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of conditions which may be left after operations are completed or because of the methods of handling such materials at the site or transporting such materials through the Town." Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $2,665.52 from Overlay Reserve to Police-Salaries, for the purpose of two additional men for the Police Department. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen under the authority of General Laws, Chap- ter 54, Section 6, to redistrict the Town into five (5) precincts as recommended by the Redistricting Committee. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $2,000.00 from available funds to defray the cost of re- moving two old boilers from the Katherine G. Danahy School and the installation of one new boiler and automatic oil burner together with the necessary tank or tanks and controls. The sum herein requested being in addition to a sum previously ap- propriated at the Annual Meeting. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1500.00 from available funds to defray the cost of an oil burner for the Springfield Street School together with the necessary tank or tanks and controls. The sum herein requested being in addition to a sum previously appropriated at the An- nual Meeting. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of the following described property from Business A and Agriculture to Business B:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Springfield Street 87.5 feet westerly from the southwesterly intersection of Hall and Springfield Streets; thence at an angle N. 36 deg. 43 min. 30 sec. W. 250 feet; thence westerly, in a line parallel to and 250 feet distant from Springfield Street, to Portalnd Street: thence along the easterly side of Portland Street to Springfield Street; thence easterly along the northerly side of Springfield Street back to the point of beginning. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to change the
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zoning of the following described property from Resident B and Agriculture to Business B:
Beginning at a point in the northeasterly junction of Shoe- maker Lane and Silver Street; thence northerly along the east- erly side of Silver Street 1175 feet; thence easterly along the northerly side of one Lucia 450 feet; thence southerly in a line parallel with Silver Street to Shoemaker Lane; thence westerly along the northerly side of Shoemaker Lane to the point of be- ginning. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of the following described property from Agricultural to Residence B:
Beginning at the southeast corner of lot No. 53 on Day Street, and running thence northeasterly 70 feet, more or less, across land of Margaret E. Callanan to the southwesterly cor- ner of property of Saint Anthony Society, Inc .; thence north 76 deg., 02 min., 20 sec. east 360.17 feet to a point; thence north 19 deg .. 30 min. east along land of Joseph Morris 1270.99 feet to land of Williston Griffin; thence south 70 deg., 00 min., west 389.4 feet to land of the aforesaid mentioned Callanan and at the southerly line of the present Business A zone; thence westerly in a line parallel with Springfield Street along the southerly line of the Business A zoning to a point 100 feet easterly of the east- erly line of Day Street, said point being at the northeasterly corner of the present Residence B zoning; thence southerly in a line parallel with Day Street along the easterly line of the present Residence B zoning to the point of beginning. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of the following described property from Residence A and Agriculture to Business A:
Beginning at an iron pipe on the westerly side of Suffield Street at land of one Calabrese and thence running southerly along said Suffield Street six hundred and seventy-two and 75/100 (672.75) feet to an iron pipe at other land of the grantor; thence westerly along land of said grantor thirteen hundred and fifty-six and 6/100 (1356.06) feet to an iron pin at land of one Snell; thence westerly along said Snell's land fifty (50) feet to an iron pin at land of one Russo; thence north- erly along said Russo's land nine hundred and fifty (950) feet more or less to a pine stump at land of said Calabrese; thence easterly along said Calabrese's land eight hundred and seventy-
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two (872) feet more or less to the place of beginning. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of the following described property from Agricultural to Business B:
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of one Circosta 200 feet distant southerly from the northeasterly corner of land of one Circosta; thence in a southerly direction along the east- erly line of Circosta for a distance of 1362 feet; thence easterly 268.7 feet along the property of one Obrycki (now or formerly) to a point; thence northerly along one Porter 669.3 feet to the southeasterly corner of property of one Leger; thence westerly 250 feet along said Leger and one Duquette to the southwesterly corner of property of one Duquette; thence northerly along said Duquette 732 feet to a point 200 feet distance from Silver Street; thence westerly, and at a distance 200 feet and parallel to Sil- ver Street for a distance of 150 feet to the point of beginning. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To transact any other business that may legal- ly come before the meeting.
Special Town Meeting
JUNE 2, 1952
The meeting convened at the time and place specified in the warrant and was called to order by the moderator, a quorum declared present, the articles of the warrant read by the town clerk and under
Article 1. Voted unanimously to transfer the sum of $135.15 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for outstanding bills for 1951 for various departments.
Article 2. Voted to transfer from Welfare-Relief to Dis- ability Assistance, the sum of $2,000.00.
Article 3. Voted to transfer the sum of $383.32 from Springfield Street Sewer for Traffic Signs under the supervision of the Chief of Police.
Article 4. Voted to pass over.
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Article 5. Voted to accept Chapter 134, Acts of 1952, of the General Laws, which reads as follows:
Section 1. The third paragraph of Section 81M of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, as appearing in Section 4 of Chapter 340 of the Acts of 1947, is hereby amended by in- serting after the third sentence the following sentence :- No such subdivision shall be approved until the local Board of Health has advised the planning board, in writing, that it has approved the proposed method of providing for sanitary water supply, sewage disposal and drainage.
Section 2. The provisions of this act shall also apply to any subdivision approved by a planning board prior to its effective date if no building has been constructed in such sub- division.
Article 6. Voted to accept the report of the Centralized Purchasing Committee, as read, as a report of progress.
Article 7. Voted to accept the report of the committee for Recodification of the Town By-Laws, as a report of progress.
Article 8. Voted to rescind the action taken with re- spect to Article 29 in the warrant for the Annual Meeting held March 4, 1950, wherein the Town voted to establish a Per- sonnel Board.
Article 9. Voted unanimously to amend its By-Laws un- der the authority of Section 108A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws by adopting the following By-Laws:
Section 1. There is hereby established in the Town a Department to be known as the "Personnel Department". Said Department shall be composed of a Personnel Board of three (3) members and a Personnel Officer all appointed as here- inafter provided by the Board of Selectmen.
Section 2. The Personnel Board shall consist of three (3) members as follows: One (1) elected Town Official; One (1) Town Employee; and One (1) Citizen of the Town.
Section 3. The present members of the Personnel Board shall hold their offices for the term for which they were re- spectively appointed. Annually, thereafter, in the month of March, the Board of Selectmen. shall appoint one (1) person to the Personnel Board who shall hold office for the term of three (3) years from the first day of April and until his suc- cessor shall be appointed and qualified.
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Vacancies shall be filled in the manner of an original appointment within thirty (30) days after its occurrence. The members of the Board shall serve without compensation.
Section 4. The Personnel Board may make rules for the government of its procedure and administration of the classi- fication and pay plans not inconsistent herewith. It shall choose one (1) of its members to be Chairman, who shall hold said office for one (1) year.
Section 5. The Personnel Board shall be vested with the authority to:
A. Maintain a classification plan for positions in the service of the Town listed by titles which shall apply to all positions in the service of the Town, except elected officials and teachers and employees of the School Department.
B. Adopt written definitions of the classes provided in the classification plan which shall consist of a statement de- scribing the essential nature of the work characteristic of posi- tions of the class that distinguish such positions from posi- tions of other classes with such examples as may be deemed appropriate. Definitions so adopted shall be interpreted as descriptive only and not restrictive. The definition for any class shall be construed solely as a incans of identifying posi- tions properly pertaining to a class, and not as prescribing what the duties or responsibilities of any position of the class shall be, or as modifying, or in any way affecting the power of any administrative authority, as otherwise existing, to ap- point, to assign duties or to direct and control the work of any employee under the jurisdiction of such authority.
C. Provide pay scales for the several classes which may be set under the provisions of sub-section A above, provided however, that the pay scales first adopted hereunder shall be the pay scales in effect as of December 31, 1950, increased by such additional amounts as were voted at the Annual Town Meeting on March 3, 1951, retroactive to January 1, 1951.
D. Where necessity requires, the Board, after consulta- tion with the appointing authority, may anticipate formal action by the Town by tentatively adding a new classification to the plan and establishing or changing the salary or wage therefor or for any existing classification, subject to ratifica- tion by the Town at a Town Meeting and subject further to the approval of the Department of Civil Service when so required.
E. Hear and decide all appeals from the decisions of the
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Personnel Officer, whether such decisions conflict with any provision hereof, or with the rules adopted by the Board.
Section 6. The Personnel Officer shall be appointed an- nually in March by the Board of Selectmen who shall hold office from the first day of April and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. The Personnel Officer shall serve without compensation.
Section 7. The Personnel Officer under the supervision of the Personnel Board shall be responsible for:
A. The administration of the classification plan, pay plans and such rules and regulations regarding either or both plans as may be adopted by the Board.
B. The keeping of records of all employees of the Town, which shall contain the name, age, date of employment, civil service classification if any, department in which employed, and other information as the Board deems desirable. All re- quests for transfers, increases in salary or wages, changes in classification, or other requests made to the Department of Civil Service shall be made to the Personnel Officer on requisi- tions for persons to fill positions or perform duties classified under Civil Service Law.
C. Allocation of positions to classes; He shall allocate each position subject to the provisions of this by-law to its appropriate class in the classification plan. Whenever a new position is established, or the duties of an existing position are so changed that, in effect, a new position of a different class is substituted for the old position, the personnel officer shall allocate such new or changed position to its appropriate class. He shall likewise re-allocate any position from class to class whenever he finds such action warranted by reason of error in the allocation then in effect. He shall afford reason- able opportunity to be heard to any employee or appointing authority affected by any allocation or reallocation, upon written request therefor, and may afford such opportunity in the absence of such request.
D. He shall interview all Town Officials, Department Heads, Employees and any and all Officers and Agents of the Town on matters relative to personnel work, investigate and render reports and recommendations to the Board relating to compensation, ratings, civil service classification, and com- plaints of employees, department heads, and officials to the Board. He shall have charge of the records of the department and shall discharge such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Board.
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Section 8. The initial classification plan and pay scales therefore are hereby adopted as follows: SALARIED CLASSES:
Grade S-1-$22.00; $25.00; $28.00 Handicraft Instructors, P.T.
Playground Instructors, P.T. Grade S-2-$33.00; $35.20; $37.50 Junior Clerk Typists
Grade S-3-$39.60; $41.80; $44.00; $46.20
Junior Engineering Aide; Senior Clerk Typist;
Senior Clerk Typist and Stenographer (plus $2.00 per week for Stenographic ability)
Grade S-4-$46.20; $48.40; $51.70; $55.00; $58.30
Director of Recreation, P.T .; $44.00 Janitor or Custo- dian; Public Health Nurse; Senior Engineering Aide: Vet- erans Agent; Social worker; Assistant Assessor: Assistant Town Collector; Assistant Town Clerk & Treasurer. Grade S-5-$55.00; $57.20; $60.50; $63.80
Senior Public Health Nurse; Animal Inspector, P.T .; Fire Engineer, P.T .; Sealer of Weights and Measures, P.T .; Slaughter Inspector, P.T.
Grade S-6-$63.80; $67.10; $70.40; $74.80
Building Inspector, P.T .; Junior Civil Engineer; Plumb- ing Inspector, P.T .; Superintendent of Water Depart- ment ; Welfare Agent; Town Accountant; Assistant Building Inspector, P.T .; Electrical Inspector, P.T .; As- sistant Plumbing Inspector, P.T.
Grade S-7-$88.00; $92.40; $96.80; $101.20
Highway Superintendent and Town Engineer FIRE DEPT. CLASSES:
F-1-$54.00; $56.70; $58.69: $61.89; $64.00
POLICE DEPT. CLASSES:
Grade P-1-$51.26; $56.39; $61.89; $67.64 Patrolmen
Grade P-2-$69.30; $72.05; $74.80 Police Sergeants
Grade P-3-$75.00; $82.50; $88.00 Chief of Police
Wage Classes: (hourly) W-1-$1.16; $1.20; $1.24 Laborers W-2-$1.28; $1.32; $1.38 Forestry Laborers; Chauffeur-Laborer
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W-3-$1.35; $1.42; $1.47 Maintenance Craftsman: Meter Reader W-4-$1.47; $1.53; $1.60 Equipment Operator; Tree Climber W-5-$1.60; $1.67; $1.76 Public Works Foreman
Section 9. No person shall be appointed, employed, or paid as an employee in any position subject to the provisions of this by-law, under any title other than that of the class to which the positions is allocated. The title of each class shall be the official title of every position allocated to the class for all purposes having to do with the position as such. and shall be used to designate the position in all payrolls. budget estimates and official records and reports, and in every other connection involving personnel or fiscal processes, but any abbreviation or code symbol approved by the Personnel Board may be used in lieu of the title to designate the class of a position in any such connection. The title of each position or any abbreviations or code symbols adopted by the Board shall be confirmed to the Town Accountant.
Section 10. This by-law shall be operative only as to employees whose positions are classified hereunder and for which positions minimum and maximum salaries have been established by vote of the Town at a Town Meeting.
Section 11. Nothing in this by-law shall be construed to conflict with Chapter 31 of the General Laws.
Article 10. Voted to accept Columbus Street, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as a public street, in accordance with Plans of Layout and Survey now on file with the Town Clerk of the Town of Agawam.
Article 11. Voted to accept Highland Street, from Mill Street, for a distance of 1,061.56 feet, as measured along the Easterly line thereof, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in Accordance with Plans of Layout and Survey now on file with the Town Clerk of the Town of Agawam.
Article 12. Voted unanimously to amend the zoning by- law adopted in 1951, by inserting the following sentence at the end of the last paragraph, Section 5 (a) "The powers granted to the Board of Appeals by this sub-section shall apply only to dwellings erected twenty (20) years or more prior to the adoption of this by-law".
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Article 13. Voted Yes - 85 - No - 92; to amend the Zoning By-Law by inserting therein the following new section "Section 22A. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this By-Law shall upon conviction thereof pay a penalty of not more than $20.00. Each day that willful violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a separate and distinct violation."
Article 14. Voted to pass over.
Article 15. Voted to transfer from Overlay Reserve the sum of $2,665.52 to Police Salaries for the purpose of two additional men to the Police Department.
Article 16. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen, under the authority of General Laws, Chapter 54, Section 6, to redistrict the Town into five (5) precincts as recommended by the Redistricting Committee.
Article 17. Voted to transfer from Overlay Reserve, the sum of $2,000.00 to defray the cost of removing two old boilers from the Katherine G. Danahy School and the installation of one new boiler and automatic oil burner together with the nec- essary tank or tanks and controls. The sum herein requested being in addition to a sum previously appropriated at the An- nual Meeting.
Article 18. Voted to transfer from Overlay Reserve the sum of $1500.00 to defray the cost of an oil burner for the Springfield Street School together with the necessary tank or tanks and controls. The sum herein requested being in addi- tion to a sum previously appropriated at the Annual Meeting.
Article 19. Voted Yes - 75 - No. - 31: to change the zoning of the following described property from Business A and Agriculture to Business B:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Springfield Street 87.5' feet westerly from the southwesterly intersection of Hall and Springfield Streets; thence at an angle N. 36° 43' 30" W. 250 feet; thence westerly, in a line parallel to and 250 feet distant from Springfield Street, to Portland Street; thence along the easterly side of Portland Street to Springfield Street: thence easterly along the northerly side of Springfield Street back to the point of beginning.
Article 20. Voted unanimously to change the zoning of
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the following described property from Residence B and Agri- culture to Business B:
Beginning at a point in the northeasterly junction of Shoe- maker Lane and Silver Street; thence northerly along the east- erly side of Silver Street 1175 feet: thence easterly along the northerly side of one Lucia 450 feet; thence southerly in a line parallel with Silver Street to Shoemaker Lane; thence westerly along the northerly side of Shoemaker Lane to the point of beginning.
Article 21. Voted unanimously to change the zoning of the following described property from Agricultural to Resi- dence B:
Beginning at the southeast corner of lot No. 53 on Day St. and running thence northeasterly 70 feet, more or less, across land of Margaret E. Callanan to the southwesterly corner of property of Saint Anthony Society, Inc .; thence north 76° 02' 20" east 360.17 feet to a point; thence north 19° 30' east along land of Joseph Morris 1270.99 feet to land of Williston Griffin: thence south 70° 00' west 389.4 feet to land of the aforesaid mentioned Callanan and at the southerly line of the present Business A zone; thence westerly in a line parrallel with Spring- field Street along the southerly line of the Business A zoning to a point 100 feet easterly of the easterly line of Day Street. said point being at the northeasterly corner of the present Resi- dence B zoning; thence southerly in a line parallel with Day Street along the easterly line of the present Residence B zoning to the point of beginning.
Article 22. Voted to pass over.
Article 23. Voted unanimously to change the zoning of the following described property from Agricultural to Busi- ness B:
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of one Circosta 200 feet distant southerly from the northeasterly corner of land of one Circosta; thence in a southerly direction along the east- erly line of Circosta for a distance of 1362 feet; thence easterly 268.7 feet along the property of one Obrycki (now or formerly) to a point; thence northerly along one Porter 669.3 feet to the southwesterly corner of property of one Leger; thence westerly 250 feet along said Leger and one Duquette to the southwest- erly corner of property of one Duquette; thence northerly along said Duquette 732 feet to a point 200 feet distant from Silver Street; thence westerly, and at a distance 200 feet and parallel
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to Silver Street for a distance of 150 feet to the point of be- ginning.
Article 24. Voted to adjourn at 10:35 P.M. Town Clerk
ARTICLES IN WARRANT Special Town Meeting
SEPT. 15, 1952 - 7:30 P.M. (DST
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of $6,000.00 to South Westfield Street Sewer Construction, said construction to be done under the Betterment Act. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of $9,000.00 to Suffield Street Sewer Construction, said construction to be done under the Better- ment Act. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $490.00 from available funds to the Civil Defense Ac- count. Said sum is the amount necessary to make the necessary repairs in the Observation Tower at the airport property lo- cated on Silver Street, where the Ground Observer Corps is located for this area. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the payment of $65.40 from the 1952 appropriation for Welfare, General Relief for a 1951 hospital bill. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $500.00 from available funds to the Addressograph Account, for the cutting of plates. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the redis- tricting of voting precincts under the authority of General Laws, Chapter 54, Sections 6 and 7, as provided in a report of the
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Selectmen duly filed with the Town Clerk on July 29, 1952. Said report containing boundaries and number of registered voters in each of said precincts. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 7 To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver any and all deeds rectifying and confirming prior deeds from Town of Agawam, to purchasers of land in said Town. This vote being for the purpose of correcting errors in prior deeds. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Agawam Housing Authority to construct not more than 32 additional dwelling units on their present site. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Per- sonal By-Law adopted June 2, 1952, by inserting in Section 8 thereof the following new classification and pay scale therefor:
Grade S-2-A
Assistant Director of Recreation $35.00 $37.20 $39.40
Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of the following described property from Business A and Residence B to Industrial :
Beginning at a point at the southwesterly intersection of River Rd. and Meadow St., thence in a westerly direction along the southerly side of Meadow St. to the intersection of Ferry Rd. and Meadow St .; thence in an easterly direction along the northerly side of Ferry Rd. to River Rd .; thence northerly along the westerly side of River Rd. back to the point of beginning. This change to include the entire triangular plot as described herein. Pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
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