Annual Report for 1982 Town of READING MASSACHUSETTS In Memoriam Douglas A. Cowell Board of Public Works 1977-1982 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/detaiis/townofreadingmas1982read Town of READING MASSACHUSETTS Annual Report Of The Town Officers For The Year Ended December 31, 1982 10 rn/0 T sdl tO Xirh'jS i odT to' 'I Jx v^ditssoeCL STATISTICS Area - 10 Square Miles REGISTERED RESIDENTS PRECINCT UNDER 17 17 & OLDER TOTAL 1 659 2173 2832 2 838 2279 3117 3 524 2222 2746 4 748 2183 2931 5 686 2150 2836 6 655 2148 2803 7 738 2225 2963 8 697 2369 3066 5545 17749 23294 REGISTERED VOTERS PRECINCT REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS INDEPENDENT TOTAL 1 405 632 595 1632 2 340 635 640 1615 3 333 521 557 1411 4 501 585 615 1701 5 378 560 596 1534 6 447 607 602 1656 7 497 544 662 1703 8 462 555 726 1743 3363 4639 4993 12995 HOUSING Public Housing: Cedar Glen Housing 114 Units Tannerville Elderly Housing 80 Units Section 8 Subsidized Housing 60 Units Type of Housing: No. Units One-Family House 5833 5833 Two-Family House 388 776 Three-Family House 24 72 Four-Family House & Over 29 515 Store Apartments 28 28 Commercial 176 — Industrial 22 — Condominiums 252 252 3 : : Federal Seventh Congressional District Edward J. Markey - 223-2781 2100-A J.F.K. Bldg. Boston, MA 02203 Senators Edward M. Kennedy - 223-2826 2400 J.F.K. Bldg, 20th Floor Boston, MA 02203 Paul E. Tsongas 2400 J.F.K. Bldg, 20th Floor State Fifth Councillor District Precincts 1,2, 6, 7 & 8 Dr. John F. Markey - 1-683-8782 - Office 246 Turnpike Street North Andover, MA 01845 Sixth Councillor District Precincts 3,4 & 5 John A. Langone, III 190 North Street Boston, MA 02101 First Essex & Middlesex Senatorial District Precincts 1,2, 6, 7 & 8 Robert C. Buell State House Boston, MA 02133 Third Middlesex Precincts 3,4 & 5 John A. Brennan, Jr. 88 Beltran Street Malden, MA 02148 Twenty-First Middlesex Representative District Michael J. Barrett 20 Middlesex Avenue Reading, MA 01867 4 TOWN OFFICERS BOARD OF SELECTMEN Marvin M. Rosenthal, Chairman 1984 John H. Russell, Vice-Chairman 1984 Maureen T. O'Brien, Secretary 1985 Paul C. Dustin 1983 John W. Price 1983 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY John W. Agnew, Jr. TREASURER Elizabeth Klepeis TOWN ACCOUNTANT Raphael W. McDonald TOWN COLLECTOR C. Dewey Smith MODERATOR John W. Faria TOWN CLERK Lawrence Drew TOWN COUNSEL Tyler & Reynolds LAW COMMITTEE Consists of the Chairman of the following: Board of Selectmen Planning Board Board of Public Works Board of Assessors Board of Cemetery Trustees School Committee Board of Health Municipal Light Board Board of Library Trustees AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER John W. Agnew, Jr. 5 BOARD OF ASSESSORS Michael T. Sullivan, Chairman 1983 William E. Locke, Secretary 1985 Robert I. Nordstrand 1984 BOARD OF REGISTRARS Daniel F. Driscoll, Jr. 1985 Pearl E. Malphr^is 1983 Robert W. Foley 1983 Lawrence Drew, Clerk 1984 BOARD OF APPEALS John A. Anderson, Chairman 1983 John A. Jarema 1985 William H. Watt 1984 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF BOARD OF APPEALS Paul Dustin - resigned Catherine A. Quimby 1984 Carol N. Scott 1985 Stephen G. Tucker 1983 PLANNING BOARD Barry J. Mitchel, Chairman 1985 John W. Shaw 1983 Maureen Rich 1985 Kenneth G. Messina 1984 Alan R. Burne 1983 REPRESENTATIVE METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING COUNCIL Frank P. Orlando PERSONNEL BOARD John J. Castellano, Chairman 1984 Bayard R. Lincoln 1983 Winslow F. Blake 1985 Betsey Rae Fuller 1984 Dorothy I. Williams 1985 BOARD OF HEALTH Sandra J. Trainor, Chairman 1984 Judith A. Piani 1985 Gloria R. Hulse 1983 SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDINGS Charles A. Darby 6 FINANCE COMMITTEE Gerald A. Fiore, Chairman 1985 James L. Bell 1985 Norman W. Black 1983 Robert V. Larson 1984 Russell T. Graham 1983 Michael M. Guenther 1984 William J. Hughes 1984 Edward F. Murphy, Jr. 1983 Philip B. Pacino 1983 Willard J. Burditt 1985 Michael P. McCarron 1985 Margaret Russell 1985 George P. Taylor 1983 Walter J. Palmunen - resigned 10/82 Patricia A. Merry - resigned 7/82 Nancy M. Graham, Clerk BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE John J. Baranofsky 1983 Kenneth J. DeMoura 1983 Earl K. Hawley 1983 John T. Sweeney 1983 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Chester W. Higgins 1983 Matthew J. Maggio 1983 COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUNDS George R. Larson, Chairman 1985 Ebbe Ebbeson 1988 Robert S. Cummings 1984 Elizabeth Klepeis, Secretary CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT BOARD George Larson, Chairman William E. MacBrien Raphael W. McDonald READING HOUSING AUTHORITY Richard S. Dempster, Chairman 1984 Frank J. Johnson, Jr., Vice-Chairman 1986 Philip R. White, Jr. 1985 Leonard F. Westra 1983 William F. Rand, Jr. (State Appointee) Janet Pierce, Executive Director 7 SUPERINTENDENT OF RECREATION John B. Pacino RECREATION COMMITTEE Susan C. Cavicchi, Chairman 1983 Newell Morton 1984 Jeremiah J. Donovan 1985 John O'Keefe 1984 Francis P. Driscoll 1985 Gary Nihan 1983 Duane B. Heineck 1983 Clifford Allen (School Comm. Rep.) John L. Fallon, Jr. (D.P.W. Rep) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF RECREATION COMMITTEE Richard J. Crosby 1983 William J. Hughes, Jr. - resigned 4/82 1983 READING ARTS COUNCIL Walter Begonis, Chairman 1983 Phyllis Evensen, Secretary 1983 Linda Nordberg 1983 Eleanor Mahoney 1983 James H. Watts 1983 Peter B. Greene 1983 Daniel C. Abbott 1983 Andrew W. Jaffee 1983 Grace Palmer 1983 Judith O'Hare 1983 Barabara Philbrick 1983 Barabara Mellin 1983 COUNCIL ON AGING Lorna C. Knapp, Chairman 1985 Oralee A. Winslow, Vice-Chairman 1983 Sabastian Tine, Treasurer 1985 Anthony S. Barrasso 1984 Elizabeth C. Knox 1983 Mary C. Ottino 1984 Andrew Mulhinch 1983 Donna Ruth 1983 George W. Cashman 1984 Arthur Polychrones - resigned William Hughes (Fin. Comm. Rep.) ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF COUNCIL ON AGING Everett F. Lemaire 1984 8 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Michael L. Garroway, Chairman 1985 Richard H. Coco, Vice-Chairman 1983 Paul E. Landers 1983 Clifford D. Allen 1984 Eugene R. Nigro 1985 Barbara B. Philbrick 1984 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Robert S. Wells ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS Robert J. Munnelly, Instruction & Personnel Ronald A. Winslow, Business REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE John B. Pacino 1985 SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Robert W. Wakeling, D.O. INSURANCE COMMITTEE David C. Pratt, Chairman 1983 Bennett W. McGregor 1984 Hugh Troutman 1984 Jose A. Canto 1984 Morgan H. Cox 1983 HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMITTEE Gretchen Latowsky, Chairman 1985 Steven Oston, Vice-Chairman 1984 Judith Broderick 1985 Robert Cashins 1984 Richard Rudolph 1984 Edmondo DiPillo 1984 James Valentine 1985 Carol McConchie 1985 Joan Nickerson 1983 John Wood - appointed 7/82 1983 Marilyn Fowler - resigned 7/82 John Brown 1983 Paul Exner 1983 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMITTEE Barry Hampson 9 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Curt E. Nitzsche, Chairman 1984 Donald Stroeble, Secretary 1985 Philip Walcott 1986 Ronald V. O'Connell 1983 Charles W. Hewitt 1987 Edward McPartlin 1985 Daniel Ensminger 1987 James Weaver - resigned 9/82 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Harold V. Hulse, Co-chairman 1985 William L. Childress, Co-chairman 1985 Sally M. Hoyt 1983 Nancy W. Anderson 1984 M. Clifton Proctor 1984 Francis B. Robie - appointed 1/82 1983 Camille Anthony - appointed 9/82 1985 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION Henry W. Fienemann TOWN FOREST COMMITTEE George B. Perry, Chairman 1985 Irving E. Dickey, Jr., Vice-Chairman 1984 Benjamin E. Nichols, Secretary 1983 SPACE NEEDS COMMITTEE Henry A. Higgott, Chairman pro-tern Douglass L. Barker Charles Beauregard Leone M. DeMoura Donald A. Dewey Alan E. Foulds Kenneth G. Messina Maureen T. O'Brien Barbara B. Philbrick LAND BANK COMMITTEE Benjamin E. Nichols, Chairman George B. Perry Leslie D. Stark MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT John H. Crooker, Chairman 1984 Allan E. Ames, Secretary 1985 Francis H. Doughty 1983 10 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Gail F. Wood, Chairman 1985 John L. Fallon, Jr. 1983 Douglas L. Barker 1984 Arthur Polychrones 1985 Douglas A. Cowell - deceased 6/82 Robert P. Griffin - appointed 7/82 1984 SUPERINTENDENT OF MOTH WORK Irving E. Dickey, Jr. TREE WARDEN Irving E. Dickey, Jr. BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Elia A. Dangelmaier, Chairman 1984 Carol S. Beckwith, Secretary 1985 Russell L. Jeffrey 1985 Marie Keller 1983 William H. Diamond 1983 Robert J. Fields 1984 HIGHLAND SCHOOL COMMITTEE Marvin M. Rosenthal, Chairman Elia Danglemaier, Vice-Chairman Carol Beckwith, Secretary Cherrie Dubois John Zorabedian Wayne Lewis William Fowler Beverly Seavey Sharon Ofenstein ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF HIGHLAND SCHOOL COMMITTEE Virginia Adams Barbara Nelson Paul Fermano HISTORICAL COMMISSION John F. McCauley, Chairman 1983 Virginia M. Adams, Secretary 1984 William M. Fowler, Jr. 1984 Sharon K. Ofenstein 1983 Martha L. Clark 1985 11 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF HISTORICAL COMMISSION Cherrle Dubois 1983 CABLE T.V. Donald Farnham, Chairman 1983 Anthony Cota 1983 Robert Mallion 1983 Richard Trotta 1984 Joseph Cain 1983 John Pineau 1984 Peter Christopher 1985 Rosemarie P. Amondeo 1985 Robert Bennett, Jr. - resigned BY-LAW COMMITTEE Stanley M. Nissen, Chairman Catherine A. Quimby, Vice-Chairman & Clerk 1983 BOARD OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES Carl H. Amon, Jr., Chairman 1985 John M. Silvaggi, Secretary 1984 Charles E. Ellis, Jr. 1985 Herbert F. Gent, Jr. 1983 Fred C. Kenney, Jr. 1985 Joyce K. Miller 1985 CUSTODIAN OF SOLDIERS' & SAILORS' GRAVES J. Henry Vik DIRECTOR OF VETERANS' SERVICES VETERANS' BENEFITS AGENT Russell F. Winam CONSTABLES Sally M. Hoyt 1984 William J. Hughes, Jr. 1984 CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR John W. Agnew, Jr. 12 INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS Charles H. Stamatis WIRE INSPECTOR John Holland INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING William J. Murphy GAS INSPECTOR William J. Murphy DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH James J. Nugent, Jr. - resigned 6/82 Joan R. Belson - 7/82 INSPECTOR OF MILK & FOODS James J. Nugent, Jr. - resigned 6/30/82 Joan R. Belson - appointed 7/82 HEALTH INSPECTOR Michael D. Saraco DOG OFFICER Harry Presti, Volunteer SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES Charles H. Carroll INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS Gary Weidwald, D.V.M.