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44. For the municipal buildings Insurance Fund. 1.00
This motion was tentatively adopted.
Item 45. For fire and other insurance. 14,373.00
This motion was tentatively adopted.
Item 46. For a Reserve Fund. 25,000.00 This motion was tentatively adopted.
Mr. Melville F. Cate moved: That all motions tentatively adopted be regularly adopted.
Mr. John W. Field offered the following amendment :
That the total sum of money appropriated for the following de- partments for 1933 shall not exceed eighty-five per cent of the amount
appropriated in 1932 for the same department.
Appropriation Committee Collector of Taxes
Town Accountant's Department Town Clerk's Department
350.00
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Engineering Department -
Assessors' Department
Maintenance and upkeep of Town Elections and Registrations
Hall and War Memorials
Planning Board
Building Inspector
Police Department
Gypsy Moth and other Insect Pest Fire Department Extermination Harbor Master Schools Street Lighting Parks and Playgrounds
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Care of Shade Trees
Highway Department
Alewife Fishery
Libraries
Selectmen's Department
Water Department
Town Treasurer's Department
Police and Fire Signal Systems
This amendment was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
Mr. Francis A. Gunn moved to reconsider the amendment. The motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
Mr. John W. Field moved as an amendment to Article 1.
That no money apropriated under this article shall be used for mileage allowance for private owned automobiles; telephone service at homes of municipal employees, elected and appointed officers; and traveling expenses of officials and employees of all the departments outside the Commonwealth upon matters which may tend to improve the service in their respective departments; nor as compensation for any official or employee who shall be required to leave the Town for the purpose of attending on behalf of the Town any hearing before an administrative Board of official or before a court or otherwise as a witness. This amendment was put before the meeting and was de- clared not a vote. More than seven members having doubted the vote a recount was ordered. The tellers reported 57 voting in the af- firmative and 80 in the negative.
The motion of Mr. Cate to adopt the several items in Aricle 1 as amended. This question was put before the meeting and was so voted.
Mr. Francis A. Gunn moved to reconsider the vote whereby it was voted to adopt the several items in Article 1 as amended.
This motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
William W. Wakeman moved to adjourn until Friday evening, March 10, 1933.
Mr. Burton F. Johnson moved as an amendment that this meet- ing do now adjourn to meet to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 7:45 o'clock.
The amendment was put before the meeting and it was so voted. Adjourned at 11 :35 o'clock.
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I hereby certify that 10 notices of the adjournment was posted in ten places in the town, as provided in Chapter 33 of the Acts of 1930.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
TOWN CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that notice of the adjourned Town meeting was posted in ten or more public places in said Town of Weymouth, un- der the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921 and amendments thereof.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 9, 1933
Pursuant to the vote taken at the adjourned annual town meet- ing on Wednesday evening, March 8, 1933, the meeting was called to order at 7:50 o'clock, George L. Barnes, Annual Moderator presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev. William .G. Sewall, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of North Weymouth.
Article 2. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee moved : That all committees that have not rendered a final report be continued until the work under their charge is completed.
Mr. George S. Peterson moved as an amendment (1) That the com- mittee on the report of the Laban Pratt Hospital Memorial Fund be accepted and the committee be discharged. (2) That a new commit- tee be appointed at this time to investigate all possibilities of build- ing Memorial Hospital and Nurses Home at once with the stipula- tion that only Weymouth citizens be employed on all works of con- struction only. (3) If said Hospital and Nurses Home could be built and compeltely equipped for $300,000. leaving a balance of $121,000. for maintenance. The committee to be authorized to carry on work of construction at once. The amendment of Mr. Peterson was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
The motion of the Appropriation committee was put before the meeting and was declared a vote.
The Town Clerk read a report of the committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to investigate the advisability of petition- ing the Legislature of an amendment to Chapter 61 Acts of 1921, which will debar all or any persons receiving a salary from the town from being Town Meeting Members as follows: Your commitee, consisting of John P. Lovell, Chairman, Howard M. Clark and Mat- thew O'Dowd, have given the following petitiion due consideration and are pleased to submit their findings to you :
"To see if the town' will vote to instruct the Town Counsel to pre- pare a petition for the enactment of an amendment to Chapter 61 Acts of 1921, which will debar all or any persons receiving a salary from
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the town being town meeting members or take any other action rela- tive thereto.'
Statistics have proven that no one time have the town meeting members consisted of over 10 per cent of any person or persons receiv- ing a salary from the town. In the Town of Weymouth the average is much below this percentage, and particularly at the present time.
As tax-payers of the Town of Weymouth, any man or woman who is a property owner has the right to become a town meeting member. Also, as this is an electorate condition, it behooves the voters to pass their judgment as to whether or not they shall become a member. In other words, the town voters are in a position to defeat at the polls, by their individual vote, the candidacy of any person or persons who may be under the payroll of the town, or an officer of the town.
Again we find that there are certain advantage in perhaps having one of the members of various departments representing the town as members of the town assembly. In weighing the advantages and dis- advantages, it seems that the right course should prevail, due to the fact. as above stated, that the voters have the privilege of defeating the candidate for membership by their vote at the polls.
We therefore agree and do hereby hope that the town meeting members will allow the condition to remain as it has formerly; that is, that all or any persons being citizens of Weymouth, who desire to become town meeting members, whether or not they hold office, or are so favored by their election.
Respectfully, JOHN P. LOVELL, Chairman MATTHEW O'DOWD HOWARD W. CLARK
Voted that the report of the committee be accepted.
Voted on motion of Everett E. Callahan that Article 28 be now taken up.
Everett E. Callahan moved : that the town vote to instruct the Town Counsel to prepare a petition for the enactment of an amend- ment to Chapter 61 Acts of 1921, which will debar all or any persons receiving a salary from the town from being town meeting members.
This motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote :.
Everett E. Callahan moved to reconsider the above vote. The question was put before the meeting and declared not a vote.
Under Article 2 Mr. Wallace H. Bicknell moved : That the Mod erator appoint a committee of five (5) to draft a petition and proposed act to introduce into the session of the present General Court de- signed to repeal all provisions of laws whereby the Town of Wey- mouth has become a member of the South Metropolitan Sewerage System. This motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
Mr. William B. Dasha moved : That the Selectmen be instructed to petition the General Court for legislation providing the members of the Board of Selectmen shall be elected by the respective wards of the town.
This motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
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On motion of John W. Hefferban, Sec. Ap. Com.
Article 3. Voted unanimously : That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew such note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933.
On motion of John W. Heffernan, Sec. App. Com.
Article 4. Voted unanimously : That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized on and after January 1, 1934, to borrow such money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1934, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year from the date of issue and that any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the fiscal year in which they were con- tracted.
Article 5. John W. Heffernan of the Appropriation Committee moved : To appropriate from Surplus Revenue, for the use of the As- sessors in determining the tax rate for 1933, the sum of $83,943.30, this being the amount of the assessments in 1931 and 1932 for Wey- mouth's apportionment as a member of the South Metropolitan Sewer- age District.
This question was put before the meeting and was declared a vote.
Article 6. John W. Heffernan moved: That the salary of the Tax Collector be six mills on each dollar of taxes collected, and that the Selectmen be authorized to insure the Tax Collector in the sum of $15,000.00 hold-up insurance; and further that in any case where the Building Inspector certifies to the Tax Collector that the building on any property where taxes are unpaid is not in conformity with the building laws, the Collector shall instead of selling the property, take the same for the town under General Laws, Chapter 60, Section 53, and following. The time of payment and rates of interest on unpaid taxes shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59, Section 57, of the General Laws.
Mr. William D. Parker moved as an amendment: That the rate of interest on unpaid taxes be 4 per cent instead of 6 per cent. The Town Counsel ruled that the General Laws fixed the rate of interest and Mr. Parker asked unanimous consent to withdraw his amendment, which was duly granted.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee was put before the meeting and was declared a vote.
Article 7. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That the Selectmen be authorized to sell or other- wise dispose of all real estate of which the town has possession or
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title, including all property taken for non-payment of taxes, and to execute and acknowledge sufficient deeds therefor. all such sales of real estate to be by public auction unless in the opinion of the Select- men the fair value of the property to be sold in each case does not ex- ceed $100.00 in which case and in the case of all sales of personal property the sale may be made by public auction or private sale as the Selectmen may deem for the best interests of the town, and that the Board or officer in charge of any other town department may, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, sell at public auction or pri- vate sale as the Board of Selectmen may approve, any personal prop- erty belonging to said department which in the opinion of the officer or board in charge of the department is no longer needed by the town and which in the opinion of the Selectmen is not needed by any other town department. So voted.
Article 8. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee moved : That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to accept conveyances or mortgages of any real or personal property be- longing to persons receiving poor relief and to dispose of said prop- erty under the provisions of Article 7 in such manner as they may judge for the best interests of the town and where said property is subject to any incumbrance if they consider it for the best interest of the town to discharge said incumbrance they are hereby authorized to do so and the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of discharging any such insumbrance. So voted.
Article 9. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That all insurance money which the town may receive between now and the next annual Town Meeting for the de- struction or damage by fire or lightning of any town property is here- by appropriated for the purpose of replacing or repairing the property so destroyed or damaged and with the approval of the board in charge of the Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund may be paid out for said purpose on the order of the board or official in charge of the depart- ment having control of the property so destroyed or damaged. Voted further that in case any town property not covered by insurance or of which the town is co-insurer under any provision of the policy shall be destroyed or damaged by fire or lightning before the next annual Town Meeting, the board in charge of the Municipal Buildings Insur- ance Fund are hereby authorized to pay from said fund and its accu- mulations of interest for the replacing or repairing of said property a sum not exceeding the fair replacement value of the uninsured prop- erty so destroyed or damaged and not exceeding the town's propor- tion of said fair replacement value of any property of which the town is co-insurer. This motion was put before the meeting and was so voted.
Article 10. Mr. John W. Heffernan moved: That the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to execute agreements with certain abutters on Broad Street to waive damages in case of a widening in all future cases, where public improvements are under consideration. This motion was put before the meeting and was declared voted.
Article 11. Mr. John W. Heffernan moved: To appropriate from the General Fund of the Water Department $10,000.00 for carrying on work for private parties, payment for such work to revert to the Gen-
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eral Fund of the Water Department. This motion was put before the meeting and was declared voted.
Article 12. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee moved : To re-affirm the action taken under Article 12 of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting in 1928, Article 12 of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting in 1929, Article 18 of the an- nual Town Meeting of 1930, Article 12 of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting in 1931, and Article 21 of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting in 1932 authorizing the Board of Water Commissioners to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain for the purpose of protecting the purity of the town's water supply certain land lying within the watershed of Great Pond and not already owned by the town, and that the sum of $15,000.00 be appropriated from the surplus of the Water Department for the acquisition of said land including the expense of any legal proceedings and the payment of any recording fees for instruments or taking or conveyances.
Mr. Stuart Briggs moved to amend: That the sum of $15,000. be taken from the income of theWater Department and applied to the General Fund of the town to help in reducing the tax rate for 1933.
Mr. Phillips B. Hunt moved as an amendment that the sum be $1.00 instead of $15,000. The amendment of Mr. Briggs was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote. More than seven members doubted the vote. A recount was ordered. The tellers reported 58 voting in the affirmative and 58 voting in the negative. Mr. Prince H. Tirrell moved to reconsider the above vote. The tellers reported 83 in the affirmative and 33 in the negative. Mr. Prince H. Tirrell raised the point of order that the amendment was not germain to the ques- tion before the meeting and the Moderator ruled that the amendment of Mr. Briggs was not germain to the question before the meeting and ruled the amendment out of order.
Mr. Everett E. Callahan moved to amend as follows: That the amount to read $1.00 and add the following words, "That the sum of $14,000.00 be taken from the surplus of the Water Department to be expended on the improvement of land already owned by the town."
Mr. Francis A. Gunn moved: That the subject matter of this article be laid on the table. The tellers reported 32 voting in the affir- mative and 84 in the negative. The motion was declared not a vote.
The motion of Mr. Hunt was put before the meeting and was de- clared voted. More than seven members having doubted the vote, a recount was ordered. The tellers reported 66 voting in the affirmative and 56 voting in the negative. The motion was declared voted.
The amendment of Mr. Callahan was then put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee as amended by the amendment of Mr. Hunt was then put before the meeting and was declared voted.
Article 13. Mr. John W. Heffernan moved: That the town accept
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the several reports of the Board of Selectmen laying out as town ways the following private ways and parts of ways, to wit :
Intervale Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive.
Glen Road from Lake Shore Drive near Middle Street, to Lake Shore Drive near Mill River.
Pine Ridge Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive.
Lake Shore Drive from Middle Street, to land of Howe & French, Inc., including branch of Mill River.
Westminister Road, from end of 1932 layout to a point near divi- sion line between land of Bater and land of Klosson.
Robinswood Road from Pine Circle to Lakewood Road and from Lakewood Road to land of Sargent.
Canacum Road from Cliff Street, easterly to land of American Agricultural Chemical Co. and from Cliff Street westerly to land of Bradley.
Upland Road from Circuit Avenue near Middle Street running northwesterly to another part of Circuit Avenue.
Circuit Avenue from Middle Street to swamp at end of proposed layout as shown on plan filed at town office.
Seminole Avenue from Pleasantview Avenue easterly to Trefton Avenue and from Idlewell Boulevard westerly a distanc of 140 feet.
Hibiscus Avenue from Idlewell Boulevard westerly a distance of 290 feet.
Hunt Avenue from Central Street 693.86 feet northerly.
and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain as easement for all pur- poses of a public street and highway in and over each of said streets as so laid out and accepted, and that the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the acquisition of each of the foregoing easements, provided, however, that no money shall be paid out or expended for the work of any of said streets until the Town Counsel files with the Town Accountant a certificate that a release which he regards as suf- ficient covering said streets has been delivered to him for record.
Mr. Robert H. Buchan moved : To strike out so much of the report as relates to Canacum Road. Mr. George H. Mckinley asked to have the motion of the Appropriation Committee divided. Mr. Buchan moved : To strike out that part of Canacum Road as relates from Cliff Street westerly to land of Bradley. This motion was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
Mr. McKinley moved that the report relating to Canacum Road be accepted. The tellers reported 76 voting in favor and seven voting in the negative.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee under this article was
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then put before the meeting and the tellers reported 89 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative, the Moderator declared it an unanimous vote.
Article 14. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That no action be taken under this article. So voted.
Article 15. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved: That the town accept the report of the Select- men relocating that portion of North Street lying north of Pilgrim Road and not relocated by the vote passed at the annual Town Meet- ing in March, 1932, but as shown on a plan of proposed relocation of a part of North Street from Weymouth Fore River to Bridge Street (North) Weymouth, Mass., made by Russell H. Whiting, civil en- gineer, dated January 15, 1932, (and defined in the description accom- panying said plan) and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain as easement for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over each of said street as so laid out and accepted, and that the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the acquisition of the foregoing easement, provided, however, that no money shall be paid out or ex- pended for the work of said street until the Town Counsel files with. the Town Accountant a certificate that a release which he regards as sufficient covering said street has been delivered to him for record.
The tellers reported 87 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative, the Moderator declared it an unanimous vote.
Article 16. Mr. John W. Heffernan moved : That the town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for the construction of a permanent sidewalk and curbing on Pleasant Street from Crawford Machine Works to Independence Square. This motion was put before the meet- ing and declared voted.
Article 17. John W. Heffernan moved: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Street Department. So voted.
Article 18. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That the subject matter of this article be referred back to the committee heretofore appointed in reference to the matter. So voted.
Article 19. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That the town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for the grading and drainage of Ells Avenue, South Wey- mouth. So voted.
Article 20. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1.00 for the purposes of this article. So voted.
Article 21. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved: To raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the purpose of purchasing and installing a bronze tablet on the rear of the westerly side of the Memorial Wall, the tablet to be inscribed
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Lieutenant Ralph Talbot Theatre. The expenditure of this amount to be under the direction and supervision of the Building Committee of the Town Hall and War Memorial.
Mr. Prince H. Tirrell moved as an amendment by striking out the words "Building Committee of the Town Hall and War Memorial" and by inserting the words "School Committee." This amendment was put before the meeting and it was so voted. The motion of the Appro- priation Committee as amended was put before the meeting and it was so voted.
Article 22. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That the Town Hall and War Memorial Building Committee be and hereby are directed to erect on the land southerly of the Memorial Cross and easterly of the High School Driveway a building which shall be a reduced copy of Holden Chapel of Harvard University, for the housing of such relics and other mementos of the military history of Weymouth as may be placed in the custody of the town by Reynolds Post No. 58, Grand Army of the Republic, or any other veteran organizations in accordance of the vote of the town under Article 40 of the warrant for the annual Town Meeting of 1932; and that for the erection of said building the said committee be authorized to call upon the officials in charge of charities and work in lieu of charity for labor not in excess of $4,000.00 and for not ex- ceeding 8 per centum of the moneys heretofore appropriated for the purchase of material in connection with charities; and that to meet the other expenses which may be incurred in the erection of said building the interest of the John B. Rhines Fund now on hand or which may accumulate before the next annual town meeting be and hereby is appropriated for the use of said committee.
Mr. Frederick Humphrey moved: That the subject matter of this article be postponed until the next annual Town Meeting. After a long discussion on this subject, Mr. Harold F. Loud moved the previous question and it was so voted. The question of Mr. Humphrey was put before the meeting and declared not a vote. More than seven members having doubted the vote, a recount was ordered. The tellers rported 29 voting in the affirmative and 78 in the negative. The mo- tion was lost.
Mr. Frederick V. Nolan moved as a substitution motion : That the town accept the report of the committee but not its recommendations and further move that we thank and dismiss the committee.
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