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-Board of Water Commissioners for Armando DeCarolis, Jr.
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VOTED: To adopt Article 77 as amended in the following manner: (1) To transfer the sum of $956.25 from E & D for this purpose; (2) To expend the sum of $956.25 from the Installation Account provided this cost has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer; (3) This water line shall service only lots containing at least one acre of land as per existing town one acre by-law excluding from effect of this amendment existing homes as of today. Motion for indefinite postponement was declared lost. (3-14 at 11:01 P. M.)
ARTICLE 78, To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D the sum of $750.00 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Brookfield Road for a distance of approxi- mately 250 feet and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any action relative thereto.
-Board of Water Commissioners for Armando DeCarolis, Jr. VOTED: To adopt Article 78 as amended and to transfer from E & D the sum of $750.00. (1) This water line shall service only lots containing at least one acre of land as per existing town one acre by-law excluding from effect of this amendment existing homes as of today. Move for indefinite postponement was defeated. The previous question carried.
ARTICLE 79. To see if the Town will vote to expend the sum of $6,375.00 from the Installation Account, for the purpose of installing approximately 1500 feet of water pipe in Charles Drive, provided that the cost of said 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.
-Board of Water Commissioners for James V. DeCarolis VOTED: On voice majority Article 79 was declared carried as amended: (1) Subject to approval of the Planning Board (2) This water line shall service only lots containing at least one acre of land as per existing town one acre by-law excluding from the effect of this amendment existing homes as of today. (21 lots.)
Move to take Article 10 from the table failed at this point.
ARTICLE 80. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 to enable the Board of Assessors to publish real-estate valuation books as required by Section 11 of Article 2 of the Town By-Laws, or take any other action relative thereto. The cost of publication to be defrayed through the sale of books to the general public.
-Paul J. McAskill and others
VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the purposes of Article 80 as amended by (1) delete the phrase 'as required by Section 11 of Article 2 of the Town By-Laws' and inserting therein the words 'of the year 1965' and (2) by adding the following sentence "This book is to be published and made available to the public by a date no later than
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four (4) months subsequent to the passage of this article." (3-14 at 11:20 P. M.) Both amendments had carried, one offered by Mr. McAskill and the other by Mr. Nickerson. The previous question won approval during the discussion.
ARTICLE 81. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain in fee simple a tract of land consisting of approximately 20.4 acres for school purposes, namely, the erection of an elementary school, playground and other school facilities connected therewith, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 14, and Chapter 79 of the General Laws as amended, shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., Scale 60 feet to an inch, Decem- ber 12, 1965, Brooks, Jordan and Graves, Civil Eng'rs.", which plan is to be recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds; said land situated along the southerly side of Andover Street and along the westerly side of North Street in North Tewksbury, being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Parcel No. 1 - Owners: Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles
Beginning at a point 244.55 feet distant from, but not adjacent to, the southerly side of Andover Street which point is situated at the south- easterly corner of land now or formerly owned by the Town of Tewksbury; thence,
SOUTHWESTERLY along other land of Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles, 765 feet; thence,
WESTERLY by other land of Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles 487.5 feet; thence,
NORTHWESTERLY along other land of Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles, 555 feet to a point adjoining the southwest corner of land now or formerly owned by Randolph; thence turning,
SOUTHEASTERLY along a stone wall by land of Randolph 442.5 feet in three (3) courses, thence,
NORTHEASTERLY along a stone wall and land of Randolph 317.5 feet in three (3) courses; thence,
NORTHERLY again by land of Randolph 637.5 feet, in two (2) courses, to the southwesterly corner of land now or formerly owned by William Bennett, thence,
SOUTHEASTERLY along land of said William Bennett and land now or formerly owned by the Town of Tewksbury 175 feet to the point of beginning.
Said parcel contains approximately 6.9 acres.
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Parcel 1-A - Owners: Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles
Beginning at a point situated at the southwesterly corner of land now or formerly owned by Randolph and the northwesterly corner of land owned by Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles; thence,
SOUTHEASTERLY 555 feet along other land of Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles to a point; thence,
WESTERLY, 740 feet along other land of Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles to a point adjoing land now or formerly owned by Travers; thence,
NORTHEASTERLY along said Travers land 482 feet to the point of the beginning.
This parcel contains approximately 3.07 acres.
Parcel No. 2 - Owners: George E. and Emma L. Bennett
Beginning at a point at the southwesterly corner of land owned by George E. and Emma L. Bennett, which point is 450 feet distant from the southerly side of Andover Street; thence,
SOUTHEASTERLY along land now or formerly owned by Randolph 277 feet; thence,
NORTHEASTERLY along said Randolph land 68 feet; thence, WESTERLY along other land of George E. and Emma L. Bennett 267.5 feet to the point of beginning.
This parcel contains approximately 8,000 square feet.
Parcel No. 3 - Owner Theron G. Randolph, Guardian for Bruce Kemp- ton and Wardner Emerson Randolph.
Beginning at a point at the southerly side of Andover Street and at the northwesterly corner of land now or formerly owned by William Bennett; thence,
SOUTHERLY along said Bennett land 240 feet; thence continuing, SOUTHWESTERLY 637.5 feet, in two (2) courses, along land owned by Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles; thence continuing along a stone wall southwesterly 317.5 feet in three (3) courses, to a point along said Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles land; thence,
WESTERLY 442.5 feet, in three (3) courses, along a stone wall by land of said Ralph S. and Martha D. Battles to land now or formerly owned by Travers; thence,
NORTHEASTERLY along said Travers land 390 feet to land of George E. and Emma L. Bennett; thence,
SOUTHEASTERLY along said Bennett land 277 feet; thence,
NORTHEASTERLY again by said Bennett land, 600 feet to a point at the southerly side of Andover Street; thence along the southerly side of said Andover Street 460 feet to the point of beginning.
This parcel contains approximately 10.25 acres.
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And to have the Town vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account for such purchases or takings the amount of $47,250.00 or take any other action relative thereto.
-School Planning Committee
VOTED: The motion by Mrs. Anderson to raise and appropriate the sum of $47,250.00 for the purposes of Article 81 carried by a secret ballot vote of 245 to 26. The earlier ballot vote for indefinite postponement indi- cated 109 were in favor and 233 opposed to that motion. An amendment had been proposed which did not prevail; that a portion of the land to be purchased be set aside for a sub-fire station. Move by Mr. Ralph Battles that this question be referred back to the Long Range Planning Committee did also not carry. The previous question had been accepted. (3-15 at 12:40 A. M.)
ARTICLE 82. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of five members to be known as the "1966 Elementary School Building Committee" and authorize and empower said committee to obtain detailed plans and specifications for the construction of said school building with facilities on the site voted under Article 76 of this Town Meeting. This authorization will allow the Committee to call for certified bids on the plans and specifica- tions, to accept or reject any or all bids and to present the final bids ac- cepted by the Committee to an Annual or Special Town Meeting for acceptance by the Town and to do and take any other action in connection therewith necessary, proper, and incidental to carry out the foregoing. Said Committee to be appointed by the Moderator and to consist of one member each of the Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee, School Com- mittee and two (2) members from the Long Range School Planning Committee.
-School Planning Committee
VOTED: As moved by Mrs. Anderson voice votes were declared carried to adopt the purposes of Article 82 and to establish the reference within the Article to the correct figure of 81 and not 76 as printed. Indefinite postponement did not prevail.
The question of quorum revealed 222 voters in attendance at the late hour. With 334 required it was moved and voted to adjourn to Monday, March 21st at 8:00 P. M. (12:45 P. M.)
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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1966
After calling the meeting to order at 8:00 P. M. Moderator Qua allowed two recesses until 8:30 P. M. when 348 were counted as present whereupon he opened the meeting for the business of the evening.
ARTICLE 83. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) to carry out the provisions of the preceding Article. -School Planning Committee
VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $70,000.00 for the purposes of the preceding Article 82, which had won approval. The vote was by secret ballot and recorded at 233 in favor and 93 opposed to this action. The motion for adoption by Mrs. Anderson had reached the assembly through the failure of the move for indefinite postponement by the ballot vote of 213 to 121. (3-21 at 9:10 P. M.)
ARTICLE 84. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for the purposes of carrying out the duties which Article 8 of the Special Town Meeting, held May 8, 1957, empowered the School Planning Commit- tee to execute.
-School Planning Committee
VOTED: Upon the motion by Mrs. Anderson it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000.00 for the expenses of the Long Range School Planning Committee by majority voice. The motion to indefi- nitely postpone action on this Article was declared lost by the Moderator when put to the assembly.
ARTICLE 85. To see if the Town will vote the sum of $300.00 for the pur- chase of CD Auxiliary Police uniforms and special equipment under Section 13-21, in the General Acts, of the Civil Defense Act.
-Civil Defense Director Warren Ray
VOTED:To raise and appropriate $300.00 for uniforms and equipment as requested by this Article upon motion by Mr. Warren Ray. The move for indefinite postponement did not carry in voice vote.
ARTICLE 86. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money as follows for the purpose of providing suitable quarters under the provisions of Section 9, Chapter 40 of the General Laws - Tewksbury Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8164 - $744.00.
-James F. McClellan and others
VOTED: The sum of $744.00 was approved and to raise by taxation this amount in unanimous consent by the assembly.
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ARTICLE 87. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $600.00 for the purpose of providing suitable quarters for Disabled American Veterans, Tewksbury Chapter No. 110, under the provisions of Section 9 of Chapter 40 of the Massachusetts General Laws.
-Richard E. Fortier and others
VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $600.00 for this purpose on majority voice. Amendment offered by Mr. Mclaughlin was declared lost, questioned, and the resulting division verified the Moderator's ruling 136 - 101.
ARTICLE 88. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of moving the Tewksbury Veterans Memorial back twelve (12) feet and to have installed spot lights, so the Memorial may be kept lighted at all times. -Richard E. Fortier and others
VOTED: Unanimously approved the sum of $500.00 to be raised by taxation for the purposes of Article 88.
ARTICLE 89. To see if the Town will vote to request permission from the General Court of Massachusetts to vote by referendum on acceptance or rejection of "An Act Establishing a Selectmen-Manager Form of Govern- ment for the Town of Tewksbury," or take any other action relative thereto. -The League of Women Voters
VOTED: On the motion by Mrs. Merrill Article 89 was adopted by the standing vote, requested by the Moderator, with 209 in the affirmative and 99 in the negative. Thereupon a move for reconsideration was made by Mrs. Jackson which was refused by those voting 154 to 0. Previously, the rising vote on the motion for indefinite postponement on this question did not prevail by a division of 125 yeas and 201 nays. (3-21-66 at 9:51 P. M.)
ARTICLE 90. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of five (5) to be known as the Sign By-Law Committee to prepare a By-Law for the regulation of signs in the Town, to hold a public hearing in accordance with the laws and procedures covering the Zoning By-Laws and to present a Sign By-Law for consideration by the Town at the next annual Town Meeting or Annual Election, or to take any other action therewith proper and necessary and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to carry out the foregoing. The aforesaid committee to consist of the following: Gerald McDermott, Thomas Conlon, Edmund Hoell, Donald Nickerson, and member to be appointed by the Planning Board. -Gerald McDermott and others
VOTED: To adopt the purposes of Article 90 and to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 upon the motion by Mr. Gerald McDermott. Motion carried by voice majority. The move for indefinite postponement was defeated.
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ARTICLE 91. To see if the Town will vote into law the following: That any habitable structure having been issued a certificate of occupancy and using town water shall have its own water service and its own water meter installed specifically for its own singular use.
-Barbara L. Jackson and others
VOTED: To adopt on voice vote. Motion to indefinitely postpone did not carry. The question of quorum prior to the above votes was resolved when 348 persons were counted in attendance. (3-21 at 10:04 P. M.)
ARTICLE 92. To see if the Town will vote to establish the following terms of office for the "Municipal Building Committee" as voted under Article 19 of the Warrant for the 1964 Town Meeting. The five members to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen. Two for one year, two for two years, and one for three years, with each succeeding term thereafter to be for three years. Vacancies that occur may be filled at the discretion of the majority of the Board of Selectmen. -Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: With only one motion it was voted to adopt as written.
ARTICLE 93. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E & D for the purpose of paving any areas of Main Street sidewalks prepared for such purpose by the Mass. Department of Public Works. -Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: As amended, to raise and appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 for the purposes of hot-topping six miles of sidewalk on Main Street upon a voice majority. The amendment as voted into Article 93 was offered by Mr. O'Loughlin and had gained approval of the assembly. Indefinite postponement as motioned did not succeed in voice yeas.
ARTICLE 94. To see if the Town will vote to require that persons sub- mitting articles for the Town Warrant requesting expenditures from the Installation account for the purpose of installing water pipe, must first; prior to Town Meeting:
1. Obtain planning board approval for the intended utilization of the land.
2. Obtain a variance from the Board of Appeals if the parcel of land or intended usage of the same does not conform to the Town By-Laws. -Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: To adopt by majority voice the requirements of Article 94 upon the motion of Mr. Nickerson. Move to indefinitely postpone action when put did not carry.
A tally of voters on a quorum question indicated 299 present. A recess was declared for five minutes. When the meeting resumed, the assembled refused a motion to adjourn sine die 187 to 18. On the motion by Mr. Mclaughlin to adjourn to Monday, March 28th at 8:00 P. M. the vote carried easily.
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1966
The meeting was called to order at 8:00 P. M. by Moderator Qua who accepted a recess until 8:30 P. M. and at that time a quorum of 335 voters were present and accounted for. The first order of business was to remove Article 10 from the table, and with action thereupon completed the following Articles were considered.
ARTICLE 95. To see if the Town will vote to require that all approved requests for expenditures from the Installation account be acted upon within one year. Otherwise the approval is nullified until another article has been submitted to and approved by the Town Meeting.
-Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: To adopt Article 95 as amended that "To require on all approved requests for exenditure from the installation account, that the full sum of money involved in the Article be placed on deposit within six months of the end of the Town Meeting at which it was adopted, otherwise the action shall be null and void." The main motion carried on rising vote 178 to 119. The foregoing amendment had been approved by a count of 179 to 126 after the voice vote on this amendment was questioned. The rising vote of 134 in favor and 173 opposed killed the motion for indefinite postponement. (3-28 at 8:56 P. M.)
ARTICLE 96. To see if the Town will vote to establish a committee of 5 to be known as the "Conflict of Interest Committee," said committee to make a full study of regulations pertaining to municipal officers and others as stated in the General Laws of the Commonwealth and to provide full and substantial recommendations for changes in the Town By-Laws that will establish a realistic basis for determining "Conflict of Interest" in the Town of Tewksbury. This committee of 5 will be appointed by the Moderator within thirty days after adoption of this article and shall report at the next regular Town Meeting or take any other action relative thereto.
-Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: To establish a 'Conflict of Interest Committee' as moved by Mr. Cunningham and carried on voice majority. The motion for indefinite postponement of action on this Article did not prevail. (3-28 at 9:10 P.M.)
ARTICLE 97 .. To see if the Town will vote to require that all articles submitted to the Town Meeting requesting expenditures from the installa- tion account state the size, and number of lots which will be served by the installation. -Tewksbury Taxpayers Association
VOTED: To accept on voice majority, no dissents, the requirements of Article 97. (3-28 at 9:11 P. M.)
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ARTICLE 98. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Library Trustees to set aside monies collected as fines on over-due or damaged books in a separate account to be known as the Library Book Fund. Such monies to be used toward the purchase of new books for the library or to take any other action relative thereto.
-Veronica T. Doherty and others
VOTED: Unanimously to give authority to the Library Trustees to act in the manner prescribed by Article 98.
ARTICLE 99. To see if the Town will vote to amend the zoning by-law of the Town of Tewksbury, by adding to the permitted uses and only in a light industrial district, the following, Section 6, paragraph 11, Garden Type, brick veneered, two-story apartment buildings, to be one-bedroom, 3 rooms to each unit, and not to exceed 48 units, such buildings shall be at least 50 feet set back from any residential district.
-Patrica A. Yonaker and others
VOTED: No action was finalized on this Article. Both main motions failed. As this Article sought re-zoning the required vote called for two-thirds to pass. On the motion to indefinitely postpone action it lacked the strength with 202 yeas, 129 nays and 221 affirmative to pass. The move by Mr. Pupkis for adoption as prescribed in this Article revealed by a division of the assembly that 136 were in favor and 200 opposed to its purpose. The previous question moved permitted voting on the question. Two amendments did not survive: (1) No children to be allowed in any unit. (2) Such units to be constructed solely on Main Street with the following restrictions: That no permit for construction on this type of building shall commence prior to the Planning Board's adoption of building and zoning codes pertaining specifically to this type of build- ing. That a public hearing be held for each proposed site, and that no building permit be issued until the site has been approved at said public hearing and the Planning Board. (3-28 at 10:08 P. M.)
Article 14 was reconsidered at this point. It won reconsideration on prior notice 129 to 2.
ARTICLE 100. To see if the Town will vote to amend the zoning by-law of the Town of Tewksbury, by adding to the permitted uses and only in a light industrial district, the following, Section 6, paragraph 12, a 100-bed brick veneered, qualified approved nursing home, such building shall be at least 50 feet set back from any residential district.
-Patrica A. Yonaker and others
VOTED: Following discussion and the considered opinion of the proponent of the Article that a motion for adoption should be made, a voice vote was asked and carried on indefinite postponement without question.
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ARTICLE 101. To see if the Town will sell to Clifford Hupper, the owner of the Tewksbury Airport, a parcel of land at the Northwest end of the runway containing ten (10) acres of land, more or less, said parcel to be sold to Clifford Hupper for the sum of $200 per acre, or to take any other action in relation thereto. -Clifford Hupper and others
VOTED: Indefinite postponement since motion had been made. The question of the Article was ineffectual as the land had been sold.
ARTICLE 102. To see if the Town will re-zone a parcel of land on 2131 Main Street to allow the erection of an apartment house on a lot of land, consisting of five (5) acres, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
-Armando DeCarolis, Jr. and others
VOTED: On a standing vote of 186 affirmative and 77 negative the assembly exceeded the 2/3 requirement by 10 and thereby indefinitely postponed the Article. A motion for the previous question was accepted. (3-28 at 10:46 P. M.)
With unanimous consent Moderator Alan M. Qua declared the 1966 Annual Town Meeting adjourned sine die at 10:47 P. M. on March 28, 1966.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and each of the Post Offices of Precinct One; Shawsheen School of Precinct Two; North Street School of Precinct Three, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, AND MAKE DUE RETURN 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 February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.
JOSEPH J. WHELAN, Chairman
VICTOR N. CLUFF
GEORGE A. O'CONNELL
DAVID J. BEATTIE KEVIN C. SULLIVAN
A true copy, Attest: JOHN E. HEDSTROM Town Clerk
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
RAISE AND APPROPRIATE
$ 4,052,519.09
Annual Budget (Article 4) 3,673,712.26
Articles 9 to 93 378,806.83
TRANSFER FROM E & D ACCOUNT
74,081.25
TRANSFER FROM STABILIZATION FUND 85,000.00
OTHER TRANSFERS 39,238.50
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ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION
Tewksbury, Massachusetts - March 12, 1966
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, called by proper Warrant, and qualified to vote in town affairs, held this day at the Town Hall for Precinct 1, Shawsheen School for Precinct 2, and North Street School for Precinct 3, the following business was transacted:
Registers on ballot boxes in the three Precincts showed 0000, and check lists were in order. Polls opened at 10:00 A. M. and closed at 8:00 P. M. There were 4301 votes cast; Precinct 1-1261; Precinct 2-1331; Precinct 3-1709.
Election officers were in custody of the following Wardens and Clerks: Precinct 1-Rita Thompson, Warden; John H. Hart, Clerk; Precinct 2- Lilyan Blaquiere, Warden; Gladys O'Connell, Clerk; Gloria A. Deputat, Warden; Donald Pope, Clerk.
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