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Article 31 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $80000.00 to engineer and construct a sewerage system in Ballardvale, and to construct a complete sewage treatment plant, including all apparatus, appurtenances and appro- aches, and authorize the Selectmen to secure land and rights of way for this purpose by purchase or by right of eminent domain, on petition of Special Committee on Water and Sewerage.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that $40,000 be transferred from available funds and that the Town raise and appropriate $40,000 to engineer and construct a sewer- age system in Ballardvale and a complete sewage treatment plant with all apparatus, appurtenances and approaches, all under the supervision of the Board of Public Works ; that no construction be started until approved by a majority of the Selectmen, the Board of Health, and the Finance Committee; and that the Selectmen be authorized to secure land and rights of way for this purpose by purchase or by right of eminent domain.
Article 32 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $2500.00 to be expended under the su- pervision of the Board of Public Works, for the purpose of extending and improving the sewerage system of the Town of Andover, no work to be started until approved by the Board of Health, the Finance Committee, and the Board of Public Works, on petition of Special Committee on Water and Sewerage.
Article 32. was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 33 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $500.00 to be expended for engineering
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study, advice, and similar purposes, under the direction of and on petition of the Special Committee on Water and Sewerage.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to be expended for engineer- ing study, advice, and similar purposes, under the direction of the Special Committee on Water and Sewerage.
Article 34 .- To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the sewer easterly in Sum- mer Street for a distance of about 1208 feet from the pre- sent end opposite 135 Summer Street, and raise and ap- propriate the amount of $6150.00 therefor; on petition of the Board of Health with the endorsement of the Board of Public Works.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Ar- ticle 34 as read.
Article 35 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the amount of $1275.00 for the purpose of ex- tending the existing storm drain in William Street westerly for a distance of about 380 lineal feet; on petition of Sebas- tiano Magnano and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 35 as read.
· Article 36 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the present 10" water main on Bailey Road a distance of about 1200 feet from the existing dead end, and raise and appropriate the amount of $11200.00 therefor, on petition of Allan Young and others.
Article 36 was defeated.
Article 37 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of River Road and Brundrett Avenue along Brundrett Avenue northerly for a distance of about 1600 feet to the property of Jacob Schlakis, and raise and appropriate the amount of $6400.00 therefor, on petition of Jacob Schlakis
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and others.
Article 37 was defeated. Yes 163, No 258
Article 38 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water line on Salem Street a distance of about 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 raise and appropriate the amount of $21009.00 therefor, on petition of John J. Conway and others.
Article 38 was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 39 .- to see if the town will vote to authorize the School Committee to continue to maintain State-Aided Vo- cational Education 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 $1700.00 therefor.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 39 as read.
Article 40 .- To see if the town will authorize the Mod- erator to appoint a school housing planning committee, this committee to investigate school housing conditions and to formulate long-range school building plans, and appropriate the sum of $1000.00 therefor.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 40 as read.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to take up Articles 63 and 64 which may be found in regular order in the Town Meeting records.
Article 41 .- To see if the town will vote to increase the School Committee membership from the present five mem- bers to nine members in the following manner :
By electing three members to the Committee instead of only one member at the annual 1954 election, and by electing three members to the Committee instead of two at the annual 1955 election, and by electing three members to the Com-
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mittee instead of two at the annual 1956 election, thereby making it a Committee of nine following the 1956 election, on petition of Helen E. Jolliffe and others.
Article 41 was defeated.
Article 42 .- To see if the town will vote to name the new West Andover Elementary School the "Thomas Edward Carter Elementary School" in honor of the late Lt. Thomas E. Carter, World War I veteran, killed in action November 4, 1918 at Latuilerie Ferme, France, on petition of Arthur R. Lewis and others.
Article 42 was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 43 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $600.00 to improve and resurface a portion of Central Playground for year round recreational purposes, this money to be expended in conjunction with the $2300.00 appropriated in 1950 and under the supervision of the Board of Public Works and the Committee on Recreation.
Article 43 was defeated.
Article 44 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $450.00 for the purpose of purchasing a new rotary power mower for Spring Grove Cemetery to re- place a mower sixteen years old.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 44 as read.
Article 45 .- To see if the town will vote to make the tree department and the moth department divisions of the de- partment of public works, to be consolidated with and into that department, and to instruct the selectmen to take the necessary steps for that consolidation so that final action may be taken at the 1954 Annual Town Meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 45 as read.
Article 46 .- To see if the town will vote to change the name of a section of Chandler Road, beginning at Lowell
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Street, opposite Lincoln Street, and running westerly to a point known as the dead end circle and accept the name Chandler Circle in order that it may be indentified from the section of Chandler Road which begins on the westerly side of Beacon Street and continues to run westerly to River Road, on petition of George C. S. Williams 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 and name Beech Circle, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen. Said way being shown on a plan entitled, "Beech Circle" Andover, Mass. dated November 1952 and drawn by Ralph B. Brasseur C. E. of Haverhill, Mass. This plan being now on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of James L. Handley and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 47 as read.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to consider Articles 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56 together and referred to next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 48 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Cassimere Street as approved by the Board of Survey, laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and shown on a plan entitled Subdivision and Acceptance Plan of Cassimere Street dated December, 1952, Clinton F. Good- win, Registered Professional Engineer, Haverhill, Mass. Both plan and description referred to being on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of David L. Markert and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 48 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 49 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way, and name Forbes Lane, a distance of 960 feet, together with a portion of Karlton Circle extending from the end of Forbes Lane to Porter Road a distance of 432 ft;
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same being approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on a plan entitled "Accept- ance plan of Karlton Field, Andover, Mass."; dated June, 1952 same plan being made by Fred W. Stowers, Civil En- gineer of Methuen, Mass. Both plan and description referred to being on file at the office of the Town Clerk and in the Registry of Deeds of Essex County, on petition of Karl C.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept as a public way, and name Forbes Lane, a distance of 350 feet, westerly from Hidden Road as shown on a plan entitled "Acceptance plan of Karlton Field, Andover, Mass."; dated June, 1952 same plan being made by Fred W. Stowers, Civil Engineer of Methuen, Mass.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer the balance of Article 49 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 50 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Judson Road, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on a plan entitled "Subdivision and Acceptance Plan" owner Trustees of Phillips Academy, Clinton F. Goodwin, Engineer dated January, 1952, both plan and description referred to being on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of William T. Rich III and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 50 as read.
Article 51 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Linwood Street, the private way forty feet in width shown as Linwood Street on a plan entitled : "Acceptance Plan of Proposed Linwood Street, Fred W. Stowers, Reg. Surveyor, dated November 1951" recorded with North Essex Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 2510, said Street extending Southerly from Haverhill Street about six hundred (600) feet and thence ruinning Easterly about eight hundred (800) feet to Dufton Road Extension, and accept as a public way and name Enmore Avenue the way running Westerly from the mid-portion of
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said Linwood Street to Enmore Street, as shown on said plan, having a width of fifty feet and a length of about two hundred feet." The plan for both the above streets approved by the Board of Survey, laid out by the Board of Selectmen and on file at the office of the Town Clerk. This article on petition of Grace B. Peters and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 51 to the next special or regular Town Meeting
Article 52 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Lockway Road from Carmel Road northerly to Walnut Avenue as shown on a plan entitled Street Acceptance Plan made December 1952 by Clinton F. Goodwin, Engineer, Haverhill, Mass. as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen. Both the plan and description referred to being on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Phillips B. Mars- den, Jr. and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 52 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 53 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Shirley Road, as approved April 4, 1952 by the Board of Survey, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on a plan entitled Acceptance Plan for Shirley Road, Andover, Mass. made by Charles Cyr, Civil Engineer, Lawrence, Mass. Both plan and description re- ferred to being on file at the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Carl H. Stevens and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 53 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 54 .- to see if the town will vote to accept an ex- tension of Sutherland Street, from the present terminus, northwesterly thereof, as a public way, for a distance of five hundred and five linear feet, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on a plan filed with the Town Clerk, entitled "Plan of Su- therland Street Extension, Andover, Massachusetts, for
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Acceptance" dated December, 1952, Herbert W. Parthun, Civil Engineer. on petition of Lillian E. Howe and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 54 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 55 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way, and name Theodore Ave. for 500 feet, as ap- proved by the Board of Survey, and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on a plan entitled Sub-division, and Acceptance Plan-Shawsheen Highlands, made August 19, 1952 by Ralph Brasseur, Engineer, Haverhill, Mass. Both plans and descriptions referred to being on file at the Town Clerk's Office on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 55 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 56 .- To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way and name Alden Road, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as shown on the plan entitled "Sub-division and Acceptance Plan for Hidden Acres" made on January, 1947, by Clinton F. Good- win, both plan and description referred to being on file at the Town Clerk's Office, on petition of Johnston Bird and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to refer Article 56 to the next special or regular Town Meeting.
Article 57 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a certain amount of money for the purpose of surfacing and improving Alden Road, all work to be done under the supervision of the Board of Public Works; on petition of Johnston Bird and others.
Article 57 was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 58 .- To see if the Town will accept from J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. a deed of a triangular parcel of land si- tuated on the northerly side of Stevens Street in Andover, bounded and described as follows :
Bginning at the most easterly corner thereof at a drill
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hole in the sidewalk in the northerly line of Stevens Street as laid out in February 1885, said drill hole being located 10.50' southwesterly from a drill hole in the concrete side- walk marking the intersection of the northerly line of Ste- vens Street with the westerly line of North Main Street; thence N. 66°-07'W by the said northerly line of Stevens Street 113.30' to a spike in the pavement at land of the grantor; thence turning and running N. 49°-59'-30" E by said land of the grantor 58.40' to an iron pipe marking an angle in said line; thence turning and running N. 81º-51' E. still by remaining land of the grantor and point of beginning
The above parcel as described contains 917 sq. ft. be the same more or less.
Said parcel being triangular in shape and is shown on a plan entitled, "Plan of Land in Andover, Mass. to accompany deed from M.T. Stevens & Sons Co. to the Town of Andover", Scale 1"-20', dated December 1952 as made by Clinton F. Goodwin, Registered Professional Engineer, Haverhill,
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 58 as read.
Article 59 .- To see if the town will vote to accept Chapter 40, Section 6A of the General Laws which provides that a town may appropriate annually a sum not exceeding one two-hundredths of one percent of the assessed valuation of the preceding year for the purpose of advertising its re- sources, advantages and attractions, and, as provided under said section, to appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $900.00 dollars to be expended by the Andover Board of Trade for Christmas Lighting and par- ticipation in the publicity program of the Essex County Boards of Trade, on petition of the Andover Board of Trade and others.
Article 59 was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 60 .- To see if the town will instruct the Modera- tor to appoint a committee of five to study the advisability of fluoridation of the water supply to help control tooth de- cay in children, a report to be submitted to the next annual
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town meeting, on petition of David L. Darling and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 60 as read.
Article 61 .- To see if the town will vote to authorize and empower the town treasurer of the Town of Andover to im- print his fascimile signature to and upon any and all notes, drafts, checks, orders for the payment of moneys and any and all other instruments in writing required to be signed and endorsed by said town treasurer, and direct that the facsimile signature of the said town treasurer shall have the same effect and validity thereon as the written signature of the said town treasurer, on petition of Thaxter Eaton and others.
Article 61 was withdrawn from the warrant.
Article 62 .- To see if the town will vote to accept $4308. 00 received in 1952 for the perpetual care of lots in Spring Grove Cemetery, $100.00 for a flower fund, and the Kate Adams Swift fund of $300.00 for the use of Memorial Hall Library, on petition of Thaxter Eaton, Treasurer.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 62 as read.
Article 63 .- To see if the town will vote to transfer $20, 000 from Overlay Reserve to the Reserve Fund.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 63 as read.
Article 64 .- To see if the town will vote to permit the Assessors to use $60,000.00 free cash to reduce the 1953 tax rate and to offset appropriations for capital outlay voted at the 1953 town meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 64 as read.
Article 65 .- 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 un-
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expended appropriations be turned into the treasury, except the following :
Police Department $ 2800.00
Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital
349.42
Article 19, 1945 Special Sewer Committee Study 486.07
Board of Public Works Machinery Account
4571.07
Article 19, 1952, Improvement Beacon St.
963.63
Article 41, 1952, Grading Canterbury St. 1500.00
Disability Assistance-Federal Grants
448.46
Disability Assistance Adm .- Federal Grants
11.47
Aid to Dependent Children-Federal Grants
7.36
Old Age Assistance-Federal Grants
1029.16
Old Age Assistance Adm .- Federal Grants
405.92
Article 1, 1950, School Construction
31875.50
Civil Defense
1734.38
Article 2, 1951 Special Town Meeting-Land Purchase
3188.15
Article 8, 1946 History of Andover
1800.00
Article 12, 1952, Shaw Property-Parking Lot
6960.88
Article 22, 1944, Plan for Shaw Property
2500.00
Article 29, 1952, Improve and Resurface Central Playground
2300.00
Article 22, 1951, Enclosing Rogers Brook
795.13
Article 1, 1950, Supplementary Warrant
1131.87
Article 18, 1952-16" Low Service Force Main
4704.69
Article 23, 1952, Extending and Improving Water System
3678.77
Article 66 .- 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 67 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to adjourn at 11:50 P. M.
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APPOINTMENTS BY THE MODERATOR
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Louis E. Gleason, Chairman
Leo F. Daly Charles W. Arnold Charles D. McDuffie
Ernest L. Wilkinson Norman L. Miller
William S. Titcomb, Secretary
SCHOOL HOUSING PLANNING COMMITTEE
Gordon L. Colquhoun, Chairman
Anna M. Greeley Vasco E. Nunez Edward I. Erickson
Louis E. Gleason Howell M. Stillman
COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE ADVISABILITY OF FLUORIDATION OF WATER SUPPLY TO HELP TOOTH DECAY IN CHILDREN
Dr. John C. Brown Dr. Charles H. Hollis Sidney P. White Dr. William V. Emmons Harold R. Rafton
The foregoing is a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest :
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Report of the Town Clerk
To the Board of Selectmen :
I hereby submit my report for the office of the Town Clerk for the year 1953.
The total number of registered voters in Andover at the close of registration July 1, 1953 was 7,668 by precincts as follows :
1
1736
2
1431
3
1538
4
901
5
682
6
1380
7668
VITAL STATISTICS
Number of births recorded
244
Males
126
Females
118
Number of deaths recorded
147
Males
67
Females
80
Number of marriages
123
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Report of the Director of Accounts
March 3, 1953
To the Board of Selectmen : MR. ROY E. HARDY, Chairman Andover, Massachusetts
GENTLEMEN :
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Andover for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1952 made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours, FRANCIS X. LANG Director of Accounts
Mr. Francis X. Lang Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston
SIR :
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Andover for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1952 and submit the following report thereon :
The financial transactions as recorded on the books of the several departments collecting or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection were examined, checked, and verified.
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The books and accounts of the town accountant were ex- amined. The ledger accounts were analyzed, the receipts as recorded were checked with the treasurer's record of re- ceipts, the payments were compared with the treasury war- rants approved by the board of selectmen, and the appropri- ation accounts were checked with the appropriations and transfers voted by the town as listed from the town clerk's record of town meetings. The ledger record of departmental accounts receivable was checked with the records of the several departments committing the bills and with the treasurer's books, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the town on December 31, 1952.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were ex- amined. The recorded receipts were analyzed and checked with the records of the departments making payments to the treasurer and with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury. The expenditures were com- pared with the treasury warrants approved by the board of selectmen and with the accountant's records, and the cash balance on December 31, 1952 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit, by an acknowledgement by a bank of the treasury bills in its custody, and by actual count of the cash in the office.
The payments on account of debt and interest were proved by comparison with the amounts of debt maturing and with the cancelled securities and coupons on file.
The savings bank books and securities representing the investment of the trust and investment funds in the custody of the town treasurer were examined and listed, the income being proved and the payments to the town being verified.
The municipal contributory retirement funds in the cus- tody of the town treasurer were examined. The retirement ledger accounts were analyzed, the receipts as recorded were checked with the appropriations voted by the town, with the deductions from the salaries and wages of the members, and with the interest earned on invested funds. The pay- ments were compared with the treasury warrants approved
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by the retirement board, and the balance of the funds on December 31, 1952 was proved by examination of the securi- ties and by reconciliation of the bank balance with a state- ment received from the bank.
The deductions from employees' salaries for federal taxes, for the purchase of savings bonds, and for Blue Cross and Blue Shield were listed and reconciled with the amounts due and paid to the Federal Government, and to the Massachu- setts Hospital Service, Inc.
The records of tax titles held by the town were examined The tax title register was analyzed and checked with the colector's and the treasurer's accounts and with the records at the Registry of Deeds.
The transactions of the several trust funds in the custody of the treasurers of the John Cornell, Punchard Free School, and Memorial Hall Library funds were verified, and the se- curities and savings bank books representing the investment of these funds were examined and listed.
The books and accounts in the tax collector's office were examined and checked. The taxes, excise, and assessments outstanding at the time of the previous audit and all subse- quent commitments were audited and compared with the assessor's warrants. The cash receipts as posted in the com- mitment books were compared with the cash book record of collections, the abatements were compared with the asses- sor's record of abatements granted, the payments to the treasurer were verified, and the outstanding accounts were listed and proved with the control accounts in the account- ant's ledger.
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