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Explanation: This article seeks to cover a shortfall in the Town's Snow and Ice Account which occurred as a result of several severe late winter storms. Recommendation; The Finance Committee recommends approval. ARTICLE 12 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from available funds $6,146 to the Storm Water Filter Account, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Herring Warden Explanation: The Town has received a grant of up to $24,583 from the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management's Coastal Pollution Remediation Program for this project. Under the terms of the grant, the Town will be reimbursed for that amount after a matching 25% contribution. Thus, the Town's share (for materials and services) is estimated to be $6,146. This project is needed to substantially eliminate a long-standing problem with direct road run-off from the Indian Museum parking lot and from Route 130, resulting in degraded water quality and sedimentation in the upper Mashpee River. Quite obviously, this has unacceptable impacts on herring, other fisheries and wildlife in the upper Mashpee River. The project has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc. Recommendation; The Finance Committee recommends approval. ARTICLE 13 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from available funds, $15,000 to the Impact Fee Study Account, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen Explanation: With the certification of Mashpee's Comprehensive Plan by the Cape Cod Commission in July, 1998, the Town became legally eligible to adopt a set of bylaws and regulations requiring payment of"impact fees"for various types of new development. Such fees are intended to help cover new capital costs for the Town which result from new development, such as those for new school buildings, public safety buildings and vehicles, recreation facilities and other capital items that the Town would not have had to acquire if the development had not occurred. Development of legally defensible impact fee regulations requires extensive review of the Town's capital needs and their potential costs, including development of a methodology for properly allocating a share of such costs to various forms of new development, a thorough understanding of available funding mechanisms and sources, a method for dealing with offsetting payments, such as those required by permit conditions and Cape Cod Commission mitigation requirements, in addition to state aid formulas, a thorough understanding of 5