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Nevin Road-extension westerly about 120 feet Kensington Road
and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway in and over said street or streets as so laid out and accepted and that the sum of $12,000. be raised and appropriated for the acquisition and working by the Highway Depart- ment of the foregoing taking or purchase including all damages; pro- vided further that they may build any bridges, drains or conduits, and secure any easements which may be necessary and the Board of Select- men are hereby authorized to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with any of said streets; and provided further that no work shall be done on any of these streets until at least 90% of the abutters, or 100%, if in the opinion of the Town Counsel that be- comes necessary, have signed, executed and delivered to the Town Counsel proper release.
Mr. Buchan moved an amendment to the Appropriation Committee's motion : Moved to take up with Article 10 that part of Article 11 deal- ing with Kensington Road.
This amendment was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Buchan moved the following amendment: That this Town Meeting requests the Town Counsel to prepare an article for inclusion in the Warrant for the 1941 Town Meeting, amending Chapters 507 and 511 of the present protection enjoyed by the Town and permit accept- ance and construction of such streets as the Town Meeting may vote in favor of.
Mr. Buchan's amendment was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Gunn moved the following amendment: That the Town Counsel, Superintendent of Streets, and the Chairman of the Planning Board shall serve as a committee and shall prepare a plan for finishing the unac- cepted streets of the Town, the acceptance of which is now prevented by the present By-Laws, and report at the next Annual Town Meeting.
The amendment was unanimously adopted.
Under Article 10, Mr. Jessop offered a substitute motion: To include Clematis Avenue in that group of streets.
Unanimously adopted.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, and as amended, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 11A. Mr. Field moved: That that part of Article 11 referring to:
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Randolph Street from Weymouth Street to Holbrook Town Line, White Street from land now or formerly of Greensmith to stop at the end of White Street,
Forest Street,
be referred to the Town Engineer's Department for proper layouts, which Department shall report such layouts to the Board of Selectmen prior to October first of the current year.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 11B. Mr. Field moved: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to purchase in fee a sufficient area of land lying at the southeasterly corner of Pearl and Evans Streets and adjacent to each for highway purposes, and the sum of $500. is hereby raised and appro- priated for the purchase and completion of this area as a part of the Town ways involved.
Mr. Thomas J. Kelley moved to amend the motion of the Appropria- tion Committee on B of Article 11: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway an area of land at the southeasterly corner of Pearl and Evans Street and adjacent to each, according to a plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town En- gineer, dated February 13, 1935, and that sum of $500 is hereby raised and appropriated for the taking and working of this area and paying of any damages that might become necessary.
This amendment was voted.
This amendment was voted by the necessary 2/3 vote; 136 yes, 12 no.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee, made by Mr. Field, as thus amended, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 11C. Mr. Field moved: That the sum of $3,000. is hereby raised and appropriated for work on Columbian Street, Park Avenue West, Park Avenue and Ralph Talbot Street known as Route 128, provided that the State and/or County under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 81 will pay a sum of money proportionate to the cost of construction under the provisions of said Chapter; provided that this work shall be performed by the Street Department; and provided that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway in and over said streets and that authority is hereby given for building any bridges, drains and conduits, or securing any easements which may be necessary and that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in con- nection with said streets; and provided further that all damages result- ing or occasioned by the construction shall be a charge against the sum appropriated.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Thomas J. Kelly moved an amendment to Article 11C: That any part of this sum may be used by the Street Department on Route 128, so called, and/or any part on any other street or streets designated by the County Commissioners or the Massachusetts Department of Public Works as a Chapter 81 or a Chapter 90 project.
Amendment lost.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
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ARTICLE 11D. Mr. Field moved: That the sum of $10,000. is hereby raised and appropriated for work on North Street or North and Norton Streets provided that the State or County under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 90 will pay a sum of money proportionate to the cost of construction under the provisions of said Chapter; provided that this work shall be performed by the Street Department; and provided that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway in and over said streets and that authority is hereby given for building any bridges, drains or conduits, or securing easements which may be necessary and that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connec- tion with said Streets; and provided further that all damages resulting or occasioned by the construction shall be a charge against the sum appropriated.
Mr. Roulston moved a substitute motion for that offered by Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee, as follows: That the sum of $10,000. is hereby raised and appropriated for work on North Street, or North and Norton Street, provided that this work shall be performed by the Street Department; and provided that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway in and over said streets and that authority is hereby given for building any bridges, drains or conduits, or securing easements which may be necessary and that the Board of Selectmen is authorized to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with said streets; and provided further that all damages resulting or occasioned by the con- struction shall be a charge against the sum appropriated; and further provided that if the State or County under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 90 will pay a sum of money proportionate to the cost of con- struction under the provisions of such Chapter, that the $10,000. voted by the Town shall be expended as prescribed by Chapter 90. In the absence of so-called Chapter 90 funds, the $10,000. shall be expended as first mentioned.
Mr. Roulston's substitute motion was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Kelly moved a further amendment to Article 11 to be known as E, which reads as follows: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street or highway an area of land at the northeasterly corner of Middle and Broad Streets and adjacent to each, according to a plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town En- gineer, dated February 9, 1940, and that the sum of $575. is hereby raised and appropriated for the taking and working of this area and for paying of damages that might become necessary.
This amendment, to be known as Article 11E, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 12. Mr. Field moved : That the Committee be continued. Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 13. Mr. Field moved: That the subject matter of this Article be referred to the Agency set up under Article 2 of this Warrant.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 14. Mr. Field moved: That the Town instruct the Board of Selectmen to accept as a gift, an easement for drainage purposes from Frank Rubolino-Pine Street-in accordance with a plan of Rus- sell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, dated November 29, 1939.
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Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 15. Mr. Field moved: That the Town instruct the Moderator to appoint a committee of three, consisting of the Town Counsel, a member of the House of Representatives from this district, and its Senator to petition for the enactment of legislation at the next session of the Massachusetts General Court designating the Town. Treas- urer, Town Clerk and Town Accountant as Commissioners to administer and manage Weymouth's municipal Buildings Insurance Fund.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 16. Mr. Field moved: That the Town amend the last sentence of Section 610 of the Town By-Laws so that it shall read as follows: "Said licenses unless sooner revoked by the Board of Selectmen shall expire one year after the granting thereof and each resident so licensed shall pay therefor a fee of five ($5.) dollars and all. other persons a fee of ten ($10.) dollars."
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 17. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 18. Mr. Field moved: That the Zoning Committee be continued for further study and written report to be filed with the Board of Selectmen and the Appropriation Committee not later than December 15, 1940.
Mr. Johnson, on behalf of the Zoning Committee, moved the follow- ing substitute motion for that offered by the Appropriation Committee : That the Town accept and adopt the report of the Zoning Committee, including the revised map dated February 1, 1939 and that the said Act be incorporated in the By-Laws of the Town of Weymouth and desig- nated as Article X therein. Provided that the Zoning Board of Appeal shall be the Board of Appeal established by By-Law under the Town's Building Laws and amendments thereto.
After debate, Mr. Johnson's substitute motion was unanimously adopted.
Motion: To adjourn until Friday, March 8, 1940.
Adjournment made at 11:12 P. M.
JULIAN R. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH Office of the Town Clerk
Weymouth, Mass. March 7, 1940
NOTICE
Public Notice is hereby given that the Annual Town Meeting of the Town of Weymouth, held on March 4, 1940, adjourned to March 6, 1940,
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was further adjourned to meet at the hall of the Weymouth High School, East Weymouth, March 8, 1940 at 7:45 o'clock in the evening.
This notice is given under the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921 and the amendments thereof.
Given under my hand this 7th day of March A. D. 1940.
JULIAN R. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
Friday, March 8, 1940
The time to which the Annual Town Meeting adjourned having arrived the Moderator called the meeting to order at 7:45 P. M.
Prayer was dispensed with.
188 Town Meeting members were checked as present by the police.
ARTICLE 19. Mr. Field moved: That the Town amend its By- Laws by striking out Section 799 of Article 7 and inserting in place thereof the following:
Sec. 799. A Board of Appeal of three members and one associate member is hereby created consisting of the Town Engineer, the Town Counsel, a member of the Board of Selectmen, appointed by the Board, which shall also designate the chairman; and the associate member shall be the chairman of the Planning Board, who shall act only in case of a vacancy, inability to attend, or death of a member of the Board of Appeal. Three members of the Board of Appeal shall constitute a quorum.
Any person applying for a building permit who wishes to be relieved from any operation of the provisions of the By-Laws, may make appli- cation in writing to the Building Inspector, specifying what waivers he desires made in his favor and the reasons therefor. This application with any accompanying specifications, plans, and maps, shall be submit- ted by the Building Inspector together with his written recommendations thereon, to the Board of Appeals for final decision. If the Board of Appeals unanimously approves said application, the Building Inspector shall then issue a permit for the same.
Mr. Callahan moved: That no action be taken under this article.
So voted.
ARTICLE 20. Mr. Field moved: That the Town appropriate from the income of the Rhines Fund Income Account the sum of $2500. for the purpose of providing material and other expenses concerning con- structing an enlargement of the permanent seating arrangements on Legion Memorial Field, said work to be undertaken as a W. P. A. project under the direction of the School Committee.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 21. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 22. Mr. Field moved: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Agency set up under Article 2 of this Warrant.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
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ARTICLE 23. Mr. Field moved: That the Town vote to appropri- ate $4,472.55 from the Filtration Plant Construction Account and the sum of $11,913.69 from the Surplus Funds of the Water Department for the purpose of paying the Superior Court Judgment in the case of Thomas H. Hannaford vs. the Town of Weymouth, Superior Court ¥32127.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 24. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 25. Mr. Field moved: That the subject matter of this article be referred back to the Planning Board for further study and written report to be filed not later than December 15, 1940 with the Appropriation Committee and the Board of Selectmen.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 26. Mr. Field moved: That the subject matter of this article be referred back to the Planning Board for further study and written report to be filed not later than December 15, 1940 with the Appropriation Committee and the Board of Selectmen.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 27. Mr. Field moved: That the subject matter of this article be referred back to the Planning Board for further study and written report to be filed not later than December 15, 1940 with the Appropriation Committee and the Board of Selectmen.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 28. Mr. Raymond Stein moved: That Article 28 be taken up after all other articles in the Warrant are considered.
Mr. Stein's motion was carried unanimously.
ARTICLE 29. Mr. Field. moved: That the Town appropriate the sum of $6,000. for the maintenance and repair of the Monatiquot River Bridge including the operation of the draw over the Monatiquot River in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 315 of the General Acts of 1917.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 30. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Mr. Hebert offered a substitute motion as follows: That the Town raise and appropriate $500. to be used for an air compressor for tree work.
Mr. Hebert's substitute motion was unanimously voted.
ARTICLE 31. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
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Mr. Hebert offered a substitute motion as follows: That $2,000. be taken from the Rhines Fund for tree rehabilitation.
Mr. Hebert's substitute motion was unanimously carried.
ARTICLE 32. Mr. Field moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 33. Mr. Field moved: That the Town raise and appro- priate the sum of $600. for the purpose of maintaining, during the ensuing year, the mosquito control works as estimated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 112, Acts of 1931.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 34. Mr. Field moved: That the Town raise and appro- priate the sum of $200. to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for the purpose of stocking the ponds and other inland waters, located within the Town limits, with fish and of liberating game, in accordance with Chapter 142, Section 1 of the Acts of 1938.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee was unanimously adopted, as made by Mr. Field.
ARTICLE 35. Mr. Field moved: That the Weymouth Municipal Airport Committee be continued for further study and written report with their recommendations on this general subject matter, said report to be filed with the Board of Selectmen and the Appropriation Com- mittee not later than December 15, 1940.
. Mr. Heald moved an amendment to the motion of the Appropriation Committee: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.) for a survey to be made to deter- mine the cost of the land needed for a Weymouth Municipal Airport and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to obtain options, which would be valid until at least 30 days after the scheduled date for the next Regular Annual Town Meeting, for the purchase by the Town of all or any part of the property as described in Article 35, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $75.00 therefor.
Mr. Heald's amendment was unanimously adopted.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 28. Mr. Field moved: That the Town, consistent with the terms of the will of Laban Pratt, build and equip a fifty-bed capacity hospital to be known as the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital and that the Moderator be authorized to appoint a committee of seven, whose mem- bership shall include two doctors, a lawyer and a builder, for the purpose of obtaining plans and estimates; said committee to report to the Town when their work is accomplished and for this purpose the sum of $5,000. is hereby appropriated from the fund made available under the pro- visions of the will of Laban Pratt, but no such committee shall be appointed until after the favorable final determination of all legal issues concerning the title to the aforesaid funds.
Mr. Lane moved: That the sum of $1,200. is hereby raised and appropriated for the purpose of determining immediately the need of further hospitalization in the Town of Weymouth and the requirements
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of a hospital not to exceed a fifty-bed capacity. Such a study to be made by competent hospital consultants under the direction of a committee of seven to be appointed at once bv the Moderator and to include two doctors and the Town Counsel. Report to be submitted to the next annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting to be called by the Board of Selectmen at the request of this committee.
That the sum of $5,000. be appropriated from the Laban Pratt Fund to provide plans and recommend site for proposed hospital not to exceed fifty-bed capacity and in accordance with the will of the late Laban Pratt and to be called the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital. But no sum of money will be appropriated from the money made available under the will of the late Laban Pratt and that the committee shall not take any action on plans and site until after favorable final determination of all legal issues concerning the title of the aforesaid funds.
Mr. Buchan moved to amend Mr. Lane's motion so that that part of Mr. Lane's motion which reads as follows: "That the sum of $5,000. be appropriated from the Laban Pratt Fund to provide plans and recom- mend site for proposed hospital not to exceed fifty-bed capacity and in accordance with the will of the late Laban Pratt and to be called the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital.", be preceded by the following words: "That the Town, consistent with the terms of the will of Laban Pratt, build and equip a hospital not to exceed a fifty-bed capacity, to be known as the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital."
Mr. Lane's motion as thus amended was unanimously adopted and that motion as thus amended reads as follows: That the sum of $1,200. is hereby raised and appropriated for the purpose of determining immediately the need of further hospitalization in the Town of Wey- mouth and the requirements of a hospital not to exceed a 50-bed capacity-such a study to be made by competent hospital consultants under the direction of a committee of seven to be appointed at once by the Moderator and to include two doctors and the Town Counsel. Report to be submitted to the next annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting to be called by the Board of Selectmen at the request of this committee.
That the Town, consistent with the terms of the will of Laban Pratt build and equip a hospital not to exceed a fifty-bed capacity, to be known as the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital.
And that the sum of $5,000. be appropriated from the Laban Pratt Fund to provide plans and recommend site for proposed hospital not to exceed fifty-bed capacity and in accordance with the will of the late Laban Pratt and to be called the Laban Pratt Memorial Hospital.
But no sum of money will be appropriated from money made avail- able under the will of the late Laban Pratt and that the committee shall not take any action on plans and site until after favorable final deter- mination of all legal issues concerning the title of the aforesaid fund.
The motion of the Appropriation Committee, as made by Mr. Field, was unanimously adopted as amended.
The meeting was declared adjourned without date at 12:30 A. M., March 9, 1940.
JULIAN R. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
A true copy :
Attest :
JULIAN R. MERCHANT.
Seal.
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SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS Annual Town Meeting March 4, 1940 March 6, 1940 March 8, 1940
Article 1
Raise and Appropriate Appropriate
Item 1 Appropriation Committee $ 650.00
2 Selectmen's Department 3,930.00
3 Accounting Department 6,236.00
4 Treasurer's Department 5,211.00
5 Tax Collector's Department
9,184.00
6 Assessor's Department
10,509.00
6b Equalization of Property Valuations
2,250.00
7 Legal Department
3,000.00
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Payment of Damages
4,000.00
9 Town Clerk's Department
4,312.85
10 Elections and Registrations 6,190.00
11 Engineering Department 5,500.00
12 Planning Board
300.00
13 Main. Town Hall, etc. 8,830.00
14 Civil War Monument, etc. 100.00
15 Police Department 75,276.00
16 Fire Department
84,040.75
17 Building Inspector's Department 1,592.00
18 Sealer of Weights and Measures 1,250.00
19 Moth Department 4,500.00
20 Tree Department
1,950.00
21 Street Lighting
36,469.36
22 Harbor Master
1,200.00
23 Board of Health
16,000.00
24 Employment of Nurses
2,500.00
25 Maint. Norfolk County Hospital
16,448.83
26 Garbage Removal
4,000.00
27 Public Welfare
173,939.00
28 Old Age Assistance
126,440.00
29 Pensions
2,800.00
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30 Soldiers' Benefits
24,000.00
31 Highway Department 115,000.00
32 Support of Schools
440,021.97 $ 3,250.78
33 Libraries
26,309.00
34 Observance Memorial Day
800.00
35 Parks and Playgrounds.
6,850.00
36 Miscellaneous Expenses
3,238.24
37 Unpaid Bills
1,262.32
38 Overdrafts
39 Contributory Retirement System
21,689.36
40 Salaries and expenses of Water Dept.
90,000.00
Work for private parties.
10,000.00
41 Sewer Construction
42 Alewife Fishery
350.00
43 Care Soldiers' Graves.
1,500.00
44 Care Old Cemeteries 200.00
45 Interest and Discount
16,499.50
46 Debt Retirement
72,598.66
47 Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund 1.00
48 Fire and other Insurance.
4,942.27
49 Reserve Fund
15,000.00
Article 2 Co-operation with Federal Govern- ment for Relief
65,000.00
7 For use of Assessors' in establish- ing tax rate for 1940 (from surplus)
45,000.00
10 For the acquisition and working by the Highway Dept. of land to be used for public highways ....
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