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Prepaid Insurance
10,186.87 332.40
Development Costs
$447,000.00
Less-Dev. Cost Liquidation
56,000.00
391,000.00
Total Assets
$428,573.52
Liabilities
Tenants' Prepaid Rents
$2.00
$447,000.00
Bonds Authorized Less-Bonds Retired
56,000.00
391,000.00
Reduction of Annual Contribution
$1,962.41
Operating Reserve
10,387.58
Debt Service Reserve
10,640.11
Unamortized Bond Premium
4,409.64
Matured Interest and Principal
8,580.67
Net Income $1,591.11
35,980.41
Total Liabilities $428,573.52
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS F. QUINN, Chairman, CLIFFORD C. AGNEW, M. HERBERT CRAIG, JOHN J. COLBERT,
LAWRENCE W. STILES,
FERRIS C. WAITE, Executor Director,
Plymouth Housing Authority.
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REPORT OF THE PARK DEPARTMENT
Personnel (Administrative):
May 14, 1958-Anthony V. Pioppi appointed to Com- mission to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles C. Wall.
Mar. 13, 1958-Walter Haskell re-elected chairman; Ar- thur Sirrico re-elected superintendent; Mrs. Mildred Dennehy re-appointed clerk. Board members include: O. Arrigo Guidaboni, John W. Searles, Ed- ward J. E. Hand and Anthony V. Pioppi.
Receipts:
A total sum of $16,188.96 made up the receipts of the Park Department during the 1958 season.
Responsibilities:
The maintenance, care and repair of sixteen (16) parks, eight (8) playgrounds, five (5) bathing beaches, and two (2) camp areas, all of a total 291 acres under the Park department program.
Playground Activities:
The eight week summer playground program under the direction of the park department at Stephens field, Veteran's field and the John A. Seiver Memorial Field brought out an attendance of 6,080 boys and girls, an average 760 attendance for the week at the three play- grounds. A total of 280 boys and girls participated in the organized activities of which 75 boys took part in Farm Club baseball; 20 boys played on the Junior play- ground team; 30 boys participated in the weekly 1,000 point contest; 45 boys and girls were enrolled in the arts and crafts classes; 70 boys and girls received instructions in tennis; and 40 boys and girls attended the weekly
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cook-outs. Other daily routine activities included arch- ery, croquet, horse shoe pitching, volleyball, softball, badminton, games, swings and slides. Approximately 250 boys and girls attended the baseball game in Boston as guests of the Boston Red Sox. The eight week program was in charge of playground supervisor Antone Spath.
Stephens Field:
Floodlights erected; new tennis court constructed; condemned wooden bleachers removed and replaced with new portable bleachers used during fall at John A. Seiver field; old bath house at Morton Park set up and used for work shop and storage.
Nelson Street:
Electric power plugs installed for trailer camps re- sulting in added revenue to town; parking area bulldozed; new slide for the children; planted several shrubs.
Morton Park:
New bath house opened; instituted paid lockers and paid toilets netting town $196.95; widened roads; increased beach area both at Boys' swimming hole and Red Springs.
Beach Park:
Seawall damaged by storm; area south of bath house unfavorable throughout entire summer season; Eel River repaired from storm damage; filled in parking area north to town line.
Veteran's Field:
Erected fence around tennis court; loamed banks and seeded; repeated repairs to band stand caused by vanda- lism; trees planted; building painted.
Indian Reservation:
Increased size of parking area; maintained better policing throughout the summer; increased rental fees.
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Rotary Circles:
Although not under the jurisdiction of the Park de- partment, the department constructed flower beds and planted flowers at both rotary circles, i.e., Governor Car- ver Square and Town Wharf entrance.
General:
The work load of the department during 1958 was the heaviest in history. This was due largely to the in- creased vandalism that occurred mostly at Morton Park, Stephens field and Veteran's field; the increase rubbish removal with more people using park department facil- ities during the week-days; and the increased demand or request for public services.
Appreciation:
The Commission and the Department are again ap- preciative of the many courtesies and considerations that have been extended to it during the past year by the townspeople, town officials and other town department heads.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER B. HASKELL, Chairman, EDWARD HAND, JOHN W. SEARLES,
O. ARRIGO GUIDABONI, ANTHONY V. PIOPPI, Board of Commissioners.
ARTHUR SIRRICO,
Park Superintendent.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF RETIREMENT
To the Citizens of the Town of Plymouth:
The Board of Retirement presents herewith its twenty-second report covering the activities of the Con- tributory Retirement System for the year 1958.
We bring to the attention of the members the follow- ing amendments to Chapter 32 of the General Laws, en- acted in 1958:
Chapter 291. Amends Section 12(2) and makes brothers and sisters eligible for nomination as bene- ficiaries under Option (c).
Chapter 321. Changes the designation of member- ship groups from Group A, B & C to Group 1, 2 and 3, respectively and is merely a clarifying amendment.
Chapter 360 and Chapter 404. Both of these chap- ters amend Section 14, with regard to Workmen's Com- pensation.
Chapter 614. Amends Section 12(2) - Retirement Option (d) and adds a new Section 12B regarding sur- vivorship allowances in certain cases.
Chapter 766 of the Acts of 1957 adding Section 91A has been amended by referendum making it applicable to all persons retired for disability, regardless of the date of retirement. In the opinion of the Attorney Gen- eral, income earned prior to January 1, 1959, is exempted from this statute.
I. MEMBERSHIP
1. Active Membership Dec. 31, 1957 231
Enrolled during 1958 29
Transfer from other system 1
Deaths 3
Withdrawals 9
261
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Retirements
5
Transfers to inactive membership
4
21
Total Active Membership, Dec. 31, 1958
240
2. Inactive Membership Dec. 31, 1957
29
Retirements 5
Transfers from active membership 4
38
Deaths
1
Withdrawals
3
4
Total Inactive Membership, Dec. 31, 1958 34* *This total includes 28 pensioners and 6 inactive members.
3. Beneficiaries from Accidental Deaths
4
Beneficiaries receiving Survivorship Allowance 3
7
II. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES Balance, Dec. 31, 1957 $339,003.04
1. Receipts:
Deductions from members' salaries and wages $36,200.79
Transfers from other systems 614.71
Due from town for military service credit
227.00
Appropriation, March 1958
34,566.00
Income from interest
12,220.92
Accrued interest on bonds, Dec. 31, 1958 3,086.27
Increase by adjustment in securities
8,577.43
95,493.12
$434,496.16
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2. Expenditures:
Annuity payments $4,134.31
Pension payments 29,517.04
Survivorship payments 1,091.00
Disability pension payments 2,167.66
Accidental death benefits 8,189.12
Reimbursements to other systems 289.92
Refunds to former members
1,574.26
Refunds to survivor of former member 2,272.59
Clerical services
672.00
Other administrative expenses
389.56
Accrued interest on bonds, Dec. 31, 1957 2,806.06
Decrease by adjustment in
securities 82.41
53,185.93
Balance, Dec. 31, 1958
$381,310.23
III. BALANCE SHEET
1. Assets:
Plymouth National Bank $5,044.09
Plymouth Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n 10,000.00
Beverly Savings Bank 10,000.00
Danvers Savings Bank
5,000.00
American Trust Company-San Francisco
2,700.00
California Bank of Los Angeles
3,450.00
Chase Manhattan Bank
5,900.00
Cont. Illinois National Bank and Trust
4,756.00
First National Bank of Boston
4,505.00
Manufacturers Trust
2,750.00
National Shawmut Bank of Boston
5,200.00
Newton Waltham Bank and Trust
2,150.00
Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Boston
4,563.00
U. S. Treasury bonds, Series G 10,000.00
U. S. Treasury bonds, 31/4's of '83
3,000.00
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City of New Bedford bonds, 4.1's of '77 5,064.93
City of Taunton Housing Authority bonds, 25/8's of '86 3,000.00
Mass. Turnpike Authority bonds, 3.3's of '94 5,073.37
Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District bonds, 33/4's of '73 5,027.13
Town of Dracut bonds, 3's of '76 3,000.00
Central of Georgia Rwy. bonds, 5's of '62 5,000.00
Chesapeake & Ohio Rwy. bonds, 31/2's of '96 1,042.85
Chesapeake & Ohio Rwy. bonds, 31/2's of '96 1,018.93
Chesapeake & Ohio Rwy. bonds, 35/8's of '66 1,018.09
Great Northern Rwy. bonds, 23/4's of '82 3,025.52
Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad bonds, 33/8's of '80 1,992.40 Illinois Central Railroad bonds, 31/4's of '80 1,993.84
Illinois Central Railroad bonds, 33/8's of '89 2,000.00 Louisville & Nashville Rwy. bonds, 33/8's of '03 2,184.05 Louisville & Nashville Rwy. bonds, 33/4's of '03 2,000.00 N. Y. Central & Hudson River Rwy. bonds, 31/2's of '97 3,177.86
N. Y., Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. bonds, 3's of '86 5,093.56
N. Y., Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. bonds, 27/8's of '61 1,982.94
Northern Pacific Rwy. bonds, 4's of '97
1,998.58
Northern Pacific Rwy. bonds, 4's of '97
1,998.58
Northern Pacific Rwy. bonds, 4's of '97
1,998.59
Pere Marquette Rwy. bonds, 33/8's of '80
993.23
Pere Marquette Rwy. bonds, 33/8's of '80 Reading Co. bonds, 31/8's of '95
1,986.46
5,081.95
Seaboard Air Line Rwy. bonds, 3's of '80
2,985.91
Southern Pacific Railroad bonds, 23/4's of '96 1,686.49
Southern Pacific Co. bonds, 41/2's of '62 4,976.38
St. Louis-San Francisco Rwy. bonds, 4's of '80 1,985.57
Virginian Rwy. bonds, 3's of '95
2,031.01
Virginian Rwy. bonds, 3's of '95 2,031.01
Western Maryland Rwy. bonds, 3's of '61 1,000.00
Western Maryland Rwy. bonds, 3's of '60 998.54
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Wheeling & Lake Erie Rwy. bonds, 23/4's of '74 1,987.40 Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 25/8's of '86 2,013.77
Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 23/4's of '82 2,010.27
Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 23/4's of '80 2,019.86
Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 33/8's of '73 2,022.82
Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/4's of '84 4,091.31
Amer. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 43/8's of '85 5,058.97
Associated Telephone bonds, 35/8's of '81 2,038.90
General Tel. of California bonds, 41/2's of '86
5,071.26
General Tel. of California bonds, 41/8's of '88 5,020.92
Illinois Bell Tel. bonds, 3's of '78 2,041.40
Illinois Bell Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '84 2,026.22
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '78 1,018.12
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '78 1,018.13 Mountain States Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/2's of '90 5,047.61 Mountain States Tel. & Tel. bonds, 43/8's of '88 5,061.75 New Eng. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 3's of '82 2,047.98
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. bonds, 3's of '74
2,009.69
New Jersey Bell Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '88
978.15
New Jersey Bell Tel. bonds, 3's of '89
2,019.90
New York Tel. bonds, 33/8's of '96
4,931.92
Northwestern Bell Tel. bonds, 43/8's of '89 5,046.05
Pacific Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '87 2,020.90
Pacific Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/4's of '78
2,054.75
Pacific Tel. & Tel. bonds, 23/4's of '85 1,925.99
Pacific Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/8's of '83 2,011.45
Pacific Tel. & Tel. bonds, 31/4's of '79
2,859.35
Southern Bell Tel. bonds, 23/4's of '85 956.20
Southern Bell Tel. bonds, 23/4's of '85 956.19
Wisconsin Tel. bonds, 41/2's of '92
5,061.27
Arkansas Power & Light bonds, 31/8's of '74
2,031.19
California Electric Power bonds, 41/2's of '88 California Oregon Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 Central Maine Power bonds, 33/8's of '85
5,081.43
5,063.20
2,014.96
Central Vermont Public Service bonds, 23/4's of '75 1,932.81
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Central Vermont Public Service bonds, 31/2's of '81 1,017.79
Community Public Service bonds, 53/8's of '87 5,092.39
Cons. Edison of N. Y. bonds, 3's of '79 2,039.40
Cons. Gas, Electric Light & Power of Baltimore, 23/4's of '86 4,022.96
Consumers Power bonds, 4's of '86 5,050.00
Duquesne Light bonds, 35/8's of '83
2,084.93
Fall River Electric Light bonds, 33/4's of '83
3,002.79
Georgia Power bonds, 33/8's of '82 3,123.38
Idaho Power bonds, 4's of '88 5,000.00
Kentucky Utilities bonds, 33/4's of '86 5,068.37
Maine Public Service bonds, 27/8's of '75 1,892.85
Merrimac-Essex Electric bonds, 41/2's of '88 5,123.35
Milwaukee Gas Light bonds, 31/8's of '75 3,029.28
Montana Power bonds, 27/8's of '75 1,964.64
Montana Power bonds, 27/8's of '75 982.32
Montana Power bonds, 27/8's of '75
1,964.64
Montana Power bonds, 27/8's of '75 982.32
New England Power bonds, 23/4's of '79 2,006.29
New Orleans Public Service bonds, 41/2's of '87 5,039.64
No. Indiana Public Service bonds, 31/8's of '73 2,942.98
No. Indiana Public Service bonds, 31/8's of '73
981.00
No. Indiana Public Service bonds, 31/s's of '73
2,942.98
North Shore Gas bonds, 4's of '75
2,024.55
North Shore Gas bonds, 4's of '75
2,024.54
Pacific Gas & Electric bonds, 3's of '70
2,015.99
Pacific Gas & Electric bonds, 3's of '71 2,060.83
Public Service of New Hampshire bonds, 31/4's of '73 2,103.66
Public Service of Oklahoma bonds, 41/4's of '87 4,967.41 Rockland Light and Power bonds, 31/8's of '78 2,034.88 Savannah Electric & Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 5,106.08 Southern California Edison bonds, 3's of '65 2,014.41
Southern Nevada Power bonds, 51/2's of '86 5,049.40
Utah Power and Light bonds, 35/8's of '81 3,116.84
Virginia Electric & Power bonds, 33/8's of '81 3,084.73
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Wisconsin Electric Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 5,088.93 Wisconsin Michigan Power bonds, 3's of '78 1,926.06 Aluminum of America bonds, 31/8's of '64 1,006.68
American Tobacco bonds, 3's of '69
989.80
General Motors bonds, 31/4's of '79
1,005.99
General Motors bonds, 31/4's of '79
1,005.98
National Dairy Products bonds, 31/8's of '76
997.95
Sears Roebuck bonds, 43/4's of '83
3,000.00
Accrued interest on bonds as of Dec. 31, 1958 3,086.27
Due from town for military service credit 227.00
$381,310.23
2. Liabilities:
Annuity Savings Fund
$290,026.86
Annuity Reserve Fund
46,395.92
Military Service Fund
4,007.35
Pension Fund
40,471.60
Expense Fund 408.50
$381,310.23
Respectfully submitted,
LESLIE R. GRAY, Chairman, CORA B. GRADY, Secretary, JOHN P. RYAN, Contributory Retirement System, Board of Retirement, Plymouth.
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REPORT OF ADVISORY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR 1958
Your Advisory and Finance Committee, after many hours of study and deliberation concerning the budgets and spe- cial articles, respectfully submits this report with its recom- mendations.
SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Article 7
$2,577,723.72
Total of Special Articles
420,189.69
State and County Assessments (net)
229,784.82
Forest Fire Emergency Overdraft 73,966.79
Overlay Deficit-1956 662.60
Overlay for 1958 (estimate)
50,000.00
Total Recommended Expenditures
$3,352,327.62
Estimated Receipts
$931,543.16
Forest Fire Emergency Reimb.
66,570.11
Excess and Deficiency (Articles 11, 12, and 24)
205,150.00
Reserve Overlay (Article 10)
15,000.00
Parking Meter Receipts (Article 17)
1,050.00
Cash from Developer (Article 80)
2,040.00
Cash for Waterfront Protection (Articles 27 and 28) 2,625.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves
Fund (Article 41)
2,000.00
Total from sources other than tax levy 1,225,978.27
Net to be raised
$2,126,349.35
Poll Tax 1958 (estimate)
8,500.00
Balance from real and personal taxes
$2,117,849.35
Based on the 1957 valuation of $35,570,700, this total will require a tax rate of approximately $59.20.
An increase of $1,000,000 in the valuation would reduce this tax rate by about $1.70 to approximately $57.50.
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Each $35,600 added to or subtracted from the net total above would increase or decrease the tax rate approximately $1.
We have tempered our actions, consistent with the un- certain economic conditions existing.
It should be clearly understood that the committee, in its efforts to maintain the tax structure near its present level, has acted to insure the continued maintenance and protec- tion of the present investment and to continue services that have been rendered the taxpayers and residents of the Town. We have also recommended actions that will, in the future, enhance the town in increased services and development.
Respectfully submitted,
A. Stanton Bubbins, Chairman
Henry A. Ferrari
Percival W. Fowler
Bernard Kusmin Everett Malaguti
George Anderson George S. Anzuoni
Urbane G. Graffam
Lucile C. Brewster
William J. Harrington
Wilfred J. Brown
Vincent Nicoli
Anthony J. Pacheco
Paul Withington
Clifford E. Sampson
Attested: Evelyn J. Delano, Secretary
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REPORT OF THE PERSONNEL BOARD
The Personnel Board recommends to the town that an annual increase of $200.00 be voted in the Supervisory, Cus- todial, Fire and Police salary schedules. There are approxi- mately seventy employees covered by these schedules and the additional cost to the town will therefore be about $14,000. This represents an average increase of slightly over 5% to the employees involved.
This increase is recommended to adjust the salaries of these employees to a level more in line with salaries paid to similar employees in other comparable towns. Wage sur- veys indicate that over the past several years these salaries in other towns have risen nearly 10% more than have similar salaries in the Town of Plymouth. It is the opinion of the Personnel Board that this recommendation represents a fair and equitable adjustment which should be voted by the Town in order to maintain a proper relationship of salaries as between various positions within the town service and with those of other towns.
We are not recommending this year an adjustment of salaries in the Clerical and Labor classifications. Salary data which we have indicates that salaries now paid in these two classifications are satisfactory with respect to salaries for similar work performed in other towns and in local in- dustry.
It should be remembered also that there has been no precedent established in the past several years whereby an increase granted to one group of town employees should automatically be granted to all employees. For example, in 1954 a wage survey indicated adjustment should be made in the Clerical and Labor classifications. Upon recommendation of the Personnel Board the town voted substantial increases to employees in these two classifications, but in this same year no increase was granted to employees in other classi- fications.
The Personnel Board has been in existence since 1950. It has recommended adjustment of salaries in five of the years since then. These recommendations, as is the case this year,
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have always been made after careful consideration to the movement in the cost-of-living plus the level of salaries for similar positions in other comparable towns and in the local area. The ultimate cost to the taxpayer has always been kept in mind. The Town has always voted these recommen- dations. For the record they have been as follows: -
Salary Increases By Classification Since 1951
Classification
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
A. Supervisory
10%
5%
None
None
21/2%
None
4%
B. Custodial
10%
5%
None
None
5%
None
4%
C. Clerical
10%
5%
None
10%
5%
None
4%
D. Laboring
10%
5%
None
12%
5%
None
5%
E. Fire and Police
10%
None
None
None
5%
None
8%
EDWIN T. WILLIAMS, Chairman JOHN W. PACKARD JOHN FARRELL
Personnel Board
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE NECESSITY OF ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Representatives and Voters of the Town of Plymouth:
At the annual Town Meeting held in this building on March 25th of 1957, under Article 42 of that meeting the Town Moderator was instructed as follows:
Voted: That the Town instruct the Moderator to appoint a Citizens' Committee of three members, to include no Town officials or employees, to study the necessity of accommoda- tions for the Commission of Public Safety, especially for a new location for the Police Department, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for necessary expenses of said committee.
Subsequently, your moderator did appoint to such a com- mittee, the following persons:
Russell W. Anderson, Point Rd., Manomet
Parker F. Barnes, 189 Sandwich St., Plymouth
James J. Connell, 27 Holmes Terrace, Plymouth
At the first gathering of the committee:
Mr. Anderson agreed to serve as Chairman
Mr. Barnes agreed to serve as Secretary
Mr. Connell agreed to serve as Treasurer
Midway, in the proceedings of the Committee, Mr. Barnes found it necessary to move from Plymouth to another State, therefore making it necessary to resign from the Committee. By mutual consent of the two remaining members, Mr. Barnes was replaced by Mr. Robert G. Lowry of Doten Rd., Plymouth, who has since served as the third member.
A second meeting of the Committee was held with the Safety Commission for the purpose of hearing and resolving the needs of the town as expressed by members of the Commission.
Briefly, those needs were interpreted as follows:
The Plymouth Police Department must vacate their pres- ent quarters on Russell Street as rapidly as can conveniently and reasonably be done. The Plymouth County Commis- sioners have found an urgent need for these quarters for their
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own use and have stated that rental of the building to the town of Plymouth will not be renewed.
New accommodations for the entire Police Department must be secured immediately. New accommodations should include some improvements: mainly more extensive housing for vehicles, improved ways of access and egress, and the addition of a department suitable to process juveniles sep- arately from adults.
Attention was called to a letter now in the files of the Plymouth Water Department, dated Jan. 14, 1957, received from the New England Fire Insurance Rating Co. of 89 Broad St., Boston, Mass. The letter reads as follows:
NEW ENGLAND FIRE INSURANCE RATING ASSOCIATION 89 Broad St., Boston
January 14, 1957
Board of Water Commissioners Plymouth, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
Acting on a request from the Board of Selectmen we have completed a survey of the fire protection facilities in Plym- outh and have prepared the enclosed recommendations which are for your guidance whenever improvements are to be made.
Very truly yours, PERCY C. CHARNOCK, Manager.
PCC:HP Encl.
Accompanying this letter is a full report and recom- mendations to the town relating to improvement of Water Supply, Fire Fighting Services, Fire Protection, and Build- ing Code.
Under the heading Fire Dept., Page 4, Article 19 of that report appears the following recommendation and quotation: "That the Central Fire Station be replaced as soon as possible by a new structure of fire resistive construction designed to properly house fire department apparatus and manpower, and equipped to provide the functions and service required by modern fire department operation. The present station is
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a serious fire hazard which jeopardizes the safety of person- nel and equipment, and does not afford the space or facilities required for satisfactory operation."
Under the Heading "Fire Alarm," Page 5, Article 26, appears the following quotation and recommendation: "That Fire Alarm Headquarters and headquarters equipment be relocated in a separate fire resistive structure, so designed and located as to reduce as far as possible liability to interruption of service. All equipment to be placed on non-combustible mountings and no unnecessary combustible material per- mitted to remain within the fire alarm room."
Note: If provisions are made to maintain the fire alarm headquarters in the recommended central fire station, the fire alarm section should be of fire resistive construction and completely cut off from the remainder of the building with entrance from the outside only.
Further reference was made to a manual published by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, principally to an article defining the limits of areas within congestive areas, within which a central fire station and alarm system must be kept - to cause adequate protection and to control fire insur- ance rates.
All Members of this Committee and the Public Safety Commission do concur that the sources of advice mentioned above are without question the most dependable and most impartial obtainable, and, in our opinion, should receive care- ful consideration.
On the strength of these recommendations, this Com- mittee has proceeded with an intensive search for possible new locations for both the Police Department and the Central Fire Station. We have considered and studied the possibility of purchase of land and the construction of new buildings, combined and separate. The purchase of land, including a building or buildings which could be economically adapted to the purposes of each Department, both on one location or on separate locations; the adaptation of town-owned land to the needs of one or both Departments.
Other activities of your committee may be briefly noted as follows: We have met or otherwise been in contact one with another on many occasions. We have requested and conducted an open meeting at the Town Office Building to
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encourage, hear, and consider public suggestions on the con- duct of the work of this Committee.
We have studied and visited and selected 23 separate plots of land which we believed worthy of consideration.
We have received and have on file several letters, offer- ing to the Town the sale of land or land and buildings which were believed by the writer and owner to be adaptable to Police or Fire Department needs.
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