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For the consideration of all other articles in this Warrant the meeting shall stand adjourned to the third Monday in March, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Elementary School on South Street in said town.
ARTICLE 2. To choose all other necessary Town Officers not named in Article 1, for a term of one year.
ARTICLE 3. To consider and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and other Town Officers.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 81 of the General Laws.
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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Sec- tion 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended, as follows:
Moderator $25.00 each Annual Meeting
15.00 each Special Meeting
Town Clerk
Town Treasurer
500.00 per year 800.00 per year
Selectmen, chairman
500.00 per year
Second Member
400.00 per year
Third Member
400.00 per year
Assessors, chairman
600.00 per year
Second Member
600.00 per year
Third Member
600.00 per year
Tax Collector
800.00 per year
School Committee, chairman
75.00 per year
School Committee, each member
60.00 per year
Water Commissioners, Chairman
150.00 per year
Second Member
150.00 per year
Third Member (Secretary)
500.00 per year
Auditor
200.00 per year
Constables
1.50 per hour
Tree Warden 1.50 per hour
or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the financial year ending December 31, 1958 and expressly for the following purposes to wit:
1. For the support of the Public Library.
2. For the Selectmen's current expenses and salaries.
3. For the Treasurer's current expenses and salary.
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4. For the Town Clerk's current expenses and salary.
5. For the Assessor's current expenses and salaries.
6. For the Tax Collector's current expenses and salary.
7. For the Board of Registrar's current expenses and salaries.
8. For the salary of Town Auditor.
9. For the Sealer of Weights and Measures' current expenses and salary.
10. For Board of Health current expenses and salaries.
11. For Wire Inspector, salary and expenses.
12. For Fire Department for current expenses and salaries.
13. For Water Department incidentals, pumping and salaries.
14. For support of School and salaries of School Committee.
15. For the payment of Insurance.
16. For Veterans' Benefits.
17. For Highways and Bridges, center of Town.
18. For Memorial Day.
19. For interest on Temporary Loans and Maturing Debt.
20. For Police Department.
21. For Tree Warden.
22. For Removal of Snow.
23. For Park Commissioners.
24. Town Forest Committee.
25 For heating and maintenance of Fire Station and Town Office Building.
26. For maturing debt.
27. For Welfare Agent.
28. For Street Lights.
29. For Moth Department.
30. For Vocational Education.
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31. For Regional School District Com.
32. For Planning Board.
33. For Industrial Development Committee.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to have the surety of the Collector of Taxes, Deputy Collector of Taxes, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Secretary of the Water Commissioners and Clerk of the Selectmen's bond placed with a fidelity or guarantee company, and appropriate a sum of money to pay for the same.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, be- ginning January 1, 1959 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 one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for a Reserve Fund to provide for the extraordinary unforeseen expenses, as authorized by Section 6, Chapter 40, General Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the operation of Road Machinery or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate or trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways, or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer, the sum of $1,294.11 or any other sum for the control of insects and Dutch Elm disease ($794.11 for Dutch Elm disease and $500 for insect control) as provided for under Chap. 132 of the Gen-
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eral Laws as amended by Chap. 657 Acts of 1956, and to be expended under the direction of the Moth Superintendent, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,046.50, this being the amount apportioned to Plain- ville as its share of the cost of the Norfolk County Retirement System, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $200.00, or any other sum, for the use of the athletic department of the schools, as provided for in Chapter 658, Acts of 1950, a revision of Sec. 47, Chapter 71, of the General Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $22,000, for the carrying on of the different categories of Welfare, made up approximately as follows: General Welfare, $2,500; Aid Dependent Children, $1,000; Old Age Assistance, $15,000; and Dis- abled Persons, $3,500, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise, appropriate, or transfer, from available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction (to finish the laying out and construction of George Street), or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept from the Guisti Construction Company Lot #42 on "Roelridge Acres Plat" or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, a sum of money to cover the cost of additional lighting at the junction of Routes 152 and 106, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200 or any other sum, for the purchase and installation of street and traffic signs, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer a sum of money for the purchase of a new supple- mentary fire truck or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the treatment of tuberculosis patients having a legal settlemen in this town as provided for by Chap. 270, Acts of 1952, repealing Chap. 562 of the Acts of 1951, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for Civilian Defense, or do or act in any man- ner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer, a sum of money for the purchase of a new truck and snow plow for the Highway Dept., and the money to pay for same to be transferred from Road Machinery Reserve account, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, a sum of money for the purchase of an automatic sand spreader or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase of a motorized sidewalk plow, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000 or any other sum to continue the new side- walk program, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,200 or any other sum to continue the drainage program, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer the sum of $2,175.10, to cover claims filed on the Town of Plainville, for assistance at the Forest Fires of May 1 thru 12, 1957, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer a sum of money for the purchase of a station wagon type cruiser, four door, 8 cylinder, equipped with standard heater and all necessary identification for police cruiser, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of seven mem- bers, to determine what disposition should be made of the "Town Hall Building" so called, formerly used as a school, and report its findings and recommendations to the Town at the next Town Meeting, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Water Survey Committee or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 33. To see whether or not the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners of the Town of Plainville :-
1. To lay water mains of not less than 6 inches but less than 16 inches in diameter in South Street, northerly from School Street to Berry Street, about 6,900 feet and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $85,800.
2. To lay water mains of not less than 6 inches but less than 16 inches in diameter in East Bacon Street and Messenger Street easterly from the present stand pipe to Taunton Street, about 6,300 feet and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $78,600.
And to determine the manner in which the foregoing appropria- tions, or either of them, shal be raised, whether by taxation or bor- rowing, by transfer of available funds or otherwise, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to acquire on behalf of the Town, by purchase or by eminent domain under Chapter 79, Massachusetts General Laws (T.E.), or otherwise, for purposes of the public water supply, the fee in the following described parcel of land :-
Starting at a point on East Bacon Street, 440 feet, more or less, from the intersection of the tangents at the northerly corner of East Bacon and George Streets; then by East Bacon Street in an easterly direction 50 feet, more or less, thence by a stone wall marking the property of the Town of Plainville in a northeasterly direction 155 feet, more or less, thence on the same course 315 feet, more or less to an angle point; thence northwesterly 1090 feet, more or less, to an angle point; thence southwesterly 500 feet to the property of the Town of Plainville; thence by land of the Town of Plainville 1130 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning; containing 13 acres, more or less :- or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $50.00, or any other sum, to cover the additional cost of printing the By-Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the follow- ing By-Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. 2/3 vote.
BY-LAWS ARTICLE I
Town Officers
Section 1. The Town at its Annual Meeting shall when the term of office of any incumbent expires, except when other provision is made by law, choose by ballot from its registered voters the following Town Officers for the following terms of office:
For Terms of One Year - One Moderator, One Town Clerk, One Auditor, One Tree Warden, Three Constables.
For Terms of Three Years (one to be selected each year) - Three Selectmen, acting as Welfare Board and Board of Health, Three Water Commissioners, Three Trustees of the Public Library, Three Assessors, Three Park Commissioners.
For Terms of Three Years (every year when the term of office of any incumbent expires, and except when provision is made by law)- Five Members of the School Committee, Two Members of the Regional School Committee, One Town Treasurer, One Tax Collector.
For Terms of Five Years (one to be elected each year) - Five Members of the Town Planning Committee in accordance with Article 30 voted and passed at the Town Meeting of March 4, 1957.
Section 1-A. There shall be a Board of Appeals, as provided for under Section 81-Z of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, to consist of three members to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, one for the terms of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and thereafter in accordance with the provision of statute.
Section 2. All Town officers and any committee not named in Section 1 of this Article shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, unless other provision is made by a vote of the Town, or unless other- wise provided for by statute.
Section 3. No members of any elected board or commission shall serve as Superintendent under the Board or Commission of which he is a member.
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Section 4. The Annual Meeting for the election of officers re- quired by law, or by these by-laws, to be elected by ballot, shall be held on the first Monday in March of each year.
Section 5. All business except the election of such officers, and the determination of such matters as by law are required, to be elected or determined by ballot, shall be considered by adjournment to the third Monday in March at 7:30 o'clock P. M.
ARTICLE II
Government of Town Meetings
Section 1. The number of voters necessary to constitute a quorum at any Town Meeting shall be Sixty (60), provided however that a number less than a quorum may from time to time adjourn the same.
This section shall not apply to such parts of meetings as are de- voted to the election of Town Officers.
Section 2. Warrants for the Town Meetings shall be directed to any Constable of the town or some other person, and it shall be the duty of said Constable or other person to warn the inhabitants of said meeting by posting attested copies of the warrant in not less than six public places seven days at least before the day of said meeting.
Section 3. The last day for filing of petitions with the Board of Selectmen for insertion of articles in the warrant for the annual town meeting shall be the second Tuesday in December in each year.
All petitioned articles calling for an appropriation of money to be inserted in the warrant shall be submitted to the Town Department in- volved by the petitioners on or before November 15. The department shall examine the request contained in the article and submit a recom- mendation as to the feasibility of the project requested and the reason- ableness of the price stated therein. Said recommendation, in writing, shall be attached to the petition and be returned to the sponsor within ten days for filing with the Board of Selectmen. Failure to obtain the recommendation of the department in question through no fault of the petitioner shall not constitute a bar to the filing of such petition with the Selectmen.
Section 4. The duties of the Moderator not especially provided for by law, or by these by-laws, shall be determined by the rules and practice contained in Cushing's Manuel of Parliamentary Practice, so far as they may be adapted to the circumstances and powers of the Town of Plainville.
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Section 5. A motion to reconsider any vote must be made before the final adjournment of the meeting at which the vote was passed, and such motion to reconsider shall not be made at an adjourned meeting unless the voter has given notice of his intention to make such a mo- tion, either at the session of the meeting at which the vote was passed, or by written notice to the Town Clerk within forty-eight hours after the adjournment of such session. There can be no reconsideration of a vote once reconsidered or after a vote not to reconsider.
Section 6. No article in the warrant shall again be taken under consideration after it has been disposed of by vote, unless ordered by a vote of two-thirds of the voters present and voting.
Section 7. No motion, the effect of which would be to dissolve a Town Meeting, shall be in order until every article in the warrant has been duly considered and acted upon, but this shall not preclude the postponement of action on or consideration of any article to an ad- journment of the meeting to a stated time.
Section 8. A vote to accept the report of a Special Committee shall place the report before the meeting, but shall not discharge the Committee. A vote to adopt or reject a report of a Special Committee with, or without amendment, shall discharge the Committee.
Section 9. At any Town Meeting held for the transaction of Town business, if the Moderator, or a vote of the meeting so orders, no person whose name is not on the list of voters shall be admitted to the floor of the hall, and such order may be enforced by the use of a check list, but the same shall not apply to the state election, primaries, or Town Meetings for the election of Town Officers, or be construed to prohibit press reporters from the meeting. The Moderator shall de- termine the bounds of the hall.
Section 10. No person shall speak for more than five minutes for the second time on any subject if there are any other citizens who de- sire to be, but have not been, heard on the same subject, without first obtaining leave of the meeting.
Section 11. Any report, resolution or motion shall be reduced to writing before being submitted to the meeting, if it is so requested by the Moderator.
ARTICLE III
Town Finance and Administration
Section 1. At the Annual Town Meeting there shall be chosen an Advisory Committee to consist of the Chairman of Selectmen, and Town Treasurer, together with five other legal voters of the town to
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serve for one year and said Committee shall have the power to fill any vacancy occurring in the Committee.
Section 2. The Chairman of Selectmen shall annually call the Committee together for organization within thirty days after the close of the Annual Town Meeting.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Finance Committee to con- sider all articles in any Warrant for a Town Meeting which call for the appropriation of money, and to recommend appropriate action to the voters of the Town. The Committee shall investigate the cost of main- tenance and the expenditures of the different departments of the Town service, and recommend in detail the amount to be appropriated for each department for the ensuing year.
Section 4. The Town Departments shall submit to the Selectmen on or before January first, each year, an estimate of the expenditures for the ensuing year which shall specify the amount estimated for (1) Salaries and wages, (2) Other department costs, (3) New equipment, if any, together with a tabulated expenditure of the past year.
Section 5. On or before January fifteenth of each year the Board of Selectmen shall present to the Committee an estimate of the expen- ditures of each department for the ensuing year, together with the tab- ulated expenditures of the two preceding years. Copies of all petitioned articles to be inserted in the warrant shall be transmitted to the Finance Committee on or before January first.
Section 6. The Finance Committee shall at least seven (7) days prior to the holding of the business session of an annual or special Town Meeting make public its recommendations regarding the articles to be considered at said meeting. In making its recommendations for the operation of all Town departments the Committee shall specify the amount recommended for (1) Salaries and wages, (2) Other department costs, (3) New equipment, if any.
Section 7. The Board of Selectmen shall within ten days of re- ceipt of the report of the State Audit of the municipal accounts trans- mit a copy thereof to the Finance Committee Chairman. Such report shall be available to all members of the Committee.
Section 8. Any transfer from the Reserve Fund shall be made by a majority vote of the Finance Committee, but only after due consid- eration of the request indicates that the transfer is for extraordinary or unforeseen expenditures.
Addendum to Section 1. The Moderator shall appoint a Commit- tee of five (5) to bring in the names of at least eight (8) legal registered
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voters of the Town for nomination to the Finance Committee and fur- ther nominations can come from the floor after which a Committee of five (5) shall be chosen by a ballot vote for the term of one (1) year.
ARTICLE IV
Town Officers and Records
Section 1. All Town Officers shall turn over to their successors in office, at the expiration of their term of office, all books, papers, doc- uments, or other property in their custody belonging to the Town and not necessary for the immediate use of their respective departments; and these shall be deposited in the Town Clerk's vault, unless otherwise provided by law.
Section 2. Each officer, board or committee of the Town shall annually file with the Selectmen a full and comprehensive statement of all its acts, a review of its condition, a financial statement and estimate of the appropriation needed for the ensuing year.
Section 3. The Selectmen before the annual Town Meeting shall, at the expense of the Town, print the annual Town report for the use of the inhabitants, and in addition to the departmental reports for the municipal year and other reports and matters required by law, the book shall contain:
(A) A complete list of the Town Officers with expiring date of office, and showing the organization of the different boards.
(B) Copies of the warrant for the annual and special Town Meet- ings held during the year, together with the minutes of the Town Clerk, showing the action taken at each meeting, and a copy of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting for the ensuing year.
(C) A report of all claims that are outstanding and all suits of which the Town is a party.
(D) A list of what betterments have been assessed during the municipal year.
(E) A report of what corporations have been granted franchises by the Town during the municipal year, with a copy of the franchise.
(F) A tabulated statement showing the object of each appropri- ation for the year, the amount appropriated, the amount expended, the balance unexpended or the amount overdrawn, if any, in each instance, and an itemized list of all unpaid bills and obligations.
(G) A classified statement of all expenditures and receipts of the Town in detail, so as to give a fair and full exhibit of the objects and methods of all expenditures.
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Section 4. Officers, boards and committees submitting an annual report shall file the same with the Selectmen at least by January fif- teenth previous to the annual town meeting.
Section 5. All town officers, boards and committees shall notify the Town Clerk of their organization and of their office hours or times of stated meetings.
Section 6. No officer of the town shall, in his official capacity, make or pass upon or participate in making or passing upon, any sale, contract, or agreement or the amount or terms of any payment in which the Town is interested and in which such officer has any personal finan- cial interest, direct or indirect.
Section 7. No Town Officer and no salaried employee of the town or any agent of any such officer or employee, shall receive any com- pensation or commission for work done by him for the Town, except his official salary and fees allowed by law without the permission of the Selectmen expressed in a vote which shall appear on their records with the reason therefor.
Section 8. No contract involving an obligation of the Town ex- ceeding the sum of ($500.00) shall be binding upon the Town unless it is in writing and is signed by at least a majority of the board or com- mittee duly authorized or having control of the appropriation against which such obligation is incurred, and such board or committee shall make a record of every contract in a book which shall be the property of the Town. No contract or preliminary plans and specifications therefor shall be split or divided for the purpose of evading the pro- vision of this section.
Section 9. Every officer or board in charge of a department, and every committee of the Town, when authorized to purchase any sup- plies or property, or to do any public work, or erect, construct or re- pair any building, the cost of which exceeds Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, shall make a written contract therefor; and before executing any such contract, shall invite proposals therefor by advertising in one or more newspapers circulated in the Town of Plainville, such notice or proposals to state the time and place for opening proposals, and re- serving the right of such officer or board or committee to reject any or all bids or proposals.
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