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Richard A. Gladu
Thomas Francis Linnehan
TRUSTEES OF THE ALLEN FUND
John Connelly Frederic A. Gibbs
1956
George W. Shepard]
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
Joseph H. Decatur 1
Thomas F. Linnehan }
1956
Arthur Marston
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER
Thomas F. Linnehan)
Arthur F. Marston .. 5 1956
FENCE VIEWERS
Board of Selectmen
1956
FIELD DRIVERS
Constables
1956
MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE
F. Clifton Haynes, Chairman
Gerald S. Baker
James E. Garvey
Roy J. Impey, Jr.
Charles F. Martell Clifford L. Wedlock Robert L. Whaley
Ronald H. Wood
DOG OFFICER
Ernest H. Damon 1956
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1956
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
Warren F. Lawrence 1956
DISTRICT NURSE
Mary E. McNeil 1956
MOTH SUPERINTENDENT
John E. Nelson 1956
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Richard A. Howard 1956
FOREST FIRE WARDEN
F. Clifton Haynes
1956
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Lewis W. Avard 1956
George B. Deverell 1956
Robert M. Morgan 1956
Theodore R. Magoun
1957
Charles Y. Wadsworth (Resigned)
1957
Georgia V. Alstad (Appointed to fill vacancy) 1957
Ray W. Harris
1957
Frank A. Larson
1958
INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
Warren F. Lawrence 1956
BURIAL AGENT AGENT VETERANS' BENEFITS
John W. Leavitt 1956
ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
F. Clifton Haynes, Chief 7
Homer L. MacDonald, Asst. Chief |
Frank H. Carter, Deputy Chief
1956
Parker H. Groton, Deputy Chief
Ernest H. Damon, Engineer
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS and PLANNING BOARD OF APPEALS
Dunbar Holmes 1956
Roger E. Ela
1957
George G. Bogren
1958
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Frank A. Larson 1956
Kimball C. Powning
1957
ZONING BOARD INSPECTOR
Homer L. MacDonald 1956
PERSONNEL BOARD
Edward A. Veno 1956
John Simoni 1957
John A. Brownell (Resigned) 1958
Henry G. Pearson, III (Appointed to fill vacancy) 1958
Archibald Cox
1959
TOWN COUNSEL WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AGENT
Roger P. Stokey (Resigned)
1956
Frank W. Kilburn (Appointed to fill vacancy) 1956
WIRING INSPECTOR BUILDING INSPECTOR
Homer L. MacDonald 1956
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
Timothy John Daly 1956
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
Leila Sears, Republican 1956
Waldo H. Russell, Republican
1956
Joe Perodeau, Democrat
1957
William R. Gallagher, Democrat
1958
ELECTION OFFICERS
Precinct 1
Willard B. Dik, Warden 1956
Maren L. Quinn, Clerk
1956
Daniel Sheehan, Inspector
1956
David B. Turner, Inspector
1956
Willis B. Ryder, Deputy Warden
1956
Anna G. Duggan, Deputy Clerk
1956
Charles M. Gillespie, Deputy Inspector
1956
Dunbar Holmes, Deputy Inspector
1956
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Precinct 2
Alvin B. Neale, Warden
1956
Madeline T. Hampstead, Clerk
1956
Frank A. Burke, Inspector
1956
Mary E. Payson, Inspector
1956
Parker H. Groton, Deputy Warden
1956
John J. McCann, Deputy Clerk
1956
Arthur E. Peck, Deputy Inspector
1956
Charles L. Smith, Deputy Inspector
1956
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
1635
O3ON
SUDBURY
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To any of the Constables of the Town of Wayland, in said County: Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in Town election to meet at their respective polling places, Precinct 1 in the High School Gymnasium, Precinct 2 in the Legion Hall, on
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1956
at 7:30 o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, one Library Trustee, Tree Warden, one Commissioner of Trust Funds and seven Constables, all for one year.
One member of the Planning Board for two years.
One Selectman, one member of the Board of Public Welfare, one member of the School Committee, one Assessor, one Water Commissioner, two Trustees of the Public Library, one Cemetery Commissioner, one member of the Board of Health, one Park Commissioner, one Road Com- missioner and one Commissioner of Trust Funds, all for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The polls will be open at 7:30 o'clock in the forenoon and will remain open continuously until 8:00 o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall be closed.
And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the High School Gym- nasium on
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956
at 7:45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles:
. Article 1. To hear the reports of the Town Officers, Agents and Committees and act thereon.
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Article 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers, Agents and Committees not elected by the official ballot.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Law establishing the Wage and Salary Classification Plan adopted March 3, 1954, as amended, in any of the following respects, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purposes thereof, or to take any other action relative thereto.
(a) Amend Article II, Section 1, of said Plan by deleting the heading "Maximum Merit" and inserting "10 years after" in place thereof; and also by deleting Section 2 of Article V.
(b) Insert after Article III the following new article: "Article III - A" "HOURS OF WORK"
"SECTION 1. The regular work week for office and clerical employees shall be 35 hours, Monday through Friday. The regular work week for all other Town employees shall be 44 hours.
"SECTION 2. Any salaried employee required to work overtime in any week shall be given compensatory time off, if practicable, and as soon as practicable. If it is impossible to allow compensatory time off without unduly interfering with the work of the department, the employee shall be compensated for the overtime work at an hourly rate equivalent to the employee's annual salary.
"SECTION 3. Time spent by Water Department employees on call or tending pumps on week-ends shall not be counted as part of the regular work week. A single Water Department employee who is detailed to be on call and/or tend the pumps on a week-end shall be compensated for time so spent at 50 per cent of his regular hourly rate.
"SECTION 4. Nothing in this article shall apply to the head of any department or to nurses employed by the Board of Health."
(c) Insert after Article V the following new article:
"Article V - A" "VACATIONS"
"SECTION 1. (a) All permanent employees who have been in the service of the Town for six months prior to June 1 of any vaca- tion year shall be entitled to one week annual vacation with pay.
"(b) All permanent employees who have been in the service of the Town for one year prior to June 1 of any vacation year shall be entitled to two weeks annual vacation with pay.
"(c) All permanent employees who have been in the service of the Town for ten years prior to June 1 of any vacation year shall be entitled to three weks annual vacation with pay.
"(d) All permanent employees who have been in the service of the Town for twenty years prior to June 1 of any vacation year shall be entitled to four weeks annual vacation with pay.
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"SECTION 2. Details of vacation practices and the computation of vacation pay shall be worked out for the several departments and agencies under the direction of the Personnel Board."
(d) Insert after new Article V - A the following new article: "Article V - B"
"HOLIDAYS WITH PAY"
"SECTION 1. All permanent Town employees shall be allowed the following State holidays without loss of pay: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Patriots Day (April 19), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to excuse a Water Department employee from serving his turn on call or tending pumps as assigned by his supervisor. When one of the foregoing holidays falls on a Sunday, the holiday will be observed on the following Monday. When a holiday falls on Saturday, an employee shall be paid for the number of hours of work regularly scheduled on Saturdays, but no employee shall re- ceive holiday pay for a Saturday who is not regularly scheduled to do Saturday work.
"SECTION 2. Full-time Police Department personnel assigned to duty on a holiday shall receive a compensatory day off."
(e) Insert after new Article V- B the following new article:
"Article V - C" "SICK LEAVE"
"SECTION 1. Each permanent employee shall accumulate sick leave at the rate of one day a month. The maximum accumulation shall be 90 days. Present employees shall be credited with sick leave proportionate to their past service accumulated at the same rate but not in excess of 45 days. Sick leave is for the protection of employ- ees against loss of pay because of illness and shall not be taken into account in figuring termination pay.
"SECTION 2. Not more often than twice in any calendar year an employee may be compensated at his regular rate during an ab- sence of not more than three consecutive working days if, but only if, the employing agency is satisfied that the absence was caused by the employee's illness. Sick leave with pay will be allowed more often than twice each year and for more than three consecutive working days only upon submission of a doctor's certificate satis- factory to the employing agency, which certificate shall be filed with the Town Accountant.
"SECTION 3. After three consecutive weeks' absence sick leave shall be paid at 80 per cent of the employee's regular pay."
(f) Amend Article VI, Section 1, by inserting after the words "between 10 P. M. and 6 A. M." the words "or between 6 P. M. Saturday and 6 A. M. Monday," so as to read -
"SECTION 1. An hourly rated employee (other than a police or fire department call man) required to work between 10 P. M. and 6 A. M. or between 6 P. M. Saturday and 6 A. M. Monday because
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of an emergency outside his regular working hours shall be paid a premium of twenty-five cents an hour in addition to his regular rate of pay."
(g) Amend Article II, Section 1, as amended March 9, 1955 by increasing the salary rate for each salaried classification in the further sum of $100 and each hourly wage rate in the further sum of 5 cents an hour.
This article has been inserted in the Warrant by the Personnel Board to make appropriate adjustments in the wages and other condi- tions of employment of Town personnel. The recommendations are made by the Board after consultation with the department heads. The follow- ing explanation was prepared by the Board:
"The proposed changes in the Wage and Salary Classification Plan fall into three groups: (1) adjustments required to correct de- ficiencies in the original Plan or adapt it to new conditions; (2) new sections relating to the length of the work week, holidays and vaca- tions, all designed to substitute a regularized system for the current unwritten, haphazard practices; and (3) a general wage and salary increase.
A more detailed explanation of each amendment follows:
(a) LONG SERVICE INCREASE. The effect of this amend- ment is to award a fifth step increase for long years of faithful service to the Town in place of the discretionary increased "reserved for recognition of special merit." The latter arrangement gave rise to considerable dissatisfaction because it was felt to present an un- reasonable choice between awarding it to all employees more or less automatically and reserving it for such special merit that no human could qualify. The proposed arrangement will result in an immediate $100 increase for a considerable number of the present Town employees.
(b) HOURS OF WORK. The original Wage and Salary Classi- fication Plan adopted at the 1954 Town meeting omitted any provi- sions establishing a regular work week for Town employees. The omission has caused two difficulties. First, some departments have suffered from confusion from the lack of a definite work schedule. Second, the absence of a stated work week for salaried employees has given rise to difficulties in promoting hourly rated employees who worked long hours to salaried positions because their annual earnings in the lower classification might exceed those in the salaried position. The work weeks established by the new plan will not up- set any department and conform to sound industrial and municipal practices.
The only substantial change in present conditions resulting from the amendment would be shortening from 48 to 44 hours the work week of the Police Department for which the established sal- aries are paid. Work in excess of the regularly established work week would be compensated by equivalent time off or additional pay at straight time rates.
The provision relating to week end work for Water Department employees arises from the practice of having one employee make
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himself available throughout the week end in case of trouble and to check the pumps. In past years every employee has been paid for a 48 hour week for 44 hours' regular work plus his week end on call. The new provision would result in approximately the same total compensation assuming that each Water Department employee stands a regular week end turn.
The provisions of the new article will not apply to department heads - Highway and Water Superintendents, Police Chief and Town Accountant-Office Manager - who are paid for their executive responsibilities and not for the time worked.
(c) VACATIONS. This new article would establish a uniform vacation plan for all Town employees except part-time workers. At present the several Town agencies follow different practices without any apparent reason for the lack of uniformity. The proposed plan would not seriously reduce the vacation benefits available to any Town employee. In some cases vacations would be unchanged. In a good many instances they would be more liberal. Vacation practices vary a good deal from town to town but are usually more generous than in industry because municipal salaries and wage rates are lower. The provisions recommended are substantially like the vaca- tion practices of the Town of Wellesley.
(d) HOLIDAYS. Proposed Article V - B would establish a standard Town policy with respect to the observance of holidays and holiday pay. At present most salaried employees receive holidays off without loss of pay and hourly rated employees are compensated for holidays by turning in payrolls counting them as hours worked. There is some variation in the number of holidays observed. The proposed article is as generous as any of the existing practices and lists the Massachusetts legal holidays.
(e) SICK LEAVE. Not all municipal wage and salary plans make provision for sick leave. Some do. The trend is toward writing sick leave provisions because the informal and rather haphazard arrangements followed in their absence have given rise to serious questions concerning the legality of the expenditures. Wayland em- ployees have received the benefit of a variety of arrangements dur- ing illness; they differ from department to department. The pro- posed article permits the accumulation of sick leave at a fairly standard rate for federal, state and municipal employees. It is more liberal, on the whole, than any present department practice. The administration of the plan will have to be carefully watched, and changes will undoubtedly be required to meet unforeseen problems or new developments.
(f) PREMIUM FOR EMERGENCY WORK. The only effect of the proposed change in Article VI is to make the 25 cents an hour premium for emergency work applicable to service on Saturday evening and Sunday. The premium is currently paid for all work between 10 P. M. and 6 A. M. It applies chiefly to snow plowing and is not to be paid for odd jobs on Saturday evening, such as lighting lanterns, except where the need results from a BONA FIDE emer- gency."
The Finance Committee concurs with the Personnel Board and recommends the approval of the article.
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Article 4. To grant money for necessary Town purposes. See Finance Committee Report
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and com- pensation of all elective officers of the Town, as provided by Section 108, Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended, and set the effective date of such salary and compensation.
It is necessary for the Town to fix annually, the salary or com- pensation of each elective officer. The Finance Committee recom- mends that the salary for elective officers be set as indicated in the budget and that they be effective from January 1, 1956. With respect to the salary of the Collector who went onto retirement pay from the County Retirement System during the year 1955, it is recom- mended that the amount paid by the Town from the Budget appro- priation be the difference between the retirement pay and the salary scheduled.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen: (1) to sell, or otherwise dispose of the present 1955 Chevrolet Police car, in connection with the purchase of a new car; (2) to sell, or otherwise dispose of the Water Department's present 1955 Chevrolet pick-up truck and the 1955 34-ton pick-up truck in connection with the purchase of two new trucks; (3) to sell, or otherwise dispose of the High- way Department's present 1950 Ford 2-ton truck, the 1955 Chevrolet 1/2-ton pick up truck and the 1947 FarmAll tractor; (4) to sell, or other- wise dispose of the Welfare Department's present 1954 Ford, the funds for the Police car, the Highway Department trucks and the Welfare Department car being provided for in the budget of the respective de- partments and the funds for the Water Department Trucks being pro- vided for in Article 8, or do or act.
Sale, trade-in or other disposal of property requires a vote of the Town. Police and Water Department trucks are now purchased on the basis of an annual trade-in. The Highway Department keeps its equipment for a longer period. The Welfare Department is set up to trade in on an every-other-year basis and it is expected that other departments will shortly be put on a similar schedule.
Article 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1956, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than a year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
In recent years, it has been necessary for the Town Treasurer to make temporary borrowings during the summer or fall in anti- cipation of the receipt of tax revenue for the current year. This article provides the necessary authority.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
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Article 8. To see if the Town will appropriate sums of money for the Water Department, determine whether the money shall be provided for by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, by taxation and/or by borrowing, or take any action relative thereto.
The sums of money required under this article are as follows:
(1) Water Coupon Notes, Bonds and Registered Notes - Maturing in 1956 - Payment of Principal $17,500.00
(2) Water Coupon Notes, Bonds and Registered Notes - Payment of Interest 2,540.75
(3) Water Department - Maintenance: Salaries:
Superintendent $4,600.00
2nd Man 3,740.00
Labor - permanent men 15,000.00
23,340.00
Appropriation
31,500.00
(4) Town Office - clerical, billing, collection work
2,800.00
(5) Purchase of - one new 1/2-ton truck 200.00
- one new 34 -ton truck 300.00
(6) New Meter Installation - for existing services 15,000.00
The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of $93,180.75 to cover the item listed in the article; that there be trans- ferred from "Water Available Surplus" the sum of $91,938.69; and that there be transferred from "Water Main Extensions - Pequot Rd." the balance of $1,236.90 and from "New Well and Pump - Article 15 - 3/4/53" the balance of $5.16 to "Water Coupon Notes, Bonds and Registered Notes -Payment of Principal," the three transfers together covering the appropriation total.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the reconstruction and improvement of Chapter 90 roads, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose, the work to be done under the supervision of the Road Commissioners, or take any action in relation thereto.
During the year 1955, Old Sudbury Road was rebuilt with new base and drainage from the Center to a point beyond the North Cemetery. This year, the Highway Department contemplates the final surfacing of the work begun last year.
Under this article the Finance Committee recommends the appro- priation of $4,000, with $4,000 to be matched by the County and $8,000 by the State, making a total of $16,000.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money to be used in conjunction with funds supplied by the Toll Road Authority for the reconstruction and re-laying of the main
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drain under Commonwealth Road West, or take any action in relation thereto.
In connection with the construction of the Toll Road, the Toll Road Authority, with the approval of the State Board of Health and the Metropolitan Water District Commissioners, authorized their contractor to cut the main drain on Commonwealth Road West at the shore of Lake Cochituate. This was done to expedite the con- struction of the foundation work on Toll Road. This main drain carries off the surface water from a substantial section of the center of Cochituate and because, from time to time the water has been found to be contaminated, it is felt that we should insist on the re- connection of the drain so that the water will continue to be carried through Framingham to the Sudbury River. Both the State and the Metropolitan Water District Commission are content to have the line dump into Lake Cochituate, but because of our use of the lake water for bathing purposes and because, due to possible future contamina- tion we might be faced with a requirement that we set up some sort of purification plant, it has seemed desirable that we have the matter settled at this time.
The Town Counsel has worked out a tentative agreement with the Toll Road Authority by which they have agreed to reconstruct the line on the condition that the Town pay 20% of the cost which, it is estimated, will come to between $6,000 to $8,000 for the Town.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of this article and the appropriation of $8,000 for the purpose.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept various con- veyances, gifts, and devises to the Town, or take any other action relative thereto.
This is the regular article which provides the opportunity for the Town to accept various gifts and conveyances. There are several items which the Town Counsel will propose to the Town in this connection.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to sell, or otherwise dis- pose of the following properties on Hawthorne Road:
(1) The portions of Lots 28 and 29 purchased by the Town from Gertrude M. Connors;
(2) Lot 59
said lots being shown on a plan recorded in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 268, Plan 17.
From time to time, a number of pieces of property have been purchased by the Town with a view to straightening out narrow, crooked roads, or to make possible the demolition of dilapidated, dan- gerous or unsafe buildings, unfit for human occupancy. When the rights-of-way have been established, or the buildings demolished, the Town has offered the remaining property for sale to abutters. This is a case in point. The Town Counsel recommends that the property be sold to the abutter.
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The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By- Laws by striking out Section 2 of Article 3, and in place thereof sub- stituting the following:
Article 3
Section 2. The Board of Selectmen shall cause an adequate supply of the full Town Report to be available in the Town Offices at Wayland Center, and in the Library in Cochituate, from which to furnish a copy to any interested person; and they shall cause to be sent to every registered voter at his registered address, a copy of the Warrant and Finance Committee's Report with Recommenda- tions, to be mailed not later than seven days before the date of the Town Meeting, or take any action relative thereto.
This and the following article were inserted in the Town War- rant at the request of the Special Committee appointed under Ar- ticle 26 of last year's Annual Meeting. The Special Committee was requested to make a study and make recommendations on the prep- aration of the Town Report and report back to the Town. The amendments to the By-Laws are being suggested to the Town as a result of the Committee's study.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of the article.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By- Laws by striking out Section 1 of Article 5 and substituting in place thereof the following:
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