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and that the price allowed for one old mower be used as part pay- ment for the new mower, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that the sum of $935.00 be raised and appropriated under Article 16.
Article 17-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to purchase a light truck and appropriate the sum of sixteen hundred ($1600.00) dollars therefor and that the price allowed for a 1940, one-ton Dodge truck be used as part payment for the new truck, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $1600.00 under Article 17.
Article 18-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand ($1000.00) dollars to be expended by the Board of Public Works, for the purpose of replacing sections of wooden fence with a more permanent type of fencing, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article defeated.
Article 19-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to repair the Andover Street bridge spanning the Shawsheen River in Ballardvale and appropriate the sum of six thousand, two hundred and fifty ($6250.00) dollars therefor, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $6250.00 under Article 19. Money in excess of $2750.00 bc expended by the Board of Public Works on the approval of the Finance Committee, only.
Article 20-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of thirty thousand ($30000.00) dollars to construct a new bridge on Andover Street, Ballardvale, over the Shawsheen River and the work to proceed only on the approval of the Board of Selectmen, the Finance Committee and Board of Public Works, referred from Special Town Meeting, December 27, 1948.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 20 be withdrawn.
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Article 21-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2500.00) dollars for the purpose of remedying a hazardous condition in the Sewer Pump House on Riverina Road by replacing obsolete equipment with adequate automatic starters and controls, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $2500.00 under Article 21.
Article 22-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred and fifty ($450.00) dollars for the purpose of obtaining land from the Phillips Academy and George R. Ab- bott and others on Chestnut Street to enable the Board of Public Works to widen, relocate wall, excavate banking and remove trees on said street providing a plan is placed on file at the Town Clerk's office which will meet with the approval of the Phillips Academy Trustees and George R. Abbott and others, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $450.00 under Article 22.
Article 23-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of sixty-five hundred ($6500.00) dollars for the purpose of modernizing the street lighting along North Main and Main Streets from the Lawrence-Andover line to the first sodium light at Chapel Avenue. It is recommended by the Board of Public Works that the present lighting be eliminated and that ninety-five (95) high intensity suspension type units be installed at a mount- ing height of not less than twenty-five feet, referred from Annual Town Meeting, March, 1948.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 23 be withdrawn.
Article 24-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $2500.00 to purchase portable bleachers for use at the Playstead, on petition of the Punchard Boosters Committee.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $2500.00 under Article 24.
Article 25-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $1500.00 to be expended for a survey of the Public School Build-
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ings and facilities. This money to be spent under the direction of the Andover School Committee.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $1500.00 under Article 25.
Article 26-To see if the town will vote to authorize the School Committee to continue to maintain State-aided vocational edu- cation in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 74, General Laws and Acts amendatory thereto or dependent, thereon, and further raise and appropriate the sum of nine hundred and eighty ($980.00) dollars therefor.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $980.00 dollars therefor, under Article 26.
Article 27-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the ten-inch water main on Bailey Road a distance of eight hundred feet and appropriate the sum of nine thousand ($9000.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Arthur Brouillard and others.
Article 27 referred to under Article 5.
Article 28-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Beacon Street a distance of four hundred (400) feet and appro- priate the sum of two thousand, two hundred and thirty-eight ($2238.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Roger P. Raymond and others.
Article 28 referred to under Article 5.
Article 29-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from River Road northerly a distance of sixteen hundred and sixty-four (1664) feet along Brundrett Avenue and appropriate the sum of nine thousand ($9000.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Arthur H. Maddox and others.
Article 29 referred to under Article 5.
Article 30-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Canterbury Street for a distance of approximately 100 feet and
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appropriate the sum of $500.00 therefor, on petition of Charles H. Dufton and others.
Article 30 referred to under Article 5.
Article 31-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $486.38 to reimburse Charles H. Dufton for extending the 6-inch water main on Canterbury Street for a distance of approximately 150 feet, beyond the former dead end, said ex- tension having been completed in November, 1948 in accordance with plans and specifications of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Charles H. Dufton and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $486.38 under Article 31.
Article 32-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Flint Circle along Flint Circle a distance of four hundred (400) feet and appropriate the sum of twenty-one hundred ($2100.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Edward P. Hall and others.
Article 32 referred to under Article 5.
Article 33-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to run the water line on Gould Road a distance of fifteen hundred-fifty (1550) feet from the present dead end to a point near the Thompson property and appropriate the sum of seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five ($7855.00) dollars there- for, on petition of Kenneth H. Thompson and others.
Article 33 referred to under Article 5.
Article 34-To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand forty-one ($2041.63) dollars and sixty-three cents to reimburse Fredric S. O'Brien for the expense incurred by him in putting a water main and hydrant in Hidden Road and Sunset Rock Road, both public ways, on petition of Fredric S. O'Brien and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $2041.63 under Article 34.
Article 35-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to install the water line on the westerly end of High
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Plain Road a distance of twelve hundred (1200) feet and appro- priate the sum of eleven thousand, nine hundred ($11900.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Anna M. Boutwell and others.
Article 35 referred to under Article 5.
Article 36-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water line on Salem Street a distance of 3550 feet from the property owned by Fred A. Gould to a point opposite the Conway property at the Corner of Jenkins Road and Salem Street and appropriate the sum of nineteen thousand, four hundred and fifty ($19450.00) dollars therefor, on petition of John J. Conway and others.
Article 36 referred to under Article 5.
Article 37-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main on Princeton Road and con- nect with Dartmouth Road a distance of five hundred and twenty- six (526) feet and appropriate the sum of three thousand one hundred and thirty-eight ($3138.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Herbert E. Dawson and others.
Article 37 referred to under Article 5.
Article 38-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Spring Grove Road a distance of eight hundred and twenty- four (824) feet and appropriate the sum of five thousand, nine hundred and thirty-five ($5935.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Pauline Johnston and others.
Article 38 referred to under Article 5.
Article 39-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the end of Holt Road around the corner of Holt Road to Wildwood Road, thence along Wildwood Road towards Main Street a distance of six hundred (600) feet and appropriate the sum of thirty-seven hundred ($3700.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Marion P. White and others.
Article 39 referred to under Article 5.
Article 40-To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way Dale Street from Andover Street northerly to a turning circle
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as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on plan of said way made June 1948 by Dana F. Perkins, C.E. and on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Edmund F. Leland, Jr. and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 40 as read provided the island and fire plugs be removed from the street.
Article 41-To see if the town will vote to redetermine the assessment rate fixed for Sewer Assessments in accordance with Chapter 386-Act 1895 and determine what charges will be made to the abutters for the construction of sewers as provided by Chapter 52 of the Acts of 1948, on petition of Frederick P. Fitz- gerald and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 41 be referred to the Committee on Water and Sewerage Investigation and the Town Counsel for further study and report to the next annual Town Meeting, also to report to the Board of Public Works within six months a rate as recommended.
Article 42-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to install a drainage system on the following streets: Yale Road; George Street; Dartmouth Road; between Yale Road and George Street; Green Street; a section of Corbett Street; and from William Street to the brook which is on the south side of William Street and appropriate the sum of forty-eight thousand ($48000.00) dollars therefor, referred from Annual Town Meeting, March, 1948.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 42 be withdrawn.
Article 43-To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $5000.00 and authorize the Board of Public Works to lay sewer in Topping Road and Franklin Avenue, on petition of Wilfred Laroche and others, referred from Special Town Meeting, May 18, 1948.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept a right of way as laid out on a plan filed with the Town Clerk connecting Topping Road with Corbett Road for the purpose of constructing sewerage service and raise and appropriate the sum of five
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thousand ($5000.00) dollars therefor and authorize the Board of Public Works to lay sewer in Topping Road along said right of way to a point on Corbett Road; no work to begin until ease- ments along way of right of way have been signed and approved by the Town Counsel.
Article 44-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the sewer line on Chestnut Street a distance of twelve hundred and fifty (1250) feet and appropriate the sum of seven thousand, three hundred and twenty-five ($7325.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Winthrop Newcomb and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $7325.00 under Article 44.
Article 45-To see if the town will vote to accept Dwight Street as shown on Street Acceptance Plan prepared by Clinton F. Goodwin. C.E. as approved by the Board of Survey, the Trustees of Phillips Academy to pay all the expenses in connec- tion with making said Street conform to said approved plan, and to discontinue that section of the road known as Highland Road, formerly called Back Street, lying between the Southerly line of Salem Street and the Northerly line of said Dwight Street, as shown on said plan, on petition of Philip K. Allen and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 45 as read.
Article 46-To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way Shipman Road from Elm Street northerly to Cheever Circle as laid out 50' in width as shown on a plan of said road made August, 1948 by Clinton Goodwin, Engineer, and on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Frederick E. Cheever and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 46 as read.
Article 47-To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way West Knoll Road from South Main Street easterly to a turn- ing circle as laid out 40' in width as shown on a plan of said road made April, 1948 by Clinton F. Goodwin, Engineer, and on file
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at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Hugh Bullock and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was Voted to accept Article 47 as read.
Article 48-To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way Marwood Drive from Lowell Street southerly to a turning circle as laid out 40' in width as shown on a plan of said way made August, 1948, by Clinton F. Goodwin, Engineer, and on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Claude P. Woodworth and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 48 be withdrawn.
Article 49-To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Cornell Road, as approved by the Board of Sur- vey, and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on a plan entitled "Acceptance Plan for Cornell Road, Andover, Mass. made January, 1949 by Ralph B. Brasseur, Civil Engineer, Haver- hill, Mass." Both plan and description referred to being on file at the Town Clerk's office, on petition of Edward Murach, and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 49 be withdrawn.
Article 50-To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name "Elm Court" as approved by the Planning Board and as laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on a plan entitled "Acceptance Plan for Elm Court, Andover, Mass., made January, 1941 by Morse, Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, Haverhill, Mass." on petition of Miss Mary C. Connor and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 50 be withdrawn.
Article 51-To see if the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover will vote to revoke their vote of March 9, 1942 approving Article 24 of the Warrant of the meeting of said date by which Virginia Road was accepted a public way, and to accept instead as a public way and name Virginia Road as approved by the Planning
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Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on a plan entitled "Revised Plan of a Portion of Tantallon Development, Andover, Massachusetts" made September, 1948 by Charles E. Cyr, C.E., Lawrence, Massachusetts, on file in the office of the Town Clerk," on petition of Carl H. Stevens and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 51 as read.
Article 52-To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Castle Heights Road, so called, for a distance of 542 feet, westerly from the westerly line of North Main Street, as approved by the Board of Survey, and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and as shown on a plan with descriptions dated January 1942, drawn by Morse, Dickinson, and Goodwin, Engineers, Haverhill, Mass. on petition of Sylvia K. Goldman and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 52 be withdrawn.
Article 53-To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Joyce Terrace, so-called, for a distance of 463 feet southerly from the southerly line of Castle Heights Road, so-called, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen; and as shown on a plan with descriptions dated Jan- uary 1942, drawn by Morse, Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, Haverhill, Mass., on petition of Sylvia K. Goldman and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 53 be withdrawn.
Article 54-To see if the town will vote to purchase or seize by eminent domain a portion of land owned by John Gardner Green on the southwesterly side of Dascomb Road for a distance of approximately three hundred (300) feet along Dascomb Road and approximately thirty (30) feet wide to include slope rights and to construct a low retaining wall and raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500.00) dollars therefor on petition of John W. Hall, Sr. and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to raise and appro- priate $1500.00 under Article 54.
Article 55-To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Nathan C. Hamblin Memorial Committee and to appropriate
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$800.00 to be spent under the direction of the School Committee, Superintendent of Schools, Trustees of Punchard Free School and the Principal of Punchard High School, on petition of the Nathan C. Hamblin Memorial Committee.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that the Nathan C. Hamblin Memorial Committee be continued with instruction to establish a scholarship financed by public subscription.
Article 56-To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 588 of the Acts of 1948, an act authorizing an increase of $200.00 a year in the amounts of pensions payable to certain former public employees who have been retired.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 56 as read.
Article 57-To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by extending the Business District on Easterly side of Bartlet Street from the center line of Rogers Brook southerly for a distance of 50' thence easterly a distance of 125' and parallel to the original southerly line of the Business District, on petition of Irving G. Clark and others.
After a favorable report of the planning board having been read, upon motion duly seconded it was the unanimous VOTE of the meeting as declared by the moderator to accept Article 57 as read.
Article 58-To see if the town will vote to authorize the Moder- ator to appoint a committee of five to revise the Building Laws and report at the next annual Town Meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 58 as read.
Article 59-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of forty-five hundred ($4500.00) dollars for the purpose of eliminating a hazardous condition on the northerly end of Argilla Road and intersection of Lowell Street and accept a plan thereof to be filed with the Town Clerk and mutually agreed upon by the abuttors or donors of the land and the members of the Board of Public Works; the above sum to include a reasonable figure for land which must be mutually agreed upon by the present
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owners and the members of the Board of Public Works with the understanding if not mutually agreed upon, it will not be seized by eminent domain; the sum will also provide for a drainage pipe, fencing and sufficient road building material to complete the en- tire proposed improvement and will vote that upon completion of said relocation of that portion of Argilla Road, that section of Argilla Road as located between Lowell Street and a point oppo- site the property of Mrs. Helen Strumpfman be discontinued and abandoned as a public way, on petition of Arthur R. Lewis and others.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that Article 59 be withdrawn.
Article 60-To see if the town will vote to accept $3737.25 re- ceived in 1948, for perpetual care of lots in Spring Grove Ceme- tery, and $225.00 for placing flowers on four graves in the same cemetery, and $200.00 for perpetual care of a lot in the South Church Cemetery, on petition of Thaxter Eaton, Treasurer.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept Article 60 as read.
Article 61-To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in the treasury.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that all unexpended appropriations be turned into the treasury, except the following :
Article 8-History of Andover
$2000.00
Article 22-Shaw Property Plans
2500.00
Fire Department
43.99
Sewer Maintenance
213.80
Article 4-Sewer-Morton Street
6451.20
Article 6-Improving Sewer System
164.70
Article 19-Sewer Special Committee Study
716.50
Article 39-Sewer, Burnham and Dufton Roads
4290.64
Article 40-Sewer, Chestnut Street
679.08
Board of Public Works Machinery Account
2088.76
Article 6-Additional for Stevens Street Bridge
7000.00
Article 7-New Bridge, Central Street
15200.00
Article 14-New Sidewalks
3546.78
Article 21-Chestnut Street Stone Wall
500.00
Article 21-Rogers Brook, Repair and Clean, 1947
505.72
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Article 22-Rebuild Stevens Street Bridge
5334.75
Article 23-Additional for Stevens Street Bridge 2000.00
Article 38-Widening Dascomb Road 1500.00
Public Welfare 5.92
Aid to Dependent Children, Federal Grants
102.30
Old Age Assistance, Federal Grants
8.27
School Department
3.39
Article 30-Shawsheen School Yard
2238.61
Article 32-Shawsheen School Grading
524.88
Article 16-Baseball Diamond
84.47
Article 1-Housing Authority
457.85
Article 43-Grading Veterans' Housing Project
47.70
Article 5-Improving Water System 1945
1334.69
Article 5-Install New Pump Intake Suction
Pipe at Haggetts Pond Station-1947 564.73
Article 5-Additional for Intake Suction Pipe 3200.00
Article 24-Pumping Equipment, Bancroft Road 6500.00
Article 33-Water, Red Spring Road 3518.74
That $15,000.00 of the Overlay Reserve be transferred to the Reserve Fund and that $65,000.00 free cash be voted to the Assessors to reduce the 1949 tax rate, and to offset appropriations for capital outlays voted in preceding articles.
Article 62-To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept the report of the Town Officers and place on file.
Article 63-To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to instruct the moderator to appoint a general committee of seven members to study the probable town needs for water and sewer extensions and new school construction, one member of the Board of Public Works, one member of the Board of Selectmen, and one member from the School Committee and four taxpayers to present plans for such extensions and construction to the next annual town meeting and from time to time thereafter.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED to accept the fol- lowing resolution :
That the voters of the Town of Andover, in Annual Town Meeting assembled, do hereby protest the proposal of the Govern-
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or of the Commonwealth that any deficits incurred by the Metro- politan Transit system be paid by taxes imposed upon the entire State. Be it further Resolved :-
That the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, along with two voters to be named by the moderator present this resolution of protest to the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs now consider- ing the proposed legislation, at their meeting Wednesday, March 16 at the State House, and also speak against the legislation if such opportunity is offered.
Be it further Resolved :
That our State Representative and State Senator be requested to oppose the legislation both at the Committee meeting and in their respective chambers of the State Legislature, insofar as it affects the interest of the Town of Andover.
It was moved and seconded that it is the sense of this town meeting that the Selectmen grant the Tree Warden full charge and use of the barn on the Shaw property on Main Street begin- ning April first of this year.
This motion was defeated.
Upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED that the meeting be dissolved.
Time 11:11 P.M.
APPOINTMENT BY THE MODERATOR FINANCE COMMITTEE
Howell M. Stillman Stanley F. Swanton Victor J. Mill, Jr.
Dr. Harry V. Byrne Harold G. Bowen Ellsworth H. Lewis
George R. Abbot
COMMITTEE FOR REVISING BUILDING LAWS
John R. Abbot Fred W. Doyle Edward P. Hall Roy E. Hardy Roland H. Sherman
COMMITTEE TO STUDY WATER, SEWER AND SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION Roy E. Hardy Sidney P. White Gordon L. Colquhoun
Howell M. Stillman Fredric S. O'Brien Wallace E. Brimer Joseph A. McCarthy
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