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Maude M. Stone
52.00
$ 95.17
Surety Bond
Dea Ins. Co. $ 79.20
$ 79.20
All other
Dues $ 3.00
Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds 20.00
$ 23.00
Assessors $ 597.37
Salaries
C. M. Rood, Chairman $ 125.00
L. Szczuka
100.00
86
FINANCIAL REPORTS
W. F. Brennan 100.00
Dorothy Day, Clerk 75.00
S 400.00
Printing, postage & stationery
Dorothy Day $
5.92
Hobbs & Warren
26.20
C. M. Rood
7.00
$ 39.12
Valuation Books
Barre Gazette $ 183.60
S 183.60
Abstracts
Worc. County Abs. Co.
$
60.19
$ 60.19
Dues
$ 9.00
$ 9.00
691.91
Planning Board
None
None
Town Clerk
Salary
Dorothy P. Day $ 150.00
$ 150.00
Recording Fees
Dorothy P. Day $ 12.00
$ 12.00
Printing, stationery & postage
Dorothy P. Day $ 25.98
No. Brookfield News
11.75 $ 37.73
Surety Bond Healy Bros. $ 10.00
$ 10.00
All other
Dues
$
11.50
Narcus Brocs.
5.25
$ 16.75
Legal Expenses $ 226.48
Recording Deed - Cemetery Igoe & Beaudette $ 20.80
$ 20.80
87
EXPENDITURES
Legal Services - Land Takings Igoe & Beaudette $ 150.00
Retainer Fee
$ 150.00
Igoe & Beaudette $ 50.00
$
50.00
$ 220.80
Elections and Registrations
Salaries and wages Election officers
Annual
Town Meeting $ 57.00
$ 57.00
Registering Voters
Dorothy P. Day $ 7.00
$ 7.00
Printing, stationery & postage
Barre Gazette $ 29.75 $ 29.75
All other
Claire M. Glendye, Census $ 55.00
$ 55.00
$ 148.75
Memorial Hall Maintenance
Salaries and Wages
Chas. M. Casault $ 134.50
$ 134.50
Electricity
Mass. Electric Co. $ 529.26
$ 529.26
Janitor's supplies $ 26.60
$ 26.60
Repairs
Herrick Welding $ 7.50 $
7.50
Insurance
I. E. Irish, Inc. $ 183.94
Krussell Ins. Agency 251.92
$ 435.86
$
1,133.72
Total expended for General Government $ 4,812.93
88
FINANCIAL REPORTS
PUBLIC SAFETY Police Department
Salaries and Wages
Officers' Wages $ 295.00 $ 295.00
Equipment & Repairs Radio, parts and service A. R. Grenier $ 310.79
Mac's TV Shop 18.90 $ 329.69
Insurance
Krussell Ins. Ag'cy $ 62.50
$ 62.50
All other
L. R. Berger
$ 12.16
$ 12.16
$
699.35
Fire Department
Salaries and Wages None
$ 0.00
Equipment and Repairs
Apparatus
David Deane $
24.50
Gordon Lowell 48.88
Bennie Cotton
99.84
$ 173.22
Gasoline
Fay's Esso
$
11.34
C. S. Lyman & Sons
78.15
$ 89.49
All other
City Auto Parts $ 88.24
Green Electrical Co. 26.45
Lyman TV Appliances
7.80
Hardy's Garage
31.68
George G. Richards
8.00
American Plumbing & Heating 54.30
Walter St. George
2.00
Farrar Co. 67.95
Worc. Co. Bldg. Supply
12.75
Elwin Whitman
23.50
Industrial Supply 3.45
Kelly Square Tire Co.
66.65
89
EXPENDITURES
Worc. Co. Welding Sup. 12.75 David Deane 38.75
$ 444.27
Fuel
Stone's Oil Service $ 324.60 $ 324.60
Light
Mass. Elec. Co. $ 110.08
$ 110.08
Telephone
N. E. T. & T. Co. $ 340.60
$ 340.60
Insurance
Krussell Ins. Agcy. $
802.48
$ 802.48
Building and Ground
Gordon Lowell $ 29.95
Wirthmore Stores,, Inc. 23.45
$ 53.40
All Other
David Deane $ 112.00
Gordon Lowell
13.05
Dues
5.00
Worcester County Welding Supply 21.60
R. H. Donnelly Corp. 7.00 $ 158.65
$ 2,496.79
Resuscitator
David Deane $ 495.00 $ 495.00
Civil Defense
Building Supplies
Heald Building Supplies $ 48.65
$ 48.65
Sealer of Weights & Measures
Salary
Frederick G. Stone $ 20.00
$ 20.00
Inspection of Wires
Salary
LeRoy D. Spinney
$
25.00
$ 25.00
90
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Dog Officer
Care of dogs, mileage etc. Waclaw Smichinski $ 82.50 $
$ 82.50
Insect Pest Control
Poison Ivy Control
Walter P. Harrington
$
100.00
$ 100.00
Dutch Elm Disease Control
Labor
H. Roscoe Crawford $ 32.00
$ 32.00
Equipment
H. Roscoe Crawford 262.50
J. & L. 230.00
Jamara Bros. 126.00 $ 618.50 1
4
$ 650.50
Tree Warden
All Other
Brewer Tree Experts $ 50.00
Barre Gazette 8.80
H. Roscoe Crawford 56.00 $ 114.80
$ 114.80
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
Krussell Insurance Agency $ 906.35 $ 906.35
Total Public Safety
5 638.94 $
HEALTH AND SANITATION Board of Health
General Administration
Dues $ 3.00
Barre Gazette 14.50
Everett A. Kettell . 4.70
$ 22.20
Town Dump $ 22.20
Bulldozing
Sumner J. Crawford $ 164.50 S 164.50 S 164.50
91
EXPENDITURES
Inspection of Animals
Salary
Henry W. Stone, Jr. $ 35.00
$ 35.00
Inspection of Slaughtering
Salary
Henry W. Stone, Jr.
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
Total Health and Sanitation $ 246.70
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Hourly Rates
Labor
Superintendent $2.25
Equipment Operators
2.00
Mason
3.00
Laborers
1.70
Loader, 2 yd. 9.00
Roller, 12 ton
10.00
Sander, 6 yd.
8.50
Sander, 5 yd. 6.00
Shovel 3/4 yd. 12.00
Bulldozer, 3 ton 7.00
Bulldozer, 5 ton 9.50
Tractor loader
2.00
Truck, 12 ton 6.50
Truck, 3 ton
1.60
Truck, 10 ton
6.00
Plows
.50
Mixer 1.00
* Includes operator.
Hired Equipment*
Backhoe $ 8.00
Sweeper 10.00
Grader, 12 ton 10.00
Town Equipment
Brush Cutter $.75
Sander, Automatic
.40
Saw, Chain .75
92
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Chap. 81M Chap. 90M
Chap. 90C
Chap. 782 Snow & Sand
Totals
Paid To
Labor and Supervision Supervision Operators
$ 1,516.50 $
256.50
$ 956.26 $
321.75 $ 1,622.25 $ 4,673.25
1,393.00
208.00
910.00
286.00
1,334.00
4,131.00
Labor
1,329.40
217.60
827.90
345.00
790.50
3,510.00
Clerk
100.00
15.00
65.00
15.00
50.00
245.00
Totals
$ 4,338.90 $
697.10
$ 2,759.15 $
967.85 $ 3,796.75 $12,559.75
Town Equipment
Brush Cutter
$ 15.75
$
15.75
Sander, Automatic
6.40
$ 61.60
68.00
Saw, Chain
26.25
26.25
Tractor, loader
720.00 $
16.00
$
224.00
808.00
1,768.00
Truck, 3 ton
902.40
193.60
$ 20.00
180.80
737.60
2,034.40
Plows
27.50
27.50
Totals
$ 1,670.80 $
209.60
$ 20.00 $
404.80 $ 1,634.70 $ 3,939.90
Hired Equipment
Blake, Raymond
$ 108.00
$
87.00
$
195.00
C. B. Cleaners
130.00
130.00
Crawford, Sumner
665.00 $
168.00
833.00
Gray, Harold
617.50
$ 1,346.50
1,964.00
Herbert Charles
48.00
88.00
136.00
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Chap. 81M Chap. 90M Chap. 90C Chap. 782 Snow & Sand
Totals
Holbrook, Joseph
54.00 370.00
795.50
42.50
127.50
78.00 1,335.50 30.00
Miller, John
30.00
McCarthy, Sherman
171.00
171.00
Parsons, James
812.50
812.50
Rossi, Arthur
90.00
48.00
100.00
238.00
Sykes, Edgar
201.50
792.00
517.50
68.00
1,579.00
Walker, Ronald
48.00
48.00
Willard, John
24.00
72.00
96.00
Young, R. T.
2,262.50
452.00
3,324.50
2,127.50
3,067.25
11,233.75
Zelnia, Joseph
10.00
10.00
Totals
$ 3,905.50 $ 1,343.50
$ 5,948.00 $ 2,955.50 $ 4,737.25 $18,889.75
Paid To:
Materials
Curtis, R. T.
$ 6.75
$ 4.00
$ 10.75
Dean Co., Inc.
1,265.94 $ 2,445.67
152.24 $
434.06
4,297.91
Girouard, J. N.
260.00
260.00
Hanson, Eugene
16.71
16.71
Hardwick Farmers, Inc.
94.50
$ 24.35
118.85
Holden Trap Rock Co.
359.74
489.45
40.66
89.58
979.43
Howe & Whitney
15.00
15.00
Int. Salt Co.
100.50
1,313.43
1,413.93
Jamara Bros.
767.83
615.66
1,699.11
3,082.60
93
EXPENDITURES
24.00
Jamara Bros .
94
Jandris, Adolph
69.25
604.00
Malleable Iron
53.00
122.04
Miller, John
16.55
16.55
N. E. Metal Culv. Co.
295.17
1,574.76
1,869.93
Ostiguy, Harvey
350.00
350.00
Rice & Gadaire
1.80
$
1.80
3.60
Rutherford, Willard
32.00
32.00
Stone's Oil Service
18.11
36.34
54.45
Worcester Foundry
42.57
174.24
216.81
Young, R. T.
26.40
17.40
4.80
9.00
57.60
Zelnia, James
7.55
7.55
Zelnia, Walter
70.40
70.40
Zukus, William
94.05
361.50
455.55
Total Materials Grand Totals
$ 3,289.49 $ 3,749.80
$13,199.69 $ 6,000.00
$ 3,312.29 $ 794.44 $ 3,036.89 $14,177.91 $12,039.44 $ 5,122.59 $13,205.59 $49,567.31
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Chap. 81M Chap. 90M
Chap. 90C
Chap. 782 Snow & Sand
Totals
673.25 175.04
95
EXPENDITURES
HIGHWAYS Machinery Account and Highway Department
Mach. Acct.
Highway Dept. Total
Paid To
Maintenance of Equipment
Bleiler, E. J.
$
622.91
$ 622.91
Christie & Thompson
35.95
35.95
City Auto Parts
62.62
62.62
Gordon & Sons
325.23
325.23
Griffin, Robert
20.00
20.00
Herrick Welding
186.10
186.10
Harr Motor
80.08
80.08
Klem Tractor Sales
133.50
133.50
Varney's Garage
188.60
188.60
Totals
$ 1,654.99 $
0.00 $ 1,654.99
Lights, fuel, etc.
Bentley, W. R.
$ 848.27
$ 848.27
Mass. Elec. Co.
22.56
22.56
N. E. T. & T. Co.
170.59
170.59
Radio Oil Co.
173.41
173.41
Stone's Oil Service
18.07
18.07
Lane John
3.60
3.60
Totals
$,1,043.35 $
193.15 $ 1,236.50
Insurance
Krussell Ins. Agency
$
41.55 $
340.28 $
381.83
Mintz, Chase & Kingsbury
30.00
30.00
Totals
$
41.55 $
370.28 $
411.83
Equipment
Beard Motors
$ 298.44
$ 298.44
Blake, George F.
9.32
9.32
Cotton, Bennie
204.00
204.00
Files Equipment Co. Brush Cutter
253.93
Misc.
49.31
303.24
Kelly Sq. Tire Co.
39.95
39,95
Tri County Supply
511.96
511.96
Waite Hardware
$
7.68
7.68
Totals
$ 1,366.91 $
7.68 $ 1,374.59
96
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Supplies
Bigelow Waste
$ 41.79
$ 41.79
Quigley, R. T.
108.95
108.95
Goldstein & Gurwitz
14.26
14.26
$ 165.00 $
0.00 $
165.00
Building & Maintenance
Rice & Gadaire
$ 73.23 $
73.23
Grand Totals $ 4,271.80 $
644.34 $ 4,916.14
Purchase of New Equipment
Automatic Sander Tri County Supply Co.
$ 2,645.00
S 2,645.00
Chevrolet 6100 Truck
Beard Motors
$ 2,200.00
S 2,200.00
Vacation Pay
Harold Gray, Superintendent $ 180.00
James Zelnia, Operator
160.00
$ 340.00
Street Lights
Mass. Electric Co.
$ 555.98
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$ 555.98
Land Taking Appraisals
and Land Damages
Milton O. Fountain
$ 100.00 450.00
Atty. Arnold W. Olson
$ 550.00
Total Streets and Highways
$ 60,774.43
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND VETERANS' SERVICES Public Assistance - Town Account
Old Age Assistance
Cash Grants
$
3,426.20
Medical Aid,
board and care
173.15
Paid other Cities & Towns City of Worcester 388.17
$ 3,987.52 S 3,987.52
97
EXPENDITURES
Disability Assistance
Aid to Dependent Children
None None
Medical Aid for Aged
Allowances $ 195.00
Nursing Homes
2,041.45
Hospitals 2,731.77
Physicians Fees 60.00
Medical Supplies
112.45
$ 5,140.67
$
5,140.67
General Relief
Groceries & Provisions
Town of Spencer $ 18.00
Town of Ware 74.00
Trifilo's Market
10.00
$ 102.00
Medicine & Medical Attendance
Worc. City Hosp. $ 99.70
City of Worcester 477.40 $ 577.10
Cash Grant
City of Worcester $ 128.70 $ 807.80
Administration Quaboag Welfare District
400.00
$
400.00
$
10,335.99
Public Assistance - Federal Account
Old Age Assistance
Cash Grants $ 8,153.05
Medical Payments 1,005.10
$ 9,158.15
Aid to Dependent Children
Cash Grants $ 394.15
Medical Payments 5.00
$
399.15
Medical Aid for the Aged
Allowances $ 298.00
Nursing Homes 2,061.85
Hospitals 1,040.00
Physicians Fees 40.00
Medical Supplies 205.65
98
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Ambulance Service 15.00
$ 3,660.50
13,217.80 S
Veterans' Service
Wages and Salaries Anthony A. Lupa $ 45.00
Ordinary Allowances Various Persons 110.00
Fuel
Crowley Coal Co $ 60.00
Cash allowance for fuel 35.00
$ 95.00
Medical Aid
Memorial Hospital
$ 388.57
Groceries
Rodzik's Foodliner
20.00 $ 658.57
Total Public Assistance and Veterans' Services $
24,212.36
SCHOOLS and LIBRARY SCHOOLS
General Administration
Salaries
School Comm. $ 125.00
Superintendent 318.58
Clerk, Supt's Office 467.03
Travel Expenses 596.92
School Census 15.00
Elem. Supervision 295.90
All other 112.68
$ 1,931.11
Salaries, Teachers
Rinehart System $ 250.00
Elementary 21,896.77
Special Teachers
3,341.31
Substitute 450.21
$ 25,938.29
Text Books and Supplies
NEDA Title 3 $ 442.89
Text and Reference Books 771.13
99
EXPENDITURES
Supplies
663.77
$ 1,877.79
Tutition
High School Wachusett Regional $ 16,229.23
No. Brookfield 6,309.52
Spencer 414.40
$ 22,953.15
Vocational High City of Worcester $
563.12
$ 563.12
Evening School
City of Worcester $ 43.20
$ 43.20
Transportation
High School $ 10,126.60
Elementary
10,192.00
Vocational 288.40
$ 20,607.00
Expenses to Meetings
$
72.60
Janitor's Services Center School $ 1,200.00
Fuel and Light
Stone's Oil Service $
1,072.22
Maintenance of Building
Repairs $ 1,512.62
Janitor's Supplies 202.03
All other
196.36
$ 1,911.01
Furniture and Fittings Milton Bradley Co. Desks $
643.16
All other 97.74
$ 740.90
Rent - School Union Office Holden Trowel Club $ 58.00
Diplomas, Etc. $ 4.00
School Health
Physician $ 100.00
Nurse
803.86
All other
75.52
$ 979.38 $ 79,951.77
100
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Regional School District Planning Committee
Printing, stationery and postage
Dorothy P. Day $ 7.60
Barre Gazette 14.50
Barre Offset Printing 5.00
$ 27.10
$ 27.10
Quabbin Regional School District Committee
Oakham's Share Operating Fund Quabbin Regional School Dist. $ 168.66
Committee Members Expenses Mary H. Parsons 43.52
$ 212.18
School Lunch
Salaries and Wages
Daisy Widing
$ 1,520.00
Supplies
Various Persons $ 2,642.53 $
4,162.53
Library
Trustees Salaries
$ 45.00
Librarian's Wages & Salary
Dorothy V. Lupa
$ 772.50
Custodian's Wages
Winthrop Boyd
$ 100.00
Books and Periodicals
Books $
217.78
Periodicals
68.62
$ 286.40
Fuel
Stone's Oil Service
$ 433.17
Electricity
Mass. Elec. Co.
$
56.06
Repairs
McDonald &
Donovan $ 91.25
All other
17.50
$ 108.75
Telephone
N. E. T. & T. Co.
$ 11.69
Install Heating System
$
41.85
Supplies
All other
45.28
$ 1,900.70
101
EXPENDITURES
Library Trust Funds Stone's Oil Service $ 1,500.00
$
1,500.00
Total Schools and Library
$ 87,754.28
RECREATION and UNCLASSIFIED Wright Park Facilities
Repair Infield
Holden Trap Rock Co. $ 33.95
$ 33.95
Wright Park Maintenance
Repair Infield
Holden Trap Rock Co. $ 33.85
Cutting Grass Ronald Casault 65.00
$ 98.85
4-H Club
Materials and Supplies
Alice Foley
$
27.62
Ed Foley 4.25
Frances Salminen
1.09
Helen Breault
2.75
$ 35.71
Expenses to Meetings
Eva Grimes $
46.30
Worc. County Extension 7.50 $ 53.80
Care of Town Common $ 89.51
Cutting Grass
Ronald Casault
$
75.00
Care of Town Clock $ 75.00
Insurance
Krussell Insurance Agency
$
42.87
$
42.87
RECREATION and UNCLASSIFIED Worcester County Retirement
Worcester County Treasurer
$
878.21
$ 878.21
Bicentennial Celebration
Plaque for Memorial Oak
Persons Monuments, Inc.
$
70.00
102
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Misc. Supplies
W. T. Grant S 11.51
Perkins & Butler 3.58
Barre Gazette 9.10
$ 24.19
$ 94.19
Town Reports
Printing
Barre Gazette $ 589.40
$ 589.40
Memorial Day Observances
Painting Flag Pole
Edward H. Sechins $ 40.00
Memorial Day Dinner
Marvell Mann 65.00
Flags and Wreaths
Oakham Post 378, A.L. 28.86 $ 133.86
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Stabilization Fund
Deposit
Worc. Fed. Savings & Loan $ 4,500.00
$ 4,500.00
Vacation Pay
See Highway Report
Total Recreation and Unclassified $ 6,535.84
CEMETERIES
Cemetery Committee Salaries $ 45.00
Wages and Salaries
Superintendent and Labor
875.30
Loam Jamara Bros. 48.00
Equipment Sears & Roebuck 164.95
Gas and Oil
20.52
C. S. Lyman & Sons, Inc. Gravel Jamara Bros.
67.50
Hired Equipment
Jamara Bros. 85.50
All Other
Hardware and Supplies
R. T. Quigley $ 8.16
103
EXPENDITURES
Seed
14.50
C. A. Smith Co., Inc.
Equipment Maintenance
Sears Roebuck $ 3.60
Hardy's Garage 3.78
H. E. Belcher 2.95
$ 10.33
Record Books & Stationery
Eugene Connolly $ 10.00
Calvin Stewart 4.93
$ 14.93
$ 47.92
Total Cemeteries
$
1,354.69
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT Interest
Temporary Loans
Worc. County Nat. Bank $ 107.28
General Loans Fire Station Loan $ 65.00
School Bldg. Loan
Worc. Co. Nat. Bank 56.25
Public Service Enterprise Loans $ 121.25
Fire Equipment
Guarantee Bank & Trust
75.00
$ 336.03
Maturing Debt
Fire Station Loan
Worc. Co. Nat. Bank
$
2,000.00
Fire Engine Loan Guarantee Bank & Trust 2,000.00
School Building Loan Worc. Co. Nat. Bank 500.00 $ 4,500.00
Total Interest and Maturing Debt
$
4,836.00
Assessments
Worc. County T. B. Hosp. Worc. County Treas. $ 972.72 Worc. County Tax Worc. Co. Treasurer 3,033.73 State Parks and Recreation
104
FINANCIAL REPORTS
Co .. of Mass. 323.98
Auditing Municipal Accounts
Comm. of Mass. 616.45
S 4,946.88
Refunds
Motor Vehicle $ 265.60
Real Estate
280.00
Other
0.00
$ 545.60
Retirement and Withholding Payments
Worc. County Retirement
Worc. County Treasurer $ 784.07
Federal Withholding Tax
Worc. Co. Nat. Bank 6,358.19
State Withholding Tax
Comm. of Mass. 663.10
$
7,805.38
Temporary Loans
Highway Loan - Anticipation of Reimbursement
Worc. Co. Nat. Bank $ 12,100.00
General Loan - Anticipation of Revenue Worc. Co. Nat. Bank 25,000.00
$ 37,100.00
Licenses
Dog Licenses
Worcester County Treasurer $ 293.00
$ 293.00
Retirement Fund
Commonwealth of Mass. $ 21.66 $ 21.66
Alden Fund
Memorial Day Dinner (Senior Citizens) Marvell Mann S 50.00
Barre Offset Printing 6.50
$ 56.50
Hospital Supplies
A. E. Thompson, Inc. 22.00 $ 22.00
Baskets and Flowers
J. Britton $
84.16
H. E. Belcher 240.00
$ 324.16
S 402.66
EXPENDITURES
105
Total Expenditures
General
$ 246,878.72
Alden Fund
402.66
Total
$ 247,281.38
106
TOWN WARRANT
TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Oakham in the County of Worcester:
GREETINGS:
In the name of the Selectmen of the Town of Oakham, County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Oakham qualified to vote in the elections, and in town affairs to meet in the town hall, known as Memorial Hall, on Monday, the second day of March next at 12M at which time the polls will be opened. Polls will be closed at 8 P.M.
The business meeting will open at 8 P.M., then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To hear the annual reports of the several town officers and to act thereon.
Article 2. To choose one Town Clerk, one Selectman, one Assessor, one member of the School Committee, one Library Trustee, and one member of the Cemetery Commit- tee, all for three year terms; one Planning Board member for a five year term; a Moderator, Collector of Taxes, Treas- urer, Auditor, Tree Warden, Constable and three Fence Viewers for one year terms, all on one ballot.
Article 3. To choose all the necessary town officers and committees for the ensuing year not required to be elected by ballot.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to fix the salaries and compensation of all elective officers of the town as pro- vided for by Section 108, Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Article 5. To see what compensation the town will allow for men and equipment used in repairing highways and opening roads during the ensuing year.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds in the treas- ury such sums of money as are necessary to pay salaries, ex-
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penses and outlays of the several town departments for the ensuing year.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen to borrow during the current fiscal year, in anticipation of the revenue of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, giving the note or notes of the town therefor, these notes to be paid from the revenue of said fiscal year.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate or appropriate from available funds in the treasury a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highway Maitnanance, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate or appropriate from available funds in the treasury a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds in the treas- ury a sum of money for the improvement of New Braintree Road under Chapter 90 Highway Construction, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the purposes of a Reserve Fund, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,000 or any other amount from the Highway Mach- inery Fund to the Highway Machinery Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to authorize and instruct the Board of Assessors to appropriate the sum of $5,000, or any other amount from available funds in the treasury for the purpose of reducing the tax levy for the current year, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to accept any trust funds which may be left to the town for the care of cemeteries, or for any other purpose.
Article 15. To see if the Town will petition the Massa- chusetts Electric Company to install one street light on pole
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No. 15 on Bechan Road at the entrance to Pine Acres, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,878.08 to pay charges due the Town of North Brookfield for tuition of high school pupils, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to make cer- tain alterations and improvements to Rutland Road and to raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,123.18 from available funds in the treasury, if and when these funds are received from the Commonwealth, a portion of these funds to be used to continue the recon- struction of Barre Road and the balance to be used for the reconstruction of Rutland Road or any other Road, or for the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Construction, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to clean and improve certain existing water holes available for use by the Fire Department and raise and appropriate the sum of $250 therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To hear the report of the Oakham Bicen- tennial Celebration Committee and to act thereon.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to establish a fund to be known as the Oakham Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Fund, all monies voted into this fund to be depo- sited in savings banks by the treasurer and left to draw inte- rest until January 1, 2012, on which date both the principal and the interest are to become available to the Town for use to help defray the costs of its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars from the Oakham Bicentennial Anniversary Fund and authorize and instruct the treasurer to deposit these funds to the account of the Oakham Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Fund, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
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the sum of Twenty-Five Dollars from the Oakham Bicenten- nial Celebration Fund for use to pay any remaining charges incurred in connection with the Bicentennial Anniversary Celebration, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to return all funds now remaining in the Oakham Bicentennial Anniver- sary Fund to Surplus Revenue, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new dump body for the 1963 Chevrolet truck now owned by the Town and raise and appropriate the sum of $1200, to meet the cost thereof, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a new dump truck for the Highway Department, funds for this purchase to be provided by raising and appropriating the sum of $3,000 and borrowing the balance under the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
And you are required to serve this warrant by posting attested copies in at least three public places in said town 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, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hand this tenth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.
ROGER H. LONERGAN WALTER W. NELSON JOHN P. O'DONNELL
Board of Selectmen
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INDEX
Accounting Officer 33
Accounting Officer Balance Sheet 70
Board of Health 48
Board of Selectmen 20
Cemetery Committee 67
Charlton Home Farm 47
Financial Report
69
School Committee 82 81
Public Assistance
Fire Department 38
Fobes Memorial Library 64
Highway Superintendent 49
Librarian
65
Oakham Bicentennial Committee 36
Planning Board 34
Police Chief
38
Public Welfare 41
Quaboag Welfare District 42
School Administrative Staff 59
School Committee 54
School Study Committee
35
Tax Collector 26
Town Clerk 6
Town Officers 3
Town Treasurer 29
Tree Warden
40
Warrant 106
OAKHAM
MASSACHUSETTS 1762
TOWN OF OAKHAM BOARD OF SELECTMEN
INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
BOX 35, OAKHAM, MASS. TEL. BROWNING 3-4349
for the 1964 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Proposed Budget at a Glance
GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SAFETY PUBLIC HEALTH HIGHWAYS PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SCHOOLS & LIBRARY RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED CEMETERIES INTEREST & DEBT
$5,070 up $175
$ 5,270 down 3500
$360 up $50
$12,780 down 33,920
$10,800 up 32,000
$4,85l down $1,877
$97,775 up $17,158 Includes Art. 16
$ 945 same
.$5,200 down $100
Appropriated 1963 $130,065
TOTALS
Recommended 1964 $143,051 up $12,986
To the Citizens of Oakham: It is our pleasure to submit our recommendations on the articles on the warrant for the 1964 Annual Town Meeting. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at any time.
Respectfully
John P. O'Donnell
Roger H. Lonergan
Walter W. Nelson
Selectmen
1
Article 1 - To hear the Annual Reports and to act thereon. Articles 2 and 3 - Election of officers.
Article 4 - To fix the salaries of all elective officers.
Office
Salary 1963
Recommended 1964
Moderator
$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Selectmen
350.00
350.00
Auditor
20.00
20.00
Treasurer
400.00
400.00
Tax Collector
400.00
400.00
Assessors
400.00
400.00
Town Clerk
150.00
150.00
School Committee
125.00
125.00
Library Trustees
45.00
45.00
Cemetery Committee
45.00
45.00
Totals
$1,955.00
$1,955.00
This article fixes the amounts of the salaries. Funds are provided under Article 6.
Article 5 - To see what compensation the town will pay for men and equipment used on the highways.
Recommended that this matter be left in the hands of the selectmen.
Article 6 - Appropriations to pay salaries, expenses and outlays of the various departments.
Item
Department
Appropriated 1963
Expended 1963
Recommended 1964
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1
Moderator
$ 20.00
$ 20.00
$20.00
2
Selectmen
350.00
Expenses
292.70
600.00
642.70
600.00
3
Auditing
Auditor
20.00
Acc. Officer Expenses
18.65
450.00
438.65
550.00
4
Treasury
Salaries
400.00
Expenses
292.55
650.00
692.55
700.00
5
Collector
Salaries
400.00
Expenses
197.37
600.00
597.37
600.00
Salaries
400.00
2
Article 6 (Cont.)
Item
Department
Appropriated 1963
Expended 1963
Recommended 1964
6
Assessors Salaries Clerk
75.00
Expenses
291.91
$750.00
691.91
$ 550.00
7
Planning Board Salaries Expenses
None
None
50.00
None
50.00
8
Legal
Salary Special Fees
170.80
50.00
220.80
50.00
9
Town Clerk
Salary Expenses
250.00
226.48
250.00
10
Elections and Registrations Wages
119.00
Expenses
125.00
148.75
350.00
11
Town Hall Maintenance Wages Expenses
134.50
999.22
1,350.00
Totals
General Government $4,895.00
$4,812.93
$ 5,070.00
PUBLIC SAFETY
15
Police Department Officers' Wages Expenses
$295.00 404.35 699.35
$700.00
16
Fire Department Firemen's Wages Expenses
None 2,496.79
2,496.79
2,500.00
17
Sealer of Weights and Measures Wages and Salaries 20.00
20.00
20.00
00.0018
Inspection of Wires 0.5 Wages and Salaries 25.00
Q elstrIA (ANOT)
25.00
25.00
B 19
Insect Pest Control.000.8 OI sJoISTA (owo?) Poison Ivy Control 100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
20 Dutch Elm Disease Wages and Salaries Equipment
32.00
618.50
650.00
650.50
650.00
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
$325.00
50.00
150.00
76.48
29.75
1,350.00
1,133.72
$700.00
2,500.00
Article 6 (Cont.) 3
Item
Department
Appropriated 1963
Expended 1963
Recommended 1964
PUBLIC SAFETY (Cont.)
21
Tree Warden Wages and Salaries Expenses
$56.00 58.80
$150.00
114.80
$ 150.00
22
Dog Officer
Wages and Salaries
82.50
125.00
82.50
125.00
23
Civil Defense
Expenses
50.00
48.65
50.00
24
Compensation Insurance Payments
906.35
950.00
906.35
950.00
Resuscitator
500.00
495.00
Total Public Safety
$5,770.00
$5,638.94
$5, 270.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
30
Board of Health Clinics etc.
$22.20
50.00
22.20
$ 50.00
30e
Town Dump
Bulldozing
200.00
164.50
250.00
31
Inspection of Animals Salaries
35.00
35.00
35.00
35.00
32
Inspection of Slaughtering Salaries
.
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
Total Health and Sanitation
$310.00
$246.70
$360.00
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS
35
Chap. 81 Maint. (Town) Article 8
$1,100.00
$1,099.98
$ 1,100.00
36
Chap. 90 Maint. (Town) Article 9
2,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
37
Chap. 90 Cons. (Town) Article 10
3,000.00
3,039.44
See Art. 18
48.65
164.50
Article 6 (Cont.)
4
Item
Description
Appropriated 1963
Expended
Recommended 1964
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS (Cont.)
38
Snow Removal & Sanding
Wages and Salaries
$3,796.75
Town Equipment
1,634.70
Hired Equipment
4,737.25
Materials
3,036.89
Annual Meeting
$9,300.00
13,205.59
$ 8,000.00
Special Meeting
3,500.00
Reserve Fund
205.59
13,205.59
39
Street Lights Expenses
555.98
600.00
555.98
700.00
40
Vacation Pay
Salaries
340.00
* Special Meeting
340.00*
340.00
480.00
41
Highway Department Expenses
500.00
644.34
500.00
Totals
Annual Meeting
$16,700.00
Special Meetings
3,840.00
$20,540.00
$20,885.33
$12,780.00
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
45 Public Assistance and Administration-Town Account
Old Age Assistance
$3,987.52
Disability Assistance
0.00
Aid to Dependent Children
0.00
Medical Aid, for Aged
5,140.67
General Relief
807.80
Administration
400.00
Annual Meeting
$8,500.00
Special Meeting 2,000.00
10,500.00
10,335.99
$ 10,500.00
46
Veterans' Services
45.00
110.00
115.00
388.57
300.00
658.57
300.00
Total Public Assistance
Annual Meeting
$8,800.00
Special Meeting
2,000.00
$10,800.00
$10,994.56
$10,800.00
1963
Agents Expenses Allowances Food and Fuel Medical Aid
644.34
Article 6 (Cont.)
Item
Department
Appropriated 1963
Expended
1963
Recommended 1964
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY
50
Schools
Committee Salaries $125.00
$125.00
$125.00
General Operation
General Control
Exp. & Contingencies 110.00
25.00
Salary & Travel
902.60
1,211.40
1,099.78
Office Salaries
509.60
467.03
703.36
Office Rent & Exp.
234.56
112.68
197.59
Census
15.00
15.00
15.00
1,771.76
1,806.II
2,040.73
Expense of Instruction
Teachers' Sal.
22,532.67
21,896.77
24,696.38
Supervisors' Sal.
2,619.80
3,591.31
3,197.69
Substitutes '
480.00
450.21
450.00
Conventions etc.
100.00
100.00
Field Trips
40.00
40.00
School Office
0.00
87.00
Text Books & Suppl.1, 529.00
1,615.00
27,301.47
1;434:90 27,373.19
30,202.07
Out of State Travel 0.00
0.00
135.00
Operation of School Plant
Janitors' Sal.
1,224.00
1,200.00
1,224.00
Fuel
1,100.00
1,072.22
1,000.00
Supplies
300.00
202.03
300.00
2,624.00
2,474.25
2,524.00
Maintenance
Replacements
53.00
196.36
783.00
Repairs
447:00
1;512.62
330.00
500.00
1,708.98
1,113.00
New Equipment
291.00
740.90
152.00
Auxiliary Agencies
Tuition
24,305.72
22,953.15
31,587.05
Transportation
19,850.80
20,318.60
21, 563.60
All Other
175.00
25.00
Health
1,023.34
979.38
1,058.81
Title III
434.00
442.89
0.00
Miscellaneous
75.00
134.60
126.00
1,707.34
1,556.87
1,209.81
Totals Genel. Op. $78,352.09 Voc. Ed. & Trans
$78,932.05
$90,527.26
CO.CC8.0| 1963Tuition= (Art.16)08.012 Town of N. Brookfield
4,878.08
Grand Total-Schools$79,371.53
$79,951.77
$96,530.34
51
Library
Trustees' Salaries
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$45.00
Salaries and Wages
872.50
Expenses
434.39
Annual Meeting
1,200.00 plus 1,855.70
1,200.00 Plus
Special Meeting 500.00 dog
dog tax
Total Library $1,745.00 tax $1,900.70
Totals Schools & Library
$81,116.53 $81,852.47
$1,245.00 $97,775.34
.
00.0894.44
201396894.72908
1,000.00
Libraries
Article 6 (Cont.)
Item
Department
Appropriated 1963
Expended 1963
Recommended 1964
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
55
Care of Common
$150.00
$75:00
$150.00
56
Wright Park Maint.
125:00
98.85
125.00
57
Memorial Day
125:00
133.86
125.00
58
Care of Town Clock
50.00
42.87
50:00
59
Annual Reports
600:00
589:40
600:00
60
4-H Clubs
100:00
89.51
100.00
61
Worc. Co. Ret.
878.21
· 878.21
1,100.66
62
Stabil. Fund
4,500.00*
4,500.00*
2,500.00
63
Reg. Sch. Comm.
200.00
212.18
100.00
Totals
Rec. & Unclass.
$6,728.2I
$6,619.88
34,850.66
65
Cemeteries
Committee's Sal.
$45.00
$45.00
$45.00
Wages and Salaries
875:30
Expenses
434:39
900.00 plus
1,309-69
,900.00
Totals - Cemeteries
$945.00
$1,354.69
$945.00
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
70
Interest
Temporary Loans
$107.28
Fire Sta. Loan
97.50
Fire Truck Loan
75.00
School Bldg. Loan
56.25
$800.00
$336.03
$ 700.00
71
Maturing Debt Fire Sta. Loan
$2,000.00
Fire Truck Loan
2,000.00
School Bldg. Loan.
· 500:00
$4,500.00
$4,500.00
$4,500.00
Totals
Interest and
Maturing Debt
$5,300.00
$4,836.03
$5,200.00
SUMMARY APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS
General Government
$4,895:00
$4;812:93
$ 5;070:00
Public Safety
5,770.00
5,638.94
5,270:00
Health and Sanitation
310:00
246.70
:360.00
Streets and Highways
16,700.00
20,885:33
12,780.00
Public Assistance
8,800:00
10,994:56
10,800.00
Schools and Library
80,616:53
81,852.47
97773.34
Recreation & Unclass:
6,728.21
6,619.88
4,850.66
Cemeteries
945.00
1,309:69
'945.00
Interest & Mat. Debt
5,300.00
4.836.03
5,200,00
Totals
$130,064.74
$137,196.35
$143,051.00
* Deposit
CEMETERIES
int.
7
Article 7 - To authorize the treasurer to borrow in anticipation of revenue - Recommended
Article 8 - Chapter 81 Maint. - Recommended to raise and appropriate town share ($1,100), borrow state share ($12,100) .
Article 9 - Chapter 90 Maint. - Recommended to raise and appropriate town share, borrow state and county shares ($4,000) .
Article 10 - Chapter 90 Cons. - Recommended to use Chapter 822 funds for town share ($3,000), borrow state and county shares ($9,000) . Article 11- To raise and appropriate $500 for Reserve Fund- Recommended. Article 12 - Transfer from Highway Machinery Fund to Highway Machinery Account - Recommendation to be made at meeting.
Article 13 - To appropriate a sum of money from Free Cash to reduce the tax rate - Recommended to appropriate $4,000.
Article 14 - To accept trust funds - Recommended to accept any trust funds
Article 15 - To petition Mass. Elec. Co. to install street light on Bechan Road - Recommended.
Article 16 - To pay charges due Town of North Brookfield - Recommended.
Article 17 - Improvements to Rutland Road - Recommended that work on this road be started in 1965 using bond issue or 90 Cons. funds.
Article 18 - To appropriate $5,123.18 from available funds - $3,000 to be used for the town's share of Chap. 90 Cons., and the balance to be used to continue improvements to Barre Road.
Article 19 - To raise funds to clean water holes - Recommended that $250 . be raised and that work be done under direction of Fire Department.
Article 20 - Report of Bicentennial Committee - Recommendation to be made at meeting.
Article 21 - To establish 250th Anniversary Fund. - Recommended.
Article 22 - To appropriate $250 from Bicentennial Fund and deposit it in 250th Anniversary Fund.
Article 23 - To appropriate $25 from Bicentennial Fund to pay remaining Bicentennial charges - Recommended.
Article 24 - To return all remaining funds in Bicentennial Fund to Free Cash - Recommended.
Article 25 - To purchase dump body for 1963 Chevrolet truck - Recommended. Purchase body - Raise and appropriate $1,200.00 to meet cost. Article 26 - To purchase dump truck for highway department -
Recommended that purchase of this truck be held off until sufficent funds from machinery rentals are available.
FUNDS RECOMMENDED - SPECIAL ARTICLES
Article 11
$500
19
250
25
1,200
Total
$1,950
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