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Voted Unanimously: To authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Board of Selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1958 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $6,000.00 as a Reserve Fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: That the sum of $6,000.00 be appropriated from the Overlay Surplus Account to be used as a Reserve Fund.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500.00, or any other sum, to pay the cost of insurance against the various hazards described in an insurance report submitted to the Selectmen dated January 27, 1956. This sum, or any part thereof, to be expended at the discretion of the Selectmen after consultation with the Finance Committee and the remainder, if any, to revert to the Surplus Revenue Account, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $725.00 to pay the cost of fire insurance on contents, not already covered, in Town owned buildings and for Town owned equipment in several private owned homes.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds 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 therefrom, 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 provi- sions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 1, as amended, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,350.00 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 therefrom, 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 of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, Subsection 1, as amended.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $590.40, or any other
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sum, to pay the cost of obtaining coverage of various objects suitable for insurance under a boiler and machinery policy, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $718.61 to pay the cost of obtaining coverage of various objects suitable for insurance under a boiler and machinery policy.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $7,500.00 for Chapter 90 Construction of Main Street, South Acton from Central Street northerly to Prospect Street, a distance of approximately 2,400 feet; said money to be used in conjunction with $7,500.00 to be allotted by the County and $15,000.00 to be allotted by the State, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $7,500.00 for Chapter 90 Construction of Main Street, South Acton from Central Street northerly to Prospect Street, a distance of approxi- mately 2,400 feet; said money to be used in conjunction with $7,500.00 to be allotted by the County and $15,000.00 to be allotted by the State.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the amount of the State's and County's allot- ments for highways under Chapters 81 and 90; provided that the reim- bursement be credited back to the Surplus Revenue Account, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $41,450.00 provided that the reimbursement be credited back to the Surplus Revenue Account. This sum to be made up as follows:
Chapter 81 Maintenance State $15,950.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance State 1,500.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance County
1,500.00
New Construction State
15,000.00
New Construction County
7,500.00
$41,450.00
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $7,500.00 from the Machinery Fund to the Machinery Account, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer the sum of $7,500.00 from the Machinery Fund to the Machinery Account.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $12,500.00, or any other
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sum, for specific repairs to Nagog Hill Road from Hammond Street southerly a distance of approximately 800 feet, or take any other action relative thereto.
Motion: To raise and appropriate the sum of $12,500.00 for specific repairs to Nagog Hill Road from Hammond Street southerly a distance of approximately 800 feet.
Motion did not prevail.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $500.00, or any other sum, for sidewalk repairs, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for sidewalk repairs.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $2,500.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a Sander Body for the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To appropriate from the Machinery Fund the sum of $2,500.00 for the purchase of a Sander Body for the Highway Depart- ment.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $9,950.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a truck and snow plow for the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $9,950.00 for the purchase of a new truck and a new snow plow for the Highway Department; and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to trade in or sell the old 1941 Highway truck.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $2,600.00, or any other sum, for the painting of the exterior of the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,600.00 for the painting of the exterior of the Town Hall.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $900.00, or any other sum, for the construction and furnishing of a conference room in the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $900.00 for the con- struction and furnishing of a conference room in the Town Hall.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $875.00, or any other sum, for the painting of the exterior of the Center Fire Station, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $875.00 for the painting of the exterior of the Center Fire Station.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00, or any other sum, to purchase a motor vehicle for the use of the Fire Chief, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $2,800.00 to purchase a motor vehicle for the use of the Fire Chief.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $6,000.00, or any other sum, to be set aside as a Stabilization Fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 to be set aside as a Stabilization Fund.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Fund the sum of $16,000.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of a fire truck, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer from the Stabilization Fund the sum of $16,000.00 to purchase a new fire truck.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to furnish and complete work at the New Fire Station at West Acton, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $10,500.00 to complete the New Fire Station at West Acton.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $350.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of an auxiliary power unit for fire alarm head- quarters, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To transfer from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $350.00 to purchase an auxiliary power unit for fire alarm headquarters.
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Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $200.00 as its contribu- tion to the West and South Water Supply District of Acton toward the cost of extending a six inch water main from Hosmer Street to the Acton town dump on Massachusetts Avenue, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 as its contribution to the West and South Water Supply District of Acton toward the cost of extending a six inch water main from Hosmer Street to the Acton town dump on Massachusetts Avenue.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $3,500.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of two police cruisers for the Police Department, to be purchased at approximately six month intervals, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $3,500.00 for the purchase of two new cruisers for the Police Depart- ment and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to trade in or sell the two present cruisers.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $350.00, or any other sum, for the purchase of an adding machine for the Board of Assessors, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To appropriate from the Surplus Revenue Account the sum of $350.00 for the purchase of an adding machine for the Board of Assessors.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $2,500.00, or any other sum, for the payment of vocational tuition and transportation according to the provisions of Chapter 74 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the payment of vocational tuition and transportation according to the provisions of Chapter 74 of the General Laws.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $500.00, or any other sum, to establish a special Water Safety Account for the support of the Water Safety Program which is jointly sponsored by the Red Cross and the School Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to establish a special Water Safety Account for the support of the Water Safety
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Program which is jointly sponsored by the Red Cross and the School Department.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Audi- torium and Gymnasium Building Committee to pay from its available funds an unpaid bill from the West and South Water Supply District of Acton for $95.44 for repairs to a frozen water meter in 1954 and 1955, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To authorize the Auditorium and Gymnasium Building Committee to pay from its available funds an unpaid bill from the West and South Water Supply District of Acton for $95.44 for repairs to a frozen water meter in 1954 and 1955.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Protective Zoning By-Law of the Town of Acton by rezoning from residential to industrial, land in South Acton, said property running approximately 600 feet South along Main Street (Route 27), from property owned by Harold White to an existing right of way; Westerly to right of way of the Boston and Maine Railroad approximately 198 feet; Northerly approximately 330 feet, and back to Main Street, a distance of approxi- mately 200 feet, as petitioned to us by Earle W. Tuttle, or take any other action relative thereto. (Inserted by Planning Board)
Moderator appointed the following tellers: Robert Stow, Clyde Horne, William Clewley, Alice Duren, Thomas Wetherbee and Robert Sweeney.
Voted: To amend the Protective Zoning By-Law of the Town of Acton by rezoning from residential to industrial, land in South Acton, said property running approximately 600 feet South along Main Street (Route 27), from property owned by Harold White to an existing right of way; Westerly to right of way of the Boston and Maine Railroad approximately 198 feet; Northerly approximately 330 feet, and back to Main Street, a distance of approximately 200 feet.
Hand vote. Total - 385. Yes - 275. No -110.
Needed to carry - 2562/3.
11:40 P. M. Voted: To adjourn until 7:30 P. M. on Monday, March 17, 1958.
Monday, March 17, 1958. Moderator called meeting to order at 7:30 P. M.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $3,000.00, or any other sum, for mosquito control spraying, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for mosquito control spraying.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer to accept requests from Town employees for voluntary payroll deductions for Community Chests or United Funds under Section 17B of Chapter 180 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
Motion: To authorize the Town Treasurer to accept requests from Town employees for voluntary payroll deductions for Community Chests or United Funds under Section 17B of Chapter 180 of the General Laws.
Moderator appointed the following tellers: Robert Stow, Robert Sweeney, Thomas Wetherbee, Charles Judd Farley, George Allen, and Percival Wood.
Hand vote. Total-88. Yes-28. No-60.
Motion lost.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $500.00, or any other sum, to pay the following unpaid bill, or take any other action relative thereto.
Town of Concord - Hydrant Rental $500.00
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to pay the following unpaid bill:
Town of Concord - Hydrant Rental $500.00
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 8 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws of Massachusetts which reads as follows:
After acceptance of this Section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws as provided in Section 4 of Chapter 4, no proposed ordinance or by-law making a change in any existing zoning ordinance or by-law which has been unfavorably acted upon by a city council or town meeting shall be considered on its merits by the city council or town meeting within two years after the date of such unfavorable action unless the adoption of such proposed ordinance or by-law is recommended in the final report of the planning board or selectmen required by section 6. or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To accept Section 8 of Chapter 40A of the General Laws of Massachusetts which reads as follows:
After acceptance of this Section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws as provided in Section 4 of Chapter 4, no proposed ordinance or by-law making a change in any existing zoning ordi- nance or by-law which has been unfavorably acted upon by a city
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council or town meeting shall be considered on its merits by the city council or town meeting within two years after the date of such unfavorable action unless the adoption of such proposed ordinance or by-law is recommended in the final report of the planning board or selectmen required by section 6.
Same tellers.
Hand vote. Total - 121. Yes-77. No-44.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee to make a comprehensive study of drainage and sewerage within the Town; said committee to have seven (7) members, including one member each from the Board of Selectmen, Planning Board and the Board of Health. Said committee to report to the next Annual Town Meeting.
Motion made on this article failed to pass as shown by hand vote below. (Same tellers)
Hand vote. Total -120. Yes-55. No-65.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $729.33, the balance of the Julia L. McCarthy Elementary School Con- struction Account, to the Acton Elementary School Construction Account, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, Section 20 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To transfer the sum of $729.33, the balance of the Julia L. McCarthy Elementary School Construction Account, to the Acton Elementary School Construction Account, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, Section 20 of the General Laws.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift a parcel of land owned by Alden C. Flagg, containing approximately one acre, located in the Easterly part of Acton on the Northerly side of Pope Road and more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stake and stones at Pope Road at land now or formerly of Simon Hapgood; thence Westerly on said land now or formerly of Simon Hapgood about thirty-one (31) rods to a stake and stones; thence Northerly on land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler eight (8) rods to a stake and stones; thence Easterly on land now or formerly of Reuben Wheeler twenty (20) rods to a stake and stones at land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler; thence Southerly on said land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler seven (7) rods to a stake and stones; thence Easterly about eleven (11) rods to Pope Road; thence Westerly on said Pope Road one (1) rod to the point of beginning.
This land is a portion of the premises conveyed to Alden C. Flagg by deed of Lena A. Flagg which deed is dated June 18, 1943 and recorded
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in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 6687, Page 400, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To accept as a gift a parcel of land owned by Alden C. Flagg, containing approximately one acre, located in the Easterly part of Acton on the Northerly side of Pope Road and more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stake and stones at Pope Road at land now or formerly of Simon Hapgood; thence Westerly on said laand now or formerly of Simon Hapgood about thirty-one (31) rods to a stake and stones; thence Northerly on land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler eight (8) rods to a stake and stones; thence Easterly on land now or formerly of Reuben Wheeler twenty (20) rods to a stake and stones at land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler; thence Southerly on said land now or formerly of Franklin Wheeler seven (7) rods to a stake and stones; thence Easterly about eleven (11) rods to Pope Road; thence Westerly on said Pope Road one (1) rod to the point of beginning.
This land is a portion of the premises conveyed to Alden C. Flagg by deed of Lena A. Flagg which deed is dated June 18, 1943 and recorded in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 6687, Page 400.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds in the Treasury, the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, to be expended by the Archives Committee appointed by the Board of Selectmen acting under authority of Article 20 of the Special Town Meeting held on October 1, 1956, for the micro- filming, storage and preservation of Town documents and records, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to be expended by the Archives Committee appointed by the Board of Selectmen acting under authority of Article 20 of the Special Town Meeting held on October 1, 1956, for the microfilming, storage and preservation of Town documents and records.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept the gift of $3,000.00 to it under paragraph 6 of the will of Carrie F. Wells, late of Acton, and to see if the Town will accept the provisions contained in said paragraph, which reads as follows:
"Paragraph 6. To the Town of Acton the sum of $3,000.00 for additional perpetual care of our lot in Woodlawn Cemetery, and for the supplying of flowers for each Memorial Day on our graves, and the cleaning of the stone on said Lot when necessary."
Voted Unanimously: To accept the gift of $3,000.00 to the Town of Acton under Paragraph 6 of the Will of Carrie F. Wells, late
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of Acton and that the Town vote to accept the provisions contained in said Paragraph which reads as follows:
"Paragraph 6. To the Town of Acton the sum of $3,000.00 for additional perpetual care of our lot in Woodlawn Cemetery, and for the supplying of flowers for each Memorial Day on our graves, and the cleaning of the stone on said Lot when necessary."
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Cemetery Commissioners to purchase or otherwise acquire for cemetery purposes a tract of land believed to belong to Pauline A. Mead, adjoining and near the Mount Hope Cemetery, containing approximately 29 acres as shown on a plan entitled "Land in West Acton Surveyed for Hobart E. Mead by Horace F. Tuttle, 1922"; and to see if the Town will appro- priate a sum of money therefor to be provided by taxation, by appropria- tion from available funds in the Treasury, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted Unanimously: To authorize the Cemetery Commissioners to purchase for the Town for Cemetery purposes a tract of land with all rights appurtenant thereto and with the trees thereon believed to belong to Pauline A. Mead situated adjoining the Mount Hope Cemetery. This property contains 29 acres and is shown as the Coffin Lot A, Coffin Lot B, and the Holton Lot on a Plan entitled "Land in West Acton surveyed for Hobart E. Mead by Horace F. Tuttle, 1922". This property is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound at land now or formerly of Richardson; thence turning and running South 36° 30' West along land of Mount Hope Cemetery a distance of Seven hundred ninety- eight and sixty hundredths (798.60) feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running North 55° West along said land of the Mount Hope Cemetery a distance of Five hundred eleven and five tenths (511.5) feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running South 30° 45' West along land now or formerly of Whitcomb and Wetherbee a distance of Five hundred sixty-one (561) feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running South 60° 45' West along land now or formerly of Wetherbee a distance of Four hundred ninety-three and thirty-five hundredths (493.35) feet to a point; thence turning and running South 271/4° West along land now or formerly of Wetherbee a distance of One hundred ninety-one and forty hundredths (191.40) feet to a point; thence turning and running South 20° East along land now or formerly of Whitcomb a distance of Ninety-nine (99) feet to a point; thence turning and running South 12° East along land now or formerly of Whitcomb a distance of Three hundred sixty-three (363) feet to a point; thence turning and running South 33° East along land now or formerly of Houghton a distance of One hundred thirty-two (132) feet to a point; thence turning and running South 741/5° East along land now or formerly of Houghton a distance of One hundred fifty and forty-eight hundredths (150.48) feet to a point; thence turning
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and running North 36° 15' East along land now or formerly of Sisson a distance of One thousand two hundred sixty and sixty hundredths (1,260.60) feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running South 57° 15' East along land now or formerly of Sisson a distance of Seven hundred (700) feet to a stake and stones; thence turning and running North 32° 45' East along land now or formerly of Sisson a distance of Two hundred eighty-three (283) feet more or less to a point at Fort Pond Brook; thence turning and running in a Northwesterly and a Northeasterly direction along said Fort Pond Brook a distance of Nine hundred thirty-seven and five tenths (937.5) feet more or less to a point at said Fort Pond Brook; thence turning and running North 51° 15' West along land now or formerly of Richardson a distance of Four hundred ten (410) feet more or less to the point of beginning.
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