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Board of Selectmen <br /> Town of Mashpee -2 <br /> • Unfortunately, as the Committee chair himself has <br /> acknowledged, vital and essential data concerning the sites <br /> will not be known until November 9--the very day the <br /> Committee intends to make its site selection. We refer to <br /> the architectural and engineering study commissioned by the <br /> Committee, and also to a report to be obtained from the <br /> Mashpee Historical Commission. At the November 2 Committee <br /> meeting, Committee members explained in response to questions <br /> from the public that final answers would depend on information <br /> to be provided in these two reports. <br /> In addition to these factors, there are environmental <br /> questions that remain to be answered. It does not appear <br /> that the Committee has obtained a site report from the <br /> Mashpee Conservation Commission, although the Town Planner <br /> indicated that some environmental investigation has been <br /> carried out. <br /> What all this means is that the November 9 deadline <br /> has placed the High School Building Committee in the extremely <br /> difficult position of being forced to make a site selection <br /> based on a hasty last-minute scanning of crucial information, <br /> with some areas of concern barely treated, if at all. <br /> Of even greater concern is the fact that the public <br /> • will have no opportunity to review this essential information, <br /> to formulate its questions and seek satisfactory answers. By <br /> the time such questions can be asked, the issue will have <br /> been decided. The site will have been chosen, and for good <br /> or ill, the citizens of the town will have to accept it--or <br /> reject the entire construction package. <br /> The Tribal Council is particularly disturbed about <br /> this unfortunate situation because one of the two sites <br /> under consideration is the one termed Mashpee Central, to <br /> the east of the present town hall and to the south of <br /> Route 130. <br /> We are profoundly opposed to the selection of this <br /> site for the new high school. <br /> The use of this site would destroy forever one of <br /> the last remaining open areas of woods and wetlands in the <br /> town, with its quiet network of ancient pathways used for <br /> many generations by ',Iashpee people. <br /> It would have a heavy and most likely a disastrous <br /> impact on the Aashpee River wildlife corridor and on the <br /> wildlife watering place , Noisy Hole. <br /> • <br />