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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the purchase of two new automobiles for the Police Department and use the trade- in value of one 1956 Ford sedan and one 1956 Plymouth se- dan as part of the purchase price.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,873.00 to purchase and equip a new one (1) ton pick-up truck for use in the Fire Department and use the trade-in value of a 1953 pick-up truck as part of the purchase price.
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ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $6,300.00 for the purpose of purchas- ing typewriter-bookkeeping machine and equipment for mu- nicipal accounting, to be used in the Accountant's and Trea- surer's departments.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chap- ter 670, Acts of 1955, and any amendments thereto, an act relative to increasing the amounts of pensions, retirement allowances and annuities payable to certain former employees.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $35,000.00 and to engage engineering consultants or em- ployees for the purpose of conducting a revaluation of all taxable property in the Town, upon recommendation of the Board of Assessors.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or lease the Town Infirmary, with buildings and land. No transaction to be consummated with- out the approval of the Finance Committee and the Wel- fare Board.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50,000.00 for the purpose of pur- chasing and developing land for off-street parking, no mo- ney to be spent without the approval of the Finance Com- mittee.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to dispose of the Buildings on the so- called Shaw Property for the purpose of developing addi- tional off-street parking and transfer the sum of $6,000.00 from the Parking Meter Account for this purpose.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell a strip of land approximately 30
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feet wide and 250 feet long in the rear of the Town Park- ing Lot, known as the Shaw Property, at 10c a square foot to St. Augustine's Parochial School.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate by taxation the sum of $50,000.00 and instruct the Selectmen to appoint a committee of seven (7) to ac- quire by purchase, or by gift, or by seizure by right of emi- nent domain, as necessary, for the locating of future public school sites, fire station, public buildings, and recreation areas.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional $200.00, to add to the unexpend- ed balance of $1,600.00, which was appropriated in Article 7, of the March 14, 1955, Town Meeting, for the purpose of acquiring land on Center and Andover Streets, Ballardvale, for public use and protection of other Town land,; and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to seize said land by emi- nent domain or by purchase.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will accept twelve (12) acres more or less of land off Elm Street as a gift for the specific purpose of developing a public school site.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint a committee of three (3) to study the Town By-Laws and Zoning By-Laws, and report at the next regular Town Meeting, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, for this purpose.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five (5) for the purpose of making a study of General Laws, Chap- ter 41, Section 38A relative to the collection of moneys due the Town.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will enact a By-Law relative to the removal of loam, sand, gravel and stone, un-
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der the provisions of Chapter 98 of the Acts of 1949, as amended, to read as follows :
"the removal for sale of loam, sand, gravel or quarried stone shall not be permitted in any section of the Town except by license by a majority vote of the Board of Selectmen, and they shall have power to control the conditions of depth, contour, and extent. No loam to be removed for sale for more than one-half of its depth in any part of the Town, except when incidental to, and in connection with the construction on the premises of a building, for which a permit has been issued."
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to repeal Sec- tion X, Article 2, of the Zoning By-Law, relative to removal of earth, etc.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will enact a By-Law un- der the provisions of G. L. Chapter 40, Section 21 (16), re- lative to the removal of any vehicle interfering with the re- moval or plowing of snow or ice, etc., as amended, to read as follows :
The superintendent of streets or other officer having charge of ways may cause to be removed any vehicle from any way, to some convenient place or public ga- rage, if such vehicle interferes with the removal or plowing of snow on any such way. The entire cost of the removal of said motor vehicle or its garaging shall be borne and paid by the owner of said vehicle.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will accept as a public way the existing private way known as Post Office Avenue, running easterly from Main Street about 160 feet and thence turning and running northerly about 125 feet to Elm Street; as approved by the Planning Board and as laid out by the Board of Selectmen. An acceptance plan and descrip- tion of this way will be filed with the Town Clerk as part of the requirements to make this article effective; this accept- ance, by vote of the Town, shall be subject to mutually sa-
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tisfactory terms and agreements made between those hav- ing a present interest in the proposed private way and the Town of Andover through its Board of Selectmen, and to take by eminent domain if necessary, on petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the amount of $5,000.00 for the purpose of re- constructing, paving and improving Post Office Avenue so- called; on the proviso that said way is accepted at this an- nual Town Meeting as a public way, on petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to enact a By- Law under the provisions of Chapter 41, Section 108A, and establish a Personnel Board to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen to study the problem of compensation of all town employees, except those filled by popular election and those under the direction and control of the school commit- tee and to prepare a Wage and Classification plan classi- fying all such employees into groups and classes doing sub- stantially similar work or having substantially equal res- ponsibilities. Such a plan to provide minimum and maxim- um salaries to be paid to such employees in positions so classified and for the attainment of such maximum salaries by periodical step rate increases, such salaries to be appro- priately related, if possible, to salaries paid by commercial and business establishments and by comparable municipali- ties as well as a reliable cost-of-living index. The Personnel Board to be authorized to employ professional consultants in connection with the foregoing if deemed desirable and to report to the Board of Selectmen on or before January 1st, 1958 and subsequently to the next annual Town Meeting its recommendations for a complete Wage and Classification Plan. The Personnel Board to consist of five members, two to be appointed for three years, two for two years and one for one year, and thereafter each member to be appointed for a three year term. No member of the Personnel Board to receive compensation or be an employee of the Town. Va-
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cancies to be appointed by the Selectmen. To appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for the use of said committee; or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or finance through a bond issue the sum of $192,000.00 for the purpose of enlarging the Memorial Hall Library, according to plans on file with the Library Trust- ees, through a one story addition to the front with sidewalk level entrance, a two story addition to the West and interior alterations, which will result in a more efficiently operated library building better able to meet effectively the present and future needs of this growing community, on petition of the Trustees of Memorial Hall Library.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds in the trea- sury the sum of $7,500.00 for sidewalk construction to in- stall and improve sidewalks in areas of public ways.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate from taxation the sum of $5,000.00 for repairs to the Bridge in Ballardvale.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate from taxation and/or transfer from unappro- priated available funds in the treasury the sum of $2,500.00 for Highway fence and guard rail construction.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate by taxation the sum of $10,000.00 to conduct a study for additional water supply under the supervision of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate by taxation the sum of $8,500.00 for a study of possible needed extensions to the system and needed im- provements to the present sewerage facilities under the su- pervision of the Board of Public Works.
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ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate from taxation and/or by bond issue the sum of $95,810.00 for improvements to the water system ; $5,810.00 of which is to be raised and appropriated from taxation and the balance of $90,000.00 to be provided by a 10 year bond issue. (No work to be started until approved by the Board of Selectmen, The Finance Committee and the Board of Public Works).
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to construct additional garage space and make necessary repairs to existing buildings and raise and appropriate by taxation the sum of $25,000.00 therefor.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to purchase equipment consisting of three trucks, one hydraulic sand spreader, sidewalk roller, tractor loader, street sweeper, sidewalk plow and other smaller items whose individual cost is less than $1,000.00 and raise and appropriate the sum of $36,800.00 therefor with the trade-in allowance for each piece of like equipment now owned to be used as part payment.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury the sum of $23,000.00, from the amount to be paid to the Town by the State under Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956 for Highway Construction and to instruct the Selectmen to acquire land on the north side of Ballardvale Road by gift, by purchase, release or by right of eminent domain.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from unappropriated avail- able funds in the Treasury the sum of $30,000.00 and trans- fer $10,000.00 from the amount to be paid to the Town by the State under Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956 for Chap- ter 90 Highway Construction.
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ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Works to construct a main Trunk sewer from the existing sewerage facilities in Shawsheen to Lin- coln Street and provide sewerage facilities to the property abutting on Arthur Road, Mary Lou Lane, Marilyn Road, Theodore Avenue, part of Lincoln Street and other pro- perties adjacent to the Shawsheen Hylands development and to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from avail- able funds in the Treasury and/or by bond issue a sum of $91,600.00 for the construction of the same on the proviso that the final cost for such work as done, with the exception of the trunk main, be assessed proportionally as a better- ment charge to all property to which the facilities would be available; and authorize the Town to acquire easements for a release by purchase or by seizure by right of eminent do- main upon the recommendation of the Board of Public Works and with the approval of the Town Counsel, on peti- tion of William C. Schmidt and others.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to install a sewer in Juliette Street and connect same to the existing public sewerage system; and raise and appropriate there- for the amount of $10,000.00 on the proviso that the entire cost is to be assessed as a betterment charge against the property owners along said Juliette Street and others who may benefit directly or indirectly ; and to authorize the town to acquire easements by release, by purchase, or by seizure by right of eminent domain, upon the recommendation of the Board of Public Works and with the approval of the Town Counsel, on petition of Vincent F. Stulgis and others.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to purchase a truck chassis and equip same with a so-called back-hoe or trench digger and raise and appropriate the sum of $15,500.00 therefor, on petition of Raymond S. LaRosa and others.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its action in approving Article 31 of the Warrant of March 5,
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1956 and March 10, 1956 and direct the Board of Public Works to terminate all activity toward fluoridation of the Town water supply and to dispose of the equipment used therefor, on petition of Samuel B. Dimlich and others.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws to prohibit consideration, at a Special Town Meeting, of any article which appropriates funds, un- less such article and the expenditure authorized therein are of an emergency nature and are so certified by the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee; for purposes of the record the article shall be deemed to have been withdrawn if it fails to obtain such certification and it shall be inserted for consideration in the Warrant for the next Annual Town Meeting without any further action by the sponsors, on pe- tition of Henry M. Wolfson and others.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to extend westerly the present line of Zone A from the center of a private way known as Bowdoin Road, so that Zone A will now also include the following described parcel of land : Be- ginning at land of the Congregation Temple Emmanuel of Lawrence, thence running southerly by the existing limits of Zone A and the center line of Bowdoin Road about 988 feet, more or less, to land of the Andover Country Club ; thence running southwesterly by land of the said Andover Country Club about 250 feet, more or less, to other land of Cairns; thence running northwesterly by said other land of Cairns about 335 feet, more or less, to an angle; thence running northerly still by land of said Cairns about 696 feet, more or less, to land of said Congregation Temple Emmanuel of Lawrence; thence running easterly by land of said Congregation Temple Emmanuel of Lawrence about 470 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. Said pro- posed extension of Zone A is shown on a plan entitled : "Pre- liminary Plan Proposed Section No. 2, Shawsheen Heights, Andover, Mass., Owner George Cairns, Engineer Ralph B. Brasseur, dated August, 1956," a copy of which plan is on
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file with the Town Clerk for the Town of Andover, on peti- tion of George R. Cairns and others.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way and name Harvard Road running between Princeton Avenue and Cornell Avenue for a distance of 460 feet, as approved by the Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen ; and as shown on a plan entitled : "Sec- tion No. 1, Shawsheen Heights, Andover, Mass .; Owner, Loretta Cairns; Engineer, Ralph B. Brasseur; dated July 25, 1955," and recorded with North Essex Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 3076, a copy of said plan being also on file with the Town Clerk for the Town of Andover, on pe- tition of George R. Cairns and others.
ARTICLE 43. 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 the description referred to being on file at the Office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Phillips B. Marsden, Jr. and others.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name Lucerne Drive 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 Pine Acres, made by Ralph Brasseur, Engineer, Haverhill, Mass. Both plans and descriptions referred to being on file at the Town Clerk's Office, on petition of Frank Cairns and others.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Princeton Avenue for a distance of 345 feet westerly from that portion of Princeton Avenue which is now a public way, as approved by the Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen; and as shown on a plan
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of land entitled : "Section No. 1, Shawsheen Heights, Ando- ver, Mass." Owner, Loretta Cairns; Engineer, Ralph B. Brasseur; dated July 25, 1955." and recorded with North Essex Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 3076, a copy of said plan being also on file with the Town Clerk for the Town of Andover, on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Stevens Circle, a way off Summer Street, as approved by the Planning Board January 18, 1955 and laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on the plan made by Clinton F. Goodwin, Engineer, Haverhill and dated De- cember 10, 1954, both plan and description being on file at the Town Clerk's office, on petition of Rolland E. Davis and others.
ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way a way now known as Suncrest Road, off South Main Street, as shown on a plan by D. J. McCracken of Me- thuen dated September, 1955, both this plan and a descrip- tion being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of Robert W. M. White and others.
ARTICLE 48. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time after January 1, 1958, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1958, in accordance with Section 4, Chapter 44, General Laws and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note so issued for a pe- riod of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17 of said Chapter 44.
ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to continue to maintain State-Aided Vocational 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 $1,940.00 therefor.
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ARTICLE 50. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time after March 11,1957 in anticipation of the elementary school bond issue of $885,000 authorized by vote of the Special Town Meeting of October 22, 1956 under Article 1 of said meeting, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note so issued for a period of less than one year, in accord- ance with Section 17 of said Chapter.
ARTICLE 51. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to inform Congressman Rogers that the Town of Andover is in hearty accord with her supporting the following congressional bills HR317, 318 and 319, relative to the development of flood control of the Merrimack River.
ARTICLE 52. To see if the Town will vote to accept $3,763.00 including a flower fund of $300.00, received in 1956, for the perpetual care of lots in Spring Grove Ceme- tery, on petition of Anna M. Greeley, Treasurer.
ARTICLE 53. To see if the Town will vote to accept $30.00, the gift of Helen and Harold Rafton, as approved by the School Committee, to be awarded as the Rafton Science Prizes at Punchard High School, on petition of An- na M. Greeley, Treasurer.
ARTICLE 54. To see if the Town will vote to accept nine- teen shares of Middle South Utilities, Inc. common stock, the gift of Helen and Harold Rafton, as approved by the School Committee, the annual income therefrom to be awarded as the Rafton Science Prizes at Andover High School, on petition of Anna M. Greeley, Treasurer.
ARTICLE 55. To see if the Town will vote to amend Ar- ticle 1, Section 3 of the Town By-Laws by adding the words "Ballots shall be given to each voter when being checked for admittance at door of Town Meeting by the Town Election
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officers, whose duty it will be to collect and count them whenever used, in presence of the Town Clerk in full view of the voters," on petition of John F. O'Connell and others
ARTICLE 56. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $20,000.00 from Overlay Reserve to the Reserve Fund.
ARTICLE 57. To see if the Town will vote to permit the Assessors to use $60,000.00 free cash to reduce the 1957 tax rate and to offset appropriations for capital outlay voted at the 1957 town meeting.
ARTICLE 58. To see what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in the treasury.
ARTICLE 59. To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
ARTICLE 60. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting :
And your are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof, seven days at least before the time and place 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 twenty-first day of January, A. D. 1957.
SIDNEY P. WHITE STAFFORD A. LINDSAY WILLIAM V. EMMONS
Selectmen of Andover
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INDEX
Accounting Taxes and Assessments
109
Election and Registration 68
Aid to Dependent Children
84
Essex County Tuberculosis Hosp. 76
Animal Inspector
73,186
Expenditures for 1957 65
Appropriations for 1957
56
Assessors
67,130
Finance Committee 69
Fire Department
72,174
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
109
Municipal Properties and
132
Forest Fires
72
Public Improvements
General Government
Balance Sheet
106
Board of Appeals
138
Election and Registration 68
Board of Health
75,181
Municipal Buildings
70
Board of Public Welfare
84,133
Town Officers
4
Aid to Dependent Children
84
Highways
79
Infirmary
87
Housing Authority
136
Old Age Assistance
86
Veterans' Services
87
Insurance
94
Interest
104
Board of Public Works
203
Jury List
189
Accounts Receivable
110
Administrative and Office
97
Highways
79
Sewers
77
Sidewalks
80
Report of Librarian 194
Snow Removal and Sanding
83
Trustees 123
Moderator
69
Moth Suppression
74
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 109
Municipal Buildings
70
Municipal Indebtedness 105
132
Cemetery Funds
117
Civil Defense
74,187
Old Age Assistance 86
Overlay
106
Damages to Persons and Property
94
Departmental Accts. Receivable
109
Parking Meters
65
Director of Accounts
51
Parks and Playgrounds
97
Dog Officer
73,180
Patriotic Holidays
94
Dutch Elm Disease
75
Personnel Board
96,150
Trucks, Garage and Repair Shop
79
Water Maint. and Construction
99
Bonds, Redemption of
See Town Debt
Building Inspector
73,183
Memorial Hall Library
93
Library Statistics 202
Superintendent's Report
204
Municipal Properties and Public Improvements
2
Planning Board Police Department Public Dump Punchard Athletic Association
69,145
Receipts-Analysis of Surplus Revenue 58
126
Receipts for 1957
59
148 Water Accounts Receivable
110
Retirement Report
115
Town Clerk
50
*School Department
88 Town Counsel
69
School Lunch
91 Town Debt
126
Sealer, Weights & Measures Selectmen
65
Sewers
77 Town Meetings
Assessments
109
Proceedings 10
Warrants 14,215
Snow Removal and Sanding
83
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Street Lighting
83,214 Town Reports
95
Treasurer
65,66,125
Tax Collector
67,127 Tree Department
75
Trust Funds
112
Summary of Tax Collector's
129 *Trustees Punchard Free School
119
Cash Account
Unpaid Taxes
57
Town Accountant
55,66
Town Accounts
Veterans' Services
93,135
Vital Statistics
50
Accounting Taxes and Assessments 109
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