1949-03-20City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 03/20/1949
Place: Beverly Farms Branch Library
Board members present:
Board members absent:
Others present: Mayor Robert J. Rafferty, former Building Inspector Howard Williams, Building
Inspector, R. Irwin Dollof, Aldermen Ernest E. Chase, Abraham I. Cohn, John H. Davidson, John
M. Donovan, Alfred M. Spear and Thomas J. Wickers, Jr.
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, March 20, 1949
At the request of the Mayor, a meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Aldermen
was held at the Farms Library on Sunday, March 20, at 3 P.M., to discuss the matter of repairs to that
building.
There were present Mayor Rafferty, six members of the Board of Aldermen, Mr. Williams,
former inspector of Buildings, Mr. Dolloff, the present Inspector, five members of the Board of
Library Trustees, and Miss Stanton, the Librarian.
After inspection of the main floor of the building, the Mayor called the group together for a
careful consideration of the report submitted by the firm of Cleverdon, Varney & Pike, Consulting
Engineers of Boston, whom the Library Trustees had hired to make an estimate of the much needed
repairs.
It had been hoped that the City Government would find it possible to appropriate sufficient
money to attend to both the outside and inside repairs this year, but the consensus of opinion was
that, in view of the large sums necessary for other city projects, it would be wiser to appropriate the
sum of $13,000 at this time, to cover the cost of repairs to the outside - thus making the building
water tight and wait until next year for all inside repairs unless balances in the $13,000 exist.
Since it was necessary that a Commission of Three be appointed to take charge of all projects
involving an expenditure of over five thousand dollars, Mayor Rafferty announced that he would like
to have Mrs. Conrad, of the Board of Trustees and Mr. Howard Williams, serve on this commission,
when the time came - the third member to be appointed later.
The group then inspected the second floor and the basement of the building.
The meeting broke up with the feeling that this appropriation would be voted upon at the near
future and the work begun as soon as possible.
Voted: to adjourn
Marjorie H. Stanton
Clerk