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436.51
18,250.99
Fire & Police Signal System:
Personal Services
6,549.81
6,549.81
6,546.24
3.57
Expense
2,341.00
2,344.81
2,334.84
Capital Outlay
2,688.91
11,486.20
14,175.11
12,005.16
2,169.95
Out-of-State Travel
300.00
94.00
394.00
300.00
94.00
Building Inspector: Personal Services Expense
13,758.50
13,758.50
13,758.50
1,299.00
1,299.00
598.80
426.52
273.68
Personal Services
$ 2,627.50
18.80
2,646.30 432.50
2,242.14
404.16
Expense
432.50
266.01
166.49
368
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
.
3.81
9.97
Boards of Appeal:
.
Personal Services
Personal Services
Wire Inspector:
Personal Services
8,278.50
8,278.50
8,278.50
Expense
1,290.00
1,290.00
980.08 300.00
114.19
196.73
Out-of-State Travel
300.00
Capital Outlay
228.64
300.00 228.64
221.07
7.57
Sealer of Weights:
3,673.00 730.00
730.00
583.73
146.27
Out-of-State Travel
150.00
150.00
150.00
Gypsy Moth:
Personal Services
18,326.93
18,326.93
17,465.18
Expense
4,393.00
11.14
4,404.14
2,175.33
Capital Outlay
98.61
2,300.00
2,398.61
2,251.75
Out-of-State Travel
250.00
250.00
250.00
Tree Warden:
Personal Services
12,341.75
116.42
12,458.17
11,077.22
606.32
774.63
Expense
1,933.00
1,933.00
1,311.93
227.35
393.72
Capital Outlay
2,850.00
2,850.00
2,850.00
Civil Defense:
Personal Services
3,461.00
4,337.50
3,604.58
732.92
Capital Outlay
4,672.29
1,543.00
6,619.14
2,610.75
4,008.39
Art. 5-Twn. Mtg. '51
3,192.70
212.00
3,404.70
3,357.85
46.85
Board of Health:
Personal Services
14,083.00
451.00
14,534.00
14,534.00
Expense
2,200.00
2,200.00 200.00
1,569.42
38.48
592.10
Capital Outlay
200.00
Communicable Diseases
15,000.00
15,000.00
9,636.74
5,363.26
Mosquito Control
2,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
Premature Baby Care
2,000.00
2,000.00
765.76
1,234.24
Inspector of Animals: Personal Services
630.00 24,000.00
.70
24,000.70
16,846.87
2,436.89 2,4
8,728.01
75,000.00
1,111.88
84,839.89
37,868.05
3,779.27
4,716.94 43,192.57 230.09
Ext. Sewers & Storm Drains-Art. 27 . Sewer Extension :
27,732.50
27,732.50
24,665.01
2,837.40
53.30
Reserve for Damages
270.57
191.88
462.45
Art. 14-Summer Street
5,700.00
5,700.00
5,700.00
Storm Drains
10,374.60
40,000.00
3,147.49
11,834.68
2,144.96
39,542.45
Storm Drains Hemlock & Pine Streets
482.82
482.82
Storm Drains Res. for Damages
48.20
194.79
242.99
242.99
Collection of Ashes, Rubbish, Offal
175,000.00
175,000.00
154,941.10
19,014.51
1,044.39
369
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
876.50 3.09
1,850.00
1,853.09
1,360.31
88.73
404.05
403.85
630.00
630.00
Sewer Maintenance
Sewer Extensions
Udine Street Area-Art. 15
53.30
53.30 462.45
200.00
Personal Services
3,673.00
3,673.00
Expense
412.38
861.75 1,816.43 146.86
Expense
53,522.09 482.82
.
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES-Continued
Balance Dec. 31, 1952
Appropri - ation 1953
Other Credits
Total
Expended
Trans- ferred
Balance Dec. 31, 1953
Highway Maint. Wages, Mat. & Exp.
200,000.00 43,385.00
67.619.88
267,619.88
248,519.79
5,147.47
13,952.62
Highway Capital Outlay
20,912.00
2,235.00
66,532.00
47,096.30
7,732.40
11,703.30
1950 Street Construction
14,998.01
14,998.01
843.39
88.86
14,065.76
1951 Street Construction
61,532.26
40.72
61,572.98
5,044.64
616.28
55,912.06
1952 Street Construction
27,217.21
205,755.91
564.23
206,320.14
102,369.61
5,028.01
98,922.52
Construction-Fremont Street
2,277.40
2,277.40
90.09
2,187.31
Construction Columbia & Stowecroft Roads
2,274.93
2,274.93
2,274.93
Reserve for Damages - Columbia and Stowecroft Roads
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1949 Fremont St. Constr. Res. Dam. . .
96.72
96.72
68.84
27.88
1950 St. Constr .- Res. for Damages
1,008.27
1,008.27
1,008.27
1951 St. Constr .- Res. for Damages
193.07
193.07
193.07
Repairs Bridge - Lowell St.
15,000.00
15,000.00
15,000.00
Alterations-Franklin St.
10,471.13
10,471.13
5,209.27
685.58
4,576.28
Easements in Land-Article 45
2,200.00
2,200.00
2,200.00
Easements in Land Fremont Street ..
500.00
500.00
500.00
Easements in Land Columbia and Stowecroft Roads
500.00
500.00
500.00
Easements in Land 1951
1,300.00
1,300.00
1,300.00
Easements in Land 1952
500.00
500.00
500.00
Easements in Land 1953
800.00
800.00
800.00
Reconstr. of Mass. Ave. & Mystic St.
847.45
847.45
847.45
Reconstr. Mass. Ave., Broadway and Lake Streets
2,308.23
2,308.23
2,308.23
Reconstr. Mass. Ave & Broadway
3,331.04
3,331.04
3,331.04
Relocation-Alt. & Wid., Broadway & Massachusetts Avenue
1,049.68
1,049.68
1,049.68
Reconstr. Mass. Ave., Medford and Pleasant Streets
9,068.37
26,330.13
35,398.50
35,054.91
279.10
64.49
Reconstr. Sts. & Sidewalks-Park Cir. & Ave.
1,705.94
1,705.94
1,318.50
339.45
47.99
Reconstr. Mass. Ave. or Summer St. . Reconstr. Forest St.
10,600.00
19,142.91
29,742.91
26,422.77
2,669.26
650.88
2,500.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
Alt. River St .- Reserve for Damages . Sidewalks & Edgestones .
7.18
7.18
7.18
11,810.15
20,000.00
411.44
32,221.59
25,897.22
2,484.56
3,839.81
370
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
27,217.21
7,652.88
40.44
19,523.89
1953 Street Construction
.
Sidewalks & Edgestones Summer and Forest Streets
2,832.75
2,832.75
2,832.75
Exterior Lines-Heath Rd. fr. Norcross Snow & Ice Removal
15.73
60,166.10
97.18 2,148.60
15.73 60,263.28 7,148.60
43,351.62 7,106.20 75,136.24
42.40 45.00
1,454.84
Ornamental Lighting Christmas
3,250.00
3,250.00
1,933.00
1,317.00
Traffic Signals:
Personal Services
8,295.16
8,295.16
7,936.12
348.16
10.88
Expense
5,080.00
5,080.00
3,838.47
833.46
408.07
Capital Outlay
4,066.69
2,050.00
6,116.69
3,272.81
1,600.94
1,242.94
Parking Meters:
6,948.83
6,948.83
5,062.94
1,885.89
Expense
2,015.00
2,056.75
1,851.78
204.97
Capital Outlay
1,966.35
3,200.00
5,166.35
1,283.50
3,882.85
Welfare:
Personal Services
29,428.71
161.13
29,589.84
29,589.84
Expense
2,800.00
164.31
2,964.31
2,735.20
229.11
10.22
Disability Assistance
37.000.00
612.00
37,612.00
34,529.35
3,082.65
Aid to Dependent Children-Aid
40,000.00
486.65
40,486.65
21,560.00
18,926.65
Old Age Assistance-Aid
360,000.00
4,233.48
364,233.48
337,330.69
26,902.79
District Nurses & Others
3,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
Veterans' Services:
10,078.50
10,078.50
9,804.10
274.40
Expense
1,770.00
1,770.00
1,280.30
489.70
Capital Outlay
150.00
150.00
146.70
3.30
Benefits-Relief-State Aid
28,750.00
486.26
29,236.26
26,718.50
35.09
2,482.67
Schools:
General Control
28,641.00
28,641.00
25,659.46
419.50
2,562.04
Instructional Services
1,238,798.00
1,241,054.66
1,206,212.51
4,369.44
30,472.71
Operation of Plant
187,295.00
2,567.50
189,862.50
171,218.22
9,366.49
9,277.79
Maintenance of Plant
113,060.00
267.44
113,327.44
84,048.86
15,830.16
13,448.42
28,510.00
28,510.00
25,084.62
1,991.61
1,433.77
45,231.00
30.08
45,261.08
33,776.73
4,619.87
6,864.48
Future Schools-Article 20
1,400.00
1,400.00
Teachers-Contributory Retirement
2,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
Schools-Vocational Tuition
2,216.79
4,760.00
6,976.79
2,628.25
4,348.54
Schools-Out-of-State Travel
1.94
200.00
201.94
199.77
2.17
Arl. State Aided Voc. School
500.00
814.09
1,314.09
1,131.37
182.72
Geo. H. Lowe Jr. Auditorium
16.55
16.55
16.55
Out-of-State Travel
200.00
200.00
189.78
Capital Outlay Aid
2,070.00
2,070.00
1,426.50
643.50
60,000.00
61.90
60,061.90
53,295.84
6,766.06
$
.
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
371
9,689.41
15.73 7,222.25
Maint. of Snow Removal Equipment
5,000.00
Street Lighting
76,636.08
76,636.08
Personal Services
41.75
.
.
2,256.66
Auxiliary Agencies & Activities Capital Outlay
1,400.00
Personal Services
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES-Continued
Balance Dec. 31, 1952
Appropri- ation 1953
Other Credits
Total
Expended
Trans- ferred
Balance Dec. 31, 1953
Bishop School-Article 7
1,166.17
1,166.17
880.45
285.72
Committee-Plans for New School
308.81
308.81
Plans & Est. Imp. Jr. High West
699.85
699.85
699.85
Jr. High West Bldg. Committee .
19,564.95
19,564.95
19,564.95
Hardy School Bldg. Committee
532.10
532.10
532.10
Art. 54-Discharge of Moral Obligation
1,886.60
1,886.60
1,886.60
Study School Sites
4,000.00
4,000.00
4,000.00
Russell School Improvements
20,000.00
20,000.00
Physical Ed. Program
6,000.00
6,000.00
4,565.72
1,434.28
School Lunch Program
6,000.00
6,000.00
6,000.00
Library:
Personal Services Expense
83,046.50 37,669.00 4,850.00
28.62 2,000.00
10,398.25
5,293.11
5,105.14
Imp. & Reconstr. E. Arl. Br'nch Libr'y
6,925.20
6,925.20
6,624.35
300.85
Parks & Playgrounds:
65,600.00
1,739.80
67,339.80
63,130.80
.36
4,208.64
Expense
12,725.00
175.65
12,900.65
11,297.91
1,561.30
41.44
Capital Outlay
4,808.46
26,836.00
31,644.46
16,071.78
5,805.58
9,767.10
Out-of-State Travel
75.00
75.00
53.96
21.04
Acquisition of Land-Playgrounds
3,952.50
3,952.50
3,952.50
Warren A. Peirce Playground: Expense
2,190.00
2,056.90
80.75 742.00
52.35
Capital Outlay
43.74
2,190.00 6,825.00
458.71
7,327.45
6,585.45
Plans for Developing Robbins Farm
250.00
250.00
250.00
Waldo Rd. Playground Improvement
1,114.14
1,114.14
409.52
704.62
311.50
Memorial Day
1,800.00
1,800.00
1,799.83
.17
Maintenance of Menotomy Hall Expense
4,225.00
4,225.00
3,357.92
16.26
850.82
Workmen's Compensation
18,500.00
21,585.00
40,085.00
40,054.58
Pensions
67,529.55
74,802.47
74,802.47
Retirement Board-Cont. Ret. System
33,468.11
33,468.11
33,468.11
Printing Town Reports
2,594.43
2,594.43
2,594.43
372
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
..
.
.
83,046.50
81,180.60
81.60
1,784.30
37,697.62
36,204.28
1,479.91
13.43
Capital Outlay
3,548.25
2,959.00
2,959.00
2,647.50
400.00
5.00
405.00
405.00
3,497.50
3,497.50
3,347.50
150.00
Insurance-Fire-Liability- Burglary
..
30,300.00
135.07
30,435.07
26,144.68
4,290.39
2.10
28.32
7,272.92
. .
308.81
..
20,000.00
Personal Services and Wages
Public Wks. Repairs to Town Property Patriots' Day Observance
Maintenance Honor Roll Board
150.50
13,378.56
600.00 40,000.00
1,858.99
150.50 13,378.56 600.00 161,384.49 9,428.86
21.03 8,315.41 550.00 5,735.89 6,095.10 167,361.14
50.00 79.90
155,568.70 3,271.36
Article 6
71,478.05
162,000.00
3.75
233,481.80 138,744.28 19,401.62
119,132.12
14,121.16
5,491.00
Emergency Valve Insertions
470.92
12,500.00
13,117.19
2,605.49
8,778.19
1,733.51
6,257.77
75,000.00
4,907.92
86,165.69
71,468.33
4,607.18
10,090.18
Water Main. Sup. Line-Turkey Hill Standpipe
168.00
168.00
168.00
Water Ext. Reserve for Damages
652.36
652.36
652.36
Turkey Hill Water Main-Reserve for Damages
49.00
49.00
49.00
Cemetery :
Personal Services & Wages
44,579.84
39,682.75
4,897.09
Expense Capital Outlay
2,400.00
2,572.50
2,011.64
20.22
540.64
Acquisition of Land for Cemetery
141.82
141.82
141.82
Cemetery-Improvement of Land
2,807.22
11,500.00
14,307.22
12,238.80
1,025.13
1,043.29
Land for Ext. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Purchase of Burial Rights
1,124.00
1,124.00
206.00
126.00
792.00
Interest
25,965.00
25,965.00
23,653.92
2,311.08
Town Debt
115,000.00
115,000.00
115,000.00
GRAND TOTALS
$477,872.42
$5,704,005.95
$202,059.95
$6,383,938.32
$5,132.193.70
$221,757.12
$1,029,987.50
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
129.47 5,063.15
Symmes Arl. Hospital Claims & Chgs. Marine Corps League
Ad. & Alt. Robbins Mem. Town Hall Repairs-Town Yard Building
9,428.86
62.40
66,120.66
Water Maint., Wages, Material & Exp. Water-House Connections ยท
130,000.00 17,000.00
8,744.28 2,401.62
9,619.71
9,531.73
250.18
470.92
470.92
Water Dept. Maint .- Capital Outlay .. Water Extensions
617.19
44,579.84 4,185.00
8,567.34 172.50
12,752.34
3,009.36
260.16
9,482.82
297.48
297.48
297.48
119,525.50
373
INDEX
Index to
General
Index
Accts. Report
A
Accountant Report
332
341
Animals, Inspector of, Reports
167
347
Appeals. Boards of, Report
141 342-345
Appropriations and Expenditures
64
Assessors. Board of, Report
236
341
Assets and Liabilities, Statement of
333
B
Balance Sheet, December 31, 1953
333
Betterment Assessment Collections
235
338
Births Registered for the year
133
Buildings, Inspector of, Report
185
345
Buildings, Insurance Fund, 1953
294
C
Cemeteries, Commissioners of, Report
160 360-361
Cemetery. Sale of Lots in
360
Charities
350-351
Civil Defense, Department of, Report
154
347
Clerk, Town, Report
131 342-343
Collector of Taxes, Statement of
235
Committees, Town, Appointed
9
Constables
7
Contributory Retirement System 219
D
Death Rate by Months
135
Dog Officer, Report
139
344
Dogs Registered 131
E
Election, Annual Town, March 2, 1953
41
Elections and Town Meetings, Payments
343
Engineer, Town Report
188 342-343
F
Finance Committee, Report
221 341
Fines and Forfeits
338
Fire Department, Report
229 344-345
Fire and Police Signal System
161
345
Fund, Annie L. Hill Poor Widows' 304
Fund, Maria L. Hill Poor Widows'
304
Fund, Children's Book
309
INDEX - Continued
General Index
Index to Accts. Report
Fund, Dexter Rawson Fay Library
311
Fund, Trustees of Elbridge Farmer 316
Fund, Ellen W. Hodgdon Library 309
Fund, Emma L. Sprague Library 310
Fund, Emma L. Sprague Poor Widows'
305
Fund, E. Nelson Blake, Jr., Memorial
Fund, E. S. Farmer Poor Widows'
301
Fund, E. S. Farmer Relief
301
Fund, Henry Mott Library 311
Fund, Julia Fillebrown 306
Fund, M. Helen Teele Library 312
Fund, Martha M. W. Russell School 306
Fund, Martha M. W. Russell Poor Widows' 303
Fund, Mary Cutter Poor Widows' 303
Fund, Municipal Buildings Insurance. 294
Fund, Nathan Pratt High School
298
Fund, Nathan Pratt Library 298
Fund, Nathan Pratt Poor Widows' 299
295
Fund, Robbins Cemetery 296
Fund, Robbins House Maintenance Fund 307
313
Fund, Robbins Library Print
313
Fund, Robbins Scholarship
317
Fund, Samuel C. Bucknam Cemetery 297
Fund, Sarah Ross Vaughn Memorial
310
Fund, Soldiers Monument 297
Fund, Francis E. Thompson Library
312
Fund, Francis E. Thompson Scholarship 315
Fund, Timothy Wellington Library 308
Fund, William Cutter School 305
Fund, Workmen's Compensation
293
G
General Government Expenditures. 341
Grants and Gifts 338
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Department, Report .. 166 347
H
Harvard, Survey of Schools, Report 170
Health, Board of, Report 223 346-347
Highway Division, Board of Public Works 261 348-349
Housing Authority
140
Fund, E. Nelson Blake Library
308
300
Fund, Perpetual Care, Cemeteries
Fund, Robbins Library Art
INDEX - Continued
Index to Accts.
General
Index
Report
I
Income Tax, State
336
Indebtedness, Municipal
360-361
Insurance, Payments
357
Interest
360-361
J
Jurors, List of
282
L
Librarian, Report 215
Libraries, Receipts and Payments
354-355
Library, Robbins, Report of Trustees
212
Licenses and Permits, Receipts
336
M
Maintenance, Supervisor of, Report
328
341
Manager, Report of
324
341
Marriages Registered for the Year
134
Medical Inspector, Report of
149
Meeting, Annual Town, March 16, 1953
54
Meeting, Special, July 27, 1953
111
Meeting. Special, October 7, 1953
123
Memorial Day, Payments
357
Milk, Inspector of, Report
226
347
Moth Department, Report
166
347
O
Officers. Town, Appointive
7
Officers, Town, Elective
5
P
Park Commission, Report
145 354-355
Payments, Departmental
341
Pensions and Annuities
355
Personnel Department, Report
186
341
Physician. Town, Report
149
Planning Board, Report
137
343
Police, Chief of, Report
241
344-345
Police Department, Officers and Men
241
Public Service Enterprises
358-359
Public Welfare, Dept. of, Report
208 350-351
Public Works, Dept. of, Report
259 343
Purchasing Dept., Report of
327 341
INDEX - Continued
Index to
General
Index
Accts. Report
R
Receipts, General Revenue
336
Receipts, Taxes
336
Recreation, Receipts and Payments
354-355
Registrars of Voters, Report
136
Resolution, Hallam T. Ring
117
Robbins Library, Report of Trustees
212
S
Sanitary Division, Dept. of Public Works
266 348-349
School Committee, Report
168
Schools, Receipts and Payments
352-353
Schools, Superintendent of, Report
170
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report
144 345
Selectmen, Board of, Report
318
340-341
Sewer Division, Dept of. Public Works
267
349
Slaughtering, Inspector of, Report
226
Special Assessments
338
Statistics, General
4 207 237
Streets, Public and Private
189
T
Tax Rate, How Spent
239
Tax Rate, Recapitulation
236
Taxes
336
Town Clerk, Report
131
342-343
Town Counsel, Report
142
343
Town House Grounds, Report
166
343
Town Manager, Report of
324
341
Town Officers, Appointive
7
Town Officers, Elective
5
Town Records
11
Treasurer, Report
234 340-341
Tree Warden, Report
165
347
U
Unexpended Balances, Appropriation Accounts
364-365
Veterans' Services, Report of V 156 350-351
W
Water Division, Dept. of Public Works
270 358-359
Welfare, Public, Dept. of, Report
208 350-351
Wire Department, Report
164
345
Workmen's Compensation Insurance Fund
293
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