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Article 19 .- To see if the Town of Andover will vote to ap- propriate the sum of $30,000.00 for the purpose of widening and straightening Main Street from Chapel Avenue to the State line. A plan of the proposed construction will be presented to the voters at the Annual Town Meeting, on petition of William A. G. Kidd and others.
Article 20 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $550.00 for the repair and conditioning of the Public Highway known as Topping Road, this appropriation to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Emory Delaney and others.
Article 21 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $650.00 for the repair and re-conditioning of Juliette Street, this appropriation to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Marguerite Comeau and others.
Article 22 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at the Disbrow Farm on Chandler Road to the property of Daniel Fitzpatrick on Chandler Road, and appropriate the sum of $15,780.00, to care for this work, on petition of Daniel Fitz- patrick and others.
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Article 23 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at the Henderson Farm on River Road to the residence of Leon Hardy on River Road, and appropriate the sum of $7,580.00, to care for this work, on petition of Leon Hardy and others.
Article 24 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main along Beacon Street from the corner of Chandler Road and Beacon Street to a point opposite the property of Louis Cyr, and appropriate the sum of $7,250.00 therefor, on petition of Peter P. Blanchette and others.
Article 25 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of Stin- son Road and Holt Road along Holt Road to the corner of Orchard Street and Holt Road, and appropriate the sum of $7,375.00 therefor, on petition of Arthur N. Comeau and others.
Article 26 .- To see if the Town will vote and determine that, forty (40) hours of labor shall constitute and shall be the maxi- mum number of hours for one (1) week, and eight (8) hours per day the maximum number of hours for one (1) day for all labor performed in any department under the supervision and control of the Board of Public Works and the Moth and Tree Depart- ments.
Provided-if an emergency arise, necessitating extra labor, after six o'clock p.m., overtime-allowance, if any, to remain as has been customary in the past; but in no case shall any person receive in any one week compensation for more than forty (40) hours labor, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
Article 27 .- To see if the Town of Andover, Mass., will vote that no person or persons be employed in any department of the Board of Public Works and the Moth and Tree Department who is not a registered voter of the Town of Andover, Mass.
Provided-That minors who may have dependent parents,
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eligible to receive Town Relief, or who have lived in the Town continuously six months previous to application for work, may, at the option of the Board of Public Works or Moth and Tree Department be employed, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
Article 28 .- To see if the Town will vote to give preference to married men with dependents and Real Estate Tax Payers of the Town of Andover, and single men with dependents having a legal claim on them for support, for labor service in any depart- ment of the Board of Public Works and Moth and Tree Depart- ments, in conformity with General Laws, Chapter 149, Section 26, regarding preference for soldiers and sailors, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
Article 29 .- To see if the Town will require that applicants for work must file a written application blank giving age, place of residence, time lived there, in any department of the Board of Public Works and Moth and Tree Department, said application blanks to be furnished by the Town of Andover. Application must be filed not later than four o'clock p.m. Friday for work following week, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
Article 30 .- To see if the Town will place the Captain and eight patrolmen, who make up the regular Police Department on this date, under Civil Service by accepting Section 48, Chapter 31, General Laws. The acceptance of this section would place the police officers under Civil Service but would not give them any pension, on petition of Thomas F. Hendrick and others.
Article 31 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, a way as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, extending from Magnolia Avenue to Sherbourne Street and southerly of Shawsheen Village School lot. on petition of John Franklin and others.
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Article 32 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift from the American Woolen Company, the following described parcel of land : Beginning at a point in the westerly line of Mag- nolia Avenue at the southerly line of the street first above des- cribed ; thence southerly along the westerly line of Magnolia Ave- nue about 90'; thence in a curved line southerly and westerly about 20' to the westerly line of Poor Street produced; thence by line of Poor Street produced about 27' to an angle ; thence turning an interior angle of 166° 3' 30" and running northerly 79.66 feet to the southerly side of the street above described ; thence about 20' east to the point of beginning. A plan describ- ing said parcel with a deed for same being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of John Franklin and others.
Article 33 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Sherbourne Street from a point 215.8 feet north of the northerly line of William Street for a distance of 347.79 feet as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, on petition of John Frankin and others.
Article 34 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Stonehedge Road from a point, 474 feet northeasterly from Salem Street for a distance of 241 feet, as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, on petition of Emery E. Trott and others.
Article 35 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept, as a gift, from the American Woolen Company, the following described parcel of land : A strip of land 2 feet in width on the easterly side of North Main Street extending from the northerly line of land of Harig to the intersection of the South Union Street line, said strip being approximately 533 feet in length. A plan des- cribing said parcel with a deed for same being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of John Franklin and others.
Article 36 .- To authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow money for the use of the Town in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, with the approval of the Selectmen.
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Article 37 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in treasury.
Article 38 .- To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Article 39 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof, seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by the By-Laws of the Town.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this seventeenth day of February. A.D., 1932.
FRANK H. HARDY ANDREW McTERNEN JEREMIAH J. DALY
Selectmen of Andover
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Recommendations of the Finance Committee
To our Fellow Townspeople :-
The burden of this report is like those of preceding years. What was thought in 1930 to be a local depression is now recog- nized as world-wide.
The loss of normal revenue, called to your attention in 1931, is again a major influence on our Budget for 1932.
Added to this, is a new feature-the possible difficulty in bor- rowing in anticipation of taxes. There are evidences on every hand that the loaning agent requires both a balanced budget and a high record of tax collections.
This immediately forces consideration of providing a tax rate for 1932 that will insure collection of at least as high a percent- age as in the past; so that a year hence, Andover may not find herself in financial difficulties through lack of planning.
Your Committee feels that any tax rate unless considerably lower than in the past will prove more burdensome this year than ever before.
The Budget that is here presented is thorough in its reductions and eliminations. And unqualified commendation is given to those Departments that have seen eye to eye with your Finance Committee in asking this year for only those things that the Town must maintain as a minimum.
In certain Departments, it has been a custom to grant vaca- tions with salary and to pay for telephones in private homes for certain town employees. Commendable as that custom may have been in other days, your Committee recommends that it be dis- continued for this year at least.
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You will note the absence of any recommendation for new construction in the Highway Department. This economy is du- plicated in the recommendations respecting unproductive water extensions on the ground that this is not a year to add to our investment in material things that we can do without.
Your Committee recommends that the Tree Warden and the Superintendent of Moth Suppression each be granted a salary of $150. The respective amounts of $2500 recommended for appropriation seem adequate to do the work necessary to main- tain present conditions, providing the Town discontinues the practice of doing work for private individuals.
Publicity has already been given to the Special Article for the Pumping Unit at Haggetts Pond, and this Committee feels that the two years that have elapsed since the subject was first broached have been well spent in testing and investigation. The findings of the Engineers and the Board of Public Works indicate the wisdom of approval of that Article.
'Your Committee recommends full investigation as to future expense for construction and maintenance before voting upon Articles petitioning for the acceptance of streets.
Since the last general survey of compensation paid to town officials, several important changes have occurred by reason of new departments created and shifts of various kinds. Conse- quently this Committee recommends that the Town Meeting authorize the appointment by the Moderator of a suitable com- mittee with full power to investigate and report their findings and recommendations regarding compensation, working hours and duties to the Finance Committee not later than December 1, 1932.
Your Committee therefore recommends that the Town Meet- ing adopt the following budget and act upon the Special Articles in accordance with the recommendations appended to each :
Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children (Increase $1000)
$6000.00
American Legion, Andover Post No. 8 (Decrease $650) 600.00
75.00
Armistice Day (Decrease $75)
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3000.00 3925.00
Assessors' Survey
Board of Health (Decrease $575)
This Department's Budget now includes the Baby Clinic. $350.00 of the above decrease is obtained by transferring Cattle Inspector to Town Officers. Payroll $2150.00
Operating Expenses 1775.00
Brush Fires 1000.00
Damages to Persons and Property (Decrease $1500)
500.00
Elections and Registrations (Increase $1300)
2300.00
2 Town, 1 Primary, 2 State, 1 National and 16-20 Registrations
Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital (Decrease $2933.45)
5912.91
Assessment covers: Maintenance
$5806.12
Construction 106.79
Fire Department (Decrease $4126.61)
27500.00
Payroll
$23775.00
Operating Exp.
3725.00
Highway Department
$50,000.00
Maintenance
Payroll
$26,000.00
Teams and Truck Hire
2,500.00
Materials and Equipment
21,500.00
New Construction (Decrease $15,000)
None
Infirmary Expenses (Decrease $100)
7,900.00
Payroll
$2,340.00
Materials and Repairs
5,560.00
Interest (Decrease $1000)
20,000.00
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School Bonds
$6,695.00
Sanatorium Bonds
743.75
Water Bonds
547.50
Sewer Bonds
5,468.75
Short Term Notes
6,545.00
Insurance (Decrease $1,493.68)
6,206.32
Workmen's Compensation
$3,447.04
Fire Insurance
2,759.28
Memorial Day
850.00
Memorial Hall Library
8,000.00
Payroll
$7,740.00
Operating Exp.
4,260.00
12,000.00
Less $4000 credit from Permanent Funds, etc. Municipal Buildings (Decrease $600)
4,000.00
Payroll
$1,460.00
Operating Exp.
2,540.00
Old Age Assistance (Increase $4,000)
10,000.00
Last year's appropriation was for 6 months only.
Payroll
$300.00
Parks and Playgrounds (Decrease $1,500) 4.000.00
Payroll $3,350.00
650.00
Materials and Equipment
Police Department (Decrease $3,250)
25,750.00
Payroll $21,750.00
Operating Expenses 4,000.00
Includes purchase cost of new motorcycle and traf- fic light operation at So. Union and No. Main Sts. If pay during vacations is continued $850.00 should be added.
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990.00
Pomps Pond (Decrease $110) Payroll Other Expenses
$800.00
190.00
Printing
600.00
Public Dump
500.00
Payroll
$385.00
Other Expenses
115.00
Public Welfare
10,500.00
Payroll
$260.00
plus ($582 carried under Town Officers)
Payments
10240.00
Retirement of Bonds (Decrease $11,000)
39,000.00
School Bonds
$17,000.00
Sanatorium Bonds
7,000.00
Water Bonds
8,000.00
Sewer Bonds
7,000.00
Schools (Decrease $1,994)
148,350.00
Payroll
$120,092.00
Other Expenses
28,258.00
Sewer Department (Decrease $600)
5,600.00
Payroll
$2,200.00
Other Expenses
3,400.00
Snow Removal and Sanding (Decrease $3,000)
12,000.00
Payroll
$6000.00
Other Expenses
6000.00
Soldiers' Relief
2,500.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
500.00
Payroll
$400.00
Other Expenses
100.00
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Spring Grove Cemetery (Decrease $900)
7,500.00 Payroll $5,500.00 Other Expenses
2,000.00
State Aid
500.00 20,760.84
Street Lighting ( Decrease $1,261.91)
Town Officers (Increase $478.50)
19,750.00
Includes $350. Cattle Inspector transferred from Board of Health. Includes $416.27 for 1931 shortage.
Payroll
$15,762.00
Other Expenses
3,572.00
Shortage
416.00
Town Scales
125.00
Payroll
100.00
Other Expenses
25.00
Tree Warden (Decrease $2,500)
2,500.00
Payroll
$2,000.00
Other Expenses
500.00
Moth Suppression (Decrease $2,500)
2,500.00
Payroll
$1,000.00
Materials
1,500.00
Water Department Maintenance (Decrease $2,050)
27.950.00
Payroll
$17,000.00
Other Expenses
10,950.00
Construction and Service Pipe (Decrease $10,150)
9.850.00
Payroll $6,000.00
Other Expenses
3,850.00
Wire Inspector 450.00
$499,945.07
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Special Articles :
No. 4. $800.00 not to be included in
No. 5. 700.00 1932 Tax Levy 6. .
20,000.00
2,200.00 8.
9. 2,000.00
10.
1,125.00
11.
550.00
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50.00
17.
300.00
$526,170.07
Article 4 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to use the sum of $800.00 of the unexpended bal- ance in the Water Maintenance Department to purchase an auto- mobile for the Superintendent of the Board of Public Works to be used in the performance of his duties, on petition of said Board. (Approved.)
Article 5 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to use the sum of $700.00 of the unexpended bal- ance in the Highway Maintenance Department to purchase a small truck, on petition of the Board of Public Works. '(Ap- proved. )
Article 6 .- To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 for steam pumping equipment at Haggetts Pond pumping station on petition of the Board of Public Works. (Ap- proved. )
Article 7 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way, a way as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, ex- tending from Chestnut Street to Summer Street, between Avon Street and Upland Road, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others. (No action necessary.)
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Article 8 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2200. for the purpose of installing a 6" water main in way referred to in Article No. 7, to be expended under the super- vision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others. (Approved.)
Article 9 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2000. for the purpose of installing a domestic sewer in way referred to in Article No. 8, to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others. (Approved.)
Article 10 .- To see if the Town will vote to adopt the recom- mendations of the State Department of Public Works relating to the placing of a semi actuated installation of traffic signals at or near the junction of North Main and Union Streets, and vote to appropriate a sum not to exceed $1125.00 to be used to install traffic lights, providing the State Department of Public Works will contribute a like amount, on petition of the Board of Select- men. (Approved. )
Article 11 .- To see if the Town will vote to authorize and in- struct the Board of Selectmen to take by right of Eminent Do- main for the purpose of creating more sanitary conditions for the protection of the water supply of the Town, the following de- scribed parcels of land, being two in number and known as Parcel I and Parcel II, hereinafter described in detail, and generally known as part of the old Lowell and Andover Railroad location, a plan describing said parcels being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and the said parcels being more particularly de- scribed according to said plan as follows :--
Two certain parcels of land situated in that part of the Town of Andover known as West Parish bounded and described as follows :
Parcel 1 .- Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof at a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Lowell Street
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with the westerly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad ; thence north 0° 20' 22" west by said location line 769.82 feet to the southerly line of Haggetts Pond Road; thence south 75° 35' 22" east by the southerly line of Haggetts Pond Road 76.44 feet to the easterly line of the Boston & Maine Railroad location ; thence south 0° 20' 22" east by said easterly location line 751 feet to the northerly line of Lowell Street above mentioned; thence south 89° 09' 38" west by said northerly line of Lowell Street 74.25 feet to point of beginning. Containing 1.3 acres more or less.
Parcel II-Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof, at a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Haggetts Pond Road with the westerly location line of the Boston & Maine Rail- road; thence north 0° 20' 22" west by said westerly location line 483.83 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right of radius 2032.09 feet, a distance of 1105.60 feet to a point; thence north 30° 50' east still by the said westerly location line 2395.84 feet to a point ; thence south 59° 10' east still by said location line 4.13 feet to a point; thence north 30° 50' east by said location line 932.25 feet to a point; thence north 11° 40' west 375 feet more or less to a point in the southeasterly line of High Plain Road ; thence northeasterly by said southeasterly line of High Plain Road 270 feet more or less to a point; thence northerly a little more easterly still by said southeasterly line of High Plain Road 240 feet more or less to a point marking the junction of said southeasterly location line of High Plain Road with the easterly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence south 27° 31' west by said easterly line of the Boston & Maine Railroad 108 feet more or less to a point ; thence by a curve to the right of radius 5498.07 feet a distance of 318.27 feet to a point; thence south 30° 50' west 330 feet more or less to a point; thence south 11° '40' east 2.03 feet to a point; thence south 30° 50' west 3252.57 feet to a point ; thence by a curve to the left of radius 1957.84 feet a distance of 1065.20 feet to a point; thence south 0° 20' 22" east 502 feet to a point in the northerly line of Haggetts Pond Road, all of said courses being by the easterly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence north 76° 35' 22" west
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· by said northerly line of Haggetts Pond Road 76.44 feet to a point of beginning. Containing 12.6 acres more or less.
And to appropriate the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($550.) as damages and the expenses incidental to the taking. Upon petition of the Board of Public Works. (Approved.)
Article 12 .- To see if the Town will vote to authorize and in- struct the Board of Selectmen to sell the following school prop- erties, to wit: The Richardson School with land and buildings, and the Bailey District School with land and buildings; for such sum or sums as the Board of Selectmen may deem best, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to give a good and sufficient quitclaim deed in the name of the Town for the aforesaid lands and buildings; or to authorize the Board of Selectmen to make temporary repairs of both buildings or to put both of said build- ings in good condition. Upon petition of the Board of Select- men. (No action necessary.)
Article 13 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of fifty dollars ($50.) to be expended for the purpose of making temporary repairs of the Richardson and the Bailey Dis- trict School buildings, or to appropriate the sum of $4000.00 for the purpose of putting both of said school buildings in good con- dition, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. Upon petition of the Board of Selectmen. (Pro- vided sale is not authorized under Article 12 this Article approved for not exceeding $50.00. )
Article 14 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of $3000.00 for the purpose of cutting down the street grade on Carmel Road from Walnut Avenue to the Town Infirmary and establish a new grade adjusted to the grade of the adjoining properties and for the building of a sidewalk in said street, in- cluding the expense of lowering the water mains therein, on petition of Ralph L. Draper and others. (Not approved.)
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Article 15 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $6550. for the purpose of the construction of a new road in Ferndale Avenue and for constructing a drainage system in said street and for curbing said street, on petition of Haywood G. Whiteway and others. (Not approved.)
Article 16 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the director of accounts of the Department of Corporations and Taxation for an annual audit of the town's accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, on the petition of the Board of Selectmen. (Not approved as an annual audit but recommended for 1932.)
Article 17 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($650.00) for the pur- pose of providing suitable headquarters for Andover Post No. 2128, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, such quar- ters to be under the direction and control of said Post and sub- ject to such regulations as the Board of Selectmen may adopt, all in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 9, of the General Laws, on petition of John M. Erving and others. (Approved for an amount not exceeding $300. )
Article 18 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift from Andover Post No. 2128, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, a captured German Field Piece (105 m/m How- itzer and Carriage), said Trophy to be placed upon suitable foundations in the Town lot at the northerly side of Elm Square bounded by High Street, North Main Street, and land of Bar- nard Estate. Foundations and placing of Trophy, together with the necessary improvement of the lot incidental thereto, to be under the supervision of Andover Post No. 2128 in co-operation with the Board of Public Works and subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen, on petition of John M: Erving and others. (Apparently no action required. In the absence of defi- nite information, the Finance Committee would not wish to ap-
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. prove this Article if a Town appropriation is necessary or owner- ship of land site is undetermined. )
Article 19 .- To see if the Town of Andover will vote to appro- priate the sum of $30,000. for the purpose of widening and straightening Main Street from Chapel Avenue to the State line. A plan of the proposed construction will be presented to the voters at the Annual Town Meeting, on petition of William A. G. Kidd and others. (Not approved.)
Article 20 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $550.00 for the repair and conditioning of the Public Highway known as Topping Road. This appropriation to be ex- pended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Emory Delaney and others. (This work is of main- tenance character and should be referred to Board of Public Works.)
Article 21 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $650.00 for the repair and re-conditioning of Juliette Street. This appropriation to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Marguerite Comeau and others. (This work is of maintenance character and should be referred to Board of Public Works.)
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