Town annual report of Weymouth 1952, Part 8

Author: Weymouth (Mass.)
Publication date: 1952
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 394

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Failure to provide sufficient money for present and future tree removals can only increase the financial burden of our tax payers.

WE CANNOT ELIMINATE THE DISEASE, BUT WE WANT TO BE IN A POSITION TO CONTROL IT.

The peak year of Dutch Elm infections was 1950 with 373 trees. Losses in 1951 were 337 trees, a decrease of 36 trees. Not a startling decrease, but encouraging to say the least.

Let's keep our losses moving downward.

This committee offers the following recommendations:

Remove all infected trees within six months after they are found to be diseased, or within the calendar year.

(The wood of Dutch Elm disease trees deteriorates very rapidly.)

Prevent the possibility of damage suits to the Town through personal injury or damage to property by prompt removal of all known infected trees.

Since we, as a Town, feel justified in expending large sums of money for the beautification of single areas, we must consider the overall lands- cape value of our elm trees to the Town.

We must consider the tremendous financial burden of removing the 20,000 elm trees of our Town, should they become infected.

We must consider the tremendous depreciation in property valuation which follows the loss of street trees.

We must look ahead to the cost of replanting the majority of these trees.

We trust that the Town Meeting will accept these recommendations, and support the Tree Warden in his motion. REMEMBER! THE DUTCH ELM DISEASE IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS.

We further recommend that this committee be continued, but as a Citizen's Shade Tree Committee, thereby increasing its scope and useful- ness.

Respectfully submitted,

EVELINE B. CAUSER

RODERICK S. FORRESTER

EDWARD I. FARRINGTON

ROBERT E. MITCHELL

RUTH CARPENTER

V. LESLIE HEBERT

MALCOLM T. SHAW

SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS

March 3, 5, 7, 1952

ANNUAL AND ADJOURNED TOWN MEETINGS

Raise and Appropriate Appropriate

Article

Item

1. Appropriation Committee

$ 1,300.00

2. Selectmen's Department

9,462.00

3. Town Accountant's Department 13,131.00

4. Town Treasurer's Department

11,532.00

Foreclosing Tax Titles

1,150.00

5. Tax Collector's Department

19,766.00

6. Assessor's Department

25,145.00

7. Legal Department

6,000.00

8. Payment of Damages

13,280.78

9. Town Clerk's Department

14,184.00

10. Elections

7,322.00

Registration of Voters

7,065.00

11. Engineering Department

8,000.00

12. Planning Board

750.00

500.00

13. Maintenance and Upkeep of Town Hall and War Memorials

21,771.32

14. Maintenance of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument, etc. 150.00

15. Police Department

220,001.00

2,000.00

16. Fire Department

17. Inspector's Department

12,907.00

18. Sealer of Weights and Measures Dept.

1,600.00

19. and

20. Moth and Tree Department

31,993.00

21. Street Lighting

50,838.00

22. Harbor Master's Department

6,986.00

23. Board of Health

37,054.00

24. Employment of Nurses

6,000.00

25.

Garbage Disposal

24,500.00

26. Public Assistance :

a. Public Welfare

228,548.00

b. Old Age Assistance

364,765.00

27. Pensions

22,031.80

28. Veterans' Benefits and War Allowances, including the Burial of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors

80,408.00

29. Highway Department

272,093.00

17,325.00

30. Public Schools

1,495,981.87

4,018.13

31. Tufts Library and Branches

71,142.00

32. Observance of Memorial Day

2,000.00

33. Parks and Playgrounds

33,344.00

1,800.00

34. Miscellaneous Expenses

19,425.13

35. Unpaid Bills

36 Overdrafts

37. Contributory Retirement System

47,396.59

38. Water Department

283,803.00

39. Sewer Department

120,000.00

130,000.00

Loan - 200,000.00

Item

40. Alewife Fishery

41. Care of Soldiers Graves

2,166.00

42. Care of Old Cemeteries

475.00

43. Interest and Discount

35,203.34

44. Bonds and Notes Due in 1952

165,852.29

45. Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund

1.00

46. Fire and Other Insurance

9,344.17

47. For Reserve Fund

25,000.00

Article

7. Laying Out as Town Ways 12,000.00

8. To Work Union Street and/or Pleasant Street and Other Streets 59,000.00

9. Widening and Repairing Clapp Avenue 1,000.00

13. Working Green Street from East Street to Shaw Street 1,500.00

14. Widening Middle and Broad Streets in front of Store Owned by George Puopolo 1,000.00

278,638.00

6,075.00

200.00

16. Resurfacing Essex Street 1,825.00

21. Working Right of Way from Shawmut Street

to Public Parking Area 500.00

24. Installation of Sea Valve on Norton Street 1,500.00

29. Construction of Sidewalks and Curbings 10,000.00

33. Extra Pay to Police and Firemen Assigned to Duty on Legal Holidays 8,750.00

38. For Use of Incinerator Committee 100.00

43. Construction of Addition to the James Humphrey School, including Alterations, Development of Site and Purchase of the Necessary Furniture and Equipment

20,000.00 Loan - 395,000.00 2,100.00

45. Construction of Randall Avenue

47. Purchase of Land of John A. Leary Adjoining Homestead School Site

250.00

52. Development of East Weymouth Playground

17,163.00

53. Development of the Pond Plain Playground 4,155.00

67. Dutch Elm Disease Control Work 17,000.00

68. Aerial Spraying for Control of Mosquitoes

2,500.00

71. Stocking of Ponds and Liberating Game 200.00

72. Rebuilding of the Alewife Fisheries Building

1,200.00

74. Mosquito Control Work

500.00

76. Adjustment in Garbage Contract $6,000.00 raised and appropriated, this amount included in total under Item 25.

77. To Complete Working of Public Parking Area in Jackson Square Area 1,400.00

$3,907,446.29

$1,122,621.13

A true copy. Attest: HARRY CHRISTENSEN Town Clerk

ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION March 10, 1952

Returns Received

Time

Votes Cast

Precinct One