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Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $13,650.00, said sum to be paid to the Water Department for Hydrant Service during 1951.
ARTICLE 17. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to appropriate from PARKING METER RESERVES for any lawful purpose, or take any action relative thereto .- No action necessary.
ARTICLE 18. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to have the parking meters removed from the Town and to raise and appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto .- No action.
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ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department, the sum of Three Hundred Dollars for the salaries of the Electric Light Commissioners. -No action necessary.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to include in the tax levy for electricity used for street lighting, the sum of Twelve Thousand ($12,000.00) Dollars as appropriated under Article 7 of the warrant for the year 1951 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 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 direction 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 neces- sary by the Municipal Light Board shall be transferred 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 paid into the surplus of the Town Treasury .- So voted.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate any sum or sums of money to be expended by the Board of Sewer Commissioners for the construction of sewers for sanitary purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $100,000.00 for the construction of additional sewers for sanitary purposes under the direction of the Sewer Commissioners and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $15,000.00 be taken from Sewer Receipts reserved for appropriation, $902.20 from sale of Real Estate Funds, $34,097.80 from available Funds in the Treasury and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than 10 years from the date of issue of the first bond or note, or at such earlier time as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine.
ARTICLE 22. 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 a parcel of land containing approximately ten thousand square feet on the easterly side of Howard Street, being a portion of the plot shown as Plot 2 on Assessors' Plan 3049, for a sewage pumping station, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $475.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Sewer Commis- sioners for the purchase for a sewage pumping station site, of land on the easterly side of Howard Street, being a portion of the southerly end of Plot 2 on Assessors' Plan 3049 and containing approximately 5,000 square feet of land.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to accept the regu- lations of the State Department of Public Health under Chapter 111 Section 128 General Laws relative to Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation .- So voted.
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ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer from available funds a sum of money for the purpose of chlorinating that portion of Sunset Lake comprising the bathing area during the summer of 1951 and designate the department which shall be responsible for such expenditure of such appropriation, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,700.00 to be expended under the direction of the Water Department for the purpose of chlorinating that portion of Sunset Lake com- prising the bathing area during the summer of 1951.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to amend Paragraph 1 Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law so that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as previously amended, be changed to provide that the "zoning" of the following described area be changed as follows: From Resi- dence B to Industrial-approximately 7,200 square feet of land on the easterly side of the main line to the New Haven Railroad and adjoining the Quincy City Line.
Voted : That Paragraph 1, Section 1, of the Zoning By-Law be amended so that the Zoning Map, dated May 2, 1940, as previously amended, be changed to provide that the "Zoning of the following described area be changed from Residence B to Industrial: A tract of land bounded on the west by land of the Old Colony Railroad; on the north by the Quincy city line; on the east by a private way; and on the south by land now or formerly owned by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston; this tract of land being plots num- bered 1 and 2 on Assessors' Plan 2068.
ARTICLE 26. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to be expended under the direction of the First Parish Cemetery Association for necessary repairs on the wall of the First Parish Cemetery, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted : That the sum of $500.00 be raised and appropriated to be expended under the direction of the First Parish Association for necessary repair of the wall of the First Parish Cemetery.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer from available funds, a sum of money in addition to that already appropriated at the 1950 Annual Town Meeting for the purpose of building, furnishing and equipping a new public library, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be appropriated the sum of $20,000.00 for the purpose of furnishing and equipping a new Public Library build- ing, the same to be added to the amount raised under Article 23 of the 1950 Annual Town Meeting, said sum to be raised by transfer from the Stabilization Fund and to be expended under the direction of the Braintree Library Building Committee.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to establish a Parks and Playgrounds Commission under the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 45, Section 14, as amended; to define its powers and duties; and to appropriate a sum of money for its use.
Voted : That a Board of Parks and Playgrounds Commissioners be established under the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 45, Section 14, as amended, which Board of Parks and Playgrounds Com- missioners shall consist of seven members, elected or appointed as follows: Three duly elected Park Commissioners as now provided for;
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one appointed by the Planning Board to serve a one year term; one appointed by the School Committee to serve a one year term, two appointed by the Moderator, one each year, each to serve a two year term. The Board of Parks and Playgrounds Commissioners shall have the care, custody and supervision of maintenance and use of all parks and playgrounds, including organized recreation and play, subject only to powers vested by law in the Park Commissioners, and that there be raised and appropriated for the use of such Commission the following sums :
Maintenance of Parks and Playgrounds
Precincts 1 & 2
$3,000.00
Precincts 3 & 4 3,000.00
Precincts 5 & 6
3,000.00
Supervision of Maintenance 500.00
Organized Play
5,000.00
$14,500.00
of which sum $500.00 shall be taken from the income of the Hollis Trust Fund.
ARTICLE 29. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of or taking by eminent domain of a parcel of land containing approximately twenty acres adjoining property of Braintree Golf Club, Inc., and located on Highland Avenue, Ellery Street, Rodney Street and Wash- ington Street, for the purpose of establishing thereon a "Public Play Ground."
Voted: That the subject matter of Article 29 be referred to the new Board of Parks and Playgrounds Commissioners.
ARTICLE 30. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for pumper connections to the sprinkler systems in various school buildings.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $3,600.00 for pumper connections to the sprinkler systems in various school buildings, said sum to be expended under the direction of the School Committee.
ARTICLE 31. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of constructing an addition to the Highlands School and for originally equipping same; determine how the money shall be provided for, by borrowing, by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the sum of $106,450.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing an addition to the Highlands School and for originally equipping and furnishing said addition, and to meet said appropriation the sum of $75,000.00 to be taken from available funds in the Treasury and the balance, $31,450.00 to be raised from the Tax Levy and that the so-called Low Cost School Housing Committee, advisory to the School Committee, be appointed and authorized to act for and in behalf of the Town with full power to employ architects, secure bids and let contracts in the name of the Town and to do all and any acts necessary to construct and equip said addition with the aforesaid appropriation.
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ARTICLE 32. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of constructing a two- classroom unit on the Penniman School grounds and for originally equipping same; determine how the money shall be provided for, by borrowing, by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, or take any action relative thereto,
Voted: That the sum of $68,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing an annex to the Penniman School at the present location thereof and for originally equipping and furnish- ing the same, and to meet said appropriation that the sum of $502.63 be appropriated from the Post War Rehabilitation Fund and that the balance of the appropriation be raised in the Tax Levy and that the so-called Low Cost School Housing Committee, advisory to the School Committee, be appointed and authorized to act for and in behalf of the Town with full power to employ architects, secure bids and let contracts in the name of the Town and to do all and any acts necessary to construct and equip said addition within the aforesaid appropriation.
ARTICLE 33. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the purpose of preparing working plans and securing bids for the construction of a new elementary school building at the Lakeside site, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the sum of $21,000.00 be raised and appropriated from available funds in the Treasury for the preparation of plans, specifications, drawings and reports toward the construction of a new elementary school at the Lakeside Site, under the direction of the so-called Low Cost School Housing Committee, advisory to the School Committee, which is hereby appointed and authorized to act for and in behalf of the Town with full power to employ architects, consultants, secure bids in the name of the Town and to do all and any acts neces- sary toward securing the above mentioned plans, specifications, draw- ings, reports and bids within the aforesaid appropriation and report to the Town at the 1952 Town Meeting or at a Special Town Meeting called earlier.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purpose of remodeling, reconstructing or repairing the Pond School; determine how the money shall be provided for, by borrowing, by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted : That the sum of $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of remodeling or reconstructing the Pond School Building and that the School Com- mittee be and hereby is authorized to act for and in behalf of the Town with full power to employ architects, secure bids, and let con- tracts in the name of the Town and to do all and any acts necessary to remodel or reconstruct said building within the aforesaid appro- priation.
ARTICLE 35. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the acquisition of a site or sites for future schools, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted : That the sum of $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated from available funds in the Treasury for the purchase or taking by
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eminent domain for school purposes, of a parcel of land at Braintree Highlands described substantially as follows: A portion of Lot 2 as shown on Assessors' Plan 1056 now owned by Annie L. and Thorndike Flye and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the northerly side line of said lot about 320 feet westerly from Washington Street; thence running by said northerly side line about 1055 feet; thence southwesterly by the line of the Old Colony Rail- road about 495 feet; thence easterly by the southerly line of said lot about 1185 feet to a point 490 feet distant from Washington Street; thence turning and running in a northerly direction 430 feet to the point of beginning: Containing about eleven acres, be all of said measurements more or less, together with a right of way for all purposes running from said lot to Washington Street 40 feet wide and adjoining the northerly boundary of Lot 28 as shown on said Assessors' Plan, together with lot of approximately 21/2 acres on the west side of the Old Colony Railroad right of way opposite the first lot but providing that no street or sidewalk assessments shall be levied against abutters on said right of way from Washington Street.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by inserting after Section V thereof a new section V (a) as follows: "Section V (a). No motor vehicle trailer shall be used as a residence within said Town for more than one week except with the authorization of the Board of Appeals."-No action.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to abandon any rights which it may have in an old driftway abutting the rear of Lot B-2 owned by Herbert A. Rowell on Union Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town abandon any rights it may have other than for drainage purposes in and to that portion of a driftway adjacent to and forming an extension of the rear of a lot on Union Street owned by Herbert A. Rowell et ux upon the payment of the sum of $1.00 for such abandonment.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 538 of the Acts of 1950, entitled, "AN ACT PROVIDING THAT CITIES AND TOWNS MAY MAKE TEMPORARY MINOR RE- PAIRS ON PRIVATE WAYS THEREIN IN CERTAIN CASES."- So voted.
ARTICLE 39. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, so-called, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $3,065.00 for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Highway Depart- ment.
ARTICLE 40. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for "Gypsy Moth" control, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,500.00 for "Gypsy Moth" control; $500.00 of said sum to be for salary of Moth Superintendent and $1,000.00 to be expended under the direction of said Superintendent in conjunction with Highway Department.
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ARTICLE 41. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the control of mosquitoes by Aerial Spraying, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the control of mosquitoes by Aerial Spraying, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Highway Department and to be raised by transfer from available funds in the Treasury.
ARTICLE 42. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds in addition to that already appropriated at the 1950 Annual Town Meeting, to cover or pipe the Smelt Brook in Weymouth Landing, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $4,000.00 which sum is in addition to that appropriated at the 1950 Town Meeting, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen for the covering and laying of pipe in the East Braintree town-owned parking area in Washington Square, but to be expended only on condition that the Town of Weymouth provides a similar sum for such work.'
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will accept a layout of the Selectmen by plan dated December 15, 1950 for the widening of Summer Street near the intersection with Washington Street and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase or taking of land required by said layout and the construction of said way, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town accept a layout of the Selectmen dated December 15, 1950, for the widening of Summer Street near its inter- section with Washington Street, authorize the taking or purchase of land required therefor and authorize the payment of the sum of $1.00 for said purchase or taking, the same to be paid from any land damage appropriation.
ARTICLE 44. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to provide a drain in King Hill Road in front of No. 119 King Hill Road westerly about 800 feet to connect with existing culvert and for the purchase or taking of lands necessary therefor, said drain to be by the Highway Department, or take any action relative thereto .- No action necessary.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a town way a street laid out by the Selectmen from Pearl Street to the intersection of Holbrook and French Avenues over land of the Old Colony Railroad and others and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase or taking of said lands by eminent domain and for the construction of said way, or take any action -relative thereto.
Voted : That the Town accept as and for a Town way a street as an extension of French Avenue to Pearl Street over land of the Old Colony Railroad and others, layout of which was approved by the Planning Board March 6, 1951, in accordance with Chapter 41, General Laws, Section 81 A-Y, said approved plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the purchase or taking of said land by eminent domain.
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ARTICLE 46. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a town way a portion of Vinedale Road from Pleasant View Avenue to Glenrose Avenue, as laid out by the Select -. men and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of same, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That Vinedale Road from Pleasant View Avenue to Glenrose Avenue, layout of which was approved by the Planning Board March 6, 1951, in accordance with Chapter 41, General Laws, Section A-Y, said approved plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $1,923.50 be raised and appropriated for the improvement of same and that better- ments be assessed to the extent of 66 2/3% of the cost of said improvement.
ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a town way Vinedale Road Ext., so-called, from Arborway Drive to Edgehill Road as laid out by the Selectmen and to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That Vinedale Road Extension, so-called, from Arborway Drive to Edgehill Road, layout of which was approved by the Planning Board March 6, 1951, in accordance with Chapter 41, General Laws Section 81 A-Y, said approved plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $1,300.00 be raised and appropriated for the improvement of same.
ARTICLE 48. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a town way, Glendale Road, for a distance of 329 feet off Pond Street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That Glendale Road for a distance of 329 feet off Pond Street, layout of which was approved by the Planning Board March 6, 1951, in accordance with Chapter 41 General Laws Section 81 A-Y, said approved plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $1,143.00 be raised and appropriated for the improvement of same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 66 2/3% of the cost of said improvement.
ARTICLE 49. ON PETITION. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the construction of sidewalks on both sides of Parkside Avenue under the Betterment Act, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the sum of $4,816.00 be raised and appropriated for the construction of a suitable sidewalk on both sides of Parkside Avenue, 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 abutting estates.
ARTICLE 50. ON PETITION. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from avail- able funds for the construction of sidewalks in the Shaw Street- Hayward Street Intersection Area, or take any action relative thereto. -No action.
ARTICLE 51. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to extend
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sidewalk on northerly side of Union Street approximately 80 feet easterly, or take any action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 52. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for clearing and widening channel of the Monatiquot River between Pearl and Union Streets, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to study the problem of the flow of the Monatiquot River with specific reference to the backing up of water in South Braintree and to report their recommendations to the next Town Meeting either Annual or Special inserting, if necessary, an Article in the Warrant for that meeting.
ARTICLE 53. To see if the Town will vote to sell a parcel of land being Plot No. 29 Lot Nos. 5 and 6 on Assessors' Plan 1078 to Mrs. Florence Mackenzie, or take any action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 54. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to establish a board of five selectmen and to fix the terms for which they shall serve .- No action.
ARTICLE 55. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to meet the payment of certain bills contracted prior to January 1, 1951, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted : That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,756.13 to meet the payment of certain unpaid bills dated prior to January 1, 1951.
ARTICLE 56. To see what sums of money, in addition to that appropriated under any other article, the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Land Damages.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $13,400.00 for Land Damages.
ARTICLE 57. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to appropriate for the purpose of the Stabilization Fund under the authority of Section 5B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto-No action.
ARTICLE 58. To see if the Town will vote to use all or part of the Post-War Rehabilitation Fund established under the authority of Section 1 of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943 to meet appropriations voted under any of the articles of this warrant for any purpose permitted by said Chapter 5 .- No action necessary.
ARTICLE 59. To see what disposition the Town will vote to make of the income of the Thayer Fund .- No action necessary.
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