9/26/2016 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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Board of Selectmen Minutes September 26, 2016 APPOINTMENTS & HEARINGS Auction. Temnorary Sienaee. Town of Mashpee: A Temporary Sign Permit application was presented to the Board from Rodney C. Collins Town Manager for signage to be placed at the entrances to Town Hall, on Route 130, at the intersection of Route 151 and Frank Hick's Drive and at the Mashpee Police Department to announce the Town Auction to be held on October 14, 2016. The rain date is October 21, 2016. All signage would be removed at the end of the event. The auction will assist in the removal of Town property accumulating at the Police, Fire, DPW and Town Hall. All items are valued $1,000 or less and are of no use to any Town Department. Sixteen vehicles, valued less than $10,000 each will also be sold at the auction. Advertisement regarding the sale of surplus equipment and materials will be published in the local paper this Friday and on the following Friday in the Mashpee Enterprise. Motion made by Selectman Sherman to approve the Temporary Sign request for four signs to announce the Town Auction as referenced. Motion seconded by Selectman O'Hara. VOTE: Unanimous. 5-0. Roll Call Vote: Selectman Gottlieb, yes Selectman Cahalane, yes Selectman O'Hara, yes Selectman Cotton, yes Selectman Sherman, yes Opposed, none Renort on water samnlina/monitorine conducted by UMass Dartmouth. Brian Howes: Dr. Brian Howes of the UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science & Technology updated the Board of Selectmen on the Mashpee Water Quality Monitoring program, a report related to the nutrient health of Mashpee's estuaries. The water sampling and monitoring study is a part of the Town's Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan (CWMP). Dr. Howes, a Mashpee resident indicated the results of the 2015 water quality monitoring study has been a collaborative effort provided by volunteers organized by the Waterways Commission offering high quality data in a professional manner for this report. A total of 34 different sites within the Waquoit Bay and Popponesset estuaries were reviewed. It was noted the monitoring program which includes volunteer support from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is running itself seamlessly, and yielding reliable information for the Town. The Popponesset Bay and Waquoit Bay estuaries are showing significant water quality degradation and severe nutrient overload consisting of macro -algal accumulations, eelgrass loss and impaired infauna animal habitat. It was reported that all estuary segments have failed water quality standards. Dr. Howes emphasized the importance of nitrogen management to restore these degraded estuarine habitats through increased tidal exchange, increased nitrogen removal in the form of transport and the control of watershed nitrogen sources as defined in the CWMP Plan. Until the oxygen and infauna animal habitat return to utilize the resources, the bays will not be restored.