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Article 53 taken from the table. (Pheasant Avenue Land for School Purposes.)
On the substitute motion of the Finance Committee:
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized and empowered, on behalf of the Town, to purchase or take in fee by eminent domain or otherwise acquire, for the purpose of constructing thereon a school build- ing, a certain parcel of land within the area described in Article 53 of the warrant, shown upon a plan marked "Plan of Proposed School Site on Land of Mary J. Dickson in Arlington, Mass., Scale 1" =40' March 21, 1927, Geo. E. Ahern, Town Engineer," filed in the office of the Town Engineer, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southwesterly corner of land of Mary J. Dickson in Pheasant Avenue so called and on the dividing line between said Dickson land and land now or formerly of E. S. Farmer, thence running northeasterly along said dividing line two hundred sixty (260) feet more or less to the southwesterly side line of Mountain Avenue so called, thence running southeasterly through said land of Mary
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J. Dickson and along the southwesterly line of "Mountain Ave. Proposed Ext." as shown on said plan, said line being nearly parallel to said Pheasant Avenue, six hundred fifteen (615) feet to a point, thence running southwesterly through said land of Mary J. Dickson to a stone wall at land now or formerly of David Irwin two hundred fifty-five (255) feet more or less, thence running northwesterly along said wall and through said Pheasant Avenue extended six hundred fifty (650) feet more or less to the point of beginning, containing about 3.23 acres, all as shown on said plan; that for this purpose the sum of four thousand ($4,000) dollars be and hereby is appropriated; and that said sum be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
Article 62 taken up. (Band Concerts.)
Voted: That the Town do not appropriate the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen for the purpose of conducting band concerts within the Town during the ensuing year.
Article 63 taken up. (War Memorial.)
Elliott R. Barker, Chairman of the Committee on War Memorial, presented pictures of the model as made by Mr. Dallin and as recommended in the Report of the Committee presented March 24, 1927.
The substitute motion as made by Mr. Barker was lost.
On the substitute motion of Warren A. Peirce:
Voted: That a special committee of seven citizens, including the Selectmen and four other persons, be appointed by the Moderator to make a comprehensive study of a Com- munity or other Building as a memorial commemorating the services and sacrifices of persons who served in the World War, such committee to have the power to fill vacancies, and to report to the Town not later than the annual meeting of 1928; and that the sum of $500 be and hereby is appropriated for the use of said committee.
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The Moderator appointed the following committee under Article 63: The Board of Selectmen, Warren A. Peirce, Ethel L. Wellington, Jane Homer, Charles H. Higgins.
Voted: That the Committee appointed under vote of March 26, 1926, on World War Memorial be discharged.
Article 64 taken up. (Amendment of Zoning By-Law.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Town's Zoning By-Law be and hereby is amended by altering the zoning map therein referred to so as to include in a Business District all that certain parcel of land situated on Park Boulevard and more particu- larly described in Article 64 of the Warrant.
Article 65 taken up. (Amendment of Zoning By-Law.)
Voted: That the Town do not amend its Zoning By-Law by altering the zoning map therein referred to so as to include in a Business District all or any portion of the area on the southerly side of Massachusetts Avenue now included in the Business District and General Residence District and more particularly described in Article 65 of the Warrant.
Article 66 taken up. (Sale of. Land.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized and empowered, in the name and on behalf of the Town, to sell and convey all the right, title and interest of the Town in and to a certain parcel of land situated on Summer Street and more particularly described in Article 66 of the warrant, and to execute, acknowledge and deliver any proper documents, all for the minimum amount of twenty-five ($25) dollars and upon such other terms as the Selectmen shall consider proper.
Article 67 taken up. (Acquisition of Maple Street Property.)
On the substitute motion of Charles M. MacMillin, Chair- man of the Planning Board:
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized and empowered on behalf of the Town
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to purchase or take in fee by eminent domain or otherwise acquire for the enlargement of the school lot and /or the en- largement of its Town Hall lot a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated in said Arlington and bounded as follows: Southwesterly on Maple Street, eighty-one and 57/100 (81.57) feet; northwesterly on land of the Town of Arlington, two hundred nine and 82/100 (209.82) feet, north- easterly on land of the Town of Arlington, eighty-three and 20/100 (83.20) feet; southeasterly on land now or formerly of Cousins, one hundred twenty-two and 79/100 (122.79) feet; northeasterly on said last named land, five and 58/100 (5.58) feet; and southeasterly on land of Taylor, one hundred four and 38/100 (104.38) feet; containing eighteen thousand, three hundred and seventy-five (18,375) square feet of land and being shown on a plan entitled "Plan of land in Arlington, Mass.," C. H. Gannett, C. E., February, 1924, recorded with Middlesex So. Dist. Deeds at the end of Book 4816; subject to rights or easements in the southeasterly portion of said parcel having a frontage of twelve (12) feet on said Maple Street and a depth of one hundred sixty (160) feet, as described in the deed of Carolyn S. V. Kirby to Howard E. Cousins, et al, recorded with said Deeds, Book 4816, Page 260; that for this purpose the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars be and hereby is appropriated; and that said sum be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
Article 68 taken up. (Interest, Town Debt, Overdrafts, Town Expenses.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of $66,500 be and hereby is appropriated for the payment of interest during the year 1927; and that for this purpose the sum of $4,902.50 be taken from the receipts of the Water Department; $7,126.39 from available balances and receipts now in the Treasury, and the balance of $54,471.11 be raised by general tax.
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of $128,900 be and hereby is appropriated for the payment of bonds and notes maturing in 1927; and that for this purpose the sum of $12,500 be taken from the receipts of the Water Department; the sum
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of $51.05 available for said purpose be taken from the proceeds of the sales of houses now in the Treasury; the sum of $1,498.45 be taken from premiums on loans now in the Treasury, and the balance $114,850.50 be raised by general tax.
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of $72,597.50 be and hereby is appropriated from the income of the Water Department during the year 1927 for Water Department maintenance and Metropolitan Water Assessments.
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of $5,000 be and hereby is appropriated for the Sinking Fund, the same to be raised by general tax.
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of $11,990.38 be and hereby is appropriated to provide for overdrafts, the same to be taken from available balances and receipts now in the Treasury.
Finance Committee
Salaries . . $800.00
(Chairman, $250; Secretary, $50;
Clerk, $500)
Expenses
500.00
Reserve Fund 15,000.00 -
$16,300.00
On motion of Roger W. Homer:
Voted: That this meeting adjourn.
Meeting adjourned at 11 o'clock in the evening.
A True Record, Attest :
E. CAROLINE PIERCE,
Town Clerk.
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Arlington, April 21, 1927.
Pursuant to the vote of adjournment on April 14, 1927, the Town Meeting Members met in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, April 21, 1927, notices having been sent by mail by the Town Clerk seven days before the meeting and posted at two places in each precinct. A notice was published in the local paper.
Lists of the duly qualified Town Meeting Members were used at the entrance of the meeting place and were in charge of James F. Higgins and Albert K. Peirce.
The Check Lists filed with the Town Clerk at the close of the meeting showed that one hundred and forty-five members attended the meeting.
The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by the Moderator, John G. Brackett.
The Town Meeting Members who had not already been sworn were sworn by the Moderator.
On motion of Nelson B. Crosby:
Voted: That if the business calling this meeting is not disposed of on this date, the meeting adjourn to Friday evening, May 6, 1927, at eight o'clock.
As the meeting of April 14, 1927, adjourned while Article 68 was before the meeting, Article 68 was again considered.
Board of Selectmen
Salaries of the Board.
$2,000.00
(Chairman, $800; Others, $600 each)
Other Salaries
2,872.00
Expenses . .
1,700.00
Contingent Fund
1,500.00
$8,072.00
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Town Accountant
Salaries
$3,640.00
Expenses
200.00
$3,840.00
Elections, Town Meetings, Registrars'
Salaries, Wages and Expenses . $2,600.00
Robbins Memorial Town Hall
Salaries and Wages $4,518.00
Fuel and Lighting 2,600.00
Maintenance of Buildings
715.00
Maintenance of Grounds
1,450.00
Repairs .
2,005.00
$11,288.00
Nelson B. Crosby, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, explained that $300 was asked for under the Maintenance of Grounds as the contract price for repairing pool.
Police Department
Salaries
$76,112.65
Automobile and Ambulance Mainte-
nance
2,500.00
New Police Ambulance
3,500.00
Expenses
5,000.00
$87,112.65
Fire Department
Salaries and Wages . $69,745.00
Maintenance of Buildings 3,000.00
Maintenance of Apparatus 4,500.00
Expenses . 1,000.00
$78,245.00
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Legal Department
Salary of Town Counsel $1,500.00
Legal Expenses: Legal Expenses;
settlement of claims relating to matters for which there have been or may be special appropriations; and settlement of claims for damages to persons and property 24,000.00
$25,500.00
Building Inspection Department Salaries . $6,950.00
(Inspector of Buildings, $2,700; Male Clerk, $2,000; Plumbing and Gas Inspector, $2,250)
Expenses of Building Inspection De- partment 1,200.00
Expenses of Plumbing and Gas In- spector 525.00
$8,675.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Salary
$1,000.00
Expenses
500.00
$1,500.00
Outside Poor
Salaries.
$1,400.00
(Clerk, $1,000; Town Physician, $400)
Aid and Expenses
27,600.00
$29,000.00
State and Military Aid
$1,000.00
Soldiers' Relief, Burials and Exemptions
2,000.00
Printing Town Reports
3,401.15
Town Insurance .
11,386.80
Workman's Compensation .
2,500.00
Municipal Insurance Fund.
5,000.00
Repairs to Houses Owned by Town
300.00
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Menotomy Hall
Maintenance and Wages
$1,220.00
Treasurer
Salary of Treasurer
$2,500.00
Expenses .
635.00
$3,135.00
Collector of Taxes
Salary of Collector
$3,500.00
Other Salaries
2,300.00
Expenses
2,000.00
$7,800.00
Board of Assessors
Salaries of Board ($1,200) each
$3,600.00
Other Salaries and Wages
5,300.00
Expenses .
3,500.00
$12,400.00
Town Clerk
Salary of Town Clerk
$3,500.00
Other Salaries and Wages
2,653.00
Expenses
650.00
$6,803.00
Vital Statistics
Wages and Expenses
$300.00
Board of Public Works
Salaries of the Board. $2,000.00
(Chairman, $800; Others $600 each)
Administration :
Salaries and Wages 11,000.00
Expenses
3,200.00
$16,200.00
Planning Board
Expenses . $500.00
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JOINT BOARD OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Board of Survey
Salary of Clerk .
$500.00
Other Wages and Expenses 1,100.00
$1,600.00
Wire Department
Salary of Superintendent .
$3,000.00
Other Salaries and Wages (Including a new clerk) .
5,140.00
Office Maintenance
400.00
Auto and Truck Maintenance
886.00
Maintenance of System
895.00
Additional Fire and Police
Signal
System
3,385.00
$13,706.00
Board of Health
Salaries of the Board.
$400.00
Other Salaries and Wages
7,640.00
Communicable Diseases
8,425.00
Expenses .
2,200.00
$18,665.00
Inspector of Animals
Salary of Inspector
$350.00
Cemeteries
Salaries and Expenses
$8,000.00
Voted: That the sum of $388,399.60 be and hereby is appropriated to defray Town expenses for the year 1927, to be expended, as detailed, under the direction of the respective department heads as shown in the immediately preceding table.
Voted: That the salaries of the Town Clerk and of the Collector of Taxes shall be on condition that they shall re- spectively, upon receipt, pay into the Town Treasury, for the use of the Town, all official fees received by them.
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Voted: That the various amounts appropriated at this meeting, indicated by the respective votes, and not otherwise provided for, be raised by general tax in the current financial year; and further Voted, that all notes issued under the authority of any vote passed at this meeting shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Sections 23 to 26, both inclusive, of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and amendments thereof or additions thereto.
Article 3 taken from the table.
There being no further business under Article 3 the same was declared disposed of:
The meeting adjourned at 9.05 o'clock in the evening.
A True Record, Attest:
E. CAROLINE PIERCE,
Town Clerk.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
In accordance with Article 8, Section 1 of the By-Laws of the Town of Arlington, the following named persons have been appointed to serve on the Finance Committee:
Term Expires
Precinct 1. William O. Hauser
1928
Edward A. Morton
1929
William S. Maddocks
1930
Precinct 2. Earle C. Hopkins
1928
John B. Tarbox
1929
William J. Atwood
1930
Precinct 3. Daniel E. Murphy
1928
Edward A. Geary
1929
Thomas F. Good
1930
Precinct 4. Arthur O. Yeames
1928
J. William Fellows
1929
Andrew Allen Kimball
1930
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Precinct 5.
Edward W. Higgins
1928
Carlton E. Gardner
1929
William P. Dale
1930
Precinct 6.
G. Bertram Washburn
1928
Charles A. Rideout
1929
Charles M. Sawyer
1930
Precinct 7.
Lester N. Hayden
1928
Walter S. Cooledge
1929
Fred W. Robinson
1930
Arlington, July 12, 1927.
I hereby certify that on this day I have appointed Marion F. Robbins Assistant Town Clerk of the Town of Arlington in accordance with the provisions of Section 19, Chapter 41 of the General Laws, and that she has taken the necessary oath of office.
E. CAROLINE PIERCE,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN WARRANT
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Arlington, in said County: Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of the Town of Arlington to meet in the Town Hall in said Town on Tuesday, the 29th Day of November, 1927, at 8 o'clock P.M., to act on the following Articles, viz :-
Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 7, 1927, to investigate and make recommendations for the disposition of the Old Town Hall; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 7, 1927, to investigate the matter of a suitable playground at Arlington Heights; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 14, 1927, to make a study of a community or other building as a memorial to commemorate the services and sacrifices of persons who served in the World War; and of the Finance and other committees heretofore appointed.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to change and alter any portion or portions of the east wing of the Robbins Memorial Town Hall; make an appropriation therefore; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to procure plans and estimates for the change and alteration of any portion or portions of the Highland Hose House; for the reconstruction and enlargement of the said House; and/or for the construction of a new building for the use of the Fire Department; make an appropriation for the purpose; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
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Article 4. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $450.00, or any other sum, for the use of the committee appointed under the vote of the Town passed April 7, 1927, under article number 61 of the Warrant for the Annual Meeting, to investigate the matter of a suitable playground at Arlington Heights; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Committee appointed for suitable playground at Arlington Heights)
Article 5. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to procure plans and specifications for the construction of a twelve-room addition to the present Junior High School West building, and also estimates of the cost of such addition, of the original equipment and furnishings thereof, and of the grading of the grounds of said school, said committee to report to the Town not later than the annual meeting of 1928; make an appropriation therefor; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Committee on Additional School Accommodations)
Article 6. To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for the engineering work of the Town; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 7. To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for Soldiers' Relief, Burials and Exemptions; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for Workingmen's Compensation; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will amend, alter, repeal, revise and add to the Town's by-laws, and more particularly by-laws relating to the Treasurer (See Article 6 thereof); by- laws relating to the Auditor (See Article 7 thereof); by-laws
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relating to the Finance Committee (See Article 8 thereof); and by-laws relating to the Town Accountant; make an ap- propriation for the printing of such by-laws; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will amend its Zoning By- Law by altering the Zoning Map therein referred to so as to include in a single residence district all or any portion of the area bounded easterly by Mystic Street, southeasterly by the present business district as shown on said Zoning Map; southerly and southwesterly by the business district on the northerly side of Summer Street as shown on said Map; northwesterly by the single residence district as shown on said Map; and north- erly by the single residence district as shown on said Map; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of more than one hundred (100) registered voters)
And you will notify and warn the voters of the Town of Arlington to meet at the time and place herein specified by leaving at every dwelling house in the Town a printed copy of this Warrant, and also by posting a copy of the same at the doors of the Town Hall, and in a conspicuous place in each of the seven precincts of the Town, seven days at least prior to the time of said meeting.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before said day and hour of meeting.
Given under our hands, at said Arlington, this thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.
NELSON B. CROSBY, HOLLIS M. GOTT, LUKE A. MANNING, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
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CONSTABLE'S RETURN
Arlington, Mass., Nov. 21, 1927.
Middlesex County :
By virtue of this Warrant I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Arlington to meet at the time and place and for the purposes herein named by causing a printed attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and by posting an attested copy at the doors of the Town Hall. seven days at least before said day of meeting and by posting attested copies in two or more conspicuous places in each voting precinct in the Town. A notice of the time, place and objects of the meeting was published in the local paper.
(Signed) DANIEL M. HOOLEY, Constable, Town of Arlington, Mass.
Arlington, November 29, 1927.
Pursuant to the Warrant of the Selectmen, served according to law upon the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington by a Constable of said Town, and sent by mail by the Town Clerk seven days before the day of meeting to the Town Meeting Members duly elected and qualified to act in Town Meetings in Arlington, the Town Meeting Members met in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, November 29, 1927. A notice of the meeting was published in a local paper. Lists of the duly qualified Town Meeting Members were used at the entrances of the meeting place and were in charge of James F. Higgins and Albert Peirce.
The check lists filed with the Town Clerk at the close of the meeting showed that one hundred and seventy-eight members attended the meeting.
The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock in the evening by the Moderator, John G. Brackett. 1
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The Town Clerk read the call of the meeting and the Constable's Return of the Warrant.
On motion of Hollis M. Gott:
Voted: That the reading of the remainder of the Warrant be dispensed with.
On motion of Hollis M. Gott:
Voted: That if the business in the Warrant calling this meeting is not disposed of on this date, the meeting adjourn to meet on Tuesday evening, December 6, 1927, at eight o'clock.
On motion of Hollis M. Gott:
Voted: That Article 1 be taken up. (Reports of Com- mittees.)
No report was received from the Committee on the Disposi- tion of the Old Town Hall.
The report of progress made by Mr. Dutcher for the Committee on Playground at Arlington Heights was received.
No report was received from the committee on War Memorial.
On motion of Hollis M. Gott:
Voted: That the Central Fire Station Building Com- mittee be discharged.
Mr. Clinton W. Schwamb presented the final report of the Building Committee of the Junior High School West. File No. 1096.
Voted: That the report as presented by Mr. Schwamb be accepted and the committee discharged.
On motion of G. Bertram Washburn:
Voted: That the report of the Finance Committee as presented to this meeting in printed form be received.
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On motion of G. Bertram Washburn:
Voted: That the remaining articles in the Warrant be now taken up separately, in the order in which they appear in said Warrant and that the recommendations of the Finance Committee as set forth in their printed report be considered as now before the meeting.
Article 1 laid on the table.
Article 2 taken up. (Rearrangement of offices for Board of Assessors, Treasurer and Tax Collector.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to change and alter any portion or por- tions of the east wing of the Robbins Memorial Town Hall, and that for said purpose the sum of eighteen hundred and fifty dollars be and hereby is appropriated, said sum to be taken from available funds now in the treasury and expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article 3 taken up. (Repairs of Highland Hose House or Construction New House.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to procure plans and estimates for the change and alteration of any portion or portions of the Highland Hose House; for the reconstruction and enlargement of the said House; and/ or for the construction of a new building for the use of the Fire Department, and that for said purpose the sum of five hundred dollars be and hereby is appropriated, said sum to be taken from available funds now in the treasury and ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article 4 taken up. (Playground at Arlington Heights.)
Voted: (Unanimously) That the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the use of the committee appointed under the vote of the Town passed April 7, 1927, under Article 61 of the Warrant for the annual meeting of 1927, to investigate the matter of a suitable play-
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ground at Arlington Heights, said sum to be taken from available funds now in the treasury.
Article 5 taken up. (Plans for addition to Junior High West.)
Earl A. Ryder reported as Chairman of the Committee on Additional School Accommodations, File No. 1110.
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