2/20/1986 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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MASH'MASHPEE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Meeting of February 20 , 1986 Board members present: March d Font, Chairman; Pauline DeL ry; Louise Be hrman; Gertrude S . Farrada . Board members absent : E. Stuart Peoples ; Elliot Rosenberg; Dorothy G. Studley. Others ; present were Mary Brown; Carol Jacobsen; Wil a nt ler o ; Judy Mills ; Associate members . Gerald Sprout , Associate member, was not present, Ms . duPont stated that Mrs . Studley has notified d the Board. of Selectmen that when he,r term expires June 30 , 1986 , she does not wish reappointment as a full.-time member, The Chairman noted for the edification of ALL persons present and all those persons that they may represent that the hearings scheduled for this meeting have not been advertised for the legal number of five days in the newspaper. The hearings have been i advertised four days . She further noted that the scheduled hearings have been posted according to law by the Town Clerk on the bulletin board of Town 'Hall the rec uir�ed length of time and still further that all applicants and/or heir agents have been duly notified as proscribed , The Chairman stated that in the past when this situation has o c cure d , the Board of Conservation Commissioners has heard the scheduled hearings with the approval of each individual applicant and/or their agent with the provision that orders of condiLtions written for each project will not be issued for at least ten "'working" days in order to allow anv abutter or other party with. a valid objection to dome before the Board and be heard,, Mrs . DeLory, objecting to ho 1 d ing the hearings without full con- formance on- f rmance with the law regarding the number of days advertised, stepped down from the Board for these hearings . She called attention that by this action, here was not a quorum of Board members . The Chairman noted and it was acknowledged that the Board has at times in the past held meetings and heard proposals with a three- member quorum due to the fact that for several months for all f practical purposes the Board has operated as a five-member Board .