Town of Norwell annual report 1960-1969, Part 111

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Publication date: 1960
Publisher: The Board
Number of Pages: 2480

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The Advisory Board does not recommend this article because we favor a composite study as outlined in Article 1.

ARTICLE 4

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer $7,000.00 from the Engineering Fund voted by the Town under Article 26 of the 1967 Annual Town Meeting to employ municipal planners under the direction of the Board of Selectmen to develop individual project preliminary plans and cost estimates prior to October 1, 1967, for administrative and civic facilities such as town offices, library, youth center and police quarters based upon two determinants:

(1) Use of the present Junior High School for municipal purposes;

(2) Use of the Junior High School continued as a school; or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Selectmen

The Advisory Board does not recommend this article because we favor a composite study as outlined in Article 1.

ARTICLE 5

To see if the Town will vote to establish a panel consisting of seven

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members appointed by the Moderator from former Advisory Board per- sonnel to examine plans, data, cost estimates and judgments of the edu- cational consultants, school architects and municipal planners and to submit majority and minority opinions derived from the completed studies to the existing Advisory Board upon their request, or act on anything rela- tive thereto.

Requested by the Board of Selectmen

The Advisory Board does not recommend the establishing of this panel as such a committee would pre-empt the function and responsibility of the Advisory Board and therefore is unnecessary.

ARTICLE 6

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $260.00, or any other sum, for use by the Board of Health for the purchase of a new refrigerator-freezer for storing Board of Health vaccine, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Health

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. There are no present town facilities for storage of Board of Health's vaccines.

ARTICLE 7

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $480.00, or any other sum, to pay Board of Health bills of prior years, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Health

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. It is an obligation which the Town legally must pay.

ARTICLE 8

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $6,000.00 or any other sum, for the purchase; by the Board of Selectmen, of a sidewalk tread type tractor equipped with a V Blade and a reversible snow plow blade, as recom- mended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Department, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Highway Surveyor

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. The Town's action in having voted a sidewalk program necessitates this purchase so that the sidewalks can be kept clear and usable when snow covered and icy roads make them most needed.

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from available funds, the sum of $900.00 or any other sum, for the pur- chase by the Board of Selectmen, of a sidewalk sander, as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Department, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Highway Surveyor

ARTICLE 10

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $1,000.00 or any other sum for the pur- chase by the Board of Selectmen, of an Air Compressor and Greasing Equipment as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the High- way Department, or act on anything relative therto.

Requested by the Highway Surveyor

The Advisory Board recommends this purchase in the interests of more efficient and economical service and maintenance of our Highway De- partment machinery. This equipment can also be used for spray painting in the future.

ARTICLE 11

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $2,500.00, or any other sum, for the pur- chase by the Board of Selectmen, of a New Handy aggregate spreader, as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Depart- ment, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Highway Surveyor

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. The Highway De- partment's present spreader, used for all surface sealing on our streets, is twenty-two years old and badly in need of repair. The repair costs are prohibitive, and it will be far more economical to purchase a new spread- er.

ARTICLE 12

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $9,000.00, or any other sum, to be added to the Highway Department Snow Removal & Sanding Account, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Highway Surveyor

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. The Highway De- partment has already spent $36,000.00 of the $43,000.00 voted in our March, 1967, annual town meeting for snow removal and sanding. As was explained at the annual town meeting, each year we need approxi-

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mately $16,000.00 carryover in this account to cover snow and sanding in the early winter months. We have only $7,000.00 currently left in the account. We therefore need this additional $9,000.00 to carry through the balance of the year.

ARTICLE 13

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or appropriate from available funds the sum of $10,000.00, or any other sum, to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, for Aid under all categories of Public Welfare or Assistance, or act on anything rela- tive thereto.

Requested by the Board of Public Welfare

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation as essential to pay additional welfare bills currently in the hands of the town and presently anticipated for the balance of 1967.

ARTICLE 14

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $7,500.00, or any other sum, to be added to the Conservation Fund, under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 51 and Section 8c, as amended, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Conservation Commission

The Advisory Committee recommends only $1,500.00 be appropriated to this fund to raise their balance to $10,000.00 at this time.

ARTICLE 15

To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct the Board of Selectmen to acquire, by purchase or by a taking by eminent domain, for the purpose of a Fire Station, a portion of the parcel of land located on the Northerly side of Main Street, in Norwell, being contiguous to and Easterly of the parcel upon which the present Town Hall and Central Fire Station are located, more particularly shown on a plan entitled "PLAN OF LAND ON MAIN STREET AND CENTRAL STREET NOR- WELL", dated March 16, 1967, by Loring H. Jacobs, Registered Land Surveyor, a copy of which is on file in the Town Clerk's office, bounded and described, according to said plan, as follows:

NORTHERLY - by land of the Estate of Nellie L. Sparrell; EASTERLY - by land of Elizabeth Berry Power

SOUTHERLY - by land of the Town of Norwell

WESTERLY - by land of the Town of Norwell;

containing approximately 6,200 square feet, and outlined on said plan in red, and to meet the cost of such acquisition and the expenses in con- nection therewith the Town raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $1,500.00, or any other sum, or act on any- thing relative thereto.

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The Advisory Board recommends this action. After our March annual town meeting, it was found that the Town did not own adequate land for the fire station site due to lack of proper maps; hence this purchase is essential.

ARTICLE 16

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commis- sioners to purchase or take by eminent domain, for purposes of public water supply, a parcel of land containing approximately 12 acres, situ- ated southwesterly from Washington Street, northeasterly from High Street, southerly from Ridge Hill Road and northerly of Hall Drive, being a portion of Jacobs Poultry Farm, more particularly shown on a plan by Loring H. Jacobs, Registered Land Surveyor, a copy of which is on file in the Town Clerk's Office, said plan being made a part hereof and in- corporated herein by reference, and appropriating therefore the sum of $50,000.00, or any other sum, and to determine whether the same shall be raised by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing or by any combination of the foregoing, or take any other action relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

The Advisory Board does not recommend this appropriation because this is far too much money to pay for these twelve acres of land.

ARTICLE 17

To see if the Town will vote to advise the Board of Water Commis- sioners to maintain or increase the existing Town Water Rates after re- viewing the report on Article 37 of the 1966 Annual Town Meeting, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

The Advisory Board does not recommend either that the Town vote to maintain or to increase water rates. This is a prerogative presently belonging to the Water Commissioners, and they should set the rates. The Advisory Board does recommend, however, that the Water Depart- ment be operated on a completely self-supporting basis.

ARTICLE 18

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commis- sioners to acquire, by purchase or by a taking by eminent domain, for the purpose of public water supply, a parcel of land and fifty foot access strip, located on the Northerly side of Mt. Blue Street, in Norwell, said access strip starting at Mt. Blue Street and running to a parcel of land near the top of Judges Hill, more particularly shown on a plan entitled "PLAN OF LAND IN NORWELL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUP- PLY TOWN OF NORWELL", dated March 22, 1967, by Loring H. Jacobs, Registered Land Surveyor, a copy of which is on file in the Town Clerk's. office, the total land area involved being 6.56 acres, according to said plan, and to appropriate therefor, and the expenses in connection there- with, the sum of $7,500.00 or any other sum, and to determine whether

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the same shall be raised by taxation, by borrowing, by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of the foregoing, or act on any- thing relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

The Advisory Board recommends this action. The purchase of this land is necessary in order to run pipe, a road, and utility poles to Judge's Hill for the new water standpipe.

ARTICLE 19

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to prepare and submit a petition to the General Court requesting authori- zation for the Town of Norwell to pay the sum of $1,250.00 as damages for land, taken by the Town for purposes of public water supply, located near the Hingham-Norwell Town line, northerly of Grove Street, and formerly owned, in whole or in part by John F. Burns, or act on any- thing relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

This article will be rewritten before Town Meeting. The Advisory Board therefore is withholding its recommendation until Town Meeting.

ARTICLE 20

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commis- sioners to convey, or otherwise grant, an easement, fifty feet in width, for all purposes that public ways may be used in the Town of Norwell, over the Northwesterly portion of the land owned by the Town and being used for the purpose of public water supply, located on the Northerly side of Grove Street, shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Norwell for Development of Water Supply Town of Norwell", dated March 24, 1961, by Loring H. Jacobs, Registered Land Surveyor, to the Edward T. Dwyer Contracting Corporation, the exact terms and conditions of the easement and the location thereof to be established by the Board of Water Commissioners, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

The Advisory Board will make its recommendation at Town Meeting.

ARTICLE 21

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $10,000.00 or any other sum, to be added to the Water Department - Land and Rights Account, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Water Commissioners, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners

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ARTICLE 22

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $14,000.00, or any other sum, for the laying or relaying of water mains, of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter, under the direction of the Board of Water Commissioners, in Pine Street in a northerly direc- tion from the termination location of the new water main authorized by Article 65 of the 1967 Annual Town Meeting for a distance of approxi- mately 1800 feet, and to determine whether the same shall be raised by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or by any com- bination of the foregoing, or take any other action relative thereto.

Requested by 100 Registered Voters

The Advisory Board does not recommend that the Town approve further extensions of our water mains at this meeting. We believe that the Town has already committed itself to several thousand dollars more in the way of water extension expenditures than the suggested $75,000.00 yearly allo- cation for normal development of our water services. It would seem un- wise to disrupt this water program; furthermore we understand that this Pine Street extension is included in the Water Board's plans for 1968.

ARTICLE 23

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $19,000.00, or any other sum, for the laying and relaying of water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter, in Bowker Street from the end of the existing main for a distance of about 3,000 feet and to determine whether the same shall be raised by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or by any combination of the fore- going, or take any other action relative thereto.

Requested by 100 Registered Voters

The Advisory Board does not recommend this action. The street pres- ently is only twelve feet wide. A layout should be prepared of this street before any action is taken relative to the installation of water. This whole matter should be thoroughly discussed with the Water Commissioners and the Highway Commissioner before installation of water mains is considered.

ARTICLE 24

To see if the Town will vote Pursuant to General Laws, Chapter 140, section 167 and 168, it is hereby ordered that all dogs within the limits of the Town of Norwell shall be muzzled or restrained from running at large during the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. Owners or keepers of dogs who violate this Order and who, after receipt of notice of the Order, and the notice of the violation, thereof, refuse or neglect for twelve (12) hours thereafter to muzzle or restrain such dogs as so required, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00).

It is further ordered that the Town Clerk forthwith cause certified copies of this Order to be posted in two or more public places in this town and that the said order be published in two daily newspapers cir- culated in this Town, and that certified copies of this Order be made

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available to the Dog Officer and Police Department, as requested by them for service upon owners or keepers of dogs who violate this Order.

This order shall take effect upon its publication aforesaid, as peti- tioned by the Dog Officer.

Requested by the Dog Officer

The Advisory Board does not recommend this action. We appreciate the problems confronting our dog officer and are convinced that a dog problem exists. However, we do not believe this article will provide an effective means of coping with this problem.

ARTICLE 25

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, to be added to the Town Treasurer's Bonding Cost Account, or act on anything rela- tive thereto.

Requested by the Town Treasurer

The Advisory Board recommends this appropriation. This fund is neces- sary to pay the bonding costs for the new fire station which was voted at the March, 1967, annual town meeting.

You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting a copy thereof, attested to by you in writing, at each of five public places in the Town, seven days at least before the time for holding the meeting called for in the Warrant.

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town on or before the twenty-second day of May, 1967.

Given under our hands at Norwell this 8th day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, 1967.

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RECORD OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING

MAY 22, 1967

The Special Town Meeting called by a Warrant under the hands of the Selectmen, opened at 7:35 P.M. on May 22, 1967; with Moderator David Lee Turner in charge, with 205 registered voters in attendance. The total number of voters checked in during the evening was 334.

Non-registered residents were voted to be admitted and were seated in the first row to the left of the Moderator, on the floor of the hall. The Moderator appointed and swore as Tellers: Orville Devine, Harold Cran- ton and Rollin Bailey.

At the request of the Moderator, the Town Clerk read the service of the Warrant by Constable Harland W. Farrar, and it was voted to omit the reading of the Warrant until the articles were taken up for action.

The Moderator announced that Selectman Theodore R. Love was con- fined to the New England Baptist Hospital with a coronary attack.

ARTICLE 1

It was moved and seconded that the Town appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 to be used by the Board of Selectmen, to employ, through a single firm, the services of experienced and established educational re- search consultants, school architects, and municipal planners, to meet with and review the plans, programs and recommendations of the Board of Selectmen, the Planning Board and the School Committee, and any other party at interest if so requested, to study, to advise and to report on the following:

1. Our current and future kindergarten, elementary, and secondary grade needs including curriculum, personnel, capacity requirements, and comprehensive facility development;

2. The projected school population and enrollment for each and all grades, (kindergarten through twelfth grade), for each of the years 1968 through 1980;

3. The needed new school and municipal building space to properly house the Town's projected increases in school population and mun- icipal staff growth for the years 1968 through 1980;

4. A construction timetable for needed new building space as recom- mended above;

5. Estimated costs for all proposed construction and remodeling for such additional space requirements;

6. Comparative merits of a new free-standing senior high school ver- sus an addition to the existing senior high school;

7. Preliminary plans and cost estimates for the remodeling of the junior high school to its best use as a school within its present capacity and further consideration of its potential for future en- largement;

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8. Preliminary plans and cost estimates for administration and civic facilities, such as town offices, library, teen center, and police headquarters, based upon two considerations:

a. Use of the present junior high school for municipal purposes, b. Continued use of the junior high school as a school;

9. If the junior high school cannot be remodeled and expanded from an economic and school administrative point of view, consideration of the advisability of building a new junior high school in 1974 instead of building a new senior high school and continuing with an addition to the senior high school;

10. The advisability of having the Town's administrative offices located adjacent to the school complex;

11. The advisability of moving the Town's administrative offices from the historic center of the Town;

12. The advisability of a Town library being located in or adjacent to the school complex;

13. The advisability of a new free-standing library and recommendations as to its most suitable location;

14. A review of the municipal building plans submitted by Whitman and Howard to the March 1967, Annual Town Meeting and recommenda- tions as to its value as a part of the Town's municipal expansion plans; and upon the completion of this study a printed summary re- port to be prepared by the consultants and distributed by the Board of Selectmen to all registered voters or cause to have a copy left at each dwelling house or apartment at least one month prior to the closing date of any Warrant for a Town Meeting which contains articles, or an article, for consideration of the action to be taken as a result of the study, with a copy of the complete study, advise and report to be made available for public use at the Town Hall, all Town libraries and at all Public School Buildings; that the complete study and report include recommendations as to what course of action the Town should pursue, with sufficient data to substantiate such recom- mendations; and to meet the appropriation the Town appropriate and transfer from the Engineering Fund, established under Article 26 of the 1967 Annual Town Meeting, the sum of $5,000.00, and raise and appropriate the sum of $15,000.00.

An amendment was made as follows: Moved that the Town appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 to be used by a committee appointed by the Town Moderator to consist of one member from each - the School Committee, the Planning Board, the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee, the Board of Selectmen and the Advisory Board. This amendment FAILED TO CARRY.

The Main motion was VOTED - 167 for, 102 opposed.

ARTICLE 2

VOTED to indefinitely postpone action on Article 2.

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ARTICLE 3

VOTED to indefinitely postpone action on Article 3.

ARTICLE 4

VOTED to indefinitely postpone action on Article 4.

ARTICLE 5

VOTED to indefinitely postpone action on Article 5.

ARTICLE 6

VOTED that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $260.00 for use by the Board of Health for the purchase of a new refrigerator-freezer for storing Board of Health vaccine.

ARTICLE 7

VOTED that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $480.00 to pay Board of Health bills of prior years.

ARTICLE 8

VOTED that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,718.30 for the purchase, by the Board of Selectmen, of a sidewalk tread type tractor equipped with a V-blade and a reversible snow plow blade, as recom- mended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Department.

ARTICLE 9

A motion made and seconded, but DEFEATED, to raise and appropriate the sum of $875.00 for the purchase by the Board of Selectmen, of a side- walk sander, as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Department.

ARTICLE 10

VOTED that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $992.50 for the purchase by the Board of Selectmen, of an Air Compressor and Greasing Equipment as recommended by the Highway Surveyor, for use by the High- way Department.

VOTED to reconsider Article 8. VOTED that the Town raise and ap- propriate the sum of $5,718.30 for the purchase, by the Board of Select- men, of a sidewalk tread type tractor equipped with a V-blade and rever- sible snow plow blade, as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the Highway Department.

Motion made, seconded but DEFEATED to reconsider Article 9.

ARTICLE 11

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the purchase by the Board of Selectmen, of a new Handy aggregate spreader, as recommended by the Highway Surveyor for use by the High- way Department.

ARTICLE 12

VOTED that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $9,000.00 to be added to the Highway Department Snow Removal & Sanding Account.

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Town of Norwell annual report 1960-1969, Part 111

Author: Publication date: 1960 Publisher: The Board Number of Pages: 2480

Author:
Publication date: 1960
Publisher: The Board
Number of Pages: 2480