Town of Norwell annual report 1960-1969, Part 68

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

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Requested by the Planning Board.

ARTICLE 28

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $500.00, or any other sum, for use by the Athletic Field Committee for the purpose of obtaining preliminary engineering assistance as may be needed to determine the suitability of the site proposed for athletic fields, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Planning Board.

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ARTICLE 29

To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of not less than three (3) nor more than five (5) men- bers, and to name a chairman of this committee, for the purpose of studying the advisability of obtaining additional land adjacent to, or in the immediate vicinity of, the Town Hall for the purpose of providing for future con- struction of new combined quarters for the Fire Department, Police Depart- ment and Communications Center; and to further instruct said committee to submit a report and recommendations at the next Annual Town Meeting, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Planning Board.

ARTICLE 30

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $6,500.00, or any other sum, to purchase or to take by eminent domain a parcel of land located on Grove Street containing 6.5 acres, being Parcel No. 60 as shown on Sheet R7 on Atlas of Town of Norwell, for use as a Town Garage site, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Planning Board.

ARTICLE 31

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $5,000.00, or any other sum, to purchase or to take by eminent domain a parcel of land on Main Street for use as a Town Garage site. Said parcel to be purchased or taken to consist of Parcel 2, containing one (1) acre and that portion of Parcel 3, westerly of the high tension easement, containing four (4) acres more or less, both as shown on Atlas of Norwell, Sheet R20, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Planning Board.

ARTICLE 32

To see if the Town will vote to purchase, or take by eminent domain, for sewage disposal purposes, a parcel of land on the southwesterly side of Grove Street in Norwell, containing about six and a half acres of land, owned by Walter J. Breen and Robert J. Breen, being the property described in deed to them, dated December 7, 1948, recorded in Book 2032, Page 107, of the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds; and to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars therefor, or such other sum, or sums, as the Town may vote, or

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act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Health.

ARTICLE 33

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars, or any other sum, to be used by the Board of Health to procure a suitable engin- eering survey and the drawing of a definite plan for a night soil disposal field on the six and a half acres of land, more or less, which is the subject of the preceding Article, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Health.

ARTICLE 34

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $4,000.00, or any other sum, or sums, to be expended under the direction of the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee, for the purpose of employing a Registered Sanitary Engineer or other professional engineers, to investigate and report on the sewage disposal facilities and conditions at the Center Elementary School and the Junior and Senior High Schools, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee.

ARTICLE 35

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $75,000.00, or any other sum, or sums, to be expended under the direction of the Perma- nent Building and Maintenance Committee, for the purpose of hiring an architect to develop final plans and specifications for an addition to the present Town Hall and for the Construction and original equipping and furnishing of the addition to the Town Hall, and to meet such appropriation by appropriating the sum of $5,000.00, or any other sum, or sums, from available funds and by authorizing the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow for and on behalf of the Town of Norwell, the sum of $70,000.00, or any other sum, or sums, for said purpose, by the issuance of bonds and notes, under the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, or both, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee. ARTICLE 36

Will the Town vote to reduce the number of members of the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee, as established under Article 29 of the

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1962 Annual Town Meeting, from eleven members to seven members, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Permanent Building and Maintenance Committee.

ARTICLE 37

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, said sum to be added to the Pumping Station and Mains Account and to be spent, in conjunction with the present account balance, for necessary equipment to connect the new well site to the existing system, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners.

ARTICLE 38

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $5,000.00, or any other sum, said sum to be spent to conduct tests for new well or water sources sites, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners.

ARTICLE 39

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 purchase of a hydraulic ram attachment for the Town tractor to be used to tunnel under highways for the installation of water services, such device to be operated and maintained under the tractor loader account, or act on · anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners.

ARTICLE 40

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $40,000.00, or any other sum, to install water mains of not less than six inches, but less than sixteen inches in diameter, in Grove Street, from the end of the existing main installed in 1963, for a distance of approximately 6500 feet to the end of the existing water main in the westerly section of Grove Street, and to meet such ap- propriation by raising and appropriating from the tax levy of 1964, or from available funds in the Treasury, the sum of $40,000.00, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners.

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ARTICLE 41

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $15,000.00, or such other sum as the Town may vote, to purchase or take by eminent domain, for the protection of the Pleasant Street Town Water Source or well, 88.4 acres, more or less, of land, on the easterly side of Pleasant Street as shown on "Plan of Land for Protection and/or Development of Water Supply - Town of Norwell, June 18, 1963 - by Loring H. Jacobs, Reg. Land Surveyor," or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Water Commissioners.

ARTICLE 42

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 the General Laws, Chap- ter 40, Section 5, Clause 51 and Section 8c, as amended, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Conservation Commission.

ARTICLE 43

To see if the Town, pursuant to General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 8B, will adopt a by-law establishing a Council for the Aging, for the purpose of co-ordinating programs designed to meet the problems of the aging in co-ordination with the programs of the Council for the Aging, established under General Laws, Chapter 6 Section 73, by amending the Town By-Laws as follows: or act on anything relative thereto:

1. In the Town By-Laws, page 19, Article VI, Section 1, add in the list of officials appointed by the Selectmen, between "Constables" and "Dog Officer," a new phrase, "Council for the Aging."

2. In the Town By-Laws, revise page 21 (twenty-one) so that:

(a) A new heading and section appear at the top of the page as follows:

"Council for the Aging"

"Section 1. The Board of Selectmen shall appoint from registered voters of the Town five members, shall designate the Chairman, and shall take such further action as is required to establish and maintain a Council for the Aging for the Town, in accordance with General Laws Chapter 40 Section 8B and to promote the co-ordina- tion of its programs with those of the State Council for the Aging."

(b) In order to maintain alphabetical sequence, reverse the order of the two existing headings and their sections so that "In- spector of Gas Piping and Gas Appliances" follows "Council

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for the Aging" and "Town Accountant" follows "Inspector of Gas Piping and Gas Appliances."

Requested by Norwell Senior Citizens Association.

ARTICLE 44

To see if the Town will petition the State Tax Commission for the in- stallation of the State Assessment System as provided in Section 7-A of Chapter 58, of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.

Requested by the Board of Assessors.

ARTICLE 45

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $150.00, for the purpose of maintaining during the ensuing year, the mosquito control works as estimated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 112, Acts of 1931.

Requested by Board of Selectmen.

ARTICLE 46

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from available funds, the sum of $50,000.00, or any other sum, to be added to the Stabilization Fund, as provided by the General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5B, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Advisory Board.

ARTICLE 47

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the 1963 Dog Tax Refund to the School Department Operation Account, or act on anything relative thereto.

Requested by the Advisory Board.

ARTICLE 48

To see if the Town will give instructions to its elected Town Officers.

SALE OF FISH RIGHTS

Subsequent Meeting for the Election of Officers SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1964

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Polls Open 12:00 Noon to 8:00 P.M.

And you are further directed to notify all legal voters to assemble at the Senior High School, Main Street, on Saturday, March 14, 1964, during the polling hours, then and there to act upon the following:

To bring to the Election Officers, their votes, all on one ballot for the following-named officers to wit: One Selectman for three years; one Assessor for three years; one member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years; Moderator, Highway Surveyor and Tree Warden, each for one year; one member of Board of Health for three years; one member of Board of Water Commissioners for three years; one member of Planning Board for five years, one member of School Committee for three years; one Trustee of the William J. Leonard Memorial Library for three years; one member of Regional Vocational School District Committee for three years.

You are hereby required to notify and warn said inhabitants of Norwell qualified to vote in town affairs, in case all the articles in the foregoing Warrant shall not be acted upon at meeting called for the ninth day of March, to meet in adjourned session at the Senior High School Tuesday, the tenth day of March, 1964, Thursday, the twelfth day of March, 1964, and Friday, the thirteenth day of March, 1964, at 7:30 P.M. in the afternoon then and there to act upon such of the foregoing articles as shall not have been acted upon on March 9, 1964, or act upon such other articles in said Warrant as the meeting may deem advisable.

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 ninth day of March, 1964.

Given under our hands at Norwell this 10th day of February in the year of our Lord 1964.

G. HERBERT REPASS, Chairman CHESTER A. RIMMER CHARLES H. WHITING

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

I hereby certify that I have posted the within warrant in accordance with the Town by-law, and make this my return.

HARLAND W. FARRAR Constable, Town of Norwell

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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

MARCH 9, 1964

Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, issued by the Selectmen of Norwell, and executed by a duly appointed and qualified Constable of the Town, at which time a quorum was present, the voters met on March 9, 1964, at the Senior High School and took the following action:

The Annual Town Meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Joseph M. Silvia, at 7:40 P.M. at the Norwell Senior High School with 366 registered voters in attendance. A total of 495 registered voters were checked in during the evening. Checkers on the voting sheets were Mrs. Minna Senger, Mrs. Gloria Broderick, Mrs. Julia Bosebach and Miss Helen Lincoln.

Tellers were appointed as follows: Orville Devine, Head Teller; Donald Newton, George Whitcher, Jr., James McElwee, Paul Savery, William Spradlin and James Keaveney. They were sworn to the faithful performance of their duty.

Motion was made, seconded and voted that resident non-voters, High School and Jr. High School students be admitted to the assembly. They were seated on the stage.

Motion made and seconded that Article 35 be taken up immediately after Article 2. A rising vote was taken and the motion failed to carry, yes 142, no 165.

ARTICLE I

Motion made, seconded and voted that the Town accept the reports of its officers and committees as printed in the Town Report, and the report of the Planning Board entitled - "Elementary Schools - Neighborhood vs. Centralized" - which was delivered with each Town Report to the Towns- people of Norwell.

INTRODUCTION

The Planning Board submits this report in accordance with instructions of the 1963 Town Meeting, which directed the Planning Board, working with the School Committee, to study the relative merits of campus type, cen- tralized and neighborhood elementary schools, and to present to the 1964 meeting separate articles which would enable the Town to choose which type shall be used for future elementary school construction in Norwell.

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A survey, limited to Grades 1 through 6, was made by a volunteer citizen group, The Norwell Council for Public Schools, working with sub- committees from the School Committee and the Planning Board. This report will endeavor to convey to the voters, as concisely as possible and in general terms, the findings and recommendations of this joint committee.

TIMING

If the next increment of our Elementary School system is to be planned and constructed in an orderly manner by acting only at Regular Annual Town Meetings, a committee to procure a site must be authorized at this year's meeting. A single year's delay will reintroduce the possibility of more special Town Meetings to carry out a crash program, with insufficient time for proper planning. It is essential that this problem be resolved at the 1964 Annual Meeting.

THE PROBLEM

For the purposes of this report "Campus Type" and "Centralized" schools, which differ in layout and construction rather than in location within the Town, will be considered together.

The question to be answered becomes: -

"Shall our future Elementary Schools be built on Main Street in the immediate vicinity of the present Elementary School, or shall they be built throughout the Town as required by population distribution?"

Each alternative may then be compared under the general headings:

Capital Costs Operating Costs Educational Factors

SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM

The prerequisite to the study of the development of our elementary school system is an estimate of the population trend which will determine school needs.

In 1962 in round figures, Norwell had 1500 dwellings and a population of 5300 of whom 900 attended elementary schools. The Town's growth has been relatively constant at 50 to 60 new homes per year. There is reason to believe that this constant rate, perhaps slightly accelerated, will con- tinue for a number of years.

No more than 10% of Norwell's 13,500 acres is now occupied by dwell- ings. There is still plenty of room for growth classified as "buildable

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land." The Preliminary General Plan of 1955 estimated the maximum population potential under the present zoning to be 20,000.

Projecting our present growth rate, with no allowance for unusual factors, we may make the following conservative predictions;

Year

No. of Dwellings

Population

Pupils

Elementary Schools Classrooms

1963

1500

5300

900

1975

2250

8000

1350

2000

4500

16000

2700

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Therefore, if we are to think in terms of 40 years, which is not un- reasonable for long-range basic planning, we must visualize the addition of at least 60 more elementary classrooms, of which 12 will be provided by the Cole School addition, leaving at least 48 future classrooms to be pro- vided as either centralized or neighborhood schools.

MEASURING - STICKS FOR COMPARISON

To enable us to compare the two types of schools on a constant equable basis we have visualized these 48 classrooms as follows:

Centralized Schools - Two additional 24 room units, located 200 or 300 yards apart, and about the same distance from the Main Street Elementary School on the same side of Main Street.

Neighborhood School - Two 24 room units, similar to the enlarged Cole School, located in the Town to suit the population distribution.

For our present purposes it is assumed that either type would be con- structed in steps as the Town grows, or a new 12 room increment every 6 or 8 years.

These assumptions are intended only to provide us with standards by which to compare construction and operating costs. Actual construction would, of course, be designed to suit our needs at the time of construction.

CAPITAL COSTS

Capital costs will include the cost of land on which to build, the cost of the buildings and their attendant services, and the cost of educational equip- ment.

Since we are not considering changes in teaching methods, it is fair to assume that capital expenditures for educational equipment will be the

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same for either system, and that capital costs may be compared under the headings:

Site Procurement Plant Construction Mechanical Services

Site Procurement

It is probable that any given number of classrooms on a central site would require less land than would the same number of classrooms at two or three separate locations. In our particular case it is also true that, given a free choice of land in outlying sections, we will be able to procure it at a lower unit cost than land in a restricted area in the center of Town. Thus, generally speaking, the cost of land will be substantially the same for either system.

Plant Construction

The relative cost of plant construction is more complex. However, if we eliminate non-essential and compensating factors and consider the problem in general, rather than specific terms, we may make a judgment on comparative costs without the complication of determining actual costs.

Type and quality of construction, number and size of classrooms and the total building area required will be substantially the same for either system. If there is a possibility for saving it must be made by eliminating duplication of part time facilities such as gymnasiums, cafeterias, libraries, and auditoriums, or by the integration of plant mechanical services.

If gymnasiums are used on a regular schedule by the entire student body, the divergent age groups in an elementary school require that it be split into groups, perhaps grade by grade. Therefore, a gymnasium will be used for much of the school day, will be on a scale to suit the size of the student body and consequently offers little possibility for the elimination of duplicate facilities with no impairment of activity.

Cafeterias present a different problem. It is impossible to spread their use throughout the entire day. They may be designed for as many shifts as possible, doubling the number of users will double the size of the cafeteria unit and will have just about the same effect on the cost.

The cost of a school library unit, once it has reached workable size, will vary almost directly with the number of students served. A large library may have educational advantages over several smaller school li- braries but no important construction cost savings are apparent.

Auditoriums, perhaps the least used facility, appear to offer the possi- bility of eliminating one or more major units if school construction is

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centralized. One unit could be made to serve a school system such as we are considering if used by only a portion of the student body at any one time. But here we are faced with the practical problem of moving small children from building to building, which may be impracticable in our New England climate. If an auditorium is designed with a capacity of only one or two grades of a centralized school system, smaller auditoriums may also be designed to serve the same purpose in neighborhood schools at little or no difference in cost, without the disadvantage of moving outdoors from building to building. Under the neighborhood system it appears practical to combine the auditorium and cafeteria in the first 12 room units and add the second major unit when the second 12 room increment is built. The large auditorium required by a centralized system might be valuable for non-academic use. A compensating factor is the desirability of several smaller units for neighborhood functions. On the whole there appears to be little possibility for a real savings one way or the other.

Mechanical Services

If savings are to be made in the cost of mechanical services they will be in operation rather than construction. Parking areas will vary with the size of the school, as will bus service areas. Savings in the capital costs of a single, large, rather than several small, heating boiler installations would be offset by the added cost of distribution lines. In general, this statement will apply to all services.

CONCLUSIONS - CAPITAL COSTS

From the foregoing we came to the inescapable conclusion that in general there will be no significant difference between the two alternate systems insofar as site and construction costs are concerned, and that in any specific case the difference, if any, might be one way as well as the other.

OPERATING COSTS

If one system has an advantage over the other it will be in recurring operating costs. Any difference here will show up yearly, whereas dif- ference in capital expenditure will appear but once.

For convenience in discussing operating costs they may be divided into:

Materials and Services Transportation Operating Personnel

Materials and Services

Without going into extensive detail it may be conceded that there will be no substantial difference in the quantity and cost of materials required

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whatever may be the physical location of the school buildings. This will also be true of utilities and services, except for electricity where the combined usage of centralized schools connected to a single service would command a more favorable rate than would the same total usage divided among three separate schools. The present annual cost of electricity for our elementary schools is about $5500, and would, of course, be about three times that amount when these schools reach the size we now contemplate. A percentage of this could be saved if schools are centralized and served by a single service.

Transportation

Bus transportation is difficult to analyze if we become enmeshed in discussion of alternate routes, efficient utilization of equipment, etc. There are, however, one or two fundamentals which are inescapable and which will eventually govern the total cost of bus service.

First, bus routes are bid and contracted for on a unit cost per route mile basis; secondly, the average distance that the average pupil will be transported must be greater to a single location than to one of several locations specifically selected to shorten this distance. Therefore, there must be more bus route miles to be bought and paid for with the centralized than with the neighborhood system.

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Town of Norwell annual report 1960-1969, Part 68

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

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