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35.00
Road Machinery Fund, Federal Grants: Aid to Dependent Children: Administration,
$6.83
1,486.50
27.88
Overlays Reserved for Abatements: Levy of 1944, Levy of 1945,
$864.99
2,702.58
Rates,
$393.76
419.01
$1,188.15
Surplus War Bonus,
-$171,838.58
Taxes:
Net Funded or Fixed Debt,
DEBT ACCOUNTS $33,000.00 Water Loans,
$33,000.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Accounts, Cash and Securities
$49,265.53
Chloe B. Stebbins Charity Fund,
$196.83
Deacon Warriner School Fund,
737.59
School Lot Fund,
756.89
Chloe B. Stebbins Library Fund,
110.45
Abner Bell Library Fund,
44.14
Henry Cutler Library Fund,
1,096.43
Morton L. Day Library Fund,
469.15
Town Community House Building Fund,
533.68
Civil War Mortar Memorial Plaque Fund,
34.01
Laura Bruuer Cemetery General Care Fund,
1,085.07
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds,
7,383.67
Soldiers' Monument Park Fund,
1,000.00
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund,
35,817.62
$49,265.53
$49,265.53
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TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Hampden, ss
To either of the Constables of the Town of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden:
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wilbraham qualified to vote in town affairs to meet in Grange Hall in said town on Monday, the fourth day of February next at 9 o'clock A. M. to bring in their votes for town officers and act on the following articles. The polls will open at 9 A. M. and may be closed at 6 o'clock P. M. All business of said meeting and election of town officers except the election of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined by ballot shall be considered after 10 o'clock A. M.
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Article 2. To choose a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, Tree Warden for the ensuing year, one Selectman for three years who shall be a member of the Board of Public Welfare, one Assessor for three years; five Constables for the ensuing year; one Auditor for the ensuing year; one School Committee member for three years; Town Collector for the ensuing year one Cemetery Commissioner for three years; one Water Com- missioner for three years; one Library Trustee for three years; one Playground Commissioner for three years; one member of the Planning Board for five years, one member of the Planning Board for four years, one member of the Planning Board for three years, one member of the Planning Board for two years and one member of the Planning Board for one year. All on one ballot. Also all other town officers.
Article 3. To hear and act on reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, School Committee and other officers.
Article 4. To fix the compensation of all elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
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Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
Article 6. 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 beginning January 1, 1946 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, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $6,900. or any sum for the maintenance of Chapter 81 roads, provided that the State contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 81, General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury the sum of $6900. or any other sum for maintenance of Chapter 81 roads, (an amount equal to and in addition to the amount appropriated under article 7,) to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursement from the State to be restored, upon receipt, to unappropriated funds in the treasury.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $500. or any other sum for the maintenance of Chapter 90 Roads, provided the State and County con- tribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury the sum of $1,000. for Chapter 90 Roads or any other sum (in an amount which will be double and in addition to the amount appropriated under Article 9) to meet the State and County shares of the cost of the work, the reimbursement from the State and County to be restored, upon receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000. or any sum for the improvement or rebuilding of Chapter 90 Roads, provided the State and County contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90, Geheral Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury the sum of $18,000 for Chapter 90 Roads, or any other sum (in an amount which will be triple and in addition to the amount appropriated under article 11) to meet the State and County shares of the cost of the work, the reimbursement from the State and County to be restored, upon receipt, to unap- propriated available funds in the treasury.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer the sum of $2,980. or any other sum from the Road Machinery Fund to purchase a highway grader and certain attachments thereto for mowing and other uses, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800. or any sum to purchase two high- way sand spreaders, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $650. or any sum for two highway snow plows, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treas- ury the sum of $9,000. or any sum to rebuild the bridge on Crane Hill Road over Twelve Mile Brook and the approaches thereto, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell at public auction, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town, 14 days at least before sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen, or whomsoever they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1945.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $4,500. or any other sum for a Reserve Fund, this amount to be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Account.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds in the treasury the sum of $25,000. for the purchase of war bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, in order to establish a post-war rehabilitation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943.
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Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,310. or any sum to purchase about 3,000 feet of 6" waterpipe, to be used for any necessary repairs to our present system and/or to be used on any private way where the Town is reimbursed by the land owner and/or to be installed on any public street where authorized by vote of the Town, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $750 or any sum to conduct a survey as to the advisability of installation of a reservoir and necessary equipment to supply the higher elevations and increase pres- sures. Said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Water Commissioners, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $12,546. or any sum to purchase about 8,200 feet of 10" waterpipe to be used in conjunction with the present system as a long range project of eventually tying in to the Springfield system to obtain Cobble Mountain water, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2100. or any sum to install a six-inch water main on Brooksdale Road and Chapin Drive to replace the existing two-inch main, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $8100. or any sum to be used to extend the water main about 2700 feet northerly from the present line on Stony Hill Road, using 10" pipe, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1600. or any sum to extend the water main on Manchonis Road from the now existing hydrant for a distance of about 700 feet more or less, using 6" pipe, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to enter into agreements with owners of private ways providing for reimbursement to the owners by the Town for the cost of not less than six inch water pipe when the private ways are accepted by the Town as public ways, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1000. or any sum to purchase a new pick-up truck for use of the Water Department, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept one Cemetery Trust Fund of $200 from Jane T. Calkins, Adams Cemetery; one Cemetery Trust Fund of $200 from J. W. Dunsmore, Adams Cemetery, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept the bequest of $1000. given to it by the late Mary B. Gurney in her will, said bequest to be held by the town and the income accruing thereon to be used in the care and upkeep of the Crane Lot on Main Street in said Wilbraham, sometimes known as the Soldier's Monument Lot.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept the sum of $2244.90, being the amount of the residue of the estate of the late Florence E. Cook, devised and bequeated to the Town in her will, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to purchase from Ethel Bradway and Grace Thompson for the sum of $2500. or any sum a certain tract of land, comprising ten acres more or less, situate on the north side of Boston Road and containing the area known as Grassy Hollow, for the purpose of a children's playing field, future expansion of the North Wilbraham fire station and/or any other use by the Town, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 723, Acts of 1945, being an act to author- ize the establishment and maintenance of municipal depart- ments and of districts for furnishing information, advice and assistance to veterans of World War II or other veterans, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to become a member of a District for the purposes provided by Chapter 723, Acts of 1945. Said District to include the towns of Pal- mer, Ludlow, Hampden, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, or any one or more of them, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $18.75 (an annual recurring expense), or any sum to establish a street light on Maple Street near the property of William H. Hopkins, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $187.50 (an annual recurring expense), or any sum to establish 10 street lights on Boston Road; commencing at State Line Potato Chip Company and running
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for a distance of approximately 4000 feet in a westerly direc- tion, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $93.75 (an annual recurring expense) or any sum to establish 5 street lights on Manchonis Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $75. (an annual recurring expense) or any sum to establish 4 street lights on Dudley Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article.39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $18.75 (an annual recurring expense), or any sum to replace the street light on the corner of Old Boston Road and River Road or take any action relative thereto.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to enter into an agreement with Charles K. Farrar establishing and locating the boundary line between land of said Farrar (occupied by the Village Store) and land of the Town, known as the Wilbra- ham Park Lot, situate on the easterly side of Main Street in Wilbraham, and convey by a quitclaim deed to said Charles K. Farrar all the right, title and interest of said town in and to the land lying next northerly of the boundary line so estab- lished, in consideration of said Charles K. Farrar conveying by quitclaim deed to the Town all his right, title and interest in and to the land lying next southerly of the boundary line so established.
Article 41 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 or any sum for a flashing beacon and island at the intersection of Springfield Street and Stony Hill Road, in accordance with specifications prepared by the Department of Public Works, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2800. or any sum to install a semi- actuated control signal and island at the intersection of Spring- field Street and Stony Hill Road in accordance with specifica- tions prepared by the Department of Public Works, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to negotiate with and sell to the Trustees of the Glandale Methodist Church, (Wilbraham) of the New Eng- land Conference, the Estey lot on Glendale Road situate in the rear of the Glendale school house lot, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1500. or any sum to be expended by the Planning Board to defray the expenses of preparing a contour map and a detailed future development plan to be prepared by qualified consultants, covering the tract of land and its future use owned by the Town and situated on the easterly side of the highway leading from the village of North Wilbraham to the village of Wilbraham, such map and plan to be submitted to a future annual or special meeting of the town, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to call a special Town Meeting during the month of May to vote on the proposed new zoning by-law, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500. or any other sum for the purpose of creating a stabilization fund in accordance with the pro- visions of section 5B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended in 1945, said stabilization fund to be in the custody of the Town Treasurer and to be available for future appropria- tion by two thirds vote at an annual town meeting for any purpose for which the Town would be authorized to borrow money under section 7 or 8 of Chapter 44, or for such other municipal purpose as is authorized by said chapter, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 47. To transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Post Office at Wilbraham, one at the Post Office at North Wilbraham and one at Glen- dale Church, seven days at least, before the time for holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the time for holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
IRVING J. CORDNER, J. LORING BROOKS, JR.
ALBERT L. MARTIN
Selectmen of Wilbraham
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Report of Annual Town Meeting FEBRUARY 5, 1945
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant the voters of the town assembled in Grace Union Parish House, North Wilbraham.
Article 1. Frank Auchter was elected moderator by ballot. He was sworn in by the Town Clerk. Ballot Clerks and Tellers sworn were George E. Egan, Lillian E. Thompson, Mary L. Lynch, Beulah H. Wahlberg, Helen Laurino, Mary P. Alberts and Emma R. Bower. William F. Logan, Warden. Adelbert J. Brooks, Acting Constable. Ballot box registered 0000. The polls were closed at six o'clock, P. M., the total ballot was 205 as follows: Precinct A - 95 Precinct - B 78 Precinct C-32.
Article 2. Minor officers elected :
Pound Keeper Jerry Donohue
Measurers of Wood and Charcoal
Walter Clark Robert M. Welch
Surveyors of Lumber
Walter Clark
J. Wilbur Rice
Field Drivers
Jerry Donohue John B. Tupper
Norman Thurlow
Weighers of Grain
Henry Clark Victor Patnode
Playground Commission
Ralph S. Stedman - three years Kenneth Q. Jack - two years William B. Cooper - one year
Article 3. Voted to accept the reports of Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, School Committee and other officers.
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Article 4. Voted that compensation for elected Town Officers be fixed as follows: Town Clerk-$100.00 per year and fees : Town Treasurer-$650.00; Town Collector-$900.00; Tree Warden-$.75 per hour; Selectmen, two members- $400.00 per year, Chairman $450.00; Assessors-$.75 per hour for office work and $1.00 per hour for field service (includes use of car); Constables no yearly salary, fees only; Auditor- $100.00 per year; School Committee-$50.00 per year each; Cemetery Commissioners-no salary, $.65 per hour for time spent at work; Water Commissioners-$75.00 per year each; Library Trustees-no salary; Planning Board Members-no salary.
Article 5. Voted the following appropriations :
Aid to Dependent Children
$1,200.00
Assessors' Expense
625.00
Board of Health
3,500.00
Building Inspector's Expense.
20.00
Cemeteries
1,200.00
Dental Clinic.
600.00
Elections Expense
150.00
Fire Department.
3,000.00
Forest Warden's Appropriation
300.00
Garbage Collection Service
850.00
Gypsy Moth
500.00
Highways, Miscellaneous
4,500.00
Hydrants
2,460.00
Highway Safety Committee-Expense
-Protection of School
Children.
600.00
Insurance and Bonding
1,200.00
Interest
100.00
Liquor Law Enforcement.
100.00
Library (Plus Dog Tax)
1,200.00
Legal Appropriation
1,000.00
Memorial Day
75.00
Old Age Assistance
10,500.00
Parks
250.00
Police
100.00
Printing Annual Reports
625.00
Public Welfare
5,500.00
Recreation
300.00
Registrars' Expense.
150.00
Road Machinery Account
1,000.00
Selectmen's Contingent
1,500.00
Schools
73,638.00
Soldiers' Benefits
4,000.00
Street Lights.
2,900.00
Town Collector's Expense.
400.00
Town Clerk's Expense
150.00
50.00
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Town Officers and employees' Salaries
6,600.00
Town Offices Rent, Supplies, Services & Maint
1,150.00
Treasurer's Expense.
250.00
Tree Warden's Expense
600.00
Water Bonds and Interest
4,440.00
Water Notes and Interest
1,022.50
Water Department
6,000.00
Well Child Clinic.
600.00
$144,905.50
Article 6. Voted 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 begin- ing January 1, 1945, and to issue a note or notes therefor pay- able 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, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 7. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,750.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 81 Roads, provided that the State contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 81, General Laws.
Article 8. Voted to appropriate and transfer from un- appropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $5,750 .- 00 for maintenance of Chapter 81 Roads, an amount equal to and in addition to the amount appropriated under Article 7 to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, the reimburse- ment from the State to be restored, upon receipt, to unapprop- riated available funds in the treasury.
Article 9. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 Roads, provided the State and County contribute toward the same, in accord- ance with the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws.
Article 10. Voted to appropriate and transfer from un- appropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $800.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 Roads, an amount which will double, and be in addition to, the amount appropriated under Article 9 to meet the State and County shares of the cost of the work, the reimbursement from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated funds in the treasury.
Article 11. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to sell at public auction, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town, fourteen days at least before sale
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property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, pro- vided that the Selectmen, or whomsoever they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
Article 12. Voted that dog tax receipts of 1944 be de- voted to the needs of the Library account.
Article 13. Voted to appropriate the sum of $4,500.00 for a Reserve Fund, this amount to be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Account.
Article 14. Voted to transfer from available funds in the treasury the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars (25,000.00) for the purchase of war bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, in order to establish a post-war rehabilitation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943.
Article 15. Voted that the Town convey to Doris E. Young a certain tract of land situate in the Town of Wilbra- ham, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe in the southwest corner of the land to be conveyed and at the northeast corner of land of Nils R. Malmberg et ux., and running thence S. 87º 47' E. along land of Doris E. Young eleven and 75/100 (11.75) feet to an iron pipe; thence S. 58° 18' E. along land of said Doris E. Young thirty-nine and 09/100 (39.09) feet to an iron pipe; thence N. 32° 54' E. along land of said Doris E. Young one hundred seven (107) feet; thence N. 72° 52' W. along other land of the Town of Wilbraham twenty- four (24) feet; thence SOUTHWESTERLY along other land of the Town of Wilbraham about one hundred seven (107) feet to the place of beginning; meaning and intending to convey all land owned by the Town of Wilbraham between the last named one hundred seven (107) foot course and the above-named twenty-four (24) foot course and land now owned by said Doris E. Young; said premises being a portion of the premises conveyed to the Town of Wilbraham by deed of John F Baldwin recorded with Hampden County Deeds, Book 1777, Page 21; in consideration of the conveyance by said Doris E. Young to it of a certain tract of land lying between the land conveyed to the Town by said deed of John F. Baldwin and North Main Street and next southerly of land of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield; and that the Selectmen by and they are hereby authorized and directed, in the name and behalf of the Town, to execute, acknowledge and deliver a deed conveying said premises to said Doris E. Young.
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Article 16. Voted that the town accept from Doris E. Young a deed conveying to it the following described land: A certain tract of land situate on the westerly side of North Main Street in the Town of Wilbraham and next southerly of land of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe in the westerly side of said street and at the southeasterly corner of land of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield, thence S. 30° 58' W. along the westerly line of said street thirty (30) feet thence N. 72° 52' W. about 108 feet to a stake in line of land of the Town of Wilbraham; thence N. 32º 54' E. along other land of the Town of Wilbraham about thirty (30) feet to an iron pin in the southwesterly corner of said land of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield; thence S. 72º 52' E. along said land of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield one hundred eight and 1/10 (108.1) feet to the place of beginning; together with the right to erect, construct and maintain any embankments, slopes or abutments, on the adjacent land owned by said Doris E. Young that may be reasonably necessary for the construc- tion and maintenance of a road or driveway across the land above described, together with the right to enter upon said adjacent land, with servants, agents and vehicles, for the pur- pose of erecting, constructing and maintaining said embank- ments, slopes or abutments. Being a portion of the premises conveyed to said Doris E. Young by deed of David Kinghorn et ux. recorded with Hampden County Deeds, Book 1779, Page 381. Subject to the restrictions contained in said deed.
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