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305.00
280.00
25.00
· Drawing of Plans, Supervision, Construc- tion and originally equipping a Fire Sta.
60,000.00
20.000.00
80,000.00
43,227.80
36,772.20
.
Hydrant Service:
Chelmsford Water District
6,500.00
6,500.00
6,500.00
None
j .... North Chelmsford Water District
4,500.00
4,500.00
4,500.00
None
East Chelmsford Water District
4,300.00
4,300.00
4,300.00
None
South Chelmsford Water District
2,500.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
None
Forest Fire Department:
. Salary of Warden
590.00
590.00
590.00
None
Labor at Fires
800.00
350.00
1,150.00
1,103.30
46.70
: Repairs ,and Maintenance
440.00
440.00
361.89
78.11
: Gasoline and. Oil
60.00
60.00
42.00
18.00
: Other Expenses
90.00
90.00
79.12
10.88
Outlays
433.00
433.00
423.00
10.00
Accounts
218
PROTECTION OF PERSONS & PROP. (Cont.) Moth Department:
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance None
Supt.'s Salary
268.00
268.00
268.00
Labor
700.00
631.30
68.70
Expenses
1,150.00
400.00
700.00 1,550.00
1,141.82
408.18
Tree Warden
Labor
500.00
73.50
300.00
873.50
873.14
36
Expenses
500.00
132.25
200.00
832.25
820.25
12.00
Dutch Elm Control:
Labor
700.00
700.00
387.04
312.96
Expenses
300.00
300.00
270.00
30.00
Poison Ivy Control:
Wages
150.00
150.00
141.60
8.40
Expenses
400.00
400.00
345.00
55.00
Building Inspector:
Salary
900.00
900.00
900.00
None
Expenses
100.00
100.00
93.30
6.70
Sealer of Weights & Measures:
Salary
268.00
268.00
268.00
None
Expenses
25.00
25.00
None
25.00
Dog Officer:
· Salary
300.00
300.00
300.00
None
Fees
150.00
150.00
106.00
44.00
Total Protection of Persons and Property .... $106,261.01 $ 60,305.00 $ 1,343.36 $ 20,500.00 $188,409.37 $148,234.12
None $ 40,175.25
219
Transfers
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
HEALTH AND SANITATION:
Health Department:
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants 295.00
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Chairman's Salary
295.00
295.00
None
Salaries of Board Members
525.00
525.00
525.00
None
Sanitarian's Salary
3,235.00
3,235.00
3,188.73
46.27
School Nurse's Salary
2,675.00
2,675.00
2,674.88
12
Meat Inspector's Fees
1,300.00
1,300.00
1,175.00
125.00
Plumbing Inspection Fees
1,200.00
1,200.00
963.50
236.50
Plumbing Insp. Transp.
300.00
300.00
233.00
67.00
Physicians' Salaries (2)
235.00
235.00
235.00
None
Animal Inspector's Salary
295.00
295.00
241.95
53.05
Animal Inspector's Expense
15.09
15.09
15.09
None
Quarantine & Contagious Diseases
1,050.00
1,050.00
811.00
239.00
Vaccine Treatment
300.00
300.00
55.99
244.01
Transportation for Sanitarian &
School Nurse
750.00
27.91
777.91
777.91
None
Care of Premature Children
500.00
500.00
None
500.00
Care of Dumps
2,500.00
26.36
2,526.36
2,526.36
None
Collection of Garbage
4,750.00
4,750.00
4,750.00
None
Animal Disposal
300.00
300.00
282.00
18.00
Outlays
1,075.00
1,075.00
546.10
528.90
Other Expenses
605.00
15.00
620.00
617.20
2.80
Total Health & Sanitation
$ 21,890.00
None
$ 84.36
None $ 21,974.36 $ 19,913.71
None $ 2,060.65
Accounts
220
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT:
Appropri- ations
Superintendent's Salary
4,133.00
4,133.00
Expended on Warrants 4,133.00
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance : . . None
Clerk's Salary
1,925.00
1,925.00
1,925.00
None
Overhead:
Gasoline & Oil for Equipment
3,000.00
150.00
3,150.00
3,086.34
63.66
Fuel, Light and Water
400.00
400.00
348.59
51.41
Telephone Service & Office Expense
300.00
65.00
365.00
346.52
18.48
Street Signs
400.00
400.00
182.98
217.02
Miscellaneous Expenses
100.00
100.00
70.27
29.73
Highways, Bridges and Drainage:
Materials
15,000.00
15,000.00
14,999.23
.77
Misc. Equip. & Small Tools
1,000.00
75.00
1,075.00
1,073.62
1.38
Machinery Hire, Town Owned
3,000,00
3,000.00
3,000.00
None
Machinery Hire, Other
2,000.00
2,000.00
1,931.09
68.91
Labor
40,000.00
40,000.00
39,331.58
668.42
Repairs to Highway Garage
500.00
500.00
78.96
421.04
Machinery Account, Repairs
3,000.00
1,000.00
4,000.00
3,999.16
.84
Machinery Acc't. Mech. Wages
3,550.00
3,550.00
3,426.90
123.10
Snow and Ice Removal
23,284.58
1,000.00
24,284.58
21,554.45
*2,730.13
Sidewalks, Construction & Maintenance
3,000.00
3,000.00
2,762.50
237.50
Construction & Reconstruction :
Highways, Bridges, Drainage
10,000.00
800.00
10,800.00
10,685.59
114.41
Chapter 90, Maintenance
8,000.00
8,000.00
5,999.66
2,000.00
.34
Chap. 90, Groton Road, Const.
20,000.00
20,000.00
1,457.14
18,542.86
Chap. 90, Concord Rd. Const.
11,591.45
11,591.45
4,591.43
7,000.02
Chap. 90, Specific Repairs on Billerica Road
1,500.00
500.00
2,000.00
1,999.68
.32
Purchase of an End Loader
4,000.00
4,000.00
3,991.17
8.83
.
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Finance Committee
Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
221
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT (Cont.)
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures 300.00 4,876.50
Expended on Warrants 292.00
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
· Purchase of a Chain Saw
8.00
Purchase of Two New Trucks
10.29
Purchase of a New Adding Machine
171.50
171.50
171.50
None
Reconstruction of Tobin Ave.
194.45
194.45
None
194.45
Reconstruction of Priscilla Ave.
295.11
295.11
50.93
244.18
Reconstruction of Clinton Ave.
114.62
114.62
None
114.62
Reconstruction of Field St.
200.00
105.68
94.32
Reconstruction of Cedar St., Ext.
500.00
500.00
389.81
110.19
Reconstruction of Brentwood Rd.
800.00
800.00
None
800.00
Survey & Plan of Birch St.
150.00
150.00
None
150.00
Reconstruction of Leon St. & a portion. of
Merilda Ave.
350.00
350.00
182.31
167.69
Reconstruction of Miner Ave.
300.00
300.00
297.23
2.77
Road Machinery Fund
12,251.20
8,171.45
192.07
20,614.72
7,176.50
13,438.22
Total of Highway Department
$170,689.41 $
8,171.45
$
1,621.50 $ 11,658.57 $192,140.93 $137,330.53 $ 9,176.50 $ 45,633.90
Street Lighting
$ 12,800.00
12,800.00
12,791.37
8.63
CHARITIES :
Public Welfare Department:
Salary of Chairman
190.00
190.00
190.00
None
Salary of Board Members
320.00
320.00
320.00
None
Agent's Salary
2,700.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
None
Finance Committee
Accounts 300.00 4,876.50
4,866.21
200.00
222
CHARITIES (Cont.)
Public Welfare Department: (Cont.)
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Finance Committee
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance 106.84 462.71
Salary of Clerk No. 2
1,860.00
1,860.00
1,397.29
Cash Grants
8,500.00
15.80
8,515.80
4,903.70
500.00
3,112.10
Material Grants & Burials
4,500.00
40.00
4,540.00
1,443.02
3,096.98
State Institutions
1,500.00
1,500.00
419.44
1,080.56
Relief to Other Cities and Towns
4,500.00
4,500.00
3,722.13
777.87
Disability Assistance:
Cash Grants
10,000.00
607.84
10,607.84
7,512.78
3,095.06
Material Grants & Burials
7,000.00
165.30
7,165.30
4,153.73
3,011.57
State Institutions
3,000.00
3,000.00
1,477.01
1,522.99
Aid to Dependent Children :
Cash Grants
28,000.00
53.80
28,053.80
22,407.36
5,646.44
Old Age Assistance Department:
Cash Grants
125,000.00
266.45
500.00
125,766.45
122,537.06
3,229.39
Relief of Other Cities and Towns
3,000.00
3,000.00
2,417.87
582.13
Old Age Recoveries
1,615.00
1,076.51
2,691.51
1,615.00
1,076.51
Federal Grant, Dis. Ass't. Administration
443.38
443.38
13.03
430.35
Federal Grant, Dis. Ass't. Relief
5,046.90
5,046.90
3,863.93
1,182.97
Federal Grant, A. D. C. Administration
1,918.21
1,067.12
2,985.33
380.88
2,604.45
Federal Grant, A. D. C. Relief
577.35
14,770.98
15,348.33
13,851.64
1,496.69
Federal Grant, O. A. A. Administration
3,146.96
4,074.91
7,221.87
5,899.25
1,322.62
Federal Grant, O. A. A. Relief
14,875.93
85,947.74
725.79
101,549.46
95,626.34
5,923.12
Total Charities
$224,063.45 $113,576.73
Accounts
Salary of Clerk No. 1
1,860.00
1,860.00
1,753.16
$ 1,225.79 $338,865.97 $296,989.62 $ 2,115.00 $ 39,761.35
223
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
Veterans' Benefits :
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants 705.00 74.23
Transfers to other Accounts
Salary of Veterans' Agent
705.00
705.00
Expenses
100.00
100.00
Benefits Paid
12,000.00
35.00
12,035.00
10,110.00
Veterans' Benefits-Refund
39.00
39.00
39.00
1,925.00 None
Total of Veterans' Benefits
$ 12,844.00 $
35.00
$
$
$ 12,879.00 $ 10,889.23 $
39.00 $
1,950.77
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Superintendent's Salary
5,350.00
5,350.00
5,350.00
None
Secretary's Salary
1,950.00
1,950.00
1,950.00
None
Teachers' Salaries
196,000.00
196,000.00
194,096.13
1,903.87
Janitors' Salaries
23,300.00
23,300.00
21,713.80
765.00
821.20
Physicians' Salaries
600.00
600.00
600.00
None.
Attendance Officer's Salary
75.00
75.00
75.00
None
Retirement Payments
85.00
$5.00
83.75
1.25
Administration
2,000.00
2,000.00
1,991.24
8.76
Educational Supplies & Services
13,000.00
13,000.00
12,990.41
9.59
Fuel, Light and Water
14,000.00
14,000.00
10,951.59
3,048.41
Repairs
13,000.00
13,000.00
12,870.95
129.05
Janitors' & Nurse's Supplies
2,750.00
2,750.00
2,499.09
250.91
New & Replacement of Equipment
5,000.00
5,000.00
4,982.94
17.06
Playgrounds
500.00
500.00
474.03
25.97
Balance None 25.77
224
.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT (Cont.)
Transportation
31,000.00
765.00
31,765.00
Expended on Warrants 31,764.45
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Athletic Program
1,142.71
4,320,89
5,463.60
4,765.28
:55 698.32
Vocational School
3,992.55
1,857.45
5,850.00
4,463.26
1,386.74
Purchase of Additional Land for New
Grade School at North Chelmsford ..
2,000.00
1,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
Plans & Specifications for New Grade School at North Chelmsford 328.68
328.68
71.70
256.98
Construction, Equipping & Furnishing of Elementary School Building at No. Ch.
20,000.00 580.000.00
600,000.00
414,885.38
185,114.62
Further Study & securing of Plans & Costs for Const. of addition to Elementary &/or a six-year High School
4,401.33
4,401.33
1,220.40
3,180.93
School Lunch Program
142.84
27,633.97
27,776.81
27.210.00
566.81
Cost of Professional Services, Equipment & Materials to set up a system of check- ing & Recording receipts and expendi- tures of the School Lunch Program ..... ...
200.00
200.00
200.00
None
Settlement of Land Damage claims for land for prop. Elem. School at Chelms- ford Center
5,300.00
5.300.00
None
5,300.00
Total for School Department
$340,818.11 $613,812.31
$ None $ 7,065.00 $961,695.42 $755,209.40 $
765.00 $205,721.02
· Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Finance Committee
Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
:
225
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES BALANCES -
LIBRARY DEPARTMENT:
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total . Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounte
Balance
Librarians' Salaries
1,984.00
1,984.00
1,984.00
None
Assistants' Salaries
1,100.00
1,100.00
1,060.23
39.77
Janitors' Salaries
400.00
400.00
392.87
7.13
Repairs & Maintenance of Buildings
750.00
750.00
230.36
500.00
19.64
Fuel, Light and Water
1,000.00
80.00
1,080.00
1,073.28
6.72
Books and Periodicals
1,600.00
1,600.00
1,600.00
None
Other Expenses
616.00
616.00
612.91
3.09
Outlays-New Equipment
1,380.00
1,150.00
2,530.00
178.50
2,351.50
Total of Library Department
$ 8,830.00
None
$ 80.00 $
1,150.00 $ 10,060.00 $
7,132.15 $
500.00 $ 2,427.85
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED:
Park Department:
Labor
1,800.00
1,800.00
1,797.14
2.86
Expenses
555.50
555.50
549.21
6.29
Outlays-New Equipment
325.00
325.00
317.08
7.92
Varney Playground :
Labor
500.00
500.00
383.50
116.50
Curbing
300.00
300.00
300.00
None
Other Expenses
375.00
375.00
103.14
271.86
Edwards Memorial Beach:
Labor
635.00
635.00
520.00
115.00
Other Expenses
220.00
220.00
None
220.00
Town & Finance Comm. Reports
3,200.00
3,200.00
2,026.40
1,173.60
Finance Committee
Accounts
226
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED (Cont.)
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee Adjustments & Transfers Transfers Reserve Fund from other Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance 51.17 223.54
Town Clock
150.00
225.00
375.00
151.46
Rental of Quarters for Am. Legion Post 212 ..
360.00
360.00
360.00
Civilian Defense Expenses
2,316.51
2,316.51
1,274.01
None 1,042.50
Workmen's Compensation-Claims for
personal injuries
3,000.00
3,000.00
2,756.00
244.00
Maintenance of the Honor Roll
25.00
25.00
21.50
3.50
Constable
50.00
50.00
42.00
8.00
Unpaid Bills of Previous Years
1,074.66
314.73
1,389.39
1,389.39
None
Microfilming of certain Town Records
1,500.00
1,500.00
57.75
1,442.25
Insurance Department :
Firemen-Accident
270.00
270.00
268.55
1.45
Auto-Public Liability, Property Damage, Fire & Theft
2,942.00
234.44
3,176.44
2,669.32
507.12
Property, Fire Insurance, Public Liability & Property Damage
5,713.57
1,633.48
7,347.05
7,347.05
None
Bonds. (Not Town Clerk, Treasurer &
Tax Collector )
696.98
696.98
696.98
None
Burglary Insurance for the School Dept.
168.75
168.75
168.75
None
Boiler Insurance for two Town Halls ....
154.52
154.52
154.52
None
Boiler Insurance for School Department ....
600.00
600.00
447.00
153.00
Boiler Insurance for Library Department
88.40
88.40
88.40
None
Workmen's Compensation
3,300.00
847.74
4,147.74
4,147.74
None
Defense of Tax Abatement Cases
675.00
675.00
None
675.00
Total Recreation & Unclassified
$ 31,334.22
None
$ 3,352.33 $
314.73 $ 35,001.28 $ 28,735.72
None $ 6,265.56
Memorial Day
750.00
750.00
698.83
227
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
CEMETERY DEPARTMENT
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Commissioner, Salary of Secretary
55.00
55.00
55.00
None
Commissioners, Salaries of Board Members
80.00
80.00
80.00
None
Labor- Superintendent
1,750.00
1,750.00
1,749.12
.88
Labor-General
2,750.00
2,750.00
2,744.01
5.99
Labor-Others
500.00
500.00
200.48
299.52
Checking Records
250.00
250.00
250.00
None
Interments
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,202.22
297.78
Purchase of Power Mower
426.00
426.00
416.48
9.52
Repairs to Historic Headstones
150.00
150.00
146.00
4.00
Extension of Grave Lots
1,250.00
1,250.00
789.00
461.00
None
Heart Pond Pipe Extension
85.00
85.00
None
85.00
Other Expenses
1,823.00
1,823.00
1,779.47
43.53
Outlays-New Equipment
170.00
11.18
35.00
216.18
213.04
3.14
Cemeteries-Town Clerk:
Salary
250.00
250.00
250.00
None
Clerk Hire
300.00
300.00
29.58
270.42
Other Expenses
50.00
50.00
2.50
47.50
Total of Cemetery Department
$ 10,963.00
None
$ 11.18 $
461.00 $ 11,435.18 $
9,906.90 $
461.00 $ 1,067.28
Finance Committee
Accounts
228
DEBT AND INTEREST:
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund :rom other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Debt:
Fire Truck Loan
5,000.00
None
Anticipation of Revenue Loan
200,000.00
5,000.00 200,000.00
5,000.00 200,000.00
None
interest:
Fire truck Loan
25.00
25.00
25.00
None
No. Chelmsford School Loan
6,525.00
6,525.00
4,930.00
1,595.00
Anticipation of Revenue Loan
1,000.00
1,000.00
879.69
120.31
Temporary Loan issued in Antic. of Reim.
Chap. 90, Maint. & New Construction ...
27,000.00
25,000.00
52,000.00
27,000.00
25,000.00
Totals Maturing Debt and Interest
$ 39,550.00 $225,000.00
$
$
$264,550.00 $237,834.69 $
$ 26,715.31
AGENCY, TRUST & INVESTMENT:
Middlesex County San. Maint.
7,601.93
7,601.93
5,107.89
2,494.04
State Parks & Reservations
1,430.36
1,430.36
1,430.36
None
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
1,271.03
1,271.03
1,271.03
None
Stabilization Fund Invested
30,000.00
30,000.00
30,000.00
None
County Tax
24,415.43
24,415.43
20,869.92
3,545.51
Over & Short-Treas. & Coll.
.83
10
.93
None
.93
Refunds
8,172.61
8,172.61
8,172.61
None
County, Dog Licenses
10.80
2,446.40
2,457.20
2,444.00
13.20
State Beverage Permits
10.00
10.00
10.00
None
State Sunday Enter. Licenses
496.00
496.00
496.00
None
Withholding Tax
45,763.39
45,763.39
45,763.39
None
Tailings & Surplus Revenue
288.20
288.20
13.05
275.15
Cemetery Perpetual Care Bequests
2,950.00
2,950.00
2,950.00
None
Perpetual Care Interest
1,181.50
1,181.50
None
1,181.50
1
229
Finance Committee
Accounts
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
Finance Committee
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures 47.50
Expended on Warrants None
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance 47.50
Veterans' Emergency Fund
Middlesex County Retirement System,
Pension Fund
4,537.87
4,537.87
4,537.87
None
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Ded.
2,067,35
2,067.35
2,058.25
9.10
Middlesex County Retirement Fund Ded.
7,560.88
7,560.88
7,560.88
None
Gift from S. B. McFarlin Est
100.00
100.00
None
100.00
Total Agency, Trust and Investment
$ 39,703.95 $ 70,648.23 $ $ 30,000.00 $140,352.18 $132,685.25 $
$ 7,666.93
RECAPITULATION:
General Government
$ 50,475.10 $
1,296.35
$ 1,977.96 $
2,772.50 $ 56,521.91 $ 45,544.56 $
None $ 10,977.35
Protection of Persons and Property
106,261.01
60,305.00
1,343.36
20,500.00
188,409.37
148,234.12
None
40,175.25
Health and Sanitation
21,890.00
None
84.36
None
21,974.36
19,913.71
None
2,060.65
Highway Department
170,689.41
8,171.45
1,621.50
11,658.57
192,140.93
137,330.53
9,176.50
45,633.90
Street Lighting
12,800.00
None
None
None
12,800.00
12,791.37
None
8.63
Welfare, ADC and OAA Depts.
224,063.45
113,576.73
None
1,225.79
338,865.97
296,989.62
2,115.00
39,761.35
Veterans' Benefits
12,844.00
35.00
None
None
12,879.00
10,889.23
39.00
1,950.77
School Department
340,818.11
613,812.31
None
7,065.00
961,695.42
755,209.40
765.00
205,721.02
Library Department
8,830.00
None
80.00
1,150.00
10,060.00
7,132.15
500.00
2,427.85
Recreation and Unclassified
31,334.22
None
3,352.33
314.73
35,001.28
28,735.72
None
6,265.56
Cemetery Department
10,963.00
None
11.18
461.00
11,435.18
9,906.90
461.00
1,067.28
Interest and Debt
39,550.00
225,000.00
None
None
264,550.00
237,834.69
None
26,715.31
Agency, Trust and Investment
39,703.95
70,648.23
None
30,000.00
140,352.18
132,685.25
None
7,666.93
Grand Totals
$1,070,222.25 $1,092,845.07
$ 8,470.69 $ 75,147.50 $2,246,685.60 $1,843,197.25 $ 13,056.50 $390,431.85
230
AGENCY, TRUST & INVESTMENT (Cont.)
Appropri- ations 47.50
Refunds and Receipts
Accounts
APPROPRIATIONS:
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Totals Forwarded:
$1,070,222.25 $1,092,845.07
$ 8,470.69 $ 75,147.59 $2,246,685.60 $1,843,197.25 $13,056.50 $390,431.85
Balances from 1951 Accounts 105,552.88
(Less Overestimates)
Town Meeting Appropriations less sum of '$5,000.00 for Finance Committee Reserve Fund raised by Taxation during 1952 and reflected on Assessors Recapitulation Sheet 904,939.82 State & County Charges raised by Taxation during 1952 by Assessors 34,255.20
State & County Charges to be raised by Taxation during 1953 by Assessors 463.55
State & County Shares of Chapter 90, Main- tenance & New Construction for 1952 and to be reimbursed to Town 25,000.00
Other Account Balances forwarded from
1951 Accounts
10.80
$1,070,222.25
Grants from Federal Government $110,720.07 Loans Received
865,000.00
Payroll Deductions Received
55,391.62
Dog Tax Receipts from County 1,857.45
License Fees to be transmitted to State and County
2,952.40
231
APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS ADDITIONS - REFUNDS AND EXPENDITURES - BALANCES
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts 4,131.50
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Perpetuel Care Bequests & Interest
Refunds
10,034.11
Additions to the Machinery Fund
8,171.45
Bid Bond Deposits
1,250.00
School Lunch & Athletic Program Receipts
31,954,86
Old Age Assistance Recoveries
1,076.51
Deposits for Fire House Plans ..
305.00
Over & Short, Treasurer's Dept.
.10
$1,092,845.07
Transfers from the Finance Committee Reserve Fund per authoriza- tions approved anl on file $ 8,470.69
Interdepartmental Transfers by Special Town Meeting Vote
$ 4,226.00
Transfers from Excess & Deficiency Account by Town Meeting Vote
62,827.23
Transfers from the Road Machinery Fund by Town Meeting Vote
7,176.50
725.79
Transfers to Old Age Assistance Recoveries by State Auditors Adjustments to Road Machinery Fund
192.07
$ 75,147.59
232
Finance Committee
Accounts
Appropri- ations
Refunds and Receipts
Finance Committee
Adjustments & Transfers Reserve Fund from other Transfers
Accounts
Total Available for Expenditures
Expended on Warrants
Transfers to other Accounts
Balance
Total sum of Funds available for expenditure per Town Meeting Appropriations,
Refunds, Receipts, State & County Assessments and Transfers.
$2,246,685.60
Total sum disbursed on 103 Warrants from January 1, 1952 to December 31, 1952
as approved by the Board of Selectmen $1,843,197.25
Total of Interdepartmental Transfers to Other Accounts by Special Town Meeting Vote $ 4,226.00
Total of Votes at Annual Town Meeting to transfer from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Department, Purchase of End Loader, Chain Saw and Highway Trucks 7,176.50
Audit Adjustments
1,654.00
$13,056.50
Balances forwarded to 1953 Accounts
$334,968.32 Total Amount of Unused Balances from Appropriation Accounts refunded to the Finance Committee Reserve Fund, then to Overlay Reserve
493.43
Total Amount of Unused Appropriation Accounts closed out to Revenue 1952, then to Excess & Deficiency 54,970.10
$390,431.85
233
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1952 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash :
100.00
General $577,747.28
Petty Cash:
Treasurer $ 50.00
Collector's Clerk 50.00
School Athletic Program
Change Fund 100.00 200.00
Taxes to be Refunded 91.01
Overlay Reserve -- Surplus
4,707.74
Temporary Loan Issued in Anticipation of Reim- bursement of Chapter 90 Maintenance and New Construction for the year 1952 25,000.00
County Tax 1952-Overestimate .3,545.51
Levy of 1952 Poll 6.00
. Levy of 1952 Personal 298.37
Levy of 1952 Real Estate
9,190.02
$ 9,494.39
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1952 $ 4,334.78
Departmental:
Selectmen's Department $ 146.00
Public Buildings, Town Halls 20.50 Health Department 745.50
Chelmsford Center Firehouse
Building Loan
186.00
$ 2,622.00
,
$577,947.28
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
Town's Allotment of cost of Maintenance of Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital -- Overestimate 2,494.04
Sale of Town Property 3,162.62
Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves
3,121.50
Dog License Fees (Due County)
13.20
Tailings-Outstanding Checks Taken In 276.90
Treasurer and Collector-Over and Short .93
Premium on Loans:
North Chelmsford Elementary School Loan $ 2,436.00
Highway Department 163.13
Reserve for School Athletic Program Chg. Fund $ Revenue Reserved until Collected : Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes $ 4,334.78 Tax Titles and Tax Possessions 353.16
Departmental 7,880.54
$ 12,568.48
234
Welfare Department 247.00
Disability Assistance Dept. 337.96
Aid to Dependent Children Dept. 3,668.38
Old Age Assistance Department,
Other Cities and Towns ...
9.80
Veterans' Benefits Department
1,392.36
School Department
372.31
Cemetery Department
777.60
..
Assessors' Dept., Survey and Maps of the Town 5,150.00 Public Buildings Dept., North Town Hall Heating Plants 2,890.00 Bid Bond Deposits for North Town Hall Heating Plants 500.00
Drawing of Plans, Supervision and Construction and Originally Equipping a Fire Station ........ 36,772.20 Deposits Received for Plans for New Fire Sta. 25.00 Moth Department, Expenses 400.00
Chapter 90. Groton Road, New Construction ....
18,542.86 6,000.00
Chapter 90, Concord Road, New Construction Highway Dept., Survey and Plan of Birch Street Reconstruction of Tobin Avenue
150.00
Reconstruction of Priscilla Avenue
244.18
Reconstruction of Clinton Avenue
114.62
Reconstruction of Field Street
94.32
Reconstruction of Cedar Street Extension 110.19
Reconstruction of Brentwood Road
800.00
Tax Possessions
296.41
Reconstruction of Leon St, & portion of Merilda Avenue 167.69
Overlay 1941
240.08
Road Machinery Fund
13,438.22
Federal Grant, Disability Asst. Administration
430.35
Overlay 1952
682.84
State Parks and Reservations 1952-
Underestimate
103.38
State Audit of Municipal Accounts 1952-
Federal Grant, Old Age Assistance, Adm.
1,322.62
Underestimate $ 360.17
1
$ 7,880.54
State Aid to Highways $ 12,271.43
194.45
County Aid to Highways 6,135.72
$ 18,407.15
.
Tax Titles $ 56.75
Overlay 1942
165.00
Federal Grant, Disability Assistance, Relief 1,182.97 .... Federal Grant, Aid to Dependent Children, Ad. 2,604.45
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