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$1,330.00
Labor
109.25
Elmer T. Holman,
Laying Mains 8,143.53
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Johns Manville, Pipe and Fittings 21,685.73
H. R. Prescott Co., Hydrants and Fittings 3,474.91
Disinfecting Mains
175.00
Publishing Proposal
20.00
34,938.42
8-2-2 Cemetery Department
Appropriation $18,506.00
Perpetual Care
Trust Fund
Income 6,792.65
$25,298.65
Salaries and Wages:
Superintendent
$5,366.40
Office Supplies
408.99
Mowers and Trucks,
Operation and Maintenance
1,804.74
Equipment and Materials
2,104.67
Truck Insurance
60.58
Replace Granite Post
80.00
All other Costs
157.08
24,173.08
8-2-4 Cemetery Dept. - Out of State Travel Appropriation $100.00
Costs of Out of State Travel
$96.19
96.19
(Total:
Water Department
$112,006.90)
(Cemeteries
24,269.27)
Labor
14,190.62
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INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
9-1-1 Interest on Temporary Loans
Appropriation
$50.00
Interest Paid E. M. Noyes $.08
.08
9-1-2 Interest - Water
Appropriation
$7,390.00
Interest Paid on
Water Loans
$7,389.27
7,389.27
9-1-3 Interest - General
Appropriation
$36,298.00
Interest Paid on
General Debt
$35,297.50
Interest - Anticipation
of Revenue Loan
330.67
35,628.17
9-1-7 Unpaid Bills of 1691
Appropriation
$366.00
1961 Bills Paid in 1962
$355.52
355.52
Appropriations and Payments - General Debt
Identification
Appropriation Payment
Sea Wall Notes $2,000.00 $2,000.00
Elementary School Wing 15,000.00 15,000.00
Elementary School 15,000.00 15,000.00
Junior-Senior High School 50,000.00 50,000.00 82,000.00
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Anticipation of 1962 Revenue, Loan
100,000.00
Appropriations and Payments - Water Debt
Identification Appropriation Payment
Water District Notes
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
West Duxbury Extens.
5,000.00
5,000.00
Water Phase I
15,000.00
15,000.00
Extension, Autumn and
Winter Sts.
2,000.00
2,000.00
Water Equipment Loan 1961
5,000.00
5,000.00
32,000.00
(Total: Interest and Maturing Debt $257,373.04)
REVOLVING FUNDS
Athletic Association
1/1/1962 Balance
$135.40
1962 Receipts 812.00
$947.40
Game Referees and Police
Protection $753.48
Equipment, Awards, Printing 140.40
893.88
School Lunch Program
1/1/1962 Balance $3,197.39
1962 Receipts 48,826.40
Refund 21.45
Audit Adjustment 5.55
$52,050.79
Salaries, Cafeteria Employees $12,986.58
Food and Provisions 35,170.66
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Telephone
132.25
Equipment Fuel Scavenger
312.24
656.25
500.00
49,757.98
(Total Expenditures: Revolving Funds, $50,651.86)
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
Treasurer's Cash Invested in
Government Bills
272,311.30
Stabilization Fund, Deposits
60,000.00
Cemetery, Perpetual Care Funds 9,840.00
Cemetery, General Care and
Improvement Fund 170.00
Ladies, Union Fair Association
Gift of Fund to Cemetery Dept. 1,246.76
Liquor Ad Deposits 4.00
Standish Home Site, Deposit 20.00
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
1,704.45
J. and R. Ford, Income Deposit
690.00
Lucy Hathaway Fund, Income
Deposits
2,310.60
County Tax
48,847.82
State Parks and Reservations
3,525.05
Plymouth County Hospital
21,665.19
Sporting Licenses
1,105.00
Dog Licenses
1,388.25
Hospital and Insurance
Retired Personnel
457.65
State Withholding Taxes
7,633.84
Retirement System
11,844.89
Group Hospital and Insurance,
Municipal Employees 13,652.27
Federal Withholding Taxes
89,977.89
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F. & H. Partch Flower Fund
8.00
George Chandler Flower Fund
3.00
George H. Wood Fund 21.00
276,115.66
(Total: Agency, Trust Investment $548,426.96)
REFUNDS
Federal Withholding Tax
$4.60
1959 Personal Property Tax
1.32
1961 Poll Tax
2.00
1961 Personal Property Tax
15.62
1961 Real Estate Tax
290.67
1962 Poll Tax
8.00
1962 Personal Property Tax
579.60
1962 Real Estate Tax
2,126.88
1959 M.V. Excise Taxes
10.00
1960 M.V. Excise Taxes
73.31
1961 M.V. Excise Taxes
3,414.46
1962 M.V. Excise Taxes
7,083.97
Water, Service Connections
6.61
Water Rates
97.88
Estimated Receipts - Erroneous
Collections
68.00
Total Refunds in 1962
13,782.92
Total Expenditures, 1962
$2,207,067.14
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES
General Government
60,478.23
Public Safety
154,854.71
Health and Sanitation
15,557.97
Highways
138,083.00
Charities and Veterans Services:
Charities $107,019.99
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Veterans Benefits
17,245.80
J. and R. Ford Funds
573.62
124,839.41
Schools and Libraries:
Schools
$619,075.04
Libraries
13,932.00
633,007.04
Recreation and Unclassified
73,735.83
Enterprise and Cemeteries:
Enterprise - Water
$112,006.90
Cemeteries
24,269.27
136,276.17
Interest and Maturing Debt
257,373.04
Revolving Funds
50,651.86
Agency, Trust, and Investment
548,426.96
Refunds and Cancellations
13,782.92
Total Expenditures
$2,207,067.14
RESERVE FUND
Appropriation
$25,000.00
1962 Transfers:
May 17-Unclassified
$180.00
May 22-Franklin Street Damages
75.00
Aug. 8-Congress and West St. Damages
564.00
Sept. 27-Franklin St. Water Mains
2,960.00
Nov. 8-Personnel Board
100.00
Nov. 29-Veterans' Benefits
1,500.00
Dec. 14-Planning Board
200.00
Treasurer's Dept. 75.00
Fire Department 1,500.00
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Veterans' Benefits
600.00
Snow and Ice
2,000.00
Total Transfers
9,754.00
15,246.00
Refunds:
Dec. 31-Treasurer's Dept.
$2.87
Personnel Board
100.00
Fire Department
23.31
Snow and Ice Removal
2,000.00
Veterans' Benefits
252.20
Total Refunds 2,378.38
Balance of Reserve Fund
$17,624.38
Closed to Overlay Surplus, December 31, 1962 $17,624.38
OUTSTANDING APPROPRIATION BALANCES
December 31, 1962
1962 Police Motor Vehicle
$50.00
Fire Department Radio
150.00
Tree Dept., Hathaway Fund
494.04
Special Shellfish Account
644.23
Propagation of Shellfish
237.63
Plastic Screening Account
20.00
Oyster Seeding Fund
100.00
Well Child Clinics
104.66
Town Dump Location, Survey
200.00
Highway Dept., Hathaway Fund
1,378.56
Bridge Lumber Contract
4,858.98
Bridge Dept., Hathaway Fund
1,056.27
Town Pier Improvements
1,814.03
Sidewalks at Hall's Corner
2,311.15
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Keene and St. George Streets, Improvements 6,336.61
Temple Street Construction
.10
Howland's Landing Improvements
229.03
Damage Awards:
Autumn Avenue
16.00
Church and Tremont Streets
52.00
Chandler Street.
75.00
Bay Road
15.00
Toby Garden Street
15.00
Valley and Franklin Streets
4.85
Franklin Street
66.00
Congress Street
6.00
Congress Street (Additional)
239.00
1962 Ch. 90 Construction
24,087.53
Snow Plows
50.00
Powder Point Bridge - Repairs
11,270.55
Washington Street Improvements
.01
Sand Spreaders
129.95
Truck for Highway
202.50
School Dept., Hathaway Fund
1,683.50
School Sewage Disposal
597.50
Junior-Senior High School: Loan Balance
15,351.09
Available Funds
207.80
Library Books, Hathaway Fund
375.00
Police Department Garage
80.75
Town Retirement (Expense Account)
441.77
Memorial Day
.65
Standish Cellar Lot, Improvements
79.74
Purchase Price - McNeil Lot
1.00
Tax Titles - Foreclosure Costs
1,016.93
Duxbury Harbor Dredging
10,000.00
Sea Wall Repairs
4,048.50
Site Committee 181.38
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1962 Site Committee
200.00
Indian Trail Water Mains
12.00
Water Mains, Franklin Street
2,816.00
Engineering Services, Water Dept.
434.57
Station Wagon and Back Hoe
298.50
Search for New Water
621.50
Tremont and Careswell St., Water Mains
3.14
Lake Shore Drive, Water Mains
618.28
Comprehensive Water Maps
142.63
Pumping Tests (Water Dept.)
2,000.00
Franklin Street, Laying Water Mains
1,268.11
Cross Street, etc., Water Mains
6,561.58
Cemetery Department, Hathaway Fund
375.00
Unpaid Bills of 1961
10.48
Town Landings, Hathaway Fund
1,118.80
Beaverbrook Lane, Repairs
157.66
$106,918.54
1962 APPROPRIATION BALANCES
RETURNED TO THE TREASURY
Selectmen's Salaries
155.97
Selectmen's Department
1,140.01
Accounting Department
423.12
Finance Committee
85.00
Town Treasurer's Salary
6.45
Town Collector's Salary
27.76
Tax Collector's Department
26.91
Assessors' 'Salaries
331.86
Assessors' Department
743.92
Assessors' Map
9.00
Law Department
34.39
Town Clerk's Salary
6.46
Town Clerk's Department
14.26
Election and Registration
85.91
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Planning Board
255.63
Appeal Board
369.41
Personnel Board
3.10
Town Historian
52.68
Town Office
585.93
Police Department
4,028.12
Duxbury Beach Patrol
485.75
Fire, Out of State Travel
269.20
Insect Pest Control
280.45
Control Dutch Elm Disease
148.30
Tree Department
7.48
Tree Department, Out of State Travel
100.00
Building Inspector
54.85
Sealer of W. & M.
49.36
Bounties
4.10
Shellfish Constable
37.67
Civil Defense
48.16
Health
2,172.90
Town Dump
444.13
Vital Statistics
15.00
Highway Department
3.26
Bridge Department
695.60
Snow and Ice Removal
120.51
Town Landing
29.94
Street Lights
75.65
Blue Fish Tidegates
258.25
Harbor Master
10.30
ยท Public Welfare Control
10,899.94
M.A.A. Town Fund
7.50
Welfare, Out of State Travel
100.00
School Department
3,038.73
Public Use School Facilities
1,920.90
Vocational and Americanization
2,448.00
Vocational Training, Adult
188.30
School, Out of State Travel
154.91
1961 Fire Insurance Schedule
3,471.68
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1962 Fire Insurance Schedule
198.40
Workmen's Comp. Insurance
871.68
Group Insurance, Police and Fire
109.15
Group Insurance, General Parks and Playgrounds
36.60
Tarkiln Youth Center
42.53
Town Hall Recreation
183.09
Train Field Floodlights
136.80
Unclassified
91.74
Water Commissioner's Salaries
13.36
Water Department
27.32
Water, Out of State Travel
86.50
Cemetery Department
1,125.57
Cemetery, Out of State Travel
3.81
Interest on Temporary Loans
49.92
Interest, Water
.73
Interest, Town
669.83
$40,084.12
510.38
TOWN OF DUXBURY Balance Sheet - December 31, 1962 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
Cash:
General Invested
$316,547.80 272,311.30
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES State Assessments, 1962 County Tax $3,123.85
State Parks and Reservations 341.00
$3,464.85
Payroll Deductions :
State Taxes
$2,242.33
School Lunch
5.00
Retirement System 1,150.54
Group Insurance 3.96
Federal Withholding Taxes 9,366.86
Accounts Receivable Taxes:
Levy of 1960: 1960 Real Estate Tax $6.60
Deposits :
Planning Board
$20.07
Levy of 1961:
1961 Poll Tax 10.00
1961 Personal Property Tax 176.79
1961 Real Estate Tax 653.20
Agency :
County, Dog Licenses $98.75
Excess, Sale of Land of Low Value 529.53
Tailings
39,275.09
Gifts and Bequests :
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise:
Levy of 1958 $189.91
Levy of 1959
153.91
74.65
Levy of 1961 96.13
Levy of 1962
9,651.47
Recoveries: Disability Assistance $219.35
10,091.42
Old Age Assistance 1,295.75
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Liquor Ad 28.00
Guarantee Deposits - Water
1,442.00
1,490.07
Levy of 1962:
1962 Poll Tax
8.00
1962 Personal Property Tax 6,375.53
1962 Real Estate Tax 32,044.97
628.28 1,633.51
Eben Ellison Beach Fund $14.15
Ship Weathervane Fund 60.50
12,763.69
$588,859.10
Advances for Petty : Tax Collector
$250.00
255.00
Tax Titles and Possessions: Tax Titles Tax Possessions
$3,243.87 160.31
Federal Grants:
3,404.18
Public Law, #864, School Public Law, #874, School Disability Assistance: Assistance Administration
$662.86
Special Assessments: Sea Wall:
Levy of 1962
$30.81
1,912.07
Committed Interest: Levy of 1962
16.02
Medical Aid to Aged: Assistance Administration
10,377.07
Aid to Highways: State
$14,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children: Assistance Administration
3,181.62
County
7,000.00
21,000.00
1,590.11
Farm Animal Excise: Levy of 1962
$29.60
29.60
832.55
Departmental:
Health
$349.50
Revolving Funds: Athletic Association
$53.52
Aid to Dependent Children
2,114.94
School Lunch Program
2,292.81
Veterans' Benefits
6,215.18
Town Clerk
14.15
Cemetery
807.00
Appropriation Balances: Revenue:
10,478.09
General Water
11,649.81
Meter Resetting
$28.00
Non-Revenue:
Service Connections
330.70
General
15,351.09
Water Rates
9,239.20
Water
3,126.50
Water Liens added to Taxes
340.32
106,918.54 53,731.18
9,938.22 Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus Overlays Reserved for Abatements: Levy of 1960 $6.60
Levy of 1961 839.99
2,437.85
32,918.37
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2,346.33
$76,791.14
Water:
Old Age Assistance
977.32
Old Age Assistance: Assistance Administration
9,025.76
46.83
Veterans' Benefits 922.75
4,815.99
170.70
349.64
BALANCE SHEET - Continued
Levy of 1962 10,705.44
11,552.03
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise $10,090.58
Special Assessment 46.83
Tax Title and Possessions
3,404.18
Aid to Highways
21,000.00
Farm Animal Excise
29.60
Departmental
10,478.09
Water 9,938.22
54,987.50
Sale of Land
100.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots
80.00
1960 Motor Vehicle Tax, over-collected
.84
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances
255.00
Surplus Revenue (E. & D.) 397,994.84
$683,377.53
$683,377.53
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Serial Loans:
Net Funded or Fixed Debt: Inside Debt Limit: General Outside Debt Limit: General Public Service Enterprise (Water)
$209,000.00
Inside Debt Limit: Elementary School Loan Elementary School Wing Outside Debt Limit: Junior-Senior High School
$64,000.00 145,000.00
895,000.00
211,500.00
895,000.00
Water District Loans
6,500.00
Water Loan, Phase I
150,000.00
West Duxbury Water Ext.
15,000.00
Autumn Ave., Extension
17,000.00
1961 Loan for Equipment and Expansion Program
23,000.00
$1,315,500.00
$1,315,500.00
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DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Appropriation Sea Wall Assessments not Due (Accounts Receivable) $3,164.25
Apportioned Sea Wall Assessments: Revenue:
Due in 1963
$326.17
Due in 1964
320.67
Due in 1965
251.75
Due in 1966
251.75
Due in 1967
251.76
Due in 1968
251.76
Due in 1969
251.76
Due in 1970
251.76
Due in 1971
251.75
Due in 1972
251.70
Due in 1973
251.70
Due in 1974
251.72
$3,164.25
$3,164.25
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TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds Cash and Securities
$414,759.99
Agnes S. Ellison Fund
1,358.10
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Fund
569.78
Thomas D. Hathaway Fund
2,165.60
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
9.43
J. and R. Ford Fund
30,268.95
William P. Harding Fund
1,392.90
Lucy Hathaway Fund
24,468.57
Stabilization Fund
151,678.01
Charles R. Crocker Flower Fund
337.84
Geo. H. Wood Cemetery Fund
1,069.68
Cemetery, G.C.I. Fund
3,056.75
George Chandler Flower Fund
109.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
192,783.05
Standish Home Site Fund
1,780.44
The Feinberg Fund
1,636.51
Ladies' Union Fair Fund (Gift to Cemetery)
1,271.68
The Myrick Fund
164.56
Minerva L. Sherman Flower Fund 313.05
$414,759.99
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$414,759.99
F. and H. Partch Flower Fund
$326.09
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WATER DEPARTMENT Town Accountant's Report for 1962
For detailed schedules of classified expenditures by the Water Department, please refer to the "Enterprise" section of the Town Accountant's Report.
Herewith submitted is a statement of the 1962 activity in the Water Department Accounts Receivable. Several adjusting entries were again necessary as a result of committing triple-category charges as single units.
The appended statements provide ample endorse- ment of the action of the 1962 Town Meeting when it de- cided to pay for water expansions "out of pocket" and provide for a memorandum amortization of the costs on a 15 year basis. As it starts the year 1963 with a deficit of more than $3000, the Water Department may well re- joice that it is not burdened with an additional $10,000 or more in deferred interest liability, which would have been incurred had the 1962 projects been financed through bank loans.
The assistance and cooperation which I have received from the Water Commissioners and their Superintendent are greatly appreciated. I also wish to thank Tax Collec- tor Stuart and his assistant, Mrs. Wadsworth, for their cooperative efforts to further good interdepartmental accounting practices.
Respectfully submitted,
ISABELLE V. FREEMAN,
Town Accountant
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WATER REVENUE ACCOUNT
Balance Forward January 1, 1962
$6,734.10
1962 Commitments for Collection
67,837.13
Correction of Abatement Record
9.60
$74,580.83
Abatements Granted
$184.68
Revenue Transferred to
Estimated Receipts
64,457.93
64,642.61
Balance of Revenue Reserved until Collected
$9,938.22
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Charges
Credits
Balance
Accounts Receivable, Misc.
1962 Commitments
$208.65
Transfer from Service Connections
208.75
$417.40
Cash Receipts
$417.40
Meter Resettings, January 1, 1962
Balance Outstanding
$96.00
1962 Commitments
1,332.60
Transfer from Rates
4.00
$1,432.60
Cash Receipts REPORTED
1,290.26
Water Liens Added to Taxes
24.00
Transfers
90.34
1,404.60
$28.00
Service Connections, January 1, 1962
$178.36
1962 Commitments
7,205.22
Refunds - Cash
6.61
Refund (Journal Entry)
12.08
Transfers to Meters and Rates
209.86
$7,612.13
Cash Receipts
2,842.62
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Guarantee Deposits Transferred
4,067.71
Water Liens Added to Taxes
162.35
Transfer to Accounts Receivable Misc.
208.75
7,281.43
Charges
Credits
Balance
Water Rates:
Balance January 1, 1962
$6,459.74
Commitments 1962
58,781.51
Refunds
97.88
Transfers to Meters and Service Connections
230.35
Correction of Abatement Record
9.60
$65,579.08
Cash Receipts
55,008.01
Guarantee Deposits, Transferred
5.54
Water Liens, Added to Taxes
962.05
Abatements Granted
184.68
Transfers to Meters and Service Connections
179.60
56,339.88
Balance
9,239.20
Town of Pembroke, Water Account
1962 Commitments $309.15
Cash Collection
309.15
Town of Duxbury, Hydrant Rental
Informal Commitment 24,593.00
Collected and Transferred to Estimated Receipts 24,593.00
Water Liens Added to 1962
Real Estate Taxes
Committed
962.05
Collected
621.73
Balance
340.32
Total Revenue Reserved Until Collected $9,938.22
330.70
WATER DEPARTMENT - Analysis of Appropriation Accounts
Account Id.
Balance 1/1/62
1962 Approp. $450.00 48,036.00
Expended 1962 $436.64 48,008.68
Closed Out $13.36 27.32
Balance 12/31/62
Commissioners' Salaries
Maintenance and Operation
Indian Trail Water Mains, Borrowed Money
$12.00
$12.00
Water Mains, Franklin St., Art. 42 of 1961 - Borrowed Money
6,000.00
3,184.00
2,816.00
Water Mains, Franklin St., Art. 42 of 1962 Transfer from Reserve
2,960.00
5,210.00
3,941.89
1,268.11
Engineering Services
434.57
434.57
Old Route 3 Water, Art. 38 of 1961, etc.
28.63
28.63
Station Wagon and Back Hoe, Art. 39 of 1961 - Borrowed Money
298.50
298.50
Water, Out of State Travel
200.00
113.50
86.50
Search for New Sources of Water - Art. 40, 1961
3,500.00
2,878.50
621.50
Clearing Water Mains
269.32
269.32
Clean Tremont and St. George St. Mains - Art. 42 of 1962
1,500.00
1,500.00
Water Mains, Tremont and Careswell Sts. - Art. 32 of 1962
7,400.00
7,396.86
3.14
Lake Shore Drive Mains - Art. 33 of 1962
8,900.00
8,281.72
618.28
Comprehensive Water Maps - Art. 42 of 1962
1,200.00
1,057.37
142.63
Pumping Tests, Millbrook - Art. 42 of 1962
2,000.00
2,000.00
Cross St. Mains - Art. 49 of 1962
41,500.00
34,938.42
6,561.58
$10,543.02
$116,396.00 $112,006.90
$155.81
$14,776.31
For detailed schedules of expenditures see Town Accountant's Report, "Enterprise" Section.
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2,250.00
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MEMORANDUM ACCOUNT
Water Department Surplus - December 31, 1962 January 1, 1962 - Surplus - See Memorandum Account in 1961 Town Report $8,720.83
Hydrant Rental Received from Town of Duxbury, Transferred to Town's Estimated Receipt Account $24,593.00
Water Department Receipts for Water and Services, Transferred
to Town's Estimated Receipt Account 64,642.61
Appropriation Balances Closed to Town's Revenue Account 155.81
1962 Receipts of the Water Department 89,391.42
$98,112.25
Credit for Deferred Amortization of 1962 Appropriations under Articles 32, 33, and 44 (total $57,800) 53,946.62
$152,058.87
1962 Departmental Appropriations (See Analysis of Appropriation Accounts) $113,436.00
Transfers from "Reserve"
2,960.00
Bonds and Notes Retired
32,000.00
Interest on Water Debt
7,389.27
$155,785.27
(Memo) Deficit $3,726.40
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DEFERRED LIABILITIES
Balance of Outstanding Loans $211,500.00
Interest on Outstanding Loans
34,062.38
Balance of 1962 Appropriations to be Amortized over the Next Fourteen Years 53,946.62
Total Deferred Liabilities $299,509.00
Correction of 1961 Town Report:
Balance of Outstanding Loans Reported as $243,000.00 should have read $243,500.00
Correction of 1961 Town Report:
Balance of Outstanding Interest Reported as $41,053.13 should have read $41,451.65
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
5
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31 1962
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Year Ending December 31, 1962
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Mr. Edward L. Butler, Chairman
Term Expires 1965
Mr. John F. Spence, Jr., Secretary 1964
Mr. Walter B. Collins 1963
Mr. Herbert R. Nelson 1963
Mrs. George G. Palfrey
1965
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Everett L. Handy
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT Miss Helen F. Hanigan
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REPORT OF THE DUXBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Duxbury:
Our school system continues to grow and to date it has been orderly and Duxbury has not experienced some of the more difficult problems, such as double sessions, which have plagued other towns in the area. This has been due to foresight on the part of the Town in matters of zoning, in the building of additional school facilities in time, in its willingness to pay for good education, and in good luck. Looking ahead, we think our present plant should carry us through to around 1969-70, barring any unforeseen influences of a completed expressway.
The new budget to be requested at the March Town Meeting is approximately $68,407.00 higher than last year's or an increase of about 11.7%. The main portion goes for picking up a full year's salary for teachers hired last fall, picking up part of a year's salary for four addi- tional teachers necessary next fall, and for the increases for all personnel called for in our regular salary sched- ules and in our merit salary schedule. The non-salary portion is about $9,735.00, the major portion of which is for transportation. It is interesting to note that close to 80% of our total transportation appropriation is returned to the Town each year by way of state reimbursement, and that overall reimbursements from the Common- wealth last year were $109,428.99. As usual, a sub-com- mittee of the Finance Committee, this year Messrs. Cut- ler, Sawyer, Tenney, and Walker, sat in with us while the budget was considered, and their cooperation, sugges- tions, and time were most helpful and sincerely appre- ciated.
On April 24, 25, and 26, 1962, we were examined by a Visiting Committee of the New England Association of
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Colleges and Secondary Schools. They went over our sys- tem from top to bottom and by the time you receive this report, their findings will either have been published in the Duxbury Clipper or shortly will be. The Superin- tendent in his report, which follows this one, will review some of the points made by the Visiting Committee. Suf- fice it here to say that our accreditation was reaffirmed.
Efforts to strengthen and improve the curriculum were continued, with the most significant step taken be- ing the formal adoption of an ungraded primary unit. Our Elementary School principal, Mr. Cain, and his assis- tant, Mrs. Cooper, did an excellent job in pointing out what a logical and practical move this is, and we feel sure that it will continue to prove a most successful procedure.
The Committee wishes to call attention to the in- creased use of our school facilities by community organ- izations and groups. During 1962 the school buildings were used 259 times by non-school groups. The Com- mittee welcomes this extensive use of the schools, and was especially pleased to provide facilities for the sum- mer science school.
This Committee is very appreciative of the strong and capable leadership given our high school by Mr. McCormick and Mr. Blakeman, and in the elementary school by Mr. Cain and Mrs. Cooper. We also point with pride to our supervisors and teachers. They are a most competent and professional group dedicated to the wel- fare and education of our young people, and it is a great privilege to be associated with them in this common cause. We are also most aware of the devotion and energy of all of our non-teaching personnel without whom we could not function properly.
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We also recognize and express gratitude for the in- terest and strong support given our school system by the P. T. A., the High School Home and School Associ- ation, the Boosters Club, the various Service Clubs, and other interested groups and individuals.
In conclusion we pay sincere tribute to our Superin- tendent, Dr. Everett L. Handy. We feel certain that Dux- bury appreciates the talents and devotion of this dedi- cated man. From building schools to planning the curric- ulum he has done an outstanding job for Duxbury and we are indebted to him for the wise and skillful direction he has given to our schools.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD L. BUTLER, Chairman JOHN F. SPENCE, JR., Secretary WALTER B. COLLINS HERBERT R. NELSON MARTHA M. PALFREY
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
The nature and extent of the accomplishments we want for our children, and the demands of the world in which they live determine the guide lines for todays schools. We would like our young people to be thoroughly competent in the fundamentals of communication; knowl- edgeable in the area of citizenship responsibilities; ex- cellent in health; strong in sound moral values; and ap- preciative of the beauty in art, music and literature. In addition, as they progress with their education, we would like them to discover and prepare for that kind of voca- tion to which they are best suited. And if this vocation calls for education and training beyond high school we would like them to be thoroughly and properly prepared to meet this requirement.
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