assessors' Valuation Survey : Expense Clerk of Boards: Salary
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,650.00
Town Clerk: Salary Expense
400.00
400.00
500.00
300.00
280.23
19.77
350.00
Planning Board : Expense
1,200.00
1,053.60
146.40
1,700.00
Finance Committee : Expense
30.00
From "Reserve"
24.50
53.49
1.01
30.00
Town Counsel & Legal Claims
900.00
645.73
254.27
900.00
Elections : Officers
132.00
132.00
528.00
Expense
125.00
104.00
21.00
350.00
Registrars : Salaries :
Registration
100.00
100.00
100.00
Listing
400.00
400.00
400.00
Transportation
75.00
75.00
75.00
Clerical Work
150.00
150.00
150.00
Supplies :
375.00
.
From "Reserve"
43.15
418.15
500.00
Town Hall: Maintenance, Repairs,
Equipment
2,000.00
From "Reserve"
94.39
2,094.39
2,300.00
2,700.00
300.00
75.00
372.70
2.30
2,000.00
PROTECTION Police Dept. : Salary-Chief Transportation-Chief From "Reserve"
Expense
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1947 1947 Appropriated Expended
1947
1948
Balance Recommended
Expense (including salary ) From "Reserve" Purchase of Police Car & Expense Purchase of 2-way Radio
3,400.00
424.42
3,824.42
1,500.00
1,460.44
39.56
700.00
500.00
497.31
2.69
Fire Dept .: Expense (including salaries)
3,500.00
518.01
From "Reserve" From "Cash Refund"
2.00
4,020.01
4,000.00
New Equipment : Hose
900.00
900.00
Miscellaneous & Repairs
400.00
371.75
28.25
400.00
Repairs : Forest Fire Truck
200.00
198.20
1.80
Cochituate Station :
Bal. 1/1/47
150.00
132.30
17.70
200.00
193.86
6.14
250.00
Wire Replacement : Tree Trimming Oil Burner Inspection
300.00
Building Inspection :
500.00
500.00
1,200.00
Plumbing
200.00
Expense
200.00
From "Reserve"
115.32
315.32
200.00
Zoning Board of Appeals : Expense
25.00
24.24
.70
25.00
Moth Dept .: Expense : (includes wages) Private Work Town Work
500.00
500.00
500.00
1,300.00
1,285.44
14.56
1,500.00
Salaries : Building & Wire
200.00
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Tree Warden: Expense (includes wages) Pruning & First Aid Work at Private Contract . Planting Trees
600.00
580.80
19.20
600.00
400.00
400.00
400.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
Clearing & clean up of Civic Bldg. lot Sealer: Salary
125.00
125.00
125.00
Expense
50.00
46.51
3.49
50.00
HEALTH
Health Dept. : Board-salaries :
175.00
175.00
Chairman
50.00
Clerk
75.00
3d Member
50.00
Appropriation
1,700.00
1,199.24
500.76
2,200.00
Milk Inspection
25.00
25.00
25.00
Anti-toxin Test
50.00
50.00
50.00
Medical Inspection of Schools
150.00
150.00
150.00
School Dental Clinic
1,300.00
1,217.11
82.89
1,300.00
District & School Nurse : Salary
2,100.00
2,100.00
2,200.00
Transportation
500.00
500.00
600.00
Expense
75.00
74.92
.08
75.00
150.00
150.00
150.00
From "Bal. 1/1/47"
1,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
HIGHWAYS
Highway Dept. : (includes salaries and wages) From "Cash Refunds"
25,000.00
.
8.51
25,001.21
7.30
30,000.00
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Inspection of Animals Garbage Collection :
2,000.00
300.00
1947 Appropriated
1947 Expended
1947
1948
Balance Recommended
Snow Removal :
8,500.00
From "Reserve"
1,807.81
10,307.81
3,500.00
Care of Town Dumps :
300.00
From "Reserve"
50.00
223.08
126.92
200.00
Road Machinery Account
2,000.00
1,490.35
Art. 9
- closed to Road Machinery Fund
509.65
New Equipment :
2,500.00
From "Bal. 1/1/47"
3,007.95
5,220.86
287.09
5,000.00
Highway Lighting Chapter 90 Maintenance :
5,800.00
5,678.36
121.64
5,800.00
From Town
1,000.00
1,000.00
From State & County : - closed to Revenue
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Chapter 90 Construction : Old Conn. Path 1947 From Town
7,000.00
Art. 8
1947 From State & County
21,000.00
13,488.47
14,511.53
1946 From "Bal. 1/1/47" - closed to Revenue
8,192.95
5,479.82
2,713.13
Chapter 90 Construction : Sherman's Bridge 1947 From Town 1947 From State & County
1,000.00
3,000.00
4,000.00
WELFARE Public Welfare Board : Salaries : Board :
300.00 300.00
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2,000.00
2,999.88
Chairman 2d Member 3d Member Agent Visitor :
100.00
100.00
100.00
1,755.00
1,751.79
3.21
1,800.00
1,545.00
1,542.16
2.84
1,770.00
Transportation
500.00
224.38
275.62
Expenses (rents, etc.)
100.00
100.00
Temporary Aid : Appropriation :
10,000.00
From "Cash Refund"
19.50
9,656.48
363.02
12,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children : Appropriation From "Reserve"
7,000.00
500.00
7,495.91
4.09
10,000.00
Federal Grants :
Maintenance :
Bal. 1/1/47
397.67
Rec'd in 1947
2,653.79 .
2,945.64
105.82
Administration :
Bal. 1/1/47
179.66
Rec'd in 1947
288.22
467.88
Old Age Assistance :
Appropriation Federal Grants :
36,000.00
36,000.00
48,000.00
Maintenance :
Bal. 1/1/47
156.93
Rec'd in 1947
25,178.96
Transfer from "Adm."
352.23
25,688.12
Administration : Bal. 1/1/47
312.09
Rec'd in 1947
954.53
834.93
431.69
Veterans' Benefits :
Salary : Agent
150.00
150.00
150.00
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Expense Appropriation
1947 Appropriated 100.00 4,000.00
1947 Expended 77.20 2,350.16
1947 Balance 22.80 1,649.84
1948 Recommended 100.00 4,000.00
EDUCATION
Schools-General Control :
Superintendent : Salary
3,100.00
From "Reserve"
199.64
3,299.64
3,800.00
Other Expense
1,950.00
1,950.00
2,025.00
Instruction :
Teachers : Salaries
67,920.00
From "Reserve"
450.75
68,329.75
41.00
81,327.00
'l'extbooks & Supplies
4,600.00
From "Reserve"
2.70
From "Cash Refund"
573.15
5,175.85
5,200.00
Operation of School Plants :
Custodians' Salaries & Substitu
6,320.00
6,315.00
5.00
6,900.00
Fuel & Miscellaneous From "Reserve"
263.97
5,863.97
6,300.00
Buildings & Equipment :
3,000.00
Maintenance & Outlays From "Reserve"
120.55
3,120.55
4,500.00
Auxiliary Agencies :
Transportation
8,500.00
8,500.00
9,000.00
Health & Physical Education
1,500.00
From "Reserve"
7.18
1,507.18
1,700.00
5,600.00
Libraries Sundries
300.00 300.00
400.00
100.00
From "Reserve"
15.61
115.61
125.00
Schools-Special Accounts :
School Bldgs. & Grounds-General
Repairs : Bal. 1/1/47
1,232.19
1,232.19
Center Elementary School Bldg. Addition : Bal. 1/1/47
6,500.00
6,500.00
School Halls Rental Account
75.00
44.25
30.75
100.00
Vocational Tuition High School Flag Pole Fund
2,300.00
1,476.56
823.44
1,800.00
Bal. 1/1/47
44.00
44.00
Gifts from Donation Funds' Income
Bal. 1/1/47
9.92
9.92
Library & Reading Room: Appropriation
4,600.00
From "Dog Licenses"
877.08
5,448.30
28.78
4,800.00
Library Fund Income :
From "Bal. 1/1/47"
146.64
Rec'd 1947
1,012.75
983.44
110.97
Credit to "Int." & "Reserve"
64.98
Book Purchase Account
200.00
Library Building :
Heating & Insulation Bal. 1/1/47
1,365.12
957.25
407.87
General Repairs
Bal. 1/1/47
1,610.31
47.02
1,563.29
Roof Repairs
Bal. 1/1/47
2,904.84
2,904.84
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1947 Appropriated
1947 Expended
1947
1948
RECREATION
Park Commission: Expense
3,000.00
From "Cash Refund"
13.06
2,704.21
308.85
2,000.00
New Mowing Equipment
1,200.00
796.15
403.85
Life Guard-Dudley Pond
300.00
300.00
300.00
Baldwin's Pond
300.00
300.00
300.00
High School Athletic Field (grading, etc.) From Bal. 1/1/47
2,447.40
1,843.80
603.60
UNCLASSIFIED Reserve Fund
8,000.00
7,911.11
Bal. credited to "Overlay Surplus"
88.89
8,000.00
Memorial Day
450.00
From "Cash Refund"
.55
From "Reserve"
17.39
ยท 467.39
.55
450.00
Town Clocks
150.00
150.00
150.00
Town Reports :
850.00
From "Reserve"
42.75
892.75
1,000.00
Surety Bonds
450.00
407.50
42.50
450.00
Insurance
3,900.00
From "Reserve"
15.86
3,915.86
3,500.00
Notices of Meetings
100.00
100.00
100.00
Legion Post Quarters: Rent
600.00
600.00
600.00
Honor Rolls-maintenance
50.00
50.00
50.00
Balance Recommended
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Committee on Veterans' Services :
Bal. 1/1/47 159.93
159.93
Cochituate Civic Bldg .- Committee : Bal. 1/1/47 942.02
942.02
Welfare Claims for 1939 & prior years : Bal. 1/1/47
500.00
500.00
Purchase of Land in Riverview Terrace : Bal. 1/1/47
1,313.33
1,313.33
Purchase of "Heater Pieces": Bal. 1/1/47
280.49
- transferred to Claypit Hill Rd. account
(100.00)
180.49
Purchase of Land at junction of Claypit Hill & Plain Roads
100.00
100.00
Preliminary Town Expense of Betterments Fund
500.00
382.50
117.50
500.00
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE
Water Dept .: Salaries-Commissioners
150.00
150.00
50.00
Chairman Clerk
350.00
3d Member
50.00
Clerk
300.00
300.00
Ass't Clerk
100.00
100.00
Maintenance : (includes wages & salaries )
From "Water Available Surplus"
12,200.00
Art. 7
From "Reserve"
1,708.80
From "Cash Refund"
5.00
Hydrants
3,000.00
16,913.80
3,000.00
1947 Appropriated
1947 1947 Expended Balance
1948 Recommended
Committee on Water Survey :
Expense : Bal. 1/1/47
547.15
547.15
Printing Report : Bal. 1/1/47
500.00
68.90
431.10
Installation of Wells, etc .:
Bal. 1/1/47
19,257.20
17,921.41
1,335.79
CEMETERIES
Cemeteries : Salaries-Commissioners :
Clerk
100.00
100.00
100.00
Maintenance
From "Reserve"
140.80
3,380.80
3,600.00
Cemetery Service
1,000.00
From "Reserve"
350.00
1,350.00
1,500.00
Cemeteries-General Improvement
Bal. 1/1/47
20.88
20.88
Rehabilitation Work-North Cemetery
Bal. 1/1/47
349.50
349.50
Purchase of Land-Lakeview Cemetery :
Trimble prop. Bal. 1/1/47
1,000.00
1,000.00
Lupien prop. Bal. 1/1/47
800.00
800.00
Permanent Care Funds' Income :
Bal. 1/1/47
998.67
Rec'd in 1947
592.77
594.75 29.63
967.06
Credit to "Trust Fund Reserve"
3,240.00
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Parmenter Cemetery Fund's Income :
Bal. 1/1/47 233.76
Rec'd in 1947
135.00
138.78 223.23
Credit to "Trust Fund Reserve"
6.75
Cemetery Maps
500.00
MATURING DEBT AND INTEREST
910.00
910.00
780.00
Interest : High School Notes Miscellaneous
40.00
40.00
40.00
Maturing Debt: High School Notes
4,000.00
4,000.00
4,000.00
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The Finance Committee recommends that, in line with previous directives of the Town :
The Clerk of Boards be under the joint supervision of the Selectmen and the Board of Assessors, with part of her time devoted to the Assessors and part to clerical assistance to vari- ous other Town boards, the assignment of her work to be cleared through the Selectmen, the Assessors to have priority ;
The operation of dumps be under the supervision of the .Highway Department ;
The money from Dog Taxes be allocated in its entirety to the Library Expense Account ;
The District and School Nurse continue under the super- vision of the School Committee ;
The work on Assessors' Maps continue to be done under the joint supervision of the Planning Board and the Board of Assessors ;
The unexpended balance in the following accounts be transferred to the "Excess and Deficiency" account :
Police Dept .- Purchase of 2-way Radio $ 2.69 Fire Dept .- Forest Fire Truck Repairs 1.80
Fire Dept .- Cochituate Fire Station-Repairs 17.70
In addition to the sum of $1,000 included in the budget to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Maintenance and $5,000 in Article 8 to meet the Town's share of Chapter 90 New Construction, the sum of $2,000 for Chapter 90 Mainten- ance and $15,000 for Chapter 90 New Construction be trans- ferred from "Unappropriated Available Funds" in the Treasury to meet the County's and State's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the County and State to be restored upon their receipt to "Unappropriated Available Funds" in the Treasury.
The compensation paid the Tax Collector be set at 11/8% of collections.
The Finance Committee is glad to be able to report to the Town that, without exception the elected officials and the de- partment heads, have co-operated with the Committee in every way in the preparation of the budget, that the morale is good, and that they are treating town funds as would any good admin- istrators in private business. As the Finance Committee sees
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it, the townspeople could not ask for a more loyal group of employees, both paid and unpaid.
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE V. DEVERELL, JOHN R. McENROY, JAMES OTIS POST, JR., ROBERT M. MORGAN, Finance Committee, Town of Wayland.
February 7, 1948.
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VOTES ENACTED AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 5, 1947
Town Clerk's Office, Wayland, Massachusetts, March 5, 1947.
Howard S. Russell, Moderator :
Pursuant to the following warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland met this day and did the following business.
Article 1. To hear reports of the Town Officers, Agents and Committees, and act thereon.
Mr. William A. Loker read a report of the action taken by the Board of Selectmen under authority given them under Article 27 at the last Town Meeting March 6, 1946 in regard to the triangular piece of land at the intersection of Commonwealth Road, East Plain Street and School Street, Cochituate.
Voted unanimously that the Town accept with gratitude the gift of Edward M. Woodward, Jr. of the triangular, or heater piece located between the intersections of Commonwealth Road, East Plain Street and School Street, in that part of the Town known as Cochituate, as described in deed of said Edward M. Woodward, Jr. dated February 15, 1947 and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, and said land to be used by the Town for Park and other municipal purposes.
Voted that the reports of the Town Officers as reported in the Town Report be accepted without acting upon recommenda- tions.
Article 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers, Agents and Committees not elected by the official ballot.
Voted that John Connelly, Frederic A. Gibbs and Llewel- lyn Mills act as Trustees of the Allen Fund.
Voted that the Selectmen act as Fence Viewers.
Voted that the Constables act as Field Drivers.
Thomas F. Linnehan, Melville Loker and Arthur F. Mar- ston were elected as Surveyors of Lumber.
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Thomas F. Linnehan, Joseph Decatur and Arthur F. Mar- ston were elected as Measurers of Wood and Bark.
The following were elected members of the Memorial Day Committee :
Spanish War Veterans William Hardy, Frank C. Moore
World War Veterans I
James J. Bolton, William G. Curley, Cornelius J. Maguire, Joe Perodeau, Ronald S. Campbell World War Veterans II
Charles T. Morgan, Lester Reed Gerald, Thomas J. Callahan, Richard M. Francis, John H. Hampstead
Article 3. To grant money for necessary Town purposes.
Voted unanimously that the report of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted and its recommendations adopted :
That the sums of money recommended in the Finance Com- mittee's budget as printed with the addition of $5,000 for "Snow Removal" be granted, appropriated and assessed for the several specific purposes designated making a total budget appropria- tion of $278,397 and that the same be expended, only for the purposes shown, under the direction of the respective boards, committees and officers of the Town ;
That, in addition to the sum of $1,000, included in the budget to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Maintenance and $8,000 in Articles 7 and 8 to meet the Town's share of Chapter 90 New Construction and Repairs, the sum of $26,000 be transferred from available funds in the Treasury to meet the County's and State's shares of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to "Unappropriated Available Funds" in the Treasury ;
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