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Committee appointed by the Moderator under this article consists of Thomas J. Mullane, Nelson P. McArthur, Daniel G. O'Connor, James . A. Johnson and Mrs. Roger D. Harsch.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for use of the committee, appointed under the foregoing article for the purposes therein set forth, or take any action in relation thereto. 1954 School Building Committee
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for use of the
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committee appointed under Art. 6, and that this committee report back at a Special Town Meeting not later than Sept. II, 1957.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower a committee to function as a School Planning Committee with the purpose of answering the State of Massachusetts request and the Town's need for a long range school building program and the purpose of carrying this program, and in particular, each project, through the stages of demonstrated need, approval of educational specifications, and site. 1954 School Building Committee
Voted to authorize and empower a committee to function as a School Planning Committee with the purpose of answering the State of Massachusetts request and the Town's need for a long range school building program and the purpose of carrying this program, and in par- ticular each project, through the states of demonstrated need, approval of educational specifications, and site with committee to be formed to include the currently elected members of the School Committee together with four appointed by the Moderator.
Committee appointed by the Moderator under this article consists of Joseph Aubut, Mrs. Anthony Anderson, Miss Beverly Bennett, and Ralph Peters.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the use of the committee appointed under the fore- going article for the purposes therein set forth, or take any action in relation thereto. To see if the Town will furthermore vote to the use of this committee any monies left as residue in the following appropriations :
a) The survey appropriations Article 16 of the Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.
b) The Article 16 of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.
1954 School Building Committee
Voted to transfer residual amount in fund voted under Art. 16 of Sept. 12, 1956, and that money be expended by Committee formed under Art. 8.
ART. 10. To see is the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain a tract of land consisting of approximately two hundred acres for school purposes, namely the erection of school buildings, playgrounds, and other school facilities, in accordance with Chap. 40, Section 14, and Chap. 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street about 1700 feet west of the intersection of Pleasant Street and
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Helvetia Street; thence southwesterly 300 feet; thence southeast- erly 200 feet; thence south 80 feet, southeasterly 880 feet; thence northerly 690 feet; thence easterly 440 feet; thence southeasterly 280 feet; thence southwesterly 510 feet; thence easterly 340 feet to the westerly side line of Helvetia Street; thence southerly and southeasterly by the westerly side line of Helvetia Street 1040 feet to a point; thence southwesterly to the high water mark of Round Pond; thence along the southerly and westerly shore line of said pond 2000 feet to a point; thence southwesterly 450 feet; thence southerly 220 feet; thence southwesterly 300 feet; thence southerly 190 feet; thence southwesterly 140 feet; thence southerly 480 feet to the northerly side line of Chandler Street; thence southwesterly along the northerly side line of Chandler Street 100 feet; thence northerly 470 feet; thence southeasterly 180 feet; northwesterly by lines totaling 1950 feet; said lines being approximately 300 feet north of the northerly side line of Pine Street and approximately parallel to the side line of Pine Street; thence westerly along the northerly side line of Pine Street 50 feet; thence northwesterly 300 feet; thence westerly 360 feet parallel to and 300 feet north of the northerly side line of Pine Street, to the easterly side line of N. E. Power Co. easement; thence northerly along said easement line 925 feet; thence southwesterly 435 feet to the easterly side line of Whipple Street; thence along the easterly side line of Whipple Street 50 feet; thence northeasterly 450 feet; thence northerly along the easterly side line of aforementioned easement 1200 feet; thence northeasterly 270 feet; thence northwesterly 300 feet to the southerly side line of Pleasant Street; thence along the southerly side line of Pleasant Street 100 feet; thence southeasterly 300 feet ; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet said lines being approximately 300 feet; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet said lines being ap- proximately 300 feet; thence by lines totaling 2030 feet, said lines being approximately 300 feet south of the southerly line of Pleasant Street and parallel thereto; thence north 300 feet to the southerly side line of Pleasant Street; thence southeasterly along the southerly side of Pleasant Street 100 feet to the point of beginning.
All distance in this description being approximate and containing approximately 200 acres, and to see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from excess and deficiency account for such taking or take any other action in relation thereto. 1954 School Building Committee
Voted to adopt this article as amended and authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain a tract of land consisting of approximately 200 acres for school purposes, namely the erection of School Buildings, Playgrounds, and other school facilities, in accordance with Chap. 40, Sec. 14, and Chap. 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being bounded and described as follows: (See description in Article 10).
Amendment: That the Selectmen be authorized to take any portion
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of the described premises and that the purpose of the taking include the following: The erection and maintenance of Highway Dept. buildings, Library buildings, new Recreation buildings, Meeting Houses, Public Works buildings, recreational purposes and all municipal activities. The sum of $100.00 was voted to be raised and appropriated under this article.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm the action taken under Art. 48 at the 1957 Annual Town Meeting relative to increasing the number of members on the School Committee from three to five in the following manner:
in 1958 two members shall be elected for three years, and one member for one year ;
in 1959 two members shall be elected for three years;
in 1960 one member shall be elected for three years; thereafter two members shall be elected each year for three years except that every third year one member shall be elected for three years.
and take any other action relative thereto. School Committee
Voted to ratify and confirm the action taken under Art. 48 at the annual 1957 town meeting relative to increasing the number of members on the School Committee from three to five in the following manner: (See Art. 11).
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower the School Committee as the sole agency of the town to prepare educational specifications for school buildings and to transmit such specifications to such other committees as may be formed for the purpose of constructing school buildings, with action under this article to include the preparation of educational specifications for Projects 2, 3, 4, voted under Art. 15 of the Special Town Meeting of Sept. 12, 1956, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to authorize and empower the School Committee as the sole agency of the Town to prepare educational requirements for school buildings and to transmit such requirements to such other committees as may be formed for the purpose of constructing school buildings with action under this article to include the preparation of educational re- quirements for Projects 2, 3, 4, voted under Article 15 of the Special Town Meeting of September 12, 1956.
Voted to adjourn to 8:00 P. M. May 9, 1957.
Thursday, May 9, 1957, due to lack of quorum, meeting was post- poned to Thursday, May 16, then to Monday, May 20, when it was unanimously voted to indefinitely adjourn.
Arts. 13 - 28 inclusive, not acted upon.
ART. 13. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and
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appropriate or transfer from available funds to be used for the purposes of altering and repairing the roof on the North Street School; said funds to be used in conjunction with the balance remaining in the money appropriated under Article 8 of the Special Town Meeting September 22, 1955 and ratified by Article 82 of the Annual Town Meeting, March 7, 1956, or take any other action relative thereto. School Committee
ART. 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to develop an area of the newly acquired State land for a recreational park, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
ART. 15. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and ap- propriate to carry out the previous article. Board of Selectmen
ART. 16. To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to establish a sidewalk project on Route 38 in conjunction with the Department of Public Works or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
ART. 17. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Patten Road from Whipple Road to Shawsheen Street or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $17,562.07 from the E & D Account to rebuild Trull Road from River Road to An- dover Street. The sum of $17,562.07 be transferred from the proceeds received from the State under the provisions of Chapter 718 of the Acts of 1956. Road Commissioners
ART. 19. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Shawsheen Street from Main Street to the Billerica line, or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
ART. 20. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Foster Road from Chandler Street to Shawsheen Street, or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $1,000.00 ap- propriated under Article 70 of the Annual Town Meeting Warrant of 1956, to the Board of Health to correct the unsanitary con- ditions at the gravel pit bounded by Pond, Pine and Whipple Rd. Board of Health
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ART. 22. To see if the Town will transfer from the E & D Account, raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $4,000.00 for an electronic coded horn system for the Fire Station, or take any other action in relation thereto. Chief of the Fire Department
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,400.00 for the purpose of installing 400 feet of six inch water pipe in Helvetia Street, to a proposed new Professional Building of Lawrence M. McCartin, M. D., provided that the cost of said water installation has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts, and to authorize the Water Dept. to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto. Water Commissioners
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D the sum of $500.00 to replace the safe in the Water Department Office or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D Account the sum of $5,000.00 for a survey by a recognized public water system engineer, for the pur- pose of locating new well fields and to make a report at the next Annual Town Meeting. Said sum to be expended by the Water Commissioners. Water Commissioners
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to name James A. Johnson and Alan M. Qua members of the Building Committee named under Art. 59 of the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, for the purposes of constructing, equipping and furnishing an addition to the Shaw- sheen School or take any other action in relation thereto.
Shawsheen Addition Building Committee Loella F. Dewing, Chairman O. Rex Read John P. Murphy
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to strike out the last line of Section 2 of Article 18, which was voted at the Annual 1956 Town Meeting. Said line to be stricken out is quote, "Loam or gravel removed for construction purposes must be disposed of within the Town," or take any other action relative thereto. George P. MacLaren, Jr.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $472.25 to pay the expenses incurred by Alexander Suprenant as the result of an accident while on Police duty, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
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And you are directed to serve this warrant, by posting attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and in the Post Office and by leaving at least five hundred (500) copies at the Post Office and at the Town Hall in said Town, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, AND MAKE DUE RETURNS OF THIS WARRANT, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.
VICTOR N. CLUFF, Chairman JOHN D. SULLIVAN JOSEPH J. WHELAN JOHN H. HART GEORGE A. O'CONNELL Selectmen of Tewksbury
A true copy, Attest:
WALTER J. JOP Constable of Tewksbury
Middlesex, ss. Tewksbury, Mass., May 1, 1957
By virtue of this warrant, I this day at 9:00 o'clock A. M. served the within warrant by posting up attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and at each of the Post Offices and by leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Offices and Town Hall in said Town of Tewksbury, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
WALTER J. JOP
Constable of Tewksbury
A true copy, Attest : ALICE A. PIKE Town Clerk
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Warrant and action thereon
October 23rd, 1957
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in town affairs to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury on Wednesday the 23rd day of October, 1957 at eight o'clock P. M. to act on the following articles:
Meeting was called to order at 8:00 P. M. by Moderator Alfred N. Shamas. John J. Kelley and Joseph A. Aubut were sworn as tellers and the meeting proceeded.
ART. 1. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to develop an area of the newly acquired state land for a recreational park, or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 2. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate to carry out the previous article. Board of Selectmen
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 3. To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to establish a sidewalk project on Route 38 in conjunction with the Dept. of Public Works or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted to refer to a committee of three to be appointed by the Moderator, to investigate the advisability of building sidewalks under the Betterment Act and report back at the next town meeting.
Committee appointed - John F. Sullivan, Police Chief, Doris Farwell and David J. Beattie.
ART. 4. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Patten Road from Whipple Road to Shawsheen Street or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to refer to committee of three. (See vote on Art. 3).
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ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $17,562.07 from the E & D Account to rebuild Trull Road from River Road to An- dover Street, this sum to be transferred from the proceeds received from the state under the provisions of Chap. 718 of the Acts of 1956.
Road Commissioners
Voted the sum of $17,562.87 to rebuild Trull Road from River Road to Andover Street, this sum to be transferred from the proceeds received from the state under the provisions of Chap. 718 of the Acts of 1956.
ART. 6. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Shawsheen Street from Main Street to the Billerica line, or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
Voted to transfer the sum of $1,000.00 from the Capital Outlay Account of the Public Schools and a transfer of $3,200.00 from the Public Law #874 Account to a Heath Brook School Account for the purpose of providing sidewalks on Shawsheen Street, said money to be expended by the School Committee with the work to be supervised by the Road Commissioners. Sidewalk to extend from Reagan Road to Sullivan Parkway.
ART. 7. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a sidewalk on Foster Road from Chandler Street to Shawsheen Street, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to refer to committee of three. (See vote on Art. 3).
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to make a survey to install sidewalks on Brown Street from Arkansas Road to South Street and on South Street from State Street to the Main Road at Foster's Corner, or take any other action relative thereto. Muriel E. Hart
Voted to refer to committee of three. (See vote on Art. 3).
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds or E & D to the Tax Collector's operating account the sum of $1,000.00 or take any action relative thereto.
Louis H. Amiot, Collector
Voted to adopt this article and transfer $1,000.00 for same.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm a vote taken by the 1954 School Building Committee, whereby the re- cently completed elementary school on Shawsheen Street was designated as the Heath Brook School.
1954 School Building Committee Voted to adopt this article.
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ART. 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money for the use of the High School Building Committee appointed under Art. 6 of the Special Town Meeting of May 8, 1957 to obtain preliminary sketches, working drawings, specifications and bids or take any action relative thereto. Daniel G. O'Connor, Chairman
Voted to adopt this article and transfer from E and D $40,000.00 and raise and appropriate $35,000.00 for the purpose of article.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of six hundred dollars for the purpose of providing suitable quarters for the American Veterans of World War II, Amvets Post 156, as authorized by Section 9, Chapter 40 of the General Laws. Amvets Memorial Post 156
Voted to postpone to annual town meeting.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $200.00 to the Tree Department for operating expenses, or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Department
Voted to transfer $200.00 from E and D for operating expenses in Tree Department.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to change its voting precincts as recommended by the Board of Selectmen in a statement filed with the Town Clerk as provided by Chap. 54, Sec. 7 of the General Laws, and which statement contains the following recommen- dation: "The Board of Selectmen recommends that Precinct 1 be further divided by creating a new Precinct 3 in that area located north of Main Street from the Lowell line to Shawsheen Street.
Board of Selectmen
Voted to accept this article and that the facilities of the North Street School be used as a voting precinct.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $29.00 to pay the 1956 balance due Dr. Jose Ruisanchez, caused by the accident involving Alexander Surprenant, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted to accept this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $163.20 to pay the 1956 balance due St. John's Hospital, caused by the accident involving Alexander Surprenant, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted to accept this article. A unanimous vote.
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ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $320.00 to pay Saunders Service for technical advice in con- nection with the land damage case against the Town. Board of Selectmen
Voted to accept this article. A unanimous vote.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the E & D the sum of $1,200.00 to the call men salary account or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Chief
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Police Department Salary Account the sum of $300.00 to the Police Department Operating Account, or take any other action relative thereto. Chief of Police
Voted to accept this article.
ART. 20. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to be used for the purposes of altering and replacing the roof on the North Street School; said funds to be used in conjunction with the balance remaining in the money appropriated under Art. 8 of the Special Town Meeting Sept. 22, 1955, and ratified by Art. 82 of the Annual Town Meeting March 7, 1956, said work to be done under direction of the School Committee, or take any other action relative thereto. Superintendent of Schools
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $13,100.00 to be used for the purposes of altering and replacing the roof on the North Street School; said funds to be used in conjunction with the balance remaining in the money appropriated under Art. 8 of the Special Town Meeting of Sept. 22, 1955 and ratified by Art. 82 of the Annual Town Meeting of March 7, 1956. Said work to be done under direction of the School Committee.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,000.00 from the Capital Outlay Appropriation of the Public Schools to a Heath Brook School Sidewalk Account, said money to be expended by the School Committee with the work to be supervised by the Road Commissioners. Superintendent of Schools
Voted to indefinitely postpone. (See Art. 6).
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $325.00 for the purpose of installing 100 ft. of 2 inch water pipe in Lincoln Road to the property of Vernon A. and Ruby M. Simp- son, providing that cost of said water installation has been first
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deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to adopt and that the sum of $325.00 be expended from the present Installation Account and that no money be raised and ap- propriated.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D the sum of $5,000.00 for a survey by a recognized public water system engineer, for the purpose of locating new well fields and to make a report at the next Annual Town Meeting, said sum to be expended by the Water Commissioners.
Water Commissioners
Voted to adopt this article, raise and appropriate or transfer from E and D $5,000.00 for the purpose thereof. 145 in favor. 46 opposed. This vote was ruled illegal by the Town Counsel.
At this time the quorum was questioned and found lacking and meeting was adjourned at 10:35 P. M. Articles 24 - 28, inclusive, not acted upon.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500.00 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Whipple Road for a distance of approximately 900 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,631.00 for the purpose of installing 466 feet of six inch water pipe in Marie Street to connect present dead end with Foster Road through property now owned by John L. Sullivan, providing that cost of said water installation has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
ART. 26. To see whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $45,000.00 for the purpose of extending and improving the water system of the Town by laying and relaying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter, by the development of an additional well field, in- cluding wells, pipes and original pumping station equipment, and by the construction of small buildings for pumping stations, and to determine how any such sum shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer of available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, and if
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