Town annual report of the officers of the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts for the year ending 1959, Part 57

Author: Plymouth (Mass.)
Publication date: 1959
Publisher: Plymouth [Mass.] : Avery & Doten
Number of Pages: 1156


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Alabama Power bonds, 47/8's of '89 5,018.44


Alabama Power bonds, 5's of '90 4,011.78


Arkansas Power & Light bonds, 31/8's of '74 2,025.69


California Elec. Power bonds, 41/2's of '88 5,076.94


California Elec. Power bonds, 35/8's of '85 4,088.15


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California Oregon Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 5,058.92 Central Maine Power bonds, 33/8's of '85 2,808.60 Central Vermont Public Service bonds, 2344's of '75 1,942.71


Central Vermont Public Service bonds, 31%'s of '81 2,680.73


Community Public Service bonds, 53/8's of '87 5,089.51


Community Public Service bonds, 51/4's of '91 5,098.08


Cons. Edison of New York bonds, 3's of '79


7,176.01


Cons. Gas, Electric Light & Power of Baltimore bonds, 234's of '86 4,021.17


Consumers Power bonds, 4's of '86


5,046.82


Duquesne Light bonds, 35/3's of '83


3,875.67


Fall River Elec. Light bonds, 3344's of '83


3,002.17


Georgia Power bonds, 33/8's of '82


3,112.47


Houston Lighting & Power bonds, 31/4's of '86 2,458.56


Idaho Power bonds, 4's of '88 5,000.00


Idaho Power bonds, 5's of '89 5,037.06


Kentucky Utilities bonds, 334's of '86 5,063.68 Long Island Lighting bonds, 5's of '91 5,077.46


Maine Public Service bonds, 27/8's of '75 1,907.19


Merrimack-Essex Electric bonds, 41/2's of '88 5,116.59


Milwaukee Gas Light bonds, 31/8's of '75 3,025.02


Mississippi Power & Light bonds, 27/8's of '77 3,988.06


Montana Power bonds, 27/8's of '75 5,909.32


New England Power bonds, 234's of '79 2,005.58


New Orleans Public Service bonds, 41/2's of '87 5,037.31


N.Y. State Elec. & Gas bonds, 45/8's of '91 5,100.95


Niagara Mohawk Power bonds, 434's of '90 5,038.51


North Shore Gas bonds, 4's of '75 4,042.31


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Northern Indiana Public Service bonds, 31/8's of '73 6,889.37


Orange & Rockland Utilities bonds, 41/2's of '88 4,762.22


Otter Tail Power bonds, 47/8's of '91


5,058.26


Pacific Gas & Electric bonds, 3's of '70 2,012.47


Pacific Gas & Electric bonds, 3's of '71


2,047.95


Pennsylvania Electric bonds, 5's of '90 5,091.29


Public Service of New Hampshire bonds, 31/4's of '73 2,084.71


Public Service of Oklahoma bonds,


41/4's of '87 4,969.31


Rockland Light & Power bonds, 31/8's of '78 2,806.07


Savannah Electric & Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 5,098.91


Southern California Edison bonds, 3's of '65 2,008.23


Southern California Edison bonds, 31/4's of '64 1,948.52


Southern Nevada Power bonds, 51/4's of '89 5,000.00


St. Joseph Light & Power bonds, 5's of '89 5,059.68 Utah Power & Light bonds, 35/8's of '81 3,107.13


Virginia Electric Power bonds, 33/8's of '81 4,779.15


Wisconsin Electric Power bonds, 37/8's of '86 5,082.93 Wisconsin Michigan Power bonds, 3's of '78 1,934.77 Wisconsin Power & Light bonds, 45/8's of '89 5,026.71


Aluminum of America bonds, 31/8's of '64 1,002.75


American Tobacco bonds, 3's of '69 992.24


General Motors bonds, 31/4's of '79 2,010.67


National Dairy Products bonds, 31/8's of '76 998.19


Sears Roebuck bonds, 43/4's of '83 3,000.00


United States Steel bonds, 41/2's of '86 4,963.19


Accrued interest on bonds as of Dec. 31, 1961 4,233.20


Due from town for military service credit 261.05


$525,333.27


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2. Liabilities :


Annuity Savings Fund


$384,725.08


Annuity Reserve Fund


66,472.91


Military Service Fund Pension Fund


5,142.55


68,375.53


Expense Fund


617.20


$525,333.27


Respectfully submitted,


JOHN P. RYAN, Chairman


CORA B. GRADY, Secretary PETER BRIGIDA


Contributory Retirement System


Board of Retirement, Plymouth


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REPORT OF ADVISORY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR 1961


Your Advisory and Finance Committee has again this year undertaken its Town-given responsibilities, with the sincere hope that its recommendations will result in better- ment of our Town, consistent with the desires of the entire townspeople.


At the outset, it should be understood by all, that this Committee speaks and recommends as a Committee - not as an individual. The pros and cons which shall be heard at Town Meeting are not new to us - we have indeed in many midnight sessions argued the problem - voting as a body only when all known sides have been heard. Our recommen- dations to the Town are stressed as being collective, rather than individualistic.


Of prime concern to the majority is the subject of re- muneration for Town employees. Fortunately, the Town saw fit, in 1950, to accept the establishment of a Personnel Board. Unfortunately, this Personnel Board was not given the mis- sion to include all the Town's employees, elected and other- wise. Likewise, the Personnel Board was not given authority pertaining to establishment of policies providing fair and equal treatment for all Town employees in all departments. A continuing study is being made, resulting, we hope, in fu- ture recommendations for your consideration, which shall equalize vacations, overtime, sick-pay, and related matters, on an equal basis for all.


The problems in Plymouth are unique, in that we have a land mass of great extent, harboring a fluid population based in numbers principally in direct proportion to the length of


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the summer season. We must provide all the normal protec- tions, plus attend to the highway and road requirements of these transient taxpayers as indeed we do to our permanent population. Unfortunately, we have not, to date, been able to entice new industries to build within our confines, and therefore are faced with ever-increasing expenditures, re- sulting in higher taxation which must be assessed primarily to a static population. We should, therefore, recognize imme- diately that which is beneficial to all (or to the majority), and likewise postpone that which is important only to the few (or to the minority). Our recommendations are based on col- lective study and do pertain, to the best of our knowledge, to those problems applicable to the majority.


In long range planning, we recognize the importance of the Planning Board, the Industrial Commission, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, and other appointed committees. We would suggest that, as early as possible, a member of the Finance and Advisory Committee be either appointed to sit as a member or as an interested party, for the sole purpose of providing liaison on those plans involving future expendi- tures.


This Committee is greatly interested in maintaining the mutual respect presently enjoyed between its body and that of the Town's many departments. To increase this respect, and to increase the Town's efficiency, we offer our services at any time of the year - bearing in mind that we enter into any conference solely with the Town's interest at heart.


We wish to publicly thank all of the elected officials, the Town's department heads, and, indeed, all of the Town's citi-


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zens, in recognizing that we, as a body, have again this year come before you with the following recommendations, based solely on our studies and collective reasoning.


Respectfully submitted,


CHARLES C. HENDERSON, Chairman R. DOROTHY CANUCCI ROBERT CARTMELL LESLIE W. MacLEAN RONALD W. BUTTERFIELD


DONALD A. NEWEY HAROLD T. MACCAFERRI


WILLIAM B. STEARNS, JR. CAPT. HANS F. SLADE


HENRY STEFANI, JR.


CHARLES T. SANDERSON, 3d.


ALVIN R. TAVARES


RICHARD W. BRAMHALL


HORACE A. GENOVESE


Attested: Victoria B. Engstrom, Secretary


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SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS


Article 7


$3,191,062.58


Special Articles 347,440.00


State and County Assessments (net) 231,358.52


Overlay Deficit - 1957


609.31


Overlay Deficit - 1959 465.76


Overlay for 1961 - (estimate)


85,000.00


Total Recommended Expenditures


$3,855,936.17


Estimated Receipts $1,142,476.00


Excess and Deficiency (Articles 17, 92) 144,000.00


Parking Meter Receipts (Article 7)


7,175.00


Parking Lot Receipts (Main St. Ext.) (Article 7) 6,000.00


Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves


Fund (Article 28) 1,000.00


Waterfront Protection (Article 64)


20,000.00


Total from sources other than Tax Levy $1,320,651.00


Net to be raised 1961 Poll Tax (Estimate)


$2,535,285.17


9,000.00


Balance from Real and Personal $2,526,285.17


Based on the 1960 valuation of $38,935,875, this total will require a tax rate of approximately $64.60. An increase of $1,000,000 in the valuation would reduce the tax rate by ap- proximately $1.60, while a decrease of $1,000,000 in valuation would increase the rate by approximately $1.70.


Each $39,000 added to or subtracted from the net total above would increase or decrease the tax rate approximately $1.00.


INDEX


Advisory and Finance Committee Report, 1961 378


Assessors, Board of 357


Cemetery Commissioners 355


Community Nurse 344


Housing Authority


365


Library


346


Park Department


367


Planning Board 363


Public Welfare


352


Aid to Dependent Children


353


Disability Assistance 354


General Relief


354


Medical Assistance 353


Old Age Assistance


353


Redevelopment Authority 350


Retirement, Board of 370


School Report


121


Administration


126


Attendance Supervisor's Report


148


Calendar


127


Census 148


Committee 126


Elementary Schools, Report of 156


148


Enrollment 149


Financial Statement 128


Guidance Director's Report 144


139


In Memoriam 125


Instructional Personnel 161


Junior High School Principal's Report 142


Music Supervisor, Report of 150


Non-Instructional Personnel 168


Oral Hygiene and Dental Clinic 153


Personnel Changes 160


Physical Education 152


Regional School District Committee 122


School Committee Report 133


Superintendent's Report 133


Employment of Minors


High School Principal's Report


Selectmen's Department 307


Airport Commission 324


Engineer, Town


311


Fisheries, Inland


310


Forest, Town


309


Harbor Master 343


Insect Pest Control


314


Jurors, List of


332


Public Safety, Commission of


Building Inspection 315


Dog Officer


314


Fire Division


317


Forest Fire


318


Health Division


321


Police Division 319


Selectmen's Report 308


Streets and Sewers, Supt. of 326


Veterans' Services


312


Town Accountant's Report 179


Schedule A (Cash Receipts and Payments)


184


Schedule B (Appropriations) 212


Schedule C (Estimated Receipts)


280


Schedule D (Revenue Account)


281


Schedule E (Excess and Deficiency)


282


Schedule F (Balance Sheet) 283


Schedule G (Funded Indebtedness)


287


Schedule H (Funded Indebtedness) 288


Schedule I (Trust Funds) 289


Schedule J (Calculation of Credit)


306


Town Clerk's Report


5


Annual Town Meeting


19


Births


93


Deaths


113


Marriages


106


Officers, 1961 Town


5


Special Town Meeting, March 25 18


Special Election, April 22 81


Special Town Meeting, June 29 81


Special Election, August 12


88


Special Town Meeting, September 14


89


Town Election 15


Town Meeting Members


12


Zoning By-Law 73


Tree Warden 356


Water Department 171


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