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NOTE : In the interest of clarity cents have been omitted from the above figures.
8437
reduction
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TOWN OF
LINCOLN
REPORT OF THE LONG-TERM CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE 1963
TOWN OF LINCOLN
1963 REPORT OF THE LONG-TERM CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE
The year 1963 contained no surprises from the point of view of capital expenditures and planning. Consequently, the sum- mary in Table I repeats the figures shown last year with only minor changes.
For 1964 and beyond, the Long-Range Capital Requirements Committee found an economy-size crystal ball and endeavored with it to predict future population growth for use as a benchmark in planning by Town Committees. The best estimate that we can make from past experience is that the Town will grow at about 2% per year . This rate indicates the population would increase from 3,917 in 1960 to 4,825 in 1970. While we think that this figure is a good guess, it should be recognized that it may be off sig- nificantly. Considerable blocks of land, such as Codman and DiPerna, could come on the market soon and add to the large num- ber (roughly 80 to 100) of lots currently for sale. Such surge could increase the growth rate sharply over a period of a
few years. The 701 study of land use now in progress should indicate action that could be taken by the Town affecting this
growth rate. Another important influence could be the bill now being considered by the State Legislature setting a maximum lot size considerably less than Lincoln's 2-acre zoning. Given all these factors that can change Lincoln, we expect to revise our growth predictions each year.
Respectfully submitted,
Russell L. Haden, Jr., Chairman 1965
Richard C. B. Clark, Secretary 1964
Robert Donaldson 1966
Elliott V. Grabill, Selectmen
Richard B. Bailey, Finance Committee
R. Langdon Wales, Planning Board
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TABLE 1 TOWN OF LINCOLN 1963 Long-Term Capital Requirements Committee Report
PROPOSED PROGRAM OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURES - 1964 AND PERIOD 1965/1969
No. Department or Project
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Future
1. Lincoln Cemetery
$ 1,956A
$ 5,000
$
--
$ ---
$ --
$ -
-
No figure
2. Lincoln Library
20,000
No figure
3. Planning Board &
Conservation Commission :
a. Garland Land Purchase
4,000D
4,000D
b. Legion Land Purchase
7,500A
c. Di Perna Land Purchase
No Figure
4. Recreation :
Land Purchase
No Figure
5. Selectmen :
a. Protection of Persons & Property :
(1) Police Dept.
2,500
2,500
2,500
(2) Fire Dept.
4,900
(3) Civil Defense
b. Highway Department:
(1) Road Construction Chs. 782 & 822
15,360
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
18,700
(2) Ch. 90 Const.
35,991A
18,000
18,000
18,000
18,000
18,000
18,000
(3) Equipment
12,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
14
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
( cont. )
1
1
1
1
1
·e B
1
1
1
1
B
1
1
-
-
-
17,500 B
2,500 50,000B
1
1
1
1
.
TABLE 1, Continued
No . Department or Project 1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Future
5. Selectmen (cont.): (4) Garage Addition
$ ---
$
S
$20,000 B
$
-
S
$
c. Town Hall Repair
5,000A
5,000
d. Town Dump : (1) Relocation (2) Equipment
30,000B
30,0003
B
15,000
6. Lincoln Schools:
a. Hartwell Addition
2,696A
b. School Land Purchase
None
None
None
None
None
None
No Figure
c. Jr. High School Construction
803,541'
No Figure
d. Annual Capital Outlay
9,000
9,000
9,000
500,000 9,000
9,000
9,000
7. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District:
a. Building Committee (Lincoln's Est. Share )
40,000A (10,800)A
30,000C (7,500)C
b. High School Addition - (Lincoln's Est. Share) (Use of Stabilization Funds would reduce District Borrowings.
8 . Town Stabilization Fund :
a. Appropriations for future school const. 20,000
20,000
20,000
b. Appropriations for
future ld. purchases
4,650
5,000
5,500
6,500
7,500
8,000
No Figure
c. Appropriations for other capital projects 10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
No Figure
1
A
B
2,000,000C (500,000)C
2,000,000℃ (500,000)C
(cont.)
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TABLE 1, Continued
No. Department or Project
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Future
9 . Conservation Fund
$ 4,650
$ 5,000
$ 5,500
€A
6,500
$ 7,500
$ 8,000 No Figure
10. Water Department: a. Engineering Services b. New water source c. Water main & hydrant replacement
3,000
30,000
30,000
30,000
30,000
B
50,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
A - Represents unexpended balance carried forward from previous year.
B - To be raised by Town borrowing and/or paid in part or full by appropriation from Town's Stabilization Fund.
C - To be raised by Regional School District borrowing and possible appropriations from Lincoln.
D - To be appropriated from Conservation Fund.
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TABLE 2
TOWN OF LINCOLN
PROPOSED AND ACTUAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES FOR 1963
Item No. Department or Capital Project
1963 Proposed Expenditure
1963 Actual Expenditure
Unexpended Accrued Balance
1.
Lincoln Cemetery
$ 676.03 (1)
$
2,000.00
719.20
$
1,956.83 (2)
2. Lincoln Library :
a. Renovation b. Library Clock
539.26 (1)
514.78
24.48
1,000.00 (1)
1,000.00
None
3 . Planning Board and Conservation Commission :
a. Land Purchases : (1) Legion Land
7,500.00 (1)
None
7,500.00 (2)
(2) Codman Land Purchases
9,900.00 (1)
9,900.00
None
(3) Codman Land Purchases
5,700.00
5,700.00
None
(4) Garland Land (From Conservation Fund )
4,000.00
4,000.00
None
None
None
None
4. Recreation
5. Selectmen:
a. Protection of Persons & Property
(1) Police Department
1,500.00
1,500.00
None
(2) Fire Department
600.00 (1)
566.00
34.00
(3) Civil Defense
None
None
None
b. Highway Department
31,411.64
31,114.13
297.51
(1) Road construction & major maintenance (2) Ch. 90 construction
9,651.97 (1) 18,000.00 (1)
9,651.97
None
8.25
35,991.75 (2)
18,000.00 (cont. )
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TABLE 2, Continued
Item No. Department or Capital Project
1963 Proposed Expenditure
1963 Actual Expenditure
Unexpended Accrued Balance
5. Selectmen (cont.) b. Highway Department (cont.) (3) Highway equipment
None
None
None
c. Town Hall repair
5,000.00
None
5,000.00 (2)
6.
Lincoln Schools (Grades K-8) :
a. Hartwell School Addition
5,738.94 (1)
3,042.48
2,696.46 (2)
b. School land purchase
4,000.00 (1)
4,000.00
None
c. Junior High School Construction : (1) 1963 Bond Issue (2) Accelerated Grant
763,971.74 (1)
95,000.00
100,000.00
155,430.04
803,541.70 (2)
d. Annual capital outlay
8,746.00
8,396.90
349.10
7 . Appropriations to Lincoln's Stabilization Fund :
a. For future school construction
20,000.00
None (3)
20,000.00 (3)
b. For future land purchases
4,550.00
None (3)
4,550.00 (3)
c. For other future capital projects
10,000.00
None (3)
10,000.00 (3)
8 . Appropriation to Lincoln's Conservation Fund :
4,550.00
See #3a (4)
550.00 (4)
9.
Water Department:
a. Water main, Sandy Pond Road
626.59 (1)
626.59
None
b. Water main, Tower Road
7,500.00
7,500.00
None
c. Test wells
754.67
(1)
723.50
31.17 (2)
d. Truck
3,000.00
2,842.24
157.76
Lincoln Totals
$1,143,916.84
$247,236.08 (5)
$892,680.76
(cont. )
TABLE 2, Continued
Item No. Department or Capital Project
1963 Proposed Expenditure
1963 Actual Expenditure
Unexpended Accrued Balance
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District
a. Building addition and master planning (Lincoln's estimated share )
$ 40,000.00
None
$ 40,000.00 (2)
(10,800.00)
( None )
(10,800.00)
b. Building addition
None
None
None
SYMBOLS
(1) Unexpended Accrued Balance Carried Forward from 1962.
(2) Unexpended Accrued Balance To Be Carried Forward in Capital Account for Expenditure in 1964.
(3) In Town's Stabilization Fund.
(4) In Town's Conservation Fund.
(5) Excluding amounts appropriated into Lincoln's Stabilization and Conservation Funds.
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EXAMINATION OF DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS
1. CEMETERY
The Commissioners have reviewed their possible future re- quirements and feel it doubtful that any heavy capital expendi- ture will be needed. To allow for contingencies, $5,000 is still estimated for 1965, reduced from the $25,000 which has been carried in the past few budgets.
2. LIBRARY
The Trustees again made good use of their annual appropria- tions and now feel that they can do without the minor capital ex- penditures that have been carried in the budget for building renovation. The major outlay of $20,000 for finishing and equipping the basement room under the addition is continued, how- ever. Its exact timing is not clear, but 1966 is still con- sidered probable.
3 . PLANNING BOARD AND CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Among other duties, these two groups share the program of recommending the acquisition of lands for town and conservation uses. The program to purchase the Garland land continues. To date $12,000 of the purchase price of $20,000 has been paid and payments of $4,000 are scheduled in 1964 and again in 1965 from the Conservation Fund. The State reimburses the Town for up to fifty percent of these expenditures.
The Planning Board has requested an appropriation of $4,650 to be added to the Conservation Fund and a similar amount to the Stabilization Fund for 1964 and has projected future estimates through the year 1969. These estimates are computed at one- twentieth of one percent of the assessed valuation of the Town. Legislation currently before the General Assembly provides for reimbursement by the State up to $15,000 in any one year for Conservation Fund money expended on approved projects. If this legislation is approved, the estimates of appropriations to the Conservation Fund in future years will undoubtedly be increased in order to speed up the land acquisition program.
4. RECREATION
1963 - No capital projects were proposed or carried out in 1963.
1964 - As indicated in the 1962 Report, the Recreation Com- mittee was in the process of carrying out studies relative to the purchase of land to be used and developed for the recreation- al activities. Consistent with this study, the Recreation Com- mittee will recommend that a portion of the DiPerna land in North
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Lincoln be purchased to provide facilities for recreation in North Lincoln. This area is not adequately served by present recreational facilities. No cost figures for the land being considered for recreational use are available as of January 31, 1964, as it may be proposed that the entire DiPerna site be pur - chased by the Town for several municipal purposes including a possible future school site, conservation and recreational uses.
Future - No additional capital projects are being proposed at this time.
5. SELECTMEN
A. Protection of Persons and Property:
(1) Police Department
The policy of replacing one of the two police cruisers each year is being set aside this year because the car scheduled to be turned in is in excellent condition. The gener - al improvement in quality of automobiles plus the availability of a town mechanic to care for town vehicles suggests that considera- tion be given to a three-year life instead of two for police cruisers. The cruiser replacement program has been revised to reflect this.
(2) Fire Department
The purchase of a 4-wheel drive forest fire ve- hicle has been rescheduled to 1964 from 1967 because the Fire De- partment feels that quicker and more effective coverage of brush fires is needed now. In 1965 a new pumper is scheduled to be purchased to replace one of the old pieces of equipment and in 1966 an expenditure of $50,000 is planned for a new manned North Lincoln fire station. It is anticipated that part or all funds required for the new pumper could come from the Town's Stabiliza- tion Fund. The timing of this new building is contingent upon the final decision in the relocation of routes 2 and 2A.
(3) Civil Defense
No expenditures are being planned at this time.
B. Highway Department
The 1964 planned expenditure of $15,360 provides for resurfacing areas on Sunnyside Lane, Page Road, Old County Road, Weston Road and Conant Road. This expenditure will be supple- mented by two non-recurring grants of $9,352.83 each from the State, one under Chapter 782, Acts of 1962, and the other under Chapter 822, Acts of 1963. These two sums will be spent in re- surfacing Weston Road from Silver Hill Road to the Weston line and on Winter Street and Old Winter Street. Following completion of this program, planned expenditures will drop back to $25,000 annually. This is the same amount as previously anticipated but reported as $35,000 annually. The $35,000 included $10,000 for
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patching, mowing, painting white lines, etc., and this committee feels that these activities are of a maintenance nature rather than capital and has deleted them from the capital requirements program, although they still appear elsewhere in the Town budget.
Chapter 90 funds through 1963 have accumulated to $36,000 and another $18,000 is available this year, for a total of $54,000. It is proposed that $4,500 be spent on Bedford Road and $36,000 on the project to improve Route 117, leaving $13,000 carryover to 1965. This carryover, together with the normal $18,000 planned expenditure, makes $41,000 available for 1965 Chapter 90 work. Two-thirds of Chapter 90 expenditures are re - imbursed, one-third by the state and one-third by the county; therefore, net expenditure by the Town is only one-third of the amounts described.
Equipment
No major highway equipment purchases or replacements were made last year. $6,000 was budgeted for 1963, in line with the overall program of evening out these major expenditures, and this amount, therefore, is carried over into 1964. This year the 2-ton 1956 Chevrolet truck, which has over 50,000 miles on it, is to be replaced with a three- or four-ton dump truck at an es- timated cost of $6,500. In addition, a tractor with front-end loader is to be purchased to supplement the Michigan, which is in almost constant use.
c. Town Hall Repairs
The repair work to the exterior of the Town Hall orig- inally scheduled to be done one-half in 1963 and the other half in 1964 was postponed and the appropriation carried over to 1964. The entire job is to be completed this year.
D. It has now become imperative that a new dump location be obtained since the Minute Man Park Commission wants the town to stop using the present dump as soon as possible. A site is to be obtained in 1964, and this site will be developed and equipped for dump operation in 1965.
6. LINCOLN SCHOOLS
With the anticipated completion of the additions to Hartwell and Smith schools, no future building is anticipated until at least 1967. At the present time, the school population has be- come temporarily stabilized. Much depends on what home building takes place in Lincoln between now and 1967 in terms of whether new school construction will be necessary at this time. It is expected that the total school population will be 1,000 pupils in September, 1964, which is unexpectedly less than the consensus of long-term predictions for 1964. If the school population remains stabilized, the new school construction could be post- poned. If the rate of new building increases in the next year, or there is a turnover of houses with more children moving in than leaving, the school population could be increased.
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The present complete set of buildings, including that under construction and Center School, will provide teaching spaces for 1,300 children, which school population will be reached in 1970, using the 2% growth rate suggested by the LRCR Committee. Be - fore we reach this point, plans will have to be made to provide adequate facilities for Physical Education and other specialized teaching spaces, such as library, etc., as called for in the Boyer report. This group of buildings, as projected in our last year's report, calls for an amount of $500,000 probably to be spent in 1967. The most recent land taking should be adequate to include this additional construction. The minor amounts of $9,000 per year previously budgeted are continued.
7. STABILIZATION FUND
1963 - A total of $34,550 was appropriated into the Town's Stabilization Fund at the 1963 Annual Town Meeting tentatively earmarked for future capital expenditures as follows: $20,000 for school construction, $4,550 for future land purchases, and $10,000 for other capital projects such as the North Lincoln Fire Station, new dump, etc. Monies in the Stabilization Fund as of December 31, 1963, are shown in Table 4 under Item 7.
1964 - The Finance Committee and this Committee will again recommend that the Town appropriate additional sums into the Stabilization Fund at the 1964 Annual Town Meeting for the pur- poses used in prior years. The amounts suggested will undoubt- edly be similar but will depend on an analysis of overall 1964 budget figures. Use of the Stabilization Fund to assist in the Regional School District financing may be proposed at the Special Town Meeting to be called in the fall of 1964 to approve the Dis- trict's borrowing to finance construction of an addition.
8. CONSERVATION FUND
1963 - $4,550 was appropriated into the Town's Conservation Fund in 1963 and $4,000 of this amount was immediately appropria- ted out of the Fund as planned to pay the third installment on the purchase of the Garland property. The balance in the Fund as of December 31, 1963, is shown under Item 8 of Table 4.
1964 - The Planning Board and the Conservation Commission will ask that $4,650 be appropriated into the Fund in 1964 with $4,000 appropriated out of the fund to pay the fourth of five in- stallments on the Garland property purchase.
9. WATER DEPARTMENT
1963 - The section of substandard main on Tower Road north of Route 117 was replaced as scheduled. In addition, approxi - mately one mile of new pipe was added to the system in the Demone and Todd subdivisions at the developer's expense. Supervision of this new construction required so much time that several minor projects planned for 1963 will be carried over to 1964.
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The Board of Fire Underwriters made a survey of the Town during the summer of 1963. Their report indicated inadequate pressure and flow in several areas of the system. The Water Commissioners have been aware of this situation, but the report will serve to accelerate the schedule for water main replacement. It has caused the water department to plan an extensive water main cleaning program for the spring of 1964.
1964 - The South Lincoln area has been plagued with dis- colored water in recent months, a situation that is prevalent to some degree on all of the substandard mains. Extensive flush- ing under pressure has afforded only temporary relief and until the water main cleaning project is completed the flushing has been set up on a scheduled basis in an attempt to keep the situa- tion under control.
The Water Commissioners hope to restore full pressure and flow to the affected six-inch mains by mechanical cleaning in some instances combined with the installation of 3000 feet of new six-inch main on South Great Road west from Lincoln Road to the traffic lights at Concord Road (Rte. 126). In addition, 2000 feet of four-inch main on Old Winter Street will be replaced, with the combined total of the water main installations being approximately $50,000, which amount will be borrowed. The pipe cleaning program will cost $15,000 and must be paid for from Water Department revenues.
An expenditure of approximately $3000 is planned for engin- eering and legal services in connection with the Tower Road well project in 1964. Only the preliminary land survey of the area was completed in 1963 and detailed bounds and clear land titles are still to be determined. This $3,000, plus another $3,000 for a four-wheel drive truck to replace a 1956 truck, will be taken from water department surplus or current revenue.
The Selectmen plan to propose an article for the installa- tion of water mains on Sandy Pond Road. Payment for this will come from assessment to abutters on the proposed new line and a $13,000 contribution from a developer. This will be a Town spon- sored project, if undertaken, and will have no effect on water department revenues.
Future - The completion of the engineering survey of the water system will enable the Commissioners to plan in 1964 for the future. capital program necessary to bring the water system to an efficient level of operation. Until these plans are worked out specifically, a figure of $30,000 annually is provided for in this report for development of the new water source, including mains and $10,000 to $15,000 for annual water main replacement.
10. LINCOLN-SUDBURY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (GRADES 9-12)
1963 - The anticipated request for planning funds material- ized with the amount requested increased from the forecasted $20,000/$25,000 to a figure of $40,000. This increase will allow for the completion of a master plan covering the expansion of facilities at the District High School up to an enrollment figure
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of 3,000 students in grades 9 through 12. Planning costs are 100% reimburseable by the State if the project is voted and actually constructed.
The report of the Regional High School Building Study Com- mittee, completed in April of 1963, indicated that an addition to the present facilities must be available for occupancy by the fall of 1966 to accommodate the then expected enrollment of 1250 to 1300 pupils from Lincoln and Sudbury. The capacity of the present school plant is approximately 1,050. Accordingly, a building committee was appointed, an architect selected, and $40,000 of planning funds authorized to carry the planning through the preparation of a master plan for the District and the preparation of preliminary plans for the next addition.
1964 - The present schedule calls for the master plan com- pletion in the spring of 1964 with preparation of preliminary plans during the summer for that phase of the master plan to be constructed in 1965 and 1966. The District School Committee anticipates authorizing the bond issue financing the project in September of 1964, immediately followed by town meetings in both towns to approve the District's action. Based on an addition capable of housing 800 additional pupils, the total project cost is estimated to be $2,000,000, with Lincoln's share approximately 25% or $500,000. This amount to be bonded could be reduced to $1,800, 000, and Lincoln's proportionate share to $450,000, if both Towns voted use of Stabilization Fund monies. This may be proposed at the fall Special Town Meetings in both Towns called
to approve the bond issue. It is anticipated that the addition project will be bid out in February of 1965 and a construction contract awarded in March, thus allowing a minimum of fifteen months for construction. The bonds financing the project would be issued in the late winter of 1965, with the major impact from the financing reflected a year later in the 1966 tax rates of both Towns.
Future - The long range plan presently under study will pro- vide for the orderly development on the present District Site in Sudbury of a 3,000 pupil high school. The plan will be developed in such a way that each building phase will provide a relatively complete high school plant at that particular pupil capacity should events and circumstances dictate the building of subse- quent facilities on another site. It is clear at this point that much study will be required on this aspect of the District's future alone. Until the master plan is completed it is diffi- cult to place a price tag on future capital costs but no addition- al building is anticipated prior to the fall of 1970 or 1971, with a bond authorization coming one year earlier. Until the situa- tion becomes clearer, a figure of $500,000, representing Lincoln's estimated 25% share of a $2,000,000 project will be carried in the capital budget.
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TABLE 3
TOWN OF LINCOLN
TOTAL 1963 EXPENDITURES AND RECEIPTS
RECEIPTS
1. 1963 Taxes on polls and property collected in 1963
$1,018,052.51
2. Taxes on polls and property levied in prior years and collected in 1963
16,070.32
3. Excise Taxes collected in 1963 (chiefly motor vehicles)
108,310.21
4. Receipts from Commonwealth of Massachusetts (other than Items 5 and 6)
198,250.70
5. Chapter 90 Highway Construction Assistance (State and County)
1,632.36
6. State School Construction Assistance Payments (including $100,000 matching funds)
124,713.65
7. Hanscom Air Force Base School Operation 324,735.05
8. Other Federal Receipts and Grants 28,268.74
9. Proceeds from sale of School Project Loan
95,119.99
10. Other Current Receipts
85,616,25
TOTAL RECEIPTS
$2,400,741.65 (
(1) Excluding amounts borrowed in anticipation of 1963 Taxes and amounts withheld from Town employee salary payments totalling $399,971.87.
EXPENDITURES
11. Total 1963 Town Expenditures
12. Water Department Expenditures
13. Total 1963 Town and Water Department Expenditures
14. 1962 Capital Expenditures (See Table 2)
$1,959, 799.49 247,236.08
15. 1962 Current Expenditures (13 minus 14) ( Including payments on Town and School District Debt)
$1,905,706.75 54,092.74
$1,712,563.41 (
(2) Excluding payment of tax anticipation notes and Town employee deductions totalling $399,903.63.
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TABLE
TOWN OF LINCOLN 1963 VITAL STATISTICS
1. Town Debt, December 31, 1963 ( Including Water Debt)
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