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Schedule of Estimated Receipts
Schedule of Appropriations, Balances carried forward, Transfers, amounts expended and unexpended balances.
Schedule of Maturing Debt and interest payments due by years. Balance Sheet as at December 31, 1958, including Trust Accounts and Debt Account.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD OSTERHOLM,
Treasurer for the Town of Plainville
Dated January 26, 1959
CASH RECEIVED - DECEMBER 31, 1958
Tax Levy-1955 Account-Personal
$ 239.85
239.85
Tax Levy-1956 Account
Real Estate
1,643.16
Personal
1,079.52
2,722.68
Tax Levy-1957 Account
Real Estate
17,335.47
Personal
901.76
Poll Tax
4.00
18,241.23
1958
ANNUAL REPORT
151
Tax Levy-1958 Account
Real Estate Personal Poll
257,203.99 27,209.00
1,600.00
286,012.99
Federal Grants:
Old Age Assistance
9,159.35
Disability Assistance
1,505.75
Old Age Administration
860.81
Disability Administration
137.76
11,663.67
Dog Taxes
991.00
School Lunch
15,946.80
Highway Reserve
1,236.20
Old Age-Surplus ,
1,021.60
Refunds-Police
127.25
Refunds-Athletic
8.44
Refunds-Disability
13.92
Refunds-Water
27.60
Refunds-Old Age Assistance
136.82
Refunds-Treasurer
39.05
Refunds-Veterans
55.00
Refunds-Welfare
92.37
Refunds-Insurance
1,762.61
State Aid Highways-Chapter 81
10,593.47
Chapter 90 Highways
7,500.00
Revenue Notes
50,000.00
Tax Titles
494.90
Interest-School Fund
21.82
Checks Cancelled
93.88
Forest Fire
1,920.57
Sale of Land
1,000.00
93,083.30
Estimated-Schedule
176,499.91
588,463.63
Cash Balance, January 1, 1958
133,357.64
$721,821.27
CASH PAID - DECEMBER 31, 1958
Abatements-1957 Motor Vehicles $ 128.01
1958 Motor Vehicles 265.45
1958 Tax Levy
160.00
152
TOWN OF PLAINVILLE
1958
State and County:
County Hospital
2,705.32
County Tax
6,082.76
State Parks
1,163.50
Mosquito Control
1,764.85
Federal Grants:
Old Age Assistance
7,700.00
Disability Assistance
1,644.09
Old Age Administration
848.52
Disability
132.00
Water Commissioner
24.33
Revenue Notes
50,000.00
School Lunch
15,333.79
Athletic Fund
221.08
School Construction
51,388.62
Dog Tax Payments
991.00
140,553.32
Schedule of Appropriation Payments
476,966.35
617,519.67
Cash Balance, December 31, 1958
104,301.60
$721,821.27
Schedule of Estimated Receipts
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS:
Old Age Assistance
$11,575.59
Aid Dependent Children
26.58
Disability Asistance
2,979.32
Disability Administration
43.87
Meal Tax
862.90
Agricultural
50.00
Corporation Business Tax
6,445.89
Income Tax
37,185.71
School Building Assistance
5,698.12
School Building Assistance
9,971.40
Corporation Tax
4,620.00
Forest Fire-Refund
5,274.33
County License
8.00
Loss in Taxes
30.12
Veterans' Benefits
88.00
Public Health
56.43
1958
ANNUAL REPORT
153
Department of Education
4,555.50
School Superintendent
4,342.93
Contagious Diseases
439.50
Vocational Education
60.50
94,314.69
OTHER SOURCES:
Rents
170.00
Building Permits
435.50
Library Fines
60.64
Court Fines
66.00
County Dog Tax
667.78
Interest and Charges
1,236.23
North Attleboro-Welfare
61.05
Wrentham-Welfare
5.99
Needham-Welfare
95.29
Attleboro-O. A. A.
302.28
Sale of Scrap-Fire
5.00
Sale of Equipment-Fire
155.50
Sale of Equipment-School
99.00
Sale of Equipment-Highway
25.00
Sale of Books-School
4.00
Milk Licenses
43.00
Oil Burner-Permits
44.50
Wire Permits
7.00
Police Pistol Permits
154.00
Sand and Gravel Permits
25.00
Parking Rent
100.00
Refund-Police
.70
Interest-Tax Title
4.23
Sealer of Weights
83.55
Insurance Dividends
394.89
Liquor Licenses
4,550.00
Other Licenses
1,555.00
Old Age Assistance Recovery
2,500.00
12,851.13
Revenue Accounts:
Excise Tax 1956 Account
10.17
Excise Tax 1957 Account
8,583.27
Excise Tax 1958 Account
37,940.26
Water Rates and Supplies
22,800.39
69,334.09
$176,499.91
APPROPRIATIONS, TRANSFERS, PAYMENTS AND BALANCES
Accounts
Appropriations
Refunds & Transfers
Payments
Balance
Public Library
$ 2,031.50
2,031.50
Selectmen
6,506.50
6,505.36
1.14
Treasurer
1,600.00
39.05
1,626.58
12.47
Town Clerk
875.00
837.48
37.52
Assessors
2,500.00
2,372.75
127.25
Tax Collector
1,300.00
1,286.27
13.73
Registrars
1,000.00
966.84
33.16
Town Auditor
200.00
200.00
Sealer of Weights
165.00
149.22
15.78
Board of Health
2,980.00
2,980.00
Wire Inspector
250.00
250.00
Fire Dept .- General
11,012.20
10,813.89
198.31
Fire Dept .- Claims
2,175.10
2,038.65
136.45
Fire Dept .- Forest Fires
400.00
345.79
745.79
Water Dept.
14,256.89
27.60
13,728.75
555.74
Land Taking
1,000.00
1,000.00
School Department
110,544.67
21.82
110,566.32
.17
Insurance
3,671.82
1,762.61
4,082.28
1,352.15
Veterans' Benefits
2,000.00
137.72
2,137.72
Highway-Center
6,200.00
6,195.21
4.79
Highway-Truck
5,000.00
4,847.42
152.58
Highway-Sander
2,123.00
1,985.00
138.00
Memorial Day
200.00
160.00
40.00
Interest
12,000.00
10,890.67
1,109.33
Police Department
12,764.50
747.15
13,511.65
Accounts
Appropriations
Refunds & Transfers
Payments
Balance
Police Cruiser
1,400.00
1,367.88
32.12
Town Forest and Warden
675.00
652.85
22.15
Snow Removal
8,000.00
9,237.36
1,237.36
Public Park
3,050.00
2,956.07
93.93
Building Maintenance
1,615.00
500.00
2,111.63
3.37
Maturing Debt.
30,000.00
30,000.00
Welfare Agent
1,050.00
1,050.00
Street Lights
7,466.00
7,466.00
Industrial Commission
245.00
255.43
153.68
346.75
Planning Board
100.00
315.76
120.22
295.54
Vocational Education
500.00
496.02
3.98
Regional School
145,414.22
145,414.20
.02
Officials' Bonds
346.65
346.65
By-Law Committee
50.00
200.00
250.00
School Planning
380.00
380.00
Chapter 90 Highways
1,050.00
2,000.00
3,048.31
1.69
Chapter 81 Highways
4,750.00
9,900.00
14,649.29
.71
Dutch Elm Trees
1,294.11
1,070.30
223.81
Retirement System
2,046.50
2,046.50
Welfare Department
22,000.00
248.49
22,064.98
183.51
Chapter 90 Construction
10,745.73
8,477.98
2,267.75
Street Signs
200.00
196.56
3.44
T. B. Patients
1,080.00
691.40
388.60
Civil Defense
295.00
266.11
28.89
Water Meters
509.76
509.76
Water Extensions
525.95
525.95
Water Survey
5,598.26
5,419.96
178.30
Accounts
Appropriations
Refunds & Transfers
Payments
Balance
Highway Garage Fire Truck Purchase
1,000.00
998.29
1.71
15,000.00
14,995.00
5.00
Athletic Fund
200.00
200.00
$430,583.66
$55,261.12
$477,166.35
$9,915.79
Less Overdraft
1,237.36
$8,678.43
Accounts Carried Forward to 1959:
Water Land Taking
$1,000.00
Interest-Bond
277.50
Planning Board
295.54
School Planning
380.00
Chapter 90 Construction
2,266.75
Water Extension
525.95
4,745.74
Transferred to Surplus
5,170.05
$9,915.79
SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS - DECEMBER 31, 1958 Schedule of Bonds and Interest Payable Yearly
December
$50,000.00
$275,000.00-2% 200,000.00-3.7% Issue
Total
Outstanding
Payable Interest
1958
$355,000.00
1959
5,000.00
25,000.00
30,000.00
325,000.00
10,145.00
1960
5,000.00
25,000.00
30,000.00
295,000.00
9,375.00
1961
25,000.00
25,000.00
270,000.00
8,605.00
1962
25,000.00
25,000.00
245,000.00
7,935.00
1963
25,000.00
25,000.00
220,000.00
7,265.00
1964
25,000.00
25,000.00
195,000.00
6,595.00
1965
25,000.00
25,000.00
170,000.00
5,925.00
1966
20,000.00
20,000.00
150,000.00
5,255.00
1967
20,000.00
20,000.00
130,000.00
4,685.00
1968
20,000.00
20,000.00
110,000.00
4,115.00
1969
20,000.00
20,000.00
90,000.00
3,545.00
1970
20,000.00
20,000.00
70,000.00
2,975.00
1971
10,000.00
10,000.00
60,000.00 50,000.00
2,405.00
1972
10,000.00
10,000.00
2,035.00
1973
10,000.00
10,000.00
40,000.00
1,665.00
1974
10,000.00
10,000.00
30,000.00
1,295.00
1975
10,000.00
10,000.00
20,000.00
925.00
1976
10,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
555.00
1977
10,000.00
10,000.00
185.00
$10,000.00
$345,000.00
$355,000.00
$85,485.00
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BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1958
Assets
Liabilities and Reserves - Surplus
Cash
$104,301.60
OVERLAY RESERVES: Tax Levy-1956 Account 444.58
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE:
Tax Levy-1956 Account
453.04
Tax Levy-1957 Account
6,019.90
Tax Levy-1958 Account
14,309.01
REVENUE RESERVES:
Tax Titles
2,503.33
Tax Title Possession 467.41
Motor Vehicle Excise
6,446.21
Water Rates and Supplies
1,576.56
State Aid to Highways
5,317.76
16,311.27
DEPARTMENTAL: Water Rates 1,576.56
FEDERAL GRANTS:
Old Age Assistance
2,196.00
STATE and COUNTY AID-HIGHWAYS:
Chapter 81-Highways
3,317.76
Chapter 90-Highways 2,000.00
5,317.76
State and County Taxes
1,683.19
Elementary School Construction
1,814.64
TAX TITLE and POSSESSIONS:
Road Machinery Reserve
1,084.15
Sales of Real Estate
3,339.00
Tax Titles
2,503.33
Tax Title Possession 467.41
2,970.74
APPROPRIATION BALANCES-FWD .:
Water Dept. Land Taking 1,000.00 Interest-Bonded Debt. 277.50
FEDERAL GRANTS: Disability Assistance
128.18
Planning Board Committee 295.54
2,617.18
20,781.95
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX:
Excise Tax-1957 Account
501.16
Excise Tax-1958 Account 5,945.05
6,446.21
Aid Dependent Children 654.68
Old Age Assistance-Adm. 82.16
Disability Assistance-Adm. 39.65
2,972.49
Overlay Surplus
2,513.53
Tax Levy-1958 Account 2,172.60
School Lunch Snow Removal Overdraft Overlay Reserved-Tax Levy 1957 Account
167.04
School Planning Committee
380.00
1,237.36
249.05
Chapter 90 Construction 2,266.75 Water Extensions 525.95
4,745.74
Surplus Revenue
109,461.64
$144,859.64
$144,859.64
REHABILITATION - STABILIZATION FUNDS and TRUST ACCOUNT
Post War Rehabilitation-Cash
$ 863.14
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
$ 863.14
Tennis Court Fund-Cash
156.01
Tennis Court Fund
156.01
Library Stabilization-Cash
273.21
Library Stabilization Fund
273.21
School Trust Account-Cash
727.30
School Fund
727.30
Plainville War Relief-Cash
254.27
War Relief Fund
254.27
$2,273.93
$2,273.93
NET FUNDED OR FIXED DEBT
Funded or Fixed Debt
$355,000.00
School Buildings $355,000.00
160
TOWN OF PLAINVILLE
1958
REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen-
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit to you my report as Collector of Taxes for the year ending December 31, 1958.
1955 Account
Uncollected
Collected
Abated
Uncollected
Personal
239.85
239.85
None
1956 Account
Personal
1,091.79
1,079.52
12.27
Real Estate
2,257.98
1,643.16
174.05
440.77
Excise
332.69
10.17
322.52
None
1957 Account
Poll
20.00
4.00
16.00
None
Personal
3,639.11
901.76
2,737.35
Real Estate
20,851.07
17,335.47
233.05
3,282.55
Excise 5,926.45
Warrants 4,741.59
10,668.04
8,583.27
1,583.61
525.87
(Overpaid Treasurer)
24.71
1958 Account
Uncollected
Collected
Abated
Tax Title
Uncollected
Poll
1,638.00
1,600.00
20.00
18.00
Personal and Farm 29,504.00
27,209.00
138.00
2,157.00
Real Estate
278,164.00
257,203.99
8,076.00
750.00
12,134.01
Excise
46,193.82
37,940.26
2,308.51
5,945.05
1955
1956
1957
1958
Interest Paid Treasurer
$41.15
$189.12
$504.41
$109.05
Charges Paid Treasurer
1.05
14.95
199.70
176.75
1958
ANNUAL REPORT
161
Appropriation
Appropriation
$1,300.00
Salary
800.00
J. F. Brennan, Postmaster, Stamps and Envelopes
223.00
North Attleboro Chronicle, Printing
127.50
Clerical
25.00
Insurance, Personal Liability Policy
12.98
G. P. Dennison, Dept. Collector of Taxes- Salary and Bond, 2 years
35.00
Hobbs & Warren, Record Books and Binder 52.20
Carnegie Co., Office Supplies 8.59
Blackstone Valley Typewriter Co., Rubber Stamp
2.00
$1,286.27
Balance
$ 13.73
Respectfully submitted,
THEODORE A. WICKMAN,
Collector of Taxes
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS
To the Honorable Board of Fire Engineers:
The year 1958 has been a busy year for this department but due to frequent rains the forest fire loss was less than in 1957. A marked increase in incendiary fires was noted and investigated. A recent change in the General Laws in regard to this states that there shall be a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than two years for this offense. Also the town may recover in an action of tort, brought within two years after the action accrues, against any such person the expense of extinguishing such fire.
The department's 750 G. P. M. International Pumper was delivered by the Maxim Motor Co. in the spring and has proven to be the most valuable unit of the department.
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1958
Other new additions to the station has been the auxiliary generator purchased through Civil Defense 1957 Matching Funds. This genera- tor can supply the Fire Dept., Police Dept. and all Town offices with emergency power. Also we have received an auxiliary gasoline motor to operate the air compressor for the Fire Alarm, under this program.
The Fire Alarm system was extended this year to the Wrentham line on South Street and to Wilkins Four Corners. New alarm boxes were installed at Fuller Street, Cross Street, Berry Street, Route 1 and 106, Route 106 and George Street and at Wilkins 4 Corners.
With the additions of new industries in Plainville the role of the department has become more diversified and dangerous. Therefore, we are this year asking for a sum of money to equip Engine No. 1 with a 400-gallon water tank, also, money to purchase more Scott Air Packs so that we will be able to better equip the men in the department.
This year we have had an extensive training program in the de- partment with emphasis on the new concept of fire fighting that is necessary with the addition of new industries in town. Every new industry calls for different methods and equipment in fire fighting. Therefore, our training program is essential to maintain the high efficiency of the department.
We wish to again call your attention to the condition that exists in regards to our ladder truck. This piece of apparatus is now 30 years old and will have to be replaced in the near future. We believe that the Town should set aside a sum of money each and every year for the replacement of equipment.
We wish to thank you for your cooperation this past year. We also wish to thank the Police Department, Highway Department, and the Civil Defense Fire Department for their cooperation with this depart- ment. We also wish to thank the officers and personnel of the Fire Department for their splendid cooperation and effort throughout the year.
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Summary of Activities
Building calls
30
Grass and brush calls
54
Car fires, accidents
7
Rescues and first aid 8
Animal rescues 5
1958
ANNUAL REPORT
163
Lockouts
1
False alarms
2
Practices
25
Lost persons
3
Flooded cellars
7
Other
16
Total
158
Respectfully submitted,
CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR. DONALD E. MCALPINE DAVID B. LOMASNEY Board of Fire Engineers
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Chief C. E. Skinner, Jr.
$ 400.00
Deputy Chief D. E. McAlpine
175.00
Deputy Chief D. B. Lomasney
175.00
Balance of department
2,191.02
$2,941.02
Expenses:
Worcester County Electric Co.
270.02
North Attleboro Gas Co.
8.85
New England Tel. & Tel. Co.
520.58
Gas, oil, grease
516.64
Apparatus maintenance
1,147.64
Insurance on men
312.65
Due, books, literature
72.83
Travel expenses
120.00
Radio maintenance
184.53
Chief's car expenses
151.00
Hose-1000 ft. 21/2", 200 ft. 11/2", 10 ft. 41/2" suction
1,476.83
Supplies
243.13
Tools
49.73
Boots and Coats
101.00
Engine No. 4 Equipment
682.40
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1958
Equipment:
1 Scott Air Pack
$226.71
2 Salvage covers
63.50
Fog nozzle deck gun
87.60
1 27" Wire Cutters
30.11
Boot and Coat Straps
56.00
Misc.
94.84
$558.76
Fire Alarm:
Gamewell-Labor, Fire Whistle
73.55
Supplies and Fixtures, Compressor
165.68
Labor
682.00
Supplies and Equipment
66.75
$987.98
Total Expenditures
$10,345.59
Total Appropriated
11,012.40
Balance
$ 666.81
FOREST FIRE ACCOUNT
Appropriation:
$400.00
Transfer E & D (Finance Com.)
349.79
Transfer Salary Account Fire Dept.
451.25
$1,197.04
Expended:
Payroll:
Chief C. E. Skinner, Jr.
$ 98.00
Deputy Chief D. E. McAlpine
79.63
Deputy Chief D. Lomasney
63.88
Balance of men
920.73
$1,162.24
Food, May 10
14.55
October 16
20.25
34.80
$1,197.04
165
ANNUAL REPORT
1958
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
The Plainville Board of Health wishes to thank the townspeople for their cooperation in helping us keep the Town Disposal in good condition.
Also the Plainville Beagle Club for use of nearby gravel for cover- ing purposes.
Several complaints were investigated by the Board during the year, concerning cesspools, poor housing conditions and accumulated junk. Mr. Putnam Steele, Sanitation Inspector, has made routine inspection of all eating and drinking establishments during the year and checked all bacteria count in milk and cream sold in the Town.
The Board of Health regulations on sewage disposal were adopted on April 9, 1958 and put into effect on April 17, 1958.
On file with this Board the Dangerous Disease Records show the following:
Chicken Pox
47
German Measles
5
Mumps
2
Salmononellosis
2
Scarlet Fever
2
Measles
90
Whooping Cough
2
Dog Bites 13
Respectfully submitted,
LEROY B. WILSON, Chairman LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
Plainville Board of Health
166
TOWN OF PLAINVILLE
1958
BOARD OF HEALTH
Appropriation:
$2,980.00
T. B. Patients
1,080.00
$4,060.00
John Bielecki, Garbage Contract
$1,600.00
William Stierli, Rental of Dump
150.00
Care of Dump, Labor and Equipment
242.45
1,992.45
Salaries:
Earle B. Thompson, Inspector of Animals
180.00
Putnam Steele, Sanitary Inspector
500.00
William Guillette, M. D., Town Physician
100.00
780.00
Plainville Cemetery, Care of Veterans' Graves
110.00
Sheperdsville Cemetery, Graves
28.00
James E. Brennan, Postmaster
20.00
Bessie Barton, salary
90.00
Plainville Drug, Flu Vaccine
15.80
Association Dues and Expenses
14.00
Miscellaneous Supplies
21.65
Legal Advertisements
25.00
324.45
T. B. Patients:
Norfolk County Hospital, T. B. Patient
297.00
North Attleboro, T. B. Patient 196.50
North Attleboro District Nursing Ass'n
81.00
574.50
Total Expended
$3,671.50
Balance
388.60
167
ANNUAL REPORT
1958
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MILK AND DAIRIES
To the Honorable Board of Health:
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Milk and Dairies for the Town of Plainville, for the year ending December 31, 1958.
Milk Licenses issued-42 @ 1.00 $42.00
Cash paid to Town Treasurer 42.00
Respectfully submitted,
EARL B. THOMPSON,
Milk Inspector
REPORT OF THE NORFOLK COUNTY MOSQUITO CONTROL PROJECT
To the Citizens of Plainville:
Submitted herewith is the report of the Norfolk County Mosquito Control Project of its activities in the Town of Plainville for the year ending December 31, 1958.
Aerial Spraying
817 Acres
Ground Spraying 110 Acres
Catch Basins Treated 185
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN C. KUSCHKE,
Superintendent
168
TOWN OF PLAINVILLE
1958
REPORT OF THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
The year 1958 was another busy year for the Highway Department. The usual amount of maintenance of roads, catch basins and minor drainage problems were taken care of satisfactorily.
The following streets were surface-treated with one-quarter gallon per square yard of R. C. 2 asphalt with a sand cover; Bacon Square, Warren Street, a distance of 2,600 feet. Peck Road, Hawkins Street, Chestnut Street, a distance of 1,000 feet, Park Avenue, Garfield Street, Harvard Street, Grant Street, State Street, Pearl Street, Berry Street, a distance of 2,374 feet, Cross Street, Vernon Young Drive, Cowell Street, a distance of 800 feet, George Street, a distance of 850 feet, and High Street, a distance of 5,280 feet.
Mathurin Road, a distance of 750 feet and Cowell Street, a distance of 1,000 feet were penetrated with three-quarter gallon of M. C. 2 per square yard and sealed with one-quarter gallon of R. C. 2 asphalt with a sand cover.
One catch basin and eighty-three feet of ten inch A.C.C.M. Pipe was installed on Fletcher Street near the railroad bridge.
One catch basin and thirty feet of ten-inch cement pipe on Ever- green Road, one catch basin and twenty-eight feet of ten-inch cement pipe on West Bacon Street and one catch basin and one hundred feet of cement pipe on Spring Street.
Under Chapter 90 Maintenance the roadway on Route 106 hill was widened and a side drain installed. This consisted of three catch basins, three hundred and forty-six feet of twelve-inch A. C. C. M. perforated pipe and two hundred and thirty feet of twelve-inch cement pipe. Messenger Street was surface treated with one-quarter gallon of R. C. 2 with a sand cover from Taunton Street easterly, a distance of three thousand two hundred feet (3,200).
The old Cemetery on West Bacon Street was mowed and cleaned up during the summer months.
Extensive brush was cut on High Street and Hawkins Street back to property lines.
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The following work was done for the School Building Committee: Construction 275' x 5' x 3" type I bituminous concrete sidewalk. Con- struction of 1,900 square yards of bituminous treated gravel for play-ground area. Also loam, grade, lime, fertilizer, roll and seed approximately four acres of grass area.
Under Chapter 90 Construction on George Street, 900 feet of bitu- minous treated gravel surface road was constructed. This work consist- ed of excavating, filling, embankment, scarifying and reshaping, grad- ing, rolling and refinishing. Four catch basins and 140 feet of twelve- inch cement pipe, five hundred feet of C2C highway guard removed and reset and two hundred and thirty feet of C2C highway guard installed. Two field stone masonry in cement head walls and 1,100 feet of Class I bituminous concrete berm curbing.
This completes the construction of George Street from Route 106 to Route 1, a distance of 2,900 feet, with the exception of a seal coat of asphalt and some minor shoulder work to be done next spring, on the last 900 feet.
The total cost of this project to date is $28,833.33; broken down as follows:
State Contribution
$15,000.00
State 718 Contribution
2,500.00
County Contribution
7,500.00
Town of Plainville Contribution
5,100.00
The town is allowed to charge at the rate of $1.40 per hour for town owned trucks. To date $1,973.00 has been transferred to the Road Machinery Account.
For many years people have asked what is Chapter 81, Chapter 90, Center of Town, and so forth? A brief explanation of these accounts is:
Chapter 81. Every year a sum of money is allotted for the repair and improvement of public ways other than State highways, under Chapter 81, which provides for State grants on highways in towns hav- ing a valuation under $5,000,000.00.
The road mileage is determined by dividing the proportion of the State tax per million by the number of miles of town streets, exclusive of State highways in each town. The town then contributes specific amounts per mile, according to a predetermined schedule based on their
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road mileage ratio. The State contributes a flat $275.00 per mile in all towns which qualify.
The amounts appropriated by the State and Town is expended under the direction of the Department of Public Works on such ways as the Department and Selectmen may agree.
Such roads may be patched, surface treated, widened, reshaped or surfaced with gravel; brush may be cut, culverts and catch basins may be built, and road oiling with tar or asphalt shall be applied as deemed necessary.
The Town of Plainville has 35.77 miles of road under Chapter 81, 29.31 asphalt surface and 6.46 gravel surface.
Chapter 90 Maintenance money uses a 1-1-1 ratio. State, County and Town. This money can only be used on Chapter 90 roads as set up by the State Department of Public Works for maintenance.
Chapter 90 Construction money is a 2 - 1 - 1 ratio, two parts State, one part County and one part Town.
This money is asked for a given street at a hearing in Dedham for approval by the State and County. If approved, then by the Towns- people at Town Meeting.
This money can be used only on a street which has been laid out by the County, known as a Chapter 90 layout.
The County establishes grades and so forth, takes and records land and sets up land damage costs to be paid by the Town.
Then the State Department of Public Works engineer and design the actual building of the road.
This year we are going to change the name of Highway Center of Town to Highway Exclusive of Chapter 81 and 90. This money is ap- propriated at Town Meeting and is used where Chapter 81 and 90 money cannot be used, such as gas, oil, repairs, parts, supplies, heat, telephone, and all operating costs for the Department.
Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956, provides for the distribution of $15,000,000.00 to the municipalities of the Commonwealth for highway construction purposes.
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The Town of Plainville's share was $8,071.68. We have transferred $2,500.00, as the Town's share of Chapter 90 Construction on George Street last year.
This year we are asking for a transfer of this money as the Town's share of Chapter 90 Construction, to start the construction of Taunton Street, from Route 1, to the Wrentham line. The estimated cost of this project is $40,000.00.
There will also be articles calling for money to extend the sidewalks and to continue the drainage program.
In submitting this report I wish to thank your Board and the mem- bers of this department for the cooperation shown during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
EVERETT W. SKINNER, Superintendent of Streets
HIGHWAY - CENTER OF TOWN
Appropriation:
$6,200.00
Payrolls
1,554.88
Dues
5.00
1,559.88
Materials, Miscellaneous Supplies and Repairs:
Norfolk Asphalt Co.
58.50
Wrentham Implement Co.
10.11
Transglobal Steel Co.
94.73
American A. P. I. Pamoer, Inc.
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