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The above described premises contain an area of 19,813 square feet, and are shown on Plan of Land Belonging to the Town of Swampscott situated in Swampscott, Mass. dated September 26, 1956, drawn by George H. Melcher, Assistant Town Engineer." For: 112, Against: 51.
Voted: Article 70. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to make a study and report to a subsequent Town Meeting on the feasibility of establishing a bathing area for the exclusive use of the citizens of Swampscott.
Voted: Article 71. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 72. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town transfer to the Excess and Deficiency Account the following unexpended balances as shown on the Town Accountant's books as of December 31, 1956:
Library lighting
$ 300.11
Oakledge Sewer
57.73
Eureka Avenue
266.85
Porter Court
653.76
Smith Lane
151.94
Young Avenue
499.76
Worcester Avenue
57.83
Eastman Avenue
808.44
Painting Fish House
141.56
New Cemetery
3.07
Cemetery House Repairs
26.55
$2,967.60
A special meeting of Town Meeting Members of Precinct One elected Harold Norton and Lena M. Dennehy to two vacancies.
Dissolved: 11:55 P.M.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, May 21, 1957
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Plumbing By-Law, adopted by the Annual Town Meeting of 1953, Section 7, entitled "PLUMBING FIXTURES", Sub-section 7.17, "Required Facilities", Table 7.17.1, "Minimum Facilities, Schools", by striking out all the provisions of the Table contained therein, is it relates to schools, including all amendments thereto now in force and effect, and adopting in place thereof the following requirements as provided for in Chapter 675, Acts of 1955, General Laws (Ter. Ed.), effective October 16th, C. 143, S. 54, as amended:
"The following ratio of fixtures shall be considered minimum; provided that not less than two toilet fixtures shall be installed in each general toilet
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room. It is assumed that there will be an equal number of each sex in any co-educational school.
Girls' water closets
Elementary 1 to 30 girls
Secondary 1 to 45 girls
Boys' water closets
Elementary 1 to 60 boys
Secondary
1 to 90 boys
Boys' urinals 1 to 30 boys
For kindergartens and primary rooms, instead of the ratio above, private facilities with direct access to those rooms may be provided, with a mini- mum ratio of one per 30 pupils.
Trough urinals are prohibited.
Lavatories shall be installed in toilet rooms at the ratio of one to 50 pupils. Additional lavatories may be installed in classrooms but shall not affect the ratio required for toilet rooms.
Additional facilities should be provided for teachers and employees.
When auditoriums and multi-purpose rooms will have community use, additional toilet facilities shall be provided as follows: for women, one water closet for each 300 seats or majority fraction thereof; for men, one urinal for each 400 seats, and one water closet for each 600 seats or majority fraction thereof. Teacher facilities, if conveniently located, may be used to satisfy this requirement.
Sponsored by the High School Building Committee.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of money to be used to supplement the appropriation under the vote of Article 1 of the Special Town Meeting, Monday, December 12, 1955, to be used for the purpose of constructing, originally equipping, and furnishing a new Senior High School, in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by Warren H. Ashley, Architect, by appropriating the necessary money therefor, by transferring from available funds, borrowing or otherwise, or taking any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the High School Building Committee.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Works to lay out a forty foot way from Walnut Road to Nason Road, in and over the property taken by eminent domain proceedings for the proposed new High School, said way to be located in accordance with the following:
"Beginning at the center line intersection of Walnut Road and Forest Avenue thence running in a Easterly direction for a distance of about one hundred and eighty (180.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving towards the North with a radius of about one hundred feet, for a distance of eighty (80.00 plus or minus) feet; thence running North for a distance of one hundred ten (110.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving to the East with a radius of about eighty feet, for a distance of about one hundred thirty- five (135.00 plus or minus) feet; thence running parallel with the property line of the Boston and Maine Railroad four hundred thirty (430.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving Easterly with a radius of about four hundred
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sixty feet for a distance of two hundred and ninety (290.00 plus or minus) feet ; thence running Easterly for a distance of three hundred thirty (330.00 plus or minus) feet to the center line intersection of Nason and Laurel Road. The above description being the center line of a proposed forty foot way from Walnut Road to Nason Road."
Sponsored by the Planning Board and Board of Selectmen.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to resurface Stanley Road from Linden Avenue to Humphrey Street, and appropriate the necessary money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new truck, with hydraulic hoist and boom for the Water Division of the Public Works Department, and trade in a 1947 Chevrolet truck, and appropriate the necessary money therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new tractor and scoop for the Water Division of the Public Works Department, and trade in a 1945 International Tractor, and appropriate the necessary money therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to extend sewers in Bay View Drive and Crest Road and appropriate the necessary money therefor from available funds by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept Highland Place 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 appropriate the necessary money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned by Jerry L. Mangini, et als.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to install a drain and sewer system in Highland Place and authorize and direct the Board of Public Works to obtain the necessary easements therefor, and appropriate the necessary money therefor, from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned by Jerry L. Mangini, et als.
Article 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Department of Public Works to extend the water mains in any or all of the following streets: Sampson Avenue, Fisher Avenue, and Nichols Street, under the provisions of Section 25 of Chapter 82 of the General Laws, and appropriate the necessary money therefor, by transfer of the unexpended balance of the appropriations under Article 22 of the 1953 Annual Town Meeting and Article 46 of the 1955 Annual Town Meeting, from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned by the Upper Swampscott Improvement Association, Nellie A. Smith, et als.
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Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to extend the sewer on Essex Street to and including that portion of Ryan Place so that sewerage facilities may be provided for the remaining houses on Essex Street and Ryan Place not now provided with sewerage, and appropriate the necessary money therefor from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to designate as the Central Fire Station site that portion of the Town land at the corner at Burrill Street and Clare- mont Terrace, on which the Old Town Hall now stands as shown on plan #1255, dated April 22, 1957, prepared by David J. Abrahams and Associates, to tear down and remove the Old Town Hall from the site and to construct and originally equip a new Central Fire Station on the site and raise and appropriate the necessary money therefor from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by The Central Fire Station Committee and Chief of Fire Department.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or execute a lease of the Central Fire Station land and building on New Ocean Street to the Joseph L. Stevens, Post No. 1240, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, in the event that the Town votes favorable action under the preceding Article 12, at such time the Fire Department has no further use for it, or take any action relative thereto.
Petitioned for by the Joseph L. Stevens Post No. 1240, by Howard M. Vatcher, Commander.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to the account of "Unpaid Bills" for the purpose of settling all bills contracted prior to December 31, 1956, and remaining unpaid at the time of the closing of the Town's books for the year 1956, according to the record of the Town Accountant.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of three to investigate and report at the next Annual Town Meeting relative to the compensation and salaries of all Elective Officers of the Town.
Sponsored by Richard P. Symmes, et al.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to supplement the appropriation made under Article 23 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1957, for the purchase of two automobiles to be used as patrol cars for the Police Department.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and Chief of Police.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote an expression of its sense on the matters hereinafter set forth in the form of the following resolution:
It is truly the sense of the Special Town Meeting of May 21, 1957 and resolved as follows:
1. That a Performance Bond of $20,000. or 50% of the contract for Refuse Collection and Disposal, whichever is the smaller, be required by the awarding authority in future contracts.
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2. That there be inserted in future contracts for Refuse Collection and Disposal an escalator clause based on the growth of the Town.
3. That the Board of Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to investigate the possibility of constructing a joint municipal incinerator with sur- rounding communities.
Sponsored by the Refuse Disposal Study Committee.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken by the annual adjourned Town Meeting of April 2, 1957, under Article 69 of the Warrant for the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, authorizing the Board of Selectmen to give an option and to convey a portion of the premises forming part of the premises around the Town Administration Building, and formerly a part of the estate of Professor Elihu H. Thomson, for the purposes of a post office.
Sponsored by Janet Press, et als.
Article 19. 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 and all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, May 21, 1957
In accordance with the warrant the Town Meeting Members were called to order by the Moderator, Richard B. Johnson at 8:00 P.M., the necessary quorum being present (179).
The warrant with the return thereon was read by Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr., Town Clerk.
Voted : To postpone action on Article 1 until Article 2 is considered.
Voted: Article 2. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 from available funds to supplement the appropriation under the vote of Article 1 of the Special Town Meeting, Monday, December 12, 1955, for the specific purpose of engaging the services of a professional construction cost analyst and estimator; that no further appropriation for the Senior High School be made at this time; that the High School Building Committee be continued in office; that the sense of the meeting be expressed as being in favor of readvertising for bids to construct a school substantially in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by Warren H. Ashley, Architect, but, with such modifications, if any, as in the opinion of the Building Committee may reduce the cost of the project consistent with the needs of the School Program and in such manner as, to the extent feasible, furnish in- formation as to the allocation of costs among (a) site preparation, (b) sewers, (c) water, and (d) the various buildings; and in favor of calling another Special Town Meeting in September, 1957 for the purpose of considering this matter further.
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Voted: Article 1. That the Town Meeting take no action under this article.
Voted : Article 3. To accept the report of the Planning Board and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Public Works Department be authorized to design a forty foot way from Walnut Road to Nason Road in and over Town Property taken by eminent domain proceedings for the proposed new High School, said way to be located approximately as follows:
"Beginning at the center line intersection of Walnut Road and Forest Avenue thence running in a Easterly direction for a distance of about one hundred and eighty (180.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving towards the North with a radius of about one hundred feet, for a distance of eighty (80.00 plus or minus) feet; thence running North for a distance of one hundred ten (110.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving to the East with a radius of about eighty feet, for a distance of about one hundred thirty-five (135.00 plus or minus) feet; thence running parallel with the property line of the Boston and Maine Railroad four hundred thirty (430.00 plus or minus) feet; thence curving Easterly with a radius of about four hundred sixty feet for a distance of two hundred and ninety (290.00 plus or minus) feet ; thence running Easterly for a distance of three hundred thirty (330.00 plus or minus) feet to the center line intersection of Nason and Laurel Road. The above description being the center line of a proposed forty foot way from Walnut Road to Nason Road."
Voted: Article 4. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town resurface Stanley Road from Linden Avenue to Humphrey Street and that the sum of $5,850.00 be appropriated therefor from the current tax levy.
Voted: Article 5. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 6. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town purchase a new tractor and scoop for the Water Division of the Public Works Department, and trade in a 1945 International Tractor, and that the sum of $4,000.00 be appropriated therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account.
Voted: Article 7. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, as amended, and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the sewers in Bay View Drive and Crest Road forthwith and to appropriate the sum of $13,000.00 therefor from the current tax levy.
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. Planning Board reported.
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Voted: Article 9. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 10. That the Town authorize the Board of Public Works to lay water mains or pipes in Nichols Street under the provisions of Section 25, Chapter 82 of the General Laws, and that the sum of $15,500.00 be appropriated therefor from the current tax levy, to be used in conjunction with funds appropriated under Article 46 of the 1955 Annual Town Meeting, on condition that the abutters sign the necessary waivers.
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 refer back to the committee for further study and report.
Voted: Article 13. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $126.40 from the current tax levy 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:
Marlborough Medical Associates, Boston $53.00
Dr. W. T. Haley, Marblehead 8.00
Mary A. Alley Hospital, Marblehead 20.00
$81.00
For injuries sustained by Chandler Marble, employee of the Highway Department.
15 Cases tonic @ .96 per case
$14.40
Sandwiches, chips, cupcakes
31.00
$45.40
For Veterans Day observance. Unanimous.
Voted: Article 15. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of three to investigate and report at the next Annual Town Meeting relative to the compensation and salaries of all Elective Officers of the Town.
Voted: Article 16. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
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That the Town appropriate the sum of $300.00 from the current tax levy to supplement the appropriation made under Article 23 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1957, for the purchase of two automobiles to be used as patrol cars for the Police Department.
Voted : Article 17. That this resolution be adopted.
Voted: Article 18. Not to rescind under this article. For: 71, Against: 102.
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.
Dissolved at 11:00 P.M.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, October 29, 1957
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote passed under Article One of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of December 12, 1955, by increasing the amount of money appropriated thereunder or by modifying the description of the school referred to therein, or both, and determine how such additional money shall be raised whether by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the High School Building Committee.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 757 of the Acts of 1957 authorizing the Town to pay Jennie G. Thompson, widow of Luke Thompson, former employee of the Fire Department, an annuity for life in the sum of $1,150.00 a year, the same to be paid in equal monthly installments.
Sponsored by Frank Williams, Jr., et al.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 758 of the Acts of 1957 authorizing the Town to pay Rosina Mastromarino, widow of Martin Mastromarino, former employee of the Highway Department, an annuity for life in the sum of $1,150.00 a year, the same to be paid in equal monthly installments and appropriate the necessary money therefor.
Sponsored by Francis P. Byrne, et al.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following Act of the Legislature for the year 1957. That the amount of pension of every retired police officer and fire fighter who, at the time of his retirement had attained age sixty and had at least twenty years of creditable service, and the amount of pension of every police officer and fire fighter, retired for disability incurred through no fault of his own in the actual performance of his duties, shall be increased by three hundred dollars; provided, however, that the total annual amount of any such pension as so increased shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, and appropriate the necessary money therefor.
Sponsored by Charles L. Stover, et al.
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Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new truck, with hydraulic hoist and boom for the Water Division of the Public Works Department and trade in a 1947 Chevrolet truck, and appropriate the necessary money therefor from the Water Available Surplus Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to install a Diversion Chamber in Stacey Brook as a means of abating pollution in King's Beach, and appropriate the necessary money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the Board of Public Works, Board of Health, and Board of Selectmen.
Article 7. 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 and all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Tuesday, October 29, 1957
A special meeting of Town Meeting Members of Precinct One elected Abbott W. Fish, Jr. to one vacancy and Precinct Four elected Robert L. Yasi to one vacancy.
In accordance with the warrant the Town Meeting Members were called to order by the Moderator, Richard B. Johnson at 7:58 P.M., the necessary quorum being present (185).
The warrant with the return thereon was read by Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr., Town Clerk.
The new Town Meeting Members were sworn in by the Town Clerk, Malcolm F. Maclean, Jr.
Voted: Article 1. That a committee be appointed to study the desirability of substituting the description of the school referred to in the vote passed under Article 1 of the warrant of the Special Town Meeting, held on December 12, 1955, with the following description :
"A primary school of sixteen (16) rooms for elementary use, including a four (4) classroom multi-use cafeteria unit and twelve (12) classrooms, Unit A"; and be adding at the end of said Vote the following words: "and that the Moderator and the Board of Selectmen, jointly, appoint a Committee of five (5) persons to study the school situation and report their recommendations for the most economical and educationally practical solution to the classroom shortage to a Special Town Meeting to be held within thirty (30) days of the date of the dissolution of the Special Town Meeting of October 29, 1957, for the purpose of taking action thereon." For: 145; Against: 39.
Adjourned at 11:42 P.M. to Tuesday, December 3, 1957, at 7:45 P.M.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, December 3, 1957
Article 1. To hear and act on Report of the School Survey Committee authorized under Article One of the Special Town Meeting of October 29, 1957.
Sponsored by the School Survey Committee.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote passed under Article One of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of December 12, 1955, by increasing the amount of money appropriated thereunder or by modifying the description of the school referred to therein, or both, and determine how such additional money shall be raised whether by borrowing or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Sponsored by the High School Building Committee.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Department to transfer from the appropriation voted at the Annual Town Meeting, dated March 26, 1957, Article Six, Item 135, entitled "School Salaries," the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) to Item 138, entitled "School Expenses," to cover the excess costs of installation of the new boiler installed at the high school.
Sponsored by the School Committee.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote passed under Article Six of the Annual Town Meeting held on March 26, 1957, Item 96, entitled "Board of Health, Refuse and Garbage," by increasing the amount of money appropriated thereunder by the sum of two thousand forty-six and 49/100 dollars ($2,046.49), to cover liabilities in excess of the appropriation voted at said Annual Town Meeting.
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