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Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will vote to establish a School Building Planning Committee of six members to investigate the School building needs of the Town, and to discharge the 1954 School Building Committee referred to in Articles 59 and 60 of the warrant for the 1954 Annual Town Meeting, from any further responsibility in this matter other than the construc- tion and completion of the new Shawsheen Street School, and to raise and appropriate from available funds a sum of money for the necessary expense of said School Building Planning Committee, or take any other action relative thereto.
John E. Emro
Voted: To establish a supplementary School Building Plan- ning Committee of six members (Named by the Moderator) to make proper studies, thoroughly investigate and submit reports with recommendations as soon as practicable on any specific prob- lems concerning additional School Building needs, delegated to them for study by the 1954 School Building Committee. The new committee to aid and assist the present committee making all re- ports through them. Funds necessary to carry out the duties of the new committee to be authorized by the present committee from available funds.
Committee appointed by the Moderator under this article as follows: Ralph S. Battles, Ruth K. Anderson, Ann J. Stevens, Miriam W. Spaulding, David J. Beattie and Rene J. Paquette.
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ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Planning Board to engage the service of a professional consultant for the purpose of conducting a general zoning survey of the Town, and as a result of this survey, make recommendations for planned orderly growth, with recommendations for a new Zoning By-Law to be made in a printed report for public distribution, and to raise and appropriate from available funds a sum of money for such purposes, or take any other action relative thereto. John E. Emro
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following Building By-Law:
SIZE OF DWELLING
Section 9A. No single family dwelling, one story in height, shall have a finished floor area of less than 1000 sq. ft. No single family dwelling, more than one story in height, shall have a finished first floor area of less than 800 sq. ft. plus a second floor area of not less than 300 sq. ft. At least 150 sq. ft of the second floor area shall have a headroom of at least 7 ft. John E. Emro
Voted: To adopt. Approved by Attorney General July 3, 1956.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following regulation in accordance with authority granted by Sec. 8 of Chapter 61 of Acts of 1951: "No water main extension shall be made on existing ways or into subdivisions without a specific vote of the Town for such extension." John E. Emro Voted: To adopt.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following By-Law: "Article 1. Section 16. Any warrant article or motion thereunder receiving unfavorable action at any town meeting shall require a 3/4 vote for adoption at a special town meeting. This restriction shall apply when an article or motion presented at a special town meeting contains the same subject matter or would produce the same effect as one acted on at a previous meeting. A request for a different sum of money shall not be construed as changing the subject matter of such an article or motion. John E. Emro
Voted: To adopt. Approved by Attorney General July 3, 1956.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 10 of the Zoning By-Laws regarding minimum lot area requirements as advertised by the Planning Board on April 18, 1954, and on file with the Town Clerk. John E. Emro
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
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ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50,000.00 or any other sum, for the construction of a fire station and for originally equipping and furnishing said station, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, by taxa- tion, or by borrowing under the authority of Chap. 44 of the G. L., or take any action in relation thereto. Raymond Kelleher
Voted: To refer to Planning Board for inclusion in the study by the professional consultants authorized under Art. 6.
ART. 18 To see if the Town will vote to appoint and designate Francis X. Kelley a member of the 1954 School Building Com- mittee, or take any action in relation thereto.
1954 School Building Committee
Voted: To appoint and designate Francis X. Kelley a member of the 1954 School Building Committee and to amend this article and authorize the School Committee to receive and expend such Federal Funds as may accrue to the Town under the present and future provisions of Title 111, Public Law 815, 81st Congress, for the purpose of construction and equipping school facilities.
(Original motion, later amended, was to authorize the School Building Committee to receive and expend such Federal Funds as may accrue to the Town under the present and future provisions of Title 111, Public Law 815, 81st Congress, for the purpose of con- structing and equipping school facilities.)
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken under Art. 65 at the last annual town meeting, and turn the Old Wamesit Hand Pump over to a committee to consist of five of the signees of this article who shall have the Hand Pump restored and turned back to the Town of Tewksbury and put in an enclosure on the Town Hall lawn for public display. Funds for this purpose to be raised by public subscription, or take any other action relative to its disposal. Ralph W. Peters
Voted: To rescind the action taken under article 65 at the last annual town meeting, and turn Old Wamesit Hand Pump over to a committee to consist of five of the signees of this article who shall have the Hand Pump restored and turned back to the Town of Tewksbury and put in an enclosure on the Town Hall lawn for public display. Funds for this purpose to be raised by public sub- scription, and that the hand pump be stored at the State Hospital
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until such time as the town has a suitable place to store said pump. That $495 be transferred from E & D to start the restoration.
Meeting adjourned at 10:30 P. M.
Attest: ALICE A. PIKE
Town Clerk
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 first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six.
VICTOR N. CLUFF JOHN D. SULLIVAN GEORGE A. O'CONNELL JOHN A. HART Selectmen of Tewksbury
A true copy, Attest: WALTER JOP Constable of Tewskbury
A true copy. Attest: ALICE A. PIKE, Town Clerk
Tewksbury, Mass., May 7, 1956
Middlesex, ss.
By virtue of this warrant, I this day at 5:00 o'clock P. M. served the within warrant by posting up true and attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and Post Office and by leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Office and Town Hall in said Town of Tewks- bury, eight (8) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
WALTER JOP, Constable of Tewksbury
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Warrant and action thereon September 12, 1956
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 as- semble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury on Wednesday the 12th day of September, 1956 at eight o'clock P. M. to act on the follow- ing articles:
Meeting was called to order at 8 P. M. by Moderator James J. Gaffnev, Jr., who was assisted by John F. Gleason in the lower hall. Leroy M. Curseaden, Walter R. Doucette, John J. Kellev and Joseph A. Aubut were sworn as tellers by the Moderator. Neces- sary quorum present.
Upon completion of articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15 Mr. Gaffney relinquished the chair to Alan Qua who was elected moderator pro tem and sworn by the Town Clerk. Before leaving the hall Mr. Gaffney was given a rising vote of thanks for his years of unselfish service on behalf of the town as their moderator.
Mr. Qua took up article 16, after which the quorum was questiond and found lacking. Motion was made and seconded to adjourn until Wednesday evening at 8 P. M. Meeting adjourned at 11:49 P. M.
September 13 - 8:00 P. M.
Adjourned meeting called to order by Moderator Qua with Joseph A. Aubut and Malcolm D. Buchanan sworn as tellers. Necessary quorum of 208 not present, meeting was recessed for an hour and later amended to one-half hour. At 8.37 P. M. 214 voters were counted and meeting proceeded with ten unfinished articles before it.
Articles and votes thereon:
ART 1. To see what sum of money the town will vote to transfer from E & D or surplus cash to allow the Planning Board to hire Professional Consultants to prepare a comprehensive planning program. This sum to be used either in conjunction with matching funds from the Federal Government or to be
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used alone if Federal funds are not forthcoming, or take any other action relative thereto. Planning Board
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 2. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from E & D to the Professional Service Fund of the Planning Board, or take any other action relative thereto.
Planning Board
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 3. To see if the town will vote to amend Section 10 of the Zoning By-Law to read "All lots on which a dwelling shall be built shall contain a minimum of 20,000 sq. ft. and a minimum frontage of 125 ft. Planning Board
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 4. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By- Law by striking out Section 10 in its entirety and substituting in place thereof the following:
Section 10. AREA REGULATION
a. In all districts each dwelling shall be built on a lot with an area of not less than one acre of land, which lot shall have a minimum frontage of one hundred and fifty (150) ft.
b. These provisions shall not prevent the erection or placing of any dwelling on any lot containing less area than one acre, providing such lot does not adjoin other land of the same owner on the date this by-law becomes legally effective; no permit shall be issued for such dwelling except upon proper application to the Board of Appeals in accordance with Section So. Tewksbury Betterment Assn .. 17. and Planning Board
Voted: To adopt. 500 in favor - 173 opposed. Approved by Attorney General October 26, 1956.
ART. 5. To see what sum of money the town will transfer from available funds for scraping and rolling the Shawsheen and North Street School play areas, or take any action relative thereto. School Committee
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 6. To see what sum of money the town will transfer from available funds for the purpose of financing the transfer of Tewksbury High School students to Lowell High School, said sum to be expended in conjunction with funds now available
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to School Committee, or take any other action relative thereto. School Committee
Voted: To refer to School Committee for further study. 233 in favor - 173 opposed.
ART. 7. To see what sum the town will transfer from available funds for the purpose of protecting school property, or take any action relative thereto. School Committee
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 8. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Health to establish a town dump at the old gravel pit off Pond Street, or some other location, and transfer a sum of money from available funds to prepare and maintain said dump or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Health
Voted: To authorize the Board of Health to establish a town dump and transfer $1,000 from E & D to prepare and maintain said dump.
ART. 9. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money to enable the Planning Board to hire professional consultants to make a complete survey of the town in regards to rezoning and revi- sion rules and to conduct research into all functions and prob- lems of the town, and to publish a printed report. Said appro- priation to be used in conjunction with anv funds that are available under the Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress Title 7, Section 701, or take any other action relative thereto. So. Tewksbury Betterment Assn., Inc.
Voted: To transfer from E & D $5,250 to enable the Plan- ning Board to hire professional consultants to make a complete survey of the town in regards to rezoning and revision of sub- division rules and to conduct research into all functions and prob- lems of the town, and to publish a printed report. Said appropria- tion to be used in conjunction with any funds that are available under the Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 550, 83rd Congress, Title 7, Section 701.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to place in the warrant and on the official ballot for the next annual town meeting the following question: "Shall sections 69C to 69F inclusive of Chap. 41 of the General Laws, providing for the establish- ment of a Board of Public Works exercising the powers of certain other departments and town officers, be accepted?" So. Tewksbury Betterment Assn., Inc. Voted: To adopt. A majority vote.
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ART. 11. To see if the town will vote to amend Art. 5 of the Town By-Laws by adding the following sentence to the first paragraph of Section 1, "If the Selectmen refuse such permission, a town officer may temporarily engage in any of the aforementioned activities providing a statement is filed with the Selectmen indi- cating approval for any such activity and signed by at least one hundred registered voters from each precinct. The Selectmen shall include the question of such approval in the warrant for the next town meeting to be held subsequent to such action and the decision of the voters thereat shall be final.
So. Tewksbury Betterment Assn., Inc.
Voted: To adopt. 49 opposed - 83 in favor. (Ruling by Town Counsel.)
ART. 12. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following by- law, to be added to Art. 1 of the town by-laws. "No automatic recording device shall be used at any town meeting or public hearing without the consent of the majority of the voters present. After consent is given, the recording shall be placed in the custody of the Town Clerk and transcripts shall be made only under the supervision of such officer."
So. Tewksbury Betterment Assn., Inc.
Voted: To adopt. 2/3 vote. Approved by Attorney General, October 25, 1956.
ART. 13. To see what action the town will take to reimburse the Fire Chief $40.45 for Out-of-State expenses incurred in Town Business. Chief of Fire Department
Voted: To transfer $40.45 from E & D to reimburse the Fire Chief for Out-of-State expenses incurred in Town business.
ART. 14. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $168.90 to pay Haynes Memorial Hospital for medical expenses incurred in 1955, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Health
Voted: To adopt. Unanimous vote.
ART. 15. To see if the town will vote to authorize the 1954 School Building Committee, together with the Sub-Committee ap- pointed, under Article 11, Special Town Meeting May 15, 1956, to obtain plans and specifications in order to obtain bids for the following school construction projects:
1. Adding six classrooms and a playroom to the present Shawsheen School.
2. Constructing a new 12 room elementary school with playroom in the Whipple Road - Pine Street area.
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3. Expanding the High School building to a 750 pupil junior high school.
4. Constructing a senior high school on a separate site, said plans to be approved by the Massachusetts School Building Assistance Commission, or take any other action relative thereto. 1954 School Building Committee
Voted: To adopt.
ART. 16. To see what sum the town will vote to transfer or raise and appropriate to carry out the purposes of the preceding article or take any other action relative thereto. 1954 School Building Committee
Voted: To adopt and transfer $50,000 from E & D.
ART. 17. To see what sites the town will vote to acquire by pur- chase or eminent domain for school purposes and to see what sums of money the town will transfer or raise and appropriate for the same or take any other action relative thereto.
1954 School Building Committee
Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to ac- quire, or take by purchase or eminent domain for school purposes to include the erection of a school house upon the recommendation of the 1954 School Building Committee, the following parcel of land now owned by Thelma Whitehouse and described as follows: Land with buildings if any located on the North side of Chandler, East side of Whipple, and West side of Pine Street containing twenty acres more or less. For further description see Assessor's records; and, that the sum of $10.00 be transferred from E & D for the purpose of carrying out provisions of this article. 2/3 vote.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of erecting an addition to the present Shawsheen School, consisting of six classrooms and an additional playroom as required by the Massachusetts School Building Assistance Commission, and for the original equip- ment of the same and to determine whether the money neces- sary for same be raised by taxation, by transfer of available funds in the treasury, or be borrowed under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws or of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1958 as amended, or take any other action relative thereto.
1954 School Building Committee
Voted: That the sum of $107,920.00 be transferred from E & D together with a sum of money now available to the School Committee under the provisions of Public Law 815, which sum is $72,080.00 to be used in carrying out the provisions of Article 18. Majority vote.
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ART. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to transfer from E & D for the purpose of surveying for sidewalks on the following streets:
Shawsheen Street from Main Street to Whipple Road, Patten Road from Shawsheen Street to Whipple Road, Foster Road from Shawsheen Street to Chandler Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Sidewalk Committee
Voted: That survey work be referred to the Highway Com- missioners for study and to report back to next town meeting.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D the sum of $3,000 for a survey bv a recog- nized 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 Com- missioners. Water Commissioners
Voted: Indefinitely postponed.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the jurisdic- tion of the Playground Commission, the parcel of land on the Northerly side of Andover Street, containing 8.25 acres, former- ly owned by Max Newcity, to be used for such public, recrea- tional, social and educational purposes as said commission shall deem proper, and the Moderator is further authorized to ap- point a representative from the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and 4-H Club, to the Playground Commission, or take any other action in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To adopt. Committee appointed Marguerite Tibbets, Harold F. Dow and John H. Hart.
With the permission of the assembly Mr. William Dewing spoke in appreciation of the effort and good judgment shown by Dr. Edward G. Thistle as Superintendent of Schools. A rising vote of thanks was given Dr. Thistle.
Meeting adjourned at 10:50 P. M.
Attest: ALICE A. PIKE Town Clerk
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
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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 28th day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six.
VICTOR N. CLUFF JOHN D. SULLIVAN JOSEPH J. WHELAN GEORGE A. O'CONNELL JOHN H. HART Selectmen of Tewksbury
A true copy. Attest: WALTER JOP, Constable of Tewksbury
Tewksbury, Mass., September 5, 1956
Middlesex, ss.
By virtue of this warrant, I this day at 9:30 A. M. served the within warrant by posting up true and attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and Post Office, leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Office and Town Hall in said Town of Tewksbury seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
WALTER JOP Constable of Tewksbury
A true copy. Attest : ALICE A. PIKE, Town Clerk
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Warrant and Action Thereon
December 12, 1956
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
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Tewksbury, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury on Wednesday, the 12th day of December, 1956 at eight o'clock P. M. to act on the following articles :
Meeting was called to order at 8 P. M. by the Town Clerk. Mr. Alan Qua was elected Moderator pro tem in the absence of Mr. Gaffney and sworn by the Town Clerk. Also John J. Kelley and Joseph A. Aubut were duly sworn to act as tellers during the meeting.
Count of voters present showed 135 whereas the number re- quired is 208. A thirty minute recess was declared in order to obtain the necessary quorum. At 8:35 there still lacked 33 persons of a quorum and a second recess was declared until 9:10 when the tellers announced a count of 224 persons present.
The meeting proceeded at this time and the articles acted on as follows:
ART. 1. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $4,000 from the E & D Account to the Charities Operating Account of the Welfare Department or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Public Welfare
Voted: To adopt this article.
ART. 2. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $1,250 ($350 to salary account and $900 to the opera- ting account) to the Fire Department budget or take any other action relative thereto. Fire Department
Voted: To transfer from E & D the sum of $350 to the Salary Account of Fire Department and $586 to the Operating Account.
ART. 3. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $1,430 ($900 to salary account and $530 to the opera- ting account) to the Police Dept. budget or take any other action relative thereto. Police Department
Voted to transfer from E & D the sum of $900 to salary account of Police Dept. budget and $530 to the operating account.
ART. 4. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee to study the possibility of building a new police station and report at the next annual town meeting or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Voted: To authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a com- mittee to study the possibility of building a new police station and report at the next annual town meeting.
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ART. 5. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $400 from the operating expenses to salary account of the Tree Department or take any other action relative threto.
Tree Department
Voted: To adopt this article.
ART. 6. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $150 to the Board of Appeals for clerical expenses or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Appeals Voted: To transfer from E & D the sum of $150 to the Board of Appeals for clerical expenses.
ART. 7. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $150 for hydrant snow removal. Board of Selectmen
Voted to transfer from E & D the sum of $150 for hydrant snow removal.
ART. 8. To see if the town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $75 to the Dog Officer Account. Dog Officer
Voted: To transfer from E & D the sum of $75 for the Dog Officer Account.
ART. 9 To see if the Town will vote to transfer from E & D the sum of $750 to the Selectmen's Operating Account or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
Voted: To adopt this article and transfer $500 from E and D to the Selectmen's Operating Account.
Meeting adjourned at 9:32 P. M.
Attest: ALICE A. PIKE Town Clerk
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.
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