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Summary
From our study we find :
1. Savings from group insurance would affect only a part of those insured.
2. No other town of comparable size has yet offered such a program to its employees.
3. Cost to the Town for a group insurance program would be approximately $700.00 each year ; a tax rate increase of $.11.
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Recommendations
While it is true that group insurance offers certain ad- vantages to town employees, yet since the Town now faces heavy and unavoidable expenses, the Committee feels that the need for group life insurance is not sufficiently urgent to warrant its adoption at this time.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT H. HOWES RALPH IRWIN HARRY R. JEFFREY
Committee Report - Building Permit Fees
The committee appointed by the Selectmen to investigate the possibilities of charging fees for building permits has concluded its work and are unanimously agreed that Wil- braham should not charge for building permits.
We arrived at this conclusion after investigating the building departments of nearby towns and cities.
We wish to thank you for allowing us to serve on this committee.
HARRY R. WHYTE, Chairman JOHN W. GALE ALBERT E. NEALE
In Memoriam
+ IRA W. BELCHER December 13, 1953
Former Member of Planning Board
FRANK N. BODEN July 18, 1953
Former Member of Financial Committee
EDGAR C. CLARK March 20, 1953
Former Tree Warden and Constable
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Home Economics Classroom
Typewriting Class - Miss Christine Clark, Teacher
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Town of Wilbraham BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1953 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
Assets
Liabilities and Reserves
Cash
$296,238.27
Payroll Deductions : Federal Taxes
$1,906.90
Taxes :
County Retirement System
248.25
$2,155.15
Levy of 1953:
Personal Property
$817.11
Real Estate
15,986.96
16,804.07
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
241.05
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund Income
23.47
Premium on School Loan
861.87
Levy of 1952
10.05
Levy of 1953
5,942.85
5,952.90
Federal Grants :
Tax Titles
970.55
Disability Assistance :
Tax Possessions
223.98
1,194.53
Administration
44.51
Assistance
918.31
Departmental :
Aid to Dependent Children :
Garbage
56.33
Administration
60.48
Selectmen
2,339.50
Assistance
2,906.47
Aid to Dependent Children
271.58
Old Age Assistance :
Old Age Assistance
798.63
Administration 421.37
Veterans' Services
4.00
3,470.04
Assistance
9,706.32
14,057.46
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Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise :
Old Age Assistance Recoveries
510.00
Dog Licenses - Due County
17.20
Accounts Receivable :
2,967.31
Appropriations Balances : Revenue :
Assessors Equalization Plan
141.99
Town By-Laws
500.00
Highways - Chapter 90 Construction
2,770.47
School Debt and Interest 23,615.13
Non-Revenue : Wilbraham Memorial School Addition 6,380.51
Water Main Extension -
Miller Street 27,934.44
61,342.54
Overestimates 1953:
County Tax
103.76
County Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
162.88
266.64
Road Machinery Fund
8,378.60
19,273.47
Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus Overlay Reserved for Abatements : Levy of 1953
9,465.18
Revenue Reserved Until Collected : Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 5,952.90
Tax Title and Possession 1,194.53
Departmental
3,470.04
Water
1,376.29
State and County Aid to
Highways 22,324.35
34,318.11
Surplus Revenue
226,819.18
$380,697.23
$380,697.23
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Water: Rates Miscellaneous
1,374.35
1.94
1,376.29
Aid to Highways: State
13,324.79
County
8,999.56
22,324.35
Underestimates 1933: State Parks and Reservations Tax Revenues 1954 Dog Officer's Fees
170.78
33,140.00
26.00
School Lunch Fund
Town of Wilbraham BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1953 (Continued) DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt : Inside Debt Limit Outside Debt Limit : General Water
$366,000.00
$366,000.00
$258,000.00 119,000.00
377,000.00
Inside Debt Limit : School Addition Loan Outside Debt Limit : General : Memorial School Loan
$258,000.00 119,000.00
377,000.00
$743,000.00
$743,000.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUNDS
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Trust and Investment Funds : Cash and Securities : In Custody of Town Treasurer In Custody of Probate Court
$15,809.10
877.69
909.07
131.35
Abner Bell Library Fund
52.44
Henry Cutler Library Fund
1,287.33
Morton L. Day Library Fund
231.10
Civil War Mortar Memorial Plaque Fund
40.41
Laura Bruuer Cemetery General Care Fund
1,291.24
9,323.27
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Soldiers Monument Park Fund
1,190.03
*Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
241.05
$15,809.10
In Custody of Probate Court : Hines Family Burial Lot Fund
204.53
$16,013.63
$16,013.63
In Custody of Treasurer: Chloe B. Stebbins Charity Fund Deacon Warriner School Fund School Lot Fund Chloe B. Stebbins Library Fund
$234.12
204.53
Water Loans
Comparative Annual Expenditures of Town Appropriations
(Account with receipts or offsetting credits other than appropriations shown in detail in Schedule 2)
SCHEDULE 1
1953 Appropriations or Transfer from Reserve
1953 Total Expenditures of Town Appro.
1953 Unexpended Balance
1952 Expenditures of Town Appro. $50.00 2,172.07
1951 Expenditures of Town Appro. $75.00
2,187.09
5,470.54
*Aid to Disabled
6,000.00
5,966.17
33.83 (See Gen. Relief)
00.00
00.00
Assessors' Expense
3,000.00
2,968.43
31.57
2,448.58
2,189.36
1,430.21
Assessors' Special Appro. for Equalization
718.50
576.51
141.99
1,681.50
1,637.88
00.00
Board of Health
3,000.00
2,068.11
931.89
1,779.41
347.88
1,256.50
Building Inspector's Expense
100.00
12.90
87.10
00.00
00.00
00.00
Cemeteries
1,800.00
1,513.52
286.48
1,599.67
1,310.38
1,402.63
Civil Defense
1,032.50
00.00
1,032.50
217.50
48.31
00.00
*Community Program - Memorial School
3,000.00
2,941.01
58.99
1,706.55
1,375.73
00.00
*Dental Clinic
1,500.00
1,299.00
201.00
976.50
2,185.49
1,896.75
Election Expense
365.83
363.83
2.00
1,702.82
216.40
1,309.12
Fire Department Expense
8,350.00
7,770.62
579.38
6,493.08
5,937.85
5,884.53
Forest Warden
600.00
597.75
2.25
699.10
471.75
498.95
*Garbage Collection Service
3,000.35
3,000.35
00.00
2,518.16
1,874.75
1,635.00
*General Relief
4,000.00
3,995.41
4.59
8,831.20
7,520.56
9,145.89
Gypsy Moth and Elm Tree Disease Control
1,475.00
1,403.91
71.09
1,357.02
1,376.70
1,422.05
*Destroying Dead Wood in Town Elms
1,750.00
1,748.32
1.68
889.65
664.65
634.99
Account
Aid to Agriculture
$75.00
$75.00
$50.00
* Aid to Dependent Children
3,000.00
1,707.28
$00.00 1,292.72
1950 Expenditures of Town Appro.
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COMPARATIVE ANNUAL EXPENDITURES OF TOWN APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)
1953 Appropriations or Transfer from Reserve
1953 Total Expenditures of Town Appro.
1953 Unexpended Balance
1952 Expenditures of Town Appro.
1951 Expenditures of Town Appro.
1950 Expenditures of Town Appro.
Account
* Highways
Chapter 81
14,700.00
State
6,125.00
20,824.91
.09
20,399.06
20,348.15
19,974.24
Chapter 90 Improving and Rebuilding
20,000.00
17,229.53
2,770.47
23,241.81
10,325.29
25,514.18
Chapter 90 Maint.
3,000.00
2,998.93
1.07
3,077.44
2,585.98
3,006.54
Miscellaneous
9,000.00
8,533.93
466.07
9,309.47
8,897.84
6,831.81
Safety Com. Expense
50.00
25.00
ยท 25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
Safety Com. - Protection of Children
1,112.50
1,112.50
00.00
746.65
600.00
600.00
Insurance and Bonding
2,500.00
2,485.81
14.19
2,790.48
2,084.81
1,227.16
Legal
2,000.00
1,022.75
977.25
210.00
638.95
200.00
*Library
6,000.00
5,739.75
260.25
3,114.85
2,983.85
3,365.15
Memorial Day
226.00
225.92
.08
119.08
438.25
133.00
*Old Age Assistance
20,000.00
19,843.71
156.29
22,000.00
22,000.00
20,045.00
Parks
350.00
350.00
00.00
899.79
227.19
238.47
Planning Board
370.00
210.33
159.67
303.49
27.54
136.91
Playground
1,750.00
1,420.30
329.70
1,725.66
1,581.60
2,592.97
Police
289.90
280.30
9.60
149.07
91.48
113.50
Printing Town Reports
1,250.00
1,248.76
1.24
1,200.00
1,306.78
952.69
Registrars' Expense Account
200.00
165.60
34.40
690.71
227.36
364.09
Road Machinery Operating Account
3,400.00
3,384.89
15.11
2,954.23
2,848.07
1,955.33
*School Bonds and Interest
49,922.13
26,307.00
23,615.13
23,145.00
23,460.00
23,775.00
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*Schools
204,248.00
201,263.58 829.32
2,984.42
164,760.73
139,575.56 477.00
112,112.64
Selectmen's Contingent
850.00
20.68
785.83
603.32
Street Lights
3,500.00
3,306.21
193.79
3,244.23
3,078.33
3,192.68
Town Clerk's Expense Account
700.00
635.43
64.57
667.95
328.00
306.68
Town Collector's Expense Account
908.61
908.16
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867.70
818.16
689.20
Town Officers' and Employees' Salaries
16,000.00
14,483.17
1,516.83
12,626.67
11,999.12
10,201.15
Town Office and Buildings Maint.
2,800.00
2,785.78
14.22
2,227.94
1,182.88
697.41
Town Treasurer's Expense
900.00
896.62
3.38
825.14
464.47
609.23
Tree Warden's Expense
950.00
942.35
7.65
554.10
495.95
870.99
*Veterans' Benefits
1,500.00
979.45
520.55
1,772.93
1,055.40
1,858.72
Water Bonds and Interest
3,480.00
3,480.00
00.00
3,600.00
3,720.00
3,840.00
*Water Department
Installations
11,000.00
8,335.46
2,664.54
7,316.29
9,512.59
8,993.53
Maintenance
14,200.00
14,010.77
189.23
9,330.70
8,095.38
8,003.97
Water Notes and Interest
3,683.96
3,683.96
00.00
3,669.68
4,727.82
4,785.94
Well Child Clinic
600.00
450.70
149.30
480.00
310.64
323.76
Wilbraham Contributory Retirement Account
1,814.68
1,814.68
00.00
1,492.66
1,087.69
830.25
* Credit
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Net Cost to the Town of Accounts with Receipts or Offsetting Credits Other than Town Appropriations
SCHEDULE 2
1953 Expenditures of Town Appropriations
1953 Total Expenditures
1953 Receipts from Federal (Available for
Offsetting Credits to Gen. Treas. (Not Available Expenditures) for Expenditures)
Net Cost to the Town
Account
Aid to Dependent Children
$1,707.28
$1,707.28
$1,026.46
$386.37
$294.45
Aid to Disabled
5,966.17
7,506.38
2,416.40
2,941.12
2,148.86
Cemeteries
1,513.52
1,513.52
40.00
1,473.52
Community Program
2,941.01
2,941.01
336.00
2,605.01
Dental Clinic
1,299.00
1,299.00
119.75
1,179.25
Garbage
3,000.35
3,005.35
3,627.51*
General Relief
3,995.41
3,995.41
1,838.96
2,156.45
Gypsy Moth - Destroying Dead Wood in Town Elms
1,748.32
1,748.32
200.00
1,548.42
Highways
Chapter 81
14,700.00
20,824.91
Chapter 90 Construction and Improving
17,229.53
17,229.53
Chapter 90 Maint.
2,998.93
2,998.93
Library
5,739.75
5,739.75
1,112.00
4,627.75
Old Age Assistance
19,966.33
29,951.97
12,262.06
13,464.70
4,225.21
Planning Board
210.33
210.33
175.00
35.33
Schools
201,263.58
201,263.58
59,485.38
141,778.20
Veterans' Benefits
979.45
979.45
725.70
263.75
Water Department - Installations
8,335.46
8,335.46
8,803.00*
Maintenance
14,010.77
14,010.77
24,656.15*
41,053.37
24,291.46
16,761.91
* Credit
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Report of Annual Town Meeting MARCH 7, 1953
In accordance with the Warrant as posted, the voters of the Town assembled in the Wilbraham Memorial School Auditorium, Wilbraham, Mass.
The polls were declared open at 8.30 A. M. by Moderator Frank Auchter and Warden Wesley Holdridge, who had been sworn in by Town Clerk Walter F. Berry. Ballot clerks and tellers sworn in by the Town Clerk were: Doro- thy Reidy, Theresa Boden, Anna Tupper, Frances Arooth, Helen Laurino, Sophie Przybycien, Helen Workum, Eve- lyn Cebula, Filomena Gilbert, Giacomo Alberici, Mae Irwin, Alice Hodgdon, Wanda Gurski, Alice Rodenhizer, Clara Bradway, June Rice, Wesley Holdridge and William L. Dempsey.
The meeting was called to order by Moderator Frank Auchter at 10 o'clock.
ARTICLE 1. Minor town officers elected by unanimous vote were :
Pound Keeper Jerry Donohue
Measurers of Wood and Charcoal
Walter H. Clark
Jesse L. Rice
Surveyors of Lumber
Walter H. Clark J. Wilbur Rice Field Drivers
Jerry Donohue Ernest L. Bacon Leonard F. Von Flatern Weighers of Grain
Jesse L. Rice J. Wilbur Rice
ARTICLE 2. Voted unanimously that the Town accept the reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treas- urer, School Committee and other officers as presented in the Town Report.
ARTICLE 3. Voted that the compensation for elected Town Officers be fixed as follows: Town Clerk, $600.00 per year and fees; Town Treasurer, $1,250.00; Moderator, $50.00 Annual Town Meetings, $15.00 for Special Town Meetings; Town Collector, $1,600.00; Tree Warden, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car) ; Selectmen, two members $500.00 per year, Chairman, $550.00; Assessors, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car when needed) ; Constables, $1.35 per hour when called on duty by Selectmen, plus fees ; Auditor, $150.00 per year; School Committee, no salary;
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Cemetery Commissioners, $1.35 per hour for the time spent at work; Water Commissioners, $150.00 per year each; Library Trustees, no salary; Planning Board members, no salary ; Playground Commissioners, no salary ; Poundkeep- er, Field Drivers, Weighers of Grain, Surveyors of Lum- ber, Measurers of Wood and Charcoal, fees only as fixed by General Laws; and further move that any changes in com- pensation for all Town officials or employees whose com- pensation is not fixed hereunder shall be submitted to and approved in advance by the Financial Committee. One dissenting vote.
ARTICLE 4. Voted unanimously that the Town 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, 1953, 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 5. The following appropriations were unani- mously voted : (total $334,538.75) Aid to Disabled, $6,000.00; Aid to Agriculture, $75.00; Aid to Dependent Children, $3,000.00; Assessors' Expense, $3,000.00; Board of Health, $3,000.00; Building Inspector's Expense, $100.00; Cemete- ries ($500 from int. from trust funds), $1,300.00; Com- munity Program - Schools, $3,000.00; Dental Clinic, $1,500.00 ; Election Expense, $225.00; Fire Dept. Expense, $8,350.00 ; Forest Fire Warden's Expense, $600.00; General Relief, $4,000.00; Gypsy Moth and Elm Tree Disease Con- trol, $1,475.00; Gypsy Moth (Destroying Dead Wood - Elms), $1,500.00; Highways, Miscellaneous, $9,000.00; Highways, Safety Committee Expense, $50.00; Highways, Safety Committee Protection of Children, $925.00; Insur- ance and Bonding, $2,500.00; Interest, $50.00; Legal, $2,000.00; Library Expense, $5,145.51; Liquor Law En- forcement, $100.00; Memorial Day, $200.00 ; Old Age Assist- ance, $20,000.00; Parks, $350.00; Planning Board Expense, $370.00; Playground, $1,750.00; Police, $250.00; Printing Town Reports, $1,250.00; Registrars' Expense, $200.00; Road Machinery Operating Account, $3,400.00; Schools, $201,608.00; Selectmen's Contingent, $750.00; Street Lights, $3,500.00; Town Clerk's Expense, $700.00; Town Collector's Expense, $900.00; Town Officers and Employees Salaries Expense, $16,000.00; Town Office and Buildings Maintenance, $2,000.00; Town Treasurer's Expense, $900.00 ; Town Treasurer's Expense (Land Court), $144.00; Tree Warden's Expense, $950.00; Veterans' Benefits, $1,500.00; Water Bonds and Interest, $3,480.00; Water Department, Maintenance, $12,000.00; Water Notes and
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Interest, $2,626.56; Water Dept. (Taxes for Ludlow), $400.00; Well Child Clinic, $600.00; Wilbraham Contribu- tory Retirement Account, $1,814.68.
ARTICLE 6. Voted unanimously to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,350.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 81 Roads, provided the State contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 81, General Laws. (Note: Original article called for the sum of $7,200.00 but prior to Town Meeting, the State allowed an additional $150.00 to cover added mile of highway. This is also true for Article 7.)
ARTICLE 7. Voted unanimously to appropriate and trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $7,350.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 81 Roads, which is an amount equal and in addition to the amount appropriated under Article 6, to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, with the reimbursement thereof from the state to be restored upon receipt to un- appropriated available funds in the treasury.
At this time, Mr. J. Loring Brooks, Jr., a member of the Board of Selectmen, asked if he might take a few min- utes from the regular proceedings to present to Wilbra- ham's oldest citizen, Mrs. L. Anna Bliss, the gold headed cane, which was presented to the Town by the Boston Post newspaper for such purpose. Mrs. Bliss was born in Union, Connecticut on December 19, 1861. Former recipients of the cane were Benjamin Green, Annis Merrill, and Ethel- bert Bliss, husband of today's recipient.
ARTICLE 8. Voted unanimously to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 Roads, provided the State and County contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provision of Chapter 90, General Laws.
ARTICLE 9. Voted unanimously to appropriate and trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $2,000.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 roads, which is an amount that will be doubled and in addi- tion to the amount appropriated under Article 8, to meet the State and County share of the cost of the work, with the reimbursement thereof from the State and County to be restored upon receipt to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 10. Voted unanimously to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the improvement or rebuilding of Chapter 90 Roads, provided the State and County con- tribute toward the same, in accordance with the provision of Chapter 90, General Laws.
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ARTICLE 11. Voted unanimously to appropriate and trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $15,000.00 for the improvement or rebuilding of Chapter 90 Roads, which is an amount that will be triple and in addition to the amount appropriated under Article 10, to meet the State and County shares of the cost of work, with the reimbursement thereof from the State and County to be restored upon receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 12. Voted unanimously to accept as a public way the street now known as Pease Street as shown on plan of land entitled "Drumlin Knoll" submitted by E. Ray and Josephine Pease and surveyed by W. R. Hennessey, and recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 31, Page 22, beginning at the intersection of Main Street and Pease Street and running easterly for a distance of approximately 700 feet more or less, and raise and ap- propriate the sum of $750.00 to defray the expense thereof.
ARTICLE 13. Voted unanimously to accept as a public way that portion of Hunting Lane, formerly known as Mer- rick Avenue, now a private way, as shown on a plan known as Merrick Park and recorded in Hampden County Regis- try of Deeds, Book of Plans Z, page 3, beginning at the intersection of Main Street and Hunting Lane and run- ning westerly for a distance of approximately 150 feet more or less, and raise and appropriate the sum of $900.00 to defray the expense thereof.
ARTICLE 14. Voted unanimously to accept as a public way that portion of Colonial Road, now a private way, as shown on Subdivision Plan of Land in Wilbraham, Mass. owned by Harry R. Whyte and Mark V. D. Wadsworth, Merrill & Sears, Civil Engineers, and recorded in Hamp- den County Registry of Deeds under Certificate of Title No. 2897, Case No. 15803A, beginning 800 feet from Springfield Street and running 400 feet more or less in a southerly direction to a point on the southerly side of land now of one Pugsley, and raise and appropriate the sum of $450.00 to defray the expense thereof.
ARTICLE 15. Voted unanimously to accept as a public way that portion of Brookside Drive now a private way, as shown on Subdivision Plan of Land in Wilbraham, Mass. owned by Harry R. Whyte and Mark V. D. Wadsworth, Merrill & Sears, Civil Engineers, and recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds under Certificate of Title No. 2897, Case No. 15803A, beginning 400 feet east of Colonial Road and running easterly for a distance of 200 feet more or less and continuing southerly 700 feet more or less to the southerly side of the so-called Hall lot, and raise and
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appropriate the sum of $950.00 to defray the expense there- of.
ARTICLE 16. Voted unanimously to accept that portion of Delmor Avenue now a private way, as shown on plan of William Decorie surveyed by Merrill & Sears, Civil Engineers, May 16, 1941 and recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 32, Page 88, being the extension of Delmor Avenue, running in a westerly direc- tion for a distance of 1200 feet more or less, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,400.00 to defray the expense thereof.
ARTICLE 17. Voted unanimously to accept as a public way the street now known as Sunset Rock Road as shown on plan of land in Wilbraham surveyed for Mary F. Wil- lette by R. O. & G. F. Dingman, Engineers, Palmer, Mass. as filed with the Planning Board, beginning at North Moun- tain Road and running westerly for a distance of 1,000 feet more or less, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,400.00 to defray the expense thereof.
ARTICLE 18. Voted that the Town take no action on this article.
ARTICLE 19. Voted that the Town take no action on this article.
ARTICLE 20. Voted unanimously to appropriate and trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $11,000.00 to be spent by the Water Dept. for additional household and business installations for water service, the cost of which is collected by the Town from the individuals or concerns requesting the installations, and thereby is returned to unappropriated available funds.
ARTICLE 21. Voted unanimously to authorize the Select- men 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 the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen, or whom- soever they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
ARTICLE 22. Voted unanimously to authorize the Select- men to institute or defend suits and employ counsel for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Town.
ARTICLE 23. Voted unanimously that the Town's share of the Dog Tax of 1952 of $854.49 be appropriated to the Library.
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ARTICLE 24. Voted unanimously that the Town appro- priate the sum of $7,500.00 for a Reserve Fund with said sum to be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Account.
ARTICLE 25. Voted unanimously that the Town appro- priate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $3,000.00 to pay to the garbage collector, the cost of which is received by the Town from the users of the garbage collection service and thereby is returned to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 26. Voted unanimously that the Town take no action on this article.
ARTICLE 27. Voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of $22,830.00 to pay interest and amortization of the Wil- braham Memorial School Building Loan, and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $9,426.25 toward such appropriation, being the amount to be received toward such bond amortization from the State, with such payment from the State to be restored upon receipt to unappropriated available funds in the treasury, and raise $13,403.75, the balance of such appro- priation.
ARTICLE 28. Voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of $27,092.13 to pay the first year's interest and amortiza- tion of the Wilbraham Memorial and Pines School Bldg. Loan, after reduction of the premium balance, and trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $6,000.00 toward such appropriation, being the estimated amount to be received toward such bond amortization from the State, with such payment from the State to be restored upon receipt to unappropriated avail- able funds in the treasury, and raise $21,092.13 for the balance of such appropriation.
ARTICLE 29. Voted unanimously to instruct the Play- ground Commissioners to suspend operation of the public bathing beach.
ARTICLE 30. Voted - 108 to 107 - that the Board of Selectmen appoint a committee of five, including at least one resident of East Wilbraham, to review all requirements and estimates of cost to extend water service eastward to the Palmer line; to study the potential income from esti- mated water bills and increased assessed valuations in the areas which would be served; to study the estimated aver- age annual operating cost thereof, including depreciation and maintenance and to be prepared to report with recom- mendations to the next meeting of the town which may be held after June 1st.
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ARTICLE 31. Voted unanimously that the sum of $160,- 000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of lay- ing a 16-inch feeder main from the end of the Metropolitan District Commission's 16-inch pipeline on Miller Street in Ludlow via Miller Street in Ludlow and via public ways and private ways in Wilbraham, to the intersection of Maple and Main Streets as well as other necessary points of connection in this vicinity of Wilbraham, together with necessary hydrants, valves, blowoffs, Chicopee River Bridge crossing, air vents, appurtenances, etc., for carry- ing Quabbin water to the Wilbraham distribution system, the new pipeline approximately paralleling the existing 10-inch pipeline; and that to meet said appropriation there be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $60,000.00 and the treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, payable in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of issue of the first bond or note.
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