Town Report on Lincoln 1956-1959, Part 60

Author: Lincoln (Mass.)
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Lincoln (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1026


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Capital expenditure financed by borrowing is shown in the chart in three peaks, 1949, 1952 and 1958. In each case the borrowing preceded the peak of spending by a year, just as the 1959 borrowing of $240,000 will be followed by a bulge in capital spending in 1960 for the Hartwell school addition. No borrowing was required in 1954 because of the availability of the Charles Sumner Smith Trust Fund to finance construction that year. debt service is shown in the chart as $100,000 annually (and included in the "current expense"). State school


Gross


construction assistance brings the net debt service down to the vicinity of $80,000. Beginning in 1960, however, the first of these items will increase by approximately $24,000 representing the service on the 1959 borrowing. The net increase after state construction assistance will be close to $19,000.


A substantial amount of capital expenditure, past and prospective, is not shown on the chart because of the way in which the Regional High School is financed. Current Lincoln expense included in 1959 the $156,000 payment to the Regional High School District, some considerable por- tion of which may be regarded as Lincoln's share of the debt service of $75,000 of debt retirement and $33,000 of interest on bonds. This Lincoln share, which ran 37.3 percent of the District's total in 1959, and 35.1 percent in 1960, adds perhaps another $39,000 gross and $27,000 net after state assistance to the Town's debt service.


A considerable further rise in these amounts may accrue partly in 1960 but will be realized wholly in 1961 as a result of the newly-voted $1 million addition to the high school. The effect in 1960 will depend on the timing and nature of the borrowing, but by 1961, the cost to Lincoln in additional debt service can be regarded as


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about $32,000 gross and $22,000 after assistance.


Capital expenditures then called for a gross debt service in 1959 of approximately $140,000 including Lin- coln's share of the Regional District's debt service, and a net of perhaps $107,000. Adding only the two school additions, by 1962 these figures will have risen to $200, 000 and $150,000 respectively. These are not in- substantial, but it is evident that the major financial problem facing Lincoln is not the capital expenditures themselves so much as the direct operating expenditures associated with them.


This is not an operational conclusion. One cannot separate the operating expenditures from the school con- struction, just as one cannot evade the necessity for that construction, given the number of children in the Lincoln public school - shown on the chart as growing more rapidly than the numbers of houses. It has been of some benefit that the assessed valuation of Lincoln property has in- creased somewhat more rapidly than the numbers of houses concerned -- the former doubling while the latter rose by 80 percent. This is probably ascribable to the marked number of Lincoln houses which have undergone major im- provements.


Lincoln, along with other towns, suffers from pur- chasing two items -- buildings and teachers' services which have risen in price much more than the general price level. Based on 1947-49 as 100, the cost of services has risen by 47 percent to October, 1959, and the cost of construction by 42 percent, compared with a rise of wholesale prices by 19 percent and of consumers' prices by 25.5 percent. There can be little doubt that teachers' salaries lagged behind other wages in the 1940s, so that the current in- crease rectifies a situation which was not tenable, even though the Town then gained by it.


It is far too early to see any change in the trend of more construction and much more direct expense associa- ted with the construction as the school fills. But it is of interest to note that the rise in houses assessed from January 1, 1958, to January 1, 1959 - 17 - was the smallest in any year since 1947; that only 16 permits for new houses were issued during 1959; and that the birth rate in Lincoln has begun to level off, as the following figures reveal :


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Census of Pre-School Children- 1/


Year of Birth 1956 Census


1958 Census


1959 Census


1953


85


112


115


1954


64


90


95


1955


81


114


117


1956


- -


77


80


1957


-


94


97


1958


--


-


73


1959


--


-


25*


*(4 months)


O+OE


After April, the birth rate declined still further so that the total number of births for 1959, after the re- ceipt of delayed notifications, is likely to be the lowest in the last decade.


Capital Expenditure in 1959


Table 2 shows details of capital expenditure in 1959, and indicates a number of small items for which no pro- vision had been made in last year's report, along with other items, planned in 1959, which were not carried out. The Water Department was particularly noticeable in this connection. It is difficult to plan these expenditures in advance since replacement of water mains is a function


of the character of the service -- a rapid deterioration


requires action ; of other work on the roads by the Town, to take advantage of the fact that the street has been dug up; and of available cash. The major work undertaken through borrowing in 1958 cut down the cash in the Depart- ment's treasury, and the Tower Road replacement proved to cost too much in relation to available funds.


The totals for actual expenditure differ from pro- posals mainly because disbursement for the 1959 elementary school addition amounted only to $55,800, as against a proposed $251,000, most of which goes over into 1960.


The capital expenditure under Chapter 718 represents the widening and smoothing of the curve on Bedford Road between the Monks and Wheeler properties, paid for entirely by the state under an allocation made in 1956.


1/ Prepared by Mrs. Helen Gilfoy


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Capital Expenditures Proposed for 1960


The details of future capital expenditures are set out in Table 1. Attention should be called to two items: the enlarged item for Town highway expenditure, $35,000 of which is to be financed by borrowing; and the postpone- ment of the previous $80,000 expenditure for the Water De- partment -- now estimated at more nearly $175,000 -- previously scheduled for 1962 until after 1964.


General Government


Planning Board - The special Town Meeting of December, 1959, voted $500 to be used for a consultant to revise the Zoning Code.


Only $500 of the $1,000 voted for the purchase of options on land to be used for playgrounds or recreational purposes in the 1959 Town Meeting was spent during 1959. $500 is needed therefore to bring the fund for the purchase of options to $1,000. $1,000 is included in subsequent years on the assumption that the total fund is exhausted each year. If less than that is used, not so much will be required.


$7,000 is included each year to be voted for the Stabilization Fund intended for the purchase of land. The 1960 Town Meeting will be asked to vote $6,000 out of the Stabilization Fund to buy certain land from Dr. Hall, on which the Planning Board has taken an option for $500. $7,000 is to be sought to put into the Stabilization Fund in 1960, and this same sum in each subsequent year, regard- less of the amounts drawn down.


Protection of Persons and Property


Fire Department - The Fire Department expected to purchase a fire engine in 1960 for $11,000, as foreseen in the 1959 report.


Planning for a second fire station north of the Boston and Maine railroad tracks is still in abeyance pend- ing the resolution of the location of Route 2 and its access ways, and a determination of what is the optimal place from which to furnish protection.


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Highways


The Selectmen propose to increase the regular $20,000 of town funds for major maintenance of Town roads by an extra $40,000 to take care of pressing projects. This sum would be sought through borrowing on a short-term basis, perhaps in five-year bonds. These projects are :


Sandy Pond Road by the Pumping Station, ease the curve, grading and resurfacing $14,000 Baker Bridge Road, Sandy Pond Road to the rock 6,000


Old Sudbury Road, surface, mix-in-place 6,280


Silver Hill Road, surface 3,168


Library Lane, widen 1,600


Ballfield Road, straighten Total $39,848


1,800


If this were voted, it is proposed to use the regular bud - get for major maintenance to surface two half-mile sections on Bedford Road and to patch and surface Weston, Lexington, Brooks and Tower Roads.


The Committee agrees with the Board of Selectmen on the desirability of getting caught up with the growing arrears of highway work by this device, now that the oppor- tunity has presented itself. The work on Old Sudbury and Silver Hill Roads is needed to complete major reconstruc- tion undertaken last year


The Selectmen propose to accumulate Chapter 90 funds for 3 or 4 years until a sum of $50,000 or $60,000 has been accumulated which will permit the reconstruction of Route 126 in one job.


The arrears of highway maintenance made up by this year's borrowing should not be allowed to recur. Accord - ingly, the Committee has allowed for an increase from $20,000 to $30,000 in the annual budget for major mainten- ance in the years after 1964 when this year's borrowing has been paid off.


Highway Equipment. No replacement or additional expenditure is foreseen for this year. Two reasons ex- plain this. In the first place, the Town proposes to hire a mechanic full time to maintain its equipment, which will permit a stretching out of the replacement schedule,


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and, in effect, substitute current for capital expense. Secondly, the Selectmen have decided to buy neither the tractor projected for 1960 in the 1959 report, nor the sweeper which was an originally planned substitute. A sweeper will be rented for a few weeks in the spring, so that this capital expense as well will be put on a current basis.


Schools


Elementary School System - The $195, 000 expenditure indicated for 1960 represents the $251,000 carried in last year's report less the $55, 800 disbursed in 1959. This covers the 1959 additions to the Hartwell School.


The next building requirement of the elementary system is still envisaged for 1962 or 1963, as in last year's report, but its character is now more clearly fore- seen by the School Needs Committee. Although the latter committee's study is not complete, it appears that the growth of the system at that time will require the move- ment of the 5th grade from the Smith to the Hartwell School, with the necessity to add to the Smith School, then a greatly enlarged junior high school, 2 science rooms, 1 room each for art, music, shop and home economics, 3 home rooms, an expansion of the library, plus a new set of ad- ministrative offices for the superintendent. The cost would probably run closer to $350-$400,000 than the $300, 000 foreseen in last year's report.


As a result of 1959 State legislation, an opportunity has been presented to cities, towns and regional school districts to reduce borrowings for school construction purposes by appropriation of sums in excess of $75,000 from Stabilization Funds. These funds would be matched in the year of initial construction by an equal amount from the total State School Construction Grant for the particular project. The Finance Committee will recommend to the Town, through an article in the Warrant for the 1960 Annual Meeting, that an initial sum of $25,000 be appropriated from free cash to the Stabilization Fund, with additional appropriations of a like amount to be recommended at the annual meetings in 1961, 1962, and 1963, to reach a total accumulation of $100,000, plus interest. This sum, matched with $100,000 from the State Grant, would reduce borrowing for this project by $200,000. The Committee recommends that this opportunity be taken ad- vantage of and that the appropriation of $25,000 to the


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Stabilization Fund in 1960 be supported by Town Meeting action.


Regional District High School - "Lincoln's share" of the $1 million addition voted in the special December Town Meeting is put at $375,000, though in fact the operation of the District calls for annual calls for funds on the Town and involves no direct obligations of the Town in financing construction, and despite the decline in the Lincoln percentage from 37.3 in 1959 to 35.1 in 1960. It will be remembered that the towns voted down an audi- torium in the current addition and it is anticipated that the District will be required by the State School Assis- tance Board to include provision for an auditorium in the next stage when the school is to be completed.


No new timing has been seen on the need for the final addition which is to raise the school's capacity from its present 1,000 students (up from the present 650) to 1,500. It is now believed that enrollment will pass 1,000 in the Fall of 1966, so that construction must get under way in 1965, or the first year beyond the present five-year period. The $375,000 figure for that addition, up from last year's $250-$300,000 because of the auditorium, is highly tentative.


Water Department


As already noted, Water Department major main replace- ment was limited last year and will be again, as the De- partment is still paying off bonds, and recovering from the shift from bills in advance to current bills, intro- duced when water began to be metered. The Committee hopes that the Department can quickly get back on its regular replacement basis, although it recognizes the difficulty of planning long in advance. This year's projects include $1,900 to replace a truck, $2,200 for the pumping station roof, and $6,500 for replacing 2" main on a section of Route 126.


With several years of abundant rainfall, and a large decline in consumption as a result of metering, the De- partment is prepared to postpone rather far into the future the need for replacing the 16" main from the Pumping Sta- tion to the pressure reservoir on the Town Hill, and to look for new supplies. It is now thought that the former


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would cost double what had been previously estimated. The Department is prepared to ration rather vigorously in periods of drought in order to make possible the avoidance of these expenditures.


Respectfully submitted,


Richard C. B. Clark


Charles P. Kindleberger


Ernest F. Leathem


Warren F. Flint, for the Selectmen Walter F. Bogner, for the Planning Board


William N. Page, for the Finance Committee


25


1000


900


800


700


600


TAXES ON POLLS AND PROPERTY


1


I


1


1


1


-


300


1


1


1


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L


1


1


100


/


O


46


47 48 49 50 51


52 53 54


55 56


57


58


59


THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS


CURRENT EXPENSE


CAPITAL EXPENDITURES


500


OTHER RECEIPTS (EXCEPT BORROWING)


400


200


1


1


DEBT SERVICE


1


1 2


12


UNITS


11


10


9


8


-


7


-


HOUSES ASSESSED


CHILDREN IN SCHOOL .


-


TAX RATE


6


1


5


1


DEBT


4


3


VALUE OF PROPERTY ASSESSED


2


1


O


46 47 48


49


50 51


52


53 54


55


56 57


58 59


TAX RATE $ 10 CHILDREN & HOUSES 100'S DEBT $ 100,000 ASSESSMENT $1,000,000


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THE CONCORD PRESS - CONCORD, MASS.


TOWN OF LINCOLN


Report of the


LONG-TERM CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE


1959


Table 1


Town of Lincoln - Proposed Program of Capital Expenditures, 1959-1973


DEPARTMENTAL


1959


1960


1961


1962


1963


1959-63


1964-73


GENERAL GOVERNMENT


N.F.


PROTECTION OF PERSONS


AND PROPERTY


Fire Station


$50,000


Fire Equipment


$11,000


$11,000


11,000


HEALTH AND RECREATION


Land - Stabilization Fund


$7,000


7,000


$7,000


$7,000


$7,000


35,000


40,000


HIGHWAYS


Town Expenditure


20,000


20,000


20,000


20,000


20,000


100,000


N. F.


Chapter 90 Construction


14,0001


14,0001


14,0001


14,0001


14,0001


70,0001


N.F.


Land (Road Widening)


1,000


1,000


N.F.


Highway Equipment


6,600


6,000


6,000


6,000


6,000


30,600


50,000


SCHOOLS


Elementary School


200,000


300,000


500,000


500,000


Regional High School "Lincoln Share"


375,000


375,000


300,000


LIBRARY


25,300


25,300


TOTALS


$173,900


$458,000- 533,000


$47,000


$197,000 $197,000


$1,072,900- 1,147,900


$901,000- 951,000


of which from borrowing


125,300


400,000-


150,000


150,000


825,300-


750,000-


State Chapter 90


10,500


10,500


10,500


10,500


10,500


52,500


Tax Revenues and Free Cash


38,100


47,500


36,500


36,500


36,500


$195,100


151,000


PUBLIC SERVICES


Main Replacement and facilities reconstruction


$12,500


$20,000


$20,000


$20,000


$20,000


$92,500


$100,000


16" main to reservoir New water supply


---


Total


$12,500


$20,000


$20,000


$100,000


$20,000


$172,000


$600,000


of which from borrowing


80,000


80,000


500,000


CEMETERIES


Road Improvement


400


400


400


400


400


2,000


5,000


1. of which 3/4 to be borne by state and county


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th


It


Pr


pu


re


La


re


th


tu


SC


St


-


-


80,000


80,000


900,300


800,000


300,000-


250,000-


-


500,000


475,000


Long Term Capital Requirements Committee Lincoln, Massachusetts


Tables 1 to 5 are put forward in the form which has been developed in the last three reports of the Committee and summarize the outlook for future capital expenditures and the experience of 1958. Tables 2 through 5 speak for themselves and require no comment. The Committee hopes in its fifth report next year to make a retrospective summary of the recent past. For the moment, attention is focused on the future.


Significant changes are in prospect. The elementary school has no sooner finished and opened a new structure than it must appoint a committee to start another. The regional high school has begun to fill up and must contemplate an early start on more building. A bill to create a National Park on the Battle Road from Concord to Lexington has been introduced into the Congress and is likely of passage. It will take 375 acres out of private use, and may have wider effects on such questions as the location of Route 2, still undecided, and rezoning for industrial and commercial use. The Planning Board has had a report prepared by outside consultants who have recommended a long-range detailed plan of action to preserve the distinctive character and qualities of our Town. Many of the report's proposals are for further study and recommendations. While this report is being digested, it may be observed that proposals for building new subdivisions have picked up again, after a lull; and increased current expenditures for elementary and regional schools hold out the prospect of another sharply increased tax rate.


In this situation, the Capital Requirements Committee finds itself unable with assurance to recommend a long-range program of capital expendi- tures in detail. The school construction programs cannot be evaded, nor does it seem wise that they be long postponed. The Town can insist, however, that construction be as economical as consistent with the Commonwealth's requirements, the Town's educational standards, and conservative financial practice. The Committee recommends that a start be made with the Open- Lands program of the Planning Board and its consultants, and that a Stabili- zation Fund be established and monies be appropriated to it this year, pending recommendations back to the Town by the Conservation Commission for particular purchases. It is not disposed this year to pronounce on a number of other proposals - for land for parking, improvement of recreational facilities, etc. It recommends in brief, that, with the Library and Fire Station constructed, the capital program should consist of minimal replacements and expansion in the ordinary Town departments, economical schools, and land.


Detailed recommendations follow:


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General Government


No capital expenditures are foreseen under this heading for the next five years or beyond.


Protection of Persons and Property


It is not possible to plan the ultimate construction of a fire station to service North Lincoln until more is known as to what the Federal Government will do about the Battle Road National Park, and the intention of the Commonwealth concerning the location of a reconstructed, limited access Route 2. $50,000 for a small substation is retained as an estimate for 1964-73. The Committee takes note of the possibility, mentioned by the Selectmen, that it may be necessary to provide quarters adjacent to the present garage rented from Joseph Tracey, depending upon the availability of fire-department personnel living in the area to cover the equipment after the service station closes in the evening. Since the amount is relatively small - less than $4,000 - and uncertain, the Committee has made no provision for it.


In the absence of a stabilization fund, which the Town rejected last year, it is necessary to provide specifically for the replacement of fire equipment. Trucks costing $10-$11,000 are foreseen as needed in 1960 and 1965 and a major replacement of equipment, in the vicinity of $22,500 in 1975.


Town Dump


The necessity for moving to a new site for trash disposal has been postponed through the conclusion of a new contract for the use of the present site. There is a possibility, however, that the Historic Park, if established by the Congress, will require abandonment of the use as a dump of Folly Pond, which has historic associations. Whether the acquisition of a new site would involve capital, rather than current expenditure (rental) as at present, cannot be foreseen, nor whether the Federal Government might assist the Town in meeting the cost of a new location. The Committee draws atten- tion to the possible emergence of a problem here, but has no way of evaluating its possible cost.


Health and Recreation


Land - The Committee strongly supports the proposal of the Planning Board and the Conservation Commission that a beginning be made upon a program of acquiring open lands in Loncoln, and that $7,000 be appropriated to a stabilization fund as a regular matter, and used from time to time for such purchases by the Town on the recommendation of the Conservation Commission. The Committee has supported a program of land purchase since its first report in 1956, both for the preservation of natural beauty and to reduce the long-run density of house construction and thereby hold down capital expenditure. It


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understands that the first appropriation would be made from free cash, but takes the view that up to $1 on the tax rate spent regularly will add to the value of property in Lincoln and hold down what might otherwise be a substantially greater increase in expenditures in eight to ten years time. The sum of $7,000 a year, representing the equivalent of almost $1 on the tax rate, is arbitrary, but calculated to make a significant start. It is hoped that much wet land will be given to the Conservation Commission, or to the private Lincoln Land Conservation Trust.


It is recongized that the Report of the Planning Board calls for recommendations of the Conservation Commission for the establishment of a Town Forest to the 1960 Town Meeting. Given the large uncertainty in the matter, the Committee has made no provision for an expenditure under this heading. Any substantial amount for the purpose would be raised by borrowing.


The Recreation Committee contemplates a program of major improvements to the Town ball field when and if the elementary school population has been provided with other facilities, as requested by the School Committee, presu- mably in 1960. The amounts required are not known but might run as high as $10,000 and as low as $5,000, covering fertilizing, seeding, draining of the present sod, restoring the infield to a 90 foot standard diamond, and erecting a permanent softball backstop in the hardball outfield. Grandstands would be maintained only on the School diamonds.


This project is dependent upon positive action in 1959 on the School Committee's request, which the Long-Term Capital Requirements Committee discusses below and recommends against. In these circumstances, the Committee takes note of the Recreation Committee's program, but makes no provision for it.


Highways


The Committee has little to add to the discussion of last year except to note that continued difficulty is being met in finding projects to qualify for Chapter 90 assistance. The Consultants' report calls for "double- tracking" certain arterial roads through the Town to carry heavier loads without the necessity to cut down trees and move stone walls in widening existing roads. This does not seem practicable on the suggested part-way basis; there is a considerable traffic hazard in roads which change back and forth from one to two lanes. And separated traffic lanes are a nuisance for local traffic, as one-way routing on several roads a few years ago proved. For these reasons and on general financial grounds, the Committee is not disposed to recommend changes in the present long-run program of Chapter 90 for a limited number of through roads, and gradual upgrading of local roads to the modest standards of the Town as set out in the Appendix to the 1956 report.


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The Committee is aware that the Selectmen who are responsible for the public safety are concerned that there is no sidewalk between the schools and too little shoulder on many roads where children waiting for buses, or bicycling, can be safe. The Committee is of the opinion that the remedy lies in education of the children and enforcement of the speed zones rather than large-scale expenditures. Continued improvement of shoulders can be under- taken within the existing major maintenance program. But the Town must recognize that no program of expenditure can remove all risk of tragic accident.


The Committee, along with other Town bodies, had hoped that it would be possible for Lincoln to acquire more land in the vicinity of the station for parking purposes. $5,000 was included in last year's report and charged against 1959. It now appears that the land most suited for this purpose is being held for sale at prices well above this amount, and above any price which the Selectmen would be willing to recommend to the Town. Accordingly, the provision is deleted.


The selectmen have an article in the warrant to spend $1,000 to buy the freight station for ultimate use in conjunction with widening Lincoln Road. Provision is made in Table 1 for this amount on which the Committee takes no stand.


Highway Equipment.


There were no expenditures in 1958 because of the large amount so spent in 1957 and the new state of existing equipment. The Selectmen have settled on a program of replacement of equipment which seems likely to cost $6,000 a year, on the average. Next year will see the replacement of a Ford truck- and-snowplow, at a cost estimated at $4,000, plus that of the small roller, at approximately $2,600. The following year will call for the replacement of the grader, which receives less than full use, by a tractor, again at a cost close to $6,000. It is impossible to foresee exactly which equipment will be renewed annually in 1962, but an allowance for $6,000 is made in Table 1 as a representative figure.


Schools


Elementary School


Completion of the 12 classrooms of the Hartwell School in the fall of 1958 must now be followed by further building for the fall of 1960. The reasons are the same as those set out in last year's report: underestimation of the school population, and use of classrooms for special activities, such as library, shop, home economics, etc. A comparison of 1957 and 1959 esti- mates is instructive :


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Oct. 1


Actual


Pupils


Rooms


Feb. 1957 Pupils


Estimate Rooms Needed


Feb. 1959 Pupils


Estimate Rooms Needed


1956


645


21


1957


705


21


754


31


842


37


1960


852


35


929


39


1961


874


35


972


40


1962


903


36 or 37


1022


41


The underestimation of numbers of children is due to the attraction of Lincoln for families with large numbers of children. The local birthrate and rate of new family immigration into new houses can be forecast satisfactorily. In 1958, however, the sale of existing houses brought a large influx of children as small families (in terms of schooling) moved out and big families in. In earlier reports, the Committee has wondered whether the rate of increase in the school population would level out as families lived out their lives in Lincoln. This currently appears not to be the case.


The School Committee has decided that the alternatives of increasing class sizes, cutting back on the educational program, eliminating kindergarten, doubling shifting, or renting inefficient space outside the schools are undesirable or impracticable. Accordingly it is necessary to start building immediately, instead of, as contemplated last year, in 1960.


At the time of writing this report, the School Building Committee was unable to furnish estimate narrower than in Table 1. The Capital Requirements Committee has reviewed the ideas of the Building Committee and is satisfied with its commitment to an economical program.


In a separate article, outside the budget, the School Committee has requested $20,000 to clear, grade, seed, and fertilize two or more playing fields including baseball diamonds in the playing space west of the Smith School. This request which was formulated after the School budget seems to this Committee to require more mature consideration. It is not self-evident that the minor improvement in the school program which could be achieved by an extension of team sports is needed immediately, given the high cost of other aspects of the School program and the substantial increase in taxes already in prospect.


Regional School


Only slightly behind the need for additional space in elementary school comes the same requirement for the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. This is needed in 1961, and an early vote, at a special town meeting in June or September of this year, will be called for.


6


1958


772


33


1959


791


33 or 34


Initially, that is between the planning of the regional school and its opening, it seemed that a much more rapid expansion of the Sudbury than the Lincoln high school population would increase the time when expansion was needed, but reduce Lincoln's proportionate share of the total cost, including capital costs. As it happened, however, the respective shares appear to have stabilized about 5/8ths Sudbury to 3/8ths Lincon. Both towns are growing faster than originally estimated, so that the 700 mark, expected in 1956 for 1965, will now be met in 1962, as shown in the following table.


Date 1956 Forecast


1959 Forecast


Lincoln


Sudbury


Total


%Lincoln


Lincoln


Sudbury


Total


% Lincoln


19 58


200


300


500


40%


1691


2881


4571


37%


1959


206


353


559


37%


1960


238


387


625


38%


1961


265


434


699


38%


1962


293


501


794


36%


1965


267


433


700


38%


412


604


1016


40%


1. Actual


Constructed in 1955-56 to accomodate 650 pupils, at a cost of little more than $1,000,000, the School was originally planned for ultimate expansion to 1,500 in stages of 350, 200 and 300 pupils. The first addition, which would bring the total from 650 to 1,000 was expected to' cost $620,000. It is too early to have precise information, but the Committee feels that it would be safer to contemplate an expenditure nearer $1 million, of which Lincoln's "share" would be $375,000. This figure therefore replaces the $250,000 - $300,000 range for 1961 in the 1958 report.


Water Department


The Committee has not met with the Board of Water Commissioners but understands that it plans to carry through several fairly limited projects : the extension of 8" main for 1600 feet on Tower Road, to complete the circuit down to South Great Road, on which a major job was done last year, 545 feet of pipe on Giles Road to connect up with the Wayland system for standby emergency use; and the replacement of an electric motor in the pump house. These projects are estimated to cost $7500, $2500 and $2500 respectively, or half of the average amount of replacement. They permit carrying the substantial load of retirement called for by last year's borrowing.


Respectfully submitted, Long-Term Capital Requirements Committee


Maurice E. Shank, Chairman


Warren Flint for the Selectmen


Earnest Leathem


Alan McClennen for the Planning Board


C. P. Kindleberger, Clerk


William N. Page for the Finance Committee


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Table 2


Town of Lincoln


Actual and Proposed Capital Expenditures for 1958


Proposed


Actual


General Government


Planning and Zoning - Consultants


$2,000


$2,000


Protection of Persons and Property


Fire station - land $6,100


construction 52,900


paving, etc. 4,400


57,800


63,400


Health and Recreation Tennis courts


12,500


12,400


Highways


Town maintenance


20,000


19,900


Chapter 90 construction


14,000


14,000


Schools


Major repairs to roof


369,3002


367,400


School Needs Committee


5,000


5,000


Purchase of land


3,500


3,500


Library


Building Committee


Library addition


70,000


1,300 44,7003


Cemeteries


Improvement


400


900


Water Department


Water main, Brooks Road


1,400


Water main, South Great Road


65,200)


Air compressor


70,000


2,400)


Service truck


2,200)


Total $624,500


$612,600


1. Representing original provision of $105,000, plus $3,100 additional for land, less $50,000 spent in 1957


2. Representing original provision of $475,000 less $105,000 spend in 1957


3. Spent in 1958 under continuing contract


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6,900


Elementary school construction


Table 3


Expenditures Divided Between Current and Capital Accounts and Receipts


Expenditures


(In thousands of dollars)


1. Total Town


$1,306.7


2. Water Department 103.7


3. Total


1,410.3


4. Capital Expenditures (from Table 2)


612.6


5. Current Expenditures (3 - 4) 797.7


Current Receipts


6. Taxes on Polls and Property 568.6


7. Receipts from Commonwealth (other than 196.9


9 and 10)


8. Other current receipts 63.1


9. Chapter 90 construction - assistance 10.3


10. School construction - assistance from state 26.7


Total (6 to 10) 363.6


11. Water Department receipts


42.0


Total current receipts 907.6


Note :


Current expenditures include expenditures for debt retirement


set forth in Tables 4 and 5.


Table 4 Debt, Assessments, Tax Rate


Borrowings


Water Department $50,000


for Library 60,000


$110,000


*Repayments ($5,000 Water Department) Increase in debt


21,000


39,000


*Outstanding debt ($100,000 Water Department) Assessment, Real and Personal Property Tax rate, per thousand $75 00


$1,046,000


* excluding repayment and debt of Regional School District of which Lincoln's share is approximately three-eights.


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Table 5


Debt Service - 1958


Debt repayment* Interest*


$71,000


28,000


Total


99,800


* excluding repayment and interest on Regional School District bonds of which Lincoln's share is approximately three-eights, but including interest and repayment of Water Department debt, paid for by its revenues.


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