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$ 1,107.34
31,840.04
$32,947.38
207
TRUST FUNDS
LINCOLN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1960
$ 235.12
Donations received in 1960:
To General Fund : General Appeal
$1,183.00
513.35
Lincoln School Association Parents League To 4-H Horse Club Fund
200.00
2,083.10
Interest income
206.92
Withdrawn from savings bank
320.00
Interest applied to amortize bond purchase premiums
.40
$2,845.54
Payments per order of Trustees of Fund:
Balance of 1959 grants:
Carleton Huff, University of Massachusetts $ 100.00
Dennis Foley, Tufts College
200.00
Andre Peter Fournier, University
150.00
Cynthia Chapin, Massachusetts College of Art 100.00
First half of 1960 grants :
Martha Livengood, Clark University
225.00
Kevin Lyons, University of Massachusetts
150.00
Andre Peter Fournier, University
of Massachusetts
125.00
Richard DiCilio, Northeastern University
50.00
Louise Rogers, Oberlin College
50.00
Expense of appeal letters, supplies
106.02
Savings bank interest allowed to accumulate 53.70
1,309.72
Cash balance at December 31, 1960
$1,535.82
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1960
Cash on deposit
$1,535.82
Provident Institution for Savings
1,413.21
1000 U. S. Treasury 4% 5/15/63
997.19
1000 Federal Land Banks 3 7/8% 9/15/72
994.75
1000 Pacific Gas & Electric 5% 6/1/89
1,006.58
$5,947.55
Reserved for balance of 1960 grants Robert L. DeNormandie Fund
750.00
4 -H Horse Club Fund
825.00
General Fund
3,772.55
$5,947.55
-
208
$ 600.00
$1,150.00
of Massachusetts
186.75
TRUST FUNDS
DeCORDOVA SCHOOL EQUIPMENT FUND
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1960
$ 1.95
Interest income received in 1960
$911.48
Less accrued interest paid on bonds purchased
,12
911.36
Withdrawn from savings banks
985.00
Interest applied to bond purchase premiums
21.18
$1,919.49
Net income paid to Town of Lincoln
$907.86
Safe deposit box rent
3.50
1000 U. S. Treasury 4 5/8% bond due May 15, 1965
1,001.56
1,912.92
Cash balance at December 31, 1960
$ 6.57
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1960
Cash on deposit
$ 6.57
Cambridge Savings Bank
754.52
Middlesex Institution for Savings
918.76
1000 Baltimore & Ohio RR Eq. Tr. "CC" 3% 9/1/61
997.86
2000 U. S. Treasury 5% 8/15/64
2,000.00
1000 U. S. Treasury 4 5/8% 5/15/65
1,000.00
1000 Southern California Edison 3% 9/1/65
1,000.00
1000 Northern Pacific RR Eq. Tr. 2 3/4% 8/10/66
989.95
1000 Western Maryland RR 4% 10/1/69
1,014.79
1000 U. S. Treasury 2 1/2% 3/15/70-65
1,005.71
3000 Alabama Power Co. 3 1/2% 1/1/72
2,949.80
1000 American Telephone & Telegraph 2 3/4% 1975
948.30
3000 International Bank for Reconstruction 4 1/4% 1979
3,056.15
3000 Southern Bell Telephone 4% 1983
3,054.38
1000 Idaho Power Co. 4 1/2% 1987
1,000.00
2000 General Telephone of California 4 1/8% 1988
2,020.60
1000 Pacific Gas & Electric 5%, 1989
1,006.58
1000 Western Mass. Electric 5 3/8%, 1989
1,000.00
$24,723.97
209
TRUST FUNDS
DONALD GORDON RECREATION FUND
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1960
$222.60
Interest income of 1960
196.61
Interest applied to amortize bond purchase premiums
1.30
$420.51
Safe deposit box rent $ 2.00
Savings bank interest allowed to accumulate
12.91
14.91
Cash balance at December 31, 1960
$405.60
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1960
Cash on deposit
$405.60
Middlesex Institution for Savings
302.79
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
61.52
1000 Baltimore & Ohio RR Equip. Trust "CC" 3% 9/1/61
997.86
1000 Southern California Edison 3% 9/1/65
1,000.00
1000 Southern Bell Tel. 4% 1983
1,000.00
1000 American Tel. & Tel. 4 3/8% 1985
1,000.00
1000 Virginia Electric & Power 4 1/8% 1986
1,033.45
$5,801.22
Accumulated income
$ 606.47
Principal
5,194.75
$5,801.22
GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND
Cash Account
1960 savings bank interest paid to Town of Lincoln $ 44.03
Savings Bank Deposits at December 31, 1960
Middlesex Institution for Savings $ 722.00
Cambridge Savings Bank 495.52
$1,217.52
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TRUST FUNDS
LINCOLN LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1960
$ 18.00
Income received in 1960:
Julia A. Bemis Fund
$ 26.09
Codman Fund
17.97
Hugh Anthony Gaskill Fund
5.73
John H. Pierce Fund
40.30
George Russell Fund
15.79
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
77.10
George G. Tarbell Fund
125.50
C. Edgar & Elizabeth S. Wheeler Fund
50.63
Lincoln Public Library Fund
50.00
409.11
Donations received in 1960:
Mrs. Bradford Cannon, for books for the DeNormandie Room
$250.00
Lincoln Garden Club, for landscaping
100.00
Margaret Rathbone, for Public Library Fund
25.00
375.00
Withdrawn from savings bank accounts:
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
$193.74
248.58
Payments per order Library Trustees:
Town of Lincoln, for purchase of books
$300.00
Landscaping at Library
97.33
$397.33
Safe deposit box rent
4.00
Deposited in savings banks
25.00
Savings bank interest allowed to accumulate
194.54
Librarian, John H. Pierce Fund income
40.30
661.17
Cash balance at December 31, 1960
$ 389.52
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1960
Accumulated Income On Deposit
Principal
Total
Julia A. Bemis Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
$ 55.86
$684.05
$ 739.91
Codman Fund
Middlesex Institution
for Savings
35.37
474.59
509.96
Hugh Anthony Gaskill Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
-
158.89
158.89
Codman Fund
54.84
$1,050.69
211
TRUST FUNDS
Accumulated Income On Deposit
Principal
Total
John H. Pierce Fund
Cambridge Savings Bank Middlesex Institution for Savings
$
-
$ 500.00
$ 500.00
-
614.57
614.57
1,114.57
1,114.57
George Russell Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
32.38
415.74
448.12
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
34.02
930.00
964.02
1000 U. S. Treasury 5% 8/15/64
-
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,930.00
1,964.02
George G. Tarbell Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
5.36
147.30
152.66
Warren Institution for Savings
36.39
991.08
1,027.47
1000 Southern Bell Tel. 4% 1983 1000 Western Mass. Elec. 4 3/8% 1987
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
41.75
3,138.38
3,180.13
C. Edgar & Elizabeth S.
Wheeler Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
17.59
235.46
253.05
1000 U. S. Treasury 5% 8/15/64
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,235.46
1,253.05
Lincoln Public Library Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
50.00
1,438.63
1,488.63
$266.97
$10,590.31
$10,857.28
Accumulated income on deposit
389.52
389.52
$656.49
$10,590.31
$11,246.80
-
-
212
TRUST FUNDS
ABBIE J. STEARNS FUND FOR THE SILENT POOR
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1960
$ 81.29
Interest income in 1960
$ 133.18
Less accrued interest paid on bond purchased .26
132.92
Withdrawn from savings bank
2,003.13
Interest applied to amortize bond purchase premiums
3.13
$2,220.47
Safe deposit box rent
$ 2.00
Savings bank interest allowed to
accumulate
33.14
2000 U. S. Treasury 4 5/8% 5/15/65 purchased
2,003.13
2,038.27
Cash balance at December 31, 1960
$ 182.20
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1960
Cash on deposit
$ 182.20
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
385.28
2000 U. S. Treasury 4 5/8% 5/15/65
2,000.00
1000 Southern Bell Tel. 4% 1983
1,000.00
$3,567.48
Accumulated income
$2,342.43
Principal
1,225.05
$3,567.48
Clement C. Sawtell Richard F. Schroeder William T. King, Chairman
Commissioners of Trust Funds
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WARRANT 1961 NOTICE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County :
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln quali - fied to vote in Town Meeting for the transaction of Town Affairs to meet in the Charles S. Smith School in said Lincoln on Monday the 20th day of March next at 7:30 o'clock P. M. then and there to act on the following arti- cles except Article 1, and also to meet at the Fire and Police Station on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of March next, at eight o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested, in said Town seven days at least before the twentieth day of March next.
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March twenty-fifth, will be opened at 8 o'clock A. M. and may be closed at 7 o'clock P. M.
ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes for one member for each of the following offices:
Town Clerk for one year Selectman for three years
Assessor for three years Assessor for two years Treasurer for one year School Committee member for three years Regional District School Committee for three years Water Commissioner for three years Tree Warden for one year
Board of Health for three years Cemetery Commissioner for three years Planning Board for five years Commissioner of Trust Funds for three years
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Trustee of Bemis Fund for three years Director of DeCordova and Dana Museum for four years
ARTICLE 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees, and other officers required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board, or Committee shall be auth- orized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix additional compensation of such members.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 5. To raise and appropriate money for the necessary and expedient purposes of the Town or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 6. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan - uary 1, 1962, and to issue a note or notes therefor, pay- able within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accord- ance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 7. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $25,000.00, to be added to the Sta- bilization Fund established pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Meeting on March 16,
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1959, said sum to be taken from Free Cash, or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be taken from Free Cash.)
ARTICLE 8. To determine whether the Town will vote to conduct services on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May, appoint a committee, raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00, or any other sum, or take any action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 9. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose of digging test wells, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
(Finance Committee approves provided the money is taken from Water Department Revenue or Surplus.)
ARTICLE 10. £ To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to replace approximate- ly 1, 350 feet of 4" pipe in Virginia Road, appropriate the sum of $12,000.00, or any other sum, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
(Finance Committee approves provided the money is taken from Water Department Revenue or Surplus or raised by bor- rowing. )
ARTICLE 11. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a Front End Loader, for the use of the Water Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners (Finance Committee will comment at Town Meeting. )
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ARTICLE 12. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00, or some other sum, to be added to the Stabilization Fund established pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Meeting on March 16, 1959, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be taken from Free Cash.)
ARTICLE 13. To determine whether the Town will vote to establish a Conservation Fund under the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 51, of the General Laws, as amended, and to appropriate the sum of $4,000.00, or some other sum, thereto, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be taken from Free Cash.)
ARTICLE 14. To determine whether the Town will vote to acquire for conservation and recreational purposes by eminent domain, purchase, or in any other way, from Joseph and Mira C. Garland, a certain parcel of land on Sandy Pond Road, being a portion or all of certain premises des- cribed in a deed recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 6169, Page 214, said premises having a total area of 14 acres more or less, and for such purposes to expend from monies in the Conservation Fund established pursuant to vote of the Town under Article 13 of this meeting, the sum of $4,000.00, or some other sum, to expend from monies in the Stabilization Fund established pursuant to vote of the Town under Article 23 of the annual meeting on March 16, 1959, the sum of $10,000.00, or some other sum, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 or any other sum, or take any other action relative there- to.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee will comment at Town Meeting.)
ARTICLE 15. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Map of Lincoln, Mass., dated February 2, 1953, as heretofore amended, to include within the C-Open- Space Conservation District of the Town under the Town's
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Zoning By-Law certain parcels of land in the vicinity of Beaver Pond and Stony Brook, more particularly shown and described on a plan entitled "Plan of Proposed C-Open- Space District", dated February 10, 1961, by reference incorporated herein, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission
ARTICLE 16. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the existing General By-Laws, Article II, Section 5, by inserting after the words "the same" and before the words "this section" the following: "and provided that at the time of voting on a question of whether or not to amend the Zoning Map of the Town or any part thereof to permit uses referred to under Section V-B-3 of the Zoning By-Law adopted December, 1960, the number of voters con- stituting a quorum shall be 400" so that the Section reads as follows:
"The number of voters necessary to constitute a quorum at any Town Meeting shall be 100, provided however that a number less than a quorum may from time to time adjourn the same, and provided that at the time of voting on a question of whether or not to amend the Zoning Map of the Town or any part thereof to permit uses referred to under Section V-B-3 of the Zoning By-Law adopted December, 1960, the number of voters constituting a quorum shall be 400. This section shall not apply to such parts of meet- ings as are devoted to the election of Town Officers."
By Petition
ARTICLE 17. To determine whether the Town will vote to celebrate Independence Day, the fourth of July, appoint a committee, raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, or take any action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 18. To determine whether the Town will vote to appoint a Town Committee for International Cultural Ex- change, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
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ARTICLE 19. To determine whether the Town will vote that the start made in a study of the impact of light industry on the character and economic health of Lincoln and other communities be continued; that the Selectmen be authorized to appoint a committee to conduct this study; and that a sum of money be appropriated for the use of this com- mittee, or take any other action relative thereto.
By Petition
ARTICLE 20. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $565.63 to pay the fol- lowing unpaid bills for the year 1960:
Board of Health $ 52.50
Highway Department 513.13
Town Accountant
ARTICLE 21. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate from taxation, borrowing, available funds, or any combination of these, the sum of $30,000.00 for the purpose of original construction, extension, or paving with macadam, certain public ways, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be taken from Free Cash.)
ARTICLE 22. To determine whether the Town will accept a portion of Bedford Road as a Town Way, as laid out and re- located by the Board of Selectmen as shown on "Plan of the Relocation of Bedford Road as ordered by the Board of Se - lectmen, Lincoln, Mass.", dated January 31, 1961, Snelling, Hilton and Associates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, and for this purpose authorize said Board to acquire by eminent domain, pur- chase or otherwise, in so far as necessary, the land there- in shown as part of said way.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 23. To determine whether the Town will accept a portion of Sandy Pond Road as a Town Way, as laid out and relocated by the Board of Selectmen as shown on "Plan of the Relocation of Sandy Pond Road as ordered by the Board of Selectmen, Lincoln, Mass.", dated February 15, 1961,
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Snelling, Hilton and Associates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, and for this purpose authorize said Board to acquire by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise, in so far as necessary, the land therein shown as part of said way.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 24. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a pick up truck for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 25. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $9,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a road sweeper for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 26. To determine whether the Town will vote to request the Trustees under the Will of Julian de Cordova to pay over to the DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park one hundred per cent (100%) of the B Trust net income for the year 1961, or take any other action relative thereto.
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park Directors
ARTICLE 27. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to be used by a Committee to be appointed by the Moderator to study fur- ther the building needs of the Lincoln Schools.
School Committee
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be taken from Free Cash.)
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ARTICLE 28. To determine whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee to con- tinue its annual contract with the U. S. Commissioner of Education to operate the elementary school at L. G. Hans- com Field, Bedford, Massachusetts.
School Committee
ARTICLE 29. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,000.00, or any other sum, for permanent improvements in the Cemeteries, said sum to be taken from the Cemetery Investment Fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
Cemetery Commissioners
(Finance Committee approves provided the money is taken from Cemetery Investment Fund. )
ARTICLE 30. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00, or any other sum, to make necessary repairs to the outside of the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 31. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00, or any other sum, for the purpose of continuing the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project as provided under Chapter 252 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative there- to.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation. )
ARTICLE 32. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a Police Cruiser, to replace ex- isting equipment, or take any other action relative there- to.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation.)
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ARTICLE 33. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00, or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a generator at the Town Hall for the use of the Fire Department and Civilian De- fense, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee will comment at Town Meeting.)
ARTICLE 34. To determine whether the Town will vote to accept Chapter 647 of the Acts of 1960 which provides for an increase in the annual amounts of certain pensions, re- tirement allowances, annuities and other benefits, payable by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions to certain former employees and persons claiming under them, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 35. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $750.00, or any other sum, for the purpose of transporting children to Lake Walden for Red Cross swimming classes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Recreation Committee
(Finance Committee approves and recommends the money be raised by taxation.)
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 13th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.
Charles K. Fitts Elliott V. Grabill Warren F. Flint
Selectmen of Lincoln
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THE CONCORD PRESS . CONCORD, MASS.
TOWN OF LINCOLN
1960 Town Report
$ 1002339.
- SCHOOLS 59.1 %
1960
- SCHOOLS 60.1%
DEBT 11.7 %
· HIGHWAYS 9.2 %
1961
.. PROTECTION 8.5 %
.- DEBT 10.4%
-- LIBRARY
1960
CHARITIES 1.7 % HEALTH 1.47% RECREATION 0.6% - CEMETERY 02%
.- PROTECTION 8.2 %
HIGHWAYS 8.1%
ESTIMATED
. GEN. GOV'T. 3.7 % -- UNCLASSIFIED 2.9 % .. LIBRARY 21% 1.5%
.- CHARITIES
HEALTH 1.170
1961
RESERVE 0.9 %
- RECREATION 0.6 %
- CEMETERY 0.4%
Lincoln Pli Financial Section of the
$
1117093.
EXPENDED
ESTIMATED
. GEN. GOV'T. 3.4 % . UNCLASSIFIED 2.3% 1.9 7%
EXPENDED
TOWN OF LINCOLN
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
1960
LINCOLN FINANCE COMMITTEE
Report with Recommended Budget for 1961
The Finance Committee Report and its recommended Budget for 1961 is being published in the "Financial Section to the 1960 Town Report". The Section also carries the report of the Long- Term Capital Expenditures Committee, which is a useful back- ground for current as well as long-term considerations.
We recommend the adoption of the several appropriations for General Purposes in 1961 itemized in the Financial Supple- ment mentioned above which total $1,117,093, and compare with actual expenditures for the same General Purposes last year of $1,002,339. This is an increase of $114,754, or 11.3%.
We recommend adoption of a budget for the Water Department consisting of the several appropriations also shown in detail in the Financial Section and totaling $46,890. This compares with 1960 actual expenditures of $52,493.
In accordance with the By-Laws, the hearing on the Elemen- tary School Budget was held in conjunction with the School Committee on January 30. A hearing on the remainder of the Budget will be held after the publication of this report, and it is expected that it will be at least two weeks prior to the Town Meeting. The Committee hopes there will be a large atten- dance at this meeting.
Total cost of schools, including operating budgets for Elementary Schools, Regional High Schools, and bond service on their several properties, but excluding insurance, amounts to an estimated $769,000 or 69% of our total 1961 Budget. This is a 9.3% increase over the 1960 Budget and compares with an over- all budgeted increase of 7.2%. All wages and salaries at $642, 000 represent 57.5% of our total Budget and are up 15.5% over 1960. Increases in this category amount to 16% for schools and 14% for other Town Departments. However, these figures should not be construed as wage increases to individuals as the personnel in the schools and elsewhere has increased.
In 1960 the Finance Committee in cooperation with the various department heads in the Town functioned as a wage board in an attempt to coordinate the wage policies of the different departments. We believe this project has been reasonably successful and expect to continue this function in the future. Our policy in making the 1961 Budget was based on an approximate 5% increase in individual salaries and wages. The foregoing does not apply to teachers in either the Elementary Schools or the Regional High School as, in these two cases, the respective school boards function as wage committees.
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