Town annual report of Chelmsford 1944, Part 13

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Publication date: 1944
Publisher: Town of Chelmsford
Number of Pages: 190


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1,000.00


1,000.00


1,000.00


Publie Welfare Dept., Clerk's Salary ...


520.00


520.00


520.00


Public Welfare Dept., Maintenance ... ...


200.00


200.00


171.54


28.46


Public Welfare Dept., Outside Relief ...


12,500.00


49.00


12,549.00


12,478.79


70.21


6,500.00


6,500.00


5,913.69


586.31


Public Welfare Dept.,Aid to Dep. Childn Old Age Assistance Relief. .


59,000.00


264.39


59,264.39


54,182.43


5,081.96


Old Age Assistance, Agent's Salary .....


1,200.00


1,200.00


780.41


419.59


Old Age Assistance, Clerk's Salary ... ..


580.00


580.00


491.73


88.27


Old Age Assistance, Maintenance.


100.00


100.00


80.37


19.63


Soldiers' Benefits ..


3,000.00


60.00


3,060.00


2,821.10


238.90


$ 84,925.00


$ 373.39


$85,298.39


$78,765.06


$6,533.33


.


165


Appro- Priations


Transfers Additions Refunds


Total


Expended


Balance


SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES:


School Dept., Administration.


3,875.00


3,875.00


$ 3,839.36


35.64


School Dept., Instruction ..


100,780.00


100,780.00


94,628.29


6,151.71


School Dept., Janitors' Salaries ..


13,860.00


13,860.00


13,693.15


166.85


School Dept., Operation & Maintenance ..


13,425.00


13,425.00


13,171.74


253.26


School Dept., Auxiliary Agencies ..


12,350.00


12,350.00


12,288.55


61.45


School Dept., Care of Playgrounds ..


500.00


500.00


456.74


43.26


School Dept., Vocational Schools.


800.00


1,390.51


2,190.51


1,4,51.90


738.61


New Equipment ...


200.00


200.00


200.00


School Dept., Retirement System.


.


289.00


289.00


289.00


Adams Library ..


2,440.00


2,4110.00


2,425.69


14.31


North Chelmsford Library.


1,200.00


1,200.00


1,200.00


$149,719.00


$1,390.51


$151,109.51


$143,644.42


$7,465.09


RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED:


Park Department ..


$ 1,000.00


1,000.00


$ 754.412


245.58


Care of Varney Playground ..


600.00


45.00


645.00


644.98


.02


Repairs to Varney Playground ..


400.00


400.00


390.11


9.89


Memorial Day ..


...


400.00


400.00


399.48


.52


Town Clock ..


175.00


175.00


104.67


70.33


Painting Town Clock.


100.00


100.00


100.00


Insurance of Public Buildings ..


2,000.00


146.4


2,146.44


2,146.144


Treasurer's Bond, Ins. Sinking Fund.


50.00


50.00


50.00


Town Reports ..


710.40


5.65


716.05


716.05


Unpaid Bills 1943 ..


2,174.30


2,174.30


2,123.80


50.50


Mdx. County Sanatorium, Maint.


2,437.12


2,427.12


2,437.12


Rental of Kidder's Garage


900.00


900.00


900.00


Constable. .


48.00


48.00


24.00


211.00


Rent for American Legion, Post 212.


300.00


300.00


300.00


Dog Officer's Fees.


75.00


75.00


11.00


64.00


Claims for Personal Injuries ...


500.00


559.97


116.50


443.47


Civilian Defense.


510.12


328.51


181.61


Rationing Board.


300.00


300.00


222.45


77.55


·


.


·


.


·


.


.


59.97 510.12


156


Appro- priations


Transfers Additions Refunds


Total


Expended


Balance


Reconstruction of Harding Street.


200.00


200.00


199.70


.30


Purchase of Land ..


1,350.00


1,350.00


1,350.00


Maps and Survey of Land.


·


300.00


300.00


300.00


Defense of Tax Abatement Cases


1,000.00


1,000.00


325.00


675.00


Settlement: Claims and Suits ... .... ·


710.00


710.00


710.00


Legal Expense Re: Claims and Suits ....


400.00


400.00


165.00


235.00


Unpaid Bill of 1942, Laycold Pave. Co. 133.46


133.46


133.416


Police Department Automobile


1,212.00


1,212.00


1,212.00


-


$16,575.28


$767.18


$17,342.46


$15,264.69


$ 2,077.77


CEMETERY DEPARTMENT :


Cemetery Commissioners' Salaries ..


105.00


$ 105.00


$ 105.00


$


Care of Cemeteries ..


2,800.00


2,800.00


2,711.53


88.47


Water System at Pine Ridge and


Grading at Fairview Cemeteries. ·


90.52


90.52


7.95


82.57


Care and Improvement, Perpetual Care ..


602.25


602.25


602.25


$ 2,905.00


$692.77


$ 3,597.77


$ 3,4,26.73


171.04


INTEREST :


$ 6.44


Chapter 90 Highway Loan. High School Building Loan.


465.00


Westlands School Building Loan. ...


310.00


781.44


MATURING DEBT :


Westlands School Building Loan ........ High School Building Loan ..


6,000.00 6,000.00


$12,000.00


8


167


Appro- priations


Transfers Additions Refund s Total


Expended


Balance


EXPENDED FROM REVENUE :


Agency, Trust and Investment :


State Tax.


$ 15,632.36


9,674.64


Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds.


925.00


Refunds.


6,059.64


County, Dog Licenses


1,762.60


Beverage Permits.


20.00


East Chelmsford Water District, Tax Col South Chelmsford Water District, Tax Col. Fed. Grant Old Age Assistance, Admin ....


3,715.14


866.74


1,357.55


Fed. Grant Old Age Assistance, Relief ...


43,776.48


69.60


Fed. Grant Aid to Dependent Childn. Adm. Fed. Grant Aid to Dependent Childn. Rel. Purchase of War Bonds.


2,090.61


3,056.25


10,871.74


Withholding Tax ..


Chapter 90 Highway Loan.


5,000.00


$104,878.35


County Tax.


168


BALANCE SHEET -- DECEMBER 31, 1944


GENERAL ACCOUNTS


ASSETS


LIABILITIES AND RESERVES


Cash :


Sale of Town Property.


7,091.50


Chapter 90 Highway Loan. 4,000.00


Taxes to be refunded.


209.22


Petty Cash :


Tailings. . 1/11.64


Treasurer


50.00


Deputy Collector.


50.00


$130,758.84


Accounts Receivable:


Road Machinery Fund.


2,2412.05


Taxes :


Overlays Reserved for Abatement: Levy of 1943 .. $3,641.04


Levy of 1944. 2,073.23


5,711.27


Levy of 1944 Personal .... ·


851.49


$ 23,339.51


Revenue Reserved Until Collected : Motor Vehicle Excise Tax .. $ 106.38 Departmental. 2,3416.18


12,060.30


Levy of 1944


$ 106.38


$ 106.38


Departmental:


Claims for Personal Injuries .. ·


443.47


National Civilian Defense .. ..


181.61


Selectmen's Dept.


$ 146.63


Care and Improvement of all Cemeteries ..


.


Town Hall.


·


Police.


5.00


Forest Fire.


6.25


Health ..


.


1,094.44


Defense of Tax Abatement Cases ..


675.00


Public Welfare.


225.00


Highway. .


25.70


Old Age Assistance .. ......


183.31


Military Aid.


120.00


.


State Aid ..


120.00


World War II Allowance .... 417.00


$ 2,346.48


169


Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:


Tax Title and Tax Possessions9,607.44


240.05


Fed. Grant, Aid to Dependent Child. Admin ... 88.89


178.00


3.15


Old Age Assistance, Refunds ..


650.00


Pay Roll Deductions for Purchase of War Bonds Emma Gay Varney Playground Fund.


1,000.00


Legal Expense Re: Claims and Suits. .... 235.00


3,635.45


Withholding Tax .. ..


Excess and Deficiency .. . 119,978.61


1,866.50 261.19


Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves.


Premium on Loans.


Reserve Fund, Overlay Surplus. .


5,377.79


Levy of 1943 Real Estate .. 373.67


Levy of 19444 Real Estate .. 22,114.35


Fed. Grant, Old Age Assistance, Admin ..


395.50


.


...


General. $130.658.84


New England Salvage Co. Tax .. State Tax .. Tax Titles ... Tax Possessions. ....


$ 405.08 .01 4,932.28 4,675.16


Overlay Deficits:


Levy of 1941.


$ 13.20


Levy of 1942.


88.20


101.40


*State Aid to Highways ....


.60


*County Aid to Highways ...


.60


1.20


$166,666.34


$166,666.34


*Due from State and County


170


DEBT ACCOUNTS


December 31, 1944


Net Funded or Fixed Debt .....


$ 53,000.00


High School Building Loan ...


$ 28.000.00


Westlands School Building Loan ....


25,000.00


$ 53,000.00


$ 53,000.00


.


TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS


Trust and Investment Funds :


Albert H. Davis Library Fund. 302.63


Joseph Warren Library Fund .. 999.93


Cash and Securities:


In Custody of Town Treasurer ....


$ 33,777.91


In Custody of Library Trustees .......


Aaron George Cemetery Fund ..


1,053.97


.


2,350.16


Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund.


33,590.63


Adams Emerson Cemetery Improvement Fund .... Insurance Investment Fund ..


187.28


46,003.03


$


95,828.48


WINTHROP.A PARKHURST,


.


In Custody of Insurance Fund Comm ....


Adams Emerson Library Fund ... 208.66 Selina G. Richardson Library Fund. 559.23


16,047.54 46,003.03 George Library Fund ... . A. F. Adams Library Fund ..


10,572.96


$ 95,828.48


REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT


PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS OF TOWN DEBT TO BE RAISED ANNUALLY BY TAXATION


Year


Interest Rate


Purpose of Ioan


Totale


18%


1945


$ 6,000.00


High School Building


$ 6,000.00


1946


6,000.00


Addition


6,000.00


1947


6,000.00


6,000.00


1948


5,000.00


5,000.00


1949


5,000.00


5,000.00


$28,000.00


$28,000.00


1%


1945


$ 5,000.00


Westlands School


5,000.00


1946


5,000.00


Building Addition


5,000.00


1947


5,000.00


5,000.00


1948


5,000.00


5,000.00


1949


5,000.00


5,000.00


$25,000.00


$25,000.00


INTEREST PAYMENTS ON TOWN DEBT TO BE RAISED ANNUALLY BY TAXATION


Year


Interest Rate


Purpose of Loan


Totals


12%


1945


375.00


High School Building


375.00


1946


285.00


Addition


285.00


1947


195.00


195.00


1948


112.50


112.50


$


967.50


967.50


1%


1945


$ 250.00


Westlands School


250.00


1946


200.00


Building Addition


200.00


1947


150.00


150.00


1948


100.00


100.00


1949


50.00


50.00


$ 750.00


$ 750.00


171


TRUST FUNDS


On Hand Dec. 31, 1943


Now Funds


Income


Payments


On Hand Dec. 31, 1944


Joseph Warren, Adams Library Fund.


$ 992.38


$ 7.55


999.93


Adams Emerson, Adams Library Fund.


207.09


1.57


208.66


Selina G. Richardson, Library Fund.


555.01


4.22


559.23


Aarom George, Cemetery Care Fund ..


1,054.00


7.97


8.00


1,053.97


George Memorial Hall Fund ..


2,332.60


17.56


2,350.16


A. F. Adams c/o Buildings and Grounds.


10.620.29


127.67


175.00


10.572.96


Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds ..


32,759.18


925.00


508.70


602.25


33,590.63


Adams Emerson Cemetery Improvement Fund.


183.51


3.77


187.28


Insurance Investment Fund ...


45.455.80


547.23


46,003.03


Albert H. Davis, Library Fund.


300.00


2.63


302.63


$94,159.86


$1,225.00


$1,228.87


785.25


$95,828.48


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


March 5, 1945 and March 12, 1945


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


Middlesex, ss.


To Lawrence W. Chute, Constable, or any suitable person of the Town of Chelmsford.


GREETING:


In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby requested to not- ify and warn the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in their several poll- ing places, viz:


Precinct 1. Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre


Precinct 2.


Town Hall, North Chelmsford


Precinct 3. Fire House, West Chelmsford


Precinct 4. School House, East Chelmsford


Precinct 5. Liberty Hall, South Chelmsford


Precinct 6. Golden Cove School House, Westlands


On Monday, the fifth day of March, 1945, being the first Monday in said month, at 12 o'clock noon, for the following purposes :


To bring in their votes for the following officers:


Moderator for one year. One Selectman for three years. One member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years. Treasurer and Tax Collector for three years.


Town Clerk for three years.


One Assessor for three years. One Member of the Board of Health for three years.


One School Committee Member for three years. One Cemetery Commissioner for three years.


One Park Commissioner for three years. Two Trustees of Adams Library for three years. One Sinking Fund Commissioner for three years. One Member of the Planning Board for five years. Tree Warden for three years. One Constable for one year.


All on one ballot.


The Polls will be open from 12 noon to 8 P.M. and to meet in the High School Auditorium at Chelmsford on the following Monday, the 12th day of March, 1945 at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz:


ARTICLE 1.


To hear reports of Town Officers and Committees; or act in relation thereto. ARTICLE 2.


To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the current year; or act in relation thereto.


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


ARTICLE 3.


To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year, with authority to settle and adjust claims or demands for or against the Town; and to employ counsel when- ever in their judgment it is necessary; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 4.


To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the current financial year; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 5.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money with which to meet unpaid bills for the year 19444; or act in relation there- to.


ARTICLE 6.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the Town's share of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 7.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve Hund- red ($1200) Dollars for the purpose of foreclosing tax titles held by the Town of Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 8.


In the event that an appropriation is made for Chapter 90 work for the High- way Department, to see if the Town will vote to transfer a sufficient sum of mon- ey from the Excess and Deficiency account to balance the amount of money to be contributed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of Middlesex, until such time as the said Commonwealth and County have paid into the Town of Chelmsford treasury their respective grants; or act in relation thereto, -


ARTICLE 9.


To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of three members, for the purpose of investigating the advisability of purchasing voting machines to be used at elections: or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 10.


To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by the addition of the following definition to Article 2 of said By-Law:


Tourists home: A domicile or private residence where rooms are rented to overnight guests;


or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 11.


To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a committe


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


of four persons to work with the Board of Fire Engineers for the purpose of ob- taining complete plans, specifications, and costs of erecting two new fire sta- tions, one in the Center and one in North Chelmsford; and to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Fourteen Hundred ($1400) Dollars to be expended by this Committee to procure said plans, specifications, and costs, said Committee to make a full and complete report at the next Town Meeting; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 12.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred ($600) Dollars for the purpose of purchasing pipe and other necessary equipment to effect the installation of a hydrant to be located on the dump at the end of Jensen Street; or act in relation thereto. Supervision of this work will be supplied by the Water District and the labor by the Town.


ARTICLE 13.


To see if the Town will vote to close the Westlands Jump and cease to use as a dumping ground the land known as Westlands Dump, which land is more partic- ularly described in a deed from George M. Wright et al to Inhabitants of Chelms- ford, dated June 11, 1931 and recorded with Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 803, Page 238; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 14.


In the event of an affirmative vote under Article 13, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve Hundred Fifty ($1250) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing from Ray S. Byam a tract of land containing about thirteen (13) acres, more or less, and situated in the easterly part of Chelmsford on the northeasterly side of Riverneck Road near the River Meadow Brook, said property to be used as a dump. This transaction shall be und- er the supervision of the Board of Health of the Town of Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 15.


To see what action if any the Town will take relative to the collection of garbage throughout the town; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 16.


In the event of favorable action under Article 15, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money sufficient to carry out the purposes set forth in Article 15; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 17.


To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 120 of Cha- pter 94 of the General Laws: or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 18.


To see if the Town will vote to instruct our representative to the General Court to advise the Town as to the legal steps necessary to consolidate the sev- eral water districts in the Town of Chelmsford into one, to be Town owned, oper- ated, and controlled, and report back to the next Town Meeting; or act in relat- ion thereto.


ARTICLE 19.


To see if the Town will vote to appoint a Committee to investigate the


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


advisability of paying a bonus to all persons who have served in the Armed For- ces of the United States of America who, when having been inducted into the said Service, were bona-fide residents of the Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts and at the time of discharge received an Honorable Discharge; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 20.


To see if the Town will vote to transfer a certain sum of money from the Machinery Fund to the Machinery Account; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 21.


To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Overlay Reserve Account a sum not exceeding Two Thousand ($2,000) Dollars to be used as a Reserve Fund at the discretion of the Finance Committee as provided in General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 6; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 22.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money to be used by the Veterans Service Committee in the performance of its duties in rendering aid to veterans and ex-veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 23.


To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money for the purpose of settling suits and claims now pending against the Town; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 24.


To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year; or act in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 25.


To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Assessors to use a sum of money in the amount such as the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation of the Commonwealth may approve as free cash, said sum of money to be applied in determining the tax rate for the year 1945; or act in relation thereto.


AND YOU ARE DIRECTED to serve this Warrant' by posting attested copies there- of at the Post Offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelms- ford and West Chelmsford, and at the School House in East Chelmsford, and the Golden Cove School House, Westlands, seven days at least before the time appoint- ed for holding the first meeting aforesaid.


HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make return of the Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding this meeting aforesaid.


Given under our hands this twenty-seventh day of January in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five.


Karl M. Perham Stewart Mackay Raymond H. Greenwood


Selectmen of Chelmsford


176


INDEX


Highway Dept- 12 Page


Accountant's Report:


Appropriations and Transfers. 163


Balance Sheet. 169


Debt Account .. 170


Interest Payments.


171


Payments.


152


Principal Payments


171


Receipts


147


Trust Funds.


172


Adams Library, Reports of


Adams Library, Librarian 110


109


Assessors.


94


Audit by State.


61


Board of Health:


Agent.


121


Board of Health.


121


Inspector of Animals


120


Inspector of Milk.


123


Inspector of Plumbing.


125


Inspector of Slaughtering. 120


119


Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds.


51


Constable


126


Dog Officer


126


Fire Engineers


117


Forest Warden


116


Middlesex County Extension Service.


124


North Chelmsford Library Corporation.


111


Park Commissioners


None


Planning Board.


116


Police.


124


Police Woman.


115


Post-War Public Works Committee


None


Real Estate for Sale, List of.


99


School Depts


Census .


139


Graduates, June 1944.


144


High School Principal's Report.


139


Personnel.


128


School Committee


130


Superintendent.


127


Janitors and Transportation


130


Sealer of Weights and Measures


111


Sinking Fund Commissioners


105


Soldiers' Relief Agent.


107


Tax Collector.


47


Tax Collector, East Chelmsford Water District.


48


Tax Collector, South Chelmsford Water District


49


Town Clerk:


Annual Town Meeting, March 13, 1944.


22


Births


6


Deaths


12


Financial Report


44 45


Marriages


9


Officers Elected.


1


Presidential Election Returns, November 7, 1944.


41


Presidential Primary, April 11, 1944.


29


177


Jury List


Adams Library, Treasurer


Adams Library, Trustees 109


Cemetery Commissioners.


INDEX (CONT.)


Page


State Primary, July 11, 1944.


33


Town Election, March 6, 1944.


Wa: rant for Annual Town Meeting, March 6, and March 13, 1944. 20


16


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, March 5, and March 12, 1945. 173


Warrant for Party Primary, April 25, 1944. 28


Warrant for State and National Election, November 7, 1944. 36


Warrant for State Primary, July 11, 1944. 32


Town Forest Committee None Town Treasurer. 50


Varney Playground Commission 124


Welfare Agent.


106


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