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TOWN WARRANT
(Seal)
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Reading, Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify
and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in elections and Town
affairs, to meet in the following places designated for the eight precincts in said Town,
namely:
Precinct 1.
J. Warren Killam School
Precinct 2.
J. Warren Killam School
Precinct 3.
Joshua Eaton School
Precinct 4.
Joshua Eaton School
Precinct 5.
Community Center
Precinct 6.
Alice M. Barrows School
Precinct 7.
Highland School
Precinct 8.
Memorial High School
on
MONDAY, the TWENTY -THIRD DAY OF MARCH A.D., 1981
at seven o'clock in the forenoon to act on the following articles, viz;
ARTICLE 1. To elect by ballot the following Town Officers: a Moderator for one
year; a Town Clerk for three years; one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years;
one member of the Board of Assessors for three years; two members of the Board of Public
Works for three years; one member of the Regional School District Committee for four
years; two members of the School Committee for three years; one member of the Planning
Board for three years; one member of the Municipal Light Board for three years; two
members of the Board of Library Trustees for three years; one member of the Housing
Authority for five years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; one member
of the Board of Health for two years; one member of the Board of Health for one year; two
members of the Board of Cemetery Trustees for three years; two Constables for three
years.
Also, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 7, Acts of 1943, as amended by
Chapter 317, Acts of 1975, in each of the eight precincts, the number of Town Meeting
members, as hereinafter specified.
Precinct 1.
Eight members for three years;
one member for one year to fill vacancy.
Precinct 2.
Eight members for three years;
one member for one year to fill vacancy.
Precinct 3.
Eight members for three years;
one member for two years to fill vacancy.
Precinct 4.
Eight members for three years.
Precinct 5.
Eight members for three years;
one member for one year to fill vacancy.
Precinct 6.
Eight members for three years;
one member for one year to fill vacancy.
Precinct 7.
Eight members for three years;
one member for two years to fill vacancy.
Precinct 8.
Eight members for three years.
For these purposes the polls will be opened at each of the eight precincts at seven
o'clock A.M. and will close at eight o'clock P.M.
on
and to meet at the Memorial High School Auditorium, 62 Oakland Road in said Reading
MONDAY, the THIRTEENTH DAY of APRIL A.D. 1981
at eight o'clock in the evening, at which time and place the following articles are to be
acted upon and determined exclusively by Town Meeting Members in accordance with the
provisions of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1943 as amended by Chapter 317, Acts of 1975.
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ARTICLE 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Board of Selectmen, Town
Accountant, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Board of Assessors, Board of Public Works, Town
Clerk, Tree Warden, Board of Health, School Committee, Contributory Retirement Board,
Library Trustees, Municipal Light Board, Finance Committee, Cemetery Trustees, Planning
Board, and any other Boards or Special Committees.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 3. To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Special Committees and
determine what instructions shall be given Town Officers and Special Committees.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 4. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the care and lighting of
the Old South Clock, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 5. 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 July 1, 1981, in accordance with the provisions of
the General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 4, 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 the General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 17, or take any other action
with respect thereto.
Town Treasurer
ARTICLE 6. Move that the Town keep the Highland Elementary School open and
operating as the Highland Elementary School.
By Petition
ARTICLE 7.
To see if the Town will vote to amend "Schedule B - Compensation Plan"
of Article XXIV
of the
By -Laws of the Town by
deleting the existing
Pay Ranges and
substituting the following, or take any other action with respect thereto:
EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 1981
`NW. GRADE
MIN.
%4 POINT
MID.
MAX.
1
126
134
141
157
2
139
149
159
180
3
160
172
183
207
4
180
194
209
239
5
203
221
238
274
6
227
249
270
314
7
256
283
309
363
8
288
320
352
416
9
323
362
400
478
10
365
412
458
552
11
412
467
523
634
12
462
529
596
730
Personnel Board
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to amend "Schedule A - Classification Plan"
of Article XXIV of the By -Laws of the Town by deleting "Library Pages - Pay Grade 1" or
what it will do in respect thereto.
Personnel Board
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 7 (A) "Sick Leave" of
Article XXIV of the By -Laws of the Town as revised through September 1980 by deleting the
... first sentence of the last paragraph and insert in its place:
"Effective July 1st, 1980, upon termination, (except termination by the Town for just
cause) after seven years of employment, at retirement or death, an employee shall be
paid for unused sick leave not exceeding 90 (ninety) days at 50% (fifty per cent) of his
daily rate of pay in effect at the time of termination.
Before re- employment in any department of the Town, an employee shall be required
to repay to the Town an amount equal to that received from the Town at the time of
his termination."
Personnel Board
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ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will amen
Compensation Plans" of Article XXIV of the By -Laws of
with respect thereto: "Overtime Compensation"
Add the following paragraph:
March 23, 1981
d "Section 4 Classification and
the Town or take any other action
Under conditions which shall be defined by the Board of Public Works as an emergency,
and administered by the Superintendent of Public Works, the following exempt
employees: Supervisors of Highway, Water and Sewer, Pumping Station, Forestry and
Parks; also Senior Civil Engineer, Pumping Station Engineer and Assistant Civil
Engineer, may be paid overtime if hours actually worked in any regular work week
exceeds forty (40). They shall be paid for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) in
any work week at an hourly rate which shall be computed at their weekly salary
divided by forty, times one and one -half.
Board of Public Works
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By -Laws by adding the
following requirements after those established for Retail Stores, Offices and Consumer
Service Establishments in Section 6.1.1.3., and under the following tables:
Principal Use Minimum Number of
Off - Street Parking
Spaces Required
Restaurants One Space for
each sixty (60)
square feet of
dining area
or take any other action with respect thereto.
Minimum Number of
Off - Street Loading
and Unloading Spaces
Required
One space - 0 -2000
square feet
of floor area
Two spaces - 2001 -4000
square feet
of floor area
Three spaces - over 4000
square feet
of floor area
Planning Board
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By -Laws by deleting
the existing 6.3.2.4. and inserting in place thereof the following:
6.3.2.4. When a non - conforming use is not used for a period of two (2) or more
years, its non - conforming status shall not be reestablished and any future
use shall be in conformance with this By -Law.
or take any other action with respect thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By -Laws by deleting
the existing 5.3.1.3. and inserting in place thereof the following section:
5.3.1.3. As part of all new construction of any building, parking lot, structure, or
any extension or addition thereto in a Business C or Industrial District
and where such construction abuts within one hundred twenty -five (125)
feet of any Residential District, a buffer strip is to be established
subject to the following requirements:
a) Said buffer strip shall have a twelve (12) foot minimum depth and
shall contain a curb to prevent parking within the strip, a six (6) foot
high fence which shall be located a maximum of two (2) feet from the
abutting Residential /Business C and /or Industrial lot line and shall
contain an evergreen hedge on the Business C and /or Industrial side of
the fence which is to be at least three (3) feet in height at the time of
planting and will provide a year -round dense visual screen and attain a
height of at least seven (7) feet within five (5) years of planting;
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b) Said buffer strip shall be constructed along the full abutting length of
any Residential District lots so affected and lie entirely within the
Business C and /or Industrial District;
c) Said buffer strip screening, fencing and vegetation shall be
maintained in good condition at all times by the owners of the Business C
and /or Industrial property; and
d) Where a roadway separates an abutting Residential district from a
Business C and /or Industrial District, dimensional controls for said buffer
strip shall be implemented from the existing Business C and /or
Industrial lot line along the roadway.
or take any other action with respect thereto.
Planning Board
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will amend Reading Zoning By -Law Section 2.2.2.
APARTMENT, by deleting existing Section 2.2.2. and substituting the following:
2.2.2.APARTMENT: A dwelling arranged, intended or designed to be occupied by more
than two families, which definition is intended to include residential condominiums.
By Petition
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to rezone the property located at 259 Main
Street with a total area of 14,850 sq. ft. and shown on Assessors' Map 27 as Parcel 5A,
owned by Walter S. French and Eleanor Q. French from A -40 to Business, or take any other
action thereto.
By Petition
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will rezone the following described land from Single
Family 10 District (S -10) to Apartment 80 District (A -80) and amend Reading Zoning By-
Law and the map referred to in Reading Zoning By -Law Section 3.2 as "Reading Zoning
Map ", dated September 10, 1978, as amended, to reflect rezoning of the following described
land from Single Family 10 District (S -10) to Apartment 80 District (A -80):
A parcel or parcels of land located in the Town of Reading, County of Middlesex,
Massachusetts, on the south side of Salem Street being further bounded and described as
follows:
Beginning at a point at the northwesterly corner of said land on the easterly side of
Manning Street at land, now or late of the heirs of Richard Wilkins;
thence, running easterly by said Wilkins land 132 feet, more or less, to a point;
thence, northerly by said Wilkins land and land of others 430.78 feet, more or less, to a
point on the southern side of Salem Street;
thence, easterly by said Salem Street 180.10 feet, more or less, to a point at land, now
or formerly of William G. Farmer;
thence, southerly by the land of said Farmer in three courses measuring together 264
feet, more or less;
thence, easterly by the land of said Farmer 79 feet, more or less, to a point at land,
now or formerly, of Diana M. Hooten;
thence, southwesterly by the land now or formerly of said Hooten 351.15 feet, more or
less;
thence, southeasterly by the land now or formerly of said Hooten in two courses
measuring together 274.1 feet, more or less;
thence, easterly by the land now or formerly of said Hooten in three courses measuring
together 311.36 feet, more or less;
thence, southeasterly by said Hooten land 273.08 feet, more or less, to a point at the
land, now or formerly of Clinton H. Sterns;
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thence, southeasterly by the land now or formerly of said Sterns in two courses
measuring together 174 feet, more or less;
thence, southeasterly, southerly, and southwesterly in several courses by the land now
or formerly of said Sterns and Green Street Extension and by Torre Street, 406.5 feet, more
or less;
thence, southwesterly by the land, now or formerly of said Sterns, 143 feet, more or
less;
thence, southeasterly by the land of said Sterns, 292.5 feet, more or less;
thence, southwesterly 356.5 feet, more or less, to a point at the land, now or formerly
of Franklin Poole;
thence, westerly by the land of said Poole and land, now or formerly, of Henry S.
LeClair, 384 feet, more or less, to land, now or formerly of James C. Nichols;
thence, northerly by the land of said Nichols 82.5 feet, more or less;
thence, northwesterly by the land of said Nichols 398 feet, more or less, to land, now
or formerly of Clark;
thence, northwesterly by the land of said Clark 50 feet, more or less;
thence, northerly by the land of said Clark 833 feet, more or less;
thence, turning and running slightly more northerly by the land, now or formerly, of
Henry Beard, 128 feet, more or less;
thence, turning and running westerly by land of said Beard, 133.5 feet, more or less, to
said Manning Street (at the intersection of Pleasant Street); and
thence, northerly by said Manning Street, 33 feet, more or less, to the point of
beginning.
Also included within the area rezoned are those areas shown as Lots 1 and 2 on the
Town of Reading Assessor's Map 92, and Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 on Map 68, and containing
23.15 acres, more or less, according to said Assessor's Maps.
Also included within the land to be rezoned is so much of that land which lies within
Torre Street, a private way within the Town of Reading, as said street runs southwesterly
from Harvest Road, southwesterly to the easterly sideline of the land described herein as
well as that portion of land shown as Torre Street, on Reading Assessor's Maps 68 and 79
which is not currently a public way.
Also included within the land to be rezoned is so much of that land which is shown as
Pleasnt Street (Ext.) on Reading Assessor's Maps 78 and 92 as is situated easterly of Manning
Street.
By Petition
ARTICLE 17. To see what action the Town will take regarding the installation of
additional street lights on the public streets during the year 1981 or what it will do in
relation thereto.
Moved: That the subject matter of Article 17 be referred to the Municipal Light
Board, and that said Board be, and hereby is, authorized to install such additional street
lights as in its judgement are required, and to make such changes in the size, type and
location of existing street lights, as it may deem advisable, the expense of the same to be
paid from the income of the plant.
Municipal Light Board
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will amend Section 104.5 of the Building Code of
Reading by deleting the fee schedule in its entirety following the words "receipt of the
permit" and substituting therefor the following, or take any other action with respect
thereto:
FEE SCHEDULE
New Dwelling
Additions, Alterations & solid fuel appliances
Garages - Residential 1 car
2 car
3 car
$ 100.00 min.
4/1000
15.00 min.
4/1000
20.00
25.00
30.00
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Commercial or Industrial addition or alteration
Signs
Swimming Pools
Accessory buildings, sheds, temp. buildings
Razing Permit Residential Acc. Bids.
Residential Houses
Commercial
Foundation Permit (if Needed)
Move Building
INDEX FOR FIGURING VALUATIONS
1 story dwelling
1Y2 stories (expansion cape, splits, etc)
2 story - Garrison, Colonial, etc.
Basement Garage Single
add
Double
add
Attached or Detached Garage
Single
Double
Triple
Commercial or Industrial buildings
Apartment Buildings
50.00 min.
4/1000
15.00 min.
4/1000
25.00 min.
4/1000
15.00 min.
4/1000
15.00 min.
35.00 min.
50.00 min.
4/1000
50.00
50.00 min.
4/1000
$ 35.00 sq.ft.
40.00 sq.ft.
50.00 sq.ft.
1000.00
1500.00
4500.00
6500.00
7500.00
40.00 sq.ft.
25,000.00 per unit
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will delete the Plumbing Fee Schedules in its entirety
and substitute the following or take any other action with respect thereto.
Dwellings: $ 15.00
2.00
10.00
12.00
2.00
15.00
Commercial $ 25.00
5.00
for 1 to 6 fixtures
for each additional fixture
hot water heaters
miscellaneous work 1 or 2 fixtures
for each additional fixture
sewer connections
flat fee
per fixture
Reinspections for faulty work - not to exceed $15.00 or value of permit.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will delete the Gas Fee Schedule in its entirety and
substitute the following or take any other action with respect thereto:
Dwellings 15.00
3.00
10.00
3.00
Commercial 25.00
5.00
5.00
15.00
Tanks 15.00
Reinspections - not to exceed t
for new installations - 1 or 2 fixtures
for each additional fixture
for replacements 1 or 2 fixtures
for each additional fixture
for new installations, plus
per fixture
for gas piping or piping replacement
for replacement fixtures
for 1 or 2 tanks #100 or smaller (if
installed under same permit and by same
gas fitter as installation & inspected at
same time $2.00)
15.00 or value of permit.
Board of Selectmen
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ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to amend the By -Laws of the Town by
adding thereto the following as Article XXXIII relating to user fees, or take any other action
with respect thereto:
"Article XXXIII
User Fees
Section 1. All Town boards, officers, departments, commissions, and committees
are hereby authorized to adopt by appropriate regulation, in accordance with all
applicable provisions of law, a schedule of fees to be charged for services provided by
said board, officer, department, commission or committee to Town residents,
customers and other users of such services. The failure of any person or entity to pay
for services provided in accordance with the appropriate schedule of fees shall be
considered a violation of this By- Law."
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will amend the Town By -Laws Article XXII by adding
thereto, as Section 5, the following or take any other action with respect thereto:
The fees for licensing dogs under M.G.L. Chapter 140, Section 139 shall be the fees set
forth in that Chapter as the same may be from time to time amended plus one dollar.
Said fees are subject to all other conditions as set forth in M.G.L. Chapter 140,
Section 139.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to amend the General By -Laws of the Town
of Reading by adding the following, or take any other action with respect thereto:
Article VIII, Section 7. The following schedule of fees shall be established:
Filing and indexing assignment for the benefit of creditors
$ 5.00
Entering amendment of a record of the birth of an illegitimate
child subsequently legitimized
5.00
Correcting errors in a record of birth
5.00
Furnishing certificate of birth
3.00
Furnishing an abstract copy of a record of birth
2.00
Entering delayed record of birth
5.00
Filing certificate of a person conducting business under any
title other than his real name
10.00
Filing by a person conducting business under any title other
than his real name, of statement of change of his residence
or of his discontinuance, retirement or withdrawal form, or
of a change of location of such business
5.00
Furnishing certified copy of certificate of person conducting
business under any title other than his real name or a
statement by such person of his discontinuance, retirement
or withdrawal from such business
3.00
Recording the name and address, the date and number of the
certificate issued to a person registered for the practice
of podiatry in the Commonwealth
10.00
Correcting errors in a record of death
5.00
Furnishing a certificate of death
3.00
Furnishing an abstract copy of a record of death
2.00
Issuing and recording licenses to keepers of
intelligence offices
25.00
Issuing and recording license to Junk Dealers
100.00
Issuing and recording license to Junk Collector
50.00
Issuing and recording Pawnbrokers License
100.00
Issuing and recording licenses to keepers of billiard saloons,
pool or sippio rooms or tables, bowling alleys, etc.,
1st table or alley
30.00
add11.
15.00
Entering notice of intention of marriage and issuing certificate
thereof
10.00
Entering certificate of marriage filed by persons married out
of the Commonwealth
3.00
Issuing certificate of marriage
3.00
Furnishing an abstract copy of a record of marriage
2.00
Correcting errors in a record of marriage
5.00
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Recording Power of Attorney
5.00
Recording certificate of registration granted to a person to
engage in the practice of optometry, or issuing a certified
copy thereof
10.00
Recording the name of the owner of a certificate or registration
as a physician or osteopath in the Commonwealth
10.00
Recording order granting locations of poles, piers, abutments or
conduits, alterations or transfers thereof, and increase in
number of wires and cable or attachments under the
provisions of Sect. 22 of Chapter 166 flat rate
25.00
add'l. fee
5.00
Examining records or papers relating to birth, marriage or deaths
upon the application of any person, the actual expense
thereof
5.00
Copying any manuscript or record pertaining to a birth, marriage
or death
3.00
Receiving and filing of a complete inventory of all items to be
included in a "closing out sale ", etc. per page
2.00
Filing a copy of written instrument or declaration of trust by
the trustees of an association or trust, or any amendment
thereof as provided by Sect. 2, Chapter 182
10.00
Recording deed of lot or plot in a public burial place or
cemetery
5.00
Recording any other documents per 1st page
5.00
each add'1 page
2.00
Voter's card
2.00
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will establish fees and charges by amendment of the
By -Laws or otherwise for responses by the Police Department to false burgler alarms to any
establishment or residence that has more than two such calls within each fiscal year or take
any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to sell or transfer the care, custody and
control of Lot 11, Plat 119, 7050 square feet of land located on Causeway Road, to the
Reading Municipal Light Department, or take any other action thereto.
Municipal Light Board
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken under Article 10
of the Special Town Meeting held November 14, 1977, or take any other action thereto.
(Note: $500,000 to be rescinded for expansion of MLD facilities p. 115 of 1977 Town
Report).
Town Treasurer
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the payment during fiscal year
1982 of bills remaining unpaid for previous fiscal years for goods and services actually
rendered to the Town, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 11 of Article III of the
General By -Laws by inserting after the second sentence a new sentence "No funds may be
appropriated for any capital item unless such item is included in the Capital Outlay Plan and
is scheduled for funding in the fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be made." so that
Section 11 shall read in part:
Now
"Section 11. The Finance Committee shall present to each November Town Meeting a
five year Capital Outlay Plan to be adopted by Town Meeting with or without
amendment. Adoption of the Plan shall not constitute authorization of the
expenditure of any funds. No funds may be appropriated for any capital item unless
such item is included in the Capital Outlay Plan and is scheduled for expenditure in the
fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be made. The Capital Outlay Plan may be
amended by action of any regular or special Town Meeting. The Finance Committee
shall - - - -" or take any other action in relation thereto.
By -Law Committee
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ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Capital Outlay Plan, as
provided for in Article III, Section 11 of the By -Laws of the Town, as adopted at the
subsequent Town Meeting of November, 1980, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Finance Committee
ARTICLE 30. To determine how much money the Town will raise by borrowing, or from
the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the
operation of the Town and its government, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Assessors to
contract with a private outside firm to conduct a Town -wide revaluation of all real estate,
personal property and utilities in the Town as mandated by the Courts and being enforced by
the Massachusetts Department of Revenue; and to see what sum the Town will raise by
borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and
appropriate for such revaluation, and /or for work necessary to implement and cope with
Chapter 580 of the Acts of 1980, cornmonly known as Proposition 2y2, and for the costs and
expenses necessary for supervision of such revaluation and /or other work, or take any other
action with respect thereto.
Board of Assessors
ARTICLE 32. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purchase of uniforms
for members of the Police Department, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 33. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purchase of uniforms
for members of the Fire Department, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 34. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purchase of
protective clothing for members of the Auxiliary Fire Service, or take any other action with
respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 35. To see what sum the Town will raise from the tax levy, or by borrowing,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for Police and Fire
Indemnification, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 36. To see what sum the Town will raise from the tax levy or by borrowing
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise and appropriate for the purchase of a ladder
and /or pumper ladder truck for the Fire Department and to see if the Town will vote to
authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or exchange or dispose of, upon such trms and
conditions as they may determine, a ladder and /or ladder truck in use by the Fire
Department, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 37. To see what sum the Town will raise from the tax levy or by borrowing
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise and appropriate for the repair and re-
conditioning of the Fire Department Ladder Truck or take any other action with respect
thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell
or exchange or dispose of, upon such terms and conditions as they may determine, one car in
use by the Police Department, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or
from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the
purchase of a new Police car for the Police Department, or take any other action with
respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
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ARTICLE 39. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise from the tax levy, or by
borrowing, or transfer from available funds or otherwise and appropriate for the purchase
and /or leasing of computer equipment for various Town Departments or take any other
action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 40. To see what sum the Town will raise from the tax levy, or by borrowing,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of sending a
town employee to school to acquire the necessary education to qualify him to be licensed to
maintain and repair the heating systems of the Town buildings, or take any other action with
respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 41. To see what sum the Town will raise by the tax levy, or borrowing, or
transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of renovations
and improvements to those buildings under the supervision of the Building Maintenance
Department, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 42. To see what sum the Town will raise from the tax levy, or by borrowing,
or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the installation of
exhaust systems in the Woburn Street and Pleasant Street Fire Station to dissipate fumes
emitted by fire vehicles, or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will establish a system of parking fees by amendment
to the By -Laws or otherwise for those cars parked on Town owned land bordered by High St.,
Lincoln St., Washington St., and including lot 51 as shown on the Assessors plans on Plot 63
commonly known as the Depot Parking Lot and to see what sum the Town will raise from the
tax levy or by borrowing or transfer from available funds, or otherwise and appropriate for
materials necessary to implement these fees or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will establish parking restrictions by amendment of
the By -Laws or otherwise on Woburn Street, High St., Lincoln St., Washington St., and
establish fines for violations of such restrictions and to see what sum the Town will raise
from the tax levy or by borrowing or transfer from available funds or otherwise and
appropriate for materials necessary to implement such restrictions and fines or take any
other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 45. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate by borrowing, or
from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise for an athletic field at
RMHS entailing an all weather resilient track and field events area, football field
refurbishment, fencing for crowd control including engineering and preparation or what the
Town will do in relation thereto.
By Petition
ARTICLE 46. Move that the Reading School Committee be and hereby are requested
mom and authorized to turn over to the Board of Selectmen land and buildings now known as the
Highland School, said transfer to take place on or before June 30, 1982.
By Petition
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ARTICLE 47. Move that the sum of Seventy -five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) be
transferred from the sale of Real Estate and the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00)
be transferred from surplus revenue, said sums totalling Eighty Thousand Dollars
($80,000.00) be expended by the under direction of the Board of Selectmen for architectural
fees, renovations, necessary to convert the Highland School to use as a Town Hall.
By Petition
ARTICLE 48. Move that the Board of Selectmen be and hereby are authorized and
instructed to sell at public auction land and buildings located on Sanborn Street now or
formerly known as the Reading Community Center, said auction shall be held on or before
June 30, 1984. A minimum bid of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) shall be set,
and the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) be raised and appropriated to carry out the
purpose of this vote.
By Petition
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at
least three (3) public places in each precinct of the Town not less than fourteen (14) days
prior to March 23, 1981, the date set for the meeting in said Warrant, and to publish this
Warrant in a newspaper published in the Town or by mailing an attested copy of said Warrant
to each Town Meeting Member at least fourteen (14) days prior to the time of holding said
meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the
Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this 3rd day of March, 1981.
John W. Price
Maureen T. O'Brien
Marvin M. Rosenthal
SELECTMEN OF READING