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Warrant Articles: Special Town Meeting: October 15,2007. ' ARTICLE 1. FY107 Bills. Submitted by: Town Accountant. Four bills totaling$5,348 were received by the Town Accountant after the close of FY '07, (June 30, ;r 2007). Voter approval is needed to pay these invoices. ` THE FINANCE COMIMIITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETINGA10W6 L OF ARTICLE 1. ARTICLE 2. Cancel and Rescind Previously Approved,or Unspent, Capital Balances. Submitted by: Town Accountant. There are presently 12 borrowing authorizations previously approved at Town Meetings between October 1993 and May 2005 which have either been un-issued or have unexpended balances. The total of these + un-issued or unexpended balances total $7,054,104. The Town Accountant is seeking Town Meeting approval to cancel and/or rescind these balances. Approval of this request will"clean up"the annual financial report and reduce the total of the town's authorized debt. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETINGAPPROk4i OF ARTICLE 2. ARTICLE 3.Authorize Inter-Municipal Agreement. Submitted by: Board of Selectmen. This Article seeks approval to authorize the re-negotiation of an agreement between Mashpee, Falmouth,Bourne and Sandwich to continue the operation of the Regional Transfer Station at the Massachusetts Military Reservation(Otis). The present agreement expires on December 31,2007. Presently,household and commercial waste collected from Mashpee homes,businesses, or our transfer ? station is transported to the Otis facility where it is loaded onto railroad cars which transport the waste to the SEMASS incinerator in Rochester. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETING APPROVAL OF ARTICLE 3. * ' ARTICLE 4.Additional FY 08 School Funds. Submitted by: Board of Selectmen. This Article requests approval to appropriate $279,000 in additional Chapter 70 funds from the State ' after the adoption of the FY08 budget to the School Department budget. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETING APPROVAL OF ARTICLE 4. ARTICLES 5,6,7, 8,9, 10, 11, and 12. Appropriation of Community Preservation Act Funds. Submitted by: Community Preservation Act Committee. Beginning with the FY '05 budget,the State offered an optional program called the Community ?+, Preservation Act(CPA)which allows municipalities to collect funds through an annual 3% surcharge 7; on property assessments,which is then matched by state funds,thereby substantially increasing the amount of money raised. The program,however, does require specific, limited categories for which the funds can be used. These uses include the acquisition, creation,preservation, rehabilitation and/or restoration of. 1). Open Space; 2). Historic Resources; 3). Recreational Land, and 4). Affordable " - Housing. 11\ 2