HomeMy WebLinkAbout1939-06-20 Town Meeting WarrantTOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting:
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 elec-
tions and town affairs, to meet in Security Hall, Woburn Street, in said Reading on
TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1939
at seven forty five o'clock in the evening, daylight saving time, to act on the follow-
ing articles:
Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town Officers and special com-
mittees and to choose all necessary committees and determine what instructions, if
any, shall be given Town Officers and special committees.
Article 2. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds
for the dedication of the World War Memorial or what it will do in relation thereto.
World War Memorial Committee.
Article 3. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or otherwise
and appropriate for the acquisition by purchase, eminent domain, lease or otherwise
of land and buildings suitable for the offices and showrooms of the Electric Light
Department and the construction and equipment of the necessary buildings or the
remodeling, repair or improvement of such buildings or structures, and to see if the
Town will vote to let or lease any portion of the premises so acquired, and what
action will be taken relative to the control, operation and management of such premi-
ses, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Municipal Light Board.
Article 4. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate for the Snow
and Ice Account, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works.
Article 5. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds
for the Water Department, 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 June 20th
the date set for the meeting in said warrant and to publish this warrant in the Read-
ing Chronicle one day at least prior to 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 meeting.
Given under our hands this twelfth day of June, A. D. 1939.
CARL W. GOODRIDGE
NEWELL H. MORTON
ROBERT E. FOWLE
Selectmen of Reading.
A true copy. Attest.
Finance Committee's Report on Warrant f,
Meeting June 20, 1939
Article 2. Recommend the appropriation e
$189.57 of the World War Memorial Fund t
be transferred to the War Memorial Dedica
tion Account.
Article 3. Recommend the purchase of th
Black's Block property, so called, and the con
struction and equipment of a suitable buildin;
for the Electric Light Department at a tota
cost not to exceed $36,000.00, to be borrowei
over a period of twenty years; and to author
ize the Municipal Light Board to let or leas4
a portion of the premises so acquired and ti
make necessary alterations and repairs t,
same, and assume control, operation and improvement of such premises.
Article 4. Recommend appropriation of $4,090.0(
for the Snow & Ice account, $1,890.72 of same
to balance deficit in said account.
Article 5. Recommend appropriation of $455.78
the amount received for fire loss on Water
,Department building.
Respectfully submitted,
Finance Committee of
the Town of Reading,
John L. Devaney, Chairman.