HomeMy Public PortalAbout1969-03-03 Annual Town Mtg Warrant AnUAL TOWN WAt��IT
Barnstable, SS
To Roland W. Bassett, Constable of the Town of Brewster
Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby
directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of Brewster qualified to
vote in Town affairs to meet at the Brewster School Auditorium on
Monday, the third day of Plarch next at seven o°clock in the evening,
then and there to act on the following articles:
ARTICLE 1. To act on the annual report of the Selectmen and other
Town Officers.
ARTICLE 2. 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
January 1, 1969 and to issue a note or notes, therefore, 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 Section 17 of Chapter 4.4., General
Laws as amended.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money
from surplus overlays to the Reserve Fund.
ARTICLE 4.. To hear the report of any special committee.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and
compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Section
108, Chapter 41, General Laws as amended, for the year 1969 to be effect-
ive January 1, 1969.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Personnel By-
Law, Section 12.1.2 by deleting the present language and substituting the
following: 12.1.2 W- Appointed Boards and Commissions - The compensation
of permanent appointed boards and commission shall be as follows:
Registrar of Voters $2.15/hr.
Election Tellers $2.15/hr
Mi.11site Workers 2.15/hr
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 12.1.3 by
deleting Sections CAF 1 through Section M2 and substituting the following:
CAF 1 1st. Step 2nd. Step 3rd. Sieg G=th. Step 5th.Sten 6th.Step
$65.10 $68.60 $`72.10 _ , $75.60 $79.10 $82.60
(1.86) (1.96) (2.06) (2.16) (2.26) (2.36)
Junior Clerk, Regular full-time
Junior Clerk, Regular part-time
OAF 2 $8 ..00 $57.50 $91.00 $94..50 $98.00 $101.50
(2.40) (2.50) (2.60) (2.70) (2.50) (2.90)
Senior Clerk, Regular full-time
Senior Clerk., Regular part-tune
CAF3 $94..50 $101.50 $106.75 $112.00 $117.25 $122.50
(2.70) (2.85) (3.00) (3.15) (3.30) (3.4.5)
Town Accountant, Regular pare,-time
PW 1 $80.00 ($2.00)
- Taborer, Temporary
Custodian, Temporary
PW 2 $86.00 $88.00 $90.00 $92.00 $91 .00 $96.00
(2.15) (2.20) (2.25) (2.30) (2.37) (2.4.0)
Laborer, Regular full-time
Laborer Truck Driver full-time
Custodian Regular part time
Laborer Regular part time
ist. Step 2nd. Step rd, Stop 4th. Step Ith, Step 6th.Step
PW 3 $94.00 $96.00 $95.00 $100.00 $102.00 5104.00
(2.35) (2.40) (2.45) (2.50) (2.55) (2.60)
Laborer hator Equipment Operator Maintenance Man,
Regular full-tine
Pard 4 $112.00 $116.00 $120.00 $124.00 $128.00 $132.00
Superintendent of Public Works
PS 1 Forest Warden.------.._____.--------------------------00
PS 2 Call Fireman, Private-43-00 min;num plus $2.25/hr..
PS 3 Call Fireman., Lieutent--$3.10 minimum plus $2.35/hr.
PS 4 Call Fireman, Captain--$3.24 minimum plus $2.45/hr.
PS 5 Call Fireman, Dep.Chei_f$3.30 minimum plus $2.55/ r.
PS5A Fireman Regular part-time $2.25/hr.
PS 6 $33.00 $35.00 $37.00 $39.00 $41.00 $43.00
Call Fire Chief-Forest Warden
FS 7 $2.25/hr.
Patrolman, Temporary
Matron, Temporary
PS 8 $105.00 $112.80 $117.60 $122.40 $127.20 $132.00
(2.25) (2.35) (2.45) (2.55) $2.65) (2.75)
Patrolman, Regular full-time
Patrolman, Regular part-time
PS 9 $94.00 $97.00 $100.00 $103.00 $106.00 $109.00
(18.80 Sh.) (19.40 Sh) (20.00 Sh.) (20.60 Sh) (21.20 Sh) (21.80 Sh)
Public Safety Communication Officers^
PS10 $120.00 $125.00 $130.00 $135.00 $1.40.00 $145.00
$6240.00 $6500,00 $6740.00 $7000.00 $7260.00 $7520.40
Chief of Police - Bog Officer
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Minimum for response and first hour or fraction thereof, hourly rate
for time hereafter.
r=K Regular part-time patrolmen assigned to stand-by duty and subject to
respond calls between the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M., or between
7:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. during the periods when no other officer is on
active duty, or a regular employee is not on stand-by duty, shall be
paid $3.00 for said stand-by duty plus his regular rate per hour for
timR spent in response to calls to active duty during said periods of
stand-by duty.
*T* Salary based upon rive 10-hour day and 14-hour night shifts worked.
Shifts may be rotated. Temporary substitutes shall be paid at the
rate of $18.80 per shift, day or night. Regular part-time substitutes
shall be paid at the rate of $18.80, $19.40, $20.00, $24.60, $21.20,
$21.80 per shift for the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Steps respect-
ively, when working night or day shift.
B 1 $960.00 per year (includes transportation)
Inspector of Wires, Regular part--time
B 2 $960.00 per year (includes transportation)
Gas Inspector, Regular part-time
B 3 $2,400.00 per year (includes transportation)
Building Inspector-Zoning Agent, Regular part-time
B 4 $720.00 per year Sanitary Inspector (Includes transportation)
Regular part-time
HW1 040.00 per year (includes transportation)
Inspector of Slaughtering, Regular part-time
Inspector of Animals, Regular part-time
HW 2 $840.00 per year
Veterans Agent, Regular part-time
L 1 060.00 per year ;includes transportation.)
Shellfish Constable, Regular part-time
AHTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to install and maintain two
street lights, one on pole 40, Rothe 13? and one at the junction of Old
North Road and Point of Rocks Road.
ARTICLE 8A. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
such sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray Town: charges and
expenses for the year 1969.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or
transfer from unappropriated available Funds in the treasury, a sum of
money for Chapter 81, Highways.
ARTICLF 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or
transfer from, unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of
money for Chapter 90, Highways.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the
Road Machinery General Fund, the sum of Thirty Five Hundred Dollars
($3,500.00) to be used for the purchase, maintenance and operation of
Road IUachinery.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Three
Thousand Three Hundred Twenty Four Dollars and Twenty Five Cents ($3324.25)
from the funds provided by Chapter 616 of the Acts of 1967 to be used for
resurfacing a portion of Long Pond Road.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the
sum of Thirty Five Thousand Dollars ($:5,000.00) to be used in conjunction
with Chapter 90, money previously appropriated for construction work on
Freeman's Way, work to be done by Town forces.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept the layout of Old
North Road as made and reported by the Selectmen on January 28, 1969 as
shown on a plan drawn by Nickerson & Berger and on file with the Town Clerk;
and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to purchase or take by eminent
domain the land, or the interest in the lands within said layout, and to
act fully thereon; and for this purpose raise and appropriate a sum not
exceeding Six Thousand Seventy Dollars ($6,070.00) to be used for land
taking.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to accept the layout of
Jonathan's Way and Aunt Moll's Ridge Road as made and reported by the
Selectmen on January 28, 1969 as shown on a plan on file with the Town
Clerk and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to purchase or take by
eminent domain the lands, or the interest in the land within said lay-
out, and to act fully thereon; and for that purpose raise and appropriate
a sura not exceeding Fifty Nine Dollars ($59.00) to be used for -land taking.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote: to raise and appropriate
the sure of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to construct a wooden bulk-
head at the Breakwater Landing to be done under the supervision of the
Department of Public 1orks.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will assume liability in the manner
provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, as amended by
Chapter 516 and 524, Acts of 1950 for all damages that may be incurred by
work to be performed by the Department of Public v�iorks of Massachusetts
for the improvement, development, maintenance and protection of tidal and
non--tidal rivers and streams, harbors, tidewaters, foreshores and shores
along a public beach outside Boston Harbor, including the Merrimack and
Connecticut Rivers, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the
General Laws, and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond
of indemnity therefore to the Commonwealth.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct
the Town Treasurer to pay the Bog Tax returns from the assessments of
1968 to the Brewster Ladies' Library Association in accordance with
Chapter 140, Section 72.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available
funds in the Treasury, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to the
Brewster Ladies' Library Association.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen
to contract for one year for Ambulance Service with the Brewster, Orleans,
Eastham Ambulance Association, Inc., and raise and appropriate the sum of
Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) for this purpose.
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ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to permit the Brewster
Historical Society, Inc. to use the second floor auditorium of the Town
Mall as well as the small room opposite and raise and appropriate the
sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) for restoring, painting and
electrical work.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
a sun of money for the purchase of approximately 1.4 acres of land now
owned by Ivxs. George F. Russell to increase the size of the present Town
Landing on Sheep Pond.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the stun of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for engineering fees in connection
with the enlargement of Sheep Pond Landing.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Assessors
to act under Chapter 40, Section 4 of the General Laws, and to enter into
a contract for a professional equalization of unimproved acreage north of
Route 6A and raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve. Hundred Dollars
($1200.00).
ARTICLE 25. To see i_f the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of
Twenty One Thousand Dollars ($21,000.00) to purchase or take by eminent
domain land shown on plans entitled "Plan showing marsh at Quivet Creek
in Brewster, Mass. as surveyed for the Brewster Conservation Commission,
Scams 1F' = 100', March 1969, Nickerson & Berger, Civil. Engineers, Eastham
Chatham, Mass." and 'Plan showing Skaket Creek in Brewster, Mass. as
surveyed for the Brewster Conservation Comarission, Scar: I" = 1001, March
1969, Dickerson & Berger, Civil Engineers, Eastham & Chatham, Mass." for
conservation purposes, and to determine whether such monies should be
raised by taxation, borrowing or otherwise, anLt8 authorize and direct
the Brewster Conservation_ Commission to enter/any agreements it deems
advantageous on behalf of the town with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and/or United States of America for partial reimbursement of the cost of
the land.
ARTICLE 26 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for regal fees in connect-
ion with the acquisition of the salt marshes.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
theses Two �Iundred Six and 80/100 ($206.80) under the provisions of
Cha�ter 388, Acts of 1954 amended by Chapter 433 of 1955, control of
Greenhead Fly, and authorize the Toon Treasurer to pay said appropriation
into the State Treasury.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to demolish the Hassard
house and raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred Fifty Dollars
($950.00).
ARTICLE 29. To see if the To-vm will vote to raise and appropriate
the stun of -'--Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to construct and equip an
information booth.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions
of Chapter 40 Section 6A whish concerns the use of matching funds to
advertise the advantages of the Town.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sun of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) under the provisions of G.L.,
Chapter 40, Section 6A to operate the information booth with matching
funds of the same amount to be deposited by the Board of Trade with the
Towm Treasurer by June 1, 1969.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to petition the Legislature to increase the limit of money to be spent in
advertising the advantages of the Town. to Twenty Five Hundred Dollars
($2500.00) and also to permit the Town to regulate the limit.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by-
law: No person shall, between the hours of 8:00 P. M. and 8:00 A. Vii., sed
up on any property, public or private, without permission of the owner
thereof, a camp, tent, or sleep in. the open on any property, public or
private, within the territorial limits of the gown of Brewster. Any
person violating this by-law shall be punished by a fine of not more than
fifty dollars for each offense.
:-LHTICLE 34. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum
of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) for the purpose of putting
fluorescent lighting in the Brewster Elementary School.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of
money for the purpose of buying a temporary or portable type building for
the use of the kindergarten at the Brewster School.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee,
in accordance with General Laws Chapter 149, Section 1781 as amended by
Chapter 633 of the Acts of 1968, to designate an attorney as a represent-
ative of the school committee for the purpose of bargaining with employee
�_ . organizations for school employees, or to take any other action re-
lating to the same.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of One Hundred Eighty Four dollars ($184.00) to be paid to the
Cape Cod Mental Health Association under the direction of the School
Committee for services rendered or to be rendered to citizens of the
Town of Brewster at the Mental Health Center under the provisions of
Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, (40c).
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to create a special un-
paid committee to be known as a regional refuse disposal planning comm-
ittee
ommittee consisting of three persons to be appointed by the moderator, in
accordance with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Sections 44A.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Two Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($2,200.00) for the erection
of a school zone traffic light at the entrance to the Brewster Elementary
School on Route 6A under the provisions of Chapter 616 of the Acts of
1967.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Three Thousand ($3.,000.00) Dollars to install a drainage system
at the junction of Stony Brook Road andAPercieNewcomb,Rd.said money to be
used with funds rade available under the Chapter 81 appropriation.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate,
or expend from available funds the sura of Twelve Hundred Fifty Dollars
($1250.00) in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 114 of the General
Laws for the maintenance and care of the following so called Ancient
Cemeteries: Dillingham Burying Gound, Lincoln Foster Cemetery, Red Top
Graveyard, Sears Burying Ground and the Old Burial Ground (north of the
First Parish Church), funds to be expended under the direction of the
Superintendent of Public Iorks. .
kRTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be used for the propagation
of shellfish, said money to be spend under the direction of the Shellfish
Constable and the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to return the following un-
expended balance from Road Machinery Expense to the Road Iliachinery Fund:
Three Hundred Thirty Nine Dollars and Eight Three Cents ($339.83)
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Thirty Five Hundred Dollars ($3500.00' to construct a side
walk from Route 6A to the Brewster Elementary School.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a
sum of money for meeting bills of prior year on theunpaid bills
_ ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the follo-�ring
unexpended balances of special appropriations to surplus revenue:
Office Equipment $3.70
Tracts 1 & 4 - Water 35.00
Slough Fond Landing 75.60
Crosby Neck Road 1.3.50
Millstone Road 180.87
Eldredge Way 5.00
$ 313.67
ARTICLE 47 . To see if the Town will vote to utilize the town-owned
land of approximately 19M' acres on Great Fields Road near its junco®n
with Route 124 as the site of a public disposal area .
ARTICLE 48 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to enter
into negotiations with the owners of two lots of land , comprising approxi.
mately 14 acres , to the west of the town-owned land on the northern side
of Great Fields Road , in order to add to the use of the latter as a
public disposal area .
ARTICLE 49 , To see what action the Town will take with regards to
its Herring or Alewives Fisheries .
ARTICLE 50 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ( $600 . 00 ) to drive a well , install a pump
and storage tank at the Town garage to make available water at the garage
and for watering grass at the Little League field and for future drinking
water at the Little League field and at any future tennis courts ; to be
expended under the direction of the Selectmen and the Little League
Committee ,
ARTICLE 51 . To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of
the Act of the General Court , designated H1680 of 1969, enti_tled An Act
Authorizing the Towns of Brewster , Chatham, Harwich and Orleans to acquire
land and convey the same to the Commonwealth for the purpose of Construct -
ing and Operating an Ice Skating Rink , such acceptance to be effective
upon passage of the act ; and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of
money for the purposes set forth insaid Act and any damages relating there-
to ; and upon the Selectmen having been furnished with evidence satisfact-
ory to them that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will construct an
ice skating rink in accordance with the provisions of said Act , within
two years from the effective date of said Act , to pay the said approp-
riation to the Town of Harwich for the purposes as set forth in said
Act , including improving the lana and installing water , sewer and
parking facilities .
ARTICLE 52 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of Three Hundred Sixty Five Dollars ( $365 . 00 ) for the purchase
of a heat vacuum applicator to produce street, signs .
ARTICLE 53 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a seam of
money from Free Cash in the Treasury to be used for the reduction of
taxes .
ARTICLE 54 . To act on any other business that may legally come before
this meeting .
And you are directed to serve this Warrant with your doings thereon
to the Town Clerk at the time and the place of said meeting as aforesaid .
Given under our hands and the Seal of the Town of Brewster affixed
this 28th day of January , 1969 .
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Selectmen of Brewster
Barnstable , ss ,
Pursuant to the within vnarrant , Z have notified and warned
the inhabitants of the Town of Brewster by posting up attested copies
of the same at Dugan ' s Garage , Brewster Variety Store , Brewster Post
Office , East Brewster Post Office and Donald Doane ' s Store seven days
before the date of the meeting , as within directed
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