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Avenue, Mashpee, including any necessary costs and expenses related thereto, as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Community Preservation Committee Explanation: This article seeks funding from the Community Preservation Fund to assist the Town of Mashpee in the restoration of the Attaquin Park Playground located at the site of the Town beach at Mashpee/Wakeby Pond. The goal of this project is to incrementally fund the aging playground equipment for safety purposes and to improve the recreational facilities for the Town recreational program and its visitors using the Town beach. For security, the budget includes solar lighting as there is no electricity at the site location. With CPA funding, the playground would be available for use by mid-summer 2015. Funding shall derive from the CPC 10% Open Space/Recreation Reserves Account for this purpose. The Community Preservation Committee voted 8-0 in support of this article. The Board of Selectmen recommends approval by a vote of 5-0. The Finance Committee recommends approval by a vote of 6-0, 1 absent. Motion made by Selectman John Cahalane. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and transfer from the Community Preservation Fund Open Space/Recreation Reserve, in accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 44B, §5, $30,000 for the purpose of funding the Attaquin Park Playground Project located at 35 Lake Avenue, Mashpee, including any necessary costs and expenses related thereto, as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee. Motion unanimously at 7:28 PM. Article 10 To see if the Town will vote pursuant to the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 44B, §5, to amend the previous vote of the Town Meeting under Article 11 of the FY 2014 October Town Meeting by transferring the sum of $92,821.92 appropriated for purposes of the John's Pond Beach Improvement Project to the Heritage Park Improvement Project, including necessary costs and expenses relating thereto; and, further, to see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from the Community Preservation Fund Open Space/Recreation Reserve the sum of$63,000 for the purpose of additional funding of the Heritage Park Improvement project, including necessary costs and expenses related thereto, all as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Community Preservation Committee Explanation: In October 2013, CPA funding was approved by Town Meeting to improve the recreational facilities at John's Pond Beach. That $326,000 appropriation contemplated, among other improvements, funding for a proposed bathhouse/picnic pavilion. With that appropriation, 7