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Appropriations
Totals
Agent
5.350.00*
Clerks (2)
6.208.65
Board Members
385.00
Secretary
100.00
Social Worker
4.280.00+
Social Worker
2,796.9%
19,120.66
*Voted that $3.000.00 be paid from O.A.A. Grant.
+Voted that $2.000.00 be paid from A.D.C. Grant.
Publie Assistance
104.000.00
104.000.00
Old Age Assistance
Board Members
990.00
Secretary
100.00
1,090.00
VETERANS' SERVICES
Veterans ' Services
Director's Salary
1.580.00
1,580.00
Office Expense
350.00
Travel
220.00
Assistance
7,500.00
S.070.00
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WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
Workmen's Compensation Agent
50.00
50.00
Expenses
500.00
500.00
LIBRARIES
Libraries
Librarian
5,457.00
Children's Librarian
4,066.00
Reference Librarian
4,066.00
General Library Assistant
2,835.50
General Library Assistant
1,767.00
Office Assistant
3,114.13
Janitor
4,079.80
Night Janitor
1,926.00
Assistants
2,509.11
29,820.54
Office Expense
1,030.00
Travel
50.00
Building Expense
4.287.00
Materials
5,445.00
Miscellaneous
100.00
10,912.00
SCHOOLS
Schools
Appropriations
Totals
Superintendent
9,167.00
Administrative Assistant
3,000.00
Secretarial
11.111.00
Secretarial (part-time)
1.000.00
Teachers
622,300.00
Janitors
69,438.00
Nurse and Doctors
4,416.00
720,432.00
Office Expense
S.900.00
Travel
2,000.00
Building Expense
68,300.00
Insurance
1,900.00
Miscellaneous
65,200.00
Out of State Travel
1,300.00
147.600.00
Unclassified
Legion Lease
1,750.00
Town Reports
2,500.00
Reserve Fund
20,000.00
Fourth of July
1,200.00
Memorial Day
1,000.00
Veterans Day
200.00
Christmas Lights
1.000.00
27.650.00
Maturing Debt
Interest
General Debt
29,224.25
Temporary Loans
7,500.00
36.724.25
Principal
General Debt
149.000.00
149.000.00
Voted : Article 7. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Assessors to appoint a member of the Board to act as Secretary thereof and that the salary of the Secretary be fixed at $50.00 per year as provided by Section 4-A, Chapter 41, General Laws. The appropriation necessary to pay for this salary having been provided for in Article 6.
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Voted: Article 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 authorize the Planning Board to appoint a member of the Board to act as Secretary thereof and that the salary of the Secretary be fixed at $100.00 per year as provided by Section 4-A, Chapter 41, General Laws. The appropriation necessary to pay for this salary having been provided for in Article 6.
Voted: Article 10. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $519.15 for the purpose of settling the following unpaid bills all contracted prior to January 1, 1957 and remaining unpaid at the time of the closing of the Town's Books for the year 1956, according to the records of the Town Accountant: Police Department. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 11. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town make no transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Fund Account to the Current Revenue Account.
Voted: Article 12. 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, Section 25 and 26 and that the sum of $3,735.65 be appropriated therefor.
Voted: Article 13. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Linden Avenue from Stanley Road to Crosman Avenue as a public way, as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers, resurface the same and that the sum of $8,600.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town resurface Stanley Road from Salem Street to Linden Avenue and that the sum of $3,650.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted: Article 15. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Curry Circle 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 $1,450.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 16. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
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That the Town accept Oakledge Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers and that the sum of $2,700.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 17. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept that part of Sherwood Road between Forest Avenue and northwesterly end of Sherwood Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers and that the sum of $7,900.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 18. That the Town adopt new General By-Laws as printed in pamphlet entitled, "Town of Swampscott, Massachusetts, General By-Laws for Submission to the 1957 Town Meeting for Approval", containing fourteen pages, and with the amendments and additions therein set forth, copies of which have been mailed to all Town Meeting Members, and that upon approval of the said by-laws by the Attorney General and posting a copy thereof in one or more public places in each precinct of the Town as provided by General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 32, all by-laws inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed, and that the By-Law Committee be discharged. For: 109, Against: 94.
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.
Voted: Article 20. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept Lewis Road extension as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen, in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engi- neer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers, and that the sum of $1,750.00 be appropriated therefor. Planning Board concurs.
Voted: Article 21. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 22. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 23. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase two automobiles for the Police Department, to be ranch wagon ambulettes, and that the sum of $3,000.00 be appropriated therefor, and that the Selectmen be authorized to sell or trade the two ambulettes now being used by the Police Department.
Voted: Article 24. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $150.00 for the purpose of the article.
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Voted: Article 25. That the Town accept an act of the legislature for the year 1957 authorizing the town to pay Rosina Mastromarino, widow of Martin Mastromarino, a former employee of the Highway Department, an annuity for life in the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum to be paid in equal monthly installments, and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00 therefor.
Voted: Article 26. That the Town accept an act of the legislature for the year 1957 authorizing the town to pay Jennie G. Thompson, widow of Luke E. Thompson, a former employee of the Fire Department, an annuity for life in the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum to be paid in equal monthly installments, and that the sum of $1,200.00 be appropriated therefor. Adjourned at 11:43 P.M.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, April 2, 1957
In accordance with the adjournment of Tuesday, March 26, 1957, the Town Meeting Members were called to order at 7:53 P.M., the necessary quorum being present (194).
Town Meeting Members were sworn in by the Town Clerk, Malcolm F. MacLean, Jr.
Voted: Article 27. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town continue the Economy Planning Committee as presently constituted and that no appropriation be made therefor.
Voted: Article 28. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a Back-hoe attachment and a Tow Type Leaf Collector for the Public Works Department and that the sum of $6,000.00 be appropriated therefor.
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: That Articles 30, 31 and 33 be considered together.
Voted: Articles 30, 31 and 33. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Board of Public Works be authorized to make application for an ad- vance of Federal Funds through the Housing and Home Finance Agency under Pub- lic Law 560 as amended for the purpose of making a survey of the Winshaw Road through Phillips Beach Avenue to Palmers Pond area, Little's Point and Galloupe's Point area and the rear of Phillip's Park area to determine what drains, trunk line or other sewer or drain extensions will be necessary to take care of removing surface water, sewage, and other wastes from the said areas, the Board of Public Works being specifically authorized in the name of the Town to execute the form of 38
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application required for such advances, and to pass such votes and resolution in connection therewith as may be required for the purpose of such application.
Voted: Article 32. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 34. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 35. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the following sums from the amount of $25,000.00 received and held by the Town under the provisions of Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956 as amended, namely: $5,000.00 for the resurfacing of Humphrey Street from the Fish House to Atlantic Avenue and $20,000.00 for the resurfacing of Puritan Road from the Fish House to Orient Court, both of said projects having been approved by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, the Humphrey Street project to be conducted under the Chapter 90 program.
Voted: Article 36. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Public Works to have the interior and exterior of the Cemetery Chapel painted and that the sum of $1,500.00 be appro- priated from the Cemetery Lots Fund therefor.
Voted: Article 37. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1953 (now Section 6F of Chapter 40 of the General Laws of Massachusetts) .
Voted: Article 38. 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 39. 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 40. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,176.05 to supplement the appropria- tion made under Article 74 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 for constructing, equipping, and furnishing an addition to the Public Library.
Voted: Article 41. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That a committee be appointed by the Moderator to investigate this matter; said committee to be comprised of one member of the Board of Selectmen, one
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member of the Board of Public Works and one member of the Finance Committee and that the committee be instructed to report to the next Annual Town Meeting.
Voted: Article 42. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town establish a committee of eleven citizens to study the advisability of a reappraisal and revaluation of all taxable real estate located in the Town of Swampscott; such committee to include one town meeting member from each precinct, one member of the Board of Assessors, one member of the Board of Selectmen, one member of the Planning Board, one member of the Finance Com- mittee and one member of the Swampscott League of Women Voters; all to be appointed by the Moderator, and said committee to report to the next annual or any special town meeting prior thereto; and that the sum of $300.00 be appropriated therefor for the printing of a report to Town Meeting Members.
Voted : Article 43. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a new lease with the Leon E. Abbott Post No. 57 American Legion Building Association for a term of five years from April 6, 1957 at rental of $1,750.00 per year. The appropriation necessary for this article for 1957 is included in the 1957 Budget.
Voted: Article 44. That the Swampscott Housing Authority is hereby empowered to erect a new housing project, namely a Housing Project for Elderly Persons in the Town pursuant to Chapter 667 of Massachusetts Acts of 1954, and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto.
Voted: Article 45. That the Town authorize the School Committee to establish and maintain State-aided vocational education in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 74, General Laws, and Acts Amendatory thereto, or dependent thereon.
Voted: Article 46. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee to investigate the question of land acquisition for a play area at the Hadley School, said committee to report at the next Annual Town Meeting, and that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted: Article 47. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 374 Acts of 1956 (now Section 85J, Chapter 32 of the General Laws of Massachusetts) .
Voted : Article 48. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed. Planning Board concurred.
Voted: Article 49. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town resurface Pine Hill Road and that the sum of $5,180.00 be appropriated therefor.
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Voted: Article 50. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 401 Acts of 1956 which extends to civil defense volunteer unpaid auxiliary firemen and police and other public protection units the laws applicable to municipal employees for indemnifica- tion of damages sustained through operation of publicly owned vehicles.
Voted: Article 51. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of thirty-one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($31,250.00) from the current years tax levy to be paid to the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, representing the cost to the Town and to be employed with state funds in dredging work at Fishermen's Beach to be done under the supervision of the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pursuant to Chapter 91 of the General Laws and in accordance with a plan of such work prepared by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth, and that the Board of Selectmen be instructed and authorized to do any and all things necessary to accomplish said project.
Voted: Article 52. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town assume liability under Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws as amended by Chapters 516 and 524 of the Acts of 1950 for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in certain dredging work at Fishermen's Beach, a public beach in the Town of Swampscott, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws and to authorize and instruct the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth under the terms of which the Town will agree to indemnify and save harmless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, its representatives and agents against all claims and demands for damages that may be sustained by any person whose land or any rights or interest therein is taken for or is injured by said work.
Voted: Article 53. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a new car for the Chief of the Fire Department and that the sum of $2,150.00 be appropriated therefor and that the present 1952 DeSoto be sold or traded on account thereof.
Voted: Article 54. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be deferred and to continue the same Committee in office with instructions to report to the next special or annual town meeting.
Voted: Article 55. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: That Articles 56, 57, 58 and 59 be considered together.
Voted: Article 56, 57, 58 and 59. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
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That the Board of Public Works be and hereby is authorized and empowered to accept from Tedesco Country Club a grant of a drain easement from Salem Street through land of Tedesco Country Club to the southerly bound of land of Louis H. Salvage; to accept from said Salvage a grant of an easement for sewer and drain purposes through land of said Salvage from the southerly line of said Salvage land to Paradise Road; to accept from Tedesco Country Club a grant of easement for the installation of a fifteen inch trunk line sewer through the property of the Club from Salem Street to the southerly boundary of said land of Salvage, all of said easements to be in such location and form as may be approved by the Board of Public Works and the Town Counsel, and to authorize the Board of Public Works to approve plans and specifications for and supervise the construction and installation by the said Louis H. Salvage of said trunk line sewer and said drain from said land of Salvage to Salem Street; and the Board of Selectmen be and is hereby authorized to enter into a restrictive agreement with said Louis H. Salvage providing for the obtaining of said easements, the construction of said sewer and drain by said Salvage at his own cost and expense in strict accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Board of Public Works, such agreement to provide that the Town shall be held harmless from all claims of every nature and description arising out of said construction, and that upon completion, said drain and trunk line sewer shall become the property of the Town; said agreement to further provide for the erection of a shopping center by said Salvage substantially in accordance with preliminary plans exhibited to the Town, for the conveyance to the Town of a portion of land at the intersection of Paradise Road, Vinnin Street and Salem Street as may be necessary to alleviate traffic conditions, for the removal of refuse, garbage and waste materials from said shopping center without expense to the Town, and the providing of necessary police protection and traffic regulation during business hours at the shopping center location without expense to the Town, and such further provisions as may be approved by the Board of Selectmen and the Town Counsel.
Voted: Article 60. To accept the report of the Planning Board and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the land described in this article be rezoned from resident A-2 to business B-1 district. For: 222, Against: 12.
Voted: Article 61. 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: That articles 62 and 63 be considered together.
Voted : Articles 62 and 63. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on these articles be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 64. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
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.
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Voted: Article 66. 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 67. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the refuse disposal problem be referred back to the Refuse Disposal Study Committee for further study, and said committee, submit a detailed report to the next Special or Annual Town Meeting and that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated therefor.
Voted : Article 68. That the report of the Post Office Building Committee be accepted.
Voted: Article 69. To dispense with the reading of this article. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town:
1. Authorize the Board of Selectmen for the sum of one dollar to execute and deliver to the Postmaster General of the United States and his assignee an irrevocable option for him or his assignee to purchase the parcel of land hereinafter described, said land to be used solely for the purpose of constructing, equipping, and furnishing a building or buildings thereon to be used and maintained as a Post Office and for postal purposes ; and
2. Authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey said parcel of land for such; sum of money as in the sole and absolute discretion and judgment of said Board be deemed adequate and reasonable to the said assignee of the said option to purchase said land, said land to be used solely for the purpose of constructing, equipping and furnishing a building or buildings thereon, to be solely used and maintained as a Post Office and for postal purposes ; and
3. Authorize the Board of Selectmen to do any and all things necessary to accomplish said purposes, or take any action relative to the subject matter.
"A certain parcel of land situated in Swampscott, County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning on the southwesterly side of Elmwood Road at a point which is seventy-five and thirteen one-hundredths (75.13) feet southeasterly from a stone bound marking the beginning of a curve to Thomas Road, said curve having a radius of twenty-three and sixteen one-hundredths (23.16) feet; thence running in a general southeasterly direction by said Elmwood Road on a curved line having a radius of nineteen hundred thirty-five and eight one-hundredths (1935.08) feet a distance of one hundred (100) feet; thence turning and running S 46°-06'-40" W by other land of the Town of Swampscott a distance of one hundred eighty-seven and sixty-seven one-hundredths (187.67) feet; thence turning and running by land of the Swampscott Universalist Society and land of John M. and Lida J. Nelson N 54°-57'-30" W a distance of one hundred one and eighty-seven one-hundredths (101.87) feet; thence turning and running by land of Warren J. and Mary Doherty, William R. and Lillian M. Atkinson, Abraham A. Zletz, and Michael F. McGrath N 46°-06'-40" E a distance of two hundred eight and eighty one-hundredths (208.80) feet to the point of beginning.
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