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Park Avenue, Extension of Sidewalk for a dis- tance of 150 feet
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Standish Avenue, Southerly Side, Extension from Present Walk to Arbutus Avenue, Around Arbutus to Massachusetts Avenue. . None Standish Avenue, Southerly Side-100 feet .. None Arbutus Avenue, Northerly Side-100 feet .... None Motion of Mr. Pinault to adjourn at 10.13 P. M., until 7.45 P. M., Monday, March 18, 1929, carried.
A true record. Attest :
March 18, 1929.
The meeting was called to order at 7.45 P. M. by Moderator Rogers.
On motion of Mr. Aitken, the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with.
Mr. Pinault gave notice of reconsideration of action taken under Article 34.
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On motion of Mr. Lakin, Article 34 was considered without delay-items 1, 2 and 4.
Motion of Mr. Pinault, to reconsider item 1 under Article 34, not a vote.
Motion of Mr. Pinault, to reconsider item 2 under Article 34, not a vote.
Motion of Mr. Pinault, to reconsider item 4 under Article 34, not a vote.
Mr. Miller called attention to item 4, Article 34, stat- ing that the recommendation book provided for a cement curbing, and it was intended to be a grass curbing. The change was accordingly authorized.
Article 35. Substitute motion, made by Mr. Hyman, that the sum of $2,399.40 be appropriated for repairing and rebuilding Abbott Street, 575 feet west of Storrs Avenue, carried.
Park Street Extension, from Cedar Street to Hawthorne Road-rebuild and repair . . . . $ 650.00 Vine Street Extension, from Myrtle Street to the
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co .- repair and re- build 200.00
Article 36.
Pond Street, from Granite to Randolph Line ... 2,778.00 Pond Street, from Farm River Bridge to Town Street 2,111.00
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Pond Street, from Glendale Road to Town Street Summer Avenue, from Elmwood Avenue to Hollingsworth Boulevard-Resurfacing .. 980.00 Waldron Road, from Washington Street to Beals Road-Resurfacing 1,960.00 Liberty Street, from Peach to Division Street Resurfacing 5,040.00
($3,000.00 to be taken from E. & D. Fund.)
Division Street Square-Resurface and Shape Up 300.00
Junction of Washington and Pond Streets- Reconstruction 1,420.00
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Boscobel Street-Resurfacing None
Article 37.
Middle Street from Union to Liberty Street- Repair and Rebuild $2,000.00 Shaw Street, from Allen to Nelson Street- Resurfacing 500.00
Union Street, from Liberty Street, 1,200 feet West-Repair and Rebuild-on motion of Mr. Colbert, this item was indefinitely post- poned
Pleasant View Avenue, 1,400 feet from Quincy Avenue-Resurfacing 3,640.50 (Reconsideration of action taken under item 3, Article 37, asked for, but the motion did not prevail.) Article 38.
Washington Street, from Sampson Avenue and Sherbrooke Avenue 678.00
Mt. Vernon Avenue, from Washington to Mt. Vernon Street 2,216.25
Park Street Extension, from Cedar Street and Hawthorne Road 696.00
Hawthorne Road, near Thorndike Street 167.50
Tremont Street, from No. 333 Tremont Street. . 400.00
Article 39.
Commercial Street, from Hayward to Adams and Monatiquot River . . 5,301.00
($3,000.00 to be taken from E. & D. Fund.)
Howard Street, from Howard to Shaw, Culvert 1,582.50 Edgehill Road, from rear of Edgehill Road to Monatiquot River 540.00
Sterling Street None
Article 40.
Voted to raise and appropriate for drainage on Hollingsworth Avenue from Norton Street to Franklin Street 2,317.00
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Article 41.
Voted to raise and appropriate to open up the brook from Hollis Avenue to Common Street and put in the necessary pipe to take care of the flow of water
750.00
Article 42.
Voted to instruct the Selectmen to take by emi- nent domain, for highway purposes, land at the southerly corner of Hawthorn Road and Elm Street
250.00
Article 43.
Voted to instruct the Selectmen to take by emin- ent domain, for highway purposes, land at the easterly corner of Tremont Street and West Street
100.00
Article 44.
Referred to the next Annual Town Meeting. To instruct the Selectmen to make their report at the next Annual Town Meeting. Article 45.
Voted to accept the layout as made by the Selectmen for a proposed street from Centre Street to Independence Avenue, and also to take necessary land by eminent domain for the proposed street, and raise and appro- priate for that purpose the sum of 100.00
Article 46. To instruct the Selectmen to have plans made for a proposed widening of Hayword Street from Commercial Street to North Bowditch Street.
Article 47. No action.
Article 48. Voted to accept as a town way Judson Street, so-called, 430 feet west from Oak Street Exten- sion, so-called, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 49. Voted, to accept as a town way Wilmarth Road, so-called, running northerly approximately 137 feet from the present accepted portion, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen.
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Article 50. Voted to accept as a town way Thompson Road, so-called, 200 feet north from Commercial Street, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 51. Motion of Mr. Avery (substitute motion) that Edgehill Road Extension, so-called, from Argyle Road to Vinedale Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as a town way (accepted from Edgehill Road to the shore) not a vote. On motion of Mr. Fitzgerald, it was voted that this matter be referred to the Appropria- tion Committee for investigation and further advice before the adjournment of this Annual Meeting.
Article 52. Voted to accept as a town way Elmlawn Road Extension, so-called, 455 feet north from present accepted portion, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 53. Laid on the table, on motion of Mr. Neal, until after Article 62 had been disposed of.
Article 54. Motion of Mr. Pinault that this Article be taken care of by a committee of three, to be appointed by the Moderator, to make a report at the next Annual Town Meeting, for the advisability of purchasing traffic lights similar to those now used in Quincy, not a vote. No action taken.
Article 55. Voted to accept as a town way Brow Avenue, so-called, from Academy Street to Tremont Street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appro- priate a sum of money, namely $9,443.70, for the improve- ment of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of 66 2/3 betterments, or otherwise. ($5,000.00 to be taken from E. & D. Fund.) (ON PETITION.)
Article 56. Voted to accept as a town way Marshall Street, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money, namely $8,115.00, for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessments of 66 2/3
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betterments, or otherwise. ($5,000.00 to be taken from E. & D. Fund.) (ON PETITION.)
Article 57. Voted to accept as a town way Bickford Road, from No. 45 to 75, as laid out by the Selectmen, raise and appropriate a sum of money, namely $2,172.50, for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of 66 2/3 betterments, or otherwise.
Article 58. (ON PETITION.)
Article 58. Voted to accept as a town way Burroughs Road, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money, namely $2,624.00, for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law, authorizing the assessment of 66 2/3 betterments, or otherwise. (ON PETITION.)
Article 59. Referred to the next Annual Town Meet- ing.
Article 60. Voted to accept as a town way Staten Road, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, namely $4,280.00, to be expended under the pro- visions of law authorizing the assessment of 66 2/3 bet- terments, or otherwise. (ON PETITION.)
Article 61. Voted, to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,609.00 to construct a sidewalk on the easterly side of Quincy Avenue, between Hayward Street and Dewey Road, to be expended under the provisions of law author- izing the assessment of 66 2/3 betterments, or otherwise. (ON PETITION.)
Article 62. On motion of Mr. Neal, it was voted to accept as a town way Oak Street Extension, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate the sum of $3,105.00 for the improvement of said way to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of 66 2/3 betterments, or otherwise. (ON PETITION.)
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Article 63. Motion of Mr. Neal, to raise and appro- priate the sum of $4,501.00 for the improvement of Bowers Road and the acceptance of the same, under the betterments act, not a vote. Matter referred to next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 64. Motion of Mr. Vinton to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,936.75 to be expended on Walnut Street Extension, so-called, under the betterments act ($1,998.92 to be taken from the E. & D. Fund and $3,937.83 to be paid by the abuttors) not a vote. Matter referred to next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 65. Referred to next Annual Town Meeting. Article 66. Referred to next Annual Town Meeting. Article 67. Referred to next Annual Town Meeting. Article 68. No action.
Article 69. Referred to next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 70. Voted to accept as a town way Oakland Road, so-called, from Cotton Avenue, so-called, to Quincy Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen.
Article 71a. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Liberty Street, so-called, from Peach to Division Street.
The Moderator called to the attention of the voters the fact that Wednesday, March 20, 1929, would be the 86th birthday of our former highly esteemed Town Clerk, Henry A. Monk, and suggested that the meeting manifest their appreciation of his long and faithful service and wish him many happy returns of the day by rising. This was done, and Mr. Monk responded with a few timely remarks.
Mrs. Silver moved reconsideration of the action taken under Article 64. Not a vote.
Reconsideration of action taken under Article 51 asked for, but this matter had already been referred to the Finance Committee for their report before an ad- journment of this meeting.
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Article 71b. Voted to accept as a town way Gross- man Road, so-called, from Cleveland Avenue 450 feet east, as laid out by the Selectmen.
Mr. Neal moves Article 53 be taken from the table. This was at first voted down, but Mr. Lakin moved that Mr. Aitken be given the unanimous consent to state his question on the matter and it was voted Article 53 be taken from the table and considered at this time. It was then voted that Oak Street Extension be accepted.
Motion of Mr. Fitzgerald that the meeting adjourn, not carried.
Article 72. Voted to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Thayer Public Library, for the distribu- tion of books, and for the services of a Janitor, the follow- ing :
General Expense $8,130.00
Janitor 300.00
Article 73. Voted to raise and appropriate to be ex- pended on Parks, Playgrounds and Public Lands of the Town, under the direction of the Park Commissioners, the following :
On substitute motion of Mr. Hollis this amount was raised to $1,734.00 instead of the original amount of $1,450.00.
Article 74. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $900.00 to defray the expense of organized play.
On motion of Mr. Arnold the meeting adjourned until Monday, March 25, 1929, at 7.45 P. M. (Time of adjourn- ment, 10:25 P. M.)
A true record. Attest :
Town Clerk.
March 25, 1929.
The adjourned Town Meeting was called to order at 7.45 P. M. by Moderator Rogers.
On motion of Mr. Aitken it was voted to take Article 51 from the table. Mr. Aitken then moved further that there be no action taken under this Article. Mr. Dorman
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offered as a substitute motion that the town accept as a town way Edge Hill Road, Extension, so-called, from a point opposite No. 186. After a lengthy discussion, it was voted to take no action under this Article.
Motion then offered by Mr. Aitken, under Article 5, that the annual budgets of all departments of the town shall be completed and in the hands of the Finance Com- mittee for their consideration not later than the first day of January annually. Mr. Lakin moved as an amendment "and the report of the Finance Committee shall be in the hands of the voters of the town at least one week prior to the town meeting. This amendment was accepted. Be- fore action was then taken on the amendment Mr. Aitken stated that if the amendment was voted upon favorably, he wished to change his motion to read not later than the first day of January annually, so that the whole motion would read "The annual budgets of all departments of the town shall be completed and in the hands of the Finance Committee for their consideration, not later than the first day of January, annually." This change was so recorded. Action was then taken on Mr. Lakin's amendment, and it was so voted. Action was then taken on Mr. Aitken's mo- tion and it was declared not a vote.
Mr. Fitzgerald then offered the following motion and it was so voted. That a committee of one consisting of the Town Clerk be appointed to transmit to the Finance Committee the following :
RESOLUTION
Whereas-Section 60, Chapter 41, of the General Laws requires Finance Committees to accompany their recommendations with reference to appropriations with explanations and suggestions for the proper information of the inhabitants, and
Whereas-The present form employed by the town's Finance Committee in submitting their recommendations does not sufficiently or properly inform the inhabitants within the intent of the law, and
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Whereas-The Selectmen are required by Section 60, Chapter 41, of the General Laws to print as a document the recommendations of the Finance Committee and dis- tribute the same at or before the Annual Town Meeting, and
Whereas-Such document has heretofore been dis- tributed only at or during the business session of the Annual Town Meeting thus giving the citizens little or no opportunity for proper consideration and study of the document, be it therefore
Resolved-That the Finance Commttee be and is hereby instructed to do each and all of the following in submitting future reports :
A-Comply with the intent of the law with regard to properly informing the inhabitants by explanation or sug- gestion regarding their recommendations.
B-Report in full all budgets as submitted to them in accordance with Section 59, Chapter 41, of the General Laws.
C-Conspicuously report any recommendations made for the increase of the salaried personnel of any depart- ment of the town, and the amount they recommend be ap- propriated for such increase.
D-Accompany any recommendation expressed in any form of disapproval with an explanation for such recommendation.
E-Submit their report to the Selectmen in sufficient time to admit of its distribution at the various voting pre- cincts of the town at the election of town officers which is the first session of the Annual Town Meeting.
Mr. Dorman moved reconsideration of the action taken under this resolution, but it did not prevail.
Notice was given of reconsideration of action taken under Article 51, but it did not prevail.
Article 75. Voted to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department the sum of $17,162.34 for Depreciation Fund; the sum of $300.00 for the salaries of
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the Municipal Light Board; the sum of $10,200.00 for Bonds and Interest; and the balance, together with the unexpended balance of $2,873.71 of the year 1928 for operating expenses, renewals, repairs and new construc- tion.
Article 76. No action necessary, regarding the in- stallation of electric lights on Granite Street from Five Corners to the Braintree-Quincy Line. .
Article 77. Voted to appropriate from the income of the Water Department the sum of $300.00 for salaries of the Water Commissioners ; the sum of $6,600.00 for Bonds and Interest; and the balance, together with the unex- pended balance, for operating expenses, extensions, re- newals, repairs, new construction and expenses of said department.
Article 78. Voted to raise and appropriate for the support of the public schools, the following amounts :
For Teachers' Salaries $197,320.00
For General Expenses, Including
Repairs to Buildings 87,436.00
Article 79. Mr. Aitken moved and it was unani- mously voted that the town raise and appropriate $100,- 000.00 for the purpose of constructing an addition to the Abraham Lincoln School in Precinct Three including the cost of original equipment and furnishings of such addi- tion, the said addition to include an Assembly Hall and to increase the floor space of the said School and to meet the said appropriation there shall be assessed and included in the tax levy of the current year the sum of $10,000.00 and to raise the remainder of the said appropriation the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is hereby authorized to issue and sell bonds of the town in the principal sum of $90,000.00 in accordance with Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended. Mr. Aitken further moved that the Moderator is hereby authorized to choose from the voters of the town a committee of six to have charge of the construction of the said addition to the
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Abraham Lincoln School for which an appropriation has this day been voted. And this was so voted.
Mr. Pinault suggested that the School Committee be the whole of this committee.
Article 80. Mr. Aitken moved, and it was so voted, that the town raise and appropriate the sum of $140,- 000.00 for the purpose of constructing a grade school building in that part of South Braintree known as Brain- tree Highlands including the cost of original equipment and furnishings of the said building and to meet the said appropriation there shall be assessed and included in the tax levy of the current year the sum of $18,500.00 and to raise the remainder of the said appropriation the Treas- urer with the approval of the Selectmen is hereby author- ized to issue and sell bonds of the town in the principal sum of $121,500.00 in accordance with Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended. Mr. Arnold's motion that all action under this Article be indefinitely postponed was not carried.
Action was then taken on the original motion and it was so voted.
Mr. Higgins then moved reconsideration, but it was not carried. It was further voted, on motion of Mr. Aitken, that the Moderator is hereby authorized to choose from the voters of the town a committee of six to have charge of the construction of the grade school building in that part of South Braintree known as Braintree High- lands for which an appropriation has this day been voted.
Article 81. Voted to lay out as a town way and con- struct the same, including the laying of water mains, an extension of Arbutus Avenue from Standish Avenue to Wildwood Avenue, and also Wildwood and Roulston Ave- nues, so-called, from Arbutus Avenue to Liberty Park Avenue, also Liberty Park Avenue from Roulston Avenue to Liberty Street, as per plan drawn by George H. Wether- bee, Jr., July, 1927, in accordance with Land Court in- structions, for the purpose of giving access to the school
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site purchased by vote of the town for the accommodation of the Braintree Highlands section and the amount to be expended not to exceed $31,875.00.
On motion of Mr. Pinault it was further voted that any amount in excess of this $31,875.00 be paid for by assessment of betterments or otherwise.
Mr. Higgins moved reconsideration of this action, and it was not a vote.
Voted that the Building Committee be instructed to construct the Braintree Highlands School on the "Popple Island" site.
Article 82. No action taken.
Mr. Arnold's motion that the meeting now adjourn (10.45) not a vote.
Mr. Arnold (H. F.) moved reconsideration of action taken under Article 82. So voted.
Mr. Arnold explained that the Sites Committee had been continued for another year at the Annual Meeting of 1928, and moved that the said committee be now dis- charged. To which motion was added the words "with thanks". So voted.
Article 83. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $875.00 for the care and protection of the Plain Street Cemetery and for the laying out and grading of lots in said cemetery.
Article 84. On motion of Mr. Ryan it was voted that the town raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the salary of a superintendent of the Plain Street Cemetery.
Article 85. On motion of Mr. Vinton all action under this Article was indefinitely postponed.
Article 86. Voted to raise and appropriate the fol- lowing sums of money for the payments due on Municipal Indebtedness, and for the payment of interest on town debt, and on loans in anticipation of revenue.
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Appropriated the sum of $68,000.00 Plus premiums for the payment of debt as follows :
Town Hall .$2,000.00
Norfolk County Hospital 1,000.00
Schools . 48,000.00
Highways 17,000.00
$68,000.00
The bonds and interest of the Water Department are provided for under Article 75.
The bonds and interests of the Electric Light Depart- ment are provided for under Article 77.
Voted that the sum of $40,840.00 be raised and ap- propriated for the payment of interest as follows :
Town Hall $ 280.00
Norfolk County Hospital 315.00
Schools 22,525.00
Highways
2,720.00
Anticipation of Revenue
15,000.00
$40,840.00
Article 87. Voted, on motion of Mr. Ellsworth, that the Zoning Committee be instructed to study further and revise as it deems necessary the Zoning By-Laws recom- mended in its report to the Annual Town Meeting of 1926 and report upon the same at the next Annual Town Meet- ing. (Mr. Cain informed the Moderator that a vacancy existed in the said Zoning Committee.)
Article 88. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,650.00 for Miscellaneous expenses.
Article 89. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the insurance under the Employees' Com- pensation Act.
Article 90. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,533.95 to pay premiums on insurance policies of fire and liability.
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Article 91. Voted, on motion of Mr. Aitken, that the Selectmen be, and hereby are instructed to report at the next Annual Town Meeting as to the advisability of the town establishing a Town Engineering Department. Voted to appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 for Engineer- ing. (To be taken from the E. & D. Fund.)
Article 92. Voted to appropriate the sum of $2,- 139.50 for Land Damages resulting from the taking of any land. (This amount to be taken from E. & D. Fund.).
Article 93. Motion of Mr. Anderson that a commit- tee consisting of the three Selectmen and four citizens to be appointed by the Moderator be and hereby is author- ized and instructed to petition the legislature for the en- actment of such legislation as will enable the town to operate under a form of Representative Town Meeting; the question of the acceptance of said legislation after its enactment to be submitted to the voters of the town for their vote thereon by ballot at a regular election subse- quently held within the town. Not a vote. Action under this Article indefinitely postponed, on motion of Mr. Ryan.
Motion to adjourn (11.35) not a vote.
Article 94. Voted to authorize the construction of a suitable vault for storage purposes in the Town Hall and to raise and appropriate for this purpose the sum of $500.00 to be installed under supervision of Town Treas- urer.
Article 95. Voted to accept the legacy given to the town in the Will of Emma F. Thayer, upon the terms and for the purposes set forth in said Will.
Article 96. Voted to raise and appropriate a sum of money to assist Post 87, G. A. R., Braintree Post 86, American Legion, in defraying expenses of Memorial Day, as follows :
Post 87, G. A. R. $200.00
Braintree Post 86, American Legion 200.00
Total of $400.00
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Article 97. Recommendation of the Finance Commit- tee that all action under this Article be indefinitely post- poned not a vote. Mr. Cashen's substitute motion carried. Said motion is as follows: That there be raised and ap- propriated the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) to be expended for the celebration of the fourth day of July said expenditure and celebration to be under the direction of the following committee of three which committee is hereby appointed: Louis F. Cashen, Reginald P. Fitz- gerald and George H. Kilman. So voted.
Under Article 5, Mr. Anderson offered the following motion and it was so voted : That a committee of four be appointed by the Moderator to report to the next Annual Meeting a form of legislative enactment such as will en- able the town to operate under a form of Representative Town Meeting.
Article 98. No action.
Article 99. Original recommendation of the Finance Committee not a vote. Substitute motion of Mr. Avery's, that the Selectmen be instructed to request the State De- parment of Public Accounts to revise the system and make all the necessary recommendations, carried.
Under Article 5, Mr. Aitken, Jr., moved and it was so voted that the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed to turn off the traffic lights at the junction of Union, Liberty and Commercial Streets, East Braintree, and replace same with a dummy policeman or other approved safety device.
'Article 100. Voted to raise and appropriate in ac- cordance with Chapter 40, Section 6, of the General Laws, as a Reserve Fund, the sum of $6,000.00.
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