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The motion of Richard M. Healey to lay the report on the table until the March meeting being put before the meeting was lost.
On motion of Ernest W. Davis.
Voted: That the motion of the Finance Committee be taken from the table.
In view of the Amendment Ernest W. Davis offered the following substitute motion :
That the Board of Selectmen be and hereby is au- thorized to petition the General Court for legislation necessary or proper to authorize the said Board to act as a Board of Public Works, exercising the powers of surveyors of highways, road commissioners, water com- missioners and sewer commissioners; to authorize the said Board to appoint a superintendent of Public Works and designate his powers; to authorize the appointment instead of election of certain other town boards and officers; and to abolish the Board of Public Works; all as set forth in the draft of an act contained in the report of the committee appointed in pursuance of the vote of the Town passed on April 1, 1931, under Article 58 of the Warrant for the annual meeting in 1931, as amended at this meeting.
The motion was seconded, put to a vote and carried.
Discussion ensued.
Judge John G. Brackett, a member of the Commit- tee on Town Government, with permission of the Modera- tor, addressed the meeting, explaining the report.
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The substitute motion then being put before the meeting it was
Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to petition the General Court for legisla- tion necessary or proper to authorize the said Board to act as a Board of Public Works, exercising the powers of surveyors of highways, road commissioners, water commissioners and sewer commissioners ; to authorize the said Board to appoint a Superintendent of Public Works and designate his powers; to authorize the appointment instead of election of certain other town boards and officers ; and to abolish the Board of Public Works; all as set forth in the draft of an act contained in the report of the committee appointed in pursuance of the vote of the Town passed on April 1, 1931, under Article 58 of the Warrant for the annual meeting in 1931, as amended at this meeting.
An Act Authorizing the Selectmen of the Town of Arlington to Act as a Board of Public Works Exercising the Powers of Surveyors of Highways, Road Commission- ers, Water Commissioners, and Sewer Commissioners and Providing for the Appointment of Certain Other Town Boards and Officers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assem- bled and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section. 1. The board of selectmen of the Town of Arlington, as constituted from time to time, from and after the first annual election following the acceptance of this act, shall also be a board of public works, and in said capacity, shall have and exercise, under the designa- tion of selectmen, all the powers, rights and duties, now or from time to time vested by general law or special act in surveyors of highways, road commissioners, water commissioners and sewer commissioners in said town;
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and such boards and officers and the board of public works under chapter three of the acts of nineteen hun- dred and four shall thereupon be abolished during the time that this act is in operation. No contracts or lia- bilities then in force shall be affected by such abolition, but the selectmen, acting as said board of public works, shall in all respects be the lawful successor of the boards and officers so abolished.
Section 2. At the first annual election held in said town after said acceptance, the number of selectmen shall be increased to five, subject to change, however, as pro- vided in Chapter 41 of the General Laws. Such increase shall be effected in the following manner: The two members of the board of selectmen whose terms have not then expired shall continue as such members until the expiration of the terms for which they were respec- tively elected, and at such annual election there shall be elected one selectman for one year, one for two years and one for three years, and at each annual election there- after, the town shall elect successors of the members whose terms have expired, for the term of three years.
Section 3. The selectmen shall appoint and fix the compensation of, a superintendent of public works, who shall administer, under the supervision and direction of the selectmen, such departments of the town named in section one of this act, as the selectmen may from time to time designate. He shall be responsible for the effi- cient administration of all such departments and shall hold office subject to the will of the selectmen. He shall be specially fitted by education training and experience to perform the duties of said office, and may or may not be a resident of the town. During his tenure he shall hold no elective or other appointive office, nor shall he be engaged in any other business or occupation. He shall give bond to the town for the faithful performance of his
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duties, in such sum, upon such conditions, and with such surety or sureties, as the selectmen may require, and shall, subject to the approval of the selectmen, appoint such assistants, agents and employees as the perform- ance of the duties of the various departments under his administration may require. He shall keep full and com- plete records of the doings of his office and render to the selectmen as often as they may require a full report of all operations under his control during the period re- ported upon; and annually, and from time to time as required by the selectmen, he shall make a synopsis of such reports for publication. He shall keep the select- men fully advised as to the needs of the town within the scope of his duties and shall furnish to the selectmen on or before December tenth in each year a carefully pre- pared and detailed estimate in writing of the appropria- tions required during the next succeeding fiscal year for the proper conduct of all departments of the town under his administration.
Section 4. The moderator shall be elected by and from the members of the representative town meeting at the first session of the town meeting held after the annual election, for the term of one year. The tree war- den shall be appointed by the board of park commission- ers. All other officers and boards of the town, excepting the selectmen, town clerk, town treasurer, collector, the board of health, the board of public welfare, the school committee, the board of assessors, the board of park commissioners, the planning board, and members of the finance committee, shall, from and after the first annual election held following the acceptance of this act, be appointed promptly by the board of selectmen for the terms prescribed by law, provided, however, that all such other officers and members of boards shall continue to hold their offices for the remainder of the terms for which they were respectively elected, and provided also
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that this section shall not authorize the board of select- men to make any appointment required or authorized by general law, special act or town by-law, to be made by any other town officer or board.
Section 5. In accordance with the provisions of Section 23 of said Chapter 41, the said town, at any time after three years following the annual election at which this act takes effect, may rescind, in whole or in part, all action taken under its provisions.
Section 6. Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1904, and such portions of Chapter 642 of the Acts of 1920, as are in- consistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
Section 7. For the purpose of its submission to the voters of said town, this act shall take effect upon its passage, but it shall not take further effect unless ac- cepted by a majority of the legal voters of said town, present and voting thereon by ballot in their respective precincts at a special meeting called for the purpose, not later than thirty days before the annual town election in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-three. At such meeting there shall be placed upon the ballot the follow- ing question :
"Shall an act of the general court in the year nine- teen hundred and thirty-two, entitled 'An Act authorizing the selectmen of the Town of Arlington to act as a board of public works exercising the powers of surveyors of highways, road commissioners, water commissioners, and sewer commissioners, and providing for the appointment of certain other town boards and officers,' be accepted ?"
If a majority of the votes cast in answer to said question are in the affirmative, this act shall take effect beginning with and for the purpose of, the next annual election ; otherwise it shall not take effect.
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All changes suggested other than those incorporated in the foregoing bill can be made without resort to legis- lative authority, pursuant to vote of the town passed at the annual or any special town meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK W. HILL, Chairman, JOHN G. BRACKETT, ARTHUR J. WELLINGTON, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, JACOB BITZER.
Article 1 taken from the table.
There being no further business under Article 1 the Moderator declared Article 1 disposed of.
The Moderator declaring that all business in the Warrant calling this meeting having been disposed of, the meeting, on motion duly made and seconded, was declared adjourned at 9:55 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 seventh day of March, 1932, 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 two years; 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 two 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 Commis- sioner for three years; a Tree Warden for one year ; also, in each Precinct six Town Meeting Members for three
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years; Precinct 1, two Town Meeting Members for one year and two Town Meeting Members for two years; Precinct 2, three Town Meeting Members for one year ; Precinct 4, one Town Meeting Member for two years; Precinct 5, one Town Meeting Member for one year and one Town Meeting Member for two years; Precinct 6, one Town Meeting Member for one year and one Town Meet- ing Member for two years; Precinct 7, one Town Meet- ing Member for one year and two Town Meeting Members for two years ; Precinct 8, one Town Meeting Member for two years ; Precinct 9, one Town Meeting Member for one year; Precinct 10, one Town Meeting Member for one year; Precinct 11, one Town Meeting Member for two years; Precinct 13, one Town Meeting Member for one, year; Precinct 14, one Town Meeting Member for two years.
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 Rob- bins Road ; 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
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Wednesday, the twenty-third day of March, 1932, at eight o'clock in the evening, at which time and place the follow- ing articles are to be acted upon and determined ex- clusively by town meeting members, in accordance with, and subject to the referenda provided for by Chapter 642 of the Acts of 1920.
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 permanent 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 investi- gate and consider the matter of additional school accom- modations; 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 com- munity or other building as a memorial to commemorate the services and sacrifices of persons who served in the World War; 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 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, ap- pointed by the Selectmen; of the Cemetery Commission- ers under vote of the Town passed April 2, 1930 to con- struct 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
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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; of the committee under vote of the Town passed July 15, 1930 for the construction of a building to be used for High School purposes; of the committee under vote of the Town passed April 1, 1931 to investigate and study our present form of government; and of other Town Boards and officers and of the Finance and other committees heretofore appointed.
Article 4. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the purchase, installation, and/or mainte- nance of a radio transmitter and/or radio equipment for the use of the Police Department; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 5. 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.
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 Select- men and Board of Public Works; Board of Survey; Rob- bins Memorial Town Hall; Police Department; Fire De- partment ; 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 Statis-
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tics; Inspector of Animals; Sewerage System Mainte- nance; 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 Mili- tary 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 ; Workmen's Compensation Insurance Fund; Patriots' Day ; Menotomy Hall; Repairs to Houses Owned by Town; Municipal In- surance Fund; Water Department Maintenance; Ceme- teries ; Interest; Debt.
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize its Collector of Taxes to use all means of collecting taxes for the year 1932, which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes.
Article 7. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the extension of the Sewerage System; de- termine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended ; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the extension of Water Mains; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Artcle 9. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the extension of Storm Drains; 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 make an appro- priation for the construction of permanent sidewalks and for the installing of edgestones; determine in what man-
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ner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the purchase and installation of equipment in the new high school building; determine in what man- ner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the School Committee)
Article 12. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the purchase of seats for the high school auditorium; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the School Committee)
Article 13. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for the construction of a four-story connecting passageway between the old and new high school build- ings ; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended ; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the School Committee)
Article 14. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for grading and surfacing the Brackett School playground on Eastern Avenue; determine in what man- ner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the School Committee)
Article 15. To see if the Town will accept the lay- ing out of a town way from Massachusetts Avenue to Gloucester 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
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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 inter- section of the southwesterly side line of Massachusetts 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 southwesterly and southerly on said south- easterly 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 con- tinuing 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 to the left with a radius
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of 30.0 feet a distance of 30.74 feet to the point of inter- section of said southeasterly side line of Bailey Road and the easterly side line of Gloucester Street, thence north- erly on said easterly side line of Gloucester Street, a dis- tance 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 intersection 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 northeasterly 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 southwesterly side line of Wildwood Avenue, thence northeasterly 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 northwesterly. 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
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Bailey Road, and the southwesterly side line of Massa- chusetts Avenue, thence southeasterly on said southwest- erly side line of Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts Avenue, thence continuing southeasterly on said southwesterly side line of Massachusetts Avenue, a distance of 97.0 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 Bailey Road, Arling- ton, Mass., Scale, Hor. 1"=40', Ver. 1"=6', March, 1923, C. H. Gannett, C. E., 53 State Street, Boston."
Article 16. To see if the Town will accept the lay- ing out of a town way from Lake Street to Varnum Street, substantially in the location of the private way known as Brooks Avenue, as made and reported by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the pro- visions 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 re- lating thereto.
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