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ARTICLE 53. (By Direction of Planning Board). To see what action the Town will take to designate the street now known as
Lakewood Road extension as Scott Lane
or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 54. (By Direction of Planning Board). To see what action the Town will take in changing the names of the streets running from about
532 Commercial Street to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks
now partially known as
Hyde Street and Trefton Avenue to Hyde Lane,
or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 55. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to ratify the action of the Board of Selectmen in the acceptance on behalf of the Town of an easement for drainage purpose from the Wey- mouth Development Company
off Neck Street
in accordance with plan of Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer dated October 31, 1949.
ARTICLE 56. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote and raise and appropriate to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain for drainage purposes in fee or otherwise at or near the junctions of
Shaw, Curtis and Neck Streets
or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 57. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Towil will vote to change the name of a section of
Garfield Avenue to Thayer Avenue
or take any other action in relation thereto.
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VETERANS
ARTICLE 58. (At Request of Weymouth Veterans Council). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for pro- viding suitable quarters for all Veteran Organizations in the Town of Weymouth entitled to the benefits under Chapter 40 of the General Laws, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 59. (At Request of Weymouth Veterans Council). To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $350.00 for the observance of Armistice Day in 1951.
ARTICLE 60. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $500.00 to house, light, protect, and maintain World War II Honor Roll.
EDUCATION
ARTICLE 61. (At Request of Building Committee). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation or otherwise, and appropriate, for the construction of the South Junior High School, for development and preparation of the site, and to purchase the necessary equipment for the same; said appropriation to be added to the sum of $1,238,000. appropriated for the same purpose at the special Town Meet- ing held on April 3, 1950, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 62. (At Request of School Committee). To see if the Town will vote to name the new Junior High School in the south part of the Town the South Junior High School, and the auditorium in said school, the Prince H. Tirrell Auditorium.
ARTICLE 63. (At Request of School Committee). To see if the Town will vote to name the new elementary school now under construction on Pearl Street the John J. Pershing School .
ARTICLE 64. (At Request of School Committee). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation or otherwise, and appropriate, for the purpose of acquiring by gift, purchase, or eminent domain in fee, part of Lot 16, Block 243, Sheet 18, as appears in the Atlas of the Town of Weymouth for the year 1949, approximately 93,000 square feet of land, for the purpose of developing a parking lot adjacent to Legion Memorial Field, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 65. (At Request of School Committee). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation or otherwise, and appropriate, for the purpose of developing a parking lot adjacent to Legion Memorial Field on Lot 11, Block 239, (now owned by the Town of Wey- mouth), and on Lot 16, Block 243, Sheet 18 as appears in the Atlas of the Town of Weymouth for the year 1949, or take any other action in relation thereto
LIBRARIES
ARTICLE 66. (At Request of Board of Trustees of Tufts Library). To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise, for the purpose of establishing a branch library thereon, certain land of Roy F. and Gertrude F Vining on North Street containing 12,705 square feet, more or less; and land of Clara E. Taylor on North Street, containing 13,338 square feet more or less, or take any other action in relation to establishing such a branch library.
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ARTICLE 67. (At Request of Board of Trustees of Tufts Library). To see if the Town will vote to sell the property on which the Tufts Library stands if authority to do so may be obtained from a court of sufficient jurisdiction and will instruct the Town Counsel to bring proper proceedings to accomplish this result, or take any other action in re- lation thereto.
RECREATION
ARTICLE 68. (At Request of Park Department). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for further con- struction of East Weymouth Playground, or take any other action in re- lation thereto.
ARTICLE 69. (At Request of Park Department). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the further de- velopment of Pond Plain Playground at South Weymouth, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 70. (At Request of Park Department). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the completion of area north of Weston Park, Block 277, Lot 12, Sheet 20, containing approximately 80,800 square feet of land, or take any other action in re- lation thereto.
ARTICLE 71. (At Request of Park Department). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for completion of area recently acquired by the Town of Weymouth abutting Bradford Hawes Park containing about 77,800 square feet, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 72. (At Request of Park Department). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the development of Mosquito Plain Playground, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 73. (By Direction of Park Department). To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise, for the purpose of straightening a property line, a certain parcel of land owned by Hugh F. Burgess containing 2800 square feet more or less: Block 253, Lot 8, Sheet 19-23, as it appears in the Atlas of the Town of Weymouth for the year 1949, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 74. (At Request of Idlewell Improvement and Educational Association). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of acquiring in fee for park purposes, certain lots of land shown on the 1949 Atlas of the Town of Weymouth, Sheet No. 9, Block No. 136, Lots No. 24, 25 and 26, containing approximately 44,162 square feet, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 75. (By Direction of Park Department). To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Park Department, Lot 17, Block 80, as shown on the 1949 Town of Weymouth Atlas, Sheet 10, or take any other action in relation thereto.
WATER DEPARTMENT
ARTICLE 76. (At Request of Water Commissioners). To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee, or otherwise
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for the purpose of the public water supply a portion of Lot 2, Block 377, Sheet 33, of the Town Atlas for 1949, for the development of an emergency well, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 77. (At Request of Water Commissioners). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to provide adequate water mains and fire hydrants on streets accepted in this Town Meeting, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 78. (At Request of Water Commissioners). To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the balance of the sum voted under Article 1. of the Special Town Meeting of March 6, 1950, for the purpose of de- velopment of emergency well fields, including wells, pipes, pumping station, and original pumping station equipment, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 79. (At Request of Weymouth Taxpayers Association). To see what action the Town will take to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making an engineering study of the water supply problem of the Town of Weymouth, or take any other action in relation thereto.
UNCLASSIFIED
ARTICLE 80. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 820 of the Acts of 1950 which is an act providing for an increase in the annual amounts of certain pensions. retirement allowances, annuities and other benefits payable by the Com- monwealth and its political subdivisions to certain former employees and persons claiming under them.
ARTICLE 81. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 783 of the Acts of 1950 which is an act making applicable increase in retirement allowances to those persons retired after January first, 1946, with a minimum allowance.
ARTICLE 82. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take relative to compensating John A. Hutchins, retired Police Officer under the provisions of Chapter 576, Section 6, of the Acts of 1946.
ARTICLE 83. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 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.
ARTICLE 84. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take relative to an abandoned parcel of land on Summer Street, adjoining the property of Harold Fleming, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 85. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to abandon that portion of West Street described otherwise as "Old West Street" shown on Sheets 36 and 40 of the Town Atlas for the year 1949 running approximately from number 230 West Street to Summer Street, which portion is no longer used as a part of the traveled way, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 86. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for the purpose of stocking the ponds and inland waters, located within the Town limits with fish and
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of liberating game all in accordance with General Laws (Ter.Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 41, or take any other action in relation thereto.
You are hereby required to notify and warn said inhabitants of Weymouth qualified to vote in Town affairs, in case all the articles in the foregoing warrant shall not have been acted upon at the meeting called for the fifth day of March, to meet in adjourned session at the hall of the Weymouth High School on
WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1951
at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon such of the foregoing articles as shall not have been acted upon March fifth or action upon which may at said meeting March fifth have been deferred until said adjourned session.
You are further requested to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth qualified to vote in elections to meet at the polling piace of their respective precincts, to wit :-
In Precinct 1 in the Bicknell School Hall;
In Precinct 2 in the American Legion Hall on Commercial Street;
In. precinct 3 in the Charles Y. Berry Auditorium in the Hunt School Building on Broad Street;
In Precinct 4 in the building of the Citizens' Association, Inc. on Front Street;
In Precinct 5 in the building of the Pond School, Pond Street;
In Precinct 6 in the Knights of Columbus Building on Commercial Street;
In precinct 7 in the Lovell's Corner Improvement Association Build- ing on Washington Street;
In Precinct 8 in the Weymouth Heights Club Building on North Street; In Precinct 9 in the Second Universalist Church, Pleasant Street.
ON MONDAY THE TWELFTH. DAY OF MARCH, 1951
at eight o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their votes on one ballot, for the following named public officers, to wit :-
One (1) Town Clerk for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Five
(5) Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare for one (1) year
One (1) Assessor for three (3) years
Two (2) Park Commissioners one (1) for three, one (1) for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Two (2) School Committee for three (3) years
One (1) Water Commissioner for three (3) years
One (1) Sewer Commissioner for three (3) years
Three (3) Trustees of Tufts Library for three (3) years
One (1) Board of Health for three (3) years
One (1) Planning Board for five (5) years
One (1) Annual Moderator for one (1) year
Two (2) Housing Authority one (1) for five (5) years one (1) for three (3) years to fill vacancy
and for the election of Town Meeting Members from the several voting precincts of the Town as follows:
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Precinct 1: 15 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 1: 1 Town Meeting Member for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Precinct 1: 1 Town Meeting Member for two (2) years to fill vacancy
Precinct 2: 8 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 2: 2 Town Meeting Members for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Precinct 3: 14 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 3: 1 Town Meeting Member for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Precinct 4: 5 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 5: 6 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 6: 10 Town Meeting Members for three (3) year
Precinct 7: 6 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 8: 7 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 8: 2 Town Meeting Members for one (1) year to fill vacancy
Precinct 8: 1 Town Meeting Member for two (2) years to fill vacancy
Precinct 9: 9 Town Meeting Members for three (3) years
Precinct 9: 1 Town Meeting Member for one (1) year to fill vacancy
THE POLLS WILL BE CLOSED AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING
You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by you in writing, in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said Town, seven days at least before the date for holding the first meeting called for in this Warrant.
Hereof fail not, make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town on or before the twenty-fourth day of February in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-one.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this second day of January in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-one.
HARRY CHRISTENSEN, Chairman JOSEPH CREHAN JOSEPH A. FERN HERBERT C. CHUBBUCK RAYMOND MORGAN
Selectmen of Weymouth
A true copy Attest: CLARENCE L. PRATT Constable of Weymouth
RETURN OF SERVICE
Norfolk, ss. Weymouth, February 23, A.D. 1951
Pursuant to the within Warrant, I have this day notified and warned the inhabitants aforesaid, to meet at the respective places and times as set forth in said Warrant, by posting true and attested copies
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of the same in two public places in each voting precinct in said Town, seven days before the time of holding said meeting.
CLARENCE L. PRATT Constable of Weymouth
Received in the Office of the Town Clerk of Weymouth February 23, 1951 at 3:00 P.M.
NELLIE L. GREANEY Temporary Town Clerk
True copy Attest : NELLIE L. GREANEY Temporary Town Clerk
ANNUAL AND AJOURNED TOWN MEETING March 5, 7 and 9, 1951
Pursuant to a Warrant duly issued, the Annual Meeting of the in- habitants of the Town of Weymouth, represented by their duly elected and qualified Town Meeting Members was held in the hall of the Wey- mouth High School on Monday, March 5, 1951.
195 Town Meeting Members were present.
The Meeting was called to order at 7:50 in the evening by the Annual Moderator, Mr. Daniel L. O'Donnell.
The attested copy of the Warrant was read by Acting Town Clerk, Miss Nellie Greaney.
MOVED
That we waive reading of the Articles in the Warrant.
SO VOTED
Prayer for wisdom and guidance was offered by the Rev. David L. Carter, 1st Methodist Church, East Weymouth.
There were no Town Meeting members to be sworn in.
The Chair asked the indulgence of the meeting to permit Mr. Christen- sen, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen to present two officials of the Town of Plymouth - Messrs. Vincent Nicolai and Ernest Ellis - who rep- resented a Committee appointed by Plymouth to study the representatives form of Town Meeting Government.
There being no objection, we now continue with. discussion of the Articles in the Warrant.
Mr. Thibeault requested roll call. The Chair advised that a roll call requires a division of the meeting and a vote of 1/5 of the members present in favor of same. Tellers were appointed, as follows, and duly sworn in -
1st div. Mr. Kendrick
2nd div. Mr. Negus
3rd div. Mr. Howe
Total number present 195. The Count was taken and only 2 voting in the affirmative, the motion is LOST
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MOVED
ARTICLE 1. To provide for all expenses or 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.
Mr. Lane for the Appropriation Committee briefly reviewed the items for Town Meeting members and gave the Appropriation Committee's basis for its recommendations
MOVED
That the sum of $102,800.00 be raised and appropriated to provide a $200.00 temporary cost of living increase for all full time officials and employees of the Town for the year 1951, provided that such a temporary increase shall continue in effect until March 31, 1952.
The above sum raised and appropriated shall be allocated to the several departments as follows; namely:
Selectmen
$ 200.00
Accountant
800.00
Treasurer
600.00
Collector
800.00
Assessors
1,000.00
Town Clerk
600.00
Registrars
200.00
Town Hall Maint.
600.00
Police
8,200.00
Fire
11,000.00
Inspectors
800.00
Tree Moth
1,000.00
Harbor Master
200.00
Health
800.00
Welfare - Old Age
1,800.00
Veterans Affairs
600.00
Highways
11,800.00
Schools
54,600.00
Libraries
2,600.00
Parks
800.00
Sewer
3,000.00
$102,800.00
102,800.00
And that there be further appropriated from the current revenue of the Water Department the sum of Seven Thousand and Two Hundred dollars ($7,200.00) to provide a $200.00 temporary increase in the salaries and wages of the employees of said department in accordance with the method set forth herein; provided, that for the purposes for this article full time officials shall mean such officials as maintain working hours aggregating at least 35 hours weekly.
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Mr. Hebert MOVED an amendment to the Tree-Moth item adding $200 as but 5 of his 6 employees are covered under the $1,000 indicated. UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Comes the question on the Appropriation Committee's motion as thus amended
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
MOVED
Item 1. For personal services and expenses of the Appropriation Committee
$1,200.00
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 2. For the Selectmen's Department $7,920.00
The salaries of the Selectmen are hereby fixed at $700.00 for the Chairman and $600.00 each for four other members for the year UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 3. For the Town Accountant's Department $10,785.00
Of this sum, not exceeding $9,984.00 shall be for the personal services of the department. $260.00 is provided in the total sum for travel outside of the Commonwealth.
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 4. For the Town Treasurer's Department $10,702.00
The salary of the Treasurer is hereby fixed at $4,056.00. Of the total surn appropriated, not exceeding $8,112.00 shall be for the personal ser- vices of the department. For foreclosing tax titles, the sum of $1,100.00 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 5. For the Tax Collector's Department $16,300.00
The salary of the Tax Collector is hereby fixed at $5,000.00 for the current year and all fees received by him shall be turned into the Town Treasury. Of the total sum appropriated, not exceeding $11,944.00 shall be for the personal services of the department
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 6. For the Assessors' Department $23,240.00
Of this sum, not exceeding $17,886.00 shall be for the personal ser- vices of the department and transportation of the Board. The salaries of the Assessors are hereby fixed at $1,600.00 for the Chairman and $1,450.00 each for four (4) other members. Not exceeding $2,606.00 shall be for the services of the Clerk who may be a member of the Board. UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 7. For the Legal Department and personal expenses as in- curred by the Town Counsel in performing duties as such $5,000.00
Of this sum, not exceeding $2,500.00 shall be for the salary of the Town Counsel
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 8. For payment of damages and payments required under the Workmen's Compensation Act and for the payment of such unpaid bills as may be determined as proper obligations of the Town $11,634.37 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
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Item 9. For the Town Clerk's Department
$10,995.00
Of this sum, not exceeding $9,258.00 shall be for the personal services of the Department. "The salary of the Town Clerk is hereby fixed at the rate of $3,320.00 and all fees received by him, by virtue of his office, shall be turned into the Town Treasury.
Mr. Christensen raised the question as to the reason for the cut in the Town Clerk's salary and thereby precipitated a prolonged discussion involving Messrs. Lane, Cunniff, Shaw, Gunn, Lovell, Garofalo and Fern. Mr. Lane explained the Appropriation Committee's reasons for setting the Town Clerk's salary at $4420 and cited the step raise schedule would, in three years, bring him to the maximum amount of $5,200.
Mr. Fern offered the Substitute Motion -
That the figure in question now reading $3320 read $4100.
Comes the question on Mr. Fern's Substitute Motion.
Mr. Lane said this would not clarify the situation as it is not possible under the Salary and Wage Scale, to start at the maximum in any case. More discussion followed.
Comes the question on Mr. Fern's Substitute Motion.
The noes have it and it is
LOST
Comes the question on the Motion of the Approp. Committee.
SO VOTED
Item 10. For elections $1,834.00
For Registration of Voters $5,782.00
The salaries of the Registrars are hereby fixed at $350.00 for the Chair- man and $250.00 each for two other members and $400.00 for the salary of the Clerk. 'Not exceeding $1,912.00 shall be for the clerical services of the department. Provided further, that the clerical staff shall have its headquarters in the Town Clerk's Office.
Mrs. Duncan requested the Chair to obtain an opinion from the Town Counsel as to the phrase "Provided further, that the clerical staff shall have its headquarters in the Town Clerk's Office." Judge Nash replied the Town Meeting has no right to specify where headquarters shall be - that is the prerogative of the Board of Selectmen. Mr. Lane outlined the views of the Appropriation Committee in this matter.
Comes the question on the Motion of the Approp. Committee SO VOTED UNANIMOUSLY
Item 11. For the Engineering Department $9,500.00
Of this sum, $100.00 shall be for the placing of Town 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 and $1,500.00 shall be for the printing of a new Town Atlas to be sold publicly at $15.00 each. UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 12. For the Planning Board $1,000.00
Of this sum, $500.00 shall be made available from the Post War Planning Committee Fund for the completion of a Master Plan of the
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Town. Of the total sum, not exceeding $200.00 may be for the personal services of the Planning Board.
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 13. For the maintenance and upkeep of the Town Hall and War Memorials at the Civic Center, including the grounds, to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. $17,955.00
Of this sum, not exceeding $8,841.26 shall be for personal services and $1700 shall be exterior repairs to Town Hall.
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 14. For the maintenance of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument and the King Philip War Memorial, including the grounds, to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen $150.00 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Item 15. For the Police Department $161,547.00
And from available funds (Excess and Deficiency Fund) for the pur- chase of a new automobile $1,200.00
Authority is hereby granted to the Chief of Police to purchase new automotive equipment and dispose of old equipment.
Of the total sum appropriated not exceeding $147,620 shall be for the personal services of the department.
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