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Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars for the payment of vocational tuition and transportation according to the provisions of Chapter 74 of the General Laws.
Article 9. (Physical Education) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for the conduct of physical education and athletics by the School Department according to the provisions of Chapter 71 of the General Laws, or take any action thereon.
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Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars for the conduct of physical education and athletics by the School Department according to the provisions of Chapter 71 of the General Laws.
Article 10. (Water Safety Program) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to establish a special Water Safety Account for the support of the summer Water Safety Program which is jointly spon- sored by the Red Cross and the School Department, or take any action thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars to establish a special Water Safety Account for the support of the summer Water Safety Program which is jointly sponsored by the Red Cross and the School Depart- ment.
Article 11. (Electrical Work, High School) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to complete the electrical work in the rehabilitation of the High School, or take any action thereon.
Voted: To transfer from Surplus Revenue the sum of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars to complete the electrical work in the rehabilitation of the High School.
Article 12. (Maintenance, Blanchard Auditorium) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $11,120.00 to maintain and operate Blanchard Auditorium, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Eleven Thousand One Hundred Twenty ($11,120.00) Dollars to main- tain and operate Blanchard Auditorium.
Article 13. (Shade Trees) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 for the Tree Depart- ment for the replacement of shade trees, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Fifty ($250.00) Dollars for the Tree Department for the replacement of shade trees.
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Article 14. (Poison Ivy) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, for the Tree Department for the eradication of poison ivy on the highways, streets and school grounds, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars for the Tree Department for the eradica- tion of Poison Ivy on the highways, streets and school grounds.
Article 15. (Dutch Elm Disease) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, for the control of Dutch Elm Disease in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 761 of the Acts of 1949, or act any- thing thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars for the control of Dutch Elm Disease in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 761 of the Acts of 1949.
Article 16. (Town Forest) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for thinning out hardwood trees in the town forest, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars for thinning out hardwood trees in the town forest.
Article 17. (Stabilization Fund) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 or any other sum, to be set aside as a Stabilization Fund, or act any- thing thereon.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer from Surplus Revenue the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars to be set aside as a Stabilization Fund.
Article 18. (Fire Truck) To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Fund, the sum of $15,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a fire truck, or act any- thing thereon.
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Voted Unanimously: To transfer from the Stabilization Fund the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars for the purchase of a fire truck.
Article 19. (Fire Alarm System) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the exten- sion of the Fire Alarm System for the Town of Acton; said sum to be used for an extension of the fire alarm circuit from South Acton Fire Station to the corner of Main and Prospect Streets and for a box to be located at said corner, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars for the extension of the Fire Alarm System for the Town of Acton; said sum to be used for an extension of the Fire Alarm Circuit from the South Acton Fire Station to the corner of Main and Prospect Streets and for a box to be located at said corner.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $4,500.00 for new construction of Main Street from Kelley's Corner to Acton Center; said money to be used in conjunction with $4,500.00 to be allotted by the County, and $9,000.00 to be allotted by the State, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Four Thousand Five Hundred ($4,500.00) Dollars for new construction of Main Street from Kelley's Corner to Acton Center; said money to be used in conjunction with Four Thousand Five Hundred ($4,500.00) Dollars to be allotted by the County and Nine Thousand ($9,000.00) Dollars to be allotted by the State.
Article 21. (Highways) To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the amount of the State's and County's allotments for highways under Chapters 81 and 90; provided that the reimbursement be credited back to the Surplus Revenue Account, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $32,175.00 provided that the reimbursement be credited back to the Surplus Revenue Account. This sum to be made up as follows :
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Chapter 81 Maintenance State
$15,675.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance State 1,500.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance County
1,500.00
New Construction State
9,000.00
New Construction County
4,500.00
$32,175.00
Article 22. (Machinery Fund) To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $2,700.00 from the Machinery Fund to the Machinery Account, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer the sum of $2,700.00 from the Machin- ery Fund to the Machinery Account.
Article 23. (Mt. Hope Cemetery) To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500.00 from the Surplus Rev- enue Account, for the purpose of oiling the roads and avenues in Mt. Hope Cemetery, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars for the purpose of oiling the roads and avenues in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Article 24. (Memorial Library) To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $835.00 for repairs to the Acton Memorial Library, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of Eight Hundred Thirty-five ($835.00) Dollars for repairs to the Acton Memorial Library.
Article 25. (Insurance) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00, or any other sum, to pay the cost of effecting insurance providing indemnity for or protection to any officer or employee of the Town against loss by reason of his liability to pay damages to others for bodily injuries, including death at any time resulting there- from, or for damage to property caused by operation, within the scope of his official duties or employment, of motor or other vehicles owned by the Town as provided by the provisions
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of General Laws, (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Sub-sec- tion 1, as amended, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve Hun- dred ($1,200.00) Dollars to pay the cost of effecting insurance providing indemnity for or protection to any officer or employee of the Town against loss by reason of his liability to pay dam- ages to others for bodily injuries, including death at any time resulting therefrom, or for damage to property caused by operation, within the scope of his official duties or employ- ment, of motor or other vehicles owned by the Town as pro- vided by the provisions of General Laws, (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Sub-section 1, as amended.
Article 26. (Hydrant Rental) To see if the town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract with the Water District for hydrant rental at $25.00 per hydrant annually, or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be instructed to con- tract with the Water District for hydrant rental at a sum not in excess of $25.00 per hydrant per year.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account, the sum of $1,600.00 to be expended under the direction of the Blanchard Auditorium Building Committee for the payment of unpaid bills, for painting the locker room floors and for the purchase of equipment for the Blanchard Auditorium, or act anything thereon.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer from the Surplus Rev- enue Account, the sum of Sixteen Hundred ($1,600.00) Dollars to be expended under the direction of the Blanchard Audi- torium Building Committee for the payment of unpaid bills, for painting the locker room floors and for the purchase of equipment for the Blanchard Auditorium.
Article 28. (Oil Burner) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, the sum of $400.00 for the installation of an oil burner at the Town Hall, or act anything thereon.
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Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of Four Hundred ($400.00) Dollars for the installation of an oil burner at the Town Hall.
Article 29. (Firemen Insurance) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $375.00 for Protection for Members of Volunteer Fire Companies covering loss of life, total disability, weekly indemnity and medical expense cover- age, and see if the town will authorize the Finance Committee to hereafter include a sum sufficient for this purpose in the annual budget, or act anything thereon.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Seventy-five ($375.00) Dollars for Protection for Members of Volunteer Fire Companies covering loss of life, total disability, weekly indemnity and medical expense coverage, and to authorize the Finance Committee to here- after include a sum sufficient for this purpose in the annual budget.
Article 30. (Water District) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 as its contribution to the Acton Water District toward the cost of extending a six inch water main from Hosmer Street to the Acton town dump on Massachusetts Avenue, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from Surplus Revenue Account the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars as the Town contribu- tion to the Acton Water District toward the cost of extending a six inch water main from Hosmer Street to the Acton town dump on Massachusetts Avenue.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $50.00 for the purpose of paying a bill sub- mitted by Storey, Thorndike, Palmer and Dodge for legal services in 1953 in connection with the proposed agreement for the formation of the Nagog Regional School District, or act anything thereon.
Voted Unanimously: That the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dol- lars be transferred from Surplus Revenue for the purpose of paying a bill submitted by Storey, Thorndike, Palmer and
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Dodge for legal services in connection with the proposed agree- ment for the formation of the Nagog Regional School District.
Article 32. (Office at Town Hall) To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account, the sum of $700.00 for constructing an additional office and conference room on the first floor of the Town Hall, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of Seven Hundred ($700.00) Dollars for construction of an additional office and conference room on the first floor of the Town Hall.
Article 33. (Boiler Insurance) To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $600.00 or any other sum, to pay the cost of obtaining coverage of various objects suitable for insurance under a boiler and machinery policy, or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the town raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Twenty-five ($625.00) Dollars to pay the cost of obtaining coverage of various objects suitable for insurance under a boiler and machinery policy.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to contract for the purchase of fuel oil for all of the town buildings equipped with oil burners, or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel oil, gasoline, tires and other supplies needed by the town.
Moderator called for a hand vote and appointed the following tellers :
Ray Harris
Theron Lowden
John F. McLaughlin
David Tinker Lowell Cram
Ormal S. Laffin
Vote
Yes
89
No
49
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Article 35. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $350.00 for the purchase of a duplicating machine for the use of the Board of Selectmen and other departments, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 36. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five, including two mem- bers of the Planning Board, to compile and publish town ordi- nances, regulations and by-laws now in effect in Acton.
Voted: To authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five, including two members of the Planning Board, to compile and publish town ordinances, regulations and by-laws now in effect in Acton.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 for a survey of the pollution of waters in the Town of Acton and correction thereof, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500.00 for the extension of water to a place conveniently located in the center of the dump with water house for connection of hose, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $500.00 for the wages of the Inspector of Plumbing, or act anything thereon.
Motion: To raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars for the wages of the Inspector of Plumbing.
Moderator called for a hand vote and appointed the following tellers :
Arno Perkins John F. Mclaughlin Ormal S. Laffin
Theron Lowden David Tinker Lowell Cram
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Vote
Yes 43
No 60
Motion did not prevail.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $6,000.00 as a Reserve Fund, or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the sum of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dol- lars be transferred from the Surplus Revenue Account and Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars be transferred from the Overlay Surplus as a Reserve Fund.
Voted to adjourn at 11:25 P. M.
A true copy. Attest:
HARLAN E. TUTTLE,
Town Clerk.
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING MARCH 21, 1955
"Shall the town accept the provisions of sections sixteen to sixteen I inclusive, of Chapter seventy-one of the General Laws, providing for the establishment of a Regional School District, together with the town of Boxborough, and the construction, maintenance and operation of a regional school by said district in accordance with the provisions of a proposed agreement filed with the Selectmen ?"
Whole number of votes cast 392.
Yes
302
No
89
Blanks
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Article 1. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to lease the Blanchard Auditorium to the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, or act anything thereon.
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Voted: The town authorize the Board of Selectmen and/or the School Committee to license the use of the Blanchard Auditorium to the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, substantially as set forth in Exhibit A of the agreement accepted by the towns of Acton and Boxborough.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell a portion of the land west of Charter Road and north of Massachusetts Avenue, to the Acton-Box- borough Regional School District at a figure not less than the cost to the Town of Acton, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell the land now owned by the Town of Acton known as Lot B on the plan of land titled "Land in Acton owned by the Town of Acton, Horace F. Tuttle, C. E., November 18, 1953" on file with the Selectmen of the member towns. Said plan is bounded and described as follows :
Easterly 964 feet by Charter Road; Northerly 102 feet, 688.70 feet, and 324 feet by the land now or formerly of Kazokas, Hall and Knowlton; Westerly 406.3 feet by the land of Knowlton and 257 feet by the land now or formerly of Warner; Southerly by a line 861.30 feet in juxtaposition with north wall of Blanchard Auditorium and containing 16.50 acres, more or less, for the sum of $11,300.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $20,000.00 to grade, surface, and provide surface drainage on Mohawk Drive from Central Street to Seneca Road and on Seneca Road, a section of 570 feet starting from Mohawk Drive; determine whether the money shall be provided for by transfer from available funds and by borrow- ing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended. All construction will meet the requirements of the Planning Board Regulations. Seventy-five (75) per cent of the cost of these improvements to be assessed as Betterments as per Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 to grade, surface, and provide surface drainage on Mohawk Drive from Central Street to Seneca Road, a distance of approxi-
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mately 2250 feet, and Seneca Road starting at Mohawk Drive for a distance of approximately 570 feet. The money shall be provided for by transferring $5,000.00 from the Surplus Rev- enue Account and the balance of $15,000.00 shall be obtained by borrowing under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as amended. All construction will meet the require- ments of the Planning Board Regulations. Seventy-five (75) per cent of the cost of these improvements to be assessed as Betterments as per Chapter 80 of the General Laws.
Hand Vote
Yes 235
No
34
Tellers :
David Tinker
Clarence Frost
Theron A. Lowden
Ormal Laffin
Walter B. Stevens
Frederick Harris
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,500.00 to continue the survey of storm water drainage being conducted by the Planning Board, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $3,500.00 to continue the survey of storm water drainage being conducted by the Planning Board.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $350.00 for the installation of an oil burner at the West Acton Fire Station, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $350.00 for the installation of an oil burner at the West Acton Fire Station.
Voted: To adjourn.
A true copy. Attest: HARLAN E. TUTTLE,
Town Clerk.
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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING MAY 9, 1955
Article 1. To see whether the town will approve or disapprove the amount of debt authorized by the following action of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District Committee :
VOTED that pursuant to Section 16 (d) of Chapter 71 of the General Laws as amended and for the purpose therein set out, $1,300,000 bonds of Acton-Boxborough Regional School District shall be issued from time to time, payable over a period of twenty years from their respec- tive dates in substantially equal installments, provided this shall not require the amount of any such installment to be other than a multiple of $5,000. The detail and form of such bonds shall be fixed by the regional district school committee, and the bonds shall be sold by the district treasurer with the approval of the said committee.
Voted: That the town approve the amount of debt author- ized by the following action of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District Committee:
Voted that pursuant to Section 16 (d) of Chapter 71 of the General Laws as amended and for the purpose therein set out, $1,300,000 bonds of Acton-Boxborough Regional School District shall be issued from time to time, payable over a period of twenty years from their respective dates in substantially equal installments, provided this shall not require the amount of any such installment to be other than a multiple of $5,000. The detail and form of such bonds shall be fixed by the regional district school com- mittee, and the bonds shall be sold by the district treas- urer with the approval of the said committee.
Hand vote, tellers appointed by Moderator.
Ray Harris Arthur Lee Herbert E. Shepard
James J. Mulvany
Carl R. Godfrey
Edwin Christofferson
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Vote
Yes 192
No 2
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,850.00 for use by the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District Committee, duly appointed in accord- ance with Section 1B of the Agreement voted at the Special Town Meeting, March 21, 1955, or act anything thereon.
Voted Unanimously: That the town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,850.00 for use by the Acton-Boxborough Re- gional School District Committee, duly appointed in accordance with Section 1B of the Agreement voted at the Special Town Meeting, March 21, 1955.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to amend the Pro- tective Zoning By-Law of the Town of Acton adopted Decem- ber 16, 1953 as follows: That the zoning map of the Town of Acton, Massachusetts filed in the office of the Town Clerk and incorporated by the vote of the Town December 16, 1953 be amended as follows: By indicating through proper lines or shadings as a business district the land bounded; Beginning at a stone bound at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Kinsley Road; thence Southwesterly by Kinsley Road 494.8 feet to stone bound at land formerly of Annie Kinsley ; thence Northwesterly by land formerly of Annie Kinsley 49.62 feet to a stone bound at land of Boston and Maine R. R .; thence Northwesterly by said Boston and Maine R. R. 533.59 feet to a stone bound at said Massachusetts Avenue; thence Southeasterly 171.5 feet by Massachusetts Avenue to point of beginning, or act anything thereon.
(Inserted in warrant on petition of James Edward Kinsley and twenty-seven others.)
Motion for Article 3 did not carry. Moderator called for a hand vote and appointed tellers.
Vote
Yes 28
No 128
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Article 4. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,200.00, or any other sum, so that the Board of Health may contract for the collection and disposal of garbage for a period of one year, or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the sum of $1,950 be raised and appropriated to supplement the appropriation of $5,450 in the annual budget of 1955 for the collection and disposal of garbage, and that the three year contract entered into for such purposes by the Board of Health in January 1954 be amended to provide that total payments under the contract for the year 1955 shall not exceed $7,400, and that payments for 1956 shall not exceed $7,400 except as increased by the allowance of $5.00 for each habitation erected and occupied during the previous year.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of paying for the inspections and expenses of the Plumbing Inspector and all fees collected for inspections be turned back to the Surplus Revenue Account, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of paying for the inspec- tions and expenses of the Plumbing Inspector.
Moderator called for a hand vote, appointed same tellers as Articles 1 and 3:
Vote
Yes
132
No
42
Voted to adjourn at 9:05 P. M.
A true copy. Attest :
HARLAN E. TUTTLE,
Town Clerk.
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD SEPTEMBER 12, 1955
Pursuant to the warrant, the Special Town Meeting was held at Blanchard Auditorium on Monday, September 12, 1955. The Moderator called the meeting to order at 8:00 o'clock P. M.
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Article 1. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred (900) Dollars for the Libraries, Salaries and Wages Account, this sum to be in addition to the sum of $2,100.00 appropriated by the Town under Article 4, Item 86, of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting held on March 14, 1955.
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