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MR. CAIN MOVED:
That the Moderator read these items by number, title and the total appropriation only, pausing after each item to see if there was any dis- cussion, then pass on to the next one.
Vote taken on motion offered by Mr. Field and Moderator declared the motion LOST.
Vote taken on motion of Mr. Cain to take up Article 1 in accordance with his motion. SO VOTED.
ARTICLE 1. To provide for all expenses of maintenance and opera- tion of each of the Town's several departments and activities for the fiscal year, for certain improvements, and to meet certain requirements of the law, the several sums hereinafter set forth are hereby appropriated for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified, all such sums to be raised by taxation in the levy of the current year unless some other source of revenue is expressed.
Item 1. For personal services and expenses of the Appropriation Com- mittee $675.00 PASSED.
Item 2. For the Selectmen's Department $4,000.00 Of this sum not exceeding $500.00 shall be for personal services of the Clerk who may be a Selectman.
PASSED.
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Item 3. For the Town Accountant's Department $6,214.00 Of this sum not exceeding $5,684.00 shall be for personal services of the Department.
PASSED.
Item 4. For the Town Treasurer's Department $5,042.00 Of this sum not exceeding $3,460.00 shall be for personal services of the Department. For foreclosing Tax Titles the additional sum of $1,300.00 PASSED.
Item 5. For the Tax Collector's Department $10,232.00 The compensation of the Tax Collector shall be five and three-quarter mills on each dollar of taxes collected and the Selectmen are authorized and in- structed to insure the Tax Collector in the sum of $15,000.00 robbery in- surance.
PASSED.
Item 6. For the Assessor's Department $14,397.00 Of this sum not exceeding $12,070.00 shall be for personal services of the Department and transportation of the Board. Of this sum not exceeding $2,750.00 shall be for the services of the Clerk of the Board who may be a member thereof. The salaries of the Assessors are hereby fixed at $1,300.00 for the Chairman, and $1,200.00 for 3 others.
PASSED.
Item 7. For the Legal Department and personal expenses as incurred by the Town Counsel in performing his duties as such $3,000.00 Of this sum not exceeding $1,500.00 shall be for the salary of the Town Counsel.
PASSED.
Item 8. For the Payment of Damages (Previously voted) $6,130.00
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Item 9. For the Town Clerk's Department $6,410.00 Of this sum not exceeding $5,303.00 shall be for personal services of the Department.
PASSED.
Item 10. For Elections $1,659.38
For Registration of voters $4,133.25
Of this latter sum not exceeding $300.00 shall be for personal services of the Clerk, $300.00 shall be for the Chairman and $200.00 each for 2 other members of the Board of Registrars and a sum not exceeding $1,344.00 shall be for clerical services of the Department.
PASSED.
Item 11. For the Engineering Department $5,800.00
Of this sum $100.00 shall be for the placing of bound stones on existing Town ways and the remainder shall be for the Town survey, for street surveys and such engineering work as may be authorized by the Board of Selectmen.
PASSED.
Item 12. For the Planning Board $300.00
PASSED.
Item 13. For the maintenance and upkeep of the Town Hall and War Memorials at the Civic Center including the grounds, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. $12,118.50 PASSED.
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Item 14. For the maintenance of the Civil War Soldier's Monument and the King Philip War Memorial including the grounds, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. $100.00 PASSED.
Item 15. For the Police Department $112,314.50 Of this sum not exceeding $92,548.01 shall be for the personal services of the Department including clerical assistance. Of the total sum $2,000.00 shall be for purchase of police automobiles by the Chief of Police. PASSED.
Item 16. For the Fire Department $117,675.00 Of this sum not exceeding $96,800.00 shall be for the personal services of the permanent members. Of this sum $4,200.00 is provided to increase base rate of annual pay for members of the Department as follows: Chief $3,400.00, Deputy Chief $2,900.00, Captains $2,700.00, Lieutenants $2,500.00, Privates $2,300.00. For personal services of the call members, the sum of $2,000.00. For all other expenses of the Department $18,275.00. Of this latter sum $900.00 shall be for the renewal of old style fire alarm boxes. Not more than $150.00 of this total appropriation may be used for expense incurred in travel outside the Commonwealth securing information that may tend to improve the service of the Department.
That there be further appropriated from Surplus the sum of $14,000.00 for the purchase of a new engine. $14,000.00 PASSED.
Item 17. For the Building Inspector's Department $4,945.00 Of this sum not exceeding $3,100.00 shall be for personal services and transportation expenses of the Building Inspector and $1,300.00 is provided for clerical expenses and $285.00 shall be for the Board of Appeal on building and zoning.
PASSED.
Item 18. For the Sealer of Weights and Measures Department in- cluding transportation expenses $1,250.00 PASSED.
Item 19. For Gypsy Moth and all other insect pest extermination, to be expended under the direction of the Moth Superintendent. $6,017.00 Of this sum not exceeding $3,797.00 shall be for personal services of the department.
PASSED.
Item 20. For the care of shade trees, to be expended under the direc- tion of the Tree Warden. $11,499.00 Not exceeding $9,104.00 of this sum shall be for personal services of the Department.
PASSED.
Item 21. For Street Lighting $40,714.00
The Electric Lighting Committee is hereby instructed to contract with the Weymouth Light and Power Company for street lighting. PASSED.
Item 22. For the Harbor Master's Department and the operation of his patrol boat a sum not exceeding $1,560.00 PASSED.
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Item 23. For the Board of Health a sum totalling $21,470.00 Of this sum not exceeding $600.00 shall be for personal services of the Board at a rate of $200.00 each. For miscellaneous expense of the Board including postage and stationery a sum not exceeding $400.00; For Dairy and Food Inspections, posting contagious disease cases, and investigations of nusiances and menaces harmful to health a sum not exceeding $3,000.00 for the Health Agent. An amount not to exceed $500.00 of this former sum is for travel expense of the Agent. Provided further that the Agent shall not be a member of the Board.
For payments as required to the Norfolk County Tuberculosis Hospital and other hospitals the sum of $4,500.00.
For Health Tests a sum not exceeding $300.00.
For Quarantine and Contagious Disease cases not exceeding $700.00 For maintenance of the Town Dumps a sum not exceeding $2,170.00 provided that not exceeding $1,850.00 of this amount shall be for personal services.
For Plumbing Inspections, the sum of $2,000.00 provided that the ser- vices and all expenses of the Plumbing Inspector shall not exceed an amount equal to that collected for all plumbing permits plus $400.00.
For the services and auto expenses of a Dental Hygienist, a sum not exceeding $2,000.00.
For a public Nurse at a rate of $1,800.00 per year a sum not exceeding $2,000.00. Of this sum $200.00 is for travel expense; For Dentists, Dental supplies and transportation, a sum not exceeding $2,250.00; For conducting the Diptheria Clinic, a sum not exceeding $250.00.
For the protection of the public from rabies, a sum not exceeding $200.00.
For returns to Undertakers, a sum not exceeding $100.00.
For dog bite cases and serum, a sum not exceeding $300.00.
And for burying animals, a sum not exceeding $700.00. PASSED.
Item 24. For the employment of nurses $2,500.00
The Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to contract with the Weymouth Visiting Nurse Association to furnish nursing service. PASSED.
Item 25. For the Norfolk County Tuberculosis Hospital $19,993.00 PASSED.
Item 26. For Garbage Removal $14,000.00
The Board of Selectmen is authorized to contract for the disposal of garbage from April 1, 1947 to April 1, 1948 and in addition to this sum the Board of Selectmen may use whatever unexpended balance remains in the existing appropriation from prior years for the same purpose. PASSED.
Item 27. For Public Welfare $126,194.00
Of this entire appropriation the sum of all expenses of administration, including automobile allowances for investigators, but excepting the Town Infirmary, shall not exceed $8,894.00, of which sum not more than $6,944.00 shall be for personal services and $1,950.00 shall be for miscellaneous ad- ministrative expense. Of this administration sum $984.00 in addition to $2,216.00 of the Appropriation for administration under Item 28 aggregating and not exceeding $3,200.00 shall be for the salary of the Welfare Agent appointed under the provisions of Chapter 7, Acts of 1938; and from the sum for administration the Town Accountant shall transfer to the Town's
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general fund an amount equal to whatever monies are made available by the State or Federal Government for any administrative expense for the fiscal year under this item.
$56,000.00 shall be for Aid to Dependent Children;
$7,800.00 shall be for Administration and all expenses of the Town Infirmary;
$8,500.00 shall be for reimbursement to other cities and towns for re- lief provided by them to persons having a legal settlement in this Town;
$45,000.00 shall be for relief of persons having a legal settlement in this Town, or the relief of persons not having a legal settlement in the Town.
Provided that any portion of the total appropriation for Public Wel- fare under this item may be made available for any Welfare items, on and after November 1, 1947.
PASSED.
Item 28. For Old Age Assistance under General Laws, (Ter.Ed.) Chap. 118A as amended. $218,831.00 Of this entire appropriation the sum for all expenses of administration, including automobile allowances for visitors, shall not exceed $8,831.00 of which sum not more than $7,446.00 shall be for personal services and from this sum of administration $2,216.00 is allocated to and appropriated un- der Item 27 for services of the Welfare Agent set up under Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1938. From the administration figure the Town Accountant shall transfer to the Town's general fund an amount equal to whatever monies are made available by the State or Federal Government for any administrative expense for the fiscal year under this item.
PASSED.
Item 29. For Pensions
$2,200.00
PASSED.
Item 30. For World War II allotments in accordance with Chapter 11, Acts of 1942, and the burying of indigent soldiers and sailors and Veterans' Benefits as provided by Chapter 115 as amended by Chapter 584, Acts of 1946, the sum of $46,552.00 Of this sum not exceeding $6,552.00 shall be for administrative expense and not exceeding $5,252. shall be for personal services of the Department personnel. (Previously voted)
Item 31. For Highway Department $177,250.00
For personal services of the salaried employees a sum not exceeding $49,558.00. Of this sum not exceeding $3,760.00 shall be for the salary of the Superintendent. For personal services of other than salaried em- ployees a sum not exceeding $66,642.00. For the purchase of supplies, materials, 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 $37,300.00. Of this sum $18,300.00 shall be appropriated from Surplus for the purchase of three trucks and two tractors.
For all other expenses of the Department a sum not exceeding $23,750.00. (Previously voted)
Item 32. For the support of the Public Schools $710,320.85 In addition there is appropriated for the support of Public Schools the sum received from the County, by the way of Statutory distribution of the Dog Tax in the sum of $3,976.02. $3,976.02 PASSED.
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Item 33. For the Tufts Library and its branches and other Library Purposes the sum of $42,822.25 Of this sum $3,690.00 is appropriated for the Reading Room at the Fogg Library. The income of several trust funds of the Town is hereby made available for Library purposes. Not more than $50.00 of this total ap- propriation may be used for expenses incurred in travel outside the Com- monwealth while securing information that may tend to improve the service of the Library. (Previously voted)
Item 34. For the Observance of Memorial Day $1,350.00 To be expended under the direction of a committee of fifteen (15) to be appointed by the Moderator, who shall designate the Chairman, from the several veteran and hereditary organizations in accordance with the pro- visions 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 Accountant that the known graves of the deceased veterans of all wars have been decorated without discrimination. (Previously amended as to number of committee.) PASSED.
Item 35. For Parks and Playgrounds $13,065.00 Of this sum not exceeding $8,415.00 shall be for salaries and labor of all employees and $300.00 for all administrative expenses.
PASSED.
Item 36. For Miscellaneous Expenses $5,730.00 Of this sum $3,000.00 is for defraying the cost of the use of Town Build- ings by private individuals or organizations and not exceeding $480.00 shall be for the salary of the Dog Officer.
PASSED.
Item 37. For Unpaid Bills 0
as provisions have been made under Item 8. PASSED.
Item 38. For Overdrafts under General Laws (Ter.Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 31. 0
PASSED.
Item 39. For necessary charges and the administration of the Con- tributory Retirement system $31,295.00 Of this amount $1,245.00 is appropriated to the expense fund of which not exceeding $728.00 shall be for personal services.
PASSED.
Item 40. For the Water Department $156,356.00
Of this sum $127,676.00 is to be provided from current revenue and $14,480.00 from Surplus Revenue of the Water Department and there is further appropriated from the General Fund of the Water Department $14,200.00 for carrying on work for private parties, payment for such work to revert to the General Fund of the Water Deparment. It is fur- ther provided that the salary of the Chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners shall be $100.00 per year and $75.00 each for 4 other mem- bers, and $25.00 for a clerk who may be a Commissioner. Not more than $100.00 of this total appropriation may be used for expense incurred in travel outside the Commonwealth while securing information that may tend to improve the service of this Department. Authorization for the disposal and replacement of motor vehicles by the Water Commissioner is hereby granted.
PASSED.
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Item 41. Refer to Article No. 85.
PASSED.
Item 42. For the Operation of the Alewife Fishery $500.00 PASSED
Item 43. For the Care of Soldiers' graves under General Laws (Ter.Ed.) Chapter 115, Section 22, including the placing of new markers and replacing old ones. The care of the grave markers is hereby given to the Custodian of Soldiers' Graves. $1,700.00 PASSED.
Item 44. For the Care of Old Cemeteries under General Laws (Ter.Ed.)
Chapter 114, Section 16 and 18. $300.00 Provided that the Town instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract with Wessagusset Post No. 1399 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for the care and maintenance of Old Cemetery off Park Avenue; Old Cemetery opposite Fairmount Cemetery on Pleasant Street, the one located off Randolph Street; and Old Cemetery off Pleasant Street near Pine Street.
PASSED.
Item 45. For Interest and Discount $2,477.50
PASSED.
Item 46. For the Retirement of Bonds and Notes due in 1947. $19,000.00. Of this sum $9,000.00 shall be appropriated from the sale of Real Estate Account and $10,000.00 from Overlay Surplus.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE requested unanimous consent to withdraw that part of the motion reading "Of this sum $9,000.000 shall be appropriated from the sale of Real Estate Account and $10,000.00 from Overlay Surplus." UNANIMOUS CONSENT GRANTED.
Item 46. For the Retirement of Bonds and Notes due in 1947. $19,000.00 PASSED.
Item 47. For the Municipal Buildings Fire Insurance Fund $1.00 That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to study Municipal Fire Insurance of the Town and report to the Appropriation Committee not later than January 1, 1948.
PASSED.
Item 48. For Fire and other insurance $6,663.43
PASSED.
Item 49. For a Reserve Fund to be appropriated from Surplus PASSED. $25,000.00
Provided that all salaries of elected officials shall remain at the same figure per annum as last year except as hereinbefore otherwise voted. Provided that no monies hereinbefore appropriated shall be expended for telephone service in private houses of any Town official or employee ex- cept in those of the Chiefs of the Police and Fire Departments and the Harbor Master. Provided further that no monies hereinbefore appro- priated shall be used for the purchase of motor vehicles, except as other- wise specified in this Article. And 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 remuneration, com- pensation or otherwise, to any currently elected member of the Board of Selectmen for expenses or services rendered the Town in any capacity.
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(*The preface incorporated in its beginning and the rider ending Ar- ticle 1 apply in toto to Article 1).
PASSED.
Vote taken on Article 1 as AMENDED AND PASSED. UNANIMOUSLY VOTED.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE MOVED:
To reconsider Article 1.
Vote taken and the Moderator declared the motion LOST.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED:
ARTICLE 2. That the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Four Dollars and Seventy-Eight Cents ($137,884.78) be raised and appropriated to provide for a 15% per- manent increase in the salaries of all officials and employees of the Town, the minimum amount per week to be $5.00 for all present full time regular officials and employees; the above sum raised and appropriated to be allocated to the several departments as follows, namely: $137,884.78
Selectmen
$ 480.00
Accounting
940.71
Treasurer
910.00
Collector
1,060.00
Assessors
1,807.50
Legal
225.00
Town Clerk
433.33
Registrars
451.67
Town Hall Maintenance
1,086.75
Building Inspector
597.50
Sealer
150.00
Moth
556.92
Tree
1,250.66
Harbor Master
260.00
Health
1,525.00
Retirement System
130.00
Old Age
1,122.40
Welfare
360.00
Aid to Dependent Children
587.60
Soldiers' Relief
910.00
Town Infirmary
378.00
Park
912.45
Miscellaneous Expenses
117.00
Care Soldiers' Graves
30.00
Police
13,905.78
Fire
13,960.00
Highway
17,430.00
School
72,538.31
Libraries
3,668.20
$137,884.78
And that there be further appropriated from the current revenue of the Water Department the sum of Eleven Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-Six Dollars ($11,226.00) to provide for a 15% permanent increase in the salaries and wages of all officials and employees of said department, the minimum amount per week to be $5.00 for all present full time regular officials and employees. $11,226.00 SO VOTED.
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MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED:
ARTICLE 3. That all committees who have not rendered a final re- port be continued until the work under their charge is completed.
Mr. John W. Heffernan submitted the following report on the Honor Roll.
HONOR ROLL COMMITTEE TOWN OF WEYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen:
The Honor Roll Committee respectfully submits the following report: Names of Servicemen and Women have been added from time to time on the Honor Roll and there are others in the process of being made. The School Department has kept the grounds up around the Honor Roll extremely well.
The Committee was saddened this year by the death of one of its most respected members, Mr. Prince H. Tirrell, and the sympathy of the com- mittee is extended to his widow and family.
The Honor Roll Committee wishes to recommend that inasmuch as the Honor Roll is on school property, that that department could take full charge of the Honor Roll hereafter.
The Committee wishes to thank anyone who has helped in any way during the past year.
Very truly yours, (Signed) MRS. BEATRICE W. BICKNELL,
Clerk
MR. JOSEPH FERN MOVED:
That the report of the Honor Roll Committee be accepted, that the committee be discharged with the thanks of the Town and that the Honor Roll be subject to the control of the School Committee, provided further that the sum of $500.00 be raised and appropriated for the main- tenance of said Honor Roll. $500.00 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE MOVED:
That a rising vote of thanks be given to Mr. A. Kenneth Martin, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, who was retiring after serving nine years on that Committee.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED.
MR. CHESTER L. BOYLE gave the following report for the Voting Machine Committee.
TO THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING OF 1947
In accordance with Article 32 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of March 4, 1946, the Committee for further study on voting machines offers the following report and recommendation.
We believe that voting machines have some virtue, in that more ac- curate and quicker results of elections would be obtained, and that there would be a small saving in costs of elections and recounts.
To equip the Town with voting machines on the basis of one machine for each 300 voters (as is recommended by the sales agent) the cost of machines would be approximately $60,000; and on the basis of one machine
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for each 250 voters (which appears to be safer for a Town such as Wey- mouth where the heavy vote is cast from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.) the cost of machines would be approximately $71,000.
While there would be some saving on recounts, we did not feel that it is worthy of much consideration in-as-much as recounts are not ex- pensive. (The recount of two offices in the 1946 State Election cost $74.50.)
The slight savings on elections would not, in our opinion, justify the investment, and we feel that at some later date the need of voting machines may be such that consideration should again be given to them, but we are cognizant of the necessary increases in other Town expenses which appear to be of much greater importance.
Our recommendation is that no action be taken at this time.
Respectfully submitted:
(Signed by) Clarence L. Pratt, Chairman Horace P. Smith Chester L. Boyle
Report accepted and recommendation adopted
MR. JOHN FIELD MOVED:
That the Committee on Sewer costs and methods of apportionment be discharged.
SO VOTED.
Vote taken on motion offered by the Appropriation Committee.
SO VOTED UNANIMOUSLY.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED:
ARTICLE 4. That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized on and after January 1, 1948 to borrow such money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1948 and to issue a note or notes therefore payable within one year from date of issue, and that any debt or debts incurred under this vote be paid from the revenue of the fiscal year in which they were contracted.
SO VOTED.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED :
ARTICLE 5. That no action be taken on this matter.
SO VOTED.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED:
ARTICLE 6. That the Selectmen be authorized to sell or otherwise dispose of personal property and any real estate of which the Town has possession 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 Selectmen 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 by the Town and which in the opinion of the Selectmen is not needed by any other Department.
MR. CAIN OFFERED THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT:
Provided that in each case involving real estate a majority of the Planning Board and a majority of the Park Commissioners vote to concur
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in the opinion that the property will not be needed for park, playground or other public use.
SO VOTED.
Vote taken on motion offered by the Appropriation Committee as thus amended by Mr. Cain.
SO VOTED UNANIMOUSLY.
MR. GEORGE E. LANE FOR THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MOVED :
ARTICLE 7. 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 6 of this warrant in such manner as they may deem for the best interest of the Town and where said property is subject to any encumbrances if they consider it for the best interest of the Town to discharge such encumbrances, they are hereby authorized to do so.
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