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or three meetings,which she has seen happen in the past when the Committee already has something that
<br /> does the job.
<br /> The Chairman said when the Committee vas set up,it was set up with two very good
<br /> steps,one being the planning Board and the other was the Board of Selectmen. The Committee was making
<br /> some progress, something tangible and that the next meeting would be a step back and assessment.He
<br /> added,"Let's talk about ghat we want to do,"'and he said that he wanted to move forward with the next
<br /> item on the agenda.
<br /> Mr.Green said Chairman Meyers has made the Committee part of the Selectman's agenda..He
<br /> said that the group had a slot saved for anything they wanted to go, and that they could go to the Selectmen.
<br /> Ms, gurney said that it was good,but hoped it wouldn't turn out to be a black hole that when the
<br /> Committee made recommendations to the Board of Selectmen,they would just use it in space, somewhere.
<br /> The Chairman replied that was also part of why the Committee did updates for the first part of the
<br /> meeting, so that the group could hear first-hand whether or not that black hole would occur.
<br /> John Miller said so far that the results of the policy were pretty exemplary,
<br /> The Chairman said that the Committee was making progress in some areas and other areas,the
<br /> Committee needed to push a little harder. He concluded that the Committee bad passu over the vision
<br /> Statements.
<br /> Ms.Kane,regarding a previous meeting,of the Manning Board,talked about the dredging of the
<br /> Mashpee River,the side catching of dredge materials. She said that.the State of Massachusetts was revising
<br /> the water quality of dredge materials and that State might look favorably on the side catching issue.
<br /> The Chairman said that the Committee would need to step back and reevaluate dredging at the
<br /> next meeting.
<br /> Ms.Katie said that the Committee needed a timeline on that issue.
<br /> Mr. Storrs said there should be a commission under view—an assembly of delegates,reviewing the
<br /> role of the Cape Cod Commission, if the Town sees things from the commission's review that there may be
<br /> froom for improvement.
<br /> Mr. Miller said that he wanted to bring closure to Ms.Dane's vision statement and to make
<br /> closure on that,would be ratify the existing one and move on and put the topic to bed,for now.
<br /> Ms. Gurney said that when the group(the Planning Board)meets to revise them, they might want
<br /> to tinker with it.
<br /> New Business
<br /> Mashpee Conservation ommiss1*011
<br /> Michnet Talbot
<br /> The Chairman introduced Michael Talbot of the Mashpee Conservation Commission.Mr. Talbot
<br /> would talk about some of the programs that he's worked on with ecological practices,particularly
<br /> regarding landscaping.
<br /> Mr, Talbot introduced himself,as Mice Chair of the Mashpee Conservation Commission and in his
<br /> professionat position,he was wearing two hats.
<br /> He said that in his professional capacity for more than two decades, he had been developing
<br /> environmentally sensitive concepts in landscape design and management, as a pioneer in organic lawn care
<br /> and what he had really been focusing on in the past decade was to how to bridge those concepts with
<br /> concepts of conservation,and ecological restoration. He said he was a lecturer and speaker on this topic
<br /> from Washington D.C.to Pittsburgh,to the University of Maine,where he is a visiting lecturer.He said it
<br /> was also relevant, as the Committee and audience would see when he had finished what he was talking
<br /> about,in terms of some programs that were going on in the neighboring town of Falmouth.He said that it
<br /> had some important impacts and maybe a goad model for Mashpee.
<br /> According to Mr.Talbot,he was a pioneer-in a local wetlands by-law, particularly with Bob
<br /> Sherman.Ile said there were a lot of great regulations based on science,also based on important interests
<br /> for the Town.
<br /> He then talked briefly about what conservation commissions do and what they don't do. what
<br /> they do not do is protect wetlands, he said. The Town's Regulation#9,what Commission really protect the
<br /> interests of the town and its' community. Things that the Commission covered were public and private
<br /> water supplies,ground water,flood control,erosion,sedimentation,,storm damage prevention,water
<br /> quality and pollution,fishery, shellfish,wildlife habitat, rare species habitat, recreation and agriculture and
<br /> aquaculture. Those are the interests that the Town's a little more expanded wetlands Protection Act.He
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