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119. Net Department Expense
6,680.00
6,951.00
7,192.00
Conservation Commission
120. Department Expenses
600.00
121. Conservation Fund
3,000.00
Total
3,600.00
Town Debt
122.
Notes
133,000.00
131,000.00
162,054.00
123. Certification of Notes
6.00
38.00
50.00
124. Interest
69,398.00
66,031.00
76,995.00
Total
202,404.00
197,069.00
239,099.00
Insurance
125.
Vehicles
2,256.00
2,709.00
2,759.00
126.
Workmen's Compensation
4,556.00
5,365.00
9,411.00
127. Fire
5,116.00
3,838.00
5,657.00
128.
Boiler
2,183.00
129.
Group
8,754.00
9,602.00
10,000.00
Total
22,865.00
21,514.00
27,827.00
130.
Town Report
1,684.00
1,638.00
2,200.00
131. Town Clock
151.00
385.00
150.00
132. County Retirement
8,828.00
9,261.00
11,925.00
133. Stabilization Fund
5,000.00
5,000.00
20,000.00
134. Reserve Fund
4,949.00
4,677.00
10,000.00
Total
20,612.00
20,961.00
44,275.00
Grand Total-Article 3
1,061,598.00 1,306,930.00
Unclassified
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1963, 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
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of less than one year in accordance with Chapter 44, Section 17, General Laws.
Article 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector to use all means in the collection of taxes as the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money in Road Machinery Fund to Highway Operation Account to defray the expense and the operation and maintenance of Highway Machinery.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,200.00 for the reconstruction and resurfacing of Main Street (Route 109); said money to be used with funds allotted by the County and State, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $7,839.06 from funds received, or to be received, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 782 of the Acts of 1962 for the purpose of improving and widening Main Street (Route 109).
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money and appropriate it to the Street Improvement Account; said funds to be expended for the reconstruction of a section of Forest Street and a section of Granite Street, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds the sum of $1,987.00 for the pur- pose of replacing a culvert under Main Street between Hartford and Nebo Streets, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the unex- pended balance of $247.80 voted under Article 9 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1962 (Curve Street Guard Fence), and raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,752.20 for the purpose of installing 485 feet of Guard Fence on the westerly side of the overhead railroad crossing on Curve Street, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow a sum of money for the purpose of installing permanent bounds on various pub- lic ways, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow a sum of money and appropriate it to a Street Resurfacing Account; said funds to be expended for the resurfacing of Nebo Street, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the sum of $2,600.00 for the purchase of a self-unloading Sand Spreader for the use of the Highway Department, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to transfer an unex- pended balance of $1,739.18 voted under Article 12 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1962 (Front End Loader) and raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the further sum of $2,485.82, a total of $4,225.00 for the purchase of a Backhoe Attach- ment for the Fordson Major Tractor, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds the sum of $2,224.00 for the pur- pose of paying land damages arising from the relocation of Harding Street, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to petition the Boston Edison Company to install street lights on the following named streets, or do or act anything in relation thereto:
6 lights-Forest Street
6 lights-Kenney Road
3 lights-Pine Grove Road
1 light-Kingsbury Drive and Bartlett Avenue
1 light-Pine Grove Road and Bartlett Avenue
(Petitions)
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept as public ways the following named streets, or parts thereof, viz:
Marlyn Road, Bow Street, Hearthstone Drive, Hillcrest Road, Juniper Lane, Alder Road, Scott Road, Maplewood Road, Cedar Lane and Forest Lane,
as laid out by the Board of Selectmen on February 5, 1963 and shown on plans referred to in the several Orders of Layout and on file with the Town Clerk's Office and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by eminent domain or otherwise such rights, titles and ease- ments, including drainage easements, as may be necessary to accom- plish such purpose, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Board of Selectmen)
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the sum of $4,866.00 to increase the fallout protection factor of the basement area of the Medfield Fire Station to four or better and increase the number of spaces available for shelter purposes, or do or act anything in rela- tion thereto. (Selectmen)
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Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the sum of $11,066.00 to increase the shelter capacity of the basement area of the Dale Street School, or do or act anything in relation theerto. (Se- lectmen)
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 17B . of Chapter 180 of the General Laws, permitting payroll deduction on payroll schedules for contributions to a Community Chest or United Fund, or take any other action relating thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds a sum of money to purchase a 1963 motor vehicle for use as a Police Cruiser and authorize the Board of Selectmen to trade or sell the 1961 cruiser, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds a sum of money to purchase a Radar Timer for use by the Police Department, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to amend the By-Law adopted June 12, 1961 establishing minimum salaries to be paid to members of the Police Department, or do or act anything in relation thereto; By changing said By-Law to read as follows:
Section 1. Chief of Police
1st year of service $107.69 week or $5,600.00 per year. 2nd year of service $114.09 week or $5,932.68 per year. 3rd year of service $120.49 week or $6,265.48 per year. After third year $126.92 week or $6,600.00 per year.
Section 2. Sergeant
1st year of service $105.77 week or $5,500.00 per year. 2nd year of service $109.61 week or $5,700.00 per year. 3rd year of service $113.45 week or $5,900.00 per year.
Section 3. Patrolmen
1st year of service $82.30 week or $4,280.00 per year. 2nd year of service $86.73 week or $4,510.00 per year. 3rd year of service $91.15 week or $4,740.00 per year. 4th year of service $95.58 week or $4,970.00 per year. Over 4 years $100.00 per week or $5,200.00 per year.
All years of service to be computed from and on the anniversary date of entry into the police service or date of permanent promotion to higher office.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds a sum of money to be used to
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paint pavement markings of Public Ways, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following as a By-Law: "No transient person shall solicit funds for religious, charitable, veteran, or fraternal purposes or solicit subscriptions for periodicals or shall solicit purchase orders and deposits for restoration or permanent preservation of personal articles of intrinsic value or photographs or portraits within the Town of Medfield without first having registered his license number, organization, and business ad- dress and his true name, home address and date of birth with the Chief of Police or other officer having charge of the station house. Violation of this section will be punishable by a fine of not more than $25.00. (Police Department)
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the unex- pended balance of $1,735.00 voted under Article 22 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1962 (Base Station) and raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the further sum of $1,765.00 a total of $3,500.00 for the purpose of installing a Base Station and allied equipment at the Fire Station, or do or act anything in rela- tion thereto. (Fire Department)
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow a sum of money for the purchase of a 75 foot Aerial Ladder Truck, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Fire Department)
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a Portable Lighting Plant at the Fire Station. (Fire Department)
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds the sum of $830.00 to electrify and make the necessary repairs to the Town Clock, or do or act any- thing in relation thereto.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer from available funds and/or borrow the sum of $2,638.00 for the purpose of installing a complete new Howard Striker Tower Clock to replace the Town Clock, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 32. To hear and act on the report of any special com- mittee appointed at any previous Special Town Meeting or Annual Town Meeting or appointed by the Moderator or Selectmen as authorized by the vote of the Town.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following By-Law:
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Section 1. This By-Law shall be known and cited as "The Personnel, Wage and Salary Administration Plan" and is hereby adopted pursuant to the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 108A and 108C as amended.
Section 2. Under the Plan, there shall be a Personnel Board consisting of three members who shall be appointed by the Moderator acting in conjunction with the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen and the Chairman of the Finance Com- mittee. The term of office of members of the Personnel Board shall be three years; initial appointments to the Per -- sonnel Board shall be for the periods of one year, two years and three years respectively. No elected or appointed officer of the Town of Medfield and no person employed by the Town of Medfield shall be eligible for service upon the Personnel Board.
Section 3. Nothing in this By-Law shall be construed to be in conflict with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 31 as amended nor shall the salary of any person employed by or appointed to any position by the School Committee be affected by this By-Law.
Article 34. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to the Legal Department or to the Board of Selectmen for the purpose of having a study made of By-Laws adopted by the Town since 1900, having the same compiled and indexed, together with a study and indexing of those Chapters and Sections of the General Laws adopted by the Town of Medfield since 1900 and also including a study of the Rules, Regulations and Codes adopted by various Boards and Commissions of the Town of Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Town Counsel)
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to purchase, take by eminent domain or accept as a gift, a certain parcel of land situated on Mt. Nebo, so-called, containing 40,000 square feet of land and being shown on a "Plan of Proposed Standpipe Lot and Right of Way to be acquired by the Town of Medfield, Cheney Engineering Co., Needham, Mass., February 15, 1957", which plan is on file in the Office of the Water and Sewerage Board, said land to be used for water standpipe purposes, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the foregoing purpose, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Water Board)
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to purchase, take by eminent domain or accept as a gift from sundry owners an easement in, on, over and under several parcels of land shown as "Right of Way" on two certain plans drawn by Cheney Engineering Co., dated respectively February 15, 1957 and October 17, 1958 and both being on
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file in the office of the Water and Sewerage Board, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the foregoing purposes, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Water Board)
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to appoint one of its members as Water Superin- tendent, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Water and Sewer- age Board)
Article 38. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Assessors to appoint one of its members as Clerk, or do or act any- thing in relation thereto. (Board of Assessors)
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Health to appoint one of its members as Agent for the Board of Health, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Board of Health)
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Ceme- tery Commissioners to appoint one of its members as Superintendent, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Cemetery Commissioners)
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500, such sum to be used to initiate a program of surfacing the drives in Vine Lake Cemetery, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Cemetery Commissioners)
Article 42. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise, appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the Town Treasury to the Planning Board for the purpose of providing necessary secretarial help and for the preparation and dissemination of informa- tion in connection with the preparation of the Master Plan. (Plan- ning Board)
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to maintain the Dental Clinic operated in the schools under the direction of the Board of Health for the year 1963. (School Committee)
Article 44. To see if the Town, under Chapter 74, Section 8 of the General Laws, will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,600.00 to be expended for vocational education during the year 1963. (School Committee)
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $235.00 for retirement under the provisions of Chapter 708, Acts of 1941 as amended and Chapter 419, Acts of 1943 as amended relative to teachers entering Military Service. (School Committee)
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, the sum of $10,000.00 for the purchase
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by the Permanent Planning and School Building Committee of pre- liminary plans for additional secondary school facilities, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Permanent Planning and School Building Committee)
Article 47. To see what sums of Money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds to the Board of Park Commissioners for the purpose of installing certain capital improvements, additions and repairs to the Town's swimming facility off Green Street, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Park Commission)
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to disburse from its annual appropriation miscellaneous sums of money for entry fees, the purchase of prizes and awards and the like in connection with the participation of groups sponsored by the Commission in meets, contests and competitions both within and without the confines of the Town of Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Park Commission)
Article 49. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds to the Board of Park Commissioners for the purpose of constructing and equipping four new tennis courts and to see what instructions the Town will give said Board in connection therewith, or do or act any- thing in relation thereto. (Park Commission)
Article 50. To see what parcel of land presently owned by the Town of Medfield the Town will vote to transfer into and under the jurisdiction and control of the Board of Park Commissioners for the purposes of constructing, operating and maintaining tennis courts, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Park Commission)
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to increase the member- ship of the Board of Park Commissioners from three members to five members, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Park Commis- sioners)
Article 52. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to the Board of Health for the purchase and installation of 715 feet of wire fencing and 30 feet of wire gates, all to be 7 feet high, for the protection of the Town Dump, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Board of Health)
Article 53. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to the Conservation Commission for the acquisi- tion and purchase of certain vacant lands, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Conservation Commission)
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Article 54. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to the Conservation Fund under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5 (51), or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Conservation Commission)
Article 55. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to the Conservation Commission established under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 8C as amended and to determine what portion of such appropriation shall be placed in a Conservation Fund, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Conservation Commission)
Article 56. To see if the Town will vote to establish an Advisory Committee on Home Rule for the purpose of examining state-local relations and of reporting thereon to the Selectmen from time to time.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to establish a Recreation Program for Retarded Children and to raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Board of Selectmen)
Article 58. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds in the Town Treasury a sum of money to pay the following unpaid bill incurred in the year 1962:
O. A. Johnson and Co., Inc. $300.00
Article 59. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of five (5) members and authorize it to make arrangements and to spend money appropriated under Article 3 for the observance of Memorial Day. (Board of Selectmen)
Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from Available Funds a sum of money representing the County and State shares or parts thereof of Chapter 81 and Chapter 90 Highway reim- bursements from the State; said reimbursements to be repaid to Sur- plus Revenue, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 61. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of equipping the existing school building situ- ated at the corner of Adams and Dale Streets on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield, which said school was formerly used as a High School Building, and to determine whether funds shall be pro- vided for by an appropriation from Available Funds in the Town Treasury, and/or borrowing under the provisions and authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and/or borrowing under the provisions and authority of Chapter 275 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (School Planning and Building Com- mittee).
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Article 62. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Assessors to use a sum of money from Free Cash in the Treasury for the reduction of the 1963 Tax Rate, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
Angelakis Lot
50.00
Herbert B. Burr Lot
250.00
Giovanni Celli Lot
100.00
John A. Holmquist Lot
50.00
Edward Sheahan Lot
100.00
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 14th day of February A.D. Nineteen hundred and sixty-three.
JOSEPH A. ROBERTS
JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE
AUSTIN C. BUCHANAN
Selectmen of Medfield
ALLAN A. KINGSBURY,
Constable of Medfield
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
Medfield, Massachusetts February 25, 1963
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the inhabi- tants of the Town of Medfield qualified to vote in elections to meet at the time and for the purpose named by posting attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places at least seven days before the time of holding the meeting.
ALLAN A. KINGSBURY, Constable of Medfield
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING FOR THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS
March 4, 1963
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the meeting was opened at 12:00 o'clock noon by the Town Clerk with the reading of the warrant through Article 1. The ballot box had been previously checked and found to be in good working order, instructions to voters and specimen ballots posted at the entrance and within the polling place. The following persons were sworn in and assigned to their duties: Mary Mair Etienne and Alice Ripley, distributing ballots, Anne Young and Anne Donlan, checking at the ballot box, Thomas Clancy, Warden and John Gattoni, Deputy Warden in charge of the ballot box, Charles W. Keirstead, Clerk and Marie Burke, Deputy Clerk. The tellers for the counting of the ballots after the polls were closed were Hildegarde Munson, Evelyn Gronberg, Lorraine Ricci, Beatrice Bangs, Eileen Mc- Carthy, Joan Griffin, Viola Burr, Letitia McEleney Elizabeth Ekstrom, Mildred Rossi, Mary Hazel, Theresa Hagman, Mary Mair Etienne Gladys Clougherty, Marie Burke, Alice Hogan.
The polls were declared closed at 8:00 P.M.
The total vote cast was 1851 which was about 64.6 per cent of the 2864 registered voters. This was a record high vote for Town Elections.
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MODERATOR (One Year)
Charles F. Woodard Blanks
1617 234
TOWN CLERK (One Year)
Charles W. Keirstead 1751
Blanks ยท100
TRUSTEE OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY (One Year)
Robert E. Peters
1616
Blanks 235
CEMETERY COMMISSIONER (Two Years)
Theodore F. Suereth
1624
Blanks 227
SELECTMAN
(Three Years)
Joseph A. Roberts
823
Richard E. Fenton
80
Edward R. Perry
932
Blanks
16
TREASURER (Three Years)
Walter E. Anderson
1674
Scattered
4
Blanks
173
ASSESSOR (Three Years)
Carlton W. Kingsbury
1027
Walter L. Avery
787
Blanks
37
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY (Three Years)
Laura H. Smith 1540
1391
Sally A. Adams Blanks 771
118
MEMBERS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE (Three Years)
Walter N. Frank
1514
1524
Joseph H. Donahue Scattered
2
Blanks
662
MEMBER OF BOARD OF HEALTH (Three Years)
Madeleine I. Harding
1655
Scattered
1
Blanks
195
CEMETERY COMMISSIONER (Three Years)
1501
Joseph A. Roberts Scattered
4
Blanks
346
MEMBER OF WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD
(Three Years)
Harry R. Leighton
1655
Scattered
3
Blanks
193
MEMBER OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
(Three Years)
Warren C. Bois
1620
Blanks
231
MEMBER OF PARK COMMISSION (Three Years)
1248
Richard E. Fenton
518
Blanks
85
MEMBER OF PLANNING BOARD (Five Years)
William F. Rogers 1063
Burgess P. Stanley
735
Blanks 53
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Herbert E. Johnson
After the results were publicly announced, the ballots, tally sheets and master sheet were turned over to the Town Clerk for safe keep- ing as prescribed by law. A true copy attest:
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