6/7/2005 SOUTH CAPE BEACH ADVISORY Minutes

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S. C. B. 6/7/05 P. 3 VI DISCUSSION OF THE TEN ACRE SITE: The other issue that has been the major subject of this committee has been the ten acre site. It was originally sort of a quid pro quo from the State to the Town of Mashpee giving us ten acres of land as a "thank you" for the cooperation and the effort of the Town. Morris Kirsner spent many years on this project and became thoroughly frustrated at the end. Now the Town of Mashpee is going to do the negotiating with the State as far as the conditions of the transfer and what the rules are going to be. It is going to be a fairly long negotiation, I think, because the . State has some very strong feelings which do not necessarily coincide with what this committee wanted, however, I have talked to Joyce Mason a couple of hours ago. Since DCR is a new organization with different people mostly at the upper level, it takes time to establish the protocol, but she said she would e-mail our town counsel today, get them energized, and see what he is doing with the State. I don't know how long this is going to take. If anybody at the table involved with government, knows anything about the ten acre site that would be of interest, please speak up. But, it will eventually be done properly because, I have requested of the State and of Joyce Mason that this committee be represented at the table during negotiations . We have an institu- tional memory that is important as far as what was promised in 1981, what the documents state, and what the 35 years of conversations relative to this project. That should not be overlooked because it is very easy to overlook what was promised and what was said if no one at the table knows what's going on, and we will depend on Bill Martiros and Jerry for that because they have very good institu- tional memories, and Bill was one of the founding directors . We still want to re-energize. There are still some things that were talked about doing years ago to improve South Cape Beach State Park. They are very difficult do, but we wanted to take something that was doable, which was the Stone Memorial which was the first step towards bringing the dream of the original . directors to fruition. Jack explained that he recently had a call from Brenden Annett, the biologist on staff at WBNERR. He extended an invitation for us to be involved in a project, the project was South Cape Salt Marsh Restoration. There was a meeting that John Cahalane put together. It was this past Thursday. Since Jack was going to be out of town, he asked Bill Martiros to represent the committee. Bill explained that currently there was a thirty inch culvert that goes underneath the road and into the Town Beach. They do not have sufficient flushing there with that small culvert so what they want to do is build a new culvert which will be five feet by eight feet and will be 40 feet long, so they will get proper flushing in the marsh area. The road will be put back the way it originally was.