1949-01-10 Special Town Meeting Minutes

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Town Meeting, January 10, 1949 103 Precinct 4. 1.1unicipal Building Zitzows Bei,-hborhood Store, 287 Lowell Street McLaughlin' s Neighborhood Store, 1051 Eain 6troet the date of posting being seven days prior to the date set for the meeting in this warrant. I also caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in the Reading Uhronicle in the issue of January 6, 1949, the same being more than one day prior to the date of the meeting. Leon G. Bent Constable of lgeading TOWN 1VI STING Highland School Auditorium January 10, 1949 Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable ' s Return thereon, a Town 'rieetin-- was held at the time and place specified in the warrant. 'The meeting was called to order by the I.ioderator, Charles P. Howard at 8:10 p.r,. 'The warrant was partially read by the Town Clerk, when on motion of Samuel H. Davis, which was seconded by Kenneth C . Latham, it was voted to dispense with furtzer reading; of the warrant, ex- cept the Constable ' s Return which was teen read by the Town Clerk. Article 1. Joshua T. Day, Jr. read the following report of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Vva es Classifications . On motion of Louis Davis it was voted to accept this report. REPORT OF JOINT C0I,1I1fiITTEE ON SALARY AND WAGE CLASSIFICATION '20: The Town Pdeeting Members . At the Annual 'Town Meeting held in fdarch, 1948, the subject matter of Articles 31 and 32 of the '�varrant, beim the Report of the Salary and ►vage Classification Committee, was referred jointly to the Finance Committee, Board of Selectmen, and Salary and 'mage Classification Committee for further study. A sub-committee of five members was then appointed by the Joint Committee as follows : Board of Selectmen, G. Lawrence Roberts; Salary and �vage Committee, Herbert G. Evans; Finance Committee, Joshua T. Day, Jr. , John L. Griffin, Emerson A. yvillard; and instructed to review the original report, make recommended changes, and such others as were necessary due to the revision by the Legislature in 14ay of the en- abling act, section 108-A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws . Your committee wishes again to call to your attention the really prodigious amount of fine work performed by the original Salary and 'wa;e Committee and submitted to you in their report at the last Annual Town Meeting. Vie have made several changes in the salary plan, as submitted by the original committee, the most important of which is the estab- lishing of a Personnel Board to administer the plan. ( See Section 3,