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JA <br /> i <br /> -BOARD of SELECTMEN <br /> TOWN of MASHPEE <br /> MEMO <br /> Board of Selectmen <br /> FROM: Executive Se tor r <br /> DATE: December 22 1981 <br /> R : License Fees <br /> Most of the licenses issued by the Board are to be <br /> renewed i ' the next week or so. <br /> t While I recommend substantial increases in alcoholic <br /> beverages license fees, which were . accepted by the Board, <br /> I do not recommend at this time any other lice sing fee <br /> changes . <br /> Instead,- I recommend the Board .include an article at <br /> the Annual Town Meeting Warrant stating the following: to <br /> see if the .Town will vote to adopt achedule of fees in <br /> accordance with enabling Legislation enacted as part of <br /> t-he FY 1 .82 budget of the Commonwealth and then a table of <br /> fees is in l ded. <br /> This table of fees can be developed .using, as a <br /> basis, those recommended by' - the Massachusetts Municia.l <br /> Association wh.ich. .Barnstable 'used) as well as taking local <br /> condition's into consideration. <br /> number of fees can be icre'ased without Town Meeting <br /> action. However, the FY 182 budg t, required Town Meeting <br /> action in the care of other license fees .g. license for <br /> laces of public lodging) . <br /> I think that all those items 'requiring Town Meeting <br /> endorsement of a limit should go on the warrant . Should the <br /> Town vote to approve them, other licenses could go up, <br /> correspondingly. <br /> As a practical matter, the increase in liquor license fees <br /> hit our major commercial enterbrises hard. Most of the other <br /> licenses vVe have (certainly in terms of dollars ' if not numbers <br />