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TOWN OF MERRIMAC, MA $h £ ANNUAL REPORT 1991 ANNUAL REPORT of the TOWN OFFICERS of the TOWN OF MERRIMAC for the YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1991 r IN MEMORIAM to those WHO HAVE HELD A PUBLIC OFFICE in the TOWN OF MERRIMAC Dr. A. Francis Davis School Physician Merrill Smith, Sr. Special Police Officer Cemetery Trustee Clifford R. Howe, Jr. Board of Assessors Agnes Powers School Committee 3 ELECTED OFFICERS Moderator One Year H. Parker McLaren Board of Selectmen Three Years Walter W. Steeves, Chairman Term Expires 1992 Jeffrey W. Hoyt Term Expires 1993 James G. Seymour Term Expires 1994 Town Treasurer One Year Thomas Abisalih Tax Collector Three Years Patricia True Term Expires 1994 Board of Assessors Three Years Edward R. Davis, Chairman Term Expires 1994 George Mutti Term Expires 1993 Martha Schena Term Expires 1992 Planning Board Five Years Joseph Carter, Chairman Term Expires 1993 Dennis Brodie Term Expires 1992 Richard Gosselin Term Expires 1996 Arthur Evans Term Expires 1995 Alan Hassig Term Expires 1994 Evelyn Greeley, Secretary Constables Arthur Evans Brian Peavey James Seymour Tree Warden John A. Williams, III Town Clerk One Year Patricia True Board of Health Constance A. Hoyt Term Expires 1994 Richard Ouellette Term Expires 1992 Terry Walden, Chairman Term Expires 1993 4 School Committee Three Years Philip Cosgrove Term Expires 1992 Victoria Haggstrom Term Expires 1992 Lucy Abisalih Term Expires 1993 Paul Tucker Term Expires 1993 Michael Bryant Term Expires 1994 Trustees of Public Library Three Years Jeffrey W. Hoyt, Chairman Term Expires 1992 Yvonne Cosgrove Term Expires 1993 Linda Claeys Term Expires 1992 Susan M. Coburn Term Expires 1994 Bruce Evans Term Expires 1994 Playground Commission Three Years Wayne Bickford Term Expires 1993 John H. Willman Term Expires 1992 Leon B. Smith Term Expires 1994 David W. Riley Term Expires 1995 Michael Stevens Term Expires 1994 Municipal Light Commissioner Three Years Wilbur Wallace Term Expires 1992 David Vance Term Expires 1994 Gordon Rines Term Expires 1993 Municipal Water Commissioner Three Years Wilbur Wallace Term Expires 1992 David Vance Term Expires 1994 Gordon Rines Term Expires 1993 Cemetery Trustees Three Years Alva W. Clark Term Expires 1994 Harold R. Arbour Term Expires 1993 Richard Fournier Term Expires 1992 Sewer Commissioners Three Years William Raper, Jr., Chairman Term Expires 1994 Louis Bibeau Term Expires 1992 John Cryan Term Expires 1993 Merrimac Housing Authority Five Years Dorothy Olsen Term Expires 1996 Virginia Ketchen Term Expires 1992 William D. Vance Term Expires 1993 Barbara J. Arbour Term Expires 1994 5 DIRECTORY OF APPOINTED OFFICIALS Finance Committee Robert Bender, Chairman Lawrence Curtis Bernard Bailey Sandra Venner John Page Neil Wallace Geoffrey Milstein Harriet Stanley Board of Appeals Gordon Broz Ellen Evans Nancy MacGregor Philip Parry Susan Clark, Secretary Conservation Commission Louis Nucci Robert Topitzer Allan Pollock Paul Geoghegan Bruce Evans Arthur Yarranton Bulding Inspector Arthur Deuplisea Rent Control Board Thomas McKenna Joseph Bamford James G. Seymour Dog Officer Bonnie Buckley Fire Department Wallace Spencer, Chief Ralph Spencer, Deputy Chief Brian Peavey, Deputy Chief Gas Inspector Richard Pearson Plumbing Inspector Gaetano Caruso Wiring Inspector Roy Keiser Highway Department Gordon Rines, Supt. Board of Registrars Madelaine Lay Evelyn Greeley Dorothy Whiting Patricia True Nancy Stevens Town Counsel Ashod N. Amirian 6 Selectmen’s Secretary Barbara J. Arbour Town Accountant David Hitchcock Inspector of Animals George R. Hoyt Selectmen’s Designee M.V.R.T.A. J. Leonard Batchelder Arts Lottery Council Lucy Abisalih, Chairman Nicholas Fiorello Nancy Hocking-McDonough Nina Wang Bruce Alexander Charlene Graham Colleen Fiorello Ann Tucker Trustees of Kimball Park Charles Haynes Allen Wilson Veterans Agent David Hitchcock Sworn Weighers Harold Waterhouse John Flynn Miscellaneous Police Alfred Wright for the Sanitary Landfill Gordon Rines for the Highway Department Harold Arbour for the Cemetery Department Richard Kennedy for the Light & Water Department Historical Commission Evelyn Calnan Charlotte McCarron Betty Emery John McCarron Kenneth Fowle Sandy Pease Walter Calnan 7 WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Essex, ss GREETINGS: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of the Town of Merimac to meet in the Dr. Frederick N. Sweetsir School in Merrimac on May 4, 1992 at 8:00 p.m. to act on the following articles, namely: ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 108 as amended: Moderator, Town Clerk, Three Selectmen, Three Assessors, Treasurer, Tax Collector, Tree Warden, Three Commissioners of Munici¬ pal Light, Three Water Commissioners, Three Sewer Commissioners, and raise, appropriate or transfer sums of money therefore and to determine sums of money to be raised, or transferred to defray the necessary and usual charges and expenses of the Town for the Fiscal Year commencing July 1, 1992 and make appropriations for the same, said sums of money so raised, appropriated or transferred to be expended for specific purposes to be voted; or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from the Electric Light Operating Balance, said money to be used by the Assessors with the estimated receipts to fix the tax rate for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1992; or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from the sale of Cemetery lots, such sum or part thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Cemetery Trustees for the “Care, Improvement, and Embellishment” of said Cemeteries, according to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 114, Section 14 and Section 25: or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept benefits provided under Chapter 760, Acts of 1960, “An act providing State Aid for Free Public Libraries”, or take any other active relative thereto. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money to be used for the operation and maintenance of the Sanitary Landfill for fiscal year 1993; or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money to be used to pay Haley & Ward Engineering Company for services of supervision and inspection of sanitary landfill for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1992; or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and apprpriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money for the reserve fund for appropriation for revaluation. ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money to be expended by the Board of Assessors to perform duties and incur expenses relating to any equalization or revaluation of the Town; to authorize the Board of Assessors to hire themselves at the rate of $10.00 per hour and to hire such other necessary assistance as the Board of Assessors may deem necessary or convenient; or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from 8