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BIRTHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1962
Date 1962
Name
Name of Parents
Jan. 9
Michael Jackson Hosey
Lowell H. and Martha E.
Jan. 13
Carla Marie Govoni
George L. and May E.
Jan. 13 Jonathan Bradley Chandler
Raymond P. and Blanche E. Carl E. and Irene B.
Edward B. and Marie T.
Ratto
Merritt S. and Lillian D.
Jesse Howland
Feb. 13 Myrna Lynne Eddy
Dana L. and Mary E.
Avery W. and Arlene V.
Randall
Feb. 13 Joanna Marie Cribben
John Philip and Claire Elizabeth Cahill
John Joseph and Eleanor
Peter F. and Anne E.
Jeremiah J. and Catherine M.
John C. and Irene G.
Bowering
Mar. 19 Susan Farrar Trezise
Fred William and Priscilla Alden
Wales
Mar. 23 David Einar Bartlett
Robert R. and Roberta E.
Merry
Mar. 24 Jared Hill Puffer
Robert L. and Elizabeth L.
Samson
Mar. 29 Peter Norris
Kenneth M. and Elaine C.
Randall
Apr. 5 Cheryl Lynn Anderson
Harold C. and Patricia A.
Brouillard
Apr. 7 Gregory James Linde
Donald C. and Barbara I. Charles F. and Sara
Gardner
Apr. 11 Barbara Frances Benevento
Apr.
11
Scott Roland deGrasse
Richard V. and Kathleen
Southwick Kershner
Apr. 11 Thomas Willard Taylor, II Apr. 14 Laurel Marie Keith
Apr. 14 Carol Lee Jessop
Joseph and May
Mother's Maiden Name
Christie McCarthy Arruda Butt
Jan. 17 David Carl Bitters
Feb. 2 Edward McShane
Feb. 6 Linda Jean Ferrell
Feb. 13 Timothy Allen Lovell
Feb. 16 Eric John McDevitt
Feb. 22 Elisa Louise Scott
Mar. 1 Robert Jeremiah Minelli
Mar. 8 Peter Bradford Hubbard
Goulart Cheney Burke
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Thomas W. and Jean A. Sabean Saltamacchia Card Samuel M. and Jane M.
BIRTHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1962 - Continued
Date 1962
Name
Name of Parents
Paul C. and Priscilla B.
Trainer
Apr. 16
Female
Apr. 23 Linda Jane Tirrell
Calvin Barry and Elaine Ruth
Gullickseri Cameron
Apr. 28
Sarah Jane Spence
John Frederick Jr. and Betty
Walter G. and Florence M. Singer
May 1
Lori Lynn Szemela
Jacob T. and Barbara A. Arney
May 1
Scott Elliot Wyllie
Clayton P. and Martha K.
Laidlaw Parkman
May 14
Lisa Ellen Jokinen
Edwin M. and Phyllis H. Jones Taggart
May 14 Deborah Ann Dowd
Donald Francis and Nancy
May 15
Mary Ann Brandon
Newman, III and Polly A. Gray
Douglas Mintie, Jr. and Suzanne
Van Mater
May 23 Nancy Wallace
Joseph T. and Joan T.
Stanton
June 6 Corey Atherton Prince
Philip B. and Marjorie
June 6 Estelle Marguerite Randall
Charles E. and Kathleen A.
June 13 Beth Ann Macleod
Paul D. and Mary A.
June 18
Jill Ann Chandler
Arthur B. and Joyce F.
Stanley C. and Regina
June 29 Robert Scott Palumbo
Robert L. and Lillian A. M.
James W. and Diane E.
John P. and Diane K.
Doyle
July 13 Carol Anne O'Neal
Frederick J., Jr. and Lucille T.
Handrahan
July 13 Donna Maria Amado
July 28 Brenda Louise Allen
Winslow L. and Nancy L.
Rogers Bray
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MacLellan Kempton Mazukaitis Waid
July 1 James Philip Seppala
July 1 Heidi Darlene Snider
Antonio and Mary D.
Mother's Maiden Name
Apr. 16 Paul Campbell Barber
Apr. 29
Maureen Emma Connell
May 7 James Alan Washburn
Richard C. and Helen F.
May 18 Dana Van Mater Gray
Hawkins Dries Barboza
June 21 Lawrence David Reynolds
July 28 Karen Elizabeth Bulu Aug. 1 Ned Robert Anderson
Gordon Howard Cushing
Aug. 9 Aug. 20 Christopher Neil Phillips
Aug. 23 Sept. 8
Susan Anne Conte Kathleen Nora Sliney
Sept. 11 Female McCormick
Robert F. and Marja M.
Sept. 11 Male McCormick
Robert F. and Marja M.
Sept. 13
Jesse Ernest James
Millard A. and Katherine M.
Lutz
Sept. 19 Ann Ellen Wickham
Edward Francis and Eleanor M.
Cuneo
Sept. 21
Richard Phillips Lippard
Richard L. and Gertrude E.
Phillips
Sept. 21 Jeneen Rose Bice
Robert and Jeanette
Rufo
Sept. 24
Tara Whitney Packard
Daniel W. and Susan B.
Hirst
Sept. 26
Nathaniel Goodwin Hawkins
Steven H. and Janet G.
Goodwin Caparrotta Soule
Oct. 25 Katherine Francke
Hugo and Joan E.
Crowley
Oct. 26 Christine Marie Plett
James F., Jr. and Mary M.
Hansen
Nov. 16 Sally Anne Carlson
Nov. 17
Margaret Mary Davis
William J. F. and Anne M.
Connors
Nov. 19
Elizabeth Barns Balsbaugh
Sydney and Helen
Anderson
Nov. 23
Arthur William Bennett, III
Arthur W., Jr. and Nancy L.
Adams
Nov. 26
John Gerald Brock
Hazlehurst
Nov. 28
(Female) Andrews
Nov. 30
Stephen Warner Gilbert
Percival, Jr. and Mary K.
Arnold
Dec. 2 David Scott Emerson
Harold L. and Billie Jo
Hickman
Dec. 9 Elizabeth Anne Grealy
Dec. 20 Laura Johnston Dewing
George P. and Mary T.
Robert A. and Faye Ella Gordon L. and Marcia E. Neil and Terry Ralph P. A. and Evelyn D.
Alves Kroeger Howard Butler Ford
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Sept. 27 Brian Gregory Johnson
Herbert F. and Rose M.
Oct. 17 Nancy Deborah Jones
William E. and Nancy S.
Carl A. and Anne L. Hardy
John A., Jr. and Nancy G. Robert J. and Loretta A. Perry
Peter Joseph and Theresa Marguerite Carey Johnston
Jerome B. and Nancy F.
Macomber Dieter Dieter
David Joseph, Jr. and Ruth Eleanor
OMISSIONS AND CORRECTIONS OF BIRTHS FOR OTHER YEARS
Date
Name
Name of Parents
Mother's Maiden Name
1945
Charles Westcott Lantz
Robert T. and Constance
Northrup
Dec. 30 1961 Oct. 14
Candice Ann Schultz
Burton Francis and Eleanor
Hardy
Nov. 15
Thomas Hinckley Lanman, III
Thomas Hinckley, Jr. and Mary
Edgarton
Charles Edward Hunt
Robert L. and Betty L.
Simpson
Dec. 9 Dec. 22 James Murdock Woods
James A. and Barbara Anne
Murdock
Dec. 24 Maria Louise Zona
Giovanni Santo and Helen Catherine
Driscoll
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DEATHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1962
Date 1962
Name
Jan. 2
Hazel M. Cooke (Watts)
8 8
James G. and Rose Ewing Watts Vincent and Jennie LaFontaine
Jan. 5
Frank W. Miller
Jan. 23 Dora M. E. Alexander (Davison)
73
Jan. 26
Francis Hanson
53 1
6 29 John and Hannah Hopper Davison 3 Peter and Mary Amberg
Jan. 26
Charles Eric Olsen
Feb. 1
Albert H. Clark
Feb. 13
Lottie M. Glass (Loring)
Feb. 23
John R. Moulton
80
Feb. 27
Edith L. Morse (Pearsall)
74
2
Mar. 2
Gerald Franklin Cadose
40
0 4
Mar. 8
Jose Ribeiro
90
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Mar. 26
Lila G. Ricker (Gould)
75
8
1
Mar. 29
Mary Carrie Swan (Holt)
86
3
5
Holt
Mar. 29 Augustus J. Maier
77
2
17
Apr. 2
Agnes I. Keyes (Koren)
92
1 26
Apr. 2 Harold Washburn Drew
67
5
5
Apr. 6
Frederick Harrington
65
15
Aur. 6
Jessie Osborne (Wiles)
96
8 7
Apr. 14
Carolyn D. Blackler (Dana)
53
6 19
Apr. 21
Susan F. Smith
90
2
3
May 1 Clarence A. Ricker
82
6 29
May 6
Mary C. Buck (Strange)
84
1
16 David T. and Abbie R. Dunbar Strange
May 23
Marie Therese Gallagher (McSherry) 45
2
5 John J. and Anna Daley McSherry
May 23 John J. Edwards
82 10
4 John S. and Charlotte C. Fish
Y. M. D. 67 75
Names of Parents
3 4 30 Henry P. and Harriet Stocker John and Almira A. Jenkins Pearsall John H. and Gladys Kendrick and
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Frederick and Josie Stackpole Gould John Henry and Martha Augustus A. and Selma Reimer and Koren Cornelius and Mary F. Dickson Drew Frederick and Katiebelle Stavers John and Marie Wiles
- and Abigail Stuart Dana Laurence and Elizabeth Carmichal Ezekiel A. and Annie Woodsome
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74 9 8 Ole Rod and Radnhild Kinge John T. and Rebecca M. Furnside 92 7 27 Arthur F. and Ella J. Sampson Loring 82 1 24
DEATHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1962 - Continued
Date .1962
Name
Y. M. D. 76
Names of Parents
May 25
Mary E. Delano
10 17
Albert and Mary McGovern George A. and Julia E. Paso Gates
May 27
Julia A. Wiley (Gates)
80
9
6
May 28 Martha Minzner (Eidam)
84 8
- Louis and Eidam
May 28
Leonard Skold
77
5
9
Karl and Maria Olson
June 3
Peter Paul Borghesani
53
1
2
Louie and Maria Magoni
June 8
Madeline E. Maher Walsh
46
0 25
James and Elizabeth Gibons Maher
June 18
Frank Wentworth Brown
53
- George H. and Mary E. Reed
June 24
Samuel Farria
78
Francisco and Mary
June 25
Edith P. Kramer (Pinfield)
80
4 9
Joseph and Jenny Manton Pinfield
June 30
William K. S. Thomas
83
11
16
Charles H. and Julia Leona Winsor
July 3
Lena Lamson (Josselyn)
85
11
12 Louis H. and Elizabeth Mason Josselyn
July 27
Alice Cole Barber (Taylor)
63
3
4 Winthrop H. and May C. Cole Taylor Michael and Ellen Mansfield
Aug. 3
Edward F. Mullowney
88
10
10
Aug. 9
Almira L. MacFarlane (Bere)
91
9 12
Aug. 10
Elbert A. Harvey
85
5 3
and Belle Sheridan
Aug. 10
Harry A. Church
70
11
24
George and Nellie Randall
Aug. 14
Isabella Graham White
95
5
9
Lorenzo and Mary Ann McCann
Aug. 24
Rose Davis (Bigelow)
76
8
9
Edward Russell and Helen Belle Clear Bigelow
Aug. 25
Emil J. Weber
83
9
Franz and Johanna Eder
Sept. 3 Elsie W. McHugo (Heiden)
68
10
17
Sept. 7 Richard H. Randall
79
7
1
George H. and Emma Rose
Sept. 10
Selma V. Bitters (Mathewson)
75
11
16
and Mathewson
Sept. 17
Margaret Anne Sherman (Robischeau) 86
11 10
Joseph and Margaret MacNeill Robischeau
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John and Susan S. Brown Bere
.
Turlington Walker Badger
9
John and Wilhemina Sorquist Heiden
Sept. 26 Harold Peacock
70
4 Robert H. and Hattie Brown 2
Oct. 8
Elizabeth J. Murphy (Chalamel)
77
1
27
Jazques and Judith DeComb Chalamel Philip J. and Maude E. Bradshaw
Oct. 19
Robert P. Woods
36
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Oct. 25 Margaret Augusta Long
84 5 15 Edwin M. and Sarah Jane Atkinson
Nov. 1
Inez Roger Monks (Colloway)
69 6 13 George I. Colloway and Lizzie E. Pitter
Nov. 2 Clara M. Hastings
82
2 11 8 19 William J. and Anna A. Boyd Charles S. and Lucy Reynolds Richardson
Nov. 5
Edward Seaver, Jr.
83
11 18 Edward and Kate Russell
Nov. 8
Stephen W. Gifford
78
9 2 Stephen W. and Ella Chandler
Nov. 8
Louis Verdelli
78
1
1 Peter and Caroline Laurentini
Nov. 8
Gratia L. Larkin (Lamson)
83
4 26 James and Esther Crownshield Lamson
Nov. 15
Elsie J. Nudd (Loring)
50
13
George W. and Ella M. King Loring
Nov. 16
Esther Winifred Paradis (Wells)
82
3
9
Samuel and Katherine Barrett Wells
Nov. 22
Emma W. Edwards (Alden)
81
10
3 John W. and Sylvia Burgess Alden Daniel and Catherine Smith
Nov. 27
Nathaniel Johnson
77
-
Dec. 4
Arthur W. Bennett
11 Arthur W. and Nancy L. Adams
Dec. 15
Amy W. Davis (Leighton)
85
6 23 Alexander and Elvira Hilton Leighton
Dec. 22
June E. Anderson
20
2
10 Walter E. and Harriette E. Johnson
Dec. 23
Paul H. Paulsen
82
11 2 Hans and Anna Nielson
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OMISSIONS AND CORRECTIONS
1961 Nov. 18 Bernard J. Killion
77 3 22 Patrick and Bridget Mulligan
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Nov. 4
Lucy D. Hutchinson (Richardson)
79
NON-RESIDENT DEATHS OCCURRING OUT OF TOWN, INTERMENT IN DUXBURY, 1962 1961
Dec. 27 1962
Harold L. Chandler
85 4 8 Canton
Jan. 3
Female Bacon
1 hr. 59 min.
Stoneham
Jan. 10
Richard H. Sweet
60
Keene, N. H.
Jan. 12 Michael G. McAuliffe
62
6
4 Boston
Jan. 29
Florence L. Ramsey
59
4
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Pembroke
Feb. 28
Samuel Aspenwall Grueby
84
11
3
Quincy
Mar. 2
Janice C. Drury
1
1 25
Plymouth
Mar. 16
Guy Turner Whitten
80
Brentwood, N. H.
Apr. 11 Bessie Sprague
93
-
Boston
Apr. 27
Mary Zavarine
29
Boston
May 27
Jessie Lewis Meechan
87
3
8 Plymouth
May 27
Robert G. Gifford
69
2
15
Rockport
June 8
Theodore L. Potter
79
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Plymouth, Mass.
Sept. 5
Frederick B. Taylor
84
11
3 Lexington
Sept. 14
Anita W. DeLaite
50
8
11
Pembroke
Nov. 3
Dorothy I. Lantz
47
Pembroke
Dec. 1
Darius Delani Reynolds
70
11
12
Chelsea
Dec. 6
Ida C. Holman
79
11 8 Kingston
79
4 16
Winthrop
Dec. 7
Harold G. Soule
73
1
25
Weymouth
Dec. 10
Edward H. Adams
52
8
3 Malden
Dec. 14
Allen Isaac Plummer
78
7
10 Quincy
Dec. 18
John H. Swart
51
10
2
Weymouth
Dec. 22
Carl Leopold Mittell
82
10
20
Newton
- -
21
Pembroke
Jan. 13
Elizabeth F. Harvey
-
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June 9
Peter H. Babin
81
North Bergen, N. J.
-
Dec. 6 Edith Hamilton Croxford
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SUMMARY 1962
Number of Births registered in Duxbury for the year 1962:
Males 33
Females 43
Total 76
Number of Deaths recorded:
Males 30
Females 36
Total 66
Number of Marriage Licenses issued
49
Number of Marriages recorded
51
LICENSES ISSUED FOR
DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND GAME 294
Resident Citizens' Fishing, 59 @ $4.25 $250.75
Resident Citizens' Hunting, 137 @ $4.25
582.25
Resident Citizens' Sporting, 36 @ $7.25
261.00
Resident Citizens' Minors' Fishing, 4 @ $2.25
9.00
Resident Citizens' Female Fishing, 17 @ $3.25
55.25
Resident Minor Trappers, 0 @ $2.25
Resident Citizens' Trapping, 0 @ $7.75
Non-Resident Citizens' 7-day Fishing, 1 @ $4.25
4.25
Non-Resident Citizens' or Alien Fishing, 0 @ $8.75
Non-Resident Citizens' Hunting, 0 @ $15.25
Duplicate Licenses, 6 @ 50¢ 3.00
Resident Citizens' Sporting & Trapping, 31 @ 0.00 (Issued free to citizens over 70 years of age)
Resident Citizens' Fishing, Paraplegic or to the Blind (Old Age Asst.), 0 @ 0.00
Archery Deer Stamps, 3 @ $1.10
3.30
$1,168.80
Less Clerk's Fees
63.80
Paid to Division of Fisheries and Game $1,105.00
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DOG LICENSES
Licenses issued January 1 to December 31, 1962
342 Males @ $2.00
$684.00
68 Females @ $5.00
340.00
264 Spayed Females @ $2.00 528.00
7 Kennel @ $10.00 70.00
$1,622.00
Less Clerk's Fees
170.25
Paid to Town Treasurer
$1,451.75
681
MAURICE H. SHIRLEY,
Town Clerk.
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER
Receipts and Disbursements for 1962
Receipts
Balance, January 1, 1962
$393,534.59
Total Receipts
2,130,080.35
Total Cash
$2,523,614.94
Disbursements
Paid on Selectmen's Warrants 2,207,067.14
Balance, December 31, 1962
316,547.80
Investment - U. S. Treasury Bills
272,311.30
Total Available Cash $588,859.10
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE H. SHIRLEY,
Treasurer.
DEBT STATEMENT
Loan
Date of Issue
Amount
Rate
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1962
Prin. Paid 1962
Interest Paid 1962
Outstanding 12/31/62
Prin. Due 1963
Interest Due 1963
Bay Ridge Lane & Wadsworth Rd. Water Extension
5/15/47
$13,500
13/4%
$1,500
$1,000
$17.50
$500
$500
$4.38
Development for Ad- ditional Water Supply
7/15/47
22,000
11/2%
1,000
1,000
15.00
Elementary School
9/ 1/48
274,000
214%
79,000
15,000
1,777.50
64,000
15,000
1,440.00
Sea Wall
6/ 1/53
18,000
2.0
2,000
2,000
20.00
Elementary School Addition
9/ 1/53
280,000
21/4%
160,000
15,000
3,600.00
145,000
15,000
3,262.50
Additional Water
5/ 1/54
30,000
13/4%
9,000
3,000
131.25
6,000
3,000
78.75
West Duxbury Water Extension
10/ 1/56
46,000
2.70
20,000
5,000
540.00
5,000
405.00
Water - Phase I
7/15/57
240,000
3.20
165,000
15,000
5,280.00
15,000 150,000
15,000
4,800.00
Winter St. & Autumn Ave., Water Ext.
4/15/60
21,500
3.70
19,000
2,000
666.00 29,900.00
17,000 895,000
50,000
592.00 28,275.00
Jr .- Sr. High School Additional Water Mains; Sta. Wag. & Back-Hoe (Art. 38, 39 & 42 - 1961)
5/ 1/61
28,000
2.90
28,000
5,000
739.50
23,000
4,000
609.00
$1,969,000
$1,429,500
$114,000
$42,686.75
$1,315,500
$109,500
$39,466.63
Submitted by MAURICE H. SHIRLEY,
Town Treasurer.
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2,000
6/ 1/60
996,000
3.25
945,000
50,000
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DUXBURY HYDRANT SERVICE COMMITTEE
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of Duxbury:
According to a motion adopted at the 1962 Annual Town Meeting a Committee of three were duly appointed by the Moderator to study the methods of arriving at Hydrant Service charges. These charges represent that portion of the Water Department budget attributable to fire protection, and will be referred to as Fire Protection Charges in this report. This Committee met regularly throughout the summer and held several informal ses- sions with other interested persons within the Town.
it was determined at the outset that a great deal of previous study had been applied to this subject, and an effort was made to collect and assimilate the reports and recommendations of others. In this regard the Commit- tee wishes to express its thanks to Col. L. B. Gallagher, Mr. C. M. Tenney, The American Association of Water Works, The New England Association of Water Works and The Maine Water Utilities Association for their coun- cil and guidance and for the many printed reports which have been made available.
This Committee is particularly indebted to the Maine Water Utilities Association Committee on Fire Protection Charges. The report of that Committee appears in the - March 1961 issue of the Journal of The Maine Water Utilities Association Vol. 37 No. 2 pp 35-60. and has been used as a guide by this Committee. (1)
The Duxbury Water Department supplies water through a common system, primarily for residential, commercial, governmental and fire protection uses. All
All quotations are taken from this last paper.
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uses other than fire protection are, with few exceptions, metered and will be classified for simplicity as general use.
Some years ago, in connection with operating the Department as an Enterprise Account, the problem arose as to the proper determination of the proportion of re- quired gross revenue which should come from general use rates and that part which should be derived from the fire protection charges. At that time a Committee was appointed to study the problem and to recommend a course of action to the Town. The report of that Com- mittee may be found in the 1958 Town Report.
Since adoption of the 1958 report the fire protection charge has been computed as a percentage of the out- standing funded debt attributable to the Water Depart- ment. This percentage (70%) having been arrived at by an allocation study of the Phase I extension and expan- sion of the water system.
This method, while it has served adequately for several years, is difficult to justify in its application to a system whose present expansion is quite different from Phase I. As can be seen over the past few years the fireprotection charge has decreased while the system has grown. Accordingly, your Committee felt that the fire protection charge should be determined as a portion of the required gross revenue of the Department, i.e .: the overall Departmental Expenses including such items as debt service and retirement.
In making this study the Committee has kept in mind the following basic principles. Charges for a class- ification of service should be:
1. Based on the cost to provide the service.
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2. Realistic in relation to the charges for other classes of service.
3. Based on the value of the service.
"When the fire protection charge is based on the cost to provide this service, the major problem in deter- mining this cost is the method by which joint use plant costs and expenses are allocated between fire protection and general use. At this level there is considerable dif- ference of opinion among the rate makers as to what constitutes a reasonable approach.
"There are three basic concepts in arriving at a fire protection charge-usually received from property own- ers through municipal taxation-based on the cost to the utility to provide said fire protection."
1. Fire protection as an incremental cost.
2. General use as an incremental cost.
3. Equal importance to each class of service. Usually referred to as the capacity-ratio method.
The first and third of these basic approaches have been studied and applied at various times since 1888. There is much disagreement among researchers as to the proper method to be used, and it would be unduly con- fusing at this point to go into an analysis of conflicting reports which occupied this Committee for several months. The interested reader is referred to the list of acknowledgments appended to this report. There is, how- ever, one item upon which all researchers agree. As a general rule the larger the population served and the greater the general use capacity, then the lower will be the portion of gross revenue allocated to fire protection.
"Before proceding further, let us discuss the effect upon the water user and the utility of changes in rev-
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enue to the utility through the fire protection charge. At the time a fire protection charge is established the gross revenue to which a utility is entitled does not change. Therefore, if the fire protection charge is increased, the portion of the water revenue based on general use must be decreased. Likewise, if the fire protection charge is decreased, the revenue from general use charges must be increased in order to maintain the same total gross revenue to which the utility is entitled.
"The most common, and perhaps most feasible, method of collecting the fire protection charge is from the municipality through the tax rate, and therefore from the property owner in proportion to the assessed value of his property. Assuming that the charge for fire pro- tection has been properly computed, and that the prop- erty valuation has been properly assessed, the payment to the utility for fire protection is equitable.
"It certainly is not the province of this committee to study the tax structure. Nevertheless, it should be point- ed out that even if it were possible to apportion perfectly the utilities cost to provide fire protection, the method of tax valuation could cause inequities in the payment of that charge."
In studying several allocation reports it immediately became apparent that a wide range of results were avail- able due to:
1. The method of allocation used.
2. The amount of detail, or lack of detail, in the accounting data used.
3. The judgment of the allocator.
Therefore, this Committee recommends the curve shown in Fig. I as the basis of determining the percentage
50
45
% OF GROSS REVENUE TO FIRE PROTECTION CHARGE
40
35
30
G.P.M. REQ'D. FIRE FLOW(NBF.U)=1020Vx0-01-/x)
X = POPULATION IN THOUSANDS
· INCREMENTAL ALLOCATIONS ) SEE
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@ CAPACITY RATIO ALLOCATIONS) APPENDIX
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NOTE: IN CASES WHERE THE PEAK HOURLY FLOW IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE, IT CAN BE ESTIMATED ON THE BASIS OF 2 1/2 TIMES THE AVERAGE DAILY FLOW IN G.P.M.
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0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
.PEAK HOUR RATE G.P.M. RATIO · REQD. FIRE FLOW(N.B.F.U. G.P.M.
FIG. I DETERMINATION OF PERCENTAGE OF GROSS REVENUE FOR PUBLIC FIRE PROTECTION CHARGE
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of required gross revenue (total annual expenses) which should be charged to fire protection. This curve was prepared by the Maine Water Utilities Association Com- mittee and has been adopted by that association. It is based on the allocation of fourteen utilities varying in population served from 500 to 140,000. This curve is designed to give results somewhere between the incre- mental cost and the capacity-ratio theories of allocation.
In using this curve ... "The ratio of peak flow, to fire flow requirement based on the N.B.F.U. formula* takes into consideration variations in water usage in towns of the same population." When, as in Duxbury, the peak hourly flow is not readily available, it is sug- gested that it be estimated on the basis of 11/2 times the average flow on the peak day, a figure obtainable from the Water Superintendent's annual report. In this regard this Committee has deviated from the Maine commit- tee's report. They recommend the use of 21/2 times the average daily flow, however, your Committee, having an- alysed the pumping and storage charts for the actual peak hour, found that the true figure is more closely approximated by the suggested method. One and one- half times the average flow on the peak day is the most commonly accepted method of arriving at the peak hourly flow, and conforms with the recommendations of the N.B.F.U.
"The curve in Fig. 1 is dotted above 30%. The com- mittee material did not include studies in this area on the capacity-ratio method and, therefore the curve above 30% is trended as shown."
*N.B.F.U. Formula:
Required Fire Flow=Sq. root of X : 1020
(1-Sq. root of X -:- . 01) (X=Pop. in 1000s)
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The Maine committee points out that to charge for fire protection service on the basis of an allocation study for both very large and very small long established com- munities would provide a rate which is not realistic in relation to the rates charged for the other classes of service and/or to the value of the service. Therefore, they recommend that an upper limit of 30% and a lower limit of 6% be set as cut-off points when allocations go beyond these percentages.
"The (Maine) committee recommends that regardless of allocation the existing fire protection charge should not be drastically changed if such change would materi- ally upset the existing rate structure. The change, if any, should be gradual and in the direction of the allo- cation."
In summary, your Committee recommends that the fire protection charges for the Town of Duxbury be de- termined by an application of the curve shown in Fig. I. That the percentage figure so obtained (using 30% and 6% as cut-off percentages) be applied to each year's total Water Department Expenses to obtain the fire protection charge for the subsequent year. And that the amount so determined be raised and appropriated under Article 4 of the Warrant for that year.
Since its inception in 1959 the fire protection charge has steadily decreased from $29,978.00 to an amount last year of $24,593.00 reflecting a decrease in the outstanding debt of the Department. This decrease is in no way consistent with the rising cost of running the Depart- ment and, if allowed to continue, will necessitate a sub- stantial increase in water rates. Under the proposed method the charge will be more stable from year to year, it being a function of operational activity as well as growth.
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Computation of Charge for Inclusion in 1963 Warrant
Population=4727
Peak Flow 11/2 X Avg. flow on peak day. (1564 gpm)
Required Fire Flow == 2200 gpm.
Ratio: 1564 -: 2200=0.71 Entering the curve in Fig. I with 0.71 yields a value of 25.5%.
25.5% of $111,772.22=$28,501.92.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS C. ROGERSON, JR.
J. ALVIN BORGESON
C. EARL RUSSELL
Acknowledgments .
"Some fundamental Considerations in the Determin- ation of a Reasonable Return for Public Fire Hydrant Service" by Metcalf, Muichling and Hawley 1911 pro- cedings A.W.W.A.
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