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During the drought of 1957 many families living on the Mountain found it necessary t; transport water. For about two months your Selectmen found the water problem two- fold.
Mr. Hintze and son with their water-wagon.
The relocation of precinct boundaries was considered. Only one immediate benefit can be seen emerging from such a change, the reduction in the time necessary to count the ballots after an election.
With regard to the polling place for Precinct C, three mem- bers of the committee felt that the Pines School should be con- tinued as the polling place. The other five members felt that the Stony Hill School is the logical polling place, but to work out a compromise solution, alternating between the Stony Hill School and Pines School should be considered by the Board of Registrars.
It should be noted that if these three articles be voted at the Special Town Meeting and the precinct voting for Town elec- tions be accepted, then the March 1959 elections could take place under precinct voting.
Presently, Precinct A, the largest precinct, holds up the count on voting returns so that results are not known for some time after polls are closed. Equalizing the voting population by pre- cincts should reduce the after closing counting time considerably. In relocating the precinct voting lines an attempt was made to equalize voting population, reduce the extreme dimensions of each precinct, and provide each precinct with a growth area pres- ently under development.
The proposed boundary lines will result in the following num- ber of registered voters per precinct: A - 1091, B - 1128, C - 1103. Present population: A - 1615, B - 1074, C - 633. JOHN W. JUECHTER, JR., Chairman GLENN R. ENGEL, JR. STEVENS L. SHEA
RAYMOND O. BABINEAU JOHN B. PHELON
HENRY P. BAUSH ALPHONSE S. SAMBOR
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PROPOSED VOTING PRECINCT BOUNDRIES
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Town Warrant
FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING ON MARCH 15, 1958 Commonwealth of Massachusetts HAMPDEN, ss.
To any 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 Wil- braham Memorial School in said Town on Saturday, the fifteenth day of March next at 8:30 a. m. to bring in their votes for Town Officers and act on the following articles. The polls will open at 8:30 a. m. and may be closed at 6:30 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 con- sidered after 10:00 o'clock a. m.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator, a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, a Town Collector, a Tree Warden and Auditor for the ensuing year; one Selectman for three years who shall be a member of the Board of Public Welfare and Board of Health, one Assessor for three years; one Water Commissioner for three years; one Cemetery Commissioner for three years; one Library Trustee for three years; two School Committee Members for three years; one School Committee Member for two years; one Member of the Regional School Committee for three years; one Member of the Planning Board for five years; five Constables for the ensuing year, all on one ballot. Also all other Town Officers.
ARTICLE 2. To hear and act on reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer and other officers or com- mittees.
ARTICLE 3. To fix the compensation of all elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 3. Recommend that compensation for elected Town Offi- cers be fixed as follows: Town Clerk, $1,300.00 per year (all fees to revert to the Town Treasury); Town Treasurer, $1,300.00 per year; Moderator,
Bold face type appearing after some articles are the recommendations of the Finance Committee.
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$50.00 Annual Town Meetings, $15.00 Special Town Meetings; Town Col- lector, $2,900.00 per year (all fees to revert to the Town Treasury); Tree Warden, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car) ; Selectmen, 2 members $600.00 per year, Chairman $650.00; Assessors, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car when needed); Constables, $1.50 per hour when called on duty by Selectmen, plus fees; Auditor, $200.00 per year; School Committee, no salary; Cemetery Commissioners, no salary, $1.50 per hour for time spent at work; Water Commissioners, $150.00 per year; Library Trustees, no salary; Planning Board Members, no salary; Poundkeeper, Field Drivers, Weighers of Grain, Surveyors of Lumber, Measurers of Wood and Charcoal (all Town Officers elected otherwise than by official ballot) fees only as fixed by General Laws.
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 beginning January 1, 1958, 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 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 4. Recommend.
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 5.
Aid to Agriculture
$100.00
Aid to Dependent Children
1,000.00
Aid to Disabled
7,000.00
Assessors Expense Account
750.00
Board of Health
7,500.00
Building Inspector's Expense Account
100.00
Cemeteries
1,800.00
Civil Defense
2,400.00
Community Program - Schools
5,280.00
Dead Wood - Chapter 761
2,500.00
Dental Clinic
1,050.00
Election Expense
2,500.00
Fire Department
15,200.00
Forest Warden
900.00
General Relief
5,000.00
Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School
16,338.56
Highways - Miscellaneous
27,200.00
Insurance and Bonding
5,500.00
Interest
50.00
Legal
1,000.00
Library
1,656.86
Memorial Day and Independence Day
250.00
Mosquito Control
2,000.00
Old Age Assistance
21,000.00
Parks
2,060.00
Pest Control - Chapter 660
2,000.00
Planning Board Expense
500.00
Playground Expense
4,400.00
Police
20,000.00
Printing Town Reports
2,200.00
Registrar's Expense
200.00
Road Machinery Operating Expense
4,400.00
Schools
518,149.00
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School Bonds and Interest (1949)
21,255.00
School Bonds and Interest (1953)
25,225.00
School Bonds and Interest (1956)
37,327.50
School Bonds and Interest (1957) Selectmen's Contingency Account Street Lights
1,500.00
Town Clerk's Expense Account
Town Collector's Expense Account
800.00
Town Officers and Employees Salaries
29,000.00
Town Office and Buildings Maintenance
5,000.00
Town Treasurer's Expense Account
400.00
Town Treasurer's Expense Account Land Court
250.00
Tree Warden's Expense Account
1,600.00
Veterans' Benefits
4,500.00
Water Bonds and Interest (1955)
6,837.50
Water Department - Maintenance
23,600.00
Water Notes and Interest (1953) 11,237.50
Wilbraham Contributory Retirement Account - Town's Portion
7,457.35
$904,399.27
ARTICLE 6. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1957.
ARTICLE 6. Recommend $980.14 be added to Library Appropriation.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $8,400.00 to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 81 Highway work, and that in addition the sum of $15,400.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 7. Recommend.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,250.00 to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, and that in addition the sum of $2,500.00 be transferred from unappropriated avail- able funds in the treasury to meet the State and County's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ARTICLE 8. Recommend.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Highway Construction, and that in addition the sum of $15,000.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to meet the State and County's share of the cost of the work; the reimbursements from the State and County
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30,725.00
5,500.00 200.00
to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 9. Recommend.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to build a garage for use of the Highway Department on Town property, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ARTICLE 10. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from the Road Machinery Fund the sum of $4,700.00 or any other sum, to purchase a 2 ton dump truck for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 11. Recommend.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from the Road Machinery Fund the sum of $375.00 or any other sum to purchase a Sewer Rod Machine for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 12. Recommend.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $15,000.00 or any other sum to be spent by the Water Department for additional household and business installations for water service, the cost of which is to be collected by the Town from the individuals or concerns requesting installations, and which is returned to surplus funds, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ARTICLE 13. Recommend.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to repeal that part of Article 2, Section 6 of the Town By-Laws which requires the election of five constables for one year, and instead of electing constables, to authorize the appointment of two constables by the Selectmen in accordance with the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 41, Sections 91A and 91B, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue that portion of the highway known as Old Ludlow Road, between Boston Road and the Boston & Albany Railroad, adjoining the Boston & Albany Railroad Station at North Wilbraham; reserv-
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ing, however, to the Town the right to maintain and relay the water main now existing under said road and the right to enter for said purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority deeds of lands in the Town which were acquired by said Authority by virtue of its Order of Taking No. 30 and its Order of Taking No. 85, said lands being shown as parcels numbered 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, E-4, E-5, and DE.4, on plans filed with said Orders of Taking in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds and in the Town Clerk's Office, the lands so deeded being such as are outside the location lines at Three Rivers Road.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to install an adequate main line meter not to exceed 12 inch in size, and chlorinating equipment in the Miller Street meter pit in accordance with M. D. C. standards, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 17. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $135,000.00 or any other sum, to lay a 16 inch water main from the existing main at the intersection of Maple and Main Streets and running westerly to and thence on Boston Road for a distance of 8,800 feet, and from the end of the exist- ing 16 inch main on South Main Street running southerly for a distance of 2,600 feet, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation, by appropriation from available funds in the treasury, and/or by borrowing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ARTICLE 18. Recommend $75,000.00 be transferred from available funds and borrow $60,000.00.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $93,000.00 or any other sum, to lay a 12 inch water main running westerly from South Main Street on Tink- ham Road, for a distance of 6,850 feet to Stony Hill Road, and on Stony Hill Road running southerly of Tinkham Road for a distance of 1,500 feet and northerly of Tinkham Road for a distance of 3,000 feet, and an 8 inch water main running west- erly on Tinkham Road from Stony Hill Road for a distance of 1,300 feet, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation, by appropriation from available funds in the
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treasury, and/or by borrowing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 19. Do not recommend.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift of a certain parcel of land from Mr. and Mrs. J. Loring Brooks for the purpose of providing a site for a fire station at Wilbra- ham Center, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro priate a sum of money to purchase a new fire truck for use at Wilbraham Center, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 21. Recommend $22,000.00 be transferred from available funds.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to construct a fire station at Wilbraham Center, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 22. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $5,000.00 or any other sum, to pay the garbage collector, with receipts from garbage collection subscribers to be restored as received by the Town Collector to unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 23. Recommend.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zon- ing By-Laws by changing the classification of the property below described, from Residence B and Business to Industrial, namely land owned by Stanley T. Szczebak and others, situated on the southerly side of Boston Road; bounded and described as follows; starting at the northeast corner of property of Friendly Ice Cream Corporation on Boston Road, and running southerly 443 feet more or less, thence northeast 769 feet more or less to a point 150 feet west of Stony Hill Road, thence northerly 515 feet more or less to Boston Road, thence westerly along Boston Road 500 feet more or less to a point of beginning.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to amend the zon- ing by law by extending the width of the present business dis- trict bordering the southerly side of Boston Road from the junction of Main Street and Boston Road for a distance of approximately 1,000 feet to the Boston and Albany Railroad Overpass, from its existing width of 100 feet to a maximum width of 200 feet, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to amend the zon- ing by law by extending the width of the present business district bordering the southerly side of Boston Road from the junction of Boston Road and Stony Hill Road for a distance of approxi- mately one mile to a point described as the east boundary of the Town Highway Department Yard, from the existing width of 100 feet to a maximum width of 200 feet, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,500.00 or any other sum, to be expended under the joint supervision of the Planning Board and the Board of Assessors for the preparation of maps and plans for the use of said Planning Board and Board of Assessors, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 27. Recommend.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,400.00 or any other sum, to purchase a cruiser for the use of the Wilbraham Police, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 28. Recommend.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote as follows: That the present voting precincts of the Town be changed in accord- ance with the recommendations of the Selectmen embodied in a statement giving the boundaries, the designations of the proposed precincts and the number of voters registered in each for the preceding state or Town election filed with the Town Clerk at least seven days before this Town Meeting, such changes to take effect on December 31, 1958, all as provided by Section 7 of Chapter 54 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote as follows or sub- stantially as follows: That the Town accept Section 20 of Chap- ter 39 of the General Laws, which provides for precinct voting for all Town Officers; and that the Annual Town Election for all Town Officers to be chosen thereat be held on the first Wednesday of March in each year; and that all matters to be considered at the Annual Town Meeting, other than the elec- tion of town officers, shall be in order only at a town meeting held within thirty days after the date of the annual town elec- tion, the date thereof to be determined by the Selectmen; and that voting at special elections of town officers shall also be by
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precincts; and that all provisions of the town by-laws which are inconsistent herewith be and are hereby amended to accord with the provisions of this vote.
ARTICLE 31. 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 the 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 other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 31. Recommend.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to institute or defend suits and employ counsel for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Town, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 32. Recommend.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to purchase land to extend the East Wil- braham Cemetery, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 33. Recommend.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint a Bi-Centennial Committee which will in- clude the members of our present History Committee, previously appointed by your Selectmen who shall assist the Selectmen in planning for our 200th Anniversary in 1963, said plans to be presented at some subsequent Annual Town Meeting, and to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the necessary expenses of the History Committee, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 34. Recommend.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint a committee to be known as a Betterment Assessment Study Committee, to consist of 7 members - one Selectman, one Water Commissioner, one Planning Board Mem- ber, one Assessor, one Finance Committee Member, one Civic Survey Committee Member and the Town Counsel to study the problem of assessing betterments for various town services and to report to the townspeople at the next Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $12,000.00 or any other sum for a Reserve Fund to be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Account, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 36. Recommend.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro priate a sum of money for the purpose of increasing the Stabiliza- tion Fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 37. Recommend $35,000.00 be transferred from available funds and $10,000.00 be raised from taxation.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Shady Lane, as shown on sub division plan drawn by Durkee, White & Towne, dated May 1954, beginning at Brooklawn Road and running easterly for a distance of 506.11 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,155.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for con- struction of said Shady Lane, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 38. Recommend.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Jewell Lane, as shown on sub division plan drawn by Durkee, White and Towne, dated May 1954, beginning at the now accepted portion of Jewell Lane and running easterly for a distance of 425 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,435.00 or any other sum, be raised and appropriated for construction of said Jewell Lane, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provi- sions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 39. Recommend.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Sunnyside Terrace, as shown on sub division plan (Revised) drawn by C. E. Anderson Associates, dated July 1955, beginning at Stony Hill Road and running westerly for a distance of 620 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,805.00 or any other sum, be raised and appro- priated for construction of said Sunnyside Terrace, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provi- sions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 40. Recommend.
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ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Greenwood Road as shown on plan and profile of Greenwood Road dated May 1957 drawn by John T. Casey, beginning at the now accepted portion of Greenwood Road and running southerly for a distance of 100 feet more or less.
ARTICLES 41-50. Recommend.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Glenn Drive as shown on plan of lots of Glenn Drive dated December 1955, and plan of lots on Glenn Drive and Lance Lane dated January 1956, drawn by Durkee, White and Towne, Engineers, beginning at Stony Hill Road and running easterly to Lance Lane a distance of 2,514 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Lance Lane as shown on plan of lots of Glenn Drive and Lance Lane, dated January 1956, drawn by Durkee, White and Towne, Engineers, beginning at Glenn Drive running northerly to Manchonis Road Extension for a distance of 547 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Addison Road as shown on sub division plan dated March 1956, beginning at Pleasant View Road and running southerly for a distance of 1,201 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Oakland Street, as shown on sub division plan dated March 1956, beginning at Meadow- view Road and running westerly for a distance of 400 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Pleasant View Road, as shown on sub division plan dated March 1956, beginning at Meadowview Road and running westerly for a distance of 400 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a pub- lic way the private way now known as Leemond Street as shown on sub division plan of William and Lillie Decorie drawn by Smith and Wallen Engineers, dated November 1954, beginning at Decorie Drive and running northerly for a distance of 1,385 feet more or less.
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