5/14/1980 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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-15- Wastewater Treatment Facilities, cont. Environmental Engineer. I£ we would like to have him come out to speak to us, we can call him. He takes about 30 to 35 minutes. Charles: I do not know why they are writing to us when we have nothing that discharges. Pauline: It is to evaluate our conservation program proposal made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. We don't even have anybody declared agricultural in the town. They have to have a certain number of acres. Charles: I£ we have the time to sit and listen, I suppose it would be interesting. Pauline: I came across something in the files which was sent to the South Cape Advisory Committee by B. G. Thomas. I don't know how I got a hold of it. I copied acreage in the 1963 annual report, article 41. It said to see if the town will vote to establish the so-called John Austin of 60 acres and the Walter Mingo lot for 35 acres located near Great Hay Rd. and So. Mashpee Rd. so-called as a town forest. Said lands are now owned by the Town of Mashpee. Motion was made to accept article as read. The possibilities to develop and improve the grounds are to develop a park. The town was given 95 acres in 1963 town meeting, a scientific school by the beach to learn about sea life and acquired land for recreation. These are the guidelines should the town be inter- ested. I was talking to Jeannie Thomas yesterday and she is greatly interested in getting areas designated. Dorothy: I think that was partly rescinded. Pauline: This has to do with the future. I talked with a couple of people on this and the 216 acres on the Mingo lot and a few others. I understand that when anything is voted at town meeting for conservation lands, they are given to us as conservation lands and we can request without a fee to us to have the lot surveyed and staked out. I told Jeannie about it and she is greatly interested in getting things done like that. Dorothy: I would also call her attention to the fact that the two parcels at So. Cape Beach have never been turned over to our care and custody. Pauline: We had the Great Ponds so-stated in 1964 and nothing further was done on it. Charles: My personal experience is that after it has been voted at town meeting you have to get up there and check with the town clerk to see that she has sent the information in if it needs clearance by the Attorney Generals office. And you have to ride her until that goes in and comes back. Pauline: I have done some research on it. When you go to town meeting, she submits that within so many days. If the Attorney General has not signed it within 90 days, it becomes a law. If there, are funds there and there is any way and means to carry out a law that has been voted and approved at town meeting, I think that we should request that it be done im- mediately before someone else acquires our land by description, which they will. Charles: That is what we have been saying about the land adjacent to the golf course. The golf course is on part of it and it has never been surveyed. That Whitcomb swamp area is supposed to be town property. Did you receive a memo from the selectmen this afternoon?