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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1940-12-02 Town Meeting WarrantCommonwealth 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 MONDAY, DECEMBER SECOND, A. D. 1940 at seven forty-five 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 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 vote to appropriate from avail- able funds and transfer to Election and Registration Expense Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen. Article 3. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to Town Counsel's Expense Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen. Article 4. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer` to Soldiers' Relief Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen. Article 5. To see if the Town will vote additional appropriations for Public Welfare, including Aid, Board and Care, and Old Age Assistance and for Soldiers' Benefits, and determine how the honey shall be raised by borrowing or otherwise, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen. Article 6. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to Public Welfare General Aid Account and Old Age Assistance Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Welfare. Article 7. To see what sum the Town will, vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Block System Survey Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Assessors. Article 8. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to Water Department Maintenance and Construction Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Special Drainage Committee to petition the General Court for Legislation by amendment of Chapter 458 of the Acts of 1939 or otherwise so as to provide that the Town shall pay into the State Treasury _a sum estimated by the State Department of Public Works to-be sufficient to cover the cost to the Town for the construction of the proposed drainage system and to ratify and confirm any action of the Committee or the members thereof in connection therewith or what it will do in relation thereto. Special Drainage Committee. Article 10. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from avail- able funds and transfer to School Department Maintenance Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. School Committee. 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 2, 1940 the date set for the meeting in said warrant and to publish this warrant in the Reading 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 twenty-second day of November, A. D. 1940. NEWELL H. MORTON ROBERT E. FOWLE CARL W. GOODRIDGE FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON WARRANT FOR MEETING December 2, 1940 To the Citizens: The Finance Committee's report is as follows: Recommend transfer of $94.25 from Registrars' Special Account. Recommend transfer of $109.10 from Land Court Expense Account. Recommend transfer of $200 from State Aid Account. Recommend appropriation of $2500.00 to be borrowed under Chapter 49, Acts 1933 as amended; $2200.00 for Charities and Aid and $300.00 for Soldiers' Benefits. Recommend transfer of $2800.00 from A. D. C. Account, $100 from O. A. A. Adm. Account, $200 from General Aid Adm. Account, $2000 from Special Labor Account, $700 from Interest Account, and $1500 from Insurance Account. Recommend transfer of $425.00 from Assessors' Expense Account. Recommend transfer of $422 from Fire Loss Special Account and $1678 from Water Dept. kvailable Surplus Account. Recommend. Recommend transfer of $1500 from School Dept. General Salaries Account. November 22, 1940 Respectfully submitted, FINANCE COMMITTEE John L. Devaney, Chairman.