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With reference to a request for an appropriation to pay for a clerk for the Board of Health, in the budget of the Board of Health, an appropriation of a sum equal to $12.00 a week from January 1 to April 15, the appropriation of a sum equal to $15.00 per week
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from April 15 to December 31, to provide a Town Hall Stenographer, and she shall be under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen.
Voted, Article 25, 3rd Section. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and their recommendations be adopted, ap- propriating the following amounts for the several town departments, as follows:
General Government
Legislative
$ 350 00
Selectmen
4,800 00
Auditing
2,000 00
Treasurer
1,400 00
Certification, Printing and
Advertising
Book
1,200 00 600 00
Law
1,000 00
Election and Registration ·
1,085 00
Engineering
5,768 00
Town Hall
3,500 00
Town Hall Stenographer
550 00
Census
300 00
Protection of Life and Property
Police Department
$32,800 00
Fire Department
Fire Department Special: Hydrant Rental
1,000 00
Two Punch Registers
150 00
Three New Boxes New Box Puritan Road
200 00
Sealer Weights and Measures
530 00
4,800 00
Tree Warden
1,800 00
Tree Warden
Special : Wagon
100 00
Forest Warden
200 00
Dog Officer
150 00
Building Inspector
700 00
Building Inspector Special: Equipment
200 00
Health and Sanitation
Board of Health
$7,250 00
Health Nurse
1,250 00
Refuse, Garbage and
Night Soil
10,555 00
Cleansing Beaches
1,100 00
Sewer Maintenance
8,200 00
Particular Sewers
1,000 00
Brooks
500 00
Highways and Bridges
Administration
$ 2,600 00
Repairs and Maintenance
36,150 00
New Equipment, Open Express Body Auto Watering Cart
800 00
Stone Bogie
425 00
Tar Kettle
450 00
Seal Coating
2,500 00
Street Construction
2,000 00
Street Watering and Oiling
5,000 00
Snow and Ice
7,500 00
Continuous Sidewalks
10,000 00
Special: Humphrey Street Sidewalk
1,000 00
Street Lights
18,000 00
Permanent Street Construction
21,000 00
Charities and Soldiers' Relief
Poor Department
$7,200 00
State Aid
700 00
Soldiers' Relief
3,800 00
Pensions
4,860 00
Education
School Department
$140,500 00
Library
6,000 00
Cemetery
Cemetery ·
3,100 00
Collector of Taxes
3,375 00
Assessors
3,100 00
Assessors Special: Tax Valuation
500 00
Town Clerk
36,145 00
Moth Department
975 00
Sidewalks and Curbing
2,500 00
480 00
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Recreation
Park Department, Administration
$ 125 00
Blaney Beach Reservation
1,440 00
Monument Avenue
500 00
Abbott Park
300 00
Jackson Park
975 00
Phillips Park
1,700 00
General Expense
2,460 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment
7,500 00
Unclassified
Memorial Day
$ 300 00
Town Reports
1,525 15
Reserve Fund
3,450 00
Heat and Light, G. A.
R
Hall
350 00
Insurance Premiums
2,800 00
Soldiers' Exemption
50 00
Trust Fund Commissioners
40 00
District Nurse
300 00
Firemen's Memorial Sunday
200 00
Armistice Day
200 00
Repairs G. A. R. Hall :
300 00
Interest
Loan in Anticipation of Revenue
$ 9,500 00
General Debt
12,987 30
Sewer Bonds
9,242 75
T. B. Hospital
1,307 20
Metropolitan Park
3,400 00
Municipal Debt
General Debt
$32,200 00
Sewer Bonds
18,350 00
Metropolitan Park
700 00
Agency
State Tax
$30,000 00
County Tax
25,000 00
State Enterprises
1,500 00
T. B. Assessment
$3,976 79
Voted, Article 26. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to buy for the Police Department a new ambulance embodying the following specifications in addition to others that may be deemed advisable by them, namely 34 ton chassis, 140 inch wheel base, disc wheels with 30 x 5.77 inch low pressure tires, body dimensions: length, 8 feet, width at least 5 feet 3 inches, height at least 4 feet 9 inches, rear doors at least 4 feet 3 inches, side windows 3 feet by 1 foot 6 inches, rear windows at least 1 foot 7 inches by 1 foot 9 inches, sliding window between cab and rear com- partment, 2 dome lights in body, heater, shock absorbers, folding seat, folding stretcher, folding rear step, one spare wheel, front bumper, and painting and lettering; that the old ambulance be turned in as part of the transaction and that in addition the sum of $2,400 be appropriated for this purpose.
Voted, Article 27. That the town appropriate $200 for the pur- pose of this article.
Voted, Article 28. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations that the sum of $2,000 be appropriated to resurface Orchard Circle and that part of Orchard road now accepted by the town.
Voted, Article 29. That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to convey the land if necessary and further authorized to make settlement.
Voted, Article 30. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations that the town replank and
County Commissioners
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place steel tread on Danvers Street Bridge and appropriate the sum of $500 for this purpose.
Voted, Article 31. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and their recommendations be adopted: That the town build a drain on Aspen road after easements have been obtained and that the sum of $1,400 be appropriated for this purpose; that the building of a drain on Bay View avenue be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 32. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, Article 33. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, Article 34. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations: That the town take the strip of land described in Article 34 and appropriate the sum of $47.50 for this purpose.
Voted, Article 35. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations that the town take the strip of land described in Article 35 and appropriate $25.50 for this purpose.
Voted, Article 36. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed. Voted, Article 37. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 38. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed. Voted, Article 39. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 42. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That $1,125 be appropriated to continue the present classes under this article.
Voted, Article 43. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted, and that the sum of $5,960 be appropriated to provide for the equipment for and instruction in industrial training for boys and girls at the Swampscott High School. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 44. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 45. To take this article up in conjunction with Article 46.
Voted, Article 46. Moved and seconded that the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and its recommendations adopted. A substitute motion on Article 46 was made by John Vannevar and seconded to wit: Be it moved that the town vote to build a school building as recommended by the Building Committee appointed at the adjourned town meeting of 1924 in accordance with the plans secured by said Committee, and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated therefor as follows, viz: five thousand to be raised in the tax levy for the current year and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed ninety-five thousand dollars, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Clause 3 of Sec- tion 7 of said Chapter 44 as amended by Chapter 338 of the Acts of 1923 and any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such
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earlier dates as the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine; said bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof "Swampscott School Loan 1925" and shall bear such rates of interest, as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. On motion of Harold F. Dow and request of more than 15 voters it was placed on ballot to be voted on April 15, 1925, in accordance with town by-law to place motions on ballot.
Voted to take up Article 47, 48, 49 and 50 together.
Voted to accept the report and adopt the recommendations of the Finance Committee on these articles as follows.
Article 47. That a six inch water main be laid in Magnolia road a distance of 108 feet, when the Town Engineer certifies that the street conforms in line and grade to the plan accepted by the Board of Survey, and that the sum of $750 be appropriated therefor to be raised by notes or bonds of the town, interest at the rate of 6 per cent. to be paid on the investment until the water rates of the users are equal to the interest thereon, agreements and waivers first to be obtained from the abutters to the satisfaction of the Water and Sewerage Board. Article 48, that a six-inch water main be laid in Orchard, Nason and Neighborhood roads a distance of about 900 feet, when the Town Engineer certifies that the streets mentioned conform in line and grade to the plan accepted by the Board of Survey, and that the sum of $2,400 be appropriated there- for, to be raised by notes or bonds of the town, interest at the rate of 6 per cent. to be paid on the investment until the water rates of the users are equal to the interest thereon, agreements and waivers first obtained from the abutters to the satisfaction of the Water and Sewerage Board. Article 49, that the town extend the sewer through Sargent and Aspen roads a distance of about 970 feet and appropriate for this purpose the sum of $10,000 as follows: $5,000 from current revenue, $2,000 from Sewer Emergency Fund, and $3,000 to be raised by notes or bonds of the town. Article 50, that the sum of $4,500, the balance from Stacey Brook appropriation, be expended to extend King's Brook Culvert. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 51. To transfer from excess and deficiency the sum of $5,005.53 and credit said sum to current revenue of the year 1925, to provide for these overdrafts, as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted, that Articles 52, 53, 54 and 55 be taken up together.
Voted to accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations on these articles as follows: Article 52, that a six inch water main be laid in Ocean View road for a distance of about 200 feet from Sargent road and that the sum of $1,000 be appropriated therefor, to be raised by notes or bonds of the town, interest at the rate of 6 per cent, to be paid on the investment until the water rates of the users are equal to the interest thereon, agree- ments and waivers first to be obtained from the abutters to the satisfaction of the Water and Sewerage Board. Article 53, that action on this article be indefinitely postponed. Article 54, that a sewer be laid in Pleasant street from a point opposite Ocean View road to Humphrey street and that the sum of $1,500 be transferred from Sewer Emergency Fund for this purpose. Article 55, that action on this article be indefinitely postponed. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 56. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee, and adopt their recommendations, that this $2,900 be transferred to general revenue of the current year.
Voted, Article 58. To accept the report of the Finance Commit-
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tee and adopt their recommendations as follows: that the salary of a police private be $1,800 for the first year, $1,900 for the second year, and $2,000 the present maximum thereafter.
Voted, Article 64. That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 65. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations, that the sum of $1,000 be appropriated for the purpose of conducting a series of Band Con- certs in various sections of the town, during the summer of 1925, and that a committee be appointed by the Moderator to carry out the purpose of this article.
Voted, Article 66. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations, that the town widen the eastern corner of Ellis road and Hampden street on a radius of 50 feet, and appropriate $300 for this purpose.
Voted, Article 67. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, Article 68. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee, and adopt their recommendations, that the town accept that portion of Buena Vista street now unaccepted, as laid out on a plan accepted by the Board of Survey and appropriate the sum of $1,800.
Voted, Article 69. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations, that the town accept Essex terrace according to the plan accepted by the Board of Survey.
Voted, Article 70. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, Article 71. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
Under Article 25 that six thousand dollars be appropriated for resurfacing Humphrey street from Forest avenue to the railroad tracks at Phillips Beach station and that fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated for resurfacing Stetson avenue, Norfolk avenue, and Middlesex avenue to Burrill street, or as large a portion thereof as can be done for said fifteen thousand dollars, said appropriation aggregating twenty-one thousand dollars, that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow sixteen thou- sand dollars and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor; said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and of Clause 8 of Section 7 of said Chapter 44 as amended by Chapter 338 of the Acts of 1923 and any acts in amend- ment thereof or in addition thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than five years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, may determine; said bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof "Swampscott Street Loan, 1925" and shall bear such rates of interest as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen; and that the balance of said twenty-one thousand dollars, viz, five thousand dollars shall be raised in the tax levy for the current year. (Unanimous.)
For the purposes specified in Articles 47 and 48 which relate to the appropriation of seven hundred and fifty dollars for the laying of a six inch water main in Magnolia road a distance of one hundred eight feet, and to the appropriation of twenty-four hundred dollars
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for the laying of a six inch water main in Orchard, Nason and Neighborhood roads a distance of about nine hundred feet, said appropriation aggregating thirty-one hundred fifty dollars, that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed thirty-one hundred fifty dollars, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor; said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen and shall be issued and payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and of Chapter 134 of the Acts of 1923 so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue of the first note or bond or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, may determine; said bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof "Swampscott Water Loan, Act of 1923" and shall bear such rates of interest as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen; provided how- ever that no money shall be borrowed under this vote until the Town Engineer certifies in writing to the Board of Selectmen that the streets or roads in which said water mains are to be laid con- form in line and grade to the plan accepted by the Board of Sur- vey. (Unanimous.)
For the purposes specified in Article 49, which relates to the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the extension of a sewer through Sargent and Aspen roads a distance of about nine hundred seventy feet, that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor; said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and of Clause 1 of Section 7 of said Chapter 44 as amended by Chap- ter 338 of the Acts of 1923 and any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note, or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, may determine; said bonds or notes shall be denomi- nated on the face thereof "Swampscott Sewer Loan, 1925" and shall bear such rates of interest as the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine: and that the balance of said sum, ten thousand dollars, be raised in the manner following: viz, five thou- sand dollars in the tax levy for the current year and two thousand dollars from the Sewer Emergency Fund. (Unanimous.)
For the purposes specified in Article 52 which relates to the appro- priation of one thousand dollars for the laying of a six inch water main in Ocean View road for a distance of about two hundred feet from Sargent road, that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars, and to issue bonds of the town therefor; said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and payable in accordance with Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and of Chapter 134 of the Acts of 1923, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine; said bonds or notes shall be de- nominated on the face thereof "Swampscott Water Loan, Act of 1923" and shall bear such rates of interest as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. (Unanimous.)
Voted that when we adjourn it be until Wednesday, April 15, 1925, at 12 o'clock M. in the Town Hall for the purpose of voting by ballot upon motions that have been so referred by this meeting
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in accordance with the provisions of the by-law, entitled "By-law to place motions on the ballot."
Voted to adjourn at 10.30 P. M.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Band Concert Committee, April 7, 1925
Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator, appointed Ralph H. Russell, Chairman, Joseph Atwood, E. Stanley Flagg, Earl W. Ellis and Harold C. Hudson, members of the Committee on Band Concerts for the summer of 1925.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Finance Committee, April 7, 1925
Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator, appointed Edward R. Grabow and Howard B. Aborn members of the Finance Committee for three years to fill the vacancy caused by expiration of Messrs. Anderson's and Yozell's terms; James R. Dyer of Grant road, to fill the unex- pired term of Louis M. Attwill for two years.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting, April 15, 1925
In accordance with the adjournment of April 7, 1925, the voters assembled on April 15, 1925, at the Town Hall, to vote by ballot under the by-laws, on certain appropriations referred to the ad- journed meeting.
The meeting was called to order at 12 o'clock noon, by Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator.
The following were appointed by the Moderator, to act as ballot clerks and tellers: Harry E. Cahoon, Herman E. Story, Frank G. Melvin, E. Stanley Flagg, George J. Place, J. Everett Morse, John T. Merchant, John B. Cahoon, Mark S. Taylor, Alexander Wallace, Jr., Timothy J. Ryan, Charles H. Carroll, Frank P. Bearse, Victor Giridian.
The polls were open from 12 o'clock noon to 8 o'clock P. M.
The ballot box registered 661. There were 661 ballots cast. The check list agreed with the number of ballots cast.
Article 46. To see if the town will vote to determine a site and erect thereon a public school building and appropriate money there- for as petitioned by the School Committee.
Question 1. The Finance Committee recommends that the town vote to build an Elementary School Building on Forest avenue oppo- site Aspen road, that one from the Board of Selectmen, one from the School Committee, one from the Finance Committee, the Town Counsel and the Building Inspector be appointed a Building Com- mittee to secure plans and estimates, and report at a Special Town Meeting, and that the sum of $500 be appropriated for the use of the Committee.
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Shall the town accept the report of the Finance Committee, and adopt its recommendations ?
Necessary for choice, 247. Yes, 229. No, 264. Blanks, 168.
Question 2. A substitute motion on Article 46 was made and seconded. That the town vote to build a school building as recom- mended by the Building Committee appointed at the Adjourned Town Meeting of 1924 in accordance with plans secured by said Commit- tee, and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropri- ated therefor as follows, viz: five thousand be raised in the tax levy for the current year and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed ninety- five thousand dollars and to issue bonds or notes of the town there- for, said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and pay- able in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Clause 3, Section 7 of said Chapter 44 as amended by Chapter 338 of the Acts of 1923, and any Acts in amend- ment thereof or in addition thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine; said note or bonds shall be denominated on the face thereof "Swampscott School Loan, 1925" and shall bear such rates of interest, as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen.
Shall the Town accept the substitute motion and adopt its recom- mendations ?
Necessary for choice, 320. Yes, 229. No. 181. Blanks, 181.
The result of balloting was declared by the Town Clerk at 8.15 o'clock P. M.
Voted to dissolve at 8.20 P. M.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
By-Law Committee, April 15, 1925
Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator, appointed on By-Law Commit- tee: Clarence E. Cahill, Louis M. Atherton, Charles D. C. Moore, James W. Santry, Egbert H. Ballard.
This Committee appointed in accordance with vote passed at the Adjourned Town Meeting, February 17, 1925.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Amended By-Law
Section 1 of Chapter 2 as amended at the Special Town Meeting, April 7, 1925.
"Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the third Monday in February in each year. For the election of officers, polls shall be open at 6 o'clock in the forenoon and shall remain open until 6 o'clock at night. After the declaration of votes for officers the meeting shall adjourn to the Tuesday next thereafter at 7.45 P. M., where the remaining articles of the warrant shall be acted upon."
Boston, Mass, April 29, 1925.
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
JAY R. BENTON, Attorney General.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
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Warrant for Special Town Meeting, Tuesday, May 12, 1925
ESSEX SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott, in said County, GREETINGS :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, quali- fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Tuesday, the twelfth day of May, at 7.30 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to select the premises adjacent to the Hadley School on Redington street and now owned by the town, as a site for a new elementary school, with adminis- trative offices and manual training rooms, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to erect a six-room grade school, with administrative offices and manual training rooms, on land adjacent to the Hadley School and now owned by the town, as recommended by the special committee appointed by virtue of a vote passed at the adjournment of the annual town meeting of 1924, and appropriate money therefor, by borrowing or otherwise, as pe- titioned for by the School Committee.
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