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55.00
742.65
Other Expenses
Diplomas and Graduation
Exercises
397.64
Athletics
131.10
School Physicians
500.00
1,028.74
Domestic Science
301.87
301.87
Manual Training
617.87
617.87
191,893.71
Traveling Expense Outside State
Expenses
32.84
32.84 32.84
Library
Salaries and Wages
Librarian
1,908.33
Assistants
3,051.95
Amount carried forward 1
$570,889.07
814.00
14,119.51
4,027.18 950.00
1937]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
201
Amount brought forward Janitor Janitor's assistants
$1,350.00 53.50
$6,363.78 6,363.78
Books, Periodicals, etc.
Books
2,106.61
Periodicals
185.85
Newspapers
48.85
2,341.31
Binding Books
369.94
Binding Periodicals
18.84
388.78
Fuel and Light
Fuel
219.10
Light
343.03
562.13
Buildings
Repairs
45.17
Furniture and furnishings
381.46
Janitor's supplies
64.35
Water
10.00
500.98
Other Expenses
Stationery, printing, advertising
135.63
Telephone
67.16
All others
58.96
261.75
Library Special
Architect
57.57
Contractor
395.00
Wiring
89.76
Painting
90.50
Floor
130.00
Stacks
282.44
Heating
99.00
Stone wall
50.00
1,194.27
1,194.27
High School and Grounds
Furniture and fixtures
1,212.49
Outside work
716.85
Supervision
150.10
Clerical services
100.00
2,179.44
2,179.44
Contractor
4,800.00
4,800.00
4,800.00
Library Funds Income
Ellen R. Whittle Fund
Books
186.32
Joanna Morse Fund
Books
444.30
Mary L. Thomson Fund
92.18
.722.80
722.80
Total
$590,204.31
Books .
Clarke School Toilet
$570,889.07
4,054.95
202
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[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$590,204.31
Summary of Schools and Libraries
From last Year
Receipts
Appropria- tions $191,897.00
Expendi- tures $191,893.71
Transfer to Revenue $3.29
Traveling Expense Out- side State
100.00
32.84
67.16
Library Wages
6,800.00
6,363.78
436.22
Library Others
4,200.00
4,054.95
145.05
Library Special
$1,194.27
1,194.27
Library Fund Income
Mary L. Thomson Fund
62.99
$30.23
92.18
*1.04
Joanna Morse Fund
288.37
157.04
444.30
*1.11
Ellen R. Whittle Fund
125.98
60.45
186.32
* 11
High School & Grounds
2,500.00
2,179.44
*320.56
Clarke School Toilet
4,800.00
4,800.00
Totals
$1,617.61
$247.72
$210,297.79
$211,241.79
$974.54
*To 1938
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Parks
Salaries and Wages
Secretary
$100.00
General expense, labor
906.50
Jackson Park, labor
1,333.61
Blaney Beach, labor
1,567.36
Phillips Park, labor
1,060.02
Abbott Park, labor
348.50
Monument Avenue, labor
1,748.01
Administration
Telephone
18.16
Printing, stationery, postage
11.06
General Expense
Tools
282.72
Auto expense
308.68
Turf Builder
240.00
Fertilizer
54.00
Painting
118.00
Painting Poles
97.60
Insurance on truck
76.10
Loam
265.50
Portable Bandstand
233.55
Materials
36.91
All others
25.36
Jackson Park
Water
6.90
Repairs
27.00
Electric light
9.00
Flags
15.45
Fence
67.00
Bleachers
164.88
Painting bleachers
20.00
$7,064.00
7,064.00
29.22
1,738.42
Amount carried forward
$597,268.31
School
1937]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
203
Amount brought forward
Installing lights for band concerts $20.06 All other 3.20
$333.49
Blaney Beach
Electric light
18.87
Water
45.04
Repairs
24.33
Signs
68.60
Supplies
21.98
All others
7.73
186.55
Phillips Park
Water
79.75
Painting Stands
255.00
Paint and turpentine
111.87
Materials
27.48
All others
14.93
489.03
Abbott Park
Repairs
15.93
Fence
24.00
Installing lights for band concerts
19.22
Water
15.07
Flags
15.45
All other
5.93
95.60
Monument Avenue and Lot
Shrubs
295.61
Stolons
35.00
Bulbs
34.00
Preparing bids
145.00
Planting and care
35.00
Flags
5.15
Water
77.93
627.69
3,500.00
Recreational Project
Rent
315.00
Games
90.40
Supplies
144.77
Fuel
10.90
Light
47.87
Stationery and postage
12.60
All others
41.87
663.41
663.41
Park Playground Equipment
430.00
430.00
430.00
Jackson Park Fence
275.00
275.00
275.00
Abbott Memorial Fence
165.00
165.00
165.00
Amount carried forward
$602,301.72
$597,268.31
204
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[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$602,301.72
Phillips Park Bleachers
Contract Advertising All others
$1,673.00 4.75 3.00
$1,680.75
1,680.75
Trust Fund Custodian's Bond
Premium
50.00
50.00
50.00
Legion Lease
Lease of Building
1,350.00
1,350.00
1,350.00
Veterans of Foreign Wars Lease
Lease of Building
650.00
650.00
650.00
Printing Town Reports
Advertising
8.40
Distribution
125.30
Editing
100.00
Printing
902.13
1,135.83
1,135.83
Memorial Day
G. A. R.
100.00
American Legion
192.00
Veterans of Foreign Wars
203.50
495.50
495.50
Warrants Payable
Accounting
89.00
Highway
112.98
School
668.41
Assessors
1.83
872.22
872.22
Unpaid Bills
Soldiers' Relief
6.10
Insurance
226.93
Fire
86.17
Dog Officer
104.00
Town Hall
125.13
548.33
548.33
Armistice Day
Wreaths
45.00
Music
140.00
Platform
15.00
Tablet
50.00
Ammunition
37.75
Transportation
8.00
All others
3.50
299.25
299.25
Fourth of July
Prizes
53.00
Organizations
65.00
Music
270.00
Children's Entertainment
48.75
Wild West Show
36.24
Transportation
26.00
498.99
498.99
Amount carried forward
$609,882.59
205
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
1937]
Amount brought forward
$609,882.59
Planning Board, Police Station and Municipal Building
Architect
$750.00 $750.00
750.00
Park Temporary Employees
Payroll
1,597.54
1,597.54 1,597.54
Total
$612,230.13
Summary of Recreation and Unclassified
From last Year
Transfer to
tions
tures
from
Park Wages
Park Others
3,500.00
3,500.00
Recreational
Project
$26.83
$80.00
750.00
663.41
*$193.42
Legion Lease
1,350.00
1,350.00
V. F. W. Lease
650.00
650.00
Trust Fund Custo-
dian's Bond
50.00
50.00
Printing Town Reports
1,136.00
1,135.83
.17
Warrants Payable
992.22
1,763.13
872.22
120.00
*1,763.13
Reserve Fund
2,500.00
2,500.00
Unpaid Bills
548.33
548.33
Park Playground
Equipment
430.00
430.00
Jackson Park Fence
275.00
275.00
Abbott Memorial Fence
165.00
165.00
Fourth of July
500.00
499.99
1.01
Armistice Day
300.00
299.25
.75
Phillips Park Bleachers
1,700.00
1,680.75
19.25
Memorial Day
500.00
495.50
4.50
Planning Board
Architect
750.00
750.00
Park Temporary
Employees
1,600.00
1,597.54
2.46
Park Truck Hire
500.00
*500.00
Razing GAR Building
250.00
250.00
Totals
$1,019.05
$1,843.13 $24,518.33 $22,025.82
$2,620.00
$2,734.69
*To 1938
ENTERPRISES Water
Salaries and Wages
Commissioners
$450.00
Superintendent
3,016.00
Registrar and clerk
1,740.00
Labor
Maintenance
3,942.85
Services
1,320.20
Relay
405.91
Meters
2,485.00
8,153.96
13,359.96
Amount carried forward
$625,590.09
Transfer to Revenue
Appropria- Expendi- Transfer
$7,064.00
$7,064.00
. .
$5,206.00
. .
206
TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
$625,590.09
Amount brought forward Other expenses
Administration
Printing and advertising
$114.15
Stationery and postage
68.04
Telephones
99.10
Recording liens
37.40
Use of auto
250.00
All others
22.54
Loans and Interest
Loans
5,500.00
Interest
1,011.25
Metropolitan Assessments
Sinking funds
1,531.29
Serial bonds
9,909.56
Interest
14,292.16
Maintenance
9,170.27
Brookline credit
1,207.83
36,111.11
General Expense
Pipe and fittings
2,418.81
Meters and fittings
410.72
Fuel
59.40
Supplies
83.66
Tools
225.69
Medical services
13.00
Auto expense
225.21
Gasoline and oil
38.86
Light and power
35.36
Oil and waste
35.19
All others
58.30
3,604.20
46,817.73
Emergency Water
New Ocean Street
Labor
891.40
Materials
615.14
Truck
77.69
Manhole
69.90
Police
13.75
1,667.88
Ocean Avenue digging trench
226.60
226.60
Plymouth Avenue digging trench Labor
21.34
413.34
2,307.82
Water Construction State Road
Advertising
22.80
Pipe
11,951.36
Contractor
4,438.90
Labor
442.37
State Inspector
423.75
All others
47.02
17,326.20
17,326.20
Amount carried forward 1
$692,041.90
392.00
$591.23
6,511.25
1937]
Amount brought forward
$692,041.90
Water Construction Lincoln Circle
Pipe
1,065.94
Labor
313.79
Contractor
319.20
Resurfacing
35.00
1,733.93
1,733.93
Water Construction Catalpa Circle
Labor
98.01
Pipe
553.69
Contractor
458.00
1,109.70
1,109.70
Cemetery
Salaries and Wages
Superintendent
1,820.00
Labor
3,775.00
5,595.00
5,595.00
Other Expenses
Tools
194.97
Chapel
62.67
Telephone
26.24
Water
30.48
Seed
45.08
Fertilizer
33.50
Weed killer
55.00
Police
5.63
Garage rent Canvas
24.00
Sand and cement
8.60
Loam
106.25
Shrubs
85.00
Auto expense
49.85
Gasoline and oil
50.93
830.20
830.20
Cemetery Improvement
Unexpended balance returned to
Cemetery Lots Fund
2,258.28
Shrubbery
225.50
2,483.78
2,483.78
Total
Summary of Enterprises
From last Year
Transfer Appropria- Expendi- Transfer Balance to
to
tions
tures
from
Revenue
Water Wages
$15,254.00
$13,359.96
$1,894.04
Water Others
57,356.00
46,817.79
10,538.21
Cemetery Wages
1,820.00
$3,780.00
5,595.00
$5.00
Cemetery Others
.....
840.00
830.20
9.80
Cemetery Improve --
ment
$6,263.78
Emergency Water
5,000.00
2,307.82
2,692.18
Water Construction
Accounts
Lincoln Circle
2,000.00
1,733.93
266.07
Catalpa Circle
2,000.00
1,109.70
890.30
State Road
26,000.00
17,326.20
8,673.80
Totals
$6,263.78
$109,430.00
$4,620.00 $91,564.38 $28,734.60
$14.80
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
207
2,483.78
3,780.00
$703,794.51
52.00
208
TOWN DOCUMENTS [Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$703,794.51
INTEREST, MATURING DEBT AND AGENCY
Interest
Loans in Anticipation of
Revenue
$971.39
Loan in Anticipation of Bond Issue
3.23
General Debt
14,216.86
Sewer Loans
2,491.00
T. B. Hospital Notes
900.00
High School Loan
5,240.00
$23,822.48
$23,822.48
Maturing Debt
General Debt
28,700.00
Sewer Bonds
9,050.00
T. B. Hospital Notes
3,000.00
High School Loan
12,488.43
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
350,000.00
Loans in Anticipation of
Bond Issue
15,000.00
Premium on bonds applied to High School Debt
1,511.57
420,050.00
420,050.00
State and County Taxes
State Tax
45,202.50
County Tax
35,450.87
80,653.37
80,653.37
Agency
Essex County Dog Licenses
1,365.00
Essex County T. B. Hospital Assessment
9,312.05
Petty Cash Public Welfare
25.00
10,702.05
10,702.05
Charles River Basin Taxes
Loan Fund, Serial Bonds
71.30
Sinking Fund
7.67
Interest
760.40
Maintenance
1,879.12
2,718.49
2,718.49
Metropolitan Park Taxes
Loan Sinking Fund
400.47
Serial Bonds
14.26
Interest
1,274.96
Maintenance
6,916.65
Metropolitan Planning Division
121.39
Metropolitan Parks Loan Sinking Fund Series 2
130.67
Metropolitan Parks Serial Bonds Interest
620.99
Metropolitan Parks Loan Fund,
Nantasket Maintenance
746.52
Wellington Bridge Maintenance
24.24
Land Taking Revere
91.26
W. Roxbury, Brookline Parkway
140.36
Ways in Malden, etc.
.04
10,984.92
10,984.92
$1,252,725.82
Amount carried forward '
503.11
1937]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
209
Amount brought forward State Assessments
Auditing Municipal Accounts
$1,365.08 69.33
$1,434.41 1,434.41
Trust Fund Transactions
Phillips Medal Fund Income
50.75
Cemetery Lots Fund Income 26.00
Emma Y. Stocker lots fund income
6.25
Cemetery, sale of lots
2,261.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care
950.00
3,294.00
3,294.00
Refunds
1934 Poll
2.00
1935 Personal
2.93
1936 Real Estate
81.00
1936 Excise Taxes
53.52
1937 Personal
28.30
1937 Excise Taxes
1,675.09
1937 Taxes Real Estate
862.57
Water
143.53
Overpayment on tax title
30.00
Payment of victualer's license refund
2.00
One-half payment of non-alcohol
license paid to State
10.00
Överpayment of poll tax fee
.35
Interest on excise taxes
.25
2,891.54
2,891.54
Sale of Real Estate
Advertising
3.50
3.50
3.50
Cash Transfers
To Retirement Funds
From Contributions from Munici- pality for Pensions 704.50
From balances of expenses for administration 348.77
From New High School to Special
account 2,600.00
3,653.27
3,653.27
Checks Returned and Deducted from Expenditures
Police Wages 7.00
Public Welfare Others
34.50
Old Age Assistance Others
61.00
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance
9.00
Fourth of July
60.00
New High School 7.20
178.70
178.70
$1,264,181.24
Amount carried forward
$1,252,725.82
Veterans' Exemption
210
TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$1,264,181.24
NON-REVENUE
Lincoln Circle Sewer
Advertising
$11.40
Castings
113.74
Contractor
1,931.25
Water
14.10
$2,070.49
2,070.49
Atlantic Avenue Sewer
Inspector
85.00
Castings
47.48
Advertising
11.65
Water Connections
16.97
Contractor
1,658.90
1,820.00
1,820.00
Catalpa Circle Sewer
Advertising
11.40
Castings
40.36
Inspector
50.00
Contractor
1,508.24
1,610.00
1,610.00
Hawthorne Brook Materials
Cement Concrete
4,314.19
Tools and Hardware
39.51
Materials
2,015.15
Trucks
906.00
Rent of machine
21.00
Removal of old culvert
326.60
All others
17.55
7,700.00
7,700.00
Ocean Avenue Drain
Pipe
437.47
Materials
52.53
490.00
490.00
New Police Station
Architect
225.00
Contractor
16,657.06
Shrubs
76.00
16,958.06
16,958.06
New High School
Administration
21.06
Miscellaneous
90.13
Contractor
50,775.27
Designs and plans
2,809.38
Supervision
390.00
Unpaid labor
45.43
All others
24.00
51,531.51
51,531.51
Total Expenditures Balance January 1, 1938
$1,346,361.30
209,114.65
$1,555,475.95
1937]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
211
Summary of Non-Revenue
From last Year
Receipts
Transfer Expendi- tures to
Transfer from
Transfer to Revenue
Newsboy Badge
Fund
$5.25
$.25
*$5.50
Special Police
Badge Fund
29.00
29.00
Emergency Water
1,894.34
*1,894.34
New High School
42,726.03
50,486.08
2,600.00 ₸10,360.05
Special Account
New High School
2,600.00
1,045.43
*1,554.57
Ocean Ave. Drain
490.00
490.00
Lincoln Cir. Sewer
2,380.00
2,070.49
*309.51
Atlantic Ave. Sewer
1,820.00
1,820.00
Hawthorne Brook
Materials
7,700.00
7,700.00
Catalpa Circle
Sewer
1,610.00
1,610.00
New Police Station
19,000.00
16,958.06
*2,041.94
Totals
$44,654.62 $33,000.25
$2,600.00 $82,180.06
$2,600.00
$5,834.86
Overdraft $10,360.05
*To 1938
¡Overdraft in anticipation of receipts from U. S.
TRANSFERS
From Reserve Fund
$1,762.27
To Tree Warden others
$200.00
To Tree Warden others
42.90
To Moth Department Locker Building
16.22
To Pension Retirement Fund
704.50
To Tree Warden others
56.95
To Collector of Taxes others
360.00
To Recreational Project
80.00
To Town Clerk Wages To Selectmen others
201.70
From Cemetery Improvement 3,780.00
To Cemetery Wages
3,780.00
From Water Available Surplus
30,000.00
To Water Construction Lincoln Circle
2,000.00
To Water Construction State Road To Water Construction Catalpa Circle From Highway others
2,000.00
To Permanent Sidewalk Construction
5,000.00
From Excess and Deficiency
20,000.00
To Extension of Hawthorne Brook Culvert From Police Wages To Police others
300.00
300.00
From Water Construction Lincoln Circle
266.07
From Water Construction Catalpa Circle To Water Available Surplus
890.30
1,156.37
. .
. .
100.00
26,000.00
5,000.00
20,000.00
212
TOWN DOCUMENTS [Dec. 31
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT Balance Sheet, December 31, 1937
$209,114.65 125.00
Petty Cash
Uncollected Taxes 1935 Poll
$119.00
Uncollected Taxes 1935 Personal
254.27
Uncollected Taxes 1935 Real Estate
373.27
Uncollected Taxes 1936 Poll
168.00
Uncollected Taxes 1936 Personal
126.90
Uncollected Taxes 1936 Real Estate
5,899.35
6,194.25
Uncollected Taxes 1937 Poll
230.00
Uncollected Taxes 1937 Personal
763.52
Uncollected Taxes 1937 Real Estate
128,479.45
129,472.97
Uncollected Moth 1935
1.00
Uncollected Moth 1936
24.25
Uncollected Moth 1937
461.25
486.50
Uncollected Apportioned Sewers
3,348.47
Uncollected 1936 Sewers
103.34
Uncollected 1937 Sewers
882.47
4,334.28
Property taken by Town for Taxes Tax Titles
852.01
40,975.91
41,827.92
Water Accounts Receivable 1936
1,269.30
Water Accounts Receivable 1937
12,369.18
Water Services 1936
89.77
Water Services 1937
383.45
Water Liens
30.21
Water Liens Added to Taxes 1936
135.34
Water Liens Added to Taxes 1937
3,154.23
Water Miscellaneous
95.90
Water Rent
40.00
Water Interest
640.63
Departmental Accounts Receivable Health
821.20
Departmental Accounts Receivable Old
Age Assistance
598.62
Departmental Accounts Receivable School
35.00
Departmental Accounts Receivable Town Hall
29.00
Departmental Accounts Receivable Public Welfare
2,961.47
Departmental Accounts Receivable Park
384.08
Departmental Accounts Receivable Cemetery
369.50
Departmental Accounts Receivable Fire
79.84
Departmental Accounts Receivable Tree Warden
58.00
1934 Excise Taxes on Motor Vehicles
151.96
1935 Excise Taxes on Motor Vehicles
462.33
1936 Excise Taxes on Motor Vehicles
622.54
1937 Excise Taxes on Motor Vehicles
1,500.83
2,737.65
Amount carried forward .
$418,211.22
18,208.01
5,336.71
Cash
1937]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
213
Amount brought forward
$418,211.22
1923 Overlay
$19.50
1932 Overlay
114.71
1933 Overlay
118.24
1935 Overlay
226.11
478.56
Interest
461.49
State and County Taxes
3,551.28
Metropolitan Park Assessments
354.51
State Assessments
33.83
3,939.62
Loans Authorized but Not Used
136,000.00
New High School Overdraft
10,360.05
Debt
Net Bonded Debt
Trust Funds
Securities and Cash
34,881.79
Securities, income and interest
6,589.90
Sewers, apportioned but not due
8,640.96
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT
Balance Sheet, December 31, 1937 Accounts Current
1935 Taxes Real Estate
.94
Excess and Deficiency
126,741.81
Water Available Surplus
35,522.82
Sale of Real Estate
3,981.15
Revenue
Water Revenue
18,208.01
Moth Revenue
486.50
Sewer Revenue
4,334.28
Tax Title Revenue
41,827.92
D. A. R. Revenue
5,336.71
Excise Tax Revenue
2,737.66
72,931.08
Overlay 1934
43.18
Overlay 1936
5,440.78
Overlay 1937
3,008.00
Overlay Reserve
3,865.92
12,357.88
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
150,000.00
Dog Licenses
63.00
New Police Station
643.82
Extension Hawthorne Brook Culvert
18,456.85
Millett Road Ledge
175.00
Atlantic Avenue Resurfacing
982.42
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance
2,754.52
U. S. Grant Old Age Administration
129.97
U. S. Grant Aid to Dependent Children
115.05
Mary L. Thomson Library Fund Income
1.04
Joanna Morse Library Fund Income
1.11
Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund Income
.11
2.26
Amount carried forward
$424,858.57
$569,450.94
$688,050.00
41,471.69
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Amount brought forward
$424,858.47
High School and Grounds
320.56
Recreational Project
193.42
Warrants Payable Park Truck Hire
500.00
Charles River Basin Assessments
9.40
PWA Loan Authorized But Not Issued Non-Revenue
136,000.00
Newsboys' Badge Fund
5.50
Emergency Water
1,894.34
Special Account New High School
1,554.57
Lincoln Circle Sewer
309.51
New Police Station
2,041.94
$569,450.94
Debt
Permanent Improvement Notes
594,800.00
Sewer Bonds Serial
53,250.00
Water Bonds Serial
19,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital Serial Loan
21,000.00
688,050.00
Trust Funds
Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund
2,000.00
Joanna Morse Library Fund
5,196.00
Mary L. Thomson Library Fund
1,000.00
Phillips Medal Fund
1,000.00
Cemetery Lots Fund
21,283.79
Municipal Insurance Fund
3,902.00
Emma Y. Stocker Cemetery Lots Fund
500.00
34,881.79
Trust Fund Incomes
Phillips Medal Fund Income
1,780.08
Municipal Insurance Fund Income
4,425.33
Cemetery Lots Fund Income
371.83
Emma Y. Stocker Cemetery Lots Fund Income
12.66
6,589.90
Apportioned
Sewers
$8,640.96
The following bills were reported as unpaid at the close of the year:
Town Hall
$22.62
Law
1,598.10
Board of Public Welfare
1,706.93
Cemetery
13.61
Inspector of Animals
16.00
HORACE R. PARKER, Town Accountant.
1
1,763.13
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REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
1937]
Board of Public Welfare
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
In accordance with our usual practice, the Board of Public Wel- fare is again submitting its report for the year 1937 and reporting on the large case loads which have been carried during the year.
Since the beginning of the year 1937, we had high hopes that the demand on the public purse for aiding the unfortunate and needy of the town had passed, due to the fact the general business trend was distinctly upward and economic conditions had improved.
However, with the approach of the mid-year came the reverse of business conditions, termed by some as "a recession," which re- sulted in our welfare costs being increased month by month due to unemployment.
As the relief applicants have called upon us for needed assis- tance, we have endeavored to exercise the best possible judgment in administering to their needs. It has been our aim to provide ade- quately for each and every case and yet restrict expenditures to a minimum. In order to do this every case has been budgeted accord- ing to a standard budget which we have set up within the depart- ment and to which each and every worker in the welfare department has adhered to in planning the budget for each individual case. In following this procedure, we have experienced that each case can be justly dealt with.
All persons who were capable of working were given cash aid instead of food orders, with the understanding that the cash would be used for food. They were requested to work out aid rendered on the Park Department, Highway Department, Town Hall, and any other department in the town which was desirous of having extra help. By this procedure the town was able to get work done in re- turn for money spent, which proved beneficial, both to the town and to the recipient.
During the year 1937 we had aid worked out by the recipients amounting to approximately $1,687.50, for which the town received back in labor an estimated amount of 1900 hours on the Highway Department, 200 hours on the Moth Department, and 600 hours on the Park Department, or a total of 2700 hours. We feel that the town should foresee that this type of labor is available and are suggesting again to the Finance Committee that this type of labor be used and reduce expenditures by having articles in the warrant call for the material costs only.
The work on the Highway Department included miscellaneous work which this department had to have done, while on the Moth Department the men were used to clean up under brush. The Park Department had the men grading soil on the various parks. We also complied with a request from the School Department and men were used to work at the High School building.
It must be apparent to the citizens of the town that anticipated relief from the public obligation of caring for the unfortunate poor, unprepared aged, and dependent children, is not yet in sight, and although the federal government, with its visions of social security and readjustment of conditions, is taking more of a hand in setting up methods and policies of operations, the major consequence is an ever changing program which necessitates added administrative personnel and more investigation work by the department.
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Social Security
The welfare recipients and not the town benefit to the greatest extent by the Social Security legislation.
The added number eligible under the Federal and State program and the requirements of the town paying a State tax for deficits in the State expenditures has placed a much greater burden upon the municipalities than ever before.
Federal legislation . brought about a change by transferring from what was formerly called Mother's Aid to what is now termed Aid to Dependent Children.
Under the law, any person having charge of dependent children may become recipients of this aid and no settlement in the munici- pality is required. The Federal government pays one-third up to $18 per month for the first child and $12 a month each for the other children and the State pays one-third. The remainder is charged to the town.
This is a doubtful benefit to the town, for under the Mother's Aid law the State paid for all the aid when there was no legal set- tlement for those receiving this aid.
We wish at this time to say that we are very grateful to Tim- othy J. Ryan, Surveyor of Highways, and Frederick C. Burk, Tree Warden, for their co-operation in extending the use of their equip- ment and men in transporting food commodities from Salem to the W. P. A. Commodity Center, and wish to extend our thanks and appreciation.
We wish to extend our thanks to the Police Department, Swamp- scott Viisting Nurse and Family Welfare Association, local physi- cians, druggists and fuel concerns who have co-operated in aiding the Welfare Department with the great many burdens which have confronted us.
We appreciate the co-operation from the Town Counsel relative to bills which have been in dispute for some time and his aid in clarifying technicalities in the law which have arisen during the year.
As in previous years, we have had many requests for workers for private employment and we have gladly recommended people for employment and we have endeavored to send people whom we thought were qualified to do the necessary work required.
From money spent from our appropriations, during the year 1937, we received in reimbursement to date, $16,471.81. This money comes from the State, other cities and towns, and individuals, and adding the balance left at the end of the year we will turn a total of $17,741.87 back to the town, which can be used to reduce the tax rate during the year 1938. We also have a balance of $2,999.54 on hand as of January 1, 1938, returned from the Federal government to be used for welfare purposes only, which cannot be turned back to the town. In preparing our budget for 1938 we have deducted this amount, thereby requesting approximately $3,000 less than last year.
Unpaid bills for aid rendered by other cities and towns, dating as far back as 1932, which have been in dispute for some time are now in the process of being cleaned up and a special article will be inserted in the warrant calling for $1,706.93 to pay same. By agree- ment, the city of Lynn will abate $201.63, as our departments have agreed that the cases involved were not Swampscott settled cases.
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