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Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen and the Treasurer to foreclose either through the Land Court or by affidavit of the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, any Tax Title held by the Town for more than two years, and see what sum of money the Town will vote to
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raise and appropriate therefor or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for this purpose.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the town under tax title procedure provided that the selectmen or whosoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to petition the General Court to enact legislation that will enable the Town to provide for limited Town Meetings in the Town of Tewksbury, similar to the Standard form of representative Town Meetings set forth in Chap. 43A of the General Laws, or take any other action thereto.
Voted: To accept this article and that the Moderator appoint a committee of five, consisting of the Moderator, John Belton and three persons not holding public office to consider different forms of government and report at the next annual or special town meeting.
Committee appointed by the Moderator consisted of James J. Gaffney, Jr., John J. Belton, Ralph S. Battles, John J. Nolan and Edward M. Martin.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $900 for the purpose of obtaining Land Court certificates for forty-eight parcels of registered land on the Riverview Plan, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate $900 under same.
ART. 12. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate to publish a real estate valuation book as required by Section 11 of Article 2 of the Town By-Laws.
Voted: To postpone this article until next year.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint a Town Accountant in accordance with the provi- sions of Section 55, Chapter 41, General Laws, and to abolish
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the office of Town Auditor upon the appointment of a Town Accountant and to apply any unexpended balance of the salary account of the Auditor to the salary account of the Town Accountant, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To defeat this article.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 42A to 42F inc. of Chapter 40 of the General Laws providing for the collection of delinquent water charges through the application of a lien on real estate.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 15. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to authorize the Assessors to use from the E & D account in setting the 1954 Tax Rate.
Voted: To authorize the Assessors to use an amount equal to money received in water receipts in 1953 and $30,000 from the E and D account in setting the 1954 Tax Rate.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Road Commissioners, with the approval of the Selectmen, to purchase gasoline for all town-owned vehicles on a contract basis, to establish and maintain accountability for all gasoline dispensed.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 17. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to carry out the preceding article.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm a deed dated October 6, 1953, executed in behalf of the Town by Joseph J. Whelan, John D. Sullivan and William B. Carter, Selectmen, and by William J. O'Neill, Treasurer, said deed running to Henry Sparkes, Trustee under an instrument of Trust dated October 24, 1929, recorded with Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds Book 785, Page 167, said deed con- veying lots 256 and 257 Lakeside Park Land Company Plan Book 24, Plan 42, with said Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, said lots of land being assessed by the Town of Tewksbury to Annie Cunningham and said deed being in con- firmation of a previous deed by George A. Marshall, then Treas- urer of the Town of Tewksbury, dated September 19, 1942,. and recorded with said Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds Book 984, page 278.
Voted: To accept this article.
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ART. 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $65 to indemnify one Calvin Drew for damages sustained as a result of a collision between his vehicle and a Town snow- plow. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate the sum of $65 for the purpose outlined therein.
ART. 20. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Municipal Insurance, said sum to be expended by the Insurance Committee. Insurance Committee
See vote under Article 3 of this report.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will authorize the Insurance Com- mittee to purchase Insurance on a five year plan. Insurance Committee
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to have the annual reports printed in the manner used previous to 1947, giving in detail the way in which money was expended in all departments except those under the control of the Board of Public Welfare. Everett H. King
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to include in the annual report the balance sheet accompanying the report sent them as a result of any audit made by the Bureau of Accounts during the previous year, and any letter making suggestions or criticism of methods followed in this town which they may have received during the previous year. Everett H. King
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 24. To see if the town will vote to rescind the action taken under Article 5 of the warrant posted for a special town meeting held July 25, 1951. Everett H. King
Voted: To rescind action taken under Article 5 in warrant for special town meeting held July 25, 1951. (This vote was as follows- That money charged property owners for installation, and paid to the town, be appropriated to the Water Commission to be used for original installation of water mains as proposed in original plan.)
ART. 25. To see if the town will vote that all money collected by the Town Collector for the installation of water pipe on private land be used to provide funds for payment of interest on origi-
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nal loan for water installation, such money to be kept in a separate account. The town treasurer is hereby ordered to certify to the Board of Assessors the amount available in this fund and the Board of Assessors are directed to raise by taxation the balance necessary to pay said interest as provided by Section 6 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1951. Above said certificate to be furnished on request of the Board of Assessors before the date of the fiving of the annual tax rate. Everett H. King Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 26. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of remodeling unused rooms in the lower Town Hall to provide additional office space.
Board of Selectmen
Voted: To raise and appropriate $1,500 for the purpose of re- modeling unused rooms in the lower Town Hall to provide addi- tional office space.
ART. 27. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for additional traffic signs and markers or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for addi- tional traffic signs and markers.
ART. 28. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 in support of the trustees for County Aid to Agri- culture, to be expended by the Town Director in conjunction with the Extension Service. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for this purpose.
ART. 29. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to purchase the abandoned railroad bed of the Boston and Maine Railroad as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk, or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Voted: To raise and appropriate $3000 to purchase the aban- doned railroad bed of the Boston and Maine Railroad as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take to replace the present Central Fire Station, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted: That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to report on this article at the next Annual or Special Town Meeting.
Committee appointed under this article as follows: O. Rex Read, Ralph Anderson, George O'Connell, Bernard Green, Rene J. Paquette.
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ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the purchase and maintenance of an additional radio equipped police cruiser, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the purchase and maintenance of an additional radio-equipped Police Cruiser.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 to purchase an upright fire-proof vault to store the Town Records of the Auditor, Treasurer, and Town Collector, as required by Section 11, Chapter 66, of the Gen- eral Laws. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the purpose outlined therein.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $6,124.63, the balance in the Plans and Specifications account established under Article 39 of the 1951 Annual Town Meet- ing, to the School Building Committee as suggested by the State Division of Accounts. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $12,200 from Water Loan Premium Account to Maturing Debt. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $56,692.00 for interest due on Loans; said interest being made up of $16,192.00 on the School Construction Loan and $40,500.00 on the Water Construction Loan. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $88,800.00 to be used in conjunction with the sum of $12,200.00 transferred from the Water Loan Premium Account, for Maturing Debt, said debt being made up of $41,000.00 principal payment on the New School Construction Loan and $60,000.00 principal payment on the Water Construction Loan. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to set the elected term of the Town Auditor at three years, to take effect at the 1955 Annual Election. Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
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ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to pay the following bills of previous years :
1951 MacLellan's Rural Appl. Center $ 29.00
(Stadium Commission)
1952 C. H. Hobson & Son (School Dept.) 12.00
1952 J. J. Crimmings Co. (Dental Clinic) 163.95
1952 Arthur Tremblay (Town Hall) 39.17
352.20
1952 John J. MacLellan (Town Hall and Highway)
1953 Henry Patenaude (Bldg. Inspec.) 28.00
Auditor
Voted: To accept this article.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 19 of the Zoning By-Laws relating to the appointment of a Board of Appeals by adding the following: "In addition, one or more associate members may be appointed by the Selectmen." Board of Selectmen
Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 40 To see if the Town will vote to add the following section to Article Six of the Town By-Laws:
"No person shall go from house to house within the Town, begging or soliciting alms or contributions for any person, cause or organization, except a local religious, charitable, fraternal, civic or educational cause or organization, without having first recorded his name and address with the Chief of Police and furnished such other information as may be requested. The Chief of Police shall, thereupon, if satisfied as to the honesty of the applicant, issue a permit which shall state that said person has duly registered and is entitled to go from house to house for the purpose specified." Board of Selectmen
Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following as an addition to Article 1 of the Town By-Laws.
"The annual budget of a town department when in excess of $20,000.00 shall be presented to the town meeting in three parts in the table of estimates.
1. Personal Services
2. General Maintenance
3. Capital Outlay
The action of the voters shall be taken on each division separ- ately." Finance Committee
Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote.
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ART. 42. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to paint, letter and gold leaf Engine #5 or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Chief
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,122.00 for one more permanent man over and above the other two men requested in the Fire Department budget.
Fire Chief
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 44. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for two additional permanent men or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Chief
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 to pay call firemen at fires at the rate of $1.50 per hour.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $212.00 to insure the Call and Permanent fire- fighters for injuries incurred in the line of duty.
Tewksbury Fireman's Association Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 46. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for a coded horn system to replace the present siren system or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To refer this article to a Committee of five to be ap- pointed by the Moderator and who will report at the next Annual or Special Town Meeting.
Committee appointed under this article as follows: George A. McDermott, Kenneth W. Holmes, Albert Gillissen, Lester W. Bell, Gehaza E. Rich.
ART. 47. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for two, two-way Motorola Radios for use on FiFre Apparatus or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Chief
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 48. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for fire hose for the Fire Dept. or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Chief
Voted: To accept this article and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500 for fire hose.
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ART. 49. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for a new piece of fire apparatus or take any other action relative thereto.
Fire Chief
Voted: To refer this article to the committee appointed under article 46.
ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning of a lot of land situated in North Tewksbury, from residential and farming, to light industry. Said lot consisting of one acre more or less, located at the Lowell City line and North Tewksbury bounded on the north by River Road and on the south by Andover Street. Omer N. Blanchard
Voted: To adopt this article. 60 opposed - 155 in favor.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 Paragraph 4, of the Zoning By-Laws, to include an additional heavy in- dustry area described and bounded as follows: beginning at a point on the Lowell and Tewksbury boundary line where it intersects the Boston and Maine R. R: Thence: easterly along southern boundary of Boston and Maine R. R. main line to Main Street. Thence: southeasterly along Main Street to a point 1100 feet running perpendicular to the Boston and Maine line. Thence: westerly along a line parallel to and 1100 fee. from the Boston and Maine line to a point where it intersects the Lowell line. Thence: northerly along Lowell and Tewksbury line to a point of beginning. As shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk. Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To adopt this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 Paragraph 4, of the Zoning By-Laws, to include an additional heavy industry area described and bounded as follows: to increase the heavy industrial area running from Livingston Street to the Andover-Tewksbury line from the present width of 300 feet to 1100 feet. As shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk.
Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To adopt this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 53. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 Paragraph 4, of the Zoning By-Laws, to include an additional heavy in- industry area described as follows: to re-zone a tract of land now owned by the Town from general residence and farming to heavy industry bounded as follows: westerly by Pond Street, northerly by land of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, north- easterly by Whipple Road, and southwesterly by Pine Street, said land now known as Town Gravel Pit. As shown on a
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plan on file with the Town Clerk. Tewksbury Industrial Group Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 of the Zoning By-Laws to establish a new district to be known as limited business district:
The following to be alloted in this limited business district:
1. Any use enumerated in Sec. 4 and 5 subject to the pro- visions of Sec. 12.
2. Retail stores, drug stores, restaurants and other places for serving food, barber, clothes cleaner and presser, confec- tioner, florists, hairdresser, optician, pastry shops, photo- grapher, and similar uses which the Board of Appeals may, as provided in Sec. 17, in specific instances find to be com- patible with the uses above mentioned.
Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To amend the present Zoning By-Laws by changing the word (four) in the first paragraph of Sec. 3 to the word (five), so that the Section will read in part as follows:
For the purpose of this by-law, the Town of Tewksbury is di- vided into five districts, etc.
To amend the present Zoning By-Laws by adding in Sec. 3 a paragraph known as (Limited Business Districts) as follows:
LIMITED BUSINESS DISTRICTS
1. Any use permitted in single residence districts and general residence and farming districts, subject, to front, side, and back yard set backs, height regulations in residence districts, area regulations, lot coverage requirements, and written approval after hearing upon application to Board of Appeals.
2. Retail food stores, drug stores, barber shops, hair dressers, tailor shops, clothes cleaning shops (for the receiving and delivering of clothes for cleansing), subject, to front, side, and back yard set back, height regulations, in residence districts, area regulations, lot coverage requirements, and written approval after hearing upon application to Board of Appeals. A unanimous vote.
ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 of the Zoning By-Laws, to re-zone from general residence to limited business, a tract of land from Lowell line to Trull Brook. 300 ft. north and parallel to Andover Street and 300 ft. south and parallel to Andover St., as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk. Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this Article. A unanimous vote.
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ART. 56. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 of the Zoning By-Laws, to include an additional heavy industrial area, a tract of land now owned by Mrs. Alice Pike on Main Street to be re-zoned from general residence and farming to heavy industry, as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk.
Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 57. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 Paragraph 4 of the Zoning By-Laws, to include an additional heavy in- dustry area described as follows:
Patten Lot.
Land in said Tewksbury, situated on the southwesterly side of Main Street, containing about 20 acres and thus bounded: Beginning at the northerly corner of the premises on the south- westerly side of said street at the easterly corner of land formerly of Thomas Morey, supposed to belong, now or formerly, to George and Agnes Green; thence southwesterly and southerlv by said last mentioned land, the line being marked in part by a fence and wall, to land formerly of John Chandler, now of owner unknown; thence southeasterly bv said last mentioned land to a corner; thence easterly still by said last mentioned land to land formerly of Martha E. Bridges, supposed to belong now or formerly to Roscoe E. Millett; thence northeasterly bv said last mentioned land, by a fence, ditch and hedge, to said Main Street; thence northwesterly along said street to the point of beginning. Be said contents or any or all of said measurements more or less and however otherwise said premises mav be measured, bounded or described. Tewksbury Industrial Group
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 58. To see if the Town will vote to accept the Report of the School Building Survey Committee appointed under Art. 73 of the Town Warrant at the Annual Town Meeting in Feb- ruary 1953. School Building Survey Committee
Voted: To accept this article.
11:55 P. M. - Motion made and seconded at this time that meeting be adjourned until Friday, February 19th at 8 P. M.
Adjourned meeting Friday, February 19th, 8 P. M.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, at which time a quorum was found lacking. Motion was made and seconded to recess for thirty minutes in hopes of attaining the required number of voters for a quorum. However, at 8:30 it again was necessary to recess until 8:45. At 8:45 there were 160 present and the meeting proceeded.
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ART. 59. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Building Survey Committee appointed under Article 73 of the Town Warrant at the Annual Town Meeting in February 1953 to serve as a School Building Committee.
School Bldg. Survey Committee
Voted: To authorize the School Building Survey Committee, appointed under Article 73 of the Town Warrant at the Annual Town Meeting in February 1953, to serve as the School Building Committee (henceforth to be called the 1954 School Building Committee so as to distinguish it from the present School Building Committee) and to report its recommendation for building at a Special or next Annual Town Meeting.
ART. 60. To see if the Town will authorize said School Building Committee to employ the professional services necessary to proceed with a School Construction program.
School Building Survey Committee
Voted: To authorize School Building Committee to employ the professional services necessary to proceed with a School Construc- tion program.
ART. 61. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Building Committee to obtain plans, specification and bids for enlarging the North Street School and the new Shawsheen School, to be acted upon at the next Annual Town Meeting or as soon thereafter as possible. School Building Survey Committee
Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 62. To see if the Town will vote to authorize said School Building Commitee to proceed with plans to enlarge the High School. School Building Survey Committee Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.
ART. 63. To see if the Town will vote to raise or transfer from available funds the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) for the necessary plans and specifications to carry out the pre- ceding articles, or take any other action relative thereto.
School Building Survey Committee
Voted: To transfer $7,000 from E & D Account for the neces- sary plans and specifications to carry out Articles 59 and 60.
ART. 64. To see what sum of money the Town will vote for the necessary repair work and equipment in order to reopen the entire Foster School, either on a temporary or a permanent basis. School Committee
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Voted: To refer this Article to the 1954 School Building Com- mittee, which committee will report to the Town at a Special Meeting prior to June 15, 1954. Also that copies of this commitee's report be published and circulated.
In favor 78 - Against 46.
ART. 65. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee to investigate the questions involved, concerning the erection of shelters for children waiting for the school buses, said committee to report at the next annual Town Meeting. School Committee
Voted: That the Committee be appointed by the Moderator to investigate the questions involved, concerning the erection of shelters for children waiting for the school buses. This committee to report at the next annual town meeting.
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