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ARTICLE 3. To see how much money the Town will appropriate for the expenses of the Town and salaries of the several Town Offices, and Departments and determine how the same shall be raised, whether by taxation, transfer from available funds or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. 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 financial year,
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beginning January 1, 1956 and to issue notes therefor payable within one year, all in accordance with Sections 4 and 17, Chapter 44, of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750. 00) for the observance of Memorial Day and that the Moderator appoint a committee who shall ar- range and have charge of such observance, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6, To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750. 00) under the authority of Section 9, Chapter 40, of the General Laws as amended, for the purpose of providing suitable quarters for the William F. Tattersall Chapter #106, Disabled American Veterans, located at Wilmington, Mass., or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750. 00) for the purpose of renewing under authority of Section 9 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended, the lease of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Clubhouse on Main Street in Wilmington for the pur - pose of providing suitable headquarters for the Nee-Ellsworth Post 2458 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750. 00) for the purpose of renewing under authority of Section 9 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended, the lease of the American Legion Clubhouse, Inc., in Wilmington for the purpose of providing suitable headquarters for the Wilmington Post #136 of the American Legion or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00) the money to be expended under the direction of the 4-H Town Committee, serving in cooperation with the Middlesex County Extension Service, under the provisions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachusetts or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Wilmington 4-H Town Committee.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in the following streets:
Birchwood Road
3 lights
North Street
3 lights
Border Avenue
2 lights
Oakdale Road
3 lights
Cottage Street
2 lights
Oakridge Road 1 light
Fairmeadow Road
4 lights
Pineview Road 1 light
Glenview Road
1 light
Shady Lane Drive 4 lights
Gowing Road
2 lights
Virginia Road
5 lights
ARTICLE 11. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise by taxation, or transfer from available funds, and appropriate for the purchase of a vehicle for the use of the Police Department and authorize the sale or turn-in of a present vehicle used by the Police Department, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Town Manager.
ARTICLE 12. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise by taxation, or transfer from available funds, and appropriate for the purchase of a front-end loader with back-hoe attachment, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Town Manager.
ARTICLE 13. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise by taxation, or transfer from available funds, and appropriate for the purchase of an ambulance, and authorize the sale or turn-in of a present ambulance, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Town Manager.
ARTICLE 14. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise by taxation, or transfer from available funds, and appropriate for the purchase of a pick-up truck for the use of the School Maintenance Depart- ment, and authorize the sale or turn-in of a present vehicle used by the School Maintenance Department, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Town Manager.
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ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of paying unpaid bills of previous years, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to name Swain School, for the old High School, out of respect for the many years of devoted service by the Misses Caroline and Henrietta Swain, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the School Committee.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 42G, 42H, and 421 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as inserted by Chapter 332 of the Acts of 1955, or do anything in relation thereto. Sub - mitted by the Board of Water Commissioners.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to provide for the levy of special assessments to meet the whole or part of the cost thereafter incurred of laying pipes in public and private ways for the conveyance or distribution of water to its inhabitants, and determine which of the methods provided by law for the apportionment of such assessments upon the several parcels of land receiving benefit shall be followed in making such levies or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Board of Water Commissioners.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of laying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter on specified streets in accordance with the recommendations of the Water Main Extension Advisory Committee, and determine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Water Main Extension Advisory Committee.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing and installing water meters and fluoridation equipment by the Water Department, and deter - mine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Board of Water Commissioners.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of laying and relaying water mains of not less than six inches, but less than sixteen inches in diameter and for the development of additional well fields, including wells, pipes and original pumping station equip- ment, and determine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer from avail - able funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Board of Water Commissioners.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of acquiring by purchase or taking through the right of Eminent Domain land for a new standpipe according to a plan filed with the office of the Town Clerk and for the erection of a standpipe on said site, and deter - mine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Board of Water Commissioners
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen and the Town Manager to sell and convey at any time or from time to time by private sale in the name of and on behalf of the Town upon such terms and for such consideration as in their judgment is for the best interest of the Town, any portion or portions or the whole of the land held by the Town, under Tax Title, the right of redemption from which it has been foreclosed, in the vicinity of Eames Street, being the property described as Section. D, as shown on a plan of the Woburn City Land and Improvement Company, dated Nov. 1, 1889 and recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 6, No. 17, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Town Manager.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation, or transfer from available funds, and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of acquiring as a site for school and playground purposes, a parcel or parcels of land situated between Wildwood Street and Federal Street, currently owned by Strout & Wing and described in plans filed with the office of the Town Clerk, or do anything in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for the expense of a committee to investigate and report at a subsequent Town Meeting, but not later than the next Annual Town Meeting, upon the subject of additional school accommodations, and determine the number of members for such committee and how the same shall be appointed, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Additional School Accommodations Committee.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of acquiring as a site for a school building a parcel of land containing approximately 12. 2 acres on the corner of Salem Street and Ballardvale Street, and determine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer of available funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Additional School Accommodations Committee.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate any sum of money for the preparation of plans for an elementary school building on Town property off Glen Road, determine how the appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer of available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, and provide for its expenditure by the appointment of a building committee or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Additional School Accommodations Committee.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way that portion of Hawthorne Road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board according to a plan on file with the office of the Town Clerk, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way the layout of Lawrence Street as approved by the Planning Board and made by the Selectmen under the provisions of law relating to the assess - ment of Betterments, which layout is filed in the office of the Town Clerk, and which, with plans therein mentioned, is hereby referred to for more particular description; and to determine how an appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation or by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, for the purpose of constructing said way and for the payment of any damages resulting from the taking of land and slope easements and other easements therefore, or do anything in relation thereto. Petition of John J. Savko and others.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way the layout of Lawrence Court as approved by the Planning Board and made by the Selectmen under the provisions of law relating to the assess - ment of Betterments, which layout is filed in the office of the Town Clerk, and which, with plans therein mentioned, is hereby referred to for more particular description; and to determine how an appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation or by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or otherwise, for the purpose of constructing said way and for the payment of any damages resulting from the taking of land and slope easements and other easements therefore, or do anything in relation thereto. Petition of John W. Jenkins and others.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and approp- riate a sum of money not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5, 000. 00) for the purpose of oiling specified town public ways in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Selectmen or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following Resolution, or take any action in relation thereto:
RESOLVED: That the Board of Selectmen shall lay out and recommend streets for acceptance as Public Town Ways only under the provisions of the so-called "Betterment Act" - except that the following specified private ways shall be exempted from the aforesaid provisions or this Resolution:
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Dunton Road Gowing Road Oakridge Road Chandler Road Carolyn Road
Kelley Road Ledgewood Road Longview Road Hilltop Road
Glenview Road Meadow Lane Lawrence Street Lawrence Court Fairmeadow Road
and be it further
RESOLVED: That said specified private ways shall be laid out and recommended for acceptance as Public Town Ways, and fully constructed with oiled surfaces, at the discretion of the Board of Selectmen, provided that legal releases, as approved by the Town Counsel, are obtained from all abutters on said streets, and further provided that the sum of money to be appropriated for the construction of said streets in any given year shall not exceed an amount equivalent to the estimated revenue to be realized from one dollar of the property tax rate,
and be it further
RESOLVED: That nothing contained herein shall be construed to discourage or prevent the abutters on any of the aforesaid specified private ways from petitioning for acceptance under the provisions of the Better- ment Act; and that, in the case of any such petition, the street for which the petition is submitted shall receive priority, financial and otherwise, over all other of said specified streets for which petitions for acceptance under the terms of the Betterment Act have not been received by the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept a portion of Dunton Road as a Public Town Way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board according to a plan filed with the office of the Town Clerk, and to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing said street, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept Gowing Road as a Public Town Way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board, according to a plan filed. with the office of the Town Clerk, and to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing said street, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept Oakridge Road as a Public Town Way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board according to a plan filed with the office of the Town Clerk, and to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and appropriate a sum of money for the pur - pose of constructing said street, or do anything in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote that the terms "Laborers, Workmen and Mechanics" appearing in Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, the same being an Act providing for Compensation to "Laborers, Work- men and Mechanics" injured in the course of their employment and accepted by the Town of Wilmington be made, under authority of Chapter 403 of the Acts of 1936, to include all employees of the Town regardless of the nature of their duties excepting only the members of the Police and Fire Forces. " Submitted by the Town Manager's Advisory Committee on Town Insurance.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and approp- riate a sum of money not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000. 00) for the purpose of extending a fire alarm signal telegraph line from Church Street to the Brown's Crossing Pumping Station, and purchasing and connecting thereto fire alarm signal boxes, and purchasing and installing a fire alarm signal control board at the fire station or take any action in relation thereto. Submitted by the Chief of the Fire Department.
ARTICLE 38. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and appropriate for the purchase of a Brush Fire Truck for the use of the Fire Department and authorize the sale or turn-in of a present vehicle used by the Fire Department, or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Fire Chief.
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ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise by taxation or transfer from available funds and approp- riate a sum of money for the purchase or taking through the right of Eminent Domain land for an addition to the present Fire and Police Station for the purpose of expanding the facilities available to the Police Depart- ment and for the erection and originally equipping of said addition to the Fire and Police Station or take any action in relation thereto. Request of the Chief of Police.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 5 of its by-laws by inserting as Section 35, Chapter 5, the following: "No person, except an officer of the law in the performance of his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another with the intention of peeping into the windows of a house or spying upon in any manner any person or persons therein. Anyone found violating this By-Law may be arrested without a warrant, " or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Chief of Police.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 5 of its By-Laws by inserting as Section 36, Chapter 5, the following: "It shall be unlawful for any person to stand in a public roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the operator of any private vehicle. Penalty: a fine of not more than Five Dollars ($5. 00) for each offense, " or do anything in relation thereto. Request of the Chief of Police.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Map by extending the neighbor - hood business zone at the northeasterly corner of West and Lowell Streets easterly along Lowell Street 250 feet, with a depth not to exceed 280 feet and a total area of 60, 000 square feet, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Minot J. Anderson and others.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Map by changing the Zoning District Classification from Commercial to Industrial for that section of land bounded as follows: Beginning on the westerly side of Main Street at the corner of Butters Row, thence northerly along Main Street about 1292 feet, thence westerly to the Boston and Maine Railroad, thence southerly by said railroad to Butters Row, thence easterly along Butters Row, to the point of beginning, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Roger T. Hayden.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Map by changing that section of land starting at the corner of Main Street and Oakwood Road and running along Oakwood Road for a distance of 325 feet and thence turning and running towards Williams Street in a parallel line to Main Street for a distance of 100 feet, thence turning and running in a parallel line to Oakwood Road to Main Street, and thence along Main Street to Oakwood Road and point of beginning, so that the same shall be General Business District, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Isabel Cushing and others.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to change the Zoning Law by increasing the existing 600 foot distance between the northern boundary of the industrial zone and Suncrest Avenue, westerly from West Street and parallel with Suncrest Avenue, to 1000 feet, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Bertil I. Skoglund and others.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money for the purpose of installing and constructing a limited sewerage disposal system in the interest of the public health; such sewerage system being described in a plan by George R. Winters, Town Engineer dated October 6, 1955, and filed with the office of the Town Clerk, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Board of Health.
ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money for the pick-up, removal and disposal of rubbish from all dwellings in the Town of Wilmington, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by the Board of Health.
ARTICLE 48. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the repair or recon- ditioning of the town clock, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Harland V. Whittredge and others.
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ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to dispose of the town clock, and determine how the same shall be disposed of, or do anything in relation thereto. On petition of Harland V. Whittredge and others. .
ARTICLE 50. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell to the Congregational Church any land the Town may now own between the property of the church and the present line of Middlesex Avenue, comprised within the side lines of the present church property as extended, and determine the price at which the same shall be sold, or do anything in relation thereto. Submitted by Harland V. Whittredge and others.
ARTICLE 51. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by the right of Eminent Domain, for the purpose of constructing as a public town way an extension of Garden Court according to and as described in a plan entitled "Garden Court to connect Burt Street and Shawsheen Road" dated October 4, 1945, A. N. Eames, Engineer, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board, and filed in the office of the Town Clerk, and to see how much money the Town will approp- riate for said purpose and determine how such appropriation shall be raised, whether by taxation, from available funds, by transfer, or otherwise, or do anything in relation thereto.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant, or a certified copy thereof, with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, as soon as may be and before said meeting. Given under our hands and seal of said Town this Day of February, A. D. , One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Six.
SELECTMEN OF WILMINGTON
Wavie M. Drew
Charles H. Black
E. Hayward Bliss Nicholas DeFelice
Joseph H. Woods
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TOWN ACCOUNTANT
ANALYSIS OF THE CASH ACCOUNTS - for the year ending December 31, 1955
RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR 1955
Balance as at January 1, 1955 Add: Cash Receipts during 1954
3,475,276.99
3,847,209.17
Deduct: Cash Expenditures during 1955
3,429,213.12
Balance on Hand as at December 31, 1955
417,996.05
ANALYSIS OF CASH RECEIVED TAXES
Tax Collections:
Prior years levy, Poll, Personal and Real Estate
64,370.09
Current year's levy, Poll, Personal and Real Estate
658, 165.95
722,536. 04
Tax Titles Redeemed
7,085. 53
Payments in Lieu of Taxes
521. 37
Federal Grants:
Charities:
Aid to Dependent Children, Aid
10,733. 06
Aid to Dependent Children, Administration
1, 583. 86
12,316. 92
Old Age Assistance, Assistance
28,275. 81
Old Age Assistance, Administration
2, 764.58
31,040. 39
Disability Assistance, Assistance
5,418. 31
Disability Assistance, Administration
462.38
5,880.69
49,238.00
Smith-Hughes & Geo. Barden Acct . (Schools)
400.00
Construction Grants-in-Aid (Highways)
Comm. of Mass. Chapter 90, 1954
9,761.69
Comm. of Mass. Chapter 81, 1954
7,113. 52
Comm. of Mass. Chapter 81, 1955
6,812.33
23,687. 54
Middlesex County Treasurer, Chapter 90, 1954
5,530. 84
29,218. 38
RECEIPTS AVAILABLE FOR APPROPRIATION - BUT NOT SO APPROPRIATED
Repayments, Middlesex County, Dog Officer
1,808.44
Accrued Interest - Sale of Bonds
1,155.00
Premium on Sale of Bonds
1,820.00
Aid to Dependent Children, Recoveries
1,497.60
Old Age Assistance, Recoveries
11,436.65
Water Guaranteed Deposits
17,279. 88
Refunds
3,165. 34
Water Rates
59,229. 78 2,950.50
62,180.28
100, 343. 19
AMOUNTS BORROWED
Short Term:
To pay Expenditures of Town Depts. until taxes are collected
400,000.00
To carry on Chapter 90 and 81 work until State & County reimbursements are received
37,175.00
Temporary Loan/Anticipation of Serial Issue -School Bonds Long Term:
900,000.00
1,337,175.00
Proceeds from Sale of Bonds on High School Addit. &Alter. and Wildwood School/First Issue
700,000.00
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Water Services
GRANTS AND GIFTS
$ 371,932.18
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AGENCY AND TRUST FUNDS
Withholding Taxes Deducted Retirement System Deductions Blue Cross/Shield Deductions Group Life Insurance Deductions Cemetery Trust Funds Dog License Fees collected for Middlesex County - Dog Officer
65, 746. 86
14,074. 36
4,219.05
1,362,28
85,402. 55 400.00
2,212. 20
RECEIPTS RESERVED FOR APPROPRIATION - RESTRICTED USES
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund Sale of Real Estate Selectmen's Land Sales
1,317.00
500.00
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