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2,000.00
1000 Southern Bell Tel., 4%, 1983
1,000.00
$3,713.15
Accumulated income Principal
$2,488.10
1,225.05
$3,713.15
GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND
Cash Account
1961 savings bank interest paid to Town of Lincoln
$ 46.19
Savings bank deposits at December 31, 1961
Middlesex Institution for Savings
$ 722.00
Cambridge Savings Bank
495.52
$1,217.52
206
$ 329.87
accumulate
TRUST FUNDS
LINCOLN LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS
Cash Account
Cash balance at January 1, 1961
$ 389.52
Income received in 1961
Julia A. Bemis Fund
$ 27.98
Codman Fund
19.27
Hugh Anthony Gaskill Fund
5.92
John H. Pierce Fund
42.32
George Russell Fund
16.95
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
86.49
George G. Tarbell Fund
129.89
C. Edgar & Elizabeth S. Wheeler Fund
59.56
Lincoln Public Library Fund
56.32
444.70
Payments per order Library Trustees:
Books purchased
$ 20.73
To Town of Lincoln, for purchase of books
300.00
Books for DeNormandie Room, from Cannon gift
250.00
$ 570.73
Safe deposit box rent
2.00
Savings bank interest allowed to accumulate
212.71
Librarian, John H. Pierce Fund income
42.32
827.76
Cash balance at December 31, 1961
$ 6.46
Cash and Securities at December 31, 1961
Accumulated Income On Deposit
Principal
Total
Julia A. Bemis Fund
Middlesex Institution
for Savings
$ 83.84
$ 684.05
$ 767.89
Codman Fund
Middlesex Institution
for Savings
54.64
474.59
529.23
Hugh Anthony Gaskill Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
--
158.89
158.89
John H. Pierce Fund
Cambridge Savings Bank
--
500.00
500.00
Middlesex Institution
for Savings
--
614.57
614.57
$1,114.57
$1,114.57
George Russell Fund Middlesex Institution for Savings
49.33
415.74
465.07
(cont.)
207
$ 834.22
TRUST FUNDS
Accumulated Income On Deposit
Principal
Total
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
$ 70.51
$ 930.00
$ 1,000.51
1000 U.S. Treasury 5%, 8/15/64
--
1,000.00
1,000.00
$ 70.51
$1,930.00
$ 2,000.51
George G. Tarbell Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
11.12
147.30
158.42
Warren Institution for Savings
76.77
991.08
1,067.85
1000 Southern Bell Tel. 4%, 1983
.-
1,000.00
1,000.00
1000 Western Mass. Elec. 4 3/8%, 1987
1,000.00
1,000.00
$ 87.89
$3,138.38
$3,226.27
C. Edgar & Elizabeth S. Wheeler Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
27.15
235.46
262.61
1000 U.S. Treasury 5%, 8/15/64
1,000.00
1,000.00
$ 27.15
$1,235.46
$1,262.61
Lincoln Public Library Fund
Middlesex Institution for Savings
106.32
1,438.63
1,544.95
$479.68
$10,590.31
$11,069.99
Accumulated income on deposit
6.46
--
6.46
$486.14
$10,590.31
$11,076.45
Commissioners of Trust Funds
Clement C. Sawtell Richard F. Schroeder
William T. King
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1962 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 qualified 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 19th day of March next, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1, and also to meet at the Fire and Police Station on Saturday, the twenty-fourth 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 at- tested, in said Town seven days at least before the nine- teenth day of March next.
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March twenty-fourth, 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 Library Trustee for three years Collector 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
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Board of Health for one year
Cemetery Commissioner for three years Planning Board for five years Commissioner of Trust Funds for three years 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 authorized 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 the sum of $100,000. to be transferred from free cash for use by the Assessors in reducing the tax rate in the current year .
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 7. 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, 1963, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as
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may be given for a period of less than one year in accord- ance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 8. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $8,000.00, 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, 1959, or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 9. 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.)
ARTICLE 10. 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. )
ARTICLE 11. 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.)
ARTICLE 12. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a truck for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen (Finance Committee approves. )
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ARTICLE 13. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,200.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a Police Cruiser, to replace existing equipment, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves.)
ARTICLE 14. To determine whether the Town will vote to request the Trustees under the Will of Julian DeCordova 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 1962, or take any other action relative thereto.
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park Directors
ARTICLE 15. To determine whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee to con- tinue its annual contract with U.S. Commissioner of Educa- tion to operate the elementary school at L. G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts.
School Committee
ARTICLE 16. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or any other sum, for the purpose of con- tinuing renovation of the Library Building, or take any other action relative thereto.
Library Trustees
(Finance Committee approves.)
ARTICLE 17. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, for the purpose of electrifying and repairing the Library clock, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves. )
ARTICLE 18. To determine whether the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way known as Boyce Farm Road, as shown on a plan entitled "subdivision of land in Lincoln, owned by Joseph J. Napoli", and drawn by Rowland H. Barnes and Co., dated September, 1960. Said plan being approved by the Planning Board of the Town of Lincoln on
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September 14, 1960, and recorded with the Middlesex Regis- try of Deeds by Plan #1564 of 1960 and Plan #153 of 1960. Subsequently this land was recorded by Land Court Certifi- cate Case #30349.
By Petition
ARTICLE 19, To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men on behalf of the Town to enter into a written contract with Wes-Lex Corporation pursuant to which Wes-Lex Corpora- tion will deliver to the Town Treasurer the sum of $10,000. which sum the Town shall be empowered to appropriate and use from time to time for a period of ten years for any one or more of several purposes relative to the provision of water mains or fire-fighting services or facilities for the benefit of the subdivision of land of Wes-Lex Corporation off Tower Road and/or for the benefit of ad- jacent or neighboring properties, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 20. 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 1959 Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves. )
ARTICLE 21. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00, or some other sum, to be added to the Conservation Fund established pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 13 of the 1961 Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves. )
ARTICLE 22. 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 shown as Lot 2 on a plan entitled "Division of Land in Lincoln, Massachusetts, owned by Joseph and Mira C. Gar -
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land", recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 9955, Page 511, said parcel having an area of 1.8 acres more or less, and for such purposes to expend from monies in the Conservation Fund established pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 13 of the 1961 Annual Town Meeting, the sum of $4,000.00, or some other sum, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves. )
ARTICLE 23. 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 Zoning By-Law, certain parcels of land north of Beaver Pond, between Weston Road and Old Farm Road, more particu- larly shown and described on a plan entitled "Plan of Pro- posed C-Open-Space District", dated January 29, 1962, by reference incorporated herein, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission
ARTICLE 24. 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 Zoning By-Law, certain parcels of land lying between Sandy Pond on the west and Bedford Road on the east, now or formerly of Ann S. Monks, Olga Pertzoff, and Constantin A. and Olga Pertzoff, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board and Conservation Commission
ARTICLE 25. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend its By-Laws by adding a new section as follows: The Board of Selectmen shall in each year appoint an inspector of gas piping and gas appliances in buildings whose duty shall be the enforcement of the rules and regulations adopted by the Board established by General Laws, Chapter 25, Section 12 (h), inserted by Sec. 1 of Chapter 737 of the Acts of 1960 and amendments thereto.
Selectmen
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ARTICLE 31 AMENDMENT
IT IS PROPOSED TO Ai END ARTICLE 31 BY STRIKING OUT THE PRESENT WORK- ING IN ITS ENTIRETY AND SUBSTITUTING THE FOLLOWING.
ANY PERSON INTENDING TO CONSTRUCT, RECONSTRUCT OR ALTER THE CONNEC- TION OF ANY PRIVATE DRIVEWAY OR ROAD WITH ANY PUBLIC WAY SHALL GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE OF SUCH INTENT TO THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN.
THE SELECTMEN SHALL CAUSE AN INSPECTION OF THE LOCATION OF THE CON- NECTION TO BE !'ADE. IF, IN THEIR JUDGMENT, THE PROPOSED WORK TAY REDUCE THE SAFETY OF PEDESTRIAN OR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC ON THE PUBLIC WAY OR ALTER 1 THE DRAINAGE OF THE PUBLIC WAY IN AN UNDESIRABLE MANNER OR AFFECT THE IN- TEGRITY OF PAVEMENT OR SHOULDERS, THEY MAY REQUIRE THAT SAID PERSON PRESENT PLANS SHOWING THE PROPOSED CONNECTION IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL TO PERMIT THE SELECTMEN TO DETERMINE THE ADEQUACY OF THE PROPOSED CONNECTION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SAFETY, DRAINAGE AND CONSTRUCTION.
UPON COMPLETION OF SUCH WORK AFFECTING ENTRY ONTO A PUBLIC WAY, THE SELECTMEN "AY CAUSE AN INSPECTION TO BE MADE. IN THE EVENT THAT SAID CONNECTION HAS BEEN SO CONSTRUCTED THAT THERE EXISTS AN UNSAFE CONDITION OR A CONDITION WHICH, IF NOT CORRECTED, MIGHT CAUSE OR PERMIT DAMAGE TO THE PAVEMENT OR DRAINAGE SYSTEM OF THE PUBLIC ROAD, THEY MAY GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY SETTING IN SUCH NOTICE A TINE REASON- ABLE IN RELATION TO THE HAZAR^, WITHIN WHICH THE CONDITION SHALL BE CORRECTED. IN THE EVENT THAT THE OWNER DOES NOT TAKE OR CAUSE TO BE TAKEN THE NECESSARY CORRECTIVE MEASURES WITHIN THE STATED TIME, THE TOWN AY CAUSE SUCH TEASURES TO BE TAKEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE OWNER.
WE ARE SENDING YOU HEREWITH A COPY OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN SECTION 4 - FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS - AND THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 12 - ELECTRICAL INSTAL- LATIONS - OF THE BUILDING CODE OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLN WHICH ARE TO BE PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING ON MARCH 19TH, 1962.
A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO THE BUILDING CODE WILL BE HELD AT THE TOWN HALL AT 8:00 P.M., MARCH 1ST, 1962.
SECTION 4 - FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS.
ADD NEW PAR. 4.0 FIRE RESISTIVE RATING. THE MEASURED TIME IN HOURS OR FRACTIONS THEREOF THAT THE MATERIAL OR CONSTRUCTION WILL WITHSTAND FIRE EXPOSURE AS DETERMINED BY FIRE TESTS CONDUCTED IN CONFORMITY TO RECOGNIZED STANDARDS.
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.2, NINTH LINE TO READ " -- PROTECTED TO AFFORD THE FIRE RE- SISTIVE RATINGS SPECIFIED AS FOLLOWS:"
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.2, HEADING OF TABULATION TO READ " -- FIRE RESISTIVE RATING OF CONSTRUCTION".
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.3 BY ADDING TO SECOND SENTENCE, LINE 5 " -- OR SUCH OTHER MATERIALS AS WILL PROVIDE A MINIMUM FIRE RESISTIVE RATING OF 3/4 HOUR."
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.6, 3RD AND 4TH LINES, FIRST SENTENCE, TO READ " -- MUST HAVE CEILING AND INTERIOR WALLS CONSTRUCTED OF METAL LATH AND CEMENT PLASTER AT LEAST 3/4 INCHES THICK OR OF SUCH OTHER MATERIALS AS WILL PROVIDE A FIRE RESISTIVE RATING OF 3/4 HOUR."
ADD TO PAR. 4.2.6, LAST LINE " -- AND THE DUCTS ARE CONSTRUCTED OF MATERIALS PROVIDING A FIRE RESISTIVE RATING OF 3/4 HOUR AND FURTHER ARE EQUIPPED WITH DAMPERS CONTROLLED BY FUSEABLE LINK AND SPRING TO INSURE CLOSING OF THE DUCT IN CASE OF FIRE."
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.7 (c), LINE 7, TO READ " -- - SPECTOR WHICH PROVIDES EQUIVA- LENT FIRE RESISTIVE RATING.' 11
CHANGE PAR. 4.2.7 (D), ADDING TO LAST LINE " -- OR SUCH OTHER MATERIALS AS WILL PROVIDE A FIRE RESISTIVE RATING OF 3/4 HOUR."
NEW SECTION 11 TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 11 - ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS:
ALL ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT SHALL BE IN ACCORD- ANCE WITH (1) THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE (AMERICAN STANDARD ASSOCIATION C1 - 1959) A COPY OF WHICH SHALL BE MAINTAINED IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK.
CHANGE PRESENT SECTION #11, TO READ SECTION 12.
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ARTICLE 26. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend Section 4 - Fire Safety Requirements - and add a new Section - Electrical Installations - to the Building Code of the Town of Lincoln as proposed in a copy now on file with the Town Clerk.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 27, To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the use of $1,800.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a sand-spreader for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves.)
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to acquire in fee for school purposes by eminent domain, purchase, or any other way, a certain parcel of land now or formerly of Sandy Pond Trust and formerly of Sumner Smith, located on the southwesterly side of Sandy Pond Road, between land now of Rouner and land now of Emmons and land now of the Town of Lincoln, for the use of schools, containing 35 acres more or less, raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
School Committee
ARTICLE 29. To determine whether the Town will vote to approve or disapprove the amount of indebtedness author- ized by vote of the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee for the purpose of acquiring land.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 30. To determine whether the Town will vote to extend the business zoned area to include the new building site of the American Legion that parallels the railroad track on the N. E. side and to the S. E. side of Lincoln Road, in order to expedite the erection of a new, larger, more attractive and costly legion home.
By Petition
ARTICLE 31. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend its By-Laws by adding a new section as follows: "No person shall construct, reconstruct, or alter the connection of any private
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driveway or road with any public way until he has obtained a permit therefor from the Superintendent of Streets.
The application for such a permit shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the Selectmen and shall be accompanied by a plan of the proposed driveway connection showing elevations of the proposed drive- way in sufficient detail to permit the Superintendent of Streets to determine the drainage characteristics thereof, and the effect, if any, of such proposed con- nection upon the existing surface drainage of the travelled way.
The proposed connection shall be designed so as not to interfere with the existing drainage of the public way nor to dump excessive additional surface water on the travelled way, nor to serve as a drain for the existing way except in so far as alteration of the existing drainage pat- tern is desirable as determined by the Superintendent of Streets with such en- gineering advice as he may deem necessary.
The Superintendent of Streets shall, upon notification from the permittee that the work upon the proposed connection is com- plete, inspect the condition of the con- nection. In the event that the Superin- tendent determines that the work has not been satisfactorily completed he shall furnish written notice to the permittee stating the particulars in which the work is unsatisfactory, and demanding that the necessary corrective measures be taken within sixty (60) days of the receipt of such notice.
The Superintendent of Streets may like- wise be permitted to give written notice to the permittee at any time that he may find that as a result of work on the pro- posed connection an unsafe condition ex- ists or a condition which, if not corrected, will cause or permit damage to the pavement
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or drainage system of the public road, and to set in such notice a time, reason- able in relation to the hazard, within which the condition shall be corrected. In the event that the permittee does not take or cause to be taken the necessary corrective measures within the stated time, the Town may cause such measures to be taken at the expense of the per- mittee.
Where a driveway is used for access to a construction site, the final inspection of the work by the Superintendent of Streets shall not be made until the con- struction is complete.
Each permit granted by the Superintendent of Streets pursuant to the provisions of this by-law shall require that the work permitted to be done thereunder shall be commenced not later than sixty (60) days after the date of the permit and shall be completed as soon as practicable there- after.
Each applicant for a permit issued under this by-law shall pay a fee of $1.00 to the Town upon submission of his application."
Selectmen
ARTICLE 32. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend its By-Laws by adding a new section as follows :
"Section 1: No motorboat shall be operated upon any portion of the Concord River or its tributaries or of any inland lake other than Wal - den Pond lying within the town, in a manner which endangers the safety of the public or is detrimental or injurious to the neighborhood or to the value of property thereon.
Section 2: It shall be prima facie evi- dence of the violation of this by-law if such boat is operated
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by a motor not having an under- water exhaust, or in a noisy or obnoxious manner, or at any un- reasonable rate of speed, or with- out slowing down and exercising due caution while approaching and passing persons bathing or any other watercraft, or at any speed in excess of ten miles per hour.
Section 3: Any person violating any pro- vision of this by-law shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $20.00 for each offense.
Section 4: The town may join with any other town, through which said Concord River or any of its tributaries flows, in the enforcement of this by-law or a similar by-law adopted by such other town insofar as such by-laws relate to said river or its tributaries, and may appropriate money for the enforcement in whole or in part of any and all such by- laws.
Selectmen
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 nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.
Charles K. Fitts Elliott V. Grabill Warren F. Flint
Selectmen of Lincoln
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Financial Section of the 1961 Town Report
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REPORT of the FINANCE COMMITTEE 1961
LINCOLN FINANCE COMMITTEE
Report with Recommended Budget for 1962
The Finance Committee Report and its recommended Budget for .962 is being published as a "Financial Section to the 1961 Town Report". This Section also carries the report of the Long-Term Capital Requirements Committee, which is a useful background for current as well as long-term considerations.
We recommend the adoption of the appropriations for General Purposes in 1962 itemized in the Financial Supplement which total $1,214,155, and compare with actual expenditures for the same General Purposes last year of $1,094,272. This is an in- crease of $119,883, or 11.0% .
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 $48,216. This compares with 1961 actual expenditures of $42,308.
In accordance with the By-Laws, the hearing on the Elemen- tary School Budget was held in conjunction with the School Com- mittee on January 29. A hearing on the remainder of the Budget will be held after the publication of this report, and it is ex- pected that it will be at least two weeks prior to the Town Meeting. The Committee hopes there will be a large attendance at this meeting.
In 1961 the Finance Committee in cooperation with the various department heads in the Town again functioned as a wage board in an attempt to coordinate the wage policies of the differ- ent departments. We believe this project has been reasonably successful and expect to continue this function in the future. Our policy in making the 1962 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.
The various departments returned to the Treasury a total of $25,190.77 of unexpended appropriations. The following is a list of all that exceeded $1,000.00.
Town Office Clerical
$1,287.98
Fire Department, Salaries & Wages 1,893.98
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