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� {� {` <br />� o and o 1 Selectmen <br />Town of M ashp e <br />_2- <br />nfo tunatel r, as the Committee chair himself has <br />acknowledged, vital and essential data concerning the sites <br />will not be known until November 9--the very day the <br />Committee intends to make its site selection. We refer to <br />the architectural and engineering- study commissioned by the <br />Committee, and also to a report to be obtained from the <br />Ma.shpee Historical. Commission, At the November 2 Committee <br />meeting, Committee members explained in response to questions <br />From the public that final answers would depend on information <br />to be provided in these two reports. <br />in .addition to these factors, there are environmental <br />questions that remain to be answered. It does not appear <br />that the Committee has obtained a site report from the <br />Mashpee Conservation Commission, although the Town Planner <br />indicated that some environmental investigation has been <br />carried out. <br />What all this means is that the November 9 deadline <br />has placed the High School Building Committee in the extremely <br />difficult position of being forced to make a site' selection <br />based on a hasty last-minute scanning of crucial information, <br />with some areas of concern barely treated, -if at all. <br />f even greater concern is the Fact that the public <br />will have no opportunity to review this essential information, <br />to formulate its questions and seek satisfactory answers. By <br />the time such questions can be asked, the issue will have <br />been decided. The site will have been chosen, and for good <br />or ill, the citizens of the town will have to accept it —or <br />reject the entire construction package. <br />The Tribal Council is particularly disturbed about <br />this unfortunate situation because one of the two sites <br />under consideration is the one termed Mashpee Central, to <br />the east of the present town hall and to the south of <br />Route 130, <br />We are profoundly opposed to the selection of this <br />site for the new high school, <br />The use of this site would destroy forever one of <br />the last remaining open areas of woods and wetlands in the <br />town, with its quiet network of ancient pathways used for <br />many generations by Mashpee people. <br />t would have a heaver and most likely a disastrous <br />impact on the Ma.shpee River wildlife corridor and on the <br />wildlife watering place, Noisy y Hole. <br />0 <br />