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<br /> Conservation Corrnission
<br /> August 23, 1990
<br /> Page 11.
<br /> mR. LSs: You have to understand that the reason for this hearing has to do with
<br /> n anonymous complaint and you have to understand why it was an anonymous complaint;
<br /> why people get up and leave when we come in. You can only enders t and this if we
<br /> explain to you who we are in this town and why someone would complain against us
<br /> and not even other beach on the property.
<br /> COFFEY: The source of the complaint is not an issue, nor is your history, nor
<br /> ideally, your personality. However, your behavior at this evening's hearing
<br /> does bear on it.
<br /> MRS. GLASS: You are judgemental. Did you invite us to hear our side of the torr'
<br /> (COFFEY: we have taken quite a bit of time. . . , and you will. listen . . .out of our
<br /> lives to hear the story. . , and you are sitting here in judgement (Ma'am, will you
<br /> please, this is a public hearing. .) Sir, if you please, this is our public hearing.
<br /> You called us.
<br /> COFFEY: I am going to declare this hearing closed MRS. GLASS: okay. if you cannot
<br /> address .the subject ma'am. we are, you have to accept our premise. You cant
<br /> decide what we have to say. This is a free country still.) I still submit
<br /> your biography does not have a bearing on the subject at hand. If you will please
<br /> address the subject, we'd like to bear it. If not, if your stray, I'm going to
<br /> declare this hearing closed, (Then you please be quiet and listen.)
<br /> SIR, GLASS: I would like to say, and- this is in writing and will be sub fitted to
<br /> you, that we applaud your efforts on behalf of the town. The Chairman suggested
<br /> e limit our hearing to just our conservation issue; we told him we will reiterate
<br /> that our conservation issue is relevant to all conservation issues inashpee and
<br /> therefore is included within the lits imposed. Conservation and environmental
<br /> issues are a deep concern to u , so much so that we were the founders of a citizens
<br /> action group called SAVE, an acronym for Citizens Against violating the Environment.
<br /> _In that capacity, we were helpful in preventing boatyards from being built in o kway
<br /> Bay and other Mashpee waters. we were instrumental in rejecting a cape-wide trash-
<br /> to--mulch open-air processing center on what is. the Mashpee landfill property, and
<br /> we were active on innumerable other issues, particularly in the 1960's and early
<br /> 1. 7 's.
<br /> COFFEY: Mr. Glass, I don't care to relive the '70's; we all lived through them.
<br /> I believe you are straying from the subject again, this is your bio, this is your
<br /> history, skip ahead to the subject at hand. If you care to provide that as written
<br /> information, okay, but I will not take any more of the Commission's time.
<br /> MRS, LASS; Go to the bog that was destroyed when Conservation did not act on any
<br /> level, because of inside behavior.
<br /> MR. LASS: It all bears on the fact that there has been an anonymous complaint.
<br /> I want you to understand that what we are objecting to is not the actions of the
<br /> Committee. As I said, honestly, we applaud the actions of the Committee. If you
<br /> had listened to our biographies, you would have known we, too, served on all the
<br /> committees in town, I was on the school comm,i t.tee for six years. I spent hundreds
<br /> of hours in this room. COFFEY: Mr. Glass, you Ire straying again.) We appear
<br /> before you this evening to assure you that if your decision on the future placement
<br /> of sand on our beach at Fells pond is fair and equitable, we will observe it scrup-
<br /> ulously, as we do all aspects of the law, over the past year, we have provided the
<br /> Cormittee with all of the applications, documents and certificates you have re-
<br /> quested. In addition, we have provided an Environmental Impact Study prepared, we
<br /> sat through two other hearings where they didn't even pay the fees, prepared by a
<br /> firm suggested by the Conservation Officer. All documents indicate that no harm
<br /> has been done. All of this has been dome at substantial monetary cost, you didn't
<br /> waive our fees as you did the state, it is approaching $1000. now, and with a lot
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