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ARTICLE 12 Chapter 90, Highway Construction 54,000.00
ARTICLE 13
Loader with Backhoe Equipment 16,000.00
ARTICLE 14 Establish Boundaries 2,000.00
ARTICLE 16 Land Purchase-by Conservation Comm. 1,500.00
ARTICLE 17 Land Acquisition Committee 30,000.00
ARTICLE 20 Pumping Engine 25,000.00
ARTICLE 22
Eng'g. & Recreational Survey- ) 2,500.00
High School )
ARTICLE 23 Outside Facilities-High School
22,000.00
ARTICLE 24 New Elementary School ($880,000.00 to be raised by bond issue)
34,481.25
ARTICLE 25 Sewer-Lovejoy Road
48,000.00
ARTICLE 60 Civil War Centennial Committee
575.00
Total SPECIAL ARTICLES to be taken )
$339,056.25
from available funds )
Total SPECIAL ARTICLE to be bonded
880,000.00
GRAND TOTAL SPECIAL ARTICLES
$1,219,056.25
Total BUDGET to be raised by taxation
3,257,034.00
GRAND TOTAL BUDGET AND SPECIAL ARTICLES
$4,476,090.25 ARTICLE 37-Transfer $30,000 from Overlay Res. to Res. Fund ARTICLE 38-Voted $100,000 free cash to reduce 1961 tax rate
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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds the sum of $61,000.00 for improvements to the water system and authorize the following construction:
To install water mains not less than six inches and not more than sixteen inches in size in the following locations :
a. River St. and Lowell Junction Road 2500 feet more or less $42,000.00
b. Lovejoy Road 753 feet more or less 9,000.00
c. Locke Street 600 feet more or less 5,000.00
d. Sherbourne Street
5,000.00
(tie into Princeton St., -con- tinuation of last year's work)
$61,000.00
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to adopt Article 5 as printed in the warrant and to transfer the sum of $61,000.00 from available funds.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds the sum of $10, 000 for Engineering supervision and neces- sary pipes and appurtenances in connection with further changes caused by the construction of Route 495.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $10, 000 from available funds under Article 6.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds the sum of $20,000 for the purpose of replacing the pres- ent water shop and facilities.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $20,000 from available funds under Article 7, with the understanding that no funds will be expended without the approval of the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds the sum of $10,000.00 to continue the Engineering survey and Master Plan on storm sewer drainage initiated in 1960
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and scheduled as a three year program.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $10,000.00 from available funds under Article 8.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the removal of gravel and fill material from town owned land shown on Town Assessors Map 173, Lots 1, 2 and 3; Map 150, Lot 9; and Map 195, Lots 2 and 3 located on the Haggett's Pond watershed, and from land under Haggett's Pond; as may be deemed proper to improve the town water supply and raise by taxation and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $2,000.00 for preliminary engineering studies therefor.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $2,000.00 from available funds under Article 9.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to acquire for the town by purchase, by gift, or by seizure by right of eminent domain for increas- ing the water storage of Haggett's Pond, the following property :
1. Land of Rose Gilman on the shore of Haggett's Pond shown on Town Assessors Map 198 as Lot 23.
2. Land of Elizabeth A. Cummings on the shore of Haggett's Pond shown on Town Assessors Map 198 as Lot 22.
and use a portion of the unexpended balance of Article 44, of the 1960 annual town meeting in payment therefor. The intent of this article is to take all land between Lowell Street and Haggett's Pond owned by the above.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED unanimously to accept Article 10 as printed.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the Highway Department for construction work to be done with State approval, that part of the allotment received from the Commonwealth under Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956 which was not used in Article 13, 1958, in the sum of $569.42; also, 100% State funds in the sum of $3,375.11; total to be transferred $3,944.53.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 11 as printed.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of $54,000.00 for Chapter 90
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Highway Construction, the town to be reimbursed 50% by the State, 25% by the County, net cost to the town $13,500.00.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $54, 000.00 from available funds under Article 12, for Chapter 90 Highway Construction, the Town to be reim- bursed 50% by the State and 25% by the County.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Manager to purchase a loader with backhoe equip- ment for the Public Works Department and raise and appro- priate the sum of $16,000.00 therefor.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $16,000.00 from available funds under Article 13.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $2,000. to establish boundaries and lay out the lines of existing ways used publicly but not accepted as public ways by Town Meeting action.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $2,000.00 from available funds under Article 14.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to install a sewer main from its present dead end on Shawsheen Road a distance of 970 feet, more or less, on Lincoln Street; and raise and appropriate therefor the amount of $14,500.00 on the proviso that betterments be assessed against property owners benefitting therefrom, on petition of Francis E. Wilson and others.
Article 15 was defeated.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $1,500.00 for the purchase of lands by the Conservation Commission.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $1,500.00 from available funds under Article 16, no money to be spent without the approval of the Board of Sel- ectmen, the Finance Committee and the Planning Board. Vote( by more than 2/3 as required.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate or transfer from available funds, the sum of $50,000. to be spent by the Land Acquisition Committee for the purpose of acquiring by purchase, by gift, or by seizure by right of eminent domain, land, and any buildings thereon, for such school sites as may be designa-
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ted by the School Committee, for such areas as may be designated by the Recreation Committee, for a site for a fire station in the West Andover area near the intersec- tion of Lowell Street, Route #133, and Route #93, for sanitary land fill operations or refuse disposal areas, for additional land adjacent to the Lewis Street Depart- ment of Public Works buildings, and for the purpose of securing options or refusals or making down payments or part payments on any such lands, including any buildings thereon, or obtaining easements; said Land Acquisition Committee having the right to advise as to any parcel of land to be acquired, but its advice not to be controlling; no money to be spent without the approval of the Board of Selectmen, the Finance Committee and the Planning Board; on petition of the land Acquisition Committee, Harold R. Rafton, Chairman.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $30,000.00 from available funds to be used with the unexpended balance of $6,022.80 voted under Article 26 in 1960, to be spent by the Land Acquisition Committee for the purpose of acquiring by purchase, by gift, or by seiz - ure by right of eminent domain, land, and any buildings thereon, for such school sites as may be designated by the School Committee, for such areas as may be designated by the Recreation Committee, for a site for a fire station in the West Andover area near the intersection of Lowell Street, Route #133 and Route #93, for sanitary land fill operations or refuse disposal areas, for additional land adjacent to the Lewis Street Department of Public Works buildings and elsewhere for use of the Department of Pub- lic Works, and for the purpose of securing options or refusals or making down payments or part payments on any such lands, including any buildings thereon, or obtaining easements; said Land Acquisition Committee having the right to advise as to any parcel of land to be acquired, but its advice not to be controlling; no money to be spent without the approval of the Board of Selectmen, the Fin- ance Committee and the Planning Board, and the right of seizure by eminent domain to be exercised only by the Board of Selectmen. Voted by more than 2/3 as required. A quorum was present.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to designate as a park area the parcel of land now owned by the Town, and known as Carmel Woods, said land being lot #34 on Assessor's map, page 20 and which is continued on page 20, having an area of 21.09 acres, excluding, however, the land occupied by the Town owned Fanning Rest home and the grounds thereof, on petition of Albert R. Retelle and others.
Article 18 was withdrawn.
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ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote, to the extent of $85,000, representing the unused balance, passed under Article 1 of the warrant for the special town meeting held October 22, 1956, appropriating $885,000, for the constructing and equipping of a school in Ballardvale Plains section.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 19 as printed.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $25,000.00 for the purchase of a new 750 gallon per minute, Class A, Pumping Engine, (fully equipped) to replace a 1937 unit now in service in the Fire Department.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $25, 000.00 from available funds, under Article 20.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will prohibit all hunt- ing within the town, except by written permission of the landowner, on petition of the Andover Sportsman's Club.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 21 as printed.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or to transfer from available funds the sum of $2,500 to be used for an engineering and recreational sur- vey of the area adjacent to the high school.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $2,500 from available funds, under Article 22.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or to transfer from available funds the sum of $45, 000 to be used for the development of the outside facilities of the high school.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $22,000.00 from available funds under Article 23 to be used for the development of the outside facilities of the high school, with the understanding that no money is to be expended until the survey under Article 22 has been completed and then only with the prior approval of the School Committee, Board of Selectmen, Town Manager and the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $969, 875.00 for constructing and equipping a school and to determine whether the Town will appropriate money there- fore to be provided by taxation, by transfer from available
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funds, or by borrowing by the issuance of bonds for not more than twenty years.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED unanimously to appropriate under Article 24, the sum of $952,575.00 for constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a new Elementary School; and raise said sum by transfer of $34,481.25 from available funds, by transfer of $18,000.00 from balance of South School Construction Funds, by trans- fer of balance of $16,621.78 of High School Building Ac- count, and by transfer of balance of $3,471.97 of West Elementary School Funds, balance of $880,000.00 to be raised by borrowing under Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, for not more than fifteen years. A quorum was present.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $48,000. for the purpose of installing a sewer main for 2,000 feet more or less on Lovejoy Road.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to transfer the sum of $48,000. from available funds under Article 25.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 647, Acts of 1960, increasing the amounts of pensions, retirement allowances or annuities payable to certain former public employees.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 26 as printed.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to adjust the salary scales of the police and fire departments by esta- blishing a minimum annual salary of $5000.00 and a maximum annual salary of $5500.00, on petition of Town Employees Association.
Article 27 was withdrawn.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Town Manager to increase the annual salary schedule by (10%) ten percent for all town employees with the ex- ception of the police and fire departments and those mem- bers of the school department not included in the wage and classification plan, on petition of Town Employees Associa- tion.
Article 28 was withdrawn.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to grant the following vacation schedule to all full time employees
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with the exception of the school department; for those with up to ten years of continuous service-(2) two weeks, from the tenth to fifteenth year of continuous service-(3) three weeks, over fifteen years of continuous service-(4) weeks, all other conditions to be as set forth under the personnel By-Law, on petition of the Town Employees Asso- ciation.
Article 29 was withdrawn.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Manager, with the approval of the Board of Sel- ectmen, to appoint a committee of five individuals to study the problems of garbage and refuse collections in the town and possible new dump sites, said committee to report and make recommendations at the Town Meeting in 1962.
Upon motion duly seconded, it wasVOTED to accept Arti- cle 30 as printed.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to amend Arti- cle VIII, Section X of the Zoning By-Law, as amended in 1957 by removing the words "for the purpose of sale" as they appear in Paragraph 2, sub-section 1, so that this paragraph will read as follows :
2. Removal of Earth, etc.
Sec. 1-Anything in any other by-law of this Town to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall remove any soil, loam, sand or gravel from any land not in public use in any part of the Town without first obtaining writ- ten permit therefor from the Board of Selectmen after a public hearing at which all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard. At least twenty days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall, at the expense of the applicant for a permit, be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. £
And to strike from Paragraph 2 all of the sub-section 3 (i) and replace said sub-section 3 (i) with the following: " (i) the addition of and replacement of top soil and the plant- ing of the area of removal and screening of the same from public view."
Article 31 was defeated. The vote YES 212 -- NO 201. Did not receive the required 2/3 vote.
A motion was made and seconded to adjourn at 5:30 P. M., the meeting to be continued Monday, March 13, 1961, at 7:30 o'clock P. M.
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ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, MARCH 13, 1961
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 P. M. having been adjourned from March 11, 1961 after vote on Article 31.
The check lists were used at the entrance and showed 516 voters admitted to the meeting.
Unanimous consent was voted to admit three non-voters and five students.
The meeting was called to order by Charles G. Hatch, Moderator, at 7:35 P. M.
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ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to continue for the further period of one (1) year a committee of three (3) to study and revise the Town By-Laws and Zoning By-Laws, appointed by the Selectmen for that purpose under Article 17 of the Town Warrant passed at the 1957 Town Meeting, such committee to report at the next annual town meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 32 as printed.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to direct the Moderator to appoint a committee of five citizens to study the adequacy of the present Town Meeting-Selectmen form of Town government, to report their findings to the 1962 an- nual Town Meeting, and to make recommendations in their report for retention or modification of the present form of government, on petition of Dino G. Valz and others.
Article 33 was defeated.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept $5856.00 received in 1960 for the perpetual care of lots in Spring Grove Cemetery, on petition of Anna M. Greeley, Town Treasurer .
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 34 as printed.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept $600. 00 for a flower fund for the Mary E. Farrington lot, being lot #899, in Spring Grove Cemetery, said sum having been received in 1960, on petition of Anna M. Greeley, Town Treasurer .
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ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Town Manager and the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time after January 1, 1962, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1962, in accord- ance with Section 4, Chapter 44, General Laws and to is- sue 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 accordance with Section 17 of said Chapter 44.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 36 as printed.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $30,000 from Overlay Reserve to the Reserve Fund.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Arti- cle 37 as printed.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to permit the Assessors to use $150,000.00 free cash to reduce the 1961 tax rate and to offset appropriations for capital outlay voted at the 1961 town meeting.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to permit the Assessors to use $100,000.00 free cash to reduce the 1961 tax rate and to offset appropriations for capital outlay voted at the 1961 town meeting.
ARTICLE 39. The Moderator stated that Article 39 would be taken up after Article 62.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to change from Single Residence "A" to Apartment District, the fol- lowing parcel of land:
A certain parcel of land in Andover, Essex County, Mass- achusetts, bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at the Northerly abutment of the bridge across the Shawsheen River on the easterly side of North Main Street; thence running Northerly by said North Main Street, one thousand thirty-three (1033) feet, more or less, to land of Ellen Ayer Wood; Thence easterly at right angles one hundred thirty (130) feet, more or less, by land of Ellen Ayer Wood to the Shawsheen River;
Thence southerly, easterly, southerly and southwesterly by the Shawsheen River to the point of beginning. The northwest corner of the premises is at a point in the easterly line of North Main Street four and 2/10 (4.2)
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south of a Massachusetts Highway bound.
Containing twelve and 8/10 (12.8) acres, more or less. Being that parcel of land indicated as "Windmill Field" on a plan of lands of Maurice J. Curran drawn by Horace H. Smith, Engineer, and recorded Feb. 6, 1914, in North District of Essex Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 3, Plan 161, be the boundaries more or less as shown on said plan, on petition of Richard Baker and others.
Article 40 was defeated. The VOTE YES-229, NO-242.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by adding to Section IX, Paragraph 1, as amended in 1956, a new sub-paragraph
h) Industrial C to Single Residence C
1. Fish Brook-River Road-Laurel Lane Area
2. North Street-Greenwood Road-Chandler Road Area
according to description and map on file with the Town Clerk and by striking out the present Section VII, Indus- trial Districts in its entirety and substituting therefor the following :
VII-INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Within Industrial Districts the Permitted Uses (Subsection 1) and Restrictions (Subsection 2) are as set forth in the appropriate columns of the Table of Uses and Restrictions (Subsection 3).
1. PERMITTED USES
a. Residence
Any use permitted in Single Residence District, subject to all restrictions appropriate to that Residence District indicated in the Table of Uses and Restrictions.
b. Business
Any use permitted in a Business District, subject to the restrictions specified for such District.
c. Highway Service
Any use permitted in a Highway Service (or Motel District), subject to special restrictions of
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that District.
d. Commercial
Lumber, fuel, feed, and ice establishments, con tractors yards, and similar wholesale storage, warehousing, or service uses.
e . Light Manufacturing
Light manufacturing, warehousing, or offices, whether or not incidental to the foregoing activities, provided: 1) that all activities including storage of materials, supplies, and commercial vehicles shall be carried on entire- ly within enclosed structures; and 2) that the levels of noise, dust, smoke, odors, vibrations, and similar potentially obnoxious characteris- tics, as observed at the property lines, shall not exceed levels commonly observed in residen- tial areas; and 3) that the activities shall not customarily involve retail trade or service operations on the premises, except to the extent that the Board of Appeals shall determine such activities to be in fact accessory to the prin- cipal permitted uses.
f . General Manufacturing
Any industry or manufacturing which will not be seriously detrimental or offensive to adjoin- ing districts or tend to reduce property values in said district or adjoining districts by reason of dust, odor, fumes, smoke, gas, wastes, refuse matter, noise, or excessive vibration or danger of explosion or fire.
g . Accessory Uses
Any use customarily accessory or incidental to a specifically permitted use. Accessory build- ings and uses shall include, but are not limited to:
a. Garage for the storage or repair of company owned motor vehicles
b. Employees' restaurant and athletic facilities
c. Showrooms, incidental to principal uses
d. Helioports
e. Public Transit waiting stations.
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2. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
a. Parking
Adequate offstreet parking and loading facilities shall be provided and maintained. Within an in- dustrial district, loading docks or loading areas will not be permitted in those sides of any build- ings fronting on a street. Adequate offstreet loading space shall be provided on the premises in side or rear yard areas. Adequate parking shall include at least 1 space for each 500 square feet of usable floor area, unless the Board of Appeals shall deem a lesser amount to be adequate or a greater amount to be needed to serve the anticipated uses.
b. Signs
Identifying signs shall be limited to non-flash- ing, non-animated signs in any or all three categories; (a) signs attached flat against the wall of the building or projecting not more than six feet above such wall, provided that the total area of all such signs does not exceed one square foot for every forty square feet of ground floor area of the building to which they are attached; (b) free-standing signs limited to a total of one sign and a total of 100 Sq. Ft. of sign area, for each street on which the property fronts; and (c) directional and traffic signs, subject to the approval of the Chief of Police.
c . Height
Height of structures shall be as specified in the Table of Uses & Restrictions, subject further to the provisions of Section VIII, paragraph 4.
d. Landscaping
Screening and landscaping shall be provided and maintained in front yards, and in side or rear yards adjacent to developed residential property, in accordance with planting plans approved by the Planning Board and incorporated as part of the plans on which the building permit is based.
e. Coverage
The total ground coverage of all structures shall not exceed the percentage of the total land area
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of the lot specified in the Table of Uses & Restrictions, unless the Board of Appeals shall deem a lesser amount to be adequate or a greater amount to be needed to serve the anticipated uses .
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