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1.300.00
TOTAL GENERAL CONTROL
$ 12.947.00
Expenses of Instruction
Present Staff Salaries
$339,364.00
Additional Staff (7)
13,350.00
Sabbatical Leave Substitute
2,000.00
Substitute Teachers
3,000.00
Conferences and Travel
600.00
Related Insurance
480.00
Related Blue Cross - Blue Shield
5,856.00
Miscellaneous
1,000.00
TOTAL SALARIES
$365,650.00
Textbooks
Art
5 100.00
Business
385.00
English
1,495.00
Guidance
150.00
Home Economics
125.00
Industrial Arts
100.00
Languages
1,295.00
Mathematics
719.00
Music
148.00
Orientation
100.00
Physical Education
75.00
Remedial Reading
150.00
Science
960.00
Social Studies
1,062.00
Miscellaneous
1,500.00
TOTAL TEXTBOOKS S 8.364.00
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Instructional Supplies
Art
$ 1,300.00
Audio-Visual Aids
300.00
Business
150.00
English
100.00
Guidance
1,125.00
Home Economics
1,800.00
Industrial Arts
1,400.00
Mathematics
41.00
Music
883.00
Physical Education
660.00
Science
800.00
TOTAL SUPPLIES (Specific) ..
$ 8,559.00
Instructional Supplies (General)
$
3,500.00
TOTAL EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION ..
$386,073.00
Operation of Plant
Salaries
$ 16,220.00
Supplies
3,500.00
Fuel
8,000.00
Water
350.00
Gas
650.00
Electricity
6,400.00
Plowing
1,000.00
Telephones
1,500.00
Related Insurance
33.00
Related Blue Cross - Blue Shield
397.00
Miscellaneous
500.00
TOTAL OPERATION OF PLANT
$ 38,550.00
Maintenance of Plant
Instructional Equipment
S 1,200.00
General Maintenance Equipment
1,500.00
Replacements
800.00
Miscellaneous
300.00
TOTAL MAINTENANCE OF PLANT $ 3,800.00
Non-Instructional Services
Library
S 4,000.00
School Nurse
2,450.00
School Physician
400.00
Ear and Eye Tests
200.00
Health Supplies
150.00
Middlesex County Retirement System Assessment Insurance
2,000.00
4,100.00
Related Blue Cross - Blue Shield and Insurance
108.00
Miscellaneous
750.00
TOTAL AUXILIARY AGENCIES
$ 14,158.00
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Outlay
Tablet Armchairs $ 600.00
Tote Trays
60.00
Freezer for Home Economics
220.00
Music - Instruments and Equipment
1,161.00
Miscellaneous
400.00
TOTAL OUTLAY
5
2,441.00
Transportation
Pupil Transportation
$ 36,704.00
Field Trips
500.00
Contingencies
1,926.00
TOTAL TRANSPORTATION $ 39,130.00
Special Charges
70% Blanchard Auditorium 1962 Operating Expense
$ 6,370.00
Miscellaneous
$ 1,000.00
RECAPITULATION
Administration ** $ 12,947.00
Expenses of Instruction
386,073.00
Operation of Plant
38,550.00
Maintenance of Plant
3,800.00
Non-Instructional Services 14,158:00
Outlay 2,441.00
Transportation
39,130.00
Special Charges
6,370.00
Miscellaneous
1,000.00
TOTAL MAINTENANCE & OPERATION $504,469.00
Capital Cost, Debt Service $147,550.00
Non-Classified, School Athletic Fund $ 12,742.00
GRAND TOTAL
$664,761.00
Gross Operating Budget
$504,469.00
Less (1) Bal. of 1962 Oper. Budget S 2,668.41
(2) 1961-62 Transportation Reimbursement 24,714.00 27,382.41
$477.086.59
Debt Service
Interest
$ 37,550.00
Maturing Debt $110,000.00
Less: State Aid 65.400.00
S .44.600.00
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Non-Classified
School Athletic Fund
$ 12,742.00
$571.978.59
Apportionment of the Charges to be Assessed Against the Towns of Acton and Boxborough Year 1963
ACTON
*Operating Expenses, 91.8% of $465,096.59 ** $426,958.67
Cost of Transportation 31,104.00
Less Reimbursement (61-62) 19,314.00 11,790.00
Debt Service, 95% of $82,150.00 78,042.50
Non-Classified, 91.8% of $12,742.00 11,697.16
$528.+88.33
BOXBOROUGH
*Operating Expenses. 8.2% of $465,096.59 ** $ 38,137.92
Cost of Transportation 5,600.00
Less Reimbursement (61-62) 5,400.00
200.00
Debt Service, 5% of $82,150.00 4,107.50
Non-Classified, 8.2% of $12,742.00
1,044.84
$ 43,490.26
$571.978.59
* Acton Student Enrollment 10/1/62 842 Boxborough Student Enrollment 10/1/62 75
917
** Gross Operating Budget Less $2,668.41 (12/31/62 bal.) Less Combined Acton and Boxbo- rough Cost of Transportation (contract amounts) -36,704.00
$504,469.00 -2,668.41
$465,096.59
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ACTON-BOXBOROUGH REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
Treasurer's Report
December 31, 1962
Balance, December 31, 1961 ..... $233,945.01
Receipts, 1962:
Town of Acton $448,800.03
Town of Boxborough
38,760.18
State Aid for Construction 65,485.89
Federal Aid 31,421.71
Transportation Reimbursement 24,714.00
School Lunch 49,895.85
School Athletics
1,260.34
Federal Taxes
47,435.46
State Taxes
4,354.11
Teachers' Retirement 14,035.50
County Retirement
1,862.23
Teachers' Insurance 711.65
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
3,809.88
Group Life Insurance 426.36
United Fund
5.00
Tuition
200.00
Miscellaneous
939.40
Total Receipts
$734,117.59
Total
$968,062.60
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ACTON-BOXBOROUGH REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
Treasurer's Report December 31, 1962
Disbursements, 1962
Maintenance and Operation :
General Control $ 11,599.92
Expenses of Instruction
308,193.86
Operation of Plant
37,300.61
Maintenance
2,448.14
Auxiliary Agencies
16,255.64
Outlay
1,268.89
Transportation
35.753.16
Special Charges
5,880.00
Miscellaneous
354.37
School Lunch
48,140.64
School Athletics
4,455.63
Federal Taxes
47,435.46
State Taxes
4,312.36
Teachers' Retirement
14,035.50
County Retirement
1,862.23
Teachers' Insurance
711.65
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
3,809.88
Group Life Insurance
426.36
United Fund
5.00
Federal Aid
25,873.20
Land Acquisition
18,333.18
School Construction
135,757.31
Payment on Principal
110,000.00
Interest on Debt
40,745.00
Total Disbursements
$874,957.99
Balance, Dcember 31, 1962
93,104.61
:
$968,062.60
PRISCILLA FELT
Treasurer
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SECTION D
REPORT OF THE ARCHIVES COMMITTEE 96
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS 97
REPORT OF THE ACTON BUILDING COMMITTEE 97
REPORT OF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR 98
REPORT. OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS 99
REPORT OF THE ACTON CONSERVATION COMMISSION .. 100
CIVIL DEFENSE REPORT 102
REPORT OF DOG OFFICER 103
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ELIZABETH WHITE FUND 103
REPORT OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 103
ACTON ENINEERING DEPARTMENT 104
REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT 111
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE GOODNOW FUND 113
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH 113
REPORT OF THE TOWN NURSE 117
REPORT OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 119
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS 120
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF WIRES 121
REPORT OF THE INSURANCE COMMITTEE 121
LIBRARY REPORT 122
REPORT OF THE MOTH SUPERINTENDENT 124
REPORT OF THE PERSONNEL BOARD 124
REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD 125
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT 127
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC CEREMONIES AND CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE 130
PUBLIC WORKS STUDY COMMITTEE 137
REPORT OF RECREATION COMMISSION 138
REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 139
REPORT OF THE STREET LIGHT COMMITTEE 139
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS 140
REPORT OF THE FOREST COMMITTEE 142
REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN 142
REPORT OF THE VETERANS' AGENT 143
REPORT OF THE WELFARE BOARD
143
REPORT OF WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AGENT 145
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REPORT OF THE ARCHIVES COMMITTEE
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN: Acton, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
Archives Committee of the Town of Acton submits herewith its report for the year 1962.
The Committee has met several times during the year and, at the request of some Town Boards, as well as some of the citizens of the Town, have assisted in locating the needed information. The Commit- tee members also assisted in the 19th of April celebration held in Acton this past year.
The Town Vault in the South Acton Fire Station is now in use and most of all the inactive documents and papers of the several boards have been transferred there. By the use of this vault for this purpose it has opened up a large space in the Town Hall Vault for the current material.
It is planned soon after the first of the vear to have several volumes of records rebound, as well as to have microfilm work done this coming year.
Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK S. KENNEDY JOYCE H. WOODHEAD WARREN F. BIRCH
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen:
The Acton Board of Appeals held eight hearings during the year 1962 on the following matters: =
A. Permits for earth removal. :
Granted - 0: Denied - 1.
B. Permits for Specific Uses. Granted - 0; Denied - 1.
C. Variances from the requirements of the Protective Zoning By-Law.
Granted - 3: Denied, - 2.
D. Appeals from decision of the Board of Selectmen. Granted - 0; Denied - 0; Decision Pending - 1.
Respectfully submitted. CRAIG E. LUNDBERG WILLIAM C. SAWYER HAYWARD .S. HOUGHTON
REPORT OF THE ACTON BUILDING COMMITTEE
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen :
In the year 1962, the Acton Building Committee completed the four room addition to the Julia McCarthy School at a cost of ap proximately S117,500. The Architects Collaborative were engaged to prepare preliminary plans for a new twenty room classroom school to be located on Arlington Street. The preliminary plans have been drawn and approved by the Committee and a special Town Meeting has been called for January 21, 1963 to appropriate funds for final plans. It is expected that this school will cost approximately $1,111,000.
The Committee met during the year with the Library Trustees to discuss plans for a new library or an addition to the present one.
Preliminary plans have been discussed in connection with the location of a new Police Station and appropriate articles will be pre-
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sented at the Annual Town Meeting in March, 1963. The Committee spent countless hours investigating all available sites between Acton Center and Kelley's Corner. In conjunction with the Planning Board, the Committee is recommending to the Town that a site one-half way between Route 2 and Coughlin Street, on Main Street, be purchased. The land is available and the owner is willing to sell one-half acre and give a like amount to make up an acre site for the Police Station.
The Committee wishes to thank the other Town Boards and the citizens of the Town for their cooperation during 1962.
Respectfully submitted, LLOYD W. PRIEST, Chairman WARREN W. WHEELER KENNETH E. JEWELL ARNOLD H. MERCIER
*EDWIN RICHTER Acton Building Committee
* Representative from the School Committee
REPORT OF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Acton, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
I herewith respectfully submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1962.
Permits Issued
Areas
No. of Permits
Estimated Cost
Business
Business
13
$ 232,100.00
Apartments
1
30,000.00
Industrial
Industrial
10
298,800.00
Apartments
1
12,000.00
Motel (Addition)
1
70,000.00
Residential
Single Dwelling
117
2,088,100.00
Additions
60
102,335.00
Duplex Dwellings
26
512,000.00
Municipal
99,717.00
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Kindergarten
1
7,000.00
Religious Alterations
2
1,800.00
Total
233
$3,453,852.00
Expenses
Wages and Travel
3,845.25
Supplies
38.30
Total
$3,883.55
Fees Returned®
$379.50
Reciepts
Fees for Permits
$5,310.00
All receipts were turned over to the Town Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT E. FOSTER
Building Inspector
REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen :
We hereby submit the following report for the year ending De- cember 31, 1962.
The Cemetery department has received and paid into the treasury the sum of $3,060.98, which can be found itemized in the Treasurer's report, also the Collector's report will show that $479.50 was collected for the annual care of cemetery lots not under perpetual care.
The large circular stained glass window in the front of the Mem- orial Chapel has been repaired and returned to its place, also a heavy plate glass window has been placed on the outside of this window for its protection. The Chapel organ has been repaired and tuned recently and improvements have been made on the grounds surrounding the building. It is planned to have the roads around the Chapel oiled this coming year, all the cost of the above work and the oiling of the roads being taken care of by the Varnum Tuttle Fund.
Sometime between the hour of 4:30 P.M. November 28th and the morning of the 29th, some person or persons entered Mt. Hope
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Cemetery, in West Acton, and broke twenty-seven panes of glass in the windows of the Chapel, also they tried to set a fire to the building where the truck was garaged, luckily the fire burnt itself out. We wish to point out that this is a very serious offense and it is punishable under the law and the Police Department is still investigating this matter.
In view of this act of vandalism we have changed the Superinten- dent's office from Mt. Hope Cemetery to the Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery, where we feel that cemetery records will be much safer for the time being. For the time being the department truck is being garaged at the West Fire Station.
We have had the tool house (The Hearse House) which was in 1860 in Woodland Cemetery, painted, repaired and lights installed so that light repairs can be made to the equipment of the depart- ment. With the fire underwriters insisting on more fire proof buildings it will soon be necessary for this department to ask for funds to build a combination office, garage, repair shop, receiving vaults, etc. We feel that a suitable spot for this building would be next to the Morrison place on Concord Road on the land already owned by this department.
In closing, the Board wishes to thank the Clerical Staff at the Town Hall for their assistance and co-operation, the Police Department and also the employees of this department for their loyal support this past year.
Respectfully submitted, HARLAN E. TUTTLE HARRY E. HOLT HOWARD F. JONES Cemetery Commissioners
REPORT OF THE ACTON CONSERVATION COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR 1962
The second Annual Report of the Conservation Commission is herewith submitted. During the year 1962 the Commission met reg- ularly on the first Thursday of each month. The Commission was expanded to seven members as previously authorized at the Special Town Meeting of December 1961.
A major activity of the Commission was in the sponsorship of the Acton Conservation Trust. A public meeting was held in Mar, at which time a committee was formed to draw up the By-Laws of such a Trust. The By-Laws were accepted by an incorporating meeting on
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October 24th. These and other necessary papers were forwarded to the State House for approval as a non-taxable Incorporated Trust. Approval is expected early in 1963.
Preservation of the Isaac Davis Trail has occupied the Commission for much of the year. Interest in the Trail was clearly demonstrated on April 19th when an estimated 600 men, women and children from Acton and neighboring towns took part in the annual march. An accur- ate map of the Trail, as far as Great Road, was prepared (by the Plan- ning Board). Land owners along the Trail have been contacted by this Commission relative to preserving the Trail for the Town, and initial response has been encouraging. It is hoped that this portion of the Trail project can be completed in 1963.
Since the writing of the previous report, the 1962 Legislature has passed an amendment to a previous Bill which now directs the County Commissioners to lay out a public right of way to Fort Pond through land in either Acton or Littleton.
Other subjects of interest to the Town which are under con- sideration include :
The submission of a Flood-Plain Zoning By-Law to the Planning Board for their consideration.
Discussion of undesirable filling along certain town brooks and waterways, particulary Nashoba Brook.
Better public access to and use of Town forests, especially the forest located North of Route 2, near the site of the proposed Elementary School on Arlington Street.
Discussion of the Comprehensive Town Plan as applicable to conservation.
Respectfully submitted, ROBERT J. ELLIS, Chairman JOHN A. JEFFRIES, Jr. WILLIAM L. KINGMAN MRS. DAVID L. MAY JAMES M. SHEPARD DAVID P. TINKER THOMAS E. WETHERBEE
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CIVIL DEFENSE REPORT
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen :
During the past year, two Civil Defence lectures were given at the invitation of social groups within the town. Approximately thirty (30) pieces of various Civil Defence Publications were dis- tributed or mailed in response to specific inquiries. Fifteen hundred (1500) copies of Fallout Protection, pamplet H6, December 1961 issue, were distributed with the warrant for the special town meeting of December 17, 1962.
A survey of buildings in the Town of Acton to determine their usefulness as shelter spaces was conducted under the direction of the Corps of Engineers during the past year. This survey showed that there are no buildings that meet the necessary requirements to be marked or stocked as public fallout shelters. The buildings that were examined were lacking either in attenuation properties or in meeting minimum space requirements. Although the results of the survey were negative, attention is called to the suitability of shelter spaces within the many private homes in the Town of Acton and in particular those with base- ments. Information illustrating how basements and other areas in the home may be readily adapted as fallout shelters is available from your Acton Civil Defense Agency.
As a result of the Cuban crisis in October of last year, a sincere interest in Civil Defense was engendered in State officials and legis- lators. Governor John A. Volpe called a meeting of town and city officials in the Commonwealth and this meeting was attended by your selectmen and your director. Subsequent to this meeting, additional funds became available to the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency and several of its operations which had been curtailed or discontinued were reorganized. It is expected that the coming year will see a better and more active coordination of Civil Defense activities within the State and extending through its officers to the local level.
Respectfully Submitted JOHN F. MCLAUGHLIN, Director Acton Civil Defence Agency
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REPORT OF DOG OFFICER
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report for the year ending 1962.
Calls & Complaints investigated 198
Notices to owners of unlicensed dogs 215
Stray dogs picked up
37
Dogs disposed of
7
Dogs returned to owner
30
Respectfully submitted. CARL W. FLINT,
Dog Officer
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ELIZABETH WHITE FUND
For the Year Ending December 31, 1962
The Trustees of this fund have signed orders to the Town Treasurer totaling $800.00 (Eight hundred dollars).
Respectfully submitted. HAZEL P. VOSE, ELEANOR P. WILSON, HELEN B. WOOD, Trustees of the Elizabeth White Fund
REPORT OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
Gentlemen:
I hereby, respectfully submit my report for the year ending De- cember 31, 1962.
During that time the following work was done by the Engineering Department:
I. All routine work as more fully described in previous reports such as:
1. Inspecting subdivision roads and drains;
2. Checking new subdivision plans;
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3. Surveying and engineering for the acceptance of public ways:
4. Assisting and advising municipal agencies in engineering matters:
5. Revising»and up-dating town maps:
6. Laving out and drawing up drain easements.
II. Specific projects as requested and authorized :
1. Field location work, preparatory for the laving out of the fol- lowing unsurveved roads:
a.) Piper Road
b.) Parker Street
c.) Minot Avenue
d.) Forest Road
2. Topographic survey of 28 acres of land purchased by the Town of Acton for School purposes:
3. Designing drainage system for Central and Willow Streets in West Acton and supervising the installation of the 1962 work phase:
4. Working on Assessor's Maps:
5. Supervising the construction of a +-classroom addition to the Julia McCarthy Elementary School:
6. Preliminary layout design for the remodeling of the Acton Town Hall:
My thanks go to all the citizens and citizens groups and to the members of the Town Administration for their co-operation, help and constructive criticism and I express the hope that the year 1963 will sec an even greater utilization of the services that the Engineering Depart- ment can, and is willing to, provide.
Respectfully submitted. FRED K. HANACK
Town Engineer
ACTON ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Who hasn't, at one time or the other, let his memories slip back into the past: back into those years of happy youth from which only the bright and gay moments seem to have survived and from which all those sad intervals have been veiled by a curtain of gracious for- getting? We all have! And aren't all those pictures of memories always filled with the beauty of the land, its forests and apple orchards, its ripe corn fields and its meadows roaming with cattle; or the steeple of the village church in its white splendor reaching into the blue eternity
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of the morning sky; or the majestic wonders of our New England foliage knitted like a carpet of miracles: or the gay laughter of children diving and swimming in one of the numerous little creeks or puddles that nature so abundantly has dotted onto our land: or a vellow light beam from a kitchen window being reflected by the silent white of a thick blanket of snow as it covers God's nature as well as man's efforts?
Those are our memories; but how little is left of the things remembered? Cattle no longer roam the pastures, apple orchards have given way to subdivisions: meadows been filled, streets widened to accomodate the ever-growing traffic volume, and high-power tension wires cut across the face of the land of our memories to feed the needed industry as well as make possible the conveniences that all of us are accustomed to.
This change is part of growth, just as it is part of our lives. We all know the reasons for this change and we know the inevitable effects of it. even though we sometimes pretend that they do not exist. because we don't want to see them as we close our eyes. Still, life goes on and the sounds of hammers and saw's are the elairons of that change.
These years of rapid transition from a purely agricultural com- munity into a suburban satellite are the most drastic and dramatic ones. Drastic, because they pose problems of material changes, and dramatic because they require changes in attitudes and prevailing modes. Both of these types of changes can only be successfully mastered through ambitious and honest-to-goodness participation in the munici- pal affairs by every citizen in the Town, however diversified and per- sonal his attitude may be.
It is especially gratifying to see that both, the Board of Selectmen and the Planning Board, had the clear vision of these changes at an early time, and that they brought them into the focus of public atten- tion, at the same time calling for guidance in the mastering of these growth problems before they became nuisances.
For this reason the Planning Board in 1954 retained the services of Mr. Roger Hilton, on a part-time basis, to aid and assist the Board in its task to provide a harmonious and intergrated growth. The selec- tion of Mr. Hilton for the job of part-time agent of the Planning Board was eminently wise since he brought with him over 20 years of experience as County Engineer and well-reputed surveyor. During that time Rules and Regulations were adopted which set minimum standards for new subdivisions. In 1959 the Planning Board hired Charles Downe Associates, municipal planners, for the job of evalu- ating the, Town and to draw up a guide for the further integrated growth of the Town. This job was completed in 1961 with the publication of the Master Plan. Also in 1961, another report was
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submitted to the Town, the Fort Pond Brook drainage study, by Fay, Spofford and Thorndike, of Boston.
All these plans, rules and recommendations needed follow-up, inspection and implementation, and soon it became evident that the earlier make-shift operation through part-time inspection was unsatisfactory. Therefore, in 1960 the Town, at the Annual Town Meeting, vote'd to establish an Engineering Department. Based on this vote, the Board of Selectmen, on September 6, 1960, hired Mr. Fred K. Hanack for the job of Town Engineer, to work under the authority of the Board of Selectmen. Fred Hanack is a graduate of the Berlin Polytechnical Institute with a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering, and he holds a Masters Degree in Business Admini- stration from Northeastern University. He is a Registered Engineer in Massachusetts and has head several professional jobs of responsible nature with engineering and construction firms, such as Geo. A. Fuller Co., Anderson-Nichols and Co., Metcalf and Eddy; Cabot, and Cabot Forbes Assoc., totalling 7 years before coming to Acton. He holds mem- bership in the American Society of Civil Enginers (where he belongs to the Legislative Counsel of the local Chapter), in the American Institute of Planners and in the Massachusetts Society of Municipal Engineers.
Since one man alone can really not satifactorily do any surveying work (unless he has an extremely long arm) the Department soon added Mr. Lewis L. Bowker, Jr. to its staff. Lewis Bowker is a graduate of the New York Ranger School and has practiced surveying for over 10 years partially as employee and partially as employer himself. He is a Registered Land Surveyor in New York and Massachusetts and is a member of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping. During last year's summer vacation, a college student was hired as a rodman. It is hoped that this practice can be maintained for many years and that through long-range scheduling of the work load the need for such a full-time position can be postponed.
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