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"He shall keep an accurate set of books showing in detail the expense of his department and of all work done by it. He shall each year submit in time for publication in the annual report a statement showing the work of his department for the year and the expenditure of money in connection therewith."
This By-Law shall take effect upon the election of a Board of Public Works in 1956.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $480.00 from available federal funds for salaries of the Agent and Social Worker of the Bureau of Old Age Assistance retroactive to January 1, 1955 or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Welfare.
Article 16. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise under any general or special law which authorizes the Town to raise money by borrowing or otherwise such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Monday, June 27, 1955
In accordance with the warrant and a quorum being present (176), the Town Meeting Members were called to order by the Town Clerk, Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr., Moderator Kenneth W. Ulman being absent, the Meeting elected Vincent P. O'Brien as Moderator pro tempore.
Town Meeting Members were sworn in by the Town Clerk, Malcolm F. MacLean, Jr.
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The warrant with the return thereon, was read by Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr., Town Clerk.
Voted: Article 1. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows :
That the Town accept the report of the Swampscott High School Building Committee. Dated May 1955.
Voted: Article 2. 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 right of eminent domain for public school purposes the land hereinafter described and that the sum of $60,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $10,000.00 be appropriated from the unexpended balance of the ap- propriation under Article 1 of the Special Town Meeting of June 22, 1954 and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz .; $50,000.00 and to issue notes or bonds 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 years from the date of 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 for the above purposes is bounded and described as follows:
A certain parcel of land located on the Southwesterly side of Salem Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts and being shown on "Plan of Land in Swampscott, Mass." dated April 15, 1955 drawn by Whitman & Howard Civil Engineers, and bounded and described as follows: Northeasterly, by Salem Street, 980 feet; South- erly, 395 feet and Southwesterly, 645.88 feet by land of Davenport; Southwesterly again, 159.23 feet and Northwesterly, 393.48 feet and 391.48 feet by land of the Tedesco Country Club. Containing 11.64 acres according to said plan. For: 173; Against : 53; Present 4.
Voted: Article 3. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town construct and originally equip and furnish a new high school on the land described in Article 2 and that the sum of $1,665,000.00 be appropria- ted therefor to be raised as follows:
That the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow the sum of $1,665,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town there- for payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of 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 said school building shall be constructed by a committee appointed by the Moderator. The said committee, to be known as the High School Building Committee, shall have the power to engage an architect, enter into contracts and do all things necessary to construct, equip and furnish the said new high school. For: 198 ; Against : 30; Present: 3.
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Voted: Article 4. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept the report of the Hadley School Building Committee. Dated 1954-55.
Voted: Article 5. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town remodel, reconstruct and make extraordinary repairs to the Hadley School and that the sum of $169,024.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $31,024.00 be appropriated from the tax levy of 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 .; $138,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 275 of the Acts of 1948 so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than ten years from the date of 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 said remodeling, reconstruction and repairing shall be done by a commit- tee appointed by the Moderator. The said committee, to be known as the Hadley School Building Committee, shall have the power to engage an architect, enter into contracts and to do all things necessary to remodel, reconstruct and make extra- ordinary repairs to the said Hadley School. For: 195; Against: 1.
Voted: Article 6. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: To consider Articles 7 and 8 together.
Voted: Articles 7 and 8. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 9. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate $450.00 for the purposes of this article.
Voted: Article 10. 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 purchase of uniforms and the payment of wages for twelve (12) special policewomen to be employed for traffic duty at the various schools of the town.
Voted: Article 11. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 12. To accept the report of the Finance Committee as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the moderator to appoint a Central Fire Station Committee of five (5) members and that said committee be authorized to examine the feasibility or advisability of repairing or renovating the present fire station or
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to select a site, engage an architect to prepare preliminary plans, specifications and engineering data and the approximate cost for the construction and original equip- ping of a new central fire station and that the sum of $2,500.00 be appropriated therefor from the tax levy and that said committee file its report with the Town Clerk no later than February 1, 1956.
Voted: Article 13. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to take the necessary steps to alter and repair the house and garage on Capen Road for cemetery and other office space, equipment storage space, workshop purposes, public lavatories, and garaging of vehicles and appropriate the sum of $3,700.00 therefor from the tax levy.
Voted: To dispense with the reading of Article 14.
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Committee as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town amend Chapter VII, Section 6 of the By-Laws providing for an engineering department by striking out said Chapter 7, Section 6 and substituting therefor the following:
"Chapter VII, Section 6. The Board of Public Works shall appoint an engineer for a term of 3 years and such assistants as it may deem necessary and fix their compensation. The Town Engineer shall have charge of all engineering pertaining to the town and no person employed in said Department shall engage in engineering work on his private account without permission in writing from the Board of Public Works. The Town Engineer shall have charge of and shall preserve, arrange and index all plans, surveys, field notes, records, documents and all other informa- tion relating to the engineering work of the town so that the same may be readily accessible for public use. No water pipes shall be laid in any public or in any way the plan of which has been approved by the Board of Survey and the Planning Board except in accordance with plans on file in the office of the Town Engineer.'
"He shall keep an accurate set of books showing in detail the expenses of his department and of all work done by it. He shall each year submit in time for publication in the annual report a statement showing the work of his department for the year and the expenditure of money in connection therewith."
This By-Law shall take effect upon the election of a Board of Public Works in 1956. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 15. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 16. 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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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL ELECTION Tuesday, June 28, 1955
1. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 34 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 held March 29, 1955 that all full-time permanent em- ployees, excluding the Fire, School and Police Departments, be granted a raise of $156.00 and that the necessary money be Yes ( ) No ( ) appropriated ?
2. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 35 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 held March 29, 1955 that the Town grant a ten (10%) percent increase to permanent members of the Fire Depart- ment commencing January 1, 1955 and appropriate the neces- Yes ( ) sary money therefor?
No ( )
3. Shall the Town vote to approve the Action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 36 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 held March 29, 1955 that the Town grant an increase in annual salary to the members of the Police Department, effective as of January 1, 1955, equal to ten (10%) percent Yes ( ) and appropriate the necessary money therefor?
No ( )
The following number of votes were cast:
Precinct 1
473
Precinct 2
540
Precinct 3
426
Precinct 4
424
Precinct 5
485
Precinct 6
474
Total Vote Cast
2822
Precinct
1
2
3
4
5
6 Total
Question No. 1 (Employees)
Yes
302
255
227
161
180
117
1242
No (E)
166
276
182
257
304
346
1531
Blanks
5
9
17
6
1
11
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Question No. 2 (Fire)
Yes
285
226
225
154
169
126
1185
No (E)
183
299
190
260
310
343
1585
Blanks
5
15
11
10
6
5
52
Question No. 3 (Police)
Yes
289
248
235
162
177
135
1246
No (E)
182
282
184
255
303
336
1542
Blanks
2
10
7
7
5
3
34
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL ELECTION Monday, July 25, 1955
On Monday, July 25, 1955 at two o'clock in the afternoon then and there to vote on the following questions, viz. :
1. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 2 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held June 27, 1955 that the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by right of eminent domain for public school purposes the land hereinafter described and that the sum of $60,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That $10,000.00 be appropriated from the unexpended balance of the appro- priation under Article I of the Special Town Meeting of June 22, 1954 and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz., $50,000.00 and to issue notes or bonds 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 years from the date of 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 for the above purposes is bounded and described as follows:
A certain parcel of land located on the Southwesterly side of Salem Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts and being shown on "Plan of Land in Swampscott, Mass." dated April 15, 1955 drawn by Whitman & Howard, Civil Engineers, and bounded and described as follows: Northeasterly, by Salem Street, 980 feet; South- erly, 395 feet and Southwesterly, 645.88 feet by land of Davenport; Southwesterly again, 159.23 feet and Northwesterly, 393.48 feet and 391.48 feet by land of the Tedesco Country Club. Containing 11.64 acres according to Yes said plan. For: 173; Against: 53; Present: 4 .? No
2. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 3 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held June 27, 1955 that the Town construct and originally equip and furnish a new high school on the land described in Article 2 and that the sum of $1,665,000.00 be appropriated therefor to be raised as follows:
That the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow the sum of $1,665,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes to the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of 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 said school building shall be constructed by a committee appointed by the Moderator. The said committee, to be known as the High School Building Committee, shall have the power to engage an architect, enter into contracts and to do all things necessary to construct, equip, and furnish the Yes ) said new high school. For: 198; Against: 30; Present: 3 .? No )
3. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 7 of the Warrant for the Special Town
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Meeting held June 27, 1955 to accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows: that action on this article be indefinitely postponed; Article 7 called for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for school purposes and appropriating the necessary money therefor of Lots 1, 2, 3, 23, 23A, 24, 25, 26 and 29 on Plate 2 of the Assessors' Plans of Yes (
the Town of Swampscott containing 124,990 square feet of
No ( ) land more or less ?
4. Shall the Town vote to approve the action of the Representative Town Meeting whereby it was voted under Article 8 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting held June 27, 1955 to accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows: that action on this article be indefinitely postponed: Article 8 called for the constructing and originally equipping of a new junior high school on land described in Article 7 and appro- priating the necessary money therefor from available funds Yes ( ) by borrowing or otherwise?
No
(
The following number of votes were cast:
Precinct 1
620
Precinct 2
764
Precinct 3
707
Precinct 4
656
Precinct 5
742
Precinct 6
843
Total Vote Cast
4332
Precinct
1
2
3
4
5
6
Total
Question No. 1
Yes
223
352
311
367
462
614
2329
No
394
409
390
285
278
226
1982
Blanks
3
3
6
4
2
3
21
Question No. 2
Yes
232
359
320
375
475
618
2379
No
380
393
379
268
257
216
1893
Blanks
8
12
8
13
10
9
60
Question No. 3
Yes
278
427
352
401
503
633
2594
No
327
317
334
236
225
188
1627
Blanks
15
20
21
19
14
22
111
Question No. 4
Yes
291
424
356
402
511
629
2613
No
317
323
330
238
224
180
1612
Blanks
12
17
21
16
7
34
+
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Monday, December 12, 1955
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to purchase or take by eminent domain for school purposes the land located on Forest Avenue and shown as Assessors' Plans, Plate 18, Lot 4A, containing 95,400 square feet of land more or less, Plate 18, Lot 4C, containing 276,200 square feet of land more or less, Plate 18, Lot D, containing 87,431 square feet of land more or less and Plate 18, Lot 22 containing 14,823 square feet of land more or less, and on said land construct, originally equip and furnish a new senior high school of the unit or departmentalized type, substantially in accordance with a plan of construction proposed by Warren H.
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Ashley, Architect, and appropriate the necessary money therefor, by transferring from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the School Committee, the Committee for Adequate School Needs and the Citizens Committee for Public Schools.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to purchase or take by eminent domain for school purposes the land located on Redington Street and appropriate the necessary money therefor by borrowing or otherwise or take any action relative thereto. The land to be taken for school purposes is bounded and described as follows:
SOUTHEASTERLY, by Redington Street, 220 feet more or less;
NORTHEASTERLY, by Stone Court, 158 feet more or less;
NORTHWESTERLY, by Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Plate 2 of the Assessors' Plans, 220 feet more or less; and
SOUTHWESTERLY, by land of the Town of Swampscott, 158 feet more or less.
Being shown as Lots 23, 23A, 24 and 25 on Plate 2 of the Assessors' Plans of the Town of Swampscott and containing, according to said Plans, 33,285 square feet of land more or less.
Sponsored by the School Committee.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm the action of the Board of Selectmen in petitioning the legislature for appropriate legislation to place the labor force of the Park and Cemetery Departments of the Town of Swampscott under the classified civil service and to place the office of the Surveyor of Highways, the Superintendent of Parks, the Superintendent of the Cemetery, the Town Engineer and the Assistant Town Engineer under the classified civil service and to provide for the continuance in office of the present Surveyor of Highways, the Superintendent of Parks, the Superintendent of the Cemetery, the Town Engineer and the Assistant Town Engineer, and further, to transfer said labor force and said officials to the Public Works Department or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 4. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of raising the pay of all full-time employees $5.00 per week with the exception of the School Department.
Petitioned for by Joseph Cardillo et als.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to grant an increase in annual salary to the members of the Police Department effective as of January 1, 1955, equal to 10 per cent of their present annual salary and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by William L. Quealy et als.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to grant a 10 per cent increase in salaries for the permanent members of the Fire Department retroactive to January 1, 1955 and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by James J. Frary et als.
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Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to approve the purchase of motor vehicle liability and property damage insurance for motor vehicles which are operated by members of the Fire Department and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by Paul T. Dunn et als.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be used in conjunction with the money appropriated under Article 33 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1954 and Article 51 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 for the purpose of completing the work in laying out the new portion of the Cemetery or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and the Superintendent of the Cemetery.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to enclose Hawthorne Brook, so-called, with a concrete culvert on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers, and appropriate the necessary money therefor from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by Benjamin A. Gold et als.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to install a sewer in Oakledge Road a distance of approximately eighty feet and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Water and Sewerage Board and the Board of Health.
Article 11. To see if the Town will assume liability in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapters 516 and 524, Acts of 1950, for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts for the improvement, de- velopment, maintenance and protection of tidal and non-tidal rivers and streams, harbors, tidewaters, foreshores and shores „'ong a public beach known as Preston Beach in Swampscott outside of Boston Harbor in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to establish the number of reserve police at seven or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to declare that a certain easement taken by the Town for drain purposes over the land of Robert F. Kimball and Sarah P. Kimball is no longer required for public purposes and authorize the Board of Selectmen to abandon the said easement and convey back to the said Robert F. Kimball and Sarah P. Kimball the easement taken by eminent domain for purposes of a drain dated September 1, 1955 and recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 4201, Page 36.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to transfer such sum or sums within departmental accounts so that the said accounts may be balanced without further transfer from the reserve.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
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Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Surveyor of Highways to purchase a new five-ton truck and to sell or trade a 1936 five-ton truck and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Surveyor of Highways to purchase a road grader and to sell or trade a Meade-Morrison tractor and basin cleaner and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Surveyor of Highways.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Monday, December 12, 1955
In accordance with the warrant the Town Meeting Members were called to order by the Moderator, Kenneth W. Ulman at 8:03 P.M., the necessary quorum being present (160.)
The warrant with the return thereon was read by Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr., Town Clerk.
Voted: Article 1. 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 for public school purposes the land hereinafter described and on said land construct, originally equip and furnish a new senior high school of the unit or departmentalized type substantially in accordance with a plan of construction proposed by Warren H. Ashley, Architect and that the sum of $1,270,625.00 be raised and appropriated for acquiring said land and construction and equipping said new senior high school as follows:
That $10,504.91 be appropriated from the unexpended balance of the appro- priation under Article 1 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of June 22, 1954 and that $120.09 be appropriated from the Excess & Deficiency Fund and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz., $1,260,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of issuance of the first bond or note or such earlier date as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, may determine.
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