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GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to deter- mine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix additional compensation of such members.
VOTED : That the salaries of the elected offi- cers of the Town for the current year be fixed at the following amounts respectively : Selectmen, each
Treasurer
$ 100.00 200.00
Collector of Taxes 2,300.00
Town Clerk 600.00
Assessors, Chairman 200.00
Assessors, other members, each 175.00
200.00
Tree Warden Water Commissioners, each 75.00
and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to employ one of their members at a rate of $32.50 per day, that the Tree Warden be authorized to work for the tree depart- ment at a rate of $2.50 per hour, and that the Board of Assessors be authorized to employ one of their members at a rate of $25.00 per day.
Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the necessary and expedient purposes of the Town or take any other action relative thereto. VOTED: ( unanimously ) That the Town adopt as separ- ate appropriations the listed recommendations in the schedule attached to the report of the Finance Committee for 1960, printed on pages 4 to ll, inclusive, of the Financial Section of the 1960 Town Report, except that the following final amounts shall be appropriated in sub- stitution for the same numbered items in said schedule: Item
Final
No.
Title
Increase
Decrease
Amount
52
Expense
$ 500.00. $ 800.00
304
Snow & Ice Removal Control
$1,500.00
8,000.00
305
Street Lights
400.00
7,700.00
503
Operation
6,000.00
47,870.00
900
Middlesex County Pension Fund
2,490.00
7,307.00
904
Printing & Dis-
tributing reports 500.00
3,000.00
905 Preservation of Town Records
750.00
750.00
and that the following new item be added: Item. No. 53 - Compensation of Assessor for special purposes - $500.00,
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and that all the same be raised by taxation except to the following extent:
(a) As to items 15, .40, 210, 320, 321, 520, and 521, respecting which said Schedule contains notations for the application of funds thereto from special sources, funds from such sources shall be so applied;
(b) As to item 910, Reserve Fund, $5,000.00 shall be applied from Free Cash, and $5,000.00 from Overlay Sur- plus, any unexpended balance in excess of $5,000.00 to be returned to Overlay Surplus;
(c) Items 950 to 956, inclusive, shall be taken from Water Department Receipts, to the extent available, and to the extent insufficient, shall be taken from Water Department Surplus ;
(d) And it is further voted: that the sum of $331.74 in the Library Addition Fund be returned to Surplus.
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 January 1, 1962, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws. VOTED : That the Town Treasurer, with the ap-
proval of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1962, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 14, General Laws.
Article 7. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $25,000.00 to be added to the Stabilization Fund established pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Meeting, March 16, 1959, said sum to be taken from Free Cash, or take any other action relative thereto. VOTED : That the Town appropriate the sum of $25,000.00 from Free Cash to be added to the Stabilization Fund established pursuant to a vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Meeting, March 16, 1959.
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
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thereto. VOTED : That the Moderator be authorized to appoint a committee of five to plan and carry out exer- cises on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May next, and that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 for the use of such Committee in connection with the exercises.
Article 9. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the pur- pose of digging test wells, or take any other action rela- tive thereto. VOTED : That the Town vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose of digging test wells, said sum to be taken from Water Department Surplus.
Article 10. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to replace approxi- mately 1,350 feet of 4-inch pipe in Virginia Road, appro- priate the sum of $12,000.00, or any other sum, or take any other action relative thereto.
VOTED : That the Town appropriate the sum of $12,000.00 for the purpose of replacing approximately 1,300 feet of 4-inch water main in Virginia Road, and that of this amount the sum of $1,401.92 be taken from the balance remaining in the Brooks Road Construction account voted under Article 2 of the Special Town Meeting of July 23, 1956, and the sum of
$821.77 be taken from the balance remaining in the Concord Road Construction account voted under Article 26 of the Annual Town Meeting, March 17, 1958, and the sum of $2,278.40 be taken from the balance remaining in the Concord Road construction account voted under Article 31 of the March 21, 1960 Town Meeting, and that the balance of $7,497.91 be taken from Water Depart- ment receipts.
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 rela- tive thereto. VOTED : A motion that the Town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 for the purchase of a front end loader for the use of the Water Department, said sum to be taken from Water Department Surplus, was lost.
Article 12. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00, or some
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other sum, to be added to the Stabilization Fund estab- lished 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.
VOTED : That there be raised and appropriated for addition to the Stabilization Fund established pur - suant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Meeting of March 16, 1959, for long-range land acquisition, the sum of $3,000.00.
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.
VOTED : That a Conservation Fund be established as provided under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 51, as amended, and that there be raised and appropriated thereto the sum of $4,000.00.
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 thereto.
VOTED : That the Selectmen be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered in the name and on behalf of the Town to acquire in fee by purchase, eminent domain, or in any other way, for conservation and recreational pur - poses, a certain parcel of land on Sandy Pond Road belong- ing to Joseph and Mira C. Garland, being shown as Lot 1 on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lincoln, Mass., owned by Joseph and Mira C. Garland", by Snelling, Hilton & Associ- ates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, dated March 9, 1961, and to obtain an option for the purchase of the land and buildings thereon, shown as Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5, at a
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price of $4,000 each, and to reserve to said Joseph and Mira C. Garland during their lives such rights to use said land as the Selectmen in their discretion deem advisable, and that for the purpose of acquiring said Lot 1 there be expended from the Conservation Fund established pursuant to vote of the Town under Article 13 of this Meeting the sum of $4,000.00, and for the purpose of obtaining the op- tion on said Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5 there be raised and appro- priated the sum of $1,000.00.
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 in the C-Open- Space Conservation District of the Town under the Town's 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 Conservation District", dated February 10, 1961, by reference incorporated herein, or take any other action relative thereto.
VOTED: (unanimously ) That the Zoning Map of the Town of Lincoln, dated February 2, 1953, as heretofore amended, be further amended to include within the C-Open- Space Conservation District established under Section V-C of the Zoning By-Law of the Town certain parcels of land shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Proposed C-Open-Space Conservation District in Lincoln, Mass", dated February 10, 1961, in the vicinity of Beaver Pond and Stony Brook, said parcels being shown on the aforementioned plan as now or formerly of Bradley, owner unknown, Peek, Abbott, Jagger, Jacobs, Anderson, Cole, Taylor, d'Autremont, Coons, Wales, Maier, Moss, Haley, Preston, Quarton, Har - rington, Pertzoff and Brunn, and copies of said plan having been posted in the office of the Town Clerk and the Town Hall, and distributed to the citizens of the Town with the annual report of the Town of 1960.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING March 20, 1961
At this point (9:35 P.M. ), the regular Meeting was temporarily adjourned and the warrant for a Special Town Meeting, called for 9:30 P.M., was read. The special meeting was called to order by the Moderator, and the following article was considered:
Article 1. To determine whether the Town will vote to acquire for municipal purposes, by gift, purchase, or
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eminent domain, a portion of a certain parcel of land owned by the American Legion, Post 84, located in the South Lincoln retail business district, so-called, appro- priate the sum of $20,000.00, or any other sum, or take any action relative thereto.
VOTED : A motion "That the Town vote to acquire for municipal purposes by eminent domain, purchase, or/in any other way, a certain parcel of land shown on "Plan of a Portion of the Land of American Legion Post #84, in Lincoln, Mass.", dated March 15, 1961, Roland H. Barnes & Co., Civil Engineers, being further bounded and des- cribed as follows:
Northerly, by Lincoln Road by two lines, 48.90 feet and 68.80 feet, respectively; Easterly, by land of Hurd, 218.11 feet; Southerly, by other land of said American Legion Post #84, 83.03 feet; and Westerly, by land of Malloy, 152.60 feet; containing 15,600 square feet, more or less, all as shown on said plan, subject, however, to a right of way reserved to said American Legion Post of twenty-four (24) feet in width running from said Lincoln Road to the remaining land of said American Legion Post, to be used for such purposes as streets are normally and customarily used in said Lincoln, Mass .; and for said purposes to raise and appropriate the sum of $20,000.00"- was lost, Yes - 331; No - 290.
On motion duly seconded, it was voted at 11:45 P.M. to adjourn the Annual Town Meeting until 7:30 P. M. March 21, 1961.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 21, 1961
The adjourned Town Meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 o'clock P.M., and the following business was transacted:
Article 16. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the existing General By-Laws, Article 11, 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, how- .. ever, that a number less than a quorum may from time to
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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 re- ferred 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 meetings as are devoted to the election of Town Offi- cers.
VOTED: (with amendment) That the General By-Laws be amended by inserting in Article 11, Section 5, 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 constituting 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 con- stituting a quorum shall be 400. This section shall not apply to such parts of meetings as are devoted to the election of Town Officers." .
An amendment to the main motion was then VOTED: "That the following be added to the main motion - "and that the Moderator appoint a Committee of three to study Article 2, Section 5, of the existing Town By-Laws with reference to quorums at Town Meetings and report their recommendations at the next Annual Town Meeting."
This was voted unanimously.
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. VOTED : That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, and that $250.00 be taken from the Donald Gordon Fund for the use of a Committee, to consist of five members, one to be appointed by the Chief of the Police Department, one to be appointed by the Chief of the Fire Department, and three to be appointed by the Modera- tor, to plan and to execute a celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July.
Article 18. To determine whether the Town will vote to appoint a Town Committee for International Cultural Ex-
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change, or take any other action relative thereto. VOTED : That the Moderator be authorized to ap- point a committee consisting of three members for the pur - pose of establishing a Town Committee for International Cultural Exchange.
Article 19, To determine whether the Town will vote that the start made on a study of the impact of light in- dustry 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 committee; or take any other action relative thereto. VOTED : 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, and that the Selectmen be authorized and directed to appoint a committee to conduct this study, and that said committee report at the next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 20. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $565.63 to pay the following unpaid bills for the year 1960: Board of Health $52.50
Highway Department $513.13 VOTED : That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $565.63 to pay the following unpaid bills for the year 1960 : Board of Health - Expense - $52.50; Highway Department - Snow and Ice Removal and Control - $513.13.
Article 21. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate from taxation, borrowing, avail- able funds, or any combination of these, the sum of $30,000.00 for the purpose of original construction, ex- tension, or paving with macadam, certain public ways, or take any other action relative thereto ..
VOTED : That the Town appropriate the sum of $30,000.00 for the purpose of original construction, ex- tension, or paving with macadam, certain public ways, said sum to 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 relocated by the Board of Selectmen as shown on "Plan of the Relocation of Bedford Road, as ordered by the Board of Selectmen, 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
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domain, purchase, or otherwise, insofar as necessary, the land therein shown as part of said way. VOTED: (unanimously) That the Town accept as a Town Way a portion of Bedford Road as shown on "Plan of the Relocation of Bedford Road, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, Lincoln, Mass.", dated January 31, 1961, Snelling, Hilton and Associates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, being further described as bounded - Westerly by Parcel No. 1, shown on said plan as land now or former- ly of Ann Smith Monks, by Parcel No. 3, shown on said plan as land now or formerly of Robert M. and Donna A. Fraser, by the eastern end of an Old Road, and by success- ive unnumbered parcels of land shown on said plan as now or formerly of An and Lorraine C. Wang, Elizabeth C. and Joseph R. Tracey, Town of Lincoln, and Elizabeth C. and Joseph R. Tracey; and generally Easterly by Parcel No. 2, shown on said plan as land now or formerly of Elizabeth F. Wheeler, et als, by Parcel No. 4 and Parcel No. 5, shown on said plan as land now or formerly of An and Lorraine C. Wang, and by Parcel No. 6, shown on said plan as land now or formerly of Russell J. Armstrong; and extending from approximately station 15, as shown on said plan (being the northerly extremity of taking for highway purposes by order of taking recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 9579, Page 143) and extending to Concord Turn- pike, as shown on said plan; and that the Town for this purpose authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise, in so far as necessary, the land therein contained, and appropriate therefor the sum of $1.00, said sum to be taken from Free Cash.
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, 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. VOTED: (unanimously) That the Town accept as a Town Way a portion of Sandy Pond Road as shown on "Plan of the Relocation of Sandy Pond Road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, Lincoln, Mass.", dated February 15, 1961, Snelling, Hilton and Associates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, being further described as bounded generally - Westerly by Parcels No. 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7, shown on said
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plan as land now or formerly of Sumner Smith; generally Easterly by land now or formerly of Sumner Smith, as shown on said plan, Parcel #2, shown on said plan as now or for- merly of the Town of Lincoln, Parcel #5, shown on said plan as land now or formerly of Richard C. and Frances R. Fleck, and by land shown on said plan as now or formerly of Arthur W., Jr. and Pauline K. Rice, and extending from a line N. 85°31'30" W. to a line S. 24º19'05" W., as shown on said plan, and that the Town for this purpose authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by eminent domain, purchase, or otherwise, in so far as necessary, the land therein contained, and appropriate therefor the sum of $500.00, said sum to be taken from Free Cash.
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 pickup truck for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
VOTED: ( unanimously ) That the Town raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000.00 for the purchase of a pickup truck for the use of the Highway Department.
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 rela- tive thereto. VOTED : That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $9,000.00 for the purchase of a road sweeper for the use of the Highway Department.
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. VOTED : That the Town request the Trustees under the Will of Julian deCordova to pay over to the DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park corporation 100% of the B Trust income for the year 1961.
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 further the building needs of the Lincoln schools. VOTED : That the Town appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to be used by a Committee to be appointed by the Moderator to study further the building needs of the Lin-
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coln schools, said sum to be taken from Free Cash.
Article 28. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen and the School Com- mittee to continue its annual contract with the U. S. Commissioner of Education to operate the elementary school at L. G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts. VOTED : That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee to continue its annual contract with the U. S. Commissioner of Education to oper- ate the elementary school at Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts.
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.
VOTED : That the Town appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for permanent improvements in the cemeteries, said sum to be taken from the 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. VOTED : That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 to make necessary repairs to the outside of the Town Hall.
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 Middle- sex Mosquito Control Project, as provided under Chapter 252 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto. VOTED : That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 for the purpose of continuing the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project, as provided under Chapter 252 of the General Laws.
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