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8,160.00
8,160.00
Emergency Water
10,000.00
10,000.00
Pipe and Fittings
7,500.00
7,500.00
Voted that the sum of $80,574.93 be appropriated from the Water Department Receipts for the year 1954, and that the sum of $30,500.00 be transferred from the Water Available Surplus Account to the Water Department for the following items: Metropolitan Water Tax, Emergency Water and Pipe and Fittings. Interest
General Debt
25,318.75 1,500.00
Temporary Loans
Bank Service Charge
59 50 26,878.25
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Maturing Debt
General Debt Inside
81,000.00
General Debt Outside
28,000.00 109,000.00
CONTROLS
Rent Control
Clerk
695.00
695.00
Expenses
25.00
25.00
Voted: Article 8. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended:
Selectmen (3)
Chairman
$ 750.00
Another Member
600.00
Another Member
600.00
Moderator
150.00
Town Clerk
1,302.45
Collector of Taxes
2,292.45
Water and Sewerage Commissioners (3)
Chairman
1,100.00
Another Member
440.00
Another Member
440.00
Assessors (3)
Chairman
1,650.00
Another Member
550.00
Another Member
550.00
Treasurer
1,980.00
Board of Public Welfare (3)
Chairman
165.00
Another Member
110.00
Another Member
110.00
Board of Health (3)
Chairman
220.00
Another Member
165.00
Another Member
165.00
Surveyor of Highways
4,914.90
Constable (one of three)
100.00
All effective from January 1, 1954. The appropriations necessary to provide for the payment of these rates are in the budgets of the various departments under Article 7.
Voted: Article 9. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Assessors, the Board of Park Commis- sioners and the Planning Board each to appoint a member of such Boards to act as Secretary thereof and that the salary of such incumbents be fixed at $50.00 per year, as provided by Section 4-A, Chapter 41, General Laws. The appropriations necessary to pay these salaries have been provided for in Article 7.
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Voted: Article 10. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 11. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Fund Account to the Current Revenue Account the sum of $175,000.00 said sum to be used and applied by the Board of Assessors in reduction of the tax levy for the year 1954.
Voted: Article 12. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $1,200.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 13. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $1,000.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $200.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 15. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $300.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 16. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town carry on a sidewalk construction program under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 83, Sections 25 and 26 and that the sum of $6,500.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted: Article 17. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 18. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town extend the sewers in any or all of the following streets: Laurel Road, Pine Hill Road, Nantucket Avenue, Coolidge Road, Worcester Avenue and in any other streets recommended by the Board of Health and the Water and Sew- erage Board and that the sum of $35,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $7,459.82 be transferred from the Puritan Road sewer appropriation; and that $7,000.00 be transferred from the State Road appropriation and that the balance, namely $20,540.18 be appropriated from the tax levy for the current year.
Voted: Article 19. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
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Voted: Article 20. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town paint the standpipe and that the sum of $3,500.00 be appro- priated therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account.
Voted: Article 21. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a compressor for the Water Department and that the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account.
Voted: Article 22. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town extend the 16" water main in Columbia Street from the Lynn- Swampscott line to Burrill Street and that the sum of $7,500.00 be appropriated therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account.
Voted: Article 23. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $800.00 from the Water Available Surplus Account for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 24. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $75.00 be appropriated for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 25. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Water and Sewerage Board be authorized to purchase or take by emi- nent domain the premises shown as Plate 9, Lots 598, 599, 600 of the Assessors' Plans for the purpose of erecting a standpipe thereon and that the sum of $1,600.00 be appropriated therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 26. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed as the monies necessary to do this work have been appropriated in the Sewer Department budget.
Voted: Article 27. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Water and Sewerage Board be authorized to purchase or take by emi- nent domain necessary easements to replace the drain running along the rear of lots on Fuller Avenue and connecting with the drain on Cedar Hill Terrace and that the sum of $10,500.00 be appropriated therefor in the manner following:
That $1,374.01 be transferred from the Bay View Drive drain account; that the sum of $7,313.49 be transferred from the New Ocean House account; and that the sum of $1,812.50 be appropriated from the tax levy for the current year. Unani- mous.
Voted: Article 28. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town install a drain on Jessie Street and that the sum of $2,500.00 be appropriated therefor.
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Voted: Article 29. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 30. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 31. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated from the Cemetery Lots Fund for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 32. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $900.00 be appropriated from the Cemetery Lots Fund for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 33. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town layout a new section of the Cemetery and grade the avenues and parks and that the sum of $10,000.00 be appropriated therefor as follows:
That $6,000.00 be transferred from the Cemetery Lots Fund and that $4,000.00 be appropriated from the tax levy of the current year.
Voted: Article 34. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $750.00 be appropriated for the purpose of this article.
Voted: Article 35. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $84.38 be appropriated for the purpose of this article.
Voted: Article 36. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town construct and originally equip and furnish an addition to the Public Library on land adjacent to the present library; that the said construction be carried on by a committee of five to be appointed by the Moderator, one of whom shall be a member of the Board of Library Trustees; that the said committee shall have the power to engage an architect to prepare plans and specifications, to enter into contracts for the construction of the said addition to the Library and to do all things necessary to equip and furnish said addition to the Public Library and that the sum of $80,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated from the tax levy for the current year and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz. $70,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty (20) years from the date of the issuance of the first bond or note or such earlier date as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, may determine. Unanimous.
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Voted: Article 37. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 38. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town replace the lighting fixtures, except the children's room, in the Public Library and appropriate therefor the sum of $6,500.00.
Voted : Article 39. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 40. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for the purposes of this arti- cle.
Voted: Article 41. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 42. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 43. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 44. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $800.00 for the purpose of this article.
Voted: Article 45. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted : Article 46. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a brush disposal machine and that the sum of $3,000.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted : Article 47. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for the purpose of this article.
Voted: Article 48. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase two automobiles to be used as patrol cars for the Police Department and that the sum of $3,200.00 be appropriated therefor and that the Selectmen be authorized to sell or trade two patrol cars now being used by the Police Department.
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Voted: Article 49. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a motorcycle for the Police Department and that the sum of $1,150.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted: Article 50. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That this article be adopted. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 51. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That this article be adopted. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 52. To continue rent control in force and effect in the Town of Swampscott for a period of nine months from June 30, 1954, as provided by Chapter 434 of the Acts of 1953, and appropriate the sum of $695.00 to cover the cost of administration thereof for the period July 1, 1954 to December 31, 1954. For: 155; Against: 75.
Voted: Article 53. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That this article be adopted.
Voted: Article 54. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That this article be adopted.
Voted: Article 55. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by emi- nent domain for cemetery purposes a lot of land with the buildings thereon shown as Plate 13, Lot 4 of the Assessors' Plans of the Town of Swampscott and that the sum of $1.00 be appropriated therefor. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 56. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That this article be adopted.
Voted: Article 57. That no action be taken on this article. For: 125; Against: 133. The Planning Board made their report.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, March 30, 1954
Voted : To dispense with the reading of the records of the last meeting. Voted: Article 58. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase two 750-gallon fire engine pumpers for the Fire De- partment and that the Selectmen be authorized to trade in or otherwise sell or dis- pose of the present two old fire engine pumpers and that the sum of $32,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
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That $8,000.00 be raised and appropriated from the tax levy for the current year and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be auth- orized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz. $24,000.00; and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole loan be paid in not more than five years from date of the issuance of the first bond or note or such earlier date as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, may determine. For: 210, Against: 16.
Voted: Article 59. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: To dispense with the reading of the description of article 60.
Voted: Article 60. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: To dispense with the reading of the description of Article 61.
Voted: Article 61. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to purchase or take by eminent domain for park purposes the land located at the easterly end of Fisherman's Beach and that the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar be appropriated there- for. Said land is bounded and described as follows:
Easterly by Puritan Road on 3 courses, 22 feet, 161.79 feet and 64.82 feet;
Northwesterly by a public way to beach, 180 feet more or less ;
Southwesterly by the Atlantic Ocean, 179.69 feet.
Said premises are shown on Plan of Land in Swampscott, Scale 1 inch equals 20 feet, dated August 20, 1948, Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer. Unanimous.
Voted: To dispense with the reading of the description of Article 62.
Voted: Article 62. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by eminent domain for school purposes the land hereinafter described and that the sum of Seventy Thousand ($70,000.00) Dollars be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated from the tax levy for the current year, and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz. $60,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty (20) years from the date of the issuance of the first bond or note or such earlier date as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, may determine. The land to be taken is bounded and described as follows:
Westerly by land of New Ocean House, Inc., 650 feet more or less: North- westerly by land of the Town of Swampscott, 73 feet more or less; Northeasterly by other land of the Town of Swampscott, 680 feet more or less; Northwesterly by land of the Town of Swampscott, 153 feet more or less; Westerly by land of the
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Town of Swampscott, 22 feet more or less; Northwesterly by said land of the Town of Swampscott, 260 feet more or less; Northeasterly by land of the Town of Swampscott on three courses, 63 feet, 20 feet and 220 feet more or less; Easterly by land now or formerly of Florence N. Ross, 252 feet more or less ; Southerly by land now or formerly of Sherwin J. and Marilyn H. Gerber, Puritan Lane, and Mabel R. Rosenthal, 257 feet more or less; Easterly by land now or formerly of Mabel R. Rosenthal, 125 feet more or less; Southerly by land now or formerly of Maurice and Gertrude Fogel and the estate of Israel A. Ratchesky, 345 feet more or less; Westerly by land now or formerly of Robert and Clara S. Stone, 55 feet more or less; Southerly by land now or formerly of Robert and Clara S. Stone and Florence N. Lord, 230 feet more or less; Westerly by land now or formerly of Maurice Homes, Inc., 104 feet more or less; Southerly by land now or formerly of Maurice Homes, Inc., 98 feet more or less.
Said parcels of land are shown on Assessor's Plans of the Town of Swampscott Plate 24, as part of Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 76 and the whole of Lots 20, 21, 21-A, and 22 and contain according to the above description approximately 321,250 square feet of land. Roll call vote; For: 166, Against: 80.
Voted: Article 63. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $20,00.00 for the study and preliminary plans and specifications and contractors' estimates of costs which include $2,000.00 for adequate borings to be taken for the high school at the proposed site at Phillips Park, that the Town authorize the Moderator to appoint a School Building Com- mittee of five citizens, one of whom shall be selected from the School Committee.
Voted: Article 64. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Duke Street as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on con- dition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers and that the sum of $2,570.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 65. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 66. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by eminent domain two parcels of land located on Longley Avenue for the purpose of a way and that the sum of ($1.00) dollar be appropriated therefor. Said land is more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Part 1: Beginning on the East side of Atlantic Avenue and the Northwest corner of land owned by Vaneita A. O'Brien; then S 53°-26'-12" E by land of Vaneita A. O'Brien for a distance of five hundred and seventy-two and forty-six one hundredths (572.46) feet; thence S 61°-39'50" E. by land of Vaneita A. O'Brien and Edgar and Myra B. Lebow for a distance of two hundred and ninety- nine and fifty-seven one hundredths (299.57) feet to the Westerly side of Brown Road; thence curving in a Southwesterly direction with a radius of thirty (30.00) feet for a distance of five and forty-nine one hundredths (5.49) feet to the Norther- ly side line of Longley Avenue; thence N 61°-39'-50" W along the Northerly line
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of Longley Avenue for a distance of two hundred and ninety-four and sixteen one- hundredths (294.16) feet; thence N 53°-26'-12" W along the Northerly side of Longley Avenue for a distance of five hundred and seventy-two and sixty one hundredths (572.60) feet to the Easterly side line of Atlantic Avenue; thence curving in a Northeasterly direction with a radius of nine hundred and fifty-seven and seventy-eight one hundredths (957.78) feet for a distance of fifty-two one- hundredths (0.52) feet to the point of beginning.
The above-described parcel contains 435 square feet plus or minus.
Part 2: Beginning on the Easterly side of Brown Road and the corner of land owned by Edgar and Myra B. Lebow; thence S 61°-39'-50" E by land of Edgar and Myra B. Lebow for a distance of one hundred and eigthy-four and twenty-five one hundredths (184.25) feet to the Westerly side line of Ocean Avenue; thence S 73°-43'-50" W along the Westerly side line of Ocean Avenue for a distance of seventy-one one hundredths (0.71) feet to the intersection of the Northerly side line of Longley Avenue; thence N 61°-39'50" W along the Northerly side line of Longley Avenue for a distance of one hundred seventy-eight and twenty-nine one hundredths (178.29) feet to the beginning of a curve to Brown Road; thence curving Northwesterly by Brown Road with a radius of thirty (30.00) feet for a distance of five and forty-eight one hundredths (5.48) feet to the point of beginning
The above-described parcel contains 90 square feet, plus or minus, and both parcels are shown on a Plan of Land, now or formerly owned by Longley Colony, Inc., situated in the Town of Swampscott dated March 10, 1954, drawn not to scale and signed by Howard L. Hamili, Town Engineer. Planning Board concurs. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 67. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Shelton Road from 170 feet east of Beverly Road to Alden Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers and that the sum of $2,880.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 68. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Charlotte Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers and that the sum of $1,880.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: That article 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, and 76 be considered together. Voted : Articles 69-76 (incl.) That action on these articles be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 77. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by eminent domain approximately 492 square feet of land located on the northwesterly corner of Humphrey Street and Forest Avenue for highway purposes and that the sum of one ($1.00) dollar be appropriated therefor. Said land is bounded and described as follows:
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