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1969
95,000.00
1970
95,000.00
1971
95,000.00
1972
90,000.00
1973
90,000.00
1974
90,000.00
1975
90,000.00
1976
90.000.00
1977
90,000.00
1978
90,000.00
1,695,000.00
Total Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$3,936.000.00
198
199
SUMMARY
Balance Receipts January 1, Appropria- and 1960 tions 1960 Transfers Totals
1960 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1960
$3,509.00
$3,509.00 Selectmens' Dept. Salaries -- Selectmen
$3,509.00
400.00
400.00
Selectmens' Dept. Salary Executive Sec.
400.00
2,889.00
2,889.00
Selectmens' Dept. Clerical Salary
2,889.00
2,750.00
2,750.00 Selectmens' Dept. Expenses
2,257.29
492.71
100.00
100.00
Dues-Boston Chamber of Commerce
70.00
30.00
5,650.00
5,650.00 Accounting Dept. Salary Town Accountant
5,650.00
5,984.00
5,984.00
Accounting Dept. Clerical Salaries 380.00 Accounting Dept. Expenses
316.34
63.66
5,000.00
5,000.00
Treasurer's Dept. Salary Treasurer
5,000.00
2,671.00
2,671.00
Treasurer's Dept. Clerical Salaries
2,652.62
18.38
2,175.00
2,175.00
Treasurer's Dept. Expenses
2,174.96
.04
60.00
60.00
Certification of Notes
40.00
20.00
5,450.00
5,450.00
Collector's Dept. Salary Collector
5,450.00
7,533.00
7,533.00
Collector's Dept. Clerical Salaries
7,533.00
3,902.00
3,902.00
Collector's Dept. Expenses
3,761.93
140.07
4,750.00
4,750.00
Assessors' Dept. Salaries Assessors
4,750.00
6,916.00
6,916.00
Assessors' Dept. Clerical Salaries
6,884.77
31.23
2,900.00
450.00
3,350.00
Assessors' Dept. Clerical Salaries
3,142.52
207.48
1,300.00
115.00
1,415.00
Advisory Committee
1,400.00
15.00
3,600.00
3,600.00
Law Department-Salary Town Counsel
3,600.00
510.00
510.00
Law Department Expenses
510.00
5,402.00
5,402.00
Town Clerk's Dept. Salaries
5,402.00
320.00
305.00
625.00
Town Clerk's Dept. Expenses
624.02
98
900.00
900.00
Town Meetings, Elections & Registrations Registrars
900.00
5,659.00
3,062.34
8,721.34 Town Meetings, Elections & Registrations
8,721.34
8,183.00
8,183.00 Engineering Dept. Salary Town Engineer
8,183.00
3,600.00
3,600.00 Engineering Dept. Engineering Assistance
1,146.90
2,453.10
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
5,984.00
380.00
SUMMARY -- Continued
Balance
Receipts January 1, Appropria- and 1960
tions 1960 Transfers
Totals
1960 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1960
920.00
920.00 Engineering Dept. Expenses
821.46
98.54
1,185.00
6.00
1,191.00 Planning Board
1,176.33
14.67
4,350.00
366.16
4,716.16 Town Hall-Salary Custodian
4,716.16
9,525.00
37.15
9,562.15
Town Hall Expenses
8,856.40
705.75
700.00
700.00
Zoning Board of Appeals
520.19
179.81
440.00
100.00
540.00
Personnel Board
539.85
.15
3,500.00
3,500.00
Municipal
Consultant
3,000.00
500.00
7,794.00
7,794.00
Police Department-Salary Chief
7,771.55
22.45
7,889.00
7,889.00
Police Department Spec. Officers and Overtime
7,764.93
124.07
155,518.00
155,518.00
Police Department Salary Others
147,469.64
8,048.36
16,117.00
540.00
16,657.00
Police Department Equipment Maint. & Repairs 16,653.32
3.68
6,037.00
1,300.00
7,337.00
Police Department Other Expenses
7,116.08
220.92
3,600.00
3,600.00
Police Department School Traffic Supervisors
3,480.00
120.00
1,400.00
1,400.00
Ambulasce
1,373.06
26.94
6,888.00
6,888.00
Annuity and Pensions
6,887.12
.88
7,794.00
7,794.00
Fire Department-Salary Chief
7,771.55
22.45
216,790.00
216,790.00 Fire Department-Salary Others
216,065.27
724.73
12,950.00
71.06
13,021.06 Fire Department-Equip. Maint. and Repairs
12,480.59
540.47
3,395.00
45.87
3,440.87 Fire Dept. Other Expenses
3,440.87
745.00
745.00
Sealer of Weights & Measures
643.41
101.59
6,546.00
6,546.00
Moth Department-Labor
5,247.88
1,298.12
2,200.00
2,200.00
Moth Department Expense
2,197.42
2.58
484.00
484.00
Tree Warden-Salary
484.00
5,271.00
5,271.00 Tree Warden-Labor
4,798.56
472.44
1,705.00
1,705.00 Tree Warden-Expense
1,700.24
4.76
2,218.00
2,218.00 Trimming Bushes-Roadsides-Labor
2,127.22
90.78
600.00
600.00 Trimming Bushes-Roadsides-Expenses
481.50
118.50
5,382.00
5,382.00 Control Dutch Elm Disease-Labor
5,233.44
148.56
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
200
201
4,280.00
4,280.00 Control Dutch Elm Disease-Expense
4,105.74
174.26
1,267.00
1,267.00 Elm Tree Beetle-Labor
1,049.60
217.40
880.00
880.00 Elm Tree Beetle-Expense
858.47
21.53
900.00
900.00 Town Forest
871.58
28.42
3,300.00
3,300.00 Forest Fires
3,225.93
74.07
35.00
35.00 Bounties
14.00
21.00
138.00
138.00
Dog Officer-Salary
138.00
60.00
60.00 Dog Officer-Expense
60.00
5,502.00
5,502.00
Building Inspector
5,482.05
19.95
1,950.00
1,950.00
Wire Inspector
1,905.81
44.19
2,499.85
2,499.85
Civilian Defense
531.09
1,968.76
6500.00
6,500.00 Purchase Forest Fire Truck
6,485.00
15.00
12,000.00
12,000.00 Purchase of Ambulance
11,568.74
431.26
43,000.00
43,000.00 Purchase Aerial Ladder Truck
121.52
42,878.48
1,950.00
1,950.00 Purchase Pickup Truck-Tree Dept.
1,889.00
61.00
400.00
371.22
771.22 Health Department-Salaries
687.83
83.39
5,500.00
5,500.00 Health Department Salary & Expense-Nurse
5,271.86
228.14
20,000.00
2,745.00
22,745.00 Health Department Garbage Collection
22,745.00
7,000.00
812.00
7,812.00 Health Department Expense of Dumps
7,601.75
210.25
9,110.00
4,108.30
13,218.30 Health Department Other Expenses
13,203.40
14.90
1,928.00
1,928.00
Greenhead Fly Control Project
1,928.00
8,900.00
8,900.00
So. Shore Mosquito Control Project
8,900.00
18,537.50
12,500.00
31,037.50
Shore Protection
1,250.00
1,250.00
Investigation Committee-Sewerage
579.13
6,250.00
6,250.00
Highway Dept. Salary Highway Surveyor
6,250.00
3,335.00
187.70
3,522.70
Highway Dept. Salary Clerk
3,522.70
16,000.00
16,000.00
Highway Dept. Bituminous Patching
16.000.00
15,000.00
15,000.00
Highway Dept. Drainage
15,000.00
10,500.00
10,500.00
Highway Dept. Street Cleaning
10.500.00
35,000.00
35,000.00
Highway Dept. Surface Treatment And Re- surfacing
35,000.00
23,770.00
23,770.00 Highway Dept. Roads General
22,974.09
15,000.00
1,295.86
16,295.86 Highway Dept. Equipment Maintenance
16,286.47
795.91 9.39
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
4,600.00
4,600.00 Health Department Salary Agent
4,600.00
31,037.50
670.87
SUMMARY - Continued
Balance
Receipts January 1, Appropria- and 1960
tions 1960 Transfers
Totals
1960 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1960
3,000.00
3,000.00 Highway Dept. Sidewalks
3,000.00
27,155.00
27.155.00 Highway Dept. Other Expenses
27.154.75
.25
2,500.00
1,650.00
4,150.00 Highway Dept. Storm Damage
4.150.00
45,000.00
45,000.00 Snow Removal
65.033.48
$20.033.48
26,550.00
26,550.00 St. Lights & Beacons
25.049.71
1.500.29
25,479.84
25,479.84
Chap. 90 Const. 1958
19,651.63
5.828 21
30.50
30.50 Land Damages - Tilden Rd. to Hazel Ave.
30.50
241.60
241.60
Land Damages Hazel Ave. to Front St.
16.00
225.60
500.00 Land Damages-Moorland Road
500.00
931.12
Judy Road Const.
391.05
540.07
5,462.00
124.60
5,586.60
Const. &. Land Damages-Porter and Harbor- view Rds.
5,462.00
124.60
6,293.00
6.292 00
Const. & Land Damages-Curtis Rd. and Nel- son Rd.
1.119.71
5,173 29
3,235 00
3.235 00
Const. Fifth Avenue
3.137.68
97.32
1,352.00
1,352.00 Parking Area-Jericho Road
1.351.44
.56
5,050.00
5,050.00
Const. Tilden Road Sidewalk
4.798 54
251.46
13,530.00
406.25
13.904 95
Public Welfare and Disability Assistance
13,795.23
141.02
500.00
500.00 Disability Assistance-Administrative
499.80
.20
1,000.00
2,964.68
3,964.68 Aid to Dependent Children
3,961.57
3.11
87,000.00
246.05
87,246.05 Old Age Assistance
86.217.14
1,028.91
6,000.00
6,000.00 Old Age Assistance Administrative
6,000.00
9,018.90
21,284.32 U. S. Grant-Aid to Dependent Children
14,700.87
6,583.45
2,877.83
4,865.82 U, S. Grant-Aid to Dependent Children Admin.
2,040.01
2,825.81
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
2,885.00
2,885.00 Parking Area-Old Police Station
2.311.52
573.48
1,000.00
1,000.00 Aid to Dependent Children Administrative
999.70
.30
12,265.42 1,987.99
500.00
740.00
740 00 Const. Central School Walkway-Langdon Lane 931.12
740.00
5,000.00
5,000.00 Chap. 90 Const. 1959
5,000.00
202
16,803.37
61,769.55 U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance
38,948.25
22.821.30 3,339.01 6,841.59
2,153.59
4,688.00 6,841.59 U. S. Grant Disability Assistance
1,339.68
506.46
1,631.52
570.64
3,047.50
18,515.67
102.47
490.00
490.00
Director Veterans' Cervices-Salary
490.00
200.00
200.00 Director Veterans' Services-Expense
101.27
98.73
840.00
840.00
Veterans' Agent-Salary
840.00
50.00
50.00
Veterans' Agent-Expense
46.50
894,257.00
1,468.30
895,715.30
School Department-Current Expenses
895,604.36
8,175.00
40.00
8,215.00
School Department-Vocational Education
8,215.00
19,565.00
161.54
19,726.54 School Department-Repairs and replacement 19,720.71
5.83
3,100.00
5.09
3,105.09
School Department-Libraries
2,949.17
155.92
70,000.00
70,000.00
School Department-Transportation
69,124.95
875.05
6,765.00
6,765.00
School Department-Capital Outlay
6,729.91
35.09
10,700.00
10,700.00 School Department-Special Items
10,636.96
63.04
22,913.00
891.74
23,804.74 Allen Memorial Library
23,788.97
15.77
12,045.00
891.74
12,936.74 Peirce Memorial Library
12,782.11
154.63
727.99
727.99 Const. Wampatuck School
727.99
262.80
262.80 Regional School District Planning Committee
230.95
31.85
10,000.00
10,000.00 Regional School District
10,000.00
10,846.91
24.00
10,870.91 Town Office Building-Police and Fire Sta. 10,473.58
397.33
1,009.073.02
1,009,073.02
Const. Senior High School
908,283.09
100,799.93
51,551.74
38.09
51,589.83
Const. Addition Jr. High School
31,502.42
20,087.41
10,300.00
38.09
10,300.00
Alterations Jr. High School
759.00
9,541.00
3,210.00
3,210.00 Sr. High School Ball Field
3,210.00
14,788.00
2,674.72
17,462.72 Park Department
17,462.72
1,595.00
1,595.00 Park Department Capital Expense
1,595.00
5,844.00
122.40
5,966.40 Park Department Labor School Grounds
5,850.68
115.72
5,750.00
5,750.00 Park Department School Grounds Expense
5,744.50
5.50
5,624.00
888.00
6,512.00 Park Department Beaches
6,501.62
10.38
1,948.00
40.80
1,988.80 Park Department Labor - Playgrounds
1,920.27
68.53
1,170.00
1,170.00 Park Department Expense - Playgrounds
1,162.25
7.75
4,200.00
512.00
4,712.00 Town Reports
4,710.94
1.06
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
203
2,394.56
4.1,966.18 5,634.49 8,029.05 U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance Administrative
4,690.04
798.30 15,000.00
2,137.98 U. S. Grant Disibility Assistance Administrative 18,618.14 Veterans' Benefits
3.50 110.94
SUMMARY - Continued
Balance
Receipts January 1, Appropria- and 1960
tions 1960 Transfers
Totals
1960 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1960
.3,742.00
3,742.00 Public Buildings
3,430.46
311.54
500.00
500.00
Band Concerts
500.00
24,250.00
24,250.00
Insurance
23,817.80
432.20
23,200.00 20,195.09
43,395.09
Contributory Group Ins.
41,730.63
1,664.46
125.00
125.00
Channel Markings
125.00
100.00
100.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
40.00
40.00
Veterans Day
40.00
1,075.00
1,075.00 Memorial Day
1,075.00
350.00
350.00
Quarters
Veterans' Foreign Wars
350.00
350.00
350.00
Quarters American Legion
350.00
3,500.00
3,500.00
Control of Shellfish-Salary
Clam Warden
3,500.00
700.00
700.00
Control of Shellfish-Expenses
91.79
8.21
400.00
400.00
Fish and Game Conservation
400.00
41,227.50
41,227.50
Retirement System and Pensions
41,227.50
853.99
853.9
Bills of Previous Years
853.99
18,000.00
18,000.00
Reserve Fund
17,356.91
643.09 1,500.00
842.00 1.00
1.00
Land John Reynolds Jr.
1.00
1,150.00
1,150.00
Water Department-Salaries Commissionrs
1,149.50
.50
6,695.00
6,695.00 Water Department-Salary Supt.
6,695.00
5,179.00
5,179.00 Water Department-Salaries Clerical
5,164.00
15.00
32,512.00
32,512.00
Except Regular Employee
669.03
80.97
10,000.00
10,000.00
Water Department-Salaries Other
32,147.68
364.32
Water Department-Power, Fuel
and
Light
8,684.86
1,315.14
4,573.00
4,573.00 Water Department-Water Purchase
4,572.39
.61
9,500.00 5,402.87
14,902,87 Water Department-Service Supplies
14,673.59
229.28
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
204
1,500.00
1,500.00 Bound Brook Stream Clearance
842.00 Razing Old Police Station
842.00
750.00
750.00 Water-Department-Salaries Temp. Employees
12,106.00
24.47
12,130.47 Water Department-Main Supplies
11,262.53
867.94
4,356.00
4,356.00 Water Department-Property Maint.
3,181.09
1,174.91
8,000.00
8,000.00 Water Department-Exploration
4,126.75
3,873.25
25,099.00
25,099.00 Water Department-Other Expenses
19,617.16
5,481.84
30,000.00
30,000.00
Gravel Packed Well-Water Dept.
16,203.95
13,796.05
3,000.00
3,000.00 Public Landsing-Salary Harbormaster
3,000.00
2,889.00
2,889.00
Public Landings-Expenses
2,883.01
5.99
1,000.00
1,000.00
Care of Veterans' Graves
1,000.00
746.90
746.90
Repairs-Town Pier
25.59
721.31
126,238.00
126,238.00
Interest Maturing Debt.
126,237.50
.50
3,507.00
3,507.00
Interest-Water
3,507.00
27,750.00
27,750.00
Interest Temporary Loans
17,408.54
10,341.46
282,476.00
4,524.70
287,000.70
Maturing Debt
287,000.00
.70
37,000.00
37,000.00 Maturing Debt Water
37,000.00
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
205
TOWN OF SCITUATE BALANCE SHEET - December 31, 1960 General Account
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
In Banks $582,347.30
Tailings: Unclaimed checks
$1,292.98
Petty Cash Advances :
Collector ...... $
40.00
Trust Fund Income: Income from Trust Funds 31.12
Water Dept. 15.00
Income-Everett Torrey Park Fund ..
10.59
Srh. & Pub. Bldg. Comm
Refund Recoveries: Old Age Assistance
9,086.92
Srhool Dept. 20.00
Lunch Programs 50.00
Zoning Bd. of
Appeals 25.00
Administration 2,825.81
175.00
9,409.26
Total Cash
$ 582.522.30
Accounts Receivable: Taxes:
Administration 3,339.01
Levy of 1956:
Poll
34.00
Personal 93.32
Administration 1,631.52
Levy of 1957:
Poll
456.00
Personal
1,670.21
2,126.21
Levy of 1958:
Poll
550.00
32,483.54
Personal
1,738.47
2,288.47
Total Federal Grants
76,526.22
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Old Age Assistance: Assistance ... 22,821.30
26,160.31
Disability Assistance: Assistance . 6,841.59
127.32
8,473.11
Vocational: Smith Hughes & Geo. Barden 544.51 Public Law 864 3,808.12
Public Law 874 28,130.91
25.00
Federal Grants: Aid to Dependent Children: Assistance 6,583.45
206
207
Levy of 1959: Poll . 736.00
Personal 6,923.54
Real Estate 33,766.04
41,425.58
Levy of 1960:
Poll
1,098.00
Personal 13,415.45
Real Estate 137,265.80
151,779.25
Total Taxes Motor Vehicle Excise Tax:
Levy of 1956 606.87
Levy of 1957
6,782.14
Levy of 1958
7,683.30
Levy of 1959
24,615.46
Levy of 1960
45,267.18
Total Motor Vehicle Tax Special Assessments:
84,954.95
Ch. 90 Constr. 1958 5,828.21
Ch. 90 Constr. 1959 5,000.00
Added to Taxes-1959 ..
7.75
Added to Taxes-1960. .
73.45
Committed Interest-1959 1.24
Committed Interest-1960
8.84
Totol Special Assessments
5.000.30
Tax Titles and Possessions: Tax Titles 10,750.17
Tax Possessions
3,276.90
Total Tax Titles & Possessions 14,027.07
Revolving Funds: Lunch Programs Athletic Fund
15,660.28 2,063.80
Total Revolving Funds Appropriation Balances: Revenue:
Engineering Assistance 1,500.00
Municipal Con-
197,746.83
sultant
....
500.00
Civilian De- fence .. 1,968.76
Purchase-Aerial Ladder Truck 42,878.48
Shore Protec- tion 31,037.50
Sewerage Com- mittee 670.87
Street Assessments: Unappropriated St. Assessments 4,909.02
Ch. 90 Constr. 1960 6,500.00
Ch: 90 Engineer- ing 1960 3,107.35
Land Dam. Tilden Rd to Hazel Ave. 30:50
Land Dam. Hazel Ave. to Front St. · 225.60
Sch. Walkway- Langdon Lane 740.00
17,724.08
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
·
208
BALANCE SHEET - continued
Departmental:
Old Age Assistance
293.20
Aid to Dependent Children
1,814.47
Public Welfare
149.20
Veterans' Benefits
210.96
Total Departmental 2,467.83
Water:
Levy of 1957
80.00
Levy of 1958
122.91
Levy of 1959
2,443.65
Levy of 1960
23,183.11
Liens Added to Taxes 1959 988.38
Liens Added to Taxes 1960
2,913.65
Total Water Unprovided For or Overdrawn Accounts: Underestimates: State Tax-1960
1,323.01
Authorized Overdraft Snow Rem. 20.033.48
Autorized Overdrafts
Bound Brook
Hurricane
16,087.23
Court Judgment
· 2,500.00
Total
39,943.72
Gravel-packed Well . . 13,796.05
Overlay Deficits: Overlay - 1960
6,013.63
Repairs-Town
Pier 721.31
Ch. 718-Acts of 1956 388.09 . . Judy Rd. Constr. 540.07
Porter & Harbor Hgts. Rd. Con- str. & Land Damages ... 124.60
Curtis & Nelson Rds. Constr. & Land Damages 5,173.29
Constr. Fifth Ave. 97.32
Park. Area Old Pol. Sta. 573.48
Tilden Rd. Side- walk 251.46
29,731.70
Reg. Sch. Plan- ing Comm. .. 31.85
Regional Sch. District .... 10,000.00
St. Sub. Cont. Shellfish · 548.60
Stream Clear 1,500.00
Land-John Reynolds, Jr. 1.00
133,734.39
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Non-Revenue (Loan Balances) Constr. Wampa- tuck School 727.99 Town Off. Bldg.
Pol. & Fire
Stations
397.33
Constr. Sr. High School .... 100,799.93
Constr. Add. Jr.
High Sch. . .
20,087.41
Aleterations-Jr.
High Sch. . .
9,541.00
Total
31,553.66
Balances $265,288.05 13,190.00
Sale of Real Estate
Receipts Reserved for Appropriation: Road Machinery Fund 3,355.98
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus Overlays Reserved for Abatements:
6,387.26
Overlay - 1957
2,126.21
Overlay - 1958 2.261.56
Overlay - 1959 11,417.64
Total Overlays Reserved Overestimates: County Tax - 1960
15,805.41
56.33
Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Excise Revenue ... Special Assessment Revenue 5,000.30
84,954.95
Departmental Revenue .
2,467.83
Tax Title Revenue 10,750.17
Tax Posseshion Revenue. . 3,276.90
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BALANCE SHEET - continued
Water Revenue 29,731.70
Total Revenue Reserved 136,181.85 Reserve for Petty Cash Advances 175.00 Collector's Unidentified Receipts 100.45 Surplus Revenue-Excess & Deficiency 417,196.09
Deferred Revenue Accounts
Apportioned Street Assessments Not Due: Street Assessments 2,345.43
Apportioned Street Assessment Revenue:
Due in 1961
979.82
Due in 1962
979.82
Due in 1963
300.67
Due in 1964
42.56
Due in
1965
42.56
Total Deferred Revenue Accounts 2,345.43
Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt .. $3,936,000.00
Serial Loans: General: School-Cent. Elem. ... ..... 240,000.00 School-Remo. & Add High School ..... 562,000.00
School-Jenkins School & Cafeteria .. 260.000.00
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School-Wamp- atuck & Jen kins . .
..... 605,000.00 School-Sr.&
Jr. Highs 1,695,000.00
Total School Loans 3,362.000.00 Town Office Bldg.
Police & Fire Stations 465,000.00
Water:
WaterPurchase- 1931 25,000.00 Water-3A to N.
Scituate
.
84,000.00
Total Water Loans
109,000.00
Total Loans Outstanding 3.936,000.00
Trust and Investment Accounts
Trust and Investment Funds: Cash and Securities: In Custody of Treasurer
29,028.73
In Custody of Treasurer: Welfare Funds: Eliza Jenkins 3,020.80 Lucy O. Thomas 1,000.00 Sarah J. Wheeler 988,22 Hannah Dean
Millar 1,952.63
Cornelia M. Allen 5,086.68 George A. Allen 524.71
Benjamin T. Ellms 4,000.00
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BALANCE SHEET - continued
Scituate Welfare Fund 410.89
Ella Gertrude
Gardner ... 9,107.53
Total Welfare Funds
26,091.46
Park Funds:
Everett Torrey
300.00
Cemetery Funds:
Clara T. Bates. . 336.84
Emaline A. Jac-
obs 133.43
Total Cemetery Funds
470.27
Investment Funds:
Post War Savings
667.00
Scholarship Funds:
Benjamin Feinberg
1,500.00
Total Funds
29,028.73
$4,929,782.49
$4,929,782.49
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SCITUATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
26
SATUIT
CORPO
FD.16
For the Year Ending December 31
1960
REPORT OF THE SCITUATE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Scituate :
In April 1949, the town of Scituate broke ground for its first new school in a quarter century, its first new ele- mentary school since the Spanish-American War. At that time the town's educational plant consisted of two wood- en, six-room elementary schools and a modest, Georgian brick high school built in 1910. Today, a short twelve years later, the two wooden buildings are gone and in their place we have three new elementary schools contain- ing 52 rooms, including 4 kindergartens. The high school has been doubled in size by adding two separate wings. With its capacity of 900 students, it has now become a junior high school, and we have just completed a new high school with a nominal capacity of 800.
This is indeed a remarkable achievement. Unfortu- nately, however, building schools has little to do with education; it simply provides shelters within which the process of education can take place. If these shelters are sufficient in number and size and are properly designed they can assist the educational process to be efficient, ef- fective and meaningful. If they are not they can hamper and frustrate the process seriously.
Moreover, we are not through building schools. In the warrant for the regular Town Meeting for 1961 there is an article, submitted by your School Committee, re- questing the purchase of land and the acquisition of plans for the construction of a new elementary school. When the plans are completed and construction company bids have determined what the cost of the school will be, a special Town Meeting will be requested, probably in early fall 1961, to seek the money necessary to begin construc-
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tion. This, we hope, would enable the building to be com- pleted in time for the beginning of school in September 1962.
This report is designed to explain the background for this action and to attempt as complete an outline for future school needs as can be made presently. Following is a brief summary of the observations and recommenda- tions of your School Committee from its examination of the past growth and expected future growth of Scituate :
1. The educational program of Scituate has been hampered almost constantly since the end of World War II by inadequate classroom space. This has made the al- ready difficult and demanding job of developing good schools even more difficult.
2. Scituate, between 1955 and 1960, has grown at the rate of approximately 600 people per year and school enrollment, during the same period, has increased at the average rate of 260 children per year (including kinder- garten). There is presently no indication that this rate of growth will at all slacken during the next five years. The school population growth can be illustrated briefly in this manner :
Grades
K-6
7-12
Total
% Increase Over 1950
1950-51
795
408
1203
1955-56
1251
596
1847
54 %
1960-61
2023
1108
3131
160%
1965-66 (est.)
2705
1675
4380
264%
3. In the past a number of projections of future school enrollment have been made, by the State Depart- ment of Education, the Superintendent of Schools and by professional planners. The most recent, prior to the one presented herein, was made in November 1957. Based on its figures it was estimated that we would need our next elementary school in the fall of 1963. The facts of town growth in the three years since it was made indicate that this projection was conservative. We shall need the school
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in 1962, if we are to avoid double sessions for a substan- tial portion of our elementary grades.
4. We believe that everything possible should be done to provide future schools as they are needed, not after a crisis has arisen. Scituate has learned that nothing is to be saved by postponing the building of a school. In- deed, the experience of the past fifteen years has been
that a delay of even one year has resulted inevitably in higher expenditures, owing to a constant year-by-year rise in constructions costs. The costs imposed by juggled classes, overcrowded classrooms and double sessions can- not, of course, be measured in dollars. But we are con- vinced, beyond any doubt, that these are costs we cannot afford because education, once lost, is seldom recovered.
5. We shall make a full scale revision of the school enrollment forecast in the fall of each year, to the end that the most accurate predictions of future school needs will always be available. In this way the town can plan intelligently for each new school and have it ready at the proper time.
6. We agree with the position of the Planning Board, which holds that sites for all future schools should be acquired as quickly as possible. This will insure: that the schools will be on desirable land in the right locations when they are built; that the sites will be there, not cov- ered with houses, when they are needed; and, finally, that sizeable amounts of money will be saved in anticina- ting the acceleration of land values as raw land becomes scarcer and scarcer in the future.
The remainder of this report is divided into four sec- tions as follows:
A. An historical description of school build- ings in Scituate to date.
B. A revised forecast of future school enrollment and a discussion of its implications for the next five years.
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C. A description of how the new school site was selected.
We hope you will read it to the end, reflectively and at leisure. It concerns you, your children and an important part of the future of the town. It is said that the school system of a town reflects the character of the town. Simi- larly, if we have sufficient schools and good education. proceeding within them we shall be able to attract to Scituate people consistent with the historical and present. character of our town.
A.THE HISTORY OF SCHOOL BUILDING IN SCITUATE
It was in 1943 that the people began first to talk earnestly of building a new elementary school. The Town Meeting of March 1944 appointed a committee to investi- gate the need. This committee, like those to follow it, was. composed of one representative each of the School Com- mittee, the Advisory Committee, the Planning Board, the P. T. A. and the Teachers Association. This committee had two major tasks to accomplish, tasks which, once done, greatly smoothed the way for future Building Committees. The first was to convince the town that this momentous, town-shaking step should be taken; the second was to. learn the unfamiliar procedure and technique for creating a school.
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