6/7/2012 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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Town of Mashpee jhstorical Commission 8✓'.- `'v�Gs 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, MA 02649 Telephone - (508) 539-1400, ext. 8550 ` MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes of Meeting -June 7, 2012 The Town of Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order in the Archives temporary office at Town Hall at 11:10am on Thursday, June 7, 2012, by Nancy Soderberg, Chairperson. Commissioners Present: Rosemary Burns (Love), Frank Lord, Nancy Soderberg, and Brian Hyde. Also attending were Catherine Laurent from the Mashpee DPW and Angela Shwom, Secretary, of the Mashpee Wampanoag Museum, and a member of the Tribal Council Economic Development Commission. Rosemary made a motion, and it was seconded, that we accept the Minutes of the December 19, 2011, meeting as amended. Reports: The PAL final report was received in December, 2011, and it has been distributed to Joyce Mason, Town Manager; Tom Fudala, Town Planner; GIS; Catherine Laurent, DPW, and the Mashpee Historical Commission. The report came with CD-ROMs which have also been distributed. The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) got a copy of the CD-ROM disk containing the complete report. Richard Halpern, Chairman, CPC, challenged the qualification on the front page of the report stating that the report "Contains Confidential Information - Not for Public Distribution." Nancy Soderberg contacted the Massachusetts Historical Commission to get their clarification. Mr. Edward L. Bell, Senior Archaeologist, replied in his letter of April 2, 2012, that the report is "not a public record", in order to protect the sensitive archaeological site location information. He also requested that we provide a copy of Appendix A, Archaeological Sensitivity Maps, and Appendix B, User's Guide to those maps, to the Town Clerk so that the information can be shared with the public as well as to the other town boards and commissions that have occasion to consider proposed projects, and to manage town-owned lands to avoid and protect archaeologically sensitive areas from newly proposed projects that might affect sensitive areas. The final payment of$5,000 was paid to The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., of Pawtucket, Rhode Island (PAL) in April, 2012.