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Water Department:
Rates
61,861.13
Guaranty Deposits - Services
8,829.81
Guaranty Deposits - Extensions
5,472.51
Services and Miscellaneous
2,201.54
Back-hoe Fund
299.30
Interest:
Deposits in Savings Banks
1,776.95
Deferred Taxes
1,583.06
Tax Titles Redeemed
136.78
Sale of Lots
98.06
Committed Interest
148.54
Treasury Notes
4,152.80
78,664.29
67
Escrow Agreements Demands and Warrants
30.66 143.15
8,070.00
Loans :
Anticipation of Revenue
Water Extension
150,000.00 7,650.00
157,650.00
Insurance Recovery
145.00
Agency and Trusts:
Dog Licenses for County
1,090.25
Federal Withholding Taxes
70,833.99
State Withholding Taxes
4,869.91
Town Reimbursement - State Withholding Taxes
44.35
County Retirement
8,037.19
Blue Cross - Blue Shield
2,989.85
Planning Board Deposits
19,620.00
107,485.54
Money Withdrawn from Trust Funds :
Library
1,200.00
Mary Atwood Fund
807.63
Cemetery Perpetual Care
2,000.00
Wright Fund
16.00
4,023.63
Refunds
1,029.60
1,471,124.38
Balance January 1, 1960
598,306.05
$ 2,069,430.43
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EXPENDITURES - 1960
General Government:
Selectmen:
Salaries of Selectmen
$ 1,225.00
Salary of Clerk
1,290.00
Stationery and Postage
73.01
Dues and Meetings
37.00
Law Supplements
42.50
Advertisements
133.67
$
2,801.18
Town Accountant :
Salary
1,560.00
Clerical Help
400.00
Dues
5.00
Stationery and Postage
84.19
Office Supplies
36.42
Binding
50.00
Advertisements
9.75
2,145.36
Town Treasurer:
Salary
3,380.00
Bond
186.50
Clerical Help
460.00
Dues
5.00
Printing and Postage
98.50
4,130.00
Tax Collector:
Salary
3,000.00
Dues
5.00
Advertisements
99.75
Surety Bond
335.75
Printing and Postage
827.08
Prepare Tax Titles
68.00
Telephone
163.76
Clerical Assistance
220.00
4,719.34
Assessors:
Salaries
5,061.00
Clerk's Salary
1,285.00
Printing and Postage
403.11
Telephone
122.86
Dues and Meetings
18.00
Use of Car
200.00
Town Clerk:
Salary
1,400.00
Recording Fees
315.00
Printing and Postage
74.86
Office Supplies
146.88
Dues
17.50
Law Service
10.00
Surety Bond
10.00
Oaths to Town Officials
29.50
7,089.97
2,003.74
69
Registration and Election: Salaries for Registrars and Election Officers
2,440.25
Listing
1,516.50
Printing Voting Lists
425.00
Advertisements
130.75
Preparing Materials for Elections etc.
783.25
Janitor Service
12.75
Office Supplies and Postage
538.92
New Voting Booths
187.00
6,034.42
Town Clerk - New Typewriter
433.50
Board of Appeals
368.70
Enforcement of Zoning
667.80
4-H Clubs
75.00
Planning Board
372.27
Planning Board - Options
100.00
Miscellaneous Service and Expense
259.30
Tax Possessions Sales Committee
30.00
License Expense
188.25
Development and Industrial Commission
38.50
Finance Committee
215.00
Interest on Revenue Loans
474.21
Tax Title Expense
983.50
Real Estate Valuation Lists
1,025.02
Town Counsel
1,047.50
Town Hall :
Salary - Custodian
1,890.00
Town Hall License
25.00
Fuel - Oil
1,158.33
Fuel - Lowell Gas
57.84
Electricity
443.17
Telephone
225.69
Water
27.00
Custodial Supplies
147.63
Repairs
757.28
Post Office Box Rent
3.60
4,735.54
Paint Exterior of Town Hall
1,550.00
Protection of Persons and Property:
Compensation and Fire Insurance
5,621.01
Police Department :
Chief's Salary
5,330.00
Sergeant's Salary
5,070.00
Patrolmen's Salaries
12,480.00
Special Officers
7,814.78
Radio Service and Repairs
156.25
Car Repairs
931.46
Gasoline and Oil
2,632.88
Telephone
558.17
Uniforms
426.94
Dues
14.00
Office Supplies
46.37
Departmental Supplies
431.72
41,488.10
70
Insurance
199.50
Police Department - New Cruiser
36,092.07 2,794.09
Fire Department:
Wages - Fire
5,262.48
Wages - Ambulance
581.20
Electrical Repairs
198.82
Equipment and Repairs
2,257.57
Gasoline and Oil
543.99
Fuel
1,559.06
Lowell Gas Company
286.63
Electricity
423.89
Telephone
791.15
Building Repairs
1,223.21
Insurance
2,044.72
Water
118.00
Radio Repairs
461.71
Siren Repairs
652.74
Dues
12.00
16,367.17
Switchboard Operator
1,050.00
New Fire Hose
1,695.00
New Two-Way Radio
1,132.00
Special Equipment Appropriation
413.98
Nabnasset Rent
600.00
Hydrant Service
7,425.00
Forest Fires :
Wages - Fires
1,366.83
Permits
250.00
Fuel
25.00
1,641.83
New Forestry Hose
480.00
Moth Department:
Wages
784.00
Insurance
82.02
Truck Expense
112.64
Equipment and Repairs
66.92
Insecticides
1,376.53
Garage Rent
36.00
2,458.11
Tree Department:
Wages
3,768.00
Truck Expense
157.18
Equipment and Repairs
304.72
New Equipment
170.00
4,399.90
Dog Officer
752.43
Sealer of Weights and Measures
250.00
Wire Inspector
670.20
Town Forests
22.00
71
83,864.79
4,750.00
5,661.44
200.00
10,611.73
Highway Department: Street Lights
9,020.37
Snow and Ice Removal:
Wages
12,687.26
Hired Trucks
4,727.25
Equipment and Repairs
4,415.57
Gasoline and Oil
1,780.85
Salt
3,864.56
Sand
3,239.22
Town Roads Accounts :
Wages
12,743.27
Sand, Gravel, Asphalt
4,543.92
Gasoline and Oil
863.03
Equipment Rental
910.50
Fence
795.00
Survey and Plans
35.00
Equipment and Repairs
383.89
20,274.61
Drainage of Town Roads :
Wages
2,303.65
Pipe and Culverts
5,159.75
Supplies
32.09
7,495.49
Chapter 90 Maintenance:
Wages
1,532.33
Asphalt
2,214.38
Sand, Gravel
750.94
4,497.65
Chapter 81 Roads :
Wages
20,941.38
Sand, Gravel, Stone
2,763.91
Asphalt
8,305.60
Pipe and Grates
541.15
Use of Equipment
196.00
32,748.04
Chapter 90 Construction:
Wages
6,155.64
Pipes and Culverts
1,368.95
Sand, Gravel, Stone
1,228.57
Asphalt
803.72
Use of Equipment
60.00
9,616.88
Machinery and Equipment:
Equipment and Repairs
2,892.12
Garage Rent
1,110.00
Gasoline and Oil
1,486.43
Insurance
1,011.81
Tires and Tire Repair
1,216.27
Health and Sanitation: Health Department (See Report) Nashoba Associated Boards of Health Cattle Inspector
30,714.71
72
Telephone Electricity
295.39 13.00
8,025.02
Sidewalk Repairs
1,343.88
Sidewalk Survey - Nabnasset
270.00
New Snow Plow
632.10
New Road Roller
8,375.00
Paint Traffic Lines
650.00
Road and Traffic Signs
488.38
134,152.13
Welfare Department: (See Report) Temporary Aid
6,683.69
Disability Assistance: Town
11,631.20
Federal
7,425.44
19,056.64
Old Age Assistance:
Town
33,785.85
Federal
38,795.43
72,581.28
Aid to Dependent Children:
Town
1,134.57
Federal
2,266.76
3,401.33
Administration - Federal
Old Age Assistance
1,813.11
Disability Assistance
316.37
Aid to Dependent Children
143.02
2,272.50
Infirmary
2,174.46
106,169.90
Veterans Benefits:
General Appropriation:
Salaries
906.00
Postage and Dues
27.00
Grants
4,364.20
5,297.20
School Department:
General Appropriation: (See Report)
502,884.27
National Defense Education
4,629.29
Vocational Tuition and Transportation
5,340.82
School Cafeteria
34,482.46
School Athletics
6,129.80
School Band
1,205.56
New Six Year High School :
Clerical
390.00
Legal Fees
1,200.00
1,590.00
Purchase of Land - Academy Septic Field Academy Septic System
2,749.74
New Nabnasset Elementary School
331,309.66
Secondary School Building Committee
137.25
892,056.85
73
1,598.00
5,297.20
Town Library: (See Report) Mary Atwood Lecture Fund Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund
8,284.64 832.22 13.50
Recreation and Unclassified :
Town Common :
Wages
765.61
Electricity
18.66
Loam and Grass Seed
50.90
Flowers
80.60
Supplies and Repairs
84.23
1,000.00
Whitney Playground :
Wages
703.41
Water
27.00
Fence Repair
198.00
Loam and Grass Seed
47.90
Supplies and Repairs
223.69
Metcalf Monument
100.00
New Fence - Tennis Court
450.00
Commemoration of Memorial Day
617.21
Unpaid Bills of Previous Years
313.50
Printing Town Reports
1,439.86
Veterans Quarters
900.00
Recreation Commission
1,505.75
Planning Board Surety Deposit
9,810.00
17,336.32
Water Department:
Water Department:
General (See Report)
38,668.04
Water Department - New Back-hoe
6,015.00
New Test Wells
5,357.71
Extensions :
Patten Road
395.63
Beaver Brook Road Extension
2,584.25
Graniteville Road Extension
3,555.49
Birch Road
565.47
Doris Road
807.47
Oak Hill Road
725.61
8,633.92
58,674.67
Cemeteries :
Wages
5,779.80
Clerk
250.00
Safe Deposit Box
5.00
Insurance
83.09
Hot-Top Driveways
400.00
Seed, Fertilizer
69.44
Equipment and Repairs
506.14
7,093.47
Perpetual Care
2,725.00
Perpetual Care Interest
128.90
William L. Wright Fund
16.00
9,963.37
74
1,200.00
Principal and Interest: Principal:
Schools
70,000.00
Water
10,000.00
Water Extensions
5,500.00
Betterments
1,000.00
86,500.00
Interest:
Schools
29,100.00
Water
6,370.00
Water Extensions
1,587.56
Betterments
340.00
37,397.56
123,897.56
Loan - Anticipation of Revenue
150,000.00
Payments to State:
State Parks
2,665.33
State Audit
105.86
2,771.19
Payments to County:
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
3,794.98
County Retirement System
6,217.48
Dog Licenses
1,118.25
County Tax
19,515.86
30,646.57
Payroll Deductions:
Withholding Taxes - Federal
70,833.99
Withholding Taxes - State
4,869.91
Retirement System
8,037.19
Blue Cross - Blue Shield
2,995.10
86,736.19
Refunds - Taxes and Water
4,322.95
Total Expenditures
1,767,119.88
Balance December 31, 1960
302,310.55
$ 2,069,430.43
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TOWN ACCOUNTANT BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1960
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
$
52.55
27,845.00 Highway Machinery Fund Reserved:
130.96 Revolving Funds : School Athletics 282.29 School Band 181.96
School Cafeteria
220.96
Tax Possessions
3,218.41
Departmental Revenue: Highway 144.70
Health Department 271.44
Aid to Dependent Children
434.64
Old Age Assistance
81.65
Cemeteries
36.00
Schools - Tuition & Transp. 702.79
State and County Highway Aid: State Aid - Chapter 81 16,590.47 State Aid - Chapter 90-Maint. 1,500.00
Appropriation Balances : Printing Town By-Laws $ 500.00
Taxes :
Levy of 1958:
Planning Board - Options 900.00
Poll
10.00
Planning Board - Surety Deposit
9,810.00
Personal Property
278.80
New Elementary School-Nabnasset 62,899.53
Levy of 1959:
Secondary School Bldg Committee
3,862.75
Poll
20.00
Town Hall - New Ceiling 800.00
Personal Property
265.35
Town Hall - Generator Connection 200.00
Real Estate
5,374.79
Fire and Compensation Insurance
4,903.56
Levy of 1960:
Survey - Sidewalk - Plain Road 230.00
Poll
1,098.00
Personal Property
1,183.40
Real Estate
42,026.58
Motor Vehicle Excise:
Levy of 1958
1,239.97
Levy of 1959
1,251.40
Levy of 1960
25,353.63
76
Farm Animal Excise: Levy of 1960
Tax Titles and Possessions:
Tax Titles
6,147.56
685.21
9,365.97 Recovery - Old Age Assistantance 1,158.00
Federal Grants: Disability Assistance
1,529.52
Old Age Assistance: Assistance $ 1,739.74
Administration
65.53
1,805.27
Aid to Dependent Children
5,265.11
1,671.22
School Department:
Public Law 874
13,045.07
Public Law 85-864 660.83 13,705.90
22,305.80
50,256.92
Academy - Septic System Civil Defense
93.85
Cemeteries - General
456.53
Chapter 90 Construction
18,443.12
Highway Equipment Account 2.00
Highway - Salt Spreader
1,050.00
Land - Academy Septic Field
15.00
10,250.26
114,416.60 7,692.00
Cash :
General
Payroll Deductions $ 302,310.55
Accounts Receivable:
County Aid - Chapter 90 Maint. 1,500.00 State Aid - Chapter 90 Constr 14,000.00 County Aid - Chapter 90 Constr 7,000.00
Trust Fund Grants : Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund Whitney Shade Tree Fund 148.85
6.50
40,590.47
155.35
Sale of Cemetery Lots
2,694.03
Sale of Real Estate
1,165.00
Highway - Hawthorne Avenue (Betterment)
2,437.25
Water Extensions : Main Street 3.77
Patten Road 6.02
9.79
20,804.70 Water Department Fund Reserved: Back-hoe Fund 299.30
1,271.04 Agency:
Overlay Deficits:
County - Dog Licenses 8.75
Levy of 1957 226.98
Levy of 1958
71.89
Levy of 1959 249.40
Levy of 1960 1,462.50
Revenue Reserved until Collected:
2,010.77
Departmental 1,671.22
395.67 State & County Aid to Highways 40,590.47
Water Department 20,244.90
Farm Animal Excise 130.96
574.11 Motor Vehicle Excise 27,845.00
Tax Title and Possessions 9,365.97
99,848.52
Cemetery - Perpetual Care Interest 6.25
Surplus Revenue: General 172,901.97
Water
25,568.67
198,470.64
$ 457,227.38
$ 457.227.38
77
Water:
Rates
19,522.47
Services and Miscellaneous 722.43
Guaranty Deposits 559.80
Unprovided For or Overdrawn Accounts: Underestimates - 1960:
County Tax
Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus
5,822.34
Water - Doris Road Extension
Underestimates : State Parks
DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Apportioned Street Betterment Assessments Not Due
Apportioned Street Betterment Revenue;
$ 2,569.03
Due in 1961
8 366.96
Due in 1962
366.96
Due in 1963
366.96
Due in 1964
366.96
Due in 1965
366.96
Due in 1966
366.96
Due in 1967
367.27
2,569.03
2,569.03
Net Funded or Fixed Debt :
Serial Loans :
Inside Debt Limit:
Inside Debt Limit:
137,000.00
General: Street School
7,000.00 130,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
Outside Debt Limit:
General
795,000.00
General School
795,000.00
1,074,300.00
Public Service Enterprise Water
279,300.00
1,074,300.00
$ 1,211,300.00
$ 1,211,300.00
TRUST ACCOUNTS
In Custody of Treasurer:
Library Funds :
100,431.59 24,428.27
Library General: Principal Income
13,806.08 1.138.95
General
78
Public Service Enterprise
279,300.00
Trust Funds - Cash and Securities:
In Custody of Treasurer Principal Income
DEBT ACCOUNTS
137,000.00
Mary Atwood Lecture Fund : Principal Income
22,597.40 3,260.91
25,858.31
Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund : Principal 2,000.00
Income
172.41
2,172.41
Park Funds :
Whitney Shade Tree Fund : Principal Income
2,500.00
540.13
3,040.13
Whitney Playground Fund : Principal
10,000.00
Income
1,902.77
11,902.77
Metcalf Monument Fund: Principal
1,300.00
Income
672.78
Cemetery Funds :
Lyman Wilkins Fund: Principal
1,413.11
Income
851.89
2,265.00
William L. Wright Fund: Principal
5,000.00
Income
1,402.05
6,402.05
Perpetual Care: Principal Income
42,690.00
13,611.38
56,301.38
$ 124,859.86
$ 124,859.86
1,972.78
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STATE AUDIT BALANCE SHEET - JUNE 4, 1960 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
General
$ 370,025.84
Employees' Payroll Deductions : Federal Taxes $
6,085.72
763.08
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes :
Levy of 1957:
Agency :
Poll
$ 18.00
Levy of 1958:
Poll 50.00
Trust Fund Income:
Personal Property
414.10
Mary Atwood Library Lecture
25.14
Real Estate
2,434.41
Emily Fletcher Library Lecture
6.50
Metcalf Monument
100.00
Personal Property
448.05
Real Estate
11,748.87
Whitney Shade Tree
148.85
15,223.43
313.04
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise:
Levy of 1958
2,289.32
Levy of 1959
5,899.51
8,188.83 Federal Grants:
Disability Assistance:
333.28 Administration Aid
5,284.46
Tax Title and Possessions:
Tax Titles
3,416.47
Tax Possessions
4,204.31
Aid
5,406.11
7,620.78
Old Age Assistance:
505.24
Highway
353.95
Assistance
23,953.26
General Relief
632.97
Disability Assistance
3,222.62
Aid to Dependent Children
1,426.40
#85 - 864
1,682.13
Old Age Assistance
9,023.97
School
552.79
Cemetery
191.00
2,779.76
15,403.70
2,093.08
Water:
Rates
6,836.47
Services and Mis-
cellaneous
526.16
General 554,070.92
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80
Farm Animal Excise: Levy of 1960
67.92
Aid to Dependent Children: Administration
36.28
Departmental:
Administration
School - Public Law #81 - 874
19,957.68
School - Public Law
56,893.08
Revolving Funds: School Lunch School Athletics
4,872.84
Appropriation Balances: Revenue :
757.17
7,605.97 $
County - Dog Licenses 121.50
Levy of 1959 :
Poll
110.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care 32.55
Recoveries : Aid to Dependent Children
2,000.00
State Taxes County Retirement System
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State
22,550.00
20,749.47
Operation Construction (Test for Wells) 4,000.00
Non-Revenue :
Highway - Hawthorne Avenue 2,437.25 High School 943.36
Elementary School
287,513.15
ยท Water Extension - Main Street 3.77
Loans Authorized and Unissued
647,491.30
Overestimates 1959:
State Recreation Areas Assessment 233.78
County Hospital Assessment 2,189.32
2,423.10
5,050.00
Sale of Real Estate Fund 1,165.00
415.57 Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund
2,244.03
Overlay Deficits:
Levy of 1957
223.40
Levy of 1958
683.60
Levy of 1959
605.82
Blue Cross - Blue Shield - Payments in Advance of Payroll Deductions
Overdrawn Accounts :
Debt
10,000.00
Farm Animal Excise
333.28
Tax Title and Possession
7,620.78
Departmental 15,403.70
Water 7,362.63
Aid to Highway 22,550.00
61,459.22
Surplus Revenue : General Water
96,445.06
11,836.73
108,281.79
$ 1,129,929.83
$ 1,129,929.83
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Revenue 1960: Appropriations Voted County Hospital Assessment Paid
938,143.07
3,794.98
941,938.05
Deduct :
Estimated Receipts Collected
-190,283.25
Available Funds Voted -104,163.50
869,717.92 5,050.00
Loans Authorized:
Water Extension -
Patten Road
3,800.00
Water Extension - Oak Road 1,250.00
Unprovided For or Overdrawn Accounts : Underestimate 1959:
County Tax
Receipts Reserved for Appropriation: Road Machinery Fund 1,960.00
1,512.82 Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus
5,822.34
28.90 Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 8,188.83
Interest
18,722.75
28,722.75
REPORT OF DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
During the year 1960 this Commission has been as active as cir- cumstances allowed.
The new Interstate Highway Route 495 (old Route 110) is still under construction with only the section from Chelmsford to Littleton having been fairly well completed. It is anticipated that when this new circumferential road is finished and with its greater proximity to Route 128 and the Massachusetts Turnpike, the demand for industrial sites in the Town of Westford will be great.
The so-called Westford Industrial Park, which Mr. Richard C. LaCroix is in the process of developing, remains in the planning stage. However, in the not too distant future, some activity may be expected.
Some months ago, the Commission placed an advertisement in the LOWELL SUN and the NASHOBA FREE PRESS, asking townspeople to communi- cate with the Commission if they had any land for sale suitable for light industrial plants. Only three replies were received.
Recently, the City of Lowell called a meeting of certain officials of Communities of the Greater Lowell Area and of the Merrimack Valley to determine whether or not they would care to join with the City of Lowell in the creation of an Area Development and Planning Committee. The purpose of such a Committee would be to discuss, make recommenda- tions and, where feasible, undertake concerted action on problems of mutual interest, such as highways, transportation, zoning, flood con- trol, sewage disposal and control, dumping and incineration, industrial development and such other matters as the Committee might determine to the mutual benefit of all the participating communities. A temporary committee from the Westford Area was appointed, consisting of three members, one from the Board of Selectmen, one from the Planning Board and another from the Development and Industrial Commission.
Henry A. Beyer, Chairman Elizabeth K. Beyer, Secretary J. William Blythe Robert V. Cassidy Gerald J. Christoun Erling Mostue Peter Sechovich DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
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TOWN OF WESTFORD
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
To the Constable of the Town of Westford, in said County,
GREETINGS :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth afore- said, to notify and warn all the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in elections, and also in Town affairs, to meet at their several polling places, viz:
PRECINCT 1 Town Hall, Westford Center
PRECINCT 2 Healy Legion Hall, Graniteville
PRECINCT 3 New Nabnasset School, Brookside
PRECINCT 4 Murray Hall, Forge Village
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1961
being the first Monday in said month, at 12:00 o'clock noon for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes for the following officers:
FOR FIVE YEARS
One Member of the Planning Board
FOR THREE YEARS
One Selectman One Assessor
Three Members of the School Committee
One Member of the Board of Public Welfare
Two Trustees of the J. V. Fletcher Library
One Member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners
One Member of the Board of Public Health
One Member of the Board of Water Commissioners
FOR TWO YEARS
One Trustee of the J. V. Fletcher Library
One Trustee of the J. V. Fletcher Library (to fill facancy)
FOR ONE YEAR
One Tree Warden One Trustee of the J. V. Fletcher Library
and also to act upon the following matter:
QUESTION NO. 1
"Shall the provisions of section forty of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws, relative to equal pay for men and women teachers be in force in this town?" YES NO
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(Summary and purpose of the law to be acted upon as determined by the town counsel) : The purpose of "equal pay law" relating to school teachers' salaries is to secure general equality between men and women teachers in matter of pay. It provides that women teachers employed in same grades and doing same type of work with same preparation and training as men teachers shall be paid at same rate as men teachers. Law does not prevent differentiation in the rate of pay among teachers if based upon classifications which school committee can reasonably and lawfully make and which are not discriminatory between sexes. Salaries of men teachers cannot be reduced in order to effect such equal pay.
All on one ballot.
The polls will be open from 12:00 o'clock noon to 8:00 P. M., and to meet in Westford Academy at Westford Center on the following
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961
at 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act upon the fol- lowing Articles, viz:
ARTICLE 1. To hear the reports of Town Officers and Committees; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 2. To fix the salary and compensation of all elected officers of the Town, provide for a Reserve Fund and to determine what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, including appropri- ations from any available funds, to defray all departmental and inci- dental charges, expenses and outlays of the Town, including debt and interest, for the ensuing year and for paying unpaid bills of previous years.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4 To see if the Town will vote to further amend its Protective By-Law and Protective By-Law Map,
1. By striking out paragraph 1 of SECTION 7 of said By-Law, and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph: 1. Lot size and frontage: In residence districts no building except a one-story building of accessory use shall be erected upon a lot having less than the following area and frontage:
Frontage
Area
Residence A District
200'
40,000 Sq. Ft.
Residence B District
100 '
20,000 Sq. Ft.
Business & Industrial B Districts200'
40,000 Sq. Ft.
Provided :
(a) That one building and its accessory buildings may be
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erected on any lot which, at the time this By-Law is adopted, cannot be made to conform to the above requirements.
(b) That in a Residence B District one building and acces - sory buildings may be erected on each lot of a plan of lots ap- proved or endorsed as not requiring approval by the Planning Board prior to February 1, 1961 if each of said lots has an area of at least 10,000 square feet and a frontage of at least 100 feet;
(c) That in a Residence A District and in Business or Industrial B Districts one building and accessory buildings may be erected on each lot of a plan of lots duly approved or endorsed as not requiring approval by the Planning Board on or before February 1, 1961 if each of said lots has a frontage of at least 150 feet and an area of at least 30,000 square feet.
2. By rezoning from a Residence B District to a Residence A District the following described parcel of land, situated in Forge Village and thus bounded:
Southwesterly, southerly and southeasterly by Forge Village Pond ; and Northeasterly, northerly and westerly by land of Stony Brook Railroad.
3. By inserting, after the words "the side lot lines, ", in sub- section (a) of paragraph 1 of Section 3 of said By-Law, the following: , provided, however, that a permit must first be obtained from the Selectmen for such storage, --- so that said paragraph 1, as amended, will read as follows: --- 1. Detached one family dwelling: Such term shall not be construed to include trailer, mobile or immobile except (a) When such trailer not occupied or used for dwelling purposes is stored on the rear portion of any lot and is 30 feet at least from the rear lot line and 15 feet at least from the side lot lines, provided, however, that a permit must first be obtained from the Selectmen for such storage. (b) When such trailer is used for temporary dwelling purposes during the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of a permanent dwelling (not including trailer) for a period not to exceed six months or additional period or periods in hardship cases, but no such period of use of such trailer shall be commenced, continued or extended without the approval of the Board of Appeals after public hearing nor without the approval of the Board of Health .;
or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to further amend its Protective By-Law,
1. By inserting, after paragraph 3 of SECTION 9 of said By-Law, the following paragraph: -- - 4. No appeal or petition under Paragraph 3 of Section 15 of Chapter 40A of General Laws for a variance from the terms of the zoning By-Law with respect to a particular parcel of land or the building thereon, and no application under Paragraph 2 of Sec- tion 15 of Chapter 40A of the General Laws for a special exception to the terms of such By-Law which has been unfavorably acted upon by the Board of Appeals shall be considered on its merits by said Boards within two years after the date of such unfavorable action, except with the consent of all of the members of the Planning Board.
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