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Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 42 as printed, subject to approval of the Board of Selectmen. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name Regis Road as approved by the Andover Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Select- men as shown on a plan entitled "Pineridge", subdivided for Pineridge Realty, Decem- ber, 1963, R. G. Mansour, C. E., and shown as plan 4969, North Essex District Regis- try of Deeds; plan and description, along with necessary easements on file with the Town Clerk, on the petition of Raymond Mansour and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 43 as printed, subject to approval of the Board of Selectmen. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name Crest- wood Drive as approved by the Andover Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on a plan entitled "Crestwood Estates", Albert A. Miller and Wilbur C. Nylander, Surveyors, dated March 25, 1965, and shown as plan #5303, filed with the North Essex Registry of Deeds; the plan and description, along with ease- ments filed with the Town Clerk on petition of Frank Catalano and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 44 as printed, subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name Rus- sett Lane as approved by the Andover Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on a plan entitled "Crestwood Estates", Albert A. Miller & Wil- bur C. Nylander, Surveyors, dated March 25, 1965, and shown as plan #5303, filed with the North Essex Registry of Deeds; plan and description, along with easement with the Town Clerk, on petition of Frank Catalano and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 45 as printed, subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name Napier Road as shown on a plan approved by the Andover Planning Board and laid out by the Board of Selectmen; plan entitled "Napier Road", dated June 17, 1963, Clin- ton F. Goodwin, Surveyor, which plan is recorded in the North Essex Registry of Deeds as Plan #4828; copy of plan and description and easements on file with the Town Clerk, on the petition of Judith C. Van Der Zee and others.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 46 as printed, subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk.
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ARTICLE 47.
To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the Annual Report for 1966 as submit- ted to the voters of the Town by the Town Manager be received and filed with the Town Clerk.
ARTICLE 48. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meet- ing.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to adjoum at 3:45 P. M. The foregoing is a true record of the doings of the meeting.
ATTEST:
IRVING O. PIPER Town Clerk
Karen Erickson
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AUGUST 21, 1967
Agreeably to a Warrant signed by the Selectmen, July 31, 1967, the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, qualified to vote in Town Affairs, met and assembled at the Memorial Auditorium, Bartlet Street, on Monday, the twenty-first day of August, 1967 at 8:00 P. M.
The meeting was called to order by Arthur Williams, Moderator at 8:17 P. M.
Unanimous consent was voted to admit twenty-three non-voters to the meeting.
Opening prayer was offered by Rev. Kenneth J. Kennedy, Pastor of St. Augustine's Church .
Salute to the flag was led by Selectman William Stewart.
The check lists were used at entrance and showed 841 voters admitted to the meet- ing.
Voted to dispense with the reading of the warrant and service of the Constable.
Voted that the Moderator refer to the articles by number instead of reading the article and the person moving the article refer to it by number also.
(Constable's Return)
Essex, SS.
August 21, 1967
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the Inhabitants of said Town, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same, on the Town House, on each Schoolhouse, and in no less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
Benjamin C. Brown, Constable
Upon motion made and duly seconded, it was VOTED to consider Article 4 out of order before action on Article 1.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum or sums of money to extend utilities to the Lowell Junction Industrial area of the Town and to provide road improvements therefor, namely,
(a) not to exceed $500,000 for the construction of sewers for sanitary and surface drainage purposes and for sewage disposal;
(b) not to exceed $200,000 to lay and relay water mains;
(c) not to exceed $300,000 for original construction of public ways or the extension and widening thereof ;
and to determine how any such sum or sums shall be raised whether by taxation, trans- fer, borrowing or by any combination of the foregoing or otherwise, to authorize the Selectmen to apply for and accept any Federal, State or County Aid available for said projects, or take any other action connected with or incidental to the fore- going matters or any of them.
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Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the following sums are appropriated for the purposes of extending water and sewer services to the Lowell Junction In- dustrial Area of the Town, and for road improvements, hereby authorized, namely -
$500, 000 for construction of sewers for sanitary and surface drainage purposes, and for sewage disposal;
$200, 000 for laying and relaying water mains of not less than six but less than sixteen inches in diameter;
$300,000 for extending and widening public ways, namely, Lowell Junction Road, River Street and Ballardvale Street, including land damages and the cost of pavement and sidewalks laid at the time of said construction,
including in each case the acquisition of land or interests in land, the payment of engineering and legal charges, and any other expenses incidental to or connected with the foregoing extensions and improvements; that to meet said appropriation of $500,000, the sum of $10,000 shall be transferred from available funds in the Treasury and the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to issue and sell at one time or from time to time bonds or notes of the Town not exceeding in principal amount the sum of $490, 000 under and pursuant to Mass. General Laws, Chapter 44, 7(1), each issue of such bonds and notes to be payable over a period not to exceed 30 years; that to meet said appropriation of $200,000, the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to issue and sell bonds or notes of the Town not exceeding in principal amount the sum of $200, 000 under and pursuant to General Laws, Chapter 44, 8(5), each such issue of bonds or notes to be payable over a period not to exceed fifteen years from its date; that to meet said appropriation of $300,000, the sum of $15,000 shall be transferred from available funds in the Treasury and the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to issue at one time or from time to time bonds or notes of the Town not exceeding in princi- pal amount the sum of $285, 000, under and pursuant to General Laws, Chapter 44,7(5), and such issue of such bonds or notes to be payable over a period not to exceed 10 years from its date and that betterments be assessed; and that in addition to the foregoing appropriations the Selectmen are authorized to apply for and accept any Federal, State or County Aid available in respect of any of the extensions or im- provements hereinbefore authorized and to execute and deliver in the name and on behalf of the Town any grant agreements required by the County, State or Federal Government in connection with such aid.
The Vote YES-792, NO-4 -- voted by more than 2/3 as required. A quorum was present. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1, 800,000.00 or any other sum for the construction, originally equipping and furnishing the Ban- croft Elementary School and to determine whether the same shall be raised by taxa- tion, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing or by any combination of the foregoing or take any other action.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the sum of $1,800, 000.00 is hereby appropriated for the purpose of constructing, originally equipping and furnishing the Bancroft School to be located on land acquired under Article 1 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of November 21, 1966; that to meet said appropriation, the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to issue bonds or notes of the Town at one time or from time to time not exceeding in principal amount the sum of $1,800,000.00 pursuant to Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended and supplemented, each issue of said bonds or notes to be paid in not exceeding 20 years from its date.
The Vote YES-509, NO-113 -- voted by more than 2/3 as required. A quorum was pres- ent. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 2. . To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chapter 40, Sec. 22D, of the General Laws, as amended, so-called Towing Law.
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Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 2 as printed in the Warrant for this Special Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $300,000.00 in addition to the amounts voted October 19, 1964 and March 22, 1966 for constructing, originally equipping and furnishing the new senior high school and to determine whether this appropriation will be raised by borrowing or otherwise.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that $200, 000.00 is appropriated in addi- tion to the amounts voted October 19, 1964, and March 22, 1966, for constructing, originally equipping and furnishing the new senior high school and that to meet this appropriation, the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to borrow $200, 000.00 under Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, and that the Town Manager is authorized to take all action necessary to carry out this vote.
The Vote YES-529, NO-3 -- voted by more than 2/3 as required. A quorum was present. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from available funds $50,000.00 plus any sums remaining unexpended in the appropriation voted un- der Article 23 of the Warrant of the Town Meeting held March, 1964, and to authorize the Selectmen to use said funds to acquire for school purposes by purchase, by gift, or by seizure by right of eminent domain and for preliminary site development, land on Osgood Street shown as Lots #4 and #5 on Assessors' Map 177 and supposed to be- long to John M. and Elizabeth W. Forbes.
This article was not approved by the Finance Committee and therefore could not be acted upon.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from available funds the sum of $80,000.00 for the purpose of retaining the services of an archi- tect to prepare preliminary plans, working drawings, and bid specifications for the construction of an addition to the West Elementary School and/or a new elementary school for the West Andover area.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the sum of $80,000.00 be appropriated by transfer from available funds or surplus for the purpose of retaining the ser- vices of an architect to prepare plans, working drawings, and bid specifications for the construction of no more than a twenty-four (24) classroom addition to the West Elementary School and that the Town Manager be authorized to take all action neces- sary to carry out this vote.
A quorum was present. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to combine the expenditure of the funds appropriated under Article 11 of the Warrant for the March 6, 1965 Annual Town Meet- ing for the construction of a new police station and the funds appropriated under Article 16 of the Warrant for the March 11, 1967 Annual Town Meeting for the acquisi- tion of land and the construction of a new fire station in order to construct, originally equip, and furnish a combination police and fire station and vote to use the land authorized under said Article 16 for the site of the combined police and fire station.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 7 as printed in the War- rant for this Special Town Meeting. The Vote YES-266, NO-39 -- voted by more than 2/3 as required. Planning Board report on file with the Town Clerk. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
Before consideration of Article 8, a quorum was questioned and a count taken.
The Moderator announced there was no quorum present and therefore, Article 7 was never acted on.
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Mr. Harold King called for a point of order stating "This challenge took place after some people left this room after the affirmative vote and persons were seen leaving this room. I don't see how you can make a statement after the fact. "
The Moderator then stated "I am ruling that the point of order is well taken and that Article 7 was adopted."
Upon motion made by Mr. Bowen and duly seconded, it was VOTED to adjourn at 11:45 P. M.
Articles 8 through 19 were never acted upon.
The foregoing is a true record of the doings of the meeting.
ATTEST:
IRVING O. PIPER Town Clerk
Mark Perrault
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING NOVEMBER 13, 1967
Agreeably to a Warrant signed by the Selectmen, October 27, 1967 and a Supplemen- tary Warrant signed by the Selectmen, November 2, 1967, the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, qualified to vote in Town Affairs met and assembled in the Memorial Auditorium on Bartlet Street on Monday, the thirteenth day of November, 1967 at 8:00 P. M.
The meeting was called to order by Arthur Williams, Moderator, at 8:27 P. M.
Opening prayer was offered by Rev. Robert O. Gardiner, Rector of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Lawrence. Rev. Gardiner is a registered voter in Andover.
The Moderator called for a count and was informed by an election official that there were only 312 registered voters in the hall.
Since a quorum was not present, a motion was made and duly seconded to adjourn until Monday, November 20, 1967 at 8:00 P. M. in the Memorial Auditorium.
The foregoing is a true record of the doings of the meeting.
ATTEST:
IRVING O. PIPER Town Clerk
ADJOURNED SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
NOVEMBER 20, 1967
The meeting was called to order at 8:10 P. M. by Arthur Williams, Moderator, having been adjourned from Monday, November 13, 1967 due to lack of a quorum.
The check lists were used at the entrance and showed 355 voters admitted to the meeting at the start. A total of 622 voters were admitted during the evening.
Unanimous consent was voted to admit four non-voters to the meeting after said meeting had started.
Salute to the flag was led by Selectman William Stewart.
Voted to dispense with the reading of the warrant and the return of service of the Constable.
Voted that the Moderator refer to the articles by number instead of reading the article, and the person moving the article refer to it by number also.
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ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from available funds the sum of $5,000.00 for Personal Services and $15,000.00 for Other Expenses to defray the additional costs of snow removal and ice control for the balance of the 1967 fiscal year.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED under Article 1 that the sum of $5,000.00 for Personal Services and $15,000.00 for Other Expenses to defray the additional costs of Snow Removal be appropriated by transfer from Available Funds. This ar- ticle was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of $14,000.00 for interest on funded debt and temporary loans in anticipation of bond issues.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED under Article 2 that the sum of $14,000.00 be transferred from available funds for interest on funded debt and temporary loans in anticipation of bond issues. This article was approved by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $180,000.00 or any other sum for the purpose of the improvement of Rogers Brook and its tributaries and de- termine how the same shall be raised, whether by taxation, transfer, borrowing, or otherwise, and, if by borrowing, to authorize the issuance of bonds and notes of the Town and to take any action in connection with or incidental to the foregoing. (The vote under this Article shall supersede a vote for the same purpose adopted under Article 8 of the Warrant for the 1964 Annual Town Meeting) .
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED under Article 3 that the sum of $180 ,000.00 is appropriated for the improvement of Rogers Brook and its tributaries in that part of the Town from the west side of Main Street to the head wall on the east side of Whittier Street; that to meet the said appropriation the sum of $9,000.00 shall be transferred from available funds in the treasury and the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, is authorized to issue bonds or notes of the Town not exceeding in principal amount the sum of $171, 000.00 under and pursuant to General Laws, Chap- ter 44, Section 7, Clause 17; and that said sum so appropriated is to be expended by the State Department of Public Works as authorized by General Laws, Chap. 91, Sec- tion 29 and further that the foregoing vote shall supersede the vote adopted under Article 8 of the Warrant for the 1964 Annual Town Meeting. The Vote YES 442, NO 20- voted by more than 2/3 as required. This article was approved by the Finance Com- mittee. A report of the Andover Planning Board was read by James T. Trenholm, Secretary. A quorum was present.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way and name a por- tion of Suncrest Road, as approved by the Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen as shown on a plan entitled "Subdivision Plan, Andover, Mass., Jan. 1956, Scale 1"= 50', Robert and Anna White, Owners, A. R. Nicholson, C. E., 238 Oakland Ave. , Methuen, Mass.," said plan being recorded in the Essex North District Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 3218; plan and description for recording purposes filed with the Town Clerk.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 4 as printed. A report of the Andover Planning Board was read by James T. Trenholm, Secretary.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from available funds the sum of $1, 500.00 and to authorize the Town Manager to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to use said sum or any part thereof to defray deficits of the railroad resulting from providing commuter service from Andover to Boston.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated under Article 5, by transfer from Available Funds or Surplus and that the Town Mana- ger be authorized to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to use said sum or any part thereof to defray deficits of the railroad resulting from providing commuter service from Andover to Boston. This article was
approved by the Finance Committee.
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ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from available funds the sum of $28,800.00 for the purpose of installing a 12" water main with all necessary appurtenances from Bancroft Road across country through Town owned land to Holt Road.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the sum of $28,800.00 be appropriated under Article 6 by transfer from available funds for the purpose of installing a 12" water main with all necessary appurtenances from Bancroft Road across country through Town-owned land to Holt Road. This article was approved by the Finance Committee. A report of the Andover Planning Board was read by James T. Trenholm, Secretary.
At this point in the meeting, upon motion made by Town Counsel Fredric O'Brien and duly seconded, it was voted to take up the Supplementary Warrant.
SUPPLEMENTARY WARRANT
ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to approve the following item which will be presented by written ballot:
"Shall there be established, a water pollution abatement district, as recommended by the division of water pollution control and approved by the water resources commission, to include the City of Lawrence and the towns of Methuen, North Andover, and Andover, and the construc- tion, acquisition, extension, improvement, maintenance, and operation of a system of water pollution abatement facilities by the said dis- trict, in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-one of the General Laws. "
Article 1 was withdrawn.
ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to acquire, on behalf of the Town, by purchase, by gift, or by seizure by right of eminent do- main, temporary construction easements, and permanent easements for the placing of sewer and water lines in lands supposed to be owned by the following, and to authorize the expenditure therefor, of part of the monies appropriated by vote on Article 4 of the Warrant of the Special Town Meeting held August 21, 1967:
Assessors
Name
Town Map & Lot
Mary E. Rabenius
180
1
Robert D. & Pauline A. Mayo
180
2
Gordon P. Hall
181
2
Boston & Maine Railroad
159
2
Reichhold Chemicals Inc.
159
3
Reichhold Chemicals Inc.
159
4
Reichhold Chemicals Inc.
182
6
Reichhold Chemicals Inc.
182
7
Edy Tyzbin
183
12
Helen E. Walker
183
11
C. Lincoln Giles
117
10
C. Lincoln Giles
138
23C
Essex Sand & Gravel Co., Inc.
118
Shawsheen Rubber Co. Inc.
138
24
Shawsheen Rubber Co. Inc.
138
24A
Shawsheen Rubber Co. Inc.
138
25
Leslie & Valerie Trombly
139
153
Mary E. C. & Catherine A. Geagan
139
152
John & Lila C. Duke
139
151
Reichhold Chemicals Inc. Reichhold Chemicals Inc.
159
Joseph E. & Albert J. Frederick
183
10
99
William F. & Georgina Lane
139
150
Howard L. & Mary C. Colbath
139
149
Howard L. & Mary C. Colbath
139
148
Peter D. & Katherine M. Quinn
139
147
Henry J. & Mary W. Trow
139
146
James J. & Ann E. Eldred
140
53
Forrest J. Bussell
140
52
Robert Jr. & Elizabeth A. Mills
140
50
Raleigh D. Bright & Theodore Mikulewicz
140
49
Raleigh D. Bright & Theodore Mikulewicz
140
42
Raleigh D. Bright & Theodore Mikulewicz
140
40
Raleigh D. Bright & Theodore Mikulewicz
140
37
Ernest C. & Sarah N. MacDougall
140
48
Ernest C. & Sarah N. MacDougall
140
47
Olive M. Shaw
140
46
Michael & Katherine A. Thornton
140
45
John L. & Rose M. MacInnis
140
44
Marion H. Blair
140
43
James F. & Helen M. Fereira
140
41
Thomas H. & Violet Curtin
140
39
Marjorie L. Coombs & Agnes M. Grove
140
38
John R. & Richard M. Kazanjian )
159
12
Robert T. Sax & James V. Letters Jr.
159
12B
James K. & Hattie B. Nicoll
159
13
George Morey & John E. DeLoury
159
13A
Arthur E. Montigny
161
5
John & Richard M. Kazanjian
162
2
Philip F. & Helen G. Wormwood
160
8A
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED to accept Article 2 as printed in the warrant. The Vote YES 553, NO 6 -- voted by more than 2/3 as required. A quorum was present. A report of the Andover Planning Board was read by James T. Trenholm, Secretary.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 by transfer from available funds to Other Expenses, Department of Public Welfare, and to authorize the Town Manager to use this sum to lease office accommodations con- sistent with the needs of the Department of Public Welfare.
Upon motion duly seconded, it was VOTED that the Town rent office space for the Department of Public Welfare, using funds supplied by the Federal Government. The Vote YES 542, NO 3 -- voted by more than 2/3. A report of the Andover Planning Board was read by James T. Trenholm, Secretary
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from avail- able funds, the sum of $100,000.00 for the purpose of retaining the services of an architect to prepare preliminary plans, working drawings, and bid specifications for the remodeling and renovating of the Andover Junior High School.
Article 4 was moved by Dr. Galbiati and duly seconded.
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