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DRAFT 7-25-11 <br /> MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT <br /> This Memorandum of Agreement is dated this day of <br /> 2011 by and between the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Mashpee ("Selectmen) and the <br /> Commissioners of the Mashpee Water District("Commissioners"). <br /> The purpose of this Agreement is to confirm the desire and intent of said Selectmen and <br /> Commissioners to engage in a joint endeavor to facilitate and implement the transfer of <br /> jurisdiction, responsibility and control over public sewer and wastewater disposal functions <br /> within the geographical boundaries of the Town of Mashpee from the Town of Mashpee to the <br /> Mashpee Water District, or its successor entity. <br /> WHEREAS,the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Mashpee is the chief executive body <br /> of said Town in accordance with applicable provisions of Massachusetts General Law and the <br /> Mashpee Home Rule Charter; <br /> WHEREAS,pursuant to the provisions of said Charter,the Board of Selectmen possess <br /> all executive powers it is possible for a Board of Selectmen to have and to exercise, and its <br /> serves as a chief policy making agency of the Town of Mashpee. The Board of Selectmen is <br /> responsible for the formulation and promulgation of policy directives and guidelines to be <br /> followed by all Town agencies serving under it; <br /> WHEREAS, among the duties and responsibilities of the Board of Selectmen is the duty <br /> to appoint a Sewer Commission for the purpose of managing and operating a public sewer <br /> service within the Town; <br /> WHEREAS,the Board of Sewer Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of Mashpee <br /> General Bylaw, Article VII, §3-28 possesses the duties and powers granted to it by <br /> Massachusetts General Law and those voted by Town Meeting; <br /> WHEREAS,the Mashpee Water District is a body politic created and authorized by <br /> General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pursuant to the Acts of 1987, Chapter <br /> 136. The Mashpee Water District possesses all of the jurisdiction,powers and duties vested in a <br /> I <br /> municipal water district for the purpose of providing public water supply, as specified in the <br /> provisions of special act(s)relating to the District, provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, <br /> and bylaws and regulations adopted pursuant thereto; <br /> i <br />