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1948
$ 3,926,350.
$ 38.00
$ 330,000.
$ None
$ 150,545.
2,303 E
57
1949
4,172,008.
40.00
311,000.
19,000.
168,234.
2,345 E
49
1950
4,564,673.
40.00
292,000.
19,000.
183,968.
2,427 FC
34
1951
5,059,518.
44.00
608,000.
19,000.
224,107.
2,557 E
40
1952
5,217,165.
45.00
571,000.
37,000.
235,065.
2,609 E
39
1953
5,498,547.
48.00
543,000.
37,000.
263,930.
2,686 E
44
27
1954
5,867,201.
48.00
503,000.
38,000.
281,625.
2,816 E
61
1955
6,253,315.
54.00
463,000.
38,000.
337,679.
2,949 SC
60
1956
6,617,270.
58.00
473,500.
38,000.
354,494.
3,009 E
73
1957
7,248,630.
68.00
1,007,000.
41,500.
492,906.
3,070 E
34
1958
7,718,935.
75.00
1,046,000.
71,000.
578,920
3,300 E
18
1959
8,253,962.
83.00
1,210,000.
76,000.
685,079.
3,450 E
16
1960
8,437,218.
94.00
1,119,000.
91,000.
784,772.
3,968 FC
19
1961
8,830,496.
100.00
1,028,000.
91,000.
885,249.
4,068 E
18
1962
9,104,200.
103.00
1,698,000.
90,000.
937,679.
4,150 E
27
1963
9,328,245.
112.00
1,653,000.
130,000.
1,044,875.
4,325 E
22
1964
13,934,980.
77.00
1,641,500.
135,000.
1,072,993.
4,500 E
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FC - Federal Census
SC
- State Census
E - Estimated
WARRANT
1965 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 Brooks School Auditorium in said Lincoln on Mon- day, the twenty-second 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 Building on Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of March next, at eight o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the follow- ing Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested, in said Town seven days at least before the twenty-second day of March next.
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March twenty-seventh, 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 Treasurer for one year Collector for three years School Committee member for three years Regional School Committee member for three years
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Library Trustee 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 member for five years Commissioner of Trust Funds for three years
Trustee of Bemis Fund for three years Director of DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park 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 addi- tional 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
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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 anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1966, 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.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 7, To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 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.
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 8. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $6,300.00 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.
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 9. To determine whether the Town will appropriate from the Stabilization Fund estab- lished pursuant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the Annual Town Meeting of March 16, 1959, the sum of $30,000, or any other sum, and authorize the Treasurer to pay over said sum to the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District for the purpose of constructing an addition to the Regional High School or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
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ARTICLE 10. To determine whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee to continue its annual contract with U. S. Commissioner of Education to operate the elementary school at L. G. Hanscom Field, Bed- ford, Massachusetts.
School Committee and Selectmen
ARTICLE 11. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the payment of the following unpaid 1964 bill : B. & M. Railroad $294.48
Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 12. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $15,000, or any other sum, for the purpose of obtaining professional consultants to aid the Board of Assessors in making an appraisal survey of all taxable buildings in the town, or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Assessors
(Finance Committee approves)
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ARTICLE 13. To determine whether the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $3,700, or some other sum, from the Stabilization Fund established pur- suant to the vote of the Town under Article 23 of the 1959 Annual Town Meeting 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 relative thereto.
Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 14. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $18,700, 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 relative thereto.
Conservation Commission (Finance Committee approves)
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ARTICLE 15, 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 cer - tain parcel of land on Sandy Pond Road, shown as Lot 5 on a plan entitled "Division of Land in Lin- coln, Massachusetts, owned by Joseph and Mira C. Garland", recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 9955, Page 511, said parcel having an area of 2.94 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, or some other sum, or take any other action relative thereto.
Conservation Commission
(Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 16. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,600, or some other sum, to be used under the direction of the Board of Health for providing facilities for or for payment for services rendered by the Walden Guidance Association, Inc. (Walden Clinic)
Selectmen and Board of Health (Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following resolution:
WHEREAS the General Court sitting as a Con- stitutional Convention, did on July 16, 1963, give initial approval to a Home Rule amendment to the State Constitution, and
WHEREAS this bill of rights for local govern- ments requires a second approval by the members of the General Court during this legislative session, and
WHEREAS
we, as members of this Town Meeting, feel competent to handle the affairs of our town without strict supervision by the Commonwealth of our every act
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and deed.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this town meeting hereby instructs its repre- sentatives to the General Court to vote in favor of the Home Rule pro- posal when it comes before them, or take any other action relative there- to.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 18. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,250, or any other sum, for the purpose of repairing the 1947 Diamond T. Fire Truck, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen (Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 19. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,500, or any other sum, for the purpose of repairing and reno- vating the Ball Fields, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen (Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 20. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,700, or any other sum, for the purchase of a pick-up truck for the use of the Highway and Park Depart- ments, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen (Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 21. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws for the purpose of establishing a Celebration Committee, to consist of five members, to be appointed by the Selectmen, one for a period of one year, two for a period of two years, and two for a period of three years, appropriate the sum of $1,500, or any other sum
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for the use of said committee, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
(Finance Committee approves)
ARTICLE 22. To determine whether the Town will amend the Building By-Law of the Town by striking out the whole of said By-Law as amended and by substituting therefor a new Building By-Law, copies of which are on file in the office of the Inspector of Buildings, the Board of Selectmen and the Town Clerk, or will otherwise amend said Build- ing By-Law, or take any other action relative there- to.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 23. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the By-Laws of the Town by adding Section 4 B to Section B of said By-Laws to read as follows : Section 4 B - Improper storage of unregistered, disabled motor vehicles and trailers. Unregistered motor vehicles and trailers which are unfit for use, permanently disabled or have been dismantled or are otherwise inoperative, shall not be stored, parked, or placed upon any land in the Town unless the same shall be within a building or in an area unexposed to the view of the public and abutters or in an area properly approved for the keeping of the same by licensed junk dealers (and automobile dealers).
Selectmen
ARTICLE 24. To determine whether the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws, Article 2, Section 9, final sentence, by adding the words "and the second", so that the final phrase reads "and the second and the third by two-thirds vote".
Selectmen
ARTICLE 25. To determine whether the Town will vote to convey to Thomas J. and Doris J. Rouner 460 square feet of land as shown on plan entitled
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"Sketch Showing Correction of Property Line Be - tween Thomas J. and Doris J. Rouner and the Town of Lincoln, Mass.", December, 1964, Rowland H. Barnes and Company, Civil Engineers, for the pur- pose of correcting a boundary line, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
ARTICLE 26. To determine whether the Town will vote to become a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council under the provisions of Chapter 40B of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 27. 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 Dis- trict of the Town under the Town's Zoning By-Law certain parcels of land in the Todd Pond sub- division, on the easterly side of Lincoln Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 28. 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 Dis- trict of the Town under the Town's Zoning By-Law certain parcels of land in the cluster subdivision on the northwesterly side of Tower Road between Stonehedge and the Boston and Maine Railroad, now or formerly of Wes-Lex Corporation, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 29. 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 1965, or
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take any other action relative thereto.
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park Directors
ARTICLE 30, To determine whether the Town will vote to rescind the remaining unissued balance of the Water Main Loan authorized by vote of the Town under Article 32 of the Annual Town Meeting of March 16, 1964, said balance being $5,000.
Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 31. To determine whether the Town will vote to rescind the remaining unissued balance of the Water Main Loan authorized by vote of the Town under Article 34 of the Annual Town Meeting of March 16, 1964, said balance being $5,000.
Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 32. To determine whether the Town will vote to rescind the remaining unissued balance of the Water Main Loan authorized by vote of the Town under Article 1 of a Special Town Meeting held on April 15, 1964, said balance being $5,000.
Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 33. To determine whether the Town will vote to rescind the remaining unissued balance of the Water Main Loan authorized by vote of the Town under Article 1 of a Special Town Meeting held on August 3, 1964, said balance being $2,000.
Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 34. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Water Board to purchase a 1965 2-wheel drive truck, to replace existing equipment, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500, or any other sum, therefor, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners (Finance Committee approves)
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ARTICLE 35, To determine whether the Town will vote to acquire for water source and other water depart- ment purposes by eminent domain, purchase, or in any other way, or to acquire options for purchase from Heirs of Charles Lunt, James V. and Elin Lennon, Heirs of Robert D. Donaldson, Joseph R. Campobasso, Mary J. Ryan, et als, as their ownerships may appear, certain parcels of land on the westerly side of Tower Road containing 16 acres, more or less, and to raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by borrowing under authority of General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 8, Clause (3), or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners (Finance Committee will comment at Town Meeting)
ARTICLE 36. To determine whether the Town will vote to instruct the Water Board to replace four inch mains with eight inch cement asbestos pipe with appropriate fittings, on various public ways as may appear necessary, appropriate the sum of $60,000, or any other sum, $26,111.16 to be taken from bal- ances in the following loan accounts voted in 1964: Sandy Pond Road, $21,160.00; - South Great Road, $4,951.16, and to determine whether the remainder shall be provided for by borrowing under authority of General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 8, Clause (5), or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners (Finance Committee approves)
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 twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty- five.
Elliott V. Grabill Russell L. Haden Harold E. Lawson
SELECTMEN OF LINCOLN
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LINCOLN MASSACHUSETTS
1965 ANNUAL REPORT
John Green House, c. 1780
Art work in 1965 Town Report courtesy of Ronald C. Davis.
Contents
Page
TOWN CALENDAR
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
3
Board of Selectmen Officers and Committees Town Clerk
12
22
FINANCE
Treasurer
48
Town Accountant
56
Collector of Taxes
85
Board of Assessors
87
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Fire and Police Departments
90
Park Department 95
HEALTH AND WELFARE
Board of Health
96
Inspector of Animals
99
Board of Public Welfare
100
PLANNING AND PUBLIC WORKS
Planning Board
102
Board of Appeals
109
Inspectors of Building, Wiring and Plumbing
111
Water Commissioners
112
Highway Department
117
Conservation Commission
118
Cemetery Commissioners
119
Lincoln Land Conservation Trust
120
Historical Park Advisory Commission
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Page
SCHOOLS, LIBRARY AND RECREATION
Library Trustees
124
Recreation Commission 129
Scholarship Fund Committee
134
Bemis Fund Trustees
136
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park
137
Elementary Schools
144
Regional High School
179
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
Vital Statistics
207
Valuation List Trust Funds
2 12
243
Report
of the Officers and Committees of the
Town of Lincoln
FOR THE YEAR 1965
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LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS
Town Calendar
SELECTMEN
Every Monday of each month, 8:00
P. M., Town Hall, 259-8850.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE --
First Monday of each month, 8:00
P. M., Superintendent's Office, 259-94C
BOARD OF ASSESSORS -- First Tuesday of each month, 8:00 P. M., Town Hall, 259-8850.
WATER COMMISSIONERS - Meetings by appointment.
BOARD OF HEALTH -- Meetings by appointment; call Dr. Gordon Donaldson, 259-8192.
BOARD OF APPEALS Third Wednesdays of each month; call Town Hall, 259-8850.
PLANNING BOARD - Second Monday of each month, 8:00 P. M., Town Hall, 259-8850.
Population:
4, 463 (1965 Census)
Town Area: 14. 56 square miles
1965 Tax Rate:
$77 per $1, 000 valuation
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING: First Monday in March after the fif- teenth - March 21, 1966
ANNUAL ELECTION FOR TOWN OFFICERS: Saturday following Town Meeting - March 26, 1966
Qualifications for Registration: Twelve months continuous resi- dence in the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts prior to March 21, 1966, and . six months continuous residence in the Town of Lincoln prior to March 21, 1966
Town Offices:
Open Monday through Friday 8:30 A. M. to 5 P. M. Closed on Saturdays.
Charles Chambers House, c. 1710
General Government
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
Elliott V. Grabill, Chairman Russell L. Haden, Jr. Harold E. Lawson
The Board continues to carry out its purposes, stated for many years, of moving to absorb change and thus maintain both the tangible and the intangible characteristics of the Town. This involves planning for the future in order to obtain the necessary perspective for today, in the maintenance and improvement of Town services within reasonable limits, and the maintenance and development of a public safety program which is sensibly respon- sive to the growing pressures from outside.
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Completed during the year were two major tools:
1. The Land Use and Town Finance Study, first con- ceived in the latter part of 1962 by the Board of Selectmen and the Planning Board, and followed through with the cooperation of the Boards and many contributing townspeople, was completed and distributed last fall. Its statistics should be of invaluable help in considerations for the future, and its suggested programs and planning should help guide the Town for many years.
2. The Building Code By-Law, completed and adopt- ed by the Town during the year, will also help the Town and its officers greatly. The Committee, consisting of William Halsey, Harold Rosenwald, Douglas M. Burckett and Stanley B. Porter, draft- ed rules responsive to existing conditions which will enable the Town adequately to work out prob- lems arising for various zones and for new types of construction.
Coming up in 1966 are two more:
3. For years it has been recognized that a decisive factor in Town Planning must be the ultimate lo- cation of the new Route 2. For ten years deci- sions have been awaiting final location of this im- portant Route. Continuing meetings with respon- sible state officials lead us to hope that required public hearings will be held to discuss the loca- tion early in 1966, and that a location will be fixed before the year is over. Once Route 2 is fixed, the Fire Station for North Lincoln, plans for the new dump, and various zoning matters can go for- ward without delay.
4. Counseled by the Finance Committee and in coop- eration with other Town Boards and Committees, we are proposing that most of the Town's services be administered and carried out by a new depart-
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ment head. The proposed position will involve the planning and supervision of work being car- ried out on the roads, parks, water department, cemeteries, recreation facilities, and the new dump. We join the Boards in feeling that this development will provide the Town with better service through integration of equipment and per- sonnel.
PUBLIC SAFETY
The pressure of forces from outside the Town, and the changing times require changing action to maintain a respon- sible standard of safety. These impacts result in three major recommendations to the Town.
During the last few years it has seemed to many citizens to be of growing importance that a safe passage be provided for bicyclists and walkers, particularly on Lincoln Road. It is along Lincoln Road that many Town facilities exist to which ac- cess is required by many, especially by children. This in- cludes the Library, Pierce Park, Little League Playing Field, Center School, Old Town Hall, Smith, Hartwell and Brooks School complex, principal town athletic fields, and the stores at the railroad tracks.
In response to a survey by the League of Women Voters and their friendly but insistent desire for action, the Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen have devoted a major amount of time and effort to considering this problem. After serious considerations, the Boards join in recommending to the Town a bicycle path which will contain the following.
1. The path will be located on the west and north side of Lincoln Road and will run from the Lib- rary to the railroad tracks.
2. The complex of Lincoln Road and the path will be as follows:
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Twenty-two feet of paving surface for auto- mobile traffic, with three foot shoulders on both sides of the pavement, and ten feet devoted to the path including all barriers and fencing in connection therewith.
3. The path will be paved and will be kept clear in win- ter by a snow blower.
4. A barrier of suitably erected logs will protect the path from the roadway.
5. Where stone walls or shrubbery have to be re- moved, suitable replacements will be made by the Town.
6. Under these dimensions, very few trees will need to be removed. In those few instances where it is necessary to remove trees, it is suggested that the Town replace these trees by substantial trees of up to twenty-five to thirty feet in height so that the tot- al impact will be lessened.
Since the total width needed for the proposed path and road amounts to only thirty-eight feet, and since the taking for Lin- coln Road carried out over forty years ago varies between forty and fifty feet, few problems exist regarding further takings. In those areas where safety requires further action, it is hoped suitable arrangements can be worked out with the land owners.
Both Boards join in strongly recommending to the Town that the proposed bicycle path be adopted as a public safety measure. With more than 1, 000 children in the area now, and with a con- tinuous increase in numbers, it seems apparent that the time is certainly now upon us when these measures should be taken.
In passing it should be noted that careful consideration of proposals to leave Lincoln Road and go out in back of existing buildings for a part or all of the distance involved has resulted in recommending that the path be part of Lincoln Road. A path out back would not be under normal, continuous surveillance.
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It would probably not be used by many people who normally tend to take the shortest way. And it would not provide access for many others located along various parts of Lincoln Road.
It should be noted that the proposal involves relatively nar- row paved lanes for traffic on Lincoln Road. The Selectmen and Planning Board are adopting as a policy for certain Town roads that traffic be "compressed", and that there be no right to pass other cars in the same direction. While this concept cannot necessarily be used on every Town road, it does seem reasonable, if adopted by the Town, to designate a few areas as non-passing areas. Another similar area is Route 126
from Route 117 south to the Wayland line. Although this is a
peripheral road, after many hearings and deep and earnest con- sideration, the Boards are recommending to the Town that this part of Route 126 also be a "compressed" highway and consist of relatively narrow paved lanes, and one and one-half foot should- ers which will be "rumble strips". It is only in this way that the trees in this area can be preserved. To make this concept feasible, the discipline of all drivers will be necessary to avoid speed and subsequent accidents.
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