Margaret M. McGrath

Margaret M. McGrath served Billerica on the Finance Committee, the Personnel Board and in Town Meeting through the years of the town's fastest growth. She appears in the officer list for 1964 among the members of the Finance Committee appointed by the Moderator, with a term running to 1967, and she remained on the committee when it reorganized in 1965 under the chairman Jerome R. D'Addeo. By 1966 she was the committee's secretary, a post Austra Upley had held the year before.

In 1966 the Town Meeting members of Precinct 3 elected her to fill a vacancy among them, and she was re-elected by the voters in the following years, the last time in March 1980. In 1977 and again in 1979 her fellow members chose her as clerk of the Precinct 3 members, under the chairmen Thomas Greenhalgh in 1977 and Ralph N. Newman in 1979.

By 1973 she was vice chairman of the Personnel Board under George F. Flanagan, the board that wrote the town's personnel by-law and its wage and salary schedules for municipal employees. Her name stands with the board on the by-law amendments it brought to the 1976 town meeting, on holiday pay and on the monthly accrual of sick leave for full-time employees, and in 1979 she read the board's annual report to the town meeting. She resigned from the board on June 8, 1979.

Margaret M. McGrath died on April 15, 1986. At the next town meeting the Moderator read her name among the memoriams, as a former Town Meeting member, Finance Committee member and member of the Personnel Board.

References

1. Billerica Town Report 1964: committees appointed by the Moderator, Finance Committee (Margaret M. McGrath, term expires 1967)
2. Billerica Town Report 1965: reorganization of the Finance Committee (Margaret M. McGrath, term expires 1967)
3. Billerica Town Report 1966: committees appointed by the Moderator, Finance Committee (Margaret McGrath, Secretary)
4. Billerica Town Report 1966: Town Meeting Members, Precinct 3 (Margaret McGrath elected by the precinct members)
5. Billerica Town Report 1973: Personnel Board (Margaret M. McGrath, Vice-Chairman)
6. Billerica Town Report 1976: town meeting, Article 33, sick leave amendment submitted by the Personnel Board (Margaret M. McGrath, Vice-Chairman)
7. Billerica Town Report 1977: Town Meeting precinct chairmen and clerks (Precinct 3 clerk, Margaret M. McGrath)
8. Billerica Town Report 1979: Personnel Board (Margaret M. McGrath, Vice-Chairman, resigned 6/8/79)
9. Billerica Town Report 1979: annual town meeting (report of the Personnel Board read by Margaret McGrath)
10. Billerica Town Report 1986: memoriams (Margaret M. McGrath died April 15, 1986; offices held)