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1,125.00
Miscellaneous
Cemetery maintenance
800.00
Veterans' graves
216.00
Rebuilding Maple Grove Cemetery
500.00
Rebuilding Houghton's Cemetery
Annuities
600.00
Recreation, parks, playgrounds
3,980.00
Town Nurse
8,602.00
Debt Bond payment
40,000.00
Interest on Bond debt
11,510.00
Street lighting
23,000.00
Planning Board
600.00
Board of Appeals
550.00
Unclassified
2,091.00
Total Miscellaneous
92,449.00
GRAND TOTAL
1,067,587.00
Article 17. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,100.00 for School traffic officers.
Article 18. Voted that the sum of $11,000 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account for a re-survey of the town and the making of a new set of Assessor's maps by an outside engineering company, said work to be done within a period of three years, and said work to be awarded on a com- petitive basis.
Article 19. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $550.00 toward the purchase of one new cruiser for the use of the Police Department and to authorize the Police Commis- sioners to trade in one cruiser to make up the balance of the purchase price.
Article 20. Voted that the report of the Health Survey Committee be accepted as read.
Article 21. Voted 103 - 98 to pass over.
Article 22. Voted that the Board of Selectmen be author-
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ized to appoint a Health Agent, and that the sum of $3,227.00 be raised and appropriated for administrative purposes as fol- lows:
Salary of Health Agent $2,552.00
Car allowance
375.00
Laboratory supplies
300.00
$3,227.00
Article 23. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,855.00 for erection of partitions and the installation of the necessary electrical and sanitary facilities and $2,500.00 for equipment for the Health Agent's laboratory and office.
Article 24. Voted to accept the report of the town By- laws Committee as read, as a report of progress.
Article 25. Voted to pass over.
Article 26. Voted to pass over.
Article 27. Voted to accept report of the Katherine G. Danahy School Committec.
Article 28. Voted that the report of the Benjamin J. Phelps School Committee be accepted as read, and that the committee be dismissed with a vote of thanks.
Article 29. Voted to pass over.
Article 30. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five to revise the Building Code of the Town of Agawam, said committee to make a report not later than the next annual Town Meeting.
Article 31. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to hire a suitable consultant to assist in conducting the study of said Building Code revision.
Article 32. Voted to pass over until next Special Town Meeting.
Article 33. Voted to accept the report of the Tree Warden Study Committee.
Article 34. Voted to accept the report of the Centralized Purchasing Committee.
Article 35. Voted to accept the bequest of $284.85 from
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the Old Cemetery Association, and to provide perpetual care for certain lots in said cemetery.
Article 36. Voted that the town accept the bequest of $162.18 from the Feeding Hills Old Cemetery Association.
Article 37. Voted that the Board of Selectmen be author- ized to appoint a committee of five to study the advisability of establishing a Community Recreation Center and to make a report not later than the next annual Town Meeting, and the committee to hold at least one public hearing.
Article 38. Voted to pass over.
Article 39. Voted to accept Fairview Street as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 40. Voted to accept Meadow Avenue as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 41. Voted to accept Lealand Avenue as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 42. Voted to accept Grant Street as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 43. Voted to accept North Alhambra Circle as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 44. Voted to accept South Alhambra Circle as a public street with the proviso that all affidavits be filed with the Board of Selectmen within 30 days.
Article 45. Voted to accept Ley Street. as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as a public street.
Article 46. Voted to accept Woodside Drive, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, as a public street.
Article 47. Voted that the sum of $40,000.00 be trans- ferred from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for Chapter 90 Construction, a portion of which will be spent on Southwick Street, on a participating basis with the State and County as in previous years.
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Article 48. Voted that the sum of $6,000.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for Chapter 90 Main- tenance, $2,000.00 of which will be reimbursed to the town by the State and $2,000.00 will be reimbursed to the town by the County.
Article 49. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of three to select a desirable location for a new Fire Station in Feeding Hills.
Article 50. Voted that the sum of $312.50 be raised and appropriated for plumbing inspections made in 1952. Vote: YES 112, NO 13.
Article 51. Voted unanimously that the sum of $29.34 be raised and appropriated for the payment of 1952 bills for the Parks and Playgrounds.
Article 52. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 for the removal of a tree stump in the public way, in front of the Agawam Center Post Office.
Article 53. Voted that the sum of $1,000.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the posting of private ways and dead-end streets, under the supervision of the Depart- ment of Streets and Engineering.
Article 54. Voted that the sum of $5,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purchase of pipe only, for surface drainage on North Westfield and South Westfield Streets.
Article 55. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,500.00 from Road Machinery Fund to the Road Equipment Account for the purchase of sewer buckets and winches.
Article 56. Voted to transfer the sum of $1,250.00 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Road Equipment Account for the purchase of a stone spreader box.
Article 57. Voted to pass over.
Article 58. Voted to pass over.
Article 59. Voted to transfer from the Excess and De- ficiency Fund the sum of $1,500.00 for the purchase of a new 11/2-ton truck for the water department and to authorize the Water Commissioners to trade in the 1948 Chevrolet truck to be applied toward the purchase price.
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Article 60. Voted to transfer the sum of $800.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the purchase by the Water Commissioners of a Water Meter Testing machinc.
Article 61. Voted to transfer the sum of $11,000.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account, for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Suffield Street, between Cooper and Center Streets, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 62. Voted to transfer the sum of $12,000.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Silver Street, westerly from Suffield Street approximately twelve hundred feet, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 63. Voted that the sum of $11,700.00 bc trans- ferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the con- struction of a sanitary sewer on North Westfield Street for a distance of approximately 750 feet northerly from the end of the present sewer, said construction to be done under the bet- terment act.
Article 64. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,000.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Portland Place, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 65. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,600.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Ley Street, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 66. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,300.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Witheridge Street, from the end of the pres- ent sewer northerly as far as grade perimts, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 67. Voted to transfer the sum of $2,600.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Dyotte Street, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 68. Voted to transfer the sum of $2,400.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Warren Street, between River Road and
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Dyotte Street, said construction to be done under the better- ment act.
Article 69. Voted to transfer the sum of $7,500.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a sanitary sewer on Lincoln Street, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 70. Voted unanimously to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by eminent domain, an easement for pur- poses of constructing and maintaining a storm sewer, over the land hereinafter described:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of property of one Marie Bertoldi in an easterly line of Main Street and running thence north 49° 31' 30" cast along the southerly line of said Bertoldi 120 feet to an iron rod; thence continuing in the same line 83.08 feet to a ponit; thence south 30° 28' 30" east 60.27 feet to a point; thence south 59º 31' 30" west 200 feet to the easterly line of Main Street; thence north 30° 28' 30" west 25 feet to an iron rod at the point of beginning. Said parcel being a portion of land owned by Esther Cohen as described in Book 1807, page 62, Hampden County Registry of Deeds.
Article 71. Voted to transfer the sum of $250.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the easement authorized in Article 70.
Article 72. Voted unanimously to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by eminent domain, an easement for pur- poses of constructing and maintaining a storm sewer over the following described parcel of land:
Beginning at a point in the easterly line of River Road being 49.00 feet north 38° 30' 30" east of an iron pin at the northwesterly corner of property of Dorothy W. Doolittle, and running thence south 56° 57' 30" east about 270 feet to the bank of the Con- necticut River; thence northeasterly along the bank of the Connecticut River about 40 feet to a point; thence north 56° 57' 30", west about 270 feet to the easterly line of River Road at a point being 40 feet distant measured along the street line from the point of beginning: thence south 38° 30' 30" west along the easterly line of River road to the point of beginning.
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Article 73. Voted to transfer the sum of $400.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the payment of damages resulting from the easement authorized in Article 72.
Article 74. Voted to transfer the sum of $25,000.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for construction of a storm sewer on Cooper Street between Main Street and Federal Street, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 75. Voted to transfer the sum of $21,750.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a storm sewer on North and South Alhambra Circle, said con- struction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 76. Voted to transfer $3,800.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a storm sewer on Albert Street, said construction to be done under the bet- terment act.
Article 77. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,500.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the construction of a storm sewer on Mill Street, from Poplar Street approximately 500 feet easterly, said construction to be done under the bet- terment act.
Article 78. Voted to pass over.
Article 79. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,300.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for recapping the existing sidewalk on the southerly side of Springfield Street, between Rowley and Royal Lane.
Article 80. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,734.95 for the micro-filming of the records of Town Clerk, Engineering Department, and Assessors, and the purchase of a reader.
Article 81. Voted to transfer the sum of $1,800.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the purchase of a car by the Board of Health, said car to be used by the assistant nurse in the conduct of town business only.
Article 82. Voted to pass over.
Article 83. Voted to pass over.
Article 84. Voted to pass over.
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Article 85. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver in its name and behalf, a deed to Edwin C. Knapp, both individually and as the sole stockholder of Knapp Home Building Co., which company was dissolved March 3, 1927, said deed to cover lots 35 to 40 inclusive, as shown on a plan of lots recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans H, Page 64.
Article 86. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver a deed to the First Baptist Church of Agawam the following described parcel of land:
Beginning at an iron pipe located 169.60 feet south 73º 40' west of intersection of the southerly line of Elm Street with the westerly line of Main Street, and running thence south 73º 40' west 111.27 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 16° 20' east 162.83 feet to an iron pipe: thence north 16° 22' 30" east 100.23 feet to an iron pipe; thence north 19° 42' east 97.07 feet to the point of beginning. Said land being the present location of the Agawam Center Fire Station.
The Board of Selectmen be authorized to accept a deed from the First Baptist Church of Agawam for the following described parcel of land:
Beginning at a point located 355.87 feet south 73° 40' west of the intersection of the southerly line of Elm Street with the westerly line of Main Street, and running thence south 73º 40' west 75.00 feet to a point; thence south 16° 20' east 100 feet to a point; thence north 73º 40' east 75.00 feet to a point; thence north 16° 20' west 100 feet to the point of beginning. Said land being a portion of land owned by the First Baptist Church of Agawam, as recorded in Book 2128, page 572.
The above transfer to take place when the First Baptist Church of Agawam moves the existing fire station and siren with all existing services from its present location to the new location transferred to the Town of Agawam by said Church. All expenses and liabilities shall be borne by said Church, and the work to be done with the approval of the Board of Select- men.
Article 87. Voted to adopt the following By-law: SNOW AND ICE
Section 1. The tenant or occupant, and in case there be
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no tenant or occupant, the owner or persons having the care of any estate abutting upon any street, lane, court or square, within the town where there is a sidewalk which now is estab- lished or may hereafter be established, or set apart as such, shall within twenty-four hours after the ceasing to fall of any snow thereon, cause the same to be removed therefrom.
Section 2. When any snow shall be collected or deposited upon any sidewalk mentioned in the preceding section, either by falling from some adjacent building, or by drifting upon said sidewalk, the tenant or occupant, and in case there be no tenant or occupant, the owner or persons having the charge of the estate abutting upon said sidewalk, shall within twenty- four hours after its being so collected or deposited, cause the same to be removed.
Section 3. Whenever any sidewalk mentioned in Section 1 hereof, shall be encumbered with ice, it shall be the duty of the tenant or occupant, and in case there be no tenant or oc- cupant, the owner or persons having the charge of the estate abutting upon said sidewalk, to cause such sidewalk to be made safe and convenient for transit by removing the ice therefrom or by covering the same with sand or some other suitable sub- stance within twenty-four hours after such sidewalk shall be- come so encumbered.
Section 4. Any person violating any provision of this By- law shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2.00 for each day during which the said violation shall continue.
Article 88. Voted to authorize the Moderator to appoint a High School Committee of nine members composed as fol- lows: Two members of the School Committee, one Selectman, one member of the Planning Board, one member of the Finance Committee, one member of the Agawam Council for Public Schools, and one member from each of the areas comprising North Agawam, Feeding Hills, and Agawam center, and to ap- propriate the sum of $6,000.00 for expenses which may be in- curred by the High School Building Committee for the purpose of reviewing, revising and reporting upon preliminary plans drawn by Alderman & MacNeish; having engineering data compiled such as borings to determine subsoil conditions. To make a report of these recommendations together with any recommendation it might have relative to appropriations for the building of said High School at the first special Town Meet- ing to be held in the year 1953.
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Article 89. Voted to transfer from Excess and Deficiency Fund the sum of $9,000.00 for the installation of a hardened surface in the rear of the present High School Building.
Article 90. Voted that the sum of $2,400.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the installation of new electrical entrances and related work in the present high school building.
Article 91. Voted to amend a By-law relating to the cre- ation of the Board of Appeals adopted July 24, 1945, by strik- ing out the words "an associate member" and substituting in place thereof "two associate members" so that the same will read as follows:
Section 1. There shall be in the Town of Aga- wam, a Board of Appeals, hereinafter called the Board, consisting of three members and two associate mem- bers, appointed by the Board of Selectmen. The first appointment of members shall be for terms of one, two and three years. Thereafter the Board of Select- men shall appoint each year one member to serve for three years. Appointments of the associate members shall be made for a term of three years. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner for unexpired terms.
Article 92. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five to work with the Planning Board in studying parking problems in congested areas in the town, and to make a report not later than the next annual Town Meeting.
Article 93. Voted to pass over.
Article 94. Voted to take no action.
Article 95. Voted to take no action.
Article 96. Voted to take no action.
Article 97. Voted to adjourn at 6:10 P. M.
BRANDON N. LETELLIER
Town Clerk
Special Town Meeting JUNE 15, 1953
The meeting was called to order by the moderator at the
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time and place specified in the warrant, prayer led by Rev. Eben Chapman, a quorum declared present, the call of the warrant read by the town clerk and under:
Article 1. Voted that the sum of $7,000.00 be transferred from the Highway Maintenance Account to the following ac- counts: Road Machinery Account, $3,075.00; Snow Removal, $700.00; Maintenance Oiling, $800.00; New Oiling, $1,725.00; Rubbish Collection, $700.00.
Article 2. Voted to transfer the sum of $899.80 from the Springfield Street Sidewalk Account at Feeding Hills Center to Walnut and Springfield Streets intersection to make the necessary change-over.
Article 3. Voted that the sum of $939.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account to the Law-Other Account.
Article 4. Voted unanimously that the sum of $200.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account to the Parks and Playgrounds for an unpaid 1952 bill.
Article 5. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell to the highest bidder, a small concrete mixer.
Article 6. Voted that the town transfer the sum of $9,- 000.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the con- struction of a storm drain on a portion of Meadow Avenue across Meadow Street, said construction to be done under the betterment act.
Article 7. Voted unanimously that the Town of Agawam authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by eminent domain for purposes of constructing and maintaining a storm water drain, an easement forty (40) feet in width for said purposes, the center line of which is described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the westerly line of aban- doned end of Kirkland Street with the northerly line of Mea- dow Street, running thence north 40° 37' 30" west two hundred (200) feet, said property being a portion of property owned by Albert J. and Jennie M. Christopher.
Article 8. Voted that the sum of $725.00 be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account to the Town Cemetery Account, for the resurfacing and repair of headstones in the town cemetery located on Southwick Street.
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Article 9. Voted to transfer the sum of $1,500.00 from the Excess and Deficiency Account to the Fire Department for the purchase of a new pickup truck.
Article 10. Voted to amend the Personnel By-law adopted June 2, 1952, by adding thereto under classification S-7 the following new position, Public Health Agent, with sal- ary minimum and maximum to be as provided by the present scale.
Article 11. Voted unanimously that the town amend its By-laws so that beginning with the annual election of the year 1954, the term of Tree Warden shall be for a three (3) year period, all in accordance with General Laws, Chapter +1, Sec- tion 1.
Article 12. Voted that the report of the Centennial Com- mittee be accepted as a report of progress.
Article 13. Voted that the report of the committee ap- pointed to study the advisability of establishing a Community Recreation Center be accepted as a report of progress.
Article 14. Voted that the Board of Selectmen be author- ized to execute in its name and behalf, a deed to William C. Clampit and Irma A. Clampit for:
A certain parcel of land known as lots No. 38 and No. 39 as shown on a plan of "Riverside Gardens," recorded with Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans H, Page 56.
Article 15. Voted unanimously that the Board of Select- men be authorized to sell at public auction certain real estate known and designated as Lots 143, 144, 113 and 114, as shown on a plan of lots recorded with Hampden County Registry of Deeds, File 173, said land being bounded and described as fol- lows:
Northerly by Woodcliff Avenue, sixty (60) feet; easterly by lots 112 and 145 as shown on said plan, one hundred forty (140) feet; southerly by Sunnyslope Avenue, sixty (60) feet; westerly by lots 142 and 115 as shown on said plan, one hun- dred forty (140) feet.
Being the premises which said town acquired by deed of Matilda Frankowski, dated October 31, 1935, recorded with Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book 1619, Page 200.
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Article 16. Voted that the sum of $2,800.00 be trans- ferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account for the payment of a compromise settlement on a claim of Florence D. Marches- selli for sidewalk injuries.
Article 17. Voted to accept the report of the High School Building Committee as a report of progress.
Article 18. Voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to secure permission from the General Court to amend Chap- ter 93 of the Acts of 1951, whereby the said town was author- ized to borrow the sum of $1,500,000.00 for school purposes, so that the same will read $2,100,000.00.
Article 19. Voted YES 299, NO 102, to change the zon- ing of the following described property from Residence A2 to Industrial:
Beginning at a point in the northeasterly line of Main Street, said point being distant one hundred forty-eight (148) feet northerly from a Massachusetts highway bound, located in said northeasterly line of Main Street, and running thence north 50° 32" cast, five hundred four and 54/100 (504.54) feet; thence south 73º 7' east, two hundred seven and 79/100 (207.79) feet; thence south 39º 40' east, ten hundred thirty and 65/100 (1030.65) feet; thence south 47º 25' west, two hundred sixty-six and 51/100 (266.51) feet; thence south 55° 24' west, one hundred sixty-two and 61/100 (162.61) feet; thence south 55° 43' west, one hundred eighty-six and 37/100 (186.37) feet to the northeasterly line of Main Street, thence north 49° 2' west, ninety-nine and 50/100 (99.50) feet to an angle in the said northeasterly line of Main Street, thence north 39º 14' 33" west by said northeasterly line of Main Street, nine hundred thirty-seven and 81/100 (937.81) feet to said Massa- chusetts Highway bound; thence north 39º 14' 33" west, one hundred forty-eight (148) feet to the point of beginning. The above described parcel contains sixteen (16) acres, more or less.
Article 20. Voted unanimously to change the zoning of the following described property from Business A to Industrial:
Beginning at a point in the southerly line of Walnut Street, distant 200 feet westerly of the westerly line of Suffield Street; thence along lots No. 1 and 2 as shown on a plan of lots re- corded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book of Plans 35, Page 29, S. 26° 25' W. a distance of 177.94 feet;
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