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administration requirements will grow with overall town growth(this <br /> project is not the only growth item and can not be treated as such). In fact <br /> organizational inefficiencies might incur higher than previous support <br /> ratios. <br /> The use of a fifty percent (50%) factor in many of the projections is in my <br /> opinion unjustified and a failure to recognize the complexities that growth <br /> introduces. There is no supporting detailed rationale. "It has been <br /> indicated by town staff, however, that there will be some efficiencies <br /> created" is dimensionless. <br /> "There is only one Town Clerk" is only true at present. There was a <br /> time when there was only one Town Planner and one Executive Secretary, <br /> etc. It is reasonable to expect"assistant managers"at similar pay scales. <br /> The Board of Assessors will need to pay for added commercial valuations <br /> with something, its a purchased item. <br /> The factor utilized for projecting school age children is developed utilizing <br /> all occupied units and is applied using selected occupied units. <br /> School costs do not include all fringe benefits. <br /> etc., etc. <br /> In my opinion Capital Costs should be redone. Practically everything, with the <br /> exception of land, has a useful life associated with it. Mashpee has seen it with Police <br /> Stations, fire stations, Town Halls, etc. Town growth will increase utilization factors and <br /> impact life. <br /> A buy-in approach to schools should not be based upon tweaked student numbers <br /> (previously discussed) and perfection populations. Drawing a relationship between one <br /> year's School Cherry Sheet reimbursement and that same years debt budget utilizing a <br /> reimbursement factor is totally wrong. Incidentally, when you buy land to build a school <br /> there is no reimbursement. <br /> Capital Costs generally produce debt which has associated interest expenses. <br /> There will be an interest expense associated with this development that is currently not in <br /> the analysis. <br /> Thank you for consideration of my comments. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Edward A. Baker <br /> 197 Captains Row <br />