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7,925.00
7. Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds
2,150.00
2,150.00
8. Repairs
1,900.00
1,900.00
9. Music, Manual Training, Salaries and Drawing Supplies
$3,831.84
200.00
4,031.84
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10. Commercial : Salaries Supplies
$5,917.76 800.00
6,717.76
11, Furniture and Furnishings
300.00
300.00
12. Other Expenses :
Salaries
$2,765.92
Other
3,357.63
6,123.55
13. Vocational :
Salaries
$2,000.00
Other
1,100.00
3,100.00
SUMMARY
General Expenses
$ 8,414.76
Teachers' Salaries
87,990.53
Textbooks and Supplies
4,500.00
Transportation
9,500.00
Janitors' Salaries
12,502.36
Fuel, Light and Power
7,925.00
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds
2,150.00
Repairs
1,900.00
Music, Manual Training and Drawing Commercial
6,717.76
Furniture and Furnishings
300.00
Other Expenses
6,123.55
Vocational
3,100.00
$155,155.80
Less Vocational
3,100.00
$152,055.80
4,031.84
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Estimated Receipts and Reimbursements
General School Fund
$10,300.00
State-Aided Vocational
1,000.00
State Wards 4,800.00
.
Other Tuition
1,200.00
Other Receipts
400.00
$17,700.00
Requested Appropriation
$152,055.80
Less Receipts and Reimbursements
17,700.00
To Be Raised by Direct Taxation (This Year)
$134,355.80
Raised by Direct Taxation (Last Year) 134,774.05
SEPARATE APPROPRIATION REQUESTED
The School Committee is required by State Law to do, under certain conditions, two additional things. These do not enter directly into the operation of the local day : schools and, therefore, are, and should be, kept separate from our regular budget.
They are :- (1) State Trade School Tuition and (2) Adult Alien Education.
The Committee has no option in providing for both of these activities; they are mandatory.
Any person fourteen years or older can attend Trade School if he or she so desire. The only limitation is the capacity of the school to accommodate.
A petition, signed by twenty or more desiring edu- cation for citizenship, makes necessary the operation of
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Adult Alien Education Classes. Such a petition was filed four years ago bearing 121 signatures.
Social legislation and war bring strong desire to many aliens to become citizens.
The operation of classes is required by law and all desiring this type of education must be admitted.
To operate during the fiscal year of 1944, an appro- priation of $1,500.00 is necessary.
Fifty percent, or $750.00, will be reimbursed by the State. The cost to the Town will be $750.00.
A new Trade School was opened in Springfield in September, 1940. This school takes care of 2,000 pupils.
The ability to take more Palmer pupils and the stress placed upon training mechanics by war conditions have caused local pupils to enroll.
In addition, a number of men working in local in- dustries attend this school evenings.
The net result is that $1,000.00 will be required.
The day tuition is $150.00 per year per pupil. There is no option that the School Committee can exercise.
Fifty percent of this $1,000.00 is reimbursed by the State; the actual cost to the Town is $500.00.
Because of the general nature of this course, this appropriation has been segregated from the regular school budget.
These additional appropriations, separate and apart from the regular school budget, are requested :
Adult Alien Education $1,500.00
Trade School Tuition 1,000.00
Total
$2,500.00
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Reimbursement from State :
Adult Alien Education
$750.00
Trade School Tuition 500.00
$1,250.00
Appropriation Requested
$2,500.00
Reimbursement
1,250.00
Net Direct Cost to Town
$1,250.00
TOTAL REQUESTS
In order that there may be no misunderstanding and that the budget requests may be easily visualized, both as to their total and the actual amount to be raised by direct taxation, this tabulation is given :
Appropriations :
Regular School Appropriation
$152,055.80
Additional Requests :
Adult Alien Education
$1,500.00
Trade School
1,000.00 2,500.00
Total
$154.555.80
Re-imbursements :
Regular School Activities
$17,700.00
Adult Alien Education
750.00
Trade School
500.00
$18,950.00
Appropriation
$154,555.80
Re-imbursements
18,950.00
Net Amount to be Raised by
`Direct Taxation
$135,605.80
COMPARISON
1944
1943
Increase or
Requested Appropriated
Decrease
General Expenses
$8,414.76
$8,197.76
$217.00
Teachers' Salaries
87,990.53
90,103.24
-2,112.71
Textbooks and Supplies
4,500.00
5,000.00
- 500.00
Transportation
9,500.00
9,500.00
0.00
Janitors' Salaries
12,502.36
11,502.36
1,000.00
Fuel, Light and Power
7,925.00
7,350.00
575.00
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds 2,150.00
1,850.00
300.00
Repairs
1,900.00
2,000.00
- 100.00
Music, Manual Training and Drawing Commercial
4,031.84
3,851.84
180.00
6,717.76
8,983.08
-2,265.32
Furniture and Furnishings
300.00
300.00
0.00
Other Expenses
6,123.55
5,135.77
987.78
Vocational
3,100.00
3,100.00
0.00
$155,155.80
$156,874.05
-$1,718.25
Less Vocational
3,100.00
3,100.00
0.00
$152,055.80
$153,774.05
-$1,718.25
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AMOUNTS LESS REIMBURSEMENTS
Appropriation
1944 $152,055.80 16,100.00
1943 $153,774.05 17,400.00
Less Reimbursements (State)
$135,955.80
$136,374.05
Less Tuition
1,200.00
1,200.00
$134,755.80
$135,174.05
Less Other Receipts
400.00
400.00
$134,355.80
$134,774.05
The estimated receipts are $1,300.00 less than last year-$1,200.00 under "General School Fund"-because of fewer teachers and $100.00 un- der State-Aided Vocational.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR YEAR 1943
Appropriation Expended
Balance
General Expenses :
Salaries
$7,572.76
$7,574.21
-$ 1.45
Telephones
400.00
397.59
2.41
Supplies, Postage, Printing
150.00
137.44
12.56
Traveling Expenses
75.00
42.10
32.90
Teachers' Salaries
90,103.24
86,014.43
4,088.81
Textbooks and Supplies
5,000.00
4,891.38
108.62
Transportation :
Bradlenski
8,950.00
8,950.00
0.00
Other
50.00
0.00
50.00
Private Schools
500.00
377.00
123.00
Janitors Salaries
11,502.36
11,581.98
- 79.62
Fuel, Light and Power:
Coal
5,650.00
5,650.09
- .09
Wood
50.00
8.00
42.00
Light and Power
1,650.00
1,496.30
153.70
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds :
Water
350.00
289.93
60.07
Janitors Supplies
700.00
1,047.55
-347.55
Other
800.00
915.94
-115.94
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Repairs
2,000.00
2,117.78
-117.78
Music, Manual Training and Drawing :
Salaries
3,531.84
3,548.64
- 16.80
Supplies
320.00
143.77
176.23
Commercial :
Salaries
8,013.08
7,109.01
904.07
Supplies
970.00
704.09
265.91
Furniture and Furnishings
300.00
461.17
-161.17
Other Expenses :
Insurance
1,157.63
1,157.63
0.00
Printing
200.00
131.89
68.11
Graduation Exercises
100.00
170.03
- 70.03
Diplomas
150.00
140.17
9.83
Medical Inspection
2,665.92
2,608.81
57.11
Tuition
200.00
175.99
24.01
All Other Expenses
662.22
1,062.44
-400.22
$153,774.05
$148,905.36
$4,868.69
Adult Alien Education
2,000.00
1,442.50
557.50
Trade School Tuition
1,000.00
798.09
201.91
$156,774.05
$151,145.95
$5,628.10
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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
County of Hampden,
Town of Palmer.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Palmer, in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn all the in- habitants of the Town of Palmer, qualified to vote in elections of town officers, to meet at the several polling places in said Palmer, designated by the selectmen, to wit: In Precinct A, in the High School Gymnasium on Converse Street in the Depot Village; in Precinct B, at the Thorndike Grammar School in Thorndike; in Pre- cinct C, at the Three Rivers Grammar School in Three Rivers, and in Precinct D, at the Bondsville Grammar School in Bondsville, on Monday, the seventh day of February, A. D. 1944, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to give in their votes on one ballot to the precinct officers of the several voting precincts of said town, for the following officers, to wit: 3 Selectmen, a Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, 3 Auditors, 5 Con- stables, 3 License Commissioners, and a Tree Warden, all for the term of one year; 1 Member of the Board of Health, 1 Assessor, 1 Member of the Board of Public Welfare, 1 Cemetery Commissioner, 2 Members of the Planning Board, 2 Members of the School Committee, all for the term of three years.
The polls will be open at ten o'clock in the forenoon and will be closed at eight o'clock in the evening.
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And you are further hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Palmer, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town House at Four Corners in said Palmer, on Monday, the fourteenth day of February, A. D. 1944, at seven o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose all other usual town officers.
Article 3. To act on the reports of the town officers.
Article 4. To raise money and make appropria- tions to defray the expenses of the town for the ensu- ing year.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the town treasurer, with the approval of the select- men, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1944, 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 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
Article 6. To hear and act on reports of commit- tees.
Article 7. To choose committees and give them instructions.
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Article 8. To determine the manner and state the terms and conditions of collecting taxes for the ensuing year, and fix the compensation of the collector of taxes.
Article 9. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money to convey pupils to and from public schools, and instruct the school committee as to the manner of letting the contract for such conveyance.
Article 10. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money for the Young Men's Library Association, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate money for the observance of Memorial Day.
Article 12. To see what action the town will take in respect to lighting the streets and whether it will authorize the selectmen to make contract therefor, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article 13. To see what action the town will take relative to suits and claims now pending against the town.
Article 14. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money for the care and improvement of ceme- teries.
Article 15. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money for the suppression of the gypsy, brown- tail and satin moths and elm tree beetles, and other in- sect pests.
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Article 16. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate such sums of money as may be necessary to de- fray the cost of rent, janitor service and maintenance of the town offices in the Holbrook Building.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to help defray the cost of maintaining the District Nurse.
Article 18. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate any sum of money to be expended within the town under the direction of the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, for the promotion of boys' and girls' work in agriculture, home making and country life in the town, including agricultural demonstration work on land owned by the town, or owned by any resident of the town, in accordance with the provisions of Section 45 of Chapter 128 of the General Laws.
Article 19. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money under the authority of Section 22 of Chap- ter 115 of the General Laws for the care of graves of persons who served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States in time of war or insurrection and were honorably discharged from such service.
Article ยท20. To see what action the town will take in relation to sewers.
Article 21. To see what action the town will take in regard to sidewalks and curbing.
Article 22. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate any sum of money to be paid to the Wing Memo-
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rial Hospital Association for the charitable purposes of said association in this town, or for the care and support in said hospital of persons wholly or in part unable to support or care for themselves, or take any action rela- tive thereto.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money as permitted by law to meet any appro- priations made or expenses incurred under any of the articles of this warrant.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and apropriate any sum of money for the granting of adequate assistance to deserving citizens of the town in need of relief and support sixty-five years of age or over under the provisions of Chapter 118A of the General Laws, and for expenses to be incurred in connection with the granting of such assistance, or take any action rela- tive thereto.
Article 25. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate any sum of money to provide and maintain quar- ters for Edward T. Goodreau Post, No. 1813, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for the year 1944.
Article 26. To see if the town will authorize the school committee to appoint any member thereof to the office or position of school physician and determine and fix the salary of any such appointee under the provisions of Section 4A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the selectmen to sell at public auction, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting
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such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before the sale, prop- erty taken by the town under tax title procedure, pro- vided that the selectmen or whomsoever they may author- ize to hold such auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 28. To see what action the town will take relative to the care and preservation of the Memorial Approach to the High School, the plot of land at Shearer's Corner upon which the General Knox Marker is located, and the memorial plots in the several villages of the town.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for the, operation and maintenance of Legion Field and the Eager Playground in the Depot Village, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 30. (a) To see what action the town will take with reference to the planting and preservation of shade trees; (b) To see if the town will vote to deter- mine and fix the salary of the tree warden and raise and appropriate money for the same; (c) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for labor and materials and tools for use in connection with the Department of the Tree Warden.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate such sum or sums of money as it may deem neces- sary for the preservation of health and protection of persons and property ; to purchase equipment, uniforms and supplies for auxiliary fire and police departments, air-raid wardens, first aid rescue squads and other essen- tial units of defense; to provide for the training of its citizens in first aid and other matters essential to civilian
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defense; and to provide for such other means as may be necessary in the national emergency for the protection of the people and property in the town; and raise the same by taxation or by an issue of bonds or notes, under the provisions of Chapter 487 of the Acts of 1941.
Article 32. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to accept the following perpetual care funds which have been given to it during the year .: Frances Johnson $100.00; Charles A. Burgess $100.00; Clara B. Payne $200.00; John Ritchie $100.00; Harry C. Cheney $200.00; David L. Bodfish $100.00.
Article 34. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to investigate the matter of widening Main Street in Three Rivers, from the bridge to Prospect Street, employ an engineer to make a survey and recom- mend the nature and extent of such widening and the estimated cost thereof, and raise and appropriate any sum of money for the aforesaid purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a new bridge over the Quaboag River in Main Street in the Village of Three Rivers, or make repairs to the present bridge, and appropriate and raise by taxa- tion or otherwise any sum of money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 36. To see if the town will install and maintain additional electric lights as follows: (a) 1 light on Randall Street in the Depot Village opposite house of Michael Szklarz; (b) 1 light at Lake Junction, Thorndike, opposite house of one Gula; (c) 1 light on Wilson Avenue in the Depot Village.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money to be expended for the burial of soldiers or sailors, their wives and depend- ent children, or other members of the Armed Forces of the United States under the provisions of Chapter 115 of the General Laws.
Article 38. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money for the construction of new sewers and catch basins as follows: (a) Sewer in Pleasant Street, Thorndike, from property of one Moynahan to the end of the present sewer near property of one Muniec; (b) Sewer in Church and Hill Streets, Thorndike, from prop- erty of one Gwozdz on Church Street to property of one Lebida on Hill Street; (c) Sewer in Shaw Street in the . Depot Village from property of one Warka to property owned or occupied by one Billodeau; (d) Sewer in Shearer Street, in the Depot Village, from its intersec- tion with Randall Street to property of one Forsman.
Article 39. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to rent or lease any land in the town to be used for the purposes of a public dump and raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor.
Article 40. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to investigate the matter of securing a site for a new town dump and report thereon at a future meeting of the town.
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Article 41. To see if the town will vote to accept a deed from Palmer Fire District Number One of Palmer conveying to the town that certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, known as the old engine house property, on Park Street in the Depot Village, raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purchase price thereof, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to release to Joseph R. Gosselin, Jr. and Rita R. Gosselin, husband and wife, any interest it may have acquired under deed of John T. Brown, Collector of Taxes, to the Town of Palmer, dated August 31, 1937, and recorded with Hamp- den County Deeds, Book 1642, Page 589, in and to that tract of land described in deed of Arthur D. Bramble to said Joseph R. Gosselin, Jr. and Rita R. Gosselin dated October 5, 1936, and recorded with Hampden County Deeds, Book 1627, Page 87.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to release to Charles J. Connelly any interest it may have acquired under deed of John T. Brown, Collector of Taxes, to the Town of Palmer, dated August 31, 1937, and recorded with Hampden County Deeds, Book 1642, Page 589, in and to the tracts of land described in deeds of Arthur D. Bramble to said Charles J. Connelly, recorded, respect- ively, in Hampden County Deeds, Book 1653, Page 335, and Book 1618, Page 386.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to consider the matter of the collection of garbage and refuse in the several villages of the town and report at a future meeting.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to lease
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the Wenimesset school building in the Village of Three Rivers to the Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of establishing therein a community canning project and for use by the Boy Scouts, Red Cross and other similar groups, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 46. To see if the town will vote raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for repairs to the Weni- messet School building in the Village of Three Rivers.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for the erection of any required additions to the Honor Rolls in the Town.
Article 48. To see if the town will vote to pay a - salary to the members of the Board of Public Welfare chosen to serve in the Division of Old Age Assistance, in addition to the salary received by them as members of said Board of Public Welfare, fix the amount thereof, and raise and appropriate any money for the same, or take any action relative thereto.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof in some one public place in each of the four villages of the town, known as the Depot Village, Thorndike, Three Rivers and Bonds- ville, seven days at least before the holding of said meet- ing and by publishing an attested copy thereof in at least two issues of the Journal-Register, a newspaper published in said Palmer, the first publication to be not less than seven days before the holding of said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at or before the holding of said meeting.
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Given under our hands this tenth day of January, A.D. 1944.
GEORGE B. CHENEY PETER F. WARAKOMSKI DANIEL W. O'CONNOR Selectmen of Palmer
& true copy, Attest :
THOMAS W. HOLT
Constable of the Town of Palmer
Index
Animal Inspection 97
Assessors' Report 66
Auditors' Report 102
Balance Sheet for 1943 59
Board of Health
78
Board of Public Welfare
69
Board of Public Welfare for Aid to
Dependent Children 76
Cemetery Commissioners' Report
92
Chief of Police 87
Civilian Defense and Rationing Board 85
Forest Fire Warden
98
Jury List
89
Inspector of Slaughtering
83
License Commission
101
Milk Inspector
83
Old Age Assistance
28
Park Commissioners' Report
84
Resolutions-D. L. Bodfish
5
School Committee
113
Sealer of Weights and Measures Report
93
Selectmen
27
Tax Collector's Report
24
Town Bookkeeper's Report
33
Town Clerk's Report
7
Town Officers-Expiration Date
3
Town Warrant 137
Tree Warden 99
Treasurer's Report 31
Trial Balance 64
Young Men's Library Association 108
Moth Department 100
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