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Now, Therefore, Be It
RESOLVED: That the Citizens of Braintree, in Town Meeting duly assembled, on the first day of April, 1946, hereby authorize, direct and empower the Selectmen of the Town of Braintree to prepare and present to the next of kin of each resident of our town who died while in the Armed Services during World War II an appropriate memorial relating to such sacrifice, suitably prepared for preservation as a permanent memorial in honor of such deceased veteran.
Voted: To adopt Mr. Iliffe's resolution. 7:55.
Mr. Palmer presented report of the Committee appointed by the Selectmen as authorized by vote of the Town under Article 65 of the
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1945 Annual Town Meeting, relative to a small local hospital to care for the Town's returning veterans. Report on file in Town Clerk's office.
Voted: Acceptance of report. 7:58.
Mr. Mower moved: That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to investigate the need for additional temporary housing facilities for veterans of World War II and the possibility and advisability of acquiring from the proper agency of the Federal Government for that purpose the Navy Barracks on Quincy Avenue and to determine the approximate cost to the Town of such acquisition, such committee to report at a subsequent Town Meeting.
So voted: 8:02.
Mr. Ripley moved: That a committee be named by the chair con- sisting of the appointed Long Range Planning Board together with the elected Braintree Planning Board to serve conscientiously and to seriously consider the need of a hospital in Braintree, either a tempo- rary restored and remodeled Infirmary or a new building on its site for Braintree citizens-also available when the need is urgent to our neighbors in Quincy and Weymouth who have responded so generously to our almost daily call-the name of the hospital to be the Braintree Peace Memorial Hospital, the appointed committee to report at the next annual town meeting.
So voted: 8:02.
Mr. Foley moved: That a Committee of six be appointed to select a site for the Colbert Public Library and be ready to recommend at the next Annual Town Meeting so as to be prepared to go ahead when the donation becomes available. The site to be located in Braintree Highlands, west, east, or north part of the town, and the moderator to be a member of this committee.
So voted: 8:05.
ARTICLE 26.
Voted: No action be taken under this article
ARTICLE 27.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be included in the tax levy for elec- tricity used for street lighting the sum of $8,500 as appropriated un- der Item 30 of Article 10 of the warrant for the 1946 Annual Town Meeting and that said sum, together with the income from sales of electricity to private consumers or for current supplied to municipal buildings or for municipal power and from the sales of appliances and jobbing during the current fiscal year, be appropriated for the use of the Municipal Light Plant, the whole to be expended under the direc- tion and control of the Municipal Light Board for repairs, renewals, new construction and operating expenses of the Plant for the fiscal year, as defined in Section 57, Chapter 164, General Laws, and that if said income shall exceed the expense for the fiscal year, such amount of excess as is deemed necessary by the Municipal Light Board shall be transfered to the construction fund of said plant and appropriated and shall be used for such additions to the plant as may thereafter be authorized by the Municipal Light Board, and any remaining amount shall be returned to the Town Treasury.
So voted: 8:06.
ARTICLE 28.
Mr. Young moved: That since the Building Committee appointed under Article 46 at the Annual Meeting in 1941 has become inactive by reason of the death, incapacity or resignations of all or substan-
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tially all of its members, the thanks of the Town to be extended to the former members of the committee for the services which they have rendered; that the resignations on file be accepted and the whole com- mittee relieved of its duties and a new committee of seven be appoint- ed by the Moderator to perform the functions of said committee and all other functions pertaining to the construction of an addition to the High School under this Article or similar articles at a subsequent meeting with a suggestion to the Moderator that there should be ap- pointed on that committee two members from the School Committee, one from the School Sports Council, Superintendent of Schools, one qualified Builder or Contractor and two members at large.
And further move that the committee appointed under this Article be instructed to examine at the earliest opportunity the plans sub- mitted under said Article 46 of the 1941 meeting and arrange for the modification of said plans to meet present standards and requirements as to adequacy for both scholastic and physical education, to obtain cost estimate for construction in accordance with the plans so modi- fied and report to a Special Town Meeting which shall be called not later than June 24, 1946.
So voted: 8:12.
ARTICLE 29.
Mr. Mower moved: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the Postwar Rehabilitation Committee.
So voted: 8:12.
ARTICLE 30.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,500, the same to be expended under the direction of the Select- men for the purpose of securing plans and specifications for a new Highway Department Garage.
So voted: 8:13.
ARTICLE 31.
Mr. Brooks offered the following resolution:
WHEREAS: The Department of Public Works of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts proposes to lay out and construct an Express Highway thru the North and East parts of the Town of Braintree, and:
WHEREAS: The construction of such highway under such layout as the said Department of Public Works has proposed would seriously depreciate values in its approximate vicinity and would eliminate from the assessment rolls of the Town of Braintree an unreasonably large valuation, and:
WHEREAS: The Town can offer a more advantageous route for a proposed layout which avoids to a great degree the confiscation of assessed values; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED: That the Town, thru its Town Meeting Members, in Town Meeting assembled, express its opposition to the construction of an Express Highway thru the North and East parts of the Town of Braintree under the layout as has been proposed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and, be it further
RESOLVED: That the Town Clerk of Braintree be instructed to cause this resolution to be spread upon the records of this Town Meet- ing and to send a copy thereof, in triplicate to the Commissioner of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and, to such other official or officials, as he may find might have cognizance in the matter.
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So voted: 8:15.
Mr. Mower moved: That Article 34 be taken up in conjunction with Article 32. Carried: 8:16.
ARTICLE 32.
Mr. Mower moved: That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to consider what action the Town should take relative to the pur- chase, lease or taking by eminent domain of land for a parking place in the vicinity of Norfolk Square in that part of the Town known as East Braintree, relative to the improvement of such parking place if purchased, leased or taken by eminent domain, and relative to the acceptance of a proposed gift from the Smelt Brook Merchants Asso- ciation as a contribution toward the improvement and maintenance of a parking place in the east part of Town, said committee to report to the next Annual or Special Town Meeting. Not carried.
Mr. Boynton moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $8200 for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of land off Quincy Avenue in the vicinity of Norfolk Square for a parking place.
Mr. Hunt moved as an amendment: That the amount to be raised and appropriated be $2000 instead of $8200.
Mr. Mower moved: That subject matter be laid on the table until after evening recess.
So voted: 8:36.
ARTICLE 33.
Voted: That Article 33 be referred to Highway Department.
ARTICLE 35.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $215 for the construc- tion of a drain from the middle of property at 121 Elliott Street to the Smelt Brook, approximately 50'.
ARTICLE 36.
Mr. Mower moved: That no action be taken under this Article.
Carried: 8:40
ARTICLE 37.
Mr. Mower moved: That Wayne Avenue from Logan Road to St. Michael Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $934.90 be appropriated for the improve- ment of the same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 662/3 % of the cost of said improvement. Unanimous vote: 8:41. ARTICLE 38.
Mr. Mower moved: That St. Michael Road to end, approximately 525' as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $1,572.75 be appropriated for improvement of the same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 662/3% of the cost of said improvement. Unanimous vote: 8:41.
ARTICLE 39.
Mr. Mower moved: That Torrey Road from Hoover Road to an end, approximately 350', as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $846.15 be appropriated for the improvement of the same and that betterments be assessed to the ex- tent of 662/3 per cent of the cost of said improvement. Unanimous vote: 8:42.
ARTICLE 40.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 41.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
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ARTICLE 42.
Mr. Mower moved: That Trefton Drive, 220' easterly from Vine- dale Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $587.50 be appropriated for the improvement of the same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 662/3 % of the cost of said improvement. Unanimous vote: 8:43.
ARTICLE 43.
Mr. Mower moved: That no action be taken under this article.
Mr. Crehan moved: That Newton Avenue, so-called, from present point of acceptance to Bickford Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $9,489 be appro- priated for the improvement of the same, and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 662/3% of the cost of said improvement.
Mr. Wells moved: That Newton Avenue, so called, from present point of acceptance to Bickford Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $9,489 be appropri- ated for the improvement of the same.
Mr. Wells' motion carried. 8:55.
Mr. Crehan's motion not carried. 8:55.
Mr. Mowers' motion not carried: 8:55. Moderator Cahill declared a recess at 8:55.
Meeting reconvened at 9:04.
Mr. Mower moved: That Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting be taken up at this time.
Carried: 9:06.
ARTICLE 1.
Mr. Mower moved: That, subject to the granting by Cities Service Oil Company of Pennsylvania of a license to use, without cost to the Town, the existing drain running through its property on Quincy Ave- nue, which drain begins at or near property now owned by John R. Parlee, 36 Harbor Villa Avenue, such license to provide in substance that the Town will hold Cities Service Oil Company harmless from all claims made against it for damage to property of others occasioned by the stoppage or blocking of said drain and to be in such form as is sat- isfactory to Town Counsel, the execution of which license is hereby authorized, Harbor Villa Avenue for a distance of approximately 508 feet from Quincy Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way, that the sum of $2,884.60 be appropriated for the improvement of the same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 662/3 per cent of the cost of said improvements. Unanimous vote: 9:12. ARTICLE 2.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 3.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 44.
Voted: No action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 45.
Voted: No action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 46.
Voted: No action be taken under this article.
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ARTICLE 47.
Mr. Mower moved: That the sum of $225 be raised and appropri- ated for the construction of a new sidewalk on Hawthorn Road from Home Park Road, a distance of 300' more or less to the north property line of 142 Hawthorn Road, said sum to be expended only if the Select- men in their order for said construction provide for the assessment of 50% of the cost thereof upon the abutting estates. Unanimous vote: 9:32.
ARTICE 48.
Mr. Mower moved: That the sum of $3,683.55 be raised and ap- propriated for the construction of a new sidewalk and curbing on the South side of Academy Street from Tremont to Washington Streets, said sum to be expended only if the Selectmen in their order for said construction provide for the assessment of 50% of the cost thereof upon the abutting estates.
Mr. Austerberry moved: That no action be taken under this article.
Mr. Austerberry's motion carried: 9:34.
Mr. Mower's motion not carried: 9:34.
ARTICLE 49.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 50.
Mr. Mower moved: That in addition to the sum of $3,000 appro- priated under Article 76 of the Warrant for the 1941 Annual Town Meeting there be raised and appropriated the sum of $2,000 for the purpose of constructing and maintaining during the current year toilet facilities at the bathing beach at Sunset Lake, the same to be raised from the Sale of Real Estate Funds Account, said facilities to be erect- ed under the direction of the Selectmen with the approval of the Water Commissioners.
So voted: 9:35.
ARTICLE 51.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,700 for the purpose of chlorinating that portion of Sunset Lake comprising the bathing area between June 1, 1946 and September 15, 1946, the same to be expended under the direction of the Water Com- missioners.
So voted: 9:35.
ARTICLE 52.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Mr. Stacy B. Southworth offered report of the Committee author- ized by the vote of the Town under Article 43 of the 1944 Annual Town Meeting.
Voted: That report be accepted and placed on file in Town Clerk's Office and that present committee continue and report at the next Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 53.
Voted: To refer Article 53 to Long Range Planning Committee.
ARTICLE 54.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
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ARTICLE 55.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 56.
Voted: To refer Article 56 to Long Range Planning Committee. ARTICLE 57.
Voted: To refer Article 57 to Long Range Planning Committee.
Mr. Mower moved: That Articles 32 and 34 be taken from the table. Carried.
ARTICLE 32.
Mr. Boynton withdrew his original motion.
Mr. Boynton moved: That the sum of $8,200 be raised and appro- priated for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of land in the vicinity of Norfolk Square for a parking place, that the proposed gift of $1,000 from the Smelt Brooks Merchants' Association be accepted and that said sum of $1,000 be specifically appropriated together with $1,317.50 from the tax levy for the improvement of such parking space.
So voted: 9:55.
Moderator Cahill declared a recess at 9:55.
Meeting reconvened at 10:04.
ARTICLE 58.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be appropriated the sum of $40,000 for the purpose of creating a Stabilization Fund in accordance with Section 5B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, the same to be raised by transfer from available funds in the Treasury.
So voted: 10:08.
ARTICLE 59.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 60.
Mr. Mower moved: That the sum of $109.43 be raised and appro- priated to meet the payment of certain bills contracted prior to January 1, 1946:
Town Infirmary $ 25.53
Soldiers' Relief 56.87
School Department 27.03
$109.43
So voted: 10:09.
ARTICLE 61.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 63.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 65.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 66.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 67.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $200 for the purpose of repairing the present Shaw Street Dam
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over the Monatiquot River, the same to be expended under the direc- tion of the Highway Department.
So voted: 10:13.
ARTICLE 68:
Mr. Mower moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $9,975 for the purpose of building a bulkhead and a public landing on the north side of the Weymouth Fore River for approxi- mately 287' easterly from the Quincy Avenue Bridge, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Park Commissioners, the same to be raised from the sale of Real Estate Funds account.
So voted: 10:14.
ARTICLE 69.
Mr. Mower moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,750 for the development of Swift's Beach, so-called, at the foot of Edgehill Road by excavating along the beach, filling with sand, the construction of curbing at the end of Edgehill Road and the installation of a bubbler, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Highway Department.
So voted: 10:14.
ARTICLE 70.
Mr. Mower moved: That the sum of $200 be raised and appro- priated for providing a lifeguard for Swift's Beach.
So voted: 10:20.
ARTICLE 71.
Mr. Mower moved: That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to look into the possibility of an airport to be located in Brain- tree; said committee to report to the next Annual Town Meeting with recommendation.
Mr. Foley moved: That the sum of $100 be appropriated to provide airplane transportation to aid committee.
Mr. Kingsbury moved: That the sum of $100 be appropriated to obtain expert advice.
Mr. Kingsbury's motion not carried.
Mr. Foley's motion not carried.
Original motion as offered by Mr. Mower carried.
ARTICLE 72.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 73.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
ARTICLE 74.
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Appropriations to be raised by taxation $1,238,742.47 Appropriations not in tax levy 615,525.85
Total appropriations $1,854,268.32 Meeting adjourned at 10:25.
A true copy, Attest:
ERNEST C. WOODSUM,
Town Clerk
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Warrant for Special Town Meeting COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree Greetings:
You are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants qualified to vote as Town Meeting Members, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the twenty-fourth of June, 1946, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely:
ARTICLE 1. To hear and act upon the report of the several boards of Town Officers, and committees, and choose any committee the Town may think proper.
ARTICLE 2. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of installing a new boiler in the Hollis School.
ARTICLE 3. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to cover the necessary emergency expenditures for changes in the school buildings and for auxiliary lighting as required by the State Department of Public Safety.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the unex- pended balance in the "Hollis School Grounds Account" to the "School Maintenance Account" for expenditure for the improvement of other school grounds.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of approximately 24,030 square feet of land on Allen Street to be used for the enlargement and extension of the Electric Light Plant or appropriate such sum from the revenue of the Electric Light Department or other available funds.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to convey to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a piece of land in that part of the Town known as South Braintree being a lot acquired through a tax sale of land of low value and designated as Plot 14, Plan 1050.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 4B of Chapter 136 of the General Laws as inserted by Section 3 of Chapter 207 of the Acts of 1946 which section provides in substance that upon its acceptance the Selectmen may grant licenses for the operation of bowling alleys on the Lord's Day between the hours of 1 and 11 P M.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen in its behalf to sell two parcels of land on Liberty Park Avenue with a total frontage not exceeding 50 feet which parcels are now part of the Town Forest and authorize said Selectmen to sign, seal, execute and deliver in behalf of the Town a good and sufficient deed to said land.
ARTICLE 9. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of a highway drain at the lower end or from the lower end of Beech and Magnolia Streets and for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for easement or easements in land if such easement or easements shall be reasonably necessary for the carrying out of this purpose.
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ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Home Park Road from Cedar Street to Hawthorn Road; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Williams Street from the Weymouth Line to Sterling Park; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Sterling Park from the Weymouth Line to Elliott Street; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk on Grove and Plain Streets from Plain Street Crossing to Liberty Street, or , take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance and Construction, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for highway purposes of land in the Harbor Villa Section, so-called, in the vicinity of Swift's Beach and at or near the junction of Vinedale, Beechwood and Edgehill Roads or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for installing hospital equipment and hospi- tal beds at the Town Infirmary or what action, if any, the Town will take with respect to establishment of a small hospital.
ARTICLE 17. To see what additional sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for playground purposes or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to revoke any further or existing right created by the vote taken under Article 46 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1941 authorizing the borrowing of $240,000 for the purpose of constructing an addition to the High School or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum or sums of money for the purpose of con- structing, furnishing, and equipping an addition to the High School, for the making of additions, alterations and repairs to the present building and for the construction of an annex to said school at the present location thereof and to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow all, or any part of said sums, in accordance with the provisions of any general or special acts authorizing the Town to borrow for said purpose, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain land approximately at the foot of Edgehill Road and in the vicinity of
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Swift's Beach and said to belong to C. Earle Bestick for park purposes or take any other action relative thereto.
You are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof in one or more public places in each Voting Precinct in said Town of Braintree, ten days at least before said twenty-fourth day of June, 1946, and by publishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in the Observer, the first publication to be at least eight days before said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereto to the Town Clerk, before said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree, this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
JOHN W. MAHAR, Chairman RAYMOND P. PALMER, Clerk HENRY D. HIGGINS Selectmen, Town of Braintree
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