1949-01-10 Special Town Meeting Warrant

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Town sleeting, January 10, 1949 T 0 W N W A R R A N T (Seal) Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of heading, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the Auditorium of the Highland School, Middlesex Avenue, in said Reading, on MONDAY, ` HEM 'T'ENTH DAY Or JANUARY, 1949 at eight o'clock in the evening, to act on the following articles; ARTICLE 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town officers and special committees and determine what instructions will be given 'T'own. Officers and special committees. ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote under authority of Section 103A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws to amend the General By-Laws of the Town by adding thereto the following new Article. ARTICLE VIII-. SECTION 1. There shall be established in the Mown an official classification plann for positions in the service of the 'T'own classifying certain employees other than those filled by popular election and those under the direction and control of the School Committee, into groups and classes doing substantially similar work or having substantially equal responsibilities. Such classification plan herein established may from time to time be amended by vote of the Town at a Town Meeting. SECTION 2. The official classification plan for positions in the service of the Town shall consist of the classes listed by titles in Schedule A which is hereby made a part hereof. SECTION 3. The Town may at Town Meeting Assembled vote to establish and may from time to time amend, a plan establishing the minimum and maximum salaries to be paid to employees in positions included in the plan classification and such salary plan may provide for the attainment of such maximum salaries by periodical step-rate increases based on length of service. SECTION 4. The Town may by vote at Town Meeting adopt and thereafter from time to time amend, suitable regulations for the administration, interpretation and application of the classification plan. SECTION 5. This By-Law shall be operative only as to employees whose positions are classified hereunder and for w ich positions minimum and maximum salaries have been established by vote of the Town at a Town Meeting. No board, officer or head of a department shall. fix the salary of any employee in a position so classified except in accordance with such plan. S C EDUL u A JOB CLASSIFICATIONS FOREMAN A full-time supervisor, skilled workman with full responsib- ility of supervising the work of large groups of employees and other incidental work. In direct charge of all construction,