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Voted (unanimously): That the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the extension of Storm Drains for the year 1931; the same to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.
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Article 7 taken up. (Extra Work; Cemetery Chapel.)
Warren A. Peirce, Chairman of the Cemetery Com- missioners, offered a substitute motion.
G. Bertram Washburn offered an amendment to this substitute motion and it was
Voted (unanimously): The sum of one thousand and five dollars and eighty-seven cents ($1,005.87) be ap- propriated for the payment of debts incurred by the Cemetery Commission for extra foundation work for the Chapel in Mount Pleasant Cemetery - the same to be . taken from general tax and expended under the direction of the Cemetery Commissioners.
Article 8 taken up. (Overdraft; Park Commis- sioners.)
Richard L. Powers, Chairman of the Park Com- missioners, offered a substitute motion and it was
Voted (unanimously): That the Town of Arlington make an appropriation of one hundred and twenty-five and 60/100 dollars ($125.60) to pay debts and obligations incurred by the Board of Park Commissioners in 1930 in excess of its appropriation for said year, and/or reimburse the said Park Commissioners, said sum ex- pended by them to pay such debts and obligations and said sum be raised by general tax.
Article 9 taken up. (Improvement of Parks and Playgrounds).
Richard L. Powers offered an amendment to the recommendation of the Finance Committee, and explained the same.
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Several persons spoke on the unemployment situation and Lester W. Collins, speaking for the Unemployment Committee, assured the meeting that the Committee had fullest confidence that everything possible was being done to attain employment for citizens of Arlington.
On amendment as offered by Richard L. Powers.
Voted: That the following sums be and hereby are appropriated, for the improvement, development, main- tenance, and/or use of the parks and playgrounds within the Town; said sums to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Board of Park Com- missioners, as follows:
Russell Park Fence.
$1,200.00
Meadowbrook Park Development.
4,500.00
Crosby School Fence (playground) .
500.00
Turkey Hill Reservation (removing brush, planting trees)
500.00
Fowles Mill Site (retaining wall)
450.00
Heights Playground (improvement) . . . 12,435.00
$19,585.00
Signed: Richard L. Powers, Chairman; Frank W. Wunderlich, Edward W. Higgins.
Article 10 taken up. (Retaining Wall; Locke School.)
Voted (unanimously): That the Town do not make an appropriation for the purpose of building a retaining wall and enlarging the playground at the Locke School.
Article 11 taken up. (Equipment, Repairs, etc., Schools and Buildings.)
Voted (unanimously): That the Town do not make
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an appropriation or appropriations for the purchase or acquisition of apparatus, equipment, and/or furnishings for use in the schools of the Town; for the alteration and/or repair of the Junior High West, Junior High Center, and Locke School buildings; and for the installation of sprinklers in the Cutter School building.
Article 12 taken up. (Additional Grading - Peirce School.)
Voted (unanimously): That the additional sum of four thousand ($4,000) dollars be and hereby is ap- propriated for walks, grading and completion of play- ground at Peirce School; said sum to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the School Committee.
Article 13 taken up. (Elementary School Building - Eastern Avenue.)
At the request of Jacob Bitzer, Chairman of the Com- mittee appointed to secure plans and estimates for an elementary school on Eastern Avenue, the room was darkened and slides showing floor plans and elevations for the proposed school were shown. Mr. Bitzer explained same. Considerable discussion of the plans followed, and on the substitute motion of Hollis M. Gott, as amended by G. Bertram Washburn, it was
Voted (unanimously): That the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand ($225,000) dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the construction of a building to be built substantially in accordance with sketches and data filed with the Finance Committee of twenty-one, January 2, 1931, including the cost of original equipment and fur- nishings of said building, to be used for elementary school purposes, upon land of the Town situated on Eastern Avenue acquired for the purpose; that for this purpose the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars be
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raised by general tax, and for the balance two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and all acts in addition thereto or amendment thereof, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than fifteen (15) years from the date of issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier date as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine; and that said appropriation be expended under the direction of the committee ap- pointed under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930, under Article 36 of the Warrant for the annual meeting of 1930, to secure plans and estimates for the construction of a fourteen-room elementary school building, capable of enlargement, on land owned by the Town on Eastern Avenue, which said committee shall have full authority to construct such school building within the sum herein appropriated, and have power to fill any vacancy to its membership; and that the additional sum of seven hun- dred ($700) dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the clearing and grading of the said land, said sum to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of said committee.
Article 14 taken up. (Acceptance of General Law.)
Voted (unanimously): That the Town do accept Section 6B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, inserted by Chapter 351 of the Acts of 1930, which provides as follows: "Section 6B. A city or town which accepts this section may appropriate money for the purchase of uni- forms for members of its police and fire departments."
Article 15 taken up. (Revision of Town's By-Laws; Re Finance Committee.)
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On the substitute motion of Arthur P. Wyman, it was
Voted (unanimously): To amend the By-Laws by striking out Article 8 - Finance Committee - and sub- stituting therefor the following:
ARTICLE 8 FINANCE COMMITTEE
Section 1. The advisory committee, to be called the Finance Committee, shall be composed of fourteen regis- tered voters of the Town, one from each of the fourteen precincts, and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be appointed promptly by the Moderator in not less than forty days after the date of the annual election, from nominations submitted to him by the town meeting mem- bers in the several precincts. In every precinct the town meeting members from that precinct shall, before the expiration of forty days after the date of the annual election, submit to the Moderator the names of not less than two such voters of the precinct as nominees for appointment to said committee. Such names shall be chosen by written or printed ballot at a regular meeting of such town meeting members or at a special meeting thereof called for the purpose by their chairman, by the Town Clerk or in such other manner as such members shall determine; shall be so chosen from names presented by a nominating committee and/or by any such member; and shall be the names of the persons receiving the largest number of votes.
Section 2. The first committee appointed under this by-law shall be appointed promptly by the Moderator from nominations made and submitted in the manner hereinbefore set forth within forty days after this by-law shall take effect. Of such committee, the member from each of the odd numbered precincts, one, three, five,
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seven, nine, eleven, and thirteen, shall be appointed for a term of one year until forty days after the next annual election, and his successor is so appointed, and the mem- ber from each of the even-numbered precincts, two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, and fourteen, shall be ap- pointed for a term of two years, until forty days after the annual election, and his successor is appointed. Thereafter in any year when the term of any member expires, his successor shall be so appointed for a term of two years until forty days after the annual election and his successor is appointed.
Section 3. If, in any precinct, such nomination shall not be so submitted to the Moderator within the time hereinbefore specified, or all in excess of one of such nominees shall refuse such nomination, it shall be held that there has been a failure to nominate and the member of the said committee from any such precinct shall be appointed promptly by the Moderator. If, for any reason, the Moderator shall fail to appoint a successor as herein- before required, the expired term of any member of said committee shall be deemed to extend until his successor is appointed.
Section 4. No person holding either elective or appointive town office, and no town employee shall be eligible to serve on said committee.
Section 5. The committee shall consider all articles contained in any Warrant except articles on zoning, upon which the zoning by-law requires a report to be made to the Town by the Planning Board, shall make recom- mendations, and shall report in print, if possible, at or prior to each town meeting, but the omission of said com- mittee so to consider, recommend, and/or report shall not affect the validity of any vote or other action at any town meeting. The committee shall also make such general suggestions, criticisms, and recommendations as it may deem expedient.
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Section 6. The committee shall have authority to vote transfers from the reserve fund, as provided in Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as amended.
Section 7. The committee shall have power and authority to examine the books and records of any town board or official, so far as the same is permitted by law, and all boards and officers shall submit to the committee, at the same time they are submitted to the Town Ac- countant, copies of their estimates for the ensuing year in budget form.
Section 8. Except as hereinbefore provided, the committee shall have power to elect its own officers, and to fill vacancies upon a two-thirds vote of the remaining members.
On motion of Arthur P. Wyman:
Voted (unanimously): That the sum of one hundred dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the publishing of the by-laws adopted at this meeting, said sum to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Town Clerk.
Article 1 was taken from the table.
There being no further business under Article 1 the Moderator declared Article 1 disposed of.
All business in the Warrant calling this meeting having been disposed of the meeting was declared ad- journed at 10.55 P.M.
A True Record, Attest:
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 inhabi- tants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitu- tion requires, to vote in elections, to meet at the polling places designated for the several precincts in said Town on Monday, the second day of March, 1931, at seven o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following Articles, namely :
Article 1. To elect by ballot the following Town officers: A Moderator for one year; a Selectman for three years; a member of the Board of Public Works for three years; one Assessor for three years; one member of the School Committee for one year; three members of the School Committee for three years; two Trustees of the Robbins Library for three years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; one Park Commissioner for three years; two members of the Planning Board for three years; one Commissioner of the Sinking Fund for one year; one Commissioner of the Sinking Fund for three years; one Trustee of the Pratt Fund for two years; one Trustee of the Pratt Fund for five years; one Trustee of the Edwin S. Farmer Poor Widows' Fund and Trustees of the Edwin S. Farmer Fund for Needy Persons for four years; one Trustee of the Edwin S. Farmer Poor Widows' Fund and Trustees of the Edwin S. Farmer Fund for Needy Persons for five years; one Cemetery Commissioner for three years; a Tree Warden for one year; also, in each Precinct six Town Meeting Members for one year; six Town Meeting Members for two years; six Town Meeting Members for three years.
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For these purposes, the polls will be opened at seven o'clock A.M. and remain open until eight o'clock P.M., at each of the polling places designated, viz: Precinct One, in the Crosby School Building, entrance on Winter Street; Precincts Two and Four, in the Hardy School Building, entrance on Lake Street; Precincts Three and Five, in the Junior High School Building East, entrance on Tufts Street; Precincts Six and Eight, in the Town Hall; Pre- cincts Seven and Nine, in the Russell School Building, Precinct Seven, entrance on Medford Street, Precinct Nine, entrance on Mystic Street; Precincts Ten and Twelve in the Cutter School Building, entrance on School Street; Precinct Eleven, in the Highland Hose House, entrance on Massachusetts Avenue; Precinct Thirteen, in the Peirce School Building, entrance on Park Avenue North, Heights; Precinct Fourteen, in the Locke School Building, entrance on Paul Revere Road, Heights.
You are, also, required to notify and warn the said inhabitants to meet at the Town Hall, in said Town, on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of March, 1931, at eight o'clock in the evening to act on the following articles :
Article 2. To choose and appoint all other usual Town officers not hereinbefore mentioned, in such manner as the Town may determine.
Article 3. To hear and act on the reports of the per- manent committee under vote of the Town passed March® 24, 1919, on the Town Yard; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 5, 1926, to investigate and consider the matter of additional school accommodations; of the committee under vote of the Town passed January 14, 1926, to consider the condition of Spy Pond; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 4, 1928, to make a comprehensive study of a community or other building as a memorial to commemorate the services and
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sacrifices of persons who served in the World War; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 19, 1929, to secure plans and estimates for a new High School Building; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 10, 1929, to procure plans and estimates for repairs and additions to the Robbins Library Building; of the committee under vote of the Town passed March 28, 1928, to procure plans and specifications for the construc- tion of an eight-room addition to the Peirce School Build- ing, also estimates of the cost of such addition and of the original equipment and furnishings thereof and of the grading of the grounds of said school, and under vote of the Town passed March 27, 1929, to construct an eight- room addition to the schoolhouse called the Peirce School; of the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary Committee under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930, appointed by the Selectmen; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 9, 1930, to study the School System, appointed by the Selectmen; of the Cemetery Commis- sioners under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930, to construct a building in Mount Pleasant Cemetery to be used as office, storehouse, and Chapel; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930, to secure plans and estimates for the construction of an elementary school on Pheasant Avenue; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930, to secure plans and estimates for the construction of an elementary school on Eastern Avenue; of the committee under vote of the Town passed May 26, 1930, to investigate and study the Public Library accommodations at the Heights; and of other Town boards and officers and of the Finance and other committees heretofore appointed.
Article 4. To make appropriations to defray Town obligations, liabilities, outlay and expenses and especially for or relating to all or any of the boards, departments, purposes and matters hereinafter mentioned; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
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Finance Committee; Reserve Fund; Board of Appeal; Board of Selectmen; Accountant; Treasurer's Depart- ment; Collector's Department; Assessors' Department; Legal Department; Claims; Town Clerk's Department; Board of Public Works; Engineering Work; Elections and Town Meetings; Planning Board; Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works; Board of Survey; Robbins Memorial Town Hall; Police Department; Fire Department; Building Department; Building, Plumbing and Gas Inspection; Wire Department; Sealer of Weights and Measures; Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Suppression; Tree Warden's Department; Health Department; Vital Statistics; Inspector of Animals; Sewerage System Main- tenance; Ashes, Offal and Rubbish; Highway Division; Snow and Ice Removals; Lighting of Streets and Ways; Traffic Signals; Fire and Police Signals; Public Welfare Department; District and Other Nurses; State and Military Aid; Soldiers' Relief; Burials and Exemptions; Schools; Robbins Library and Branches; Parks; Play- grounds; Pensions; Memorial Day; Printing Town Re- ports; Insurance; Workmen's Compensation; Work- men's Compensation Insurance Fund; Patriots' Day; Menotomy Hall; Repairs to Houses Owned by Town; Municipal Insurance Fund; Water Department Main- tenance; Cemeteries; Interest; Debt.
Article 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue for the year 1931, the same to be repaid directly from the pro- ceeds of said revenue: or take any action relating thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize its Col- lector of Taxes to use all means of collecting taxes for the year 1931, which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes.
Article 7. To see if the Town will make an appro-
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priation for the construction of permanent sidewalks and for the installing of edgestone; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a town way from Forest Street three hundred eighty-five feet easterly, substantially in the location of the private way known as Aerial Street, as made and reported by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the easterly side line of Forest Street and the northerly side line of Aerial Street, thence easterly on said northerly side line of Aerial Street, a distance of 375.0 feet to a point on said northerly side line of Aerial Street, thence southerly across said Aerial Street, a distance of 40.0 feet to the southerly side line of Aerial Street, thence westerly on said southerly side line of Aerial Street, a distance of 375.0 feet to the point of intersection of said southerly side line of Aerial Street and the easterly side line of Forest Street, thence northerly on said easterly side line of Forest Street, a distance of 40.0 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled: "Plan and Profile of Aerial Street, Arlington, Mass., Scales 40 and 6, June 4, 1903, H. S. Adams, C. E."
Article 9. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a town way from Massachusetts Avenue to Glou-
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cester Street, substantially in the location of the private way known as Bailey Road, as made and reported by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound at the point of intersec- tion of the southwesterly side line of Mass. Avenue and the southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence westerly and southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve to the left with a radius of 25.0 feet, a distance of 39.27 feet to a point of tangency in said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence continuing southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, a distance of 381.21 feet to a point of curve in said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence south- westerly and southerly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 30.0 feet, a distance of 36.91 feet to the point of intersection of said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, and the northeasterly side line of Wildwood Avenue, thence westerly across said Wildwood Avenue a distance of 44.24 feet to the point of intersection of the southwesterly side line of Wildwood Avenue and the southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence westerly and southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve to the left with a radius of 30.0 feet, a distance of 40.14 feet to a point of tangency in said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence continuing southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, a distance of 398.88 feet to a point of curve in said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road, thence southwesterly and southerly on said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve
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to the left with a radius of 30.0 feet a distance of 30.74 feet to the point of intersection of said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road and the easterly side line of Gloucester Street, thence northerly on said easterly side line of Gloucester Street, a distance of 16.87 feet to a point of curve in said easterly side line of Gloucester Street, thence continuing northerly on said easterly side line of Gloucester Street on a curve to the left with a radius of 350.0 feet, a distance of 98.74 feet to the point of inter- section of said easterly side line of Gloucester Street and the northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence easterly and northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve to the left with a radius of 40.0 feet, a distance of 73.39 feet to a point of tangency in said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence continuing northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, a distance of 320.97 feet to a point of curve in said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence north- easterly and northerly on said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve to the left with a radius of 25.0 feet a distance of 45.09 feet to the point of intersection of said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road and the south- westerly side line of Wildwood Avenue, thence north- easterly across said Wildwood Avenue, a distance of 40.41 feet to the point of intersection of the northeasterly side line of Wildwood Avenue and the northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence easterly and northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road on a curve to the left with a radius of 25.0 feet, a distance of 47.78 feet to a point of tangency in said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence continuing northeasterly on said north- westerly side line of Bailey Road, a distance of 349.31 feet to a point of curve in said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, thence northeasterly and northerly on said north- westerly side line of Bailey Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 25.0 feet, a distance of 39.18 feet to the point of intersection of said northwesterly side line of Bailey Road, and the southwesterly side line of Mass.
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Avenue, thence southeasterly on said southwesterly side line of Mass. Avenue on a curve to the left with a radius of 630.56 feet, a distance of 2.91 feet to a point of tangency in said southwesterly side line of Mass. Avenue, thence continuing southeasterly on said southwesterly side line of Mass. Avenue, a distance of 97.00 feet, to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled: "Plan and Profile of Bailey Road, Arlington, Mass., Scale, Hor. 1" =40', Ver. 1" =6', March, 1923, C. H. Gannett, C. E., 53 State Street, Boston."
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