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Your committee is pleased to call to your attention that extensive re- employment has made it possible to return over thirty thousand dollars, un- expended, on the budget of nineteen forty-one.
We have two recommendations to make. One, that the salary of visitors be stepped up to at least thirty dollars per week. The statement concerning the importance of case work (above) reveals that these people are the traveling representatives of the department, and if we are going to employ intelligent workers in these days we must be prepared to pay at last a decent wage for this work. It might be added that thirty dollars is the minimum advocated by the State; Two, that the Board of Public Welfare consider the use of only two doctors, to be known as town doctors, their salary to be one thousand dollars per year.
Respectfully submitted, /s/ TIMOTHY OSBORNE, Chairman /s/ BEATRICE BICKNELL, Clerk /s/ REV. WILLIAM G. SEWELL
The Moderator for the Committee then moved to amend the recommendations of the Appropriation Committee as follows: 1. That the minimum salary of the visitors be stepped up to $30.00 per week. Unanimously and tentatively adopted. Selectman Callahan moved to amend the appropria- tion Committee recommendations as follows: To increase the amount under Administration from $7,294 to $8,794. Moderator declared the motion as lost.
2nd. The Moderator for the Committee moved to amend the Appropriation Committee recommenda- tions as follows: That two (2) Town doctors be appointed and the sum of $2,000. shall be for com- pensation to doctors and other medical services rendered.
Selectman Callahan raised a point of order in re- gards to the number of doctors appointed. Moder- ator ruled the point of order was not well taken. Motion of the Moderator for the Committee was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as thus amended by Mr. Field and the Moderator for the Committee was unanimously and tentatively adopted. $ 147,447.30
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Item 28. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For old age assistance under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 118A as amended $137,572. Not exceeding $7,572. shall be for all expenses of ad- ministration, including automobile allowances for visitors and of this sum for administration $2,000. is allocated to and appropriated under Item 27 for salary of the Welfare Agent set up under Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1938. From the adminstra- . tion figure the Town Accountant shall transfer to the Town's general fund an amount equal to what- ever monies are made available by the State or Federal Government for any administration ex- pense for the fiscal year under this item.
Mr Field for the Appropriation Committee moved an amendment to the original motion as follows: That the sum of $126. be added to the amount for administration, making the total for the Depart- ment. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as thus amended was unanimously and tentatively adopted. $ 137,698.00
Item 29. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Pensions $ 2,400.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offer- ed Mr. Field unanimously and tentatively a- dopted.
Item 30. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Soldiers benefits, inchiding State and Military Aid, Soldier' Relief and the burying of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors. Of this sum not $ exceeding $250. is for all administrative expenses. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
18,000.00
Item 31. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: Highway Department. For personal services of the salaried employees a sum not exceeding $43,696. For personal services of other than salaried employees a sum not ex- ceeding $41,600. For purchase of supplies, ma- terials, new equipment and for the disposal of old equipment; provided a committee of 3, one of whom shall be the Superintendent of Streets, shall be appointed by the Moderator for these purposes, the sum of $17,100. For all other expenses of the Department a sum not exceeding $36,500.
$ 138,896.00
Selectman Callahan moved to delete from the Ap- propriation Committee's recommendation the fol- lowing: "Provided a committee of 3 one of whom shall be the Superintendent of Streets shall be ap- pointed by the Moderator for these purposes." Moderator declared the motion as lost. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 32. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the support of the Public Schools. $ 479,618.48 In addition $3,736.52 being the sum received from the County by way of Statutory Distribution of the $ 3,736.52
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Dog Tax, is hereby appropriated for the support of the public schools.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 33. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the Tufts library and it Branches and and other Library purposes $ 26,730.00
Of this sum $2,050. is appropriated for the reading room at the Fogg Library. The income from the several trust funds of the Town are hereby made available for Library purposes. Not more than $50. of this total appropriation may be used for expenses incurred in travel outside the Common- wealth while securing information that may tend to improve the service of the Library.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
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34. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the observance of Memorial Day To be expended under the direction of a committee of seven (7) to be appointed by the Moderator, who shall designate the Chairman, from the sever- al veteran and hereditary organizations in ac- cordance with the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 12 as amended. Said amount to be available only in case evidence shall be filed with the Town Account- ant that the known graves of the deceased veterans of all wars have been decorated without discrimina- tion.
$ 900.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 35. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Parks and Playground. $ 7,375.00
Of this sum not exceeding $300. shall be for all ad- ministrative expenses. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 36. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Miscellaneous Expenses $3,830.00. Of this sum $1,000. is for defraying the cost of the use of the Town buildings by private individuals or organizations and not exceeding $480. shall be for the salary of a dog officer.
Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved to amend the original motion as follows: That $254.40 be added making the total Motion of the Appropriation Committee as moved by Mr. Field $ was unanimously and Tentatively adopted, as thus amended.
4,084.40
Item 37. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Unpaid Bills as provision has been
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made under Item 8. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as made by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 38. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Over darfts under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 31. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
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39. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For necessary charges and the administra- tion of the Contributary Retirement System. Of this amount $558. is appropriated to the ex- pense fund of which not exceeding $468. shall be for personal services.
$ 23,636.00
Motion of the appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 40. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the Water Department : Of this sum $107.943.00 is to be provided from cur- rent revenue and $40,000.00 from surplus revenue of the Water Department and there is further ap- propriated from the General Fund of the Water Department $10,000. for carrying on work for pri- vate parties payment for such to revert to the General Fund of the Water Department. Authori- zation. for the disposal and replacement of motor vehicles by the Water Commissioners is hereby granted.
Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved the following amendment to the original motion as follows: That there be added the sum of $147. to be appropriated from the current water revenue, makin the total for the department. $ 158,090.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as thus amended by Mr. Field was unanimously and ten- tatively adopted.
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41. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That the Town take. no action under this item. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
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42. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the operation of the Alewife Fishery. $ Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
350.00
Item 43. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the care of Soldiers' Graves under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 15, Section 22, including the placing of new markers and re- replacing old ones. $ 1,500.00
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The care of the grave markers is hereby given to the Custodian of Soldiers' Graves.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 44. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the care of Old Cemeteries under Gen- eral Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 114, Sections 16 and 18.
$ 200.00
Provided that the Town instruct the Board of Se- lectmen to contract with the Wessagusset Post No. 1399 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for the care of Maintenance of Old Cemetery off Park Avenue: Old Cemetery opposite Fairmount Cemetery on Pleasant Street near Pine Street.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 45. Mr. Field, for the Appropriation Committee moved: For interest and discount. $ 12,500.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 46. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the Retirement of Bonds and Notes due in 1942. $ 68,000.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 47. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For the Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund.
$ 5,000.00
Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 48. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For Fire and other Insurance. $ 6,021.00 Motion of the Appropriation Committee, as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously and tentatively adopted.
Item 49. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: For a Reserve Fund. $ 15,000.00
Provided that all salaries of elected officials remain at the same figure as last year except as hereinbe- fore otherwise voted. Provided that no monies hereinbefore appropriated shall be expended for telephone service in private houses of any Town official or employee except in those of the Chiefs of the Police and Fire Departments. Provided that no monies hereinbefore appropriated shall be for personal expenses except as specified hereinbefore or otherwise allowed by law. Provided further that no monies hereinbefore appropriated shall be used for the purchase of motor vehicles, except as other-
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wise specified in this Article. Provided further that no monies herein appropriated, excepting the amounts supplied under Item 2, Article 1 of this Warrant, shall be paid directly or indirectly as re- muneration, compensation, or otherwise, to any currently elected member of the Board of Select- men for expenses or services rendered the Town in any capacity. Nor shall the Board of Selectmen appoint anyone currently elected to the Board of Selectmen to any other position except there is mandatory statutory authority therefor. * The preface incorporated in its beginning and the rider ending Article 1 apply in to Article 1.
Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved to amend the original motion as follows: Of this sum $3,000. shall be reserved for use by Weymouth Committee on Public Safety.
Selectman Callahan moved the following amend- ment to the Rider: Provided that the committee of three (3) under Item 31 make all purchases under Article 1 except books for the schools and libraries. Moderator declared the motion as lost. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as thus amended by Mr. Field was unanimously and tenta- tively adopted.
Mr. Cate moved reconsideration of Article 1. Mo- tion Lost.
Selectman Callahan moved to adjourn at no later than 11:30.
Unanimously adopted.
Moderator then declared that all the Items of Article 1 and Article 1 itself as amended and ten- tatively adopted was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 2. Mr. Field, for the Appropriation Committee, moved; The sum of $16,621. shall be raised and appropriated for providing co-operation with the Federal Government or other agencies in unemployment relief and other projects of direct or indirect benefit to the Town or its inhabit- ants, which sum together with any unexpended balance of the appropria- tion made for similar purposes last year, shall be expended under the direction of a Committee of Seven (7) consisting of the Welfare Agent who shall be Certifying Officer, the Chairmen respectively of the Board of Selectmen, the Planning Board, and the Park Commissioners, and the Superintendents of the School, Street and Water Departments, provided that all outstanding accounts may be paid from this appropriation upon approval by this Committee. Of this sum $1,000. shall be for General Administration; $1,638. shall be for the operation of the Surplus Com- modities division; $1,515. shall be for operation of the Federal Food Stamp Plan whose functions and appropriation shall be transferred to the Welfare Department if the above Agency be discontinued; and $10.000 shall be set apart for the purpose of constructing permanent side- walks and/or curbings throughout the Town in accordance with a plan of the Planning Board who, with the Agency set up under this Article, shall be the sponsors for all sidewalk and curb projects under this Article. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was un- animously adopted.
ARTICLE 3. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That all Committees who have not rendered a final report be continued until the work under their charge is completed.
Selectman Lane moved to amend the recommendations of the Appropria-
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tion Committee as follows. That the Moderator appoint the Committee as so voted under Article 25-26-27 of the 1941 warrant. Motion of the Appropriation Committee as thus amended by Selectman Lane was adopted.
Moved to adjourn at 11.30 until Wednesday evening, March 4th, 1942 at 7:45 in the evening. So voted.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4th, 1942
The time to which the Annual Town Meeting adjourned having arrived, the Moderator called the meeting to order at 7:48 P.M. and requested the Reverend Father Mahoney, Pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church of East Weymouth to invoke the Divine Blessing. 201 Town Meeting Members were checked by the police stationed in the aisles. One Town Meeting Member not previously sworn to the duties of his office was at this time sworn by the Moderator.
Moderator opened the meeting by calling for the Committee's report on Street Acceptances as of the 1941 Town Meeting, under Committee reports of Article 3 of the 1942 Warrant and orderd the Town Clerk to read the report which is as follows:
REPORT NO. 1. Amend Section 506 of the present Town By-Laws by Striking out the entire section and inserting in its place thereof the fol- lowing new section :-
SECTION 506. No street or way shall be laid out or accepted by the Town of Weymouth of a width of less than 40 feet, unless the same shall have been used for public travel prior to January 1, 1931, and proof of such use shall be deemed conclusive if the Board of Selectmen find that six or more houses on said way were occupied on or prior to said date, or un- less recommended by the Board of Selectmen and the Superintendent of Streets and any provision of these by-laws, having to do with the acceptance of streets, and inconsistent with the provisions of this section, except Section 504 may be suspended by a four-fifths vote of those present and voting at any annual Town Meeting.
Kenneth L. Nash Irving I. Johnson Sandy Roulston Selectman Callahan moved the report be accepted as read and the meet- ing adopt the recommendations, and further moved that the recommenda- tions be presented as an Article in the Warrant at the next Special or Annual Town Meeting. Unanimously adopted.
Mr. Mathewson for the Committee on Needs of Vocational Education read the following report :
REPORT NO. 2
Mr. Moderator and Town Meeting Members:
A special committee of seven was appointed by the Moderator at the last Annual Town Meeting under Article 35 (at the request of School Com- mittee) :
"To see if the Town will vote to appoint and designate a committee to study needs of vocational education in the Town of Weymouth consistent with the program of national defense and with such extensions and inclusions as the com- munity may want to continue permanently, with the pur- pose that such committee shall make its report to the Town, at a Special Town Meeting or the next Annual Town Meet- ing, or take any other action in relation thereto."
I submit the following report of this committee who have studied the activities of other towns and cities in their vocational training programs, and
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who are recommending for the Town of Weymouth a basic plan of vocational training much wider in its scope than that previously carried on by the town.
The committee first gave consideration to the fact that there are 1,545 students enrolled at the Weymouth High School, of which 776 are males. Of this group there are 185 enrolled in the present vocational training courses; the balance, 591, are taking academic courses. Of this group less than 10 per- cent go on to further education.
The balance, somewhat over 500 male students, graduate from high school ill prepared to take up their life's work, which from economic conditions and other limitations must be along technical lines of endeavor.
All graduates from the Weymouth Vocational School courses are success- fully absorbed in industry, being employed in the trades for which they were trained; but boys completing the academic courses, forced by recent world events to seek employment in industrial plants, can obtain jobs only as helpers or apprentices.
The state law requires that no employer doing an interstate business employ a boy under eighteen to operate a machine. That means that a boy must be eighteen before he enters industry as an apprentice, and with a four- year course, he is twenty-two before he becomes a journeyman; whereas a properly trained vocational school graduate enters industry at eighteen with a basic knowledge of his trade and requires no indentured period to become a journeyman. We believe that future foremen, superintendents, and man- agers will be drawn from vocational school trained men. Industry does not seem disposed to train boys, except as individual machine operators, which limits the scope and advancement of the boy. The schools have the boys in their most formative years (i. e. under 18 years) and it is our duty to plant and nurture the seeds of good citizenship and industry in the mind of the boy within those years.
The United States Government is assisting many towns and cities in the establishment and equipment of vocational training schools throughout the U. S. A. Your committee have been in contact with the proper Government Authorities from time to time, pleading for assistance in the expansion of our vocational activities.
Your Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Charles R. Thibadeau, has recently received a grant from the United States Government of eight Arc welding units at a value of $4,000. For lack of suitable space to install these units they were temporarily set up in the Vocational Automotive Repair Depart- ment, creating a congestion which is affecting the efficiency of that depart- ment.
The Government expects the Weymouth School Department to see to it that there shall be 2,688 student hours of training per week with this welding equipment. However, with the lack of space at present, it would be neces- sary to curtail the required hours of training by two-thirds. There should be from 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of floor space to properly operate this equip- ment.
Your committee have requested a grant from the United States Govern- ment of some $60,000. worth of machine tools and machine shop equipment. There seems a fair chance that this request will be granted in the near future. We hope to be in a position to avail ourselves of very substantial Govern- ment assistance under the Lanham Act, which makes provision for school building needs in defense areas.
Our survey of present defense needs, and the rehabilitation which is bound to follow (we believe, with Government assistance), leads us to recom- mend a broad basic plan for a "Technical High School," embracing modern machine shop practice, welding, internal combustion engine, woodworking,
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printing, and other allied trades. Of the above, we have no suitable building for either machine shop, welding, or wood and metal finishing. If quarters are provided to house this equipment, it will be necessary to have class- rooms at a ratio of three to one for study periods. It will require 30,000 square feet of additional floor space for the complete vocational school pro- gram.
WILFRED B. MATHEWSON, Chairman
COMMITTEE
Wilfred B. Mathewson, Chairman Charles R. Thibadeau, Secretary
Dr. Wallace H. Drake Joseph W. Mahoney William J. Coyle
George O. Crawford Olindo S. Garofalo
Mr. Field for the Apropriation Committee moved: That $1.00 be raised and appropriated for this committee and the committee be continued. Unanimously adopted $1.00 Mr. Allan C. Emery for the Committee of the Laban Pratt Hospital read the report of the Committee.
Selectman Callahan moved: That the Committee report and reconimen- dations be referred to article 38 of the Warrant and so recorded. Un- animously adopted.
ARTICLE 4. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That the Town take no action upon this article.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 5. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: 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 form time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the fiscal year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1943 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.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 6. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That $37,000. be voted from Surplus for use in determining the tax rate for the year 1942.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously adopted.
ARTICLE 7. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That the Selectmen be authorized to sell or otherwise dispose of personal property and any real estate of which the Town has posession or title including all property taken for non-payment of taxes, all such cases of sale to be made by public auction or private sale as the Selectmen may deem for the best interest 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 private sale as the Board of Select- men may approve, any personal property belonging to said department which in the opinion of the Officer or Board in charge of the department is no longer needed to the Town and which in the opinion of the Select- men is not needed by any other Town Department.
Motion of the Appropriation Committee as offered by Mr. Field was unanimously adopted.
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ARTICLE 8. Mr. Field for the Appropriation Committee moved: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to accept conveyances or mortgages of any real or personal property belonging to persons receiving relief from the Town and to dispose of said property under the provisions of Article 8 of this Warrant in such manner as they may judge for the best interest of the Town and where said property is subject to any encumberances if they are hereby authorized to do so.
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