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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1937-12-06 Town Meeting WarrantTOWN WARRANT 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, quali- fied to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Security Hall, Woburn Street, in said Reading on Monday, the Sixth Day of December A.D., 1937 at 7:45 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, to choose all necessary special committees, and deter- mine what instructions will be given Town Officers and special committees. Article 2. To see if the Town will vote additional appropriations for Public Welfare, including Aid, Board & Care, and determine how the money shall be raised by borrowing or otherwise, or what it will do in re- lation thereto. Board of Selectmen. Article 3. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds for the purpose of defraying certain unpaid accounts in the Welfare Department or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Welfare. Article 4. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds for the purpose of foreclosing in the Land Court pursuant to the provisions of Section 65 of Chapter 60 of the General Laws, the right of redemption to any and all real estate taken by the Town for non-pay- ment of taxes, or what. it will do in relation thereto. Town Treasurer. Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public highway of a pri- vate way known as Fairmount Road, under the provisions of law authoriz- ing the assessment of betterments, such highway being laid out in accord- ance with plan duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the of- fice of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements, and to see if the Town will accept the public way laid out by the Board of Pub- lic Works as Fairmount Road, and to see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer for the construction of said way, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public, Works. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least ten public places in the town not less than seven days prior to December 6, 1937, the date set for the meeting in said war- rant, and to cause this warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle. one day at least prior to the said date. 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 meet- ing. Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of November, A.D. 1937. Newell H. Morton I. Warren Killam, Jr. Carl W. Goodridge Selectmen of Reading. November 30, 1937 FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT For Meeting December 6, 4937 To the Citizens: The Finance Committee's recommendations are as follows: Article 2. Recommend- appropriation of $7000.00 for Public Wel- fare Aid, Board and Care and that the money be raised by borrowing under the Tax Title Loan Act, so called, Article 3. Recommend appropriation and transfer of $354.11 from the unexpended balance in the Interest Account for the purpose set forth in this article. Article 4. Recommend appropriation and transfer of $100.00 from the unexpended balance in the Interest Account to Land Court Expenses. Article 5. Recommend appropriation and transfer of $75.00 from the unexpended balance in the Colburn Road Account to Fairmount Road' Account. Respectfully submitted, FINANCE COMMITTEE John L. Devaney, Chairman Pro Tem'