9/9/1980 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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PA R A : We are not only considering the impact of the next or 9 y.ea'r , we 'also have to be veer aware of what we -acre 'doing to the- Town of Mashpee 55 or .80 years from now. None of us are going to be here . It' s an all new ball game with new people. We want to have' a tool, a mechanism here, that those people can inf act b e heard and represented which this document does refer to in the South Cape Beach Advisory Committee-, We are- not looking and talking about the next 3, 4, or 5 years . 'SELECTMAN GARLAND: I have a question for Mrs, Thomas, Mr. Martiros - and Town Counsel, Have any of you seem written approval from the Attorney General ' s office of that document All responded no. V TE _1 As you talk about what' s going to happen in years to come , this is what we are thinking. This is the reason we formed our committee. W -know what it is going to be doing - it' s going to be developing. We want to know that you people aro with us, we just can' t stand -anymore big development. CHAIRMAN: Without the pressure and the Town we would not have been able to get the Agreement we have presently out of the' Commonwealth of Massachusetts , We probably would have gone more and more of a carte }Manche taking -by the Commonwealth VOTER: It certainly is good to hear you say that the Selectmen are concerned about. what's ci g to happen 85 years from now because I think that is what the Town Meeting said the other night, Thev are not as concerned about 5 years -from now as they. are about 50 years from now. Early someone said that we didn' t trust our Selectmen. In our estimation the selectmen act upon the .will of the people of the Town. Town Counsel keeps referrinq to the Town. Well to rine the Town is the- people of the Town and they spoke up the other night. One other thine Nor, Benway it was mentioned that if a change was substantial you could. again call another Town Meeting- . I. think that if that happens , there. will be clot of us 'that will be pretty discouraged because I guess- some of us have the feeling that when the chips are down you three Selectmen really aren' t listening to us. CHAIRMAN: On the contrary. We are li-stening to the townspeople and on the contrary because we didn't have to go to Town Meeting for any of the discussion, any of the vote at all . we could have crude. the decision whether to go with or against the State proposal right here with these three people. Because we- didn't, I think controverts completely your ar uement that we have faith in the people out there, we went out to hear them and we .heard. All we are saying tonight is -1 -