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ly f r FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS ON WARRANT ARTICLES. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING ARTICLES The Town Meeting on May 4th is divided into two separate parts each having its own set of Warrant Articles. p The first part is called the SPECIAL TOWN MEETING and addresses town business having to do with the current Fiscal Year(2009) which ends on June 30, 2009. Note: All votes b the Finance Committee recommending approval or defeat of Articles in Y g PP the Special or Annual Town Meeting Warrant are unanimous unless otherwise noted. ;lk d ARTICLES 1,3, 4, & 6. Authorize the Transfer of Funds (, Submitted by: Board of Selectmen/Fire Chief/Department of Public Works/Treasurer Without going into detail, ARTICLES 1, 3, 4, and 6 involve the transfer of funds within ` departmental or line items of expense with under expended funds to budget line items of expense which have been over expended, or to appropriate monies from surplus funds to pay the expenses + under-funded in the FY 09 budget. While five Articles are listed here, each will be voted on separately. Approval of Articles 1, 3, 4, and 6 will neither have an impact on the FY 10 budget, nor will it k affect the final 2009 municipal tax rate. While each Article will be voted individually, the FINANCE COMMITTEE APPROVES ARTICLES 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7. Vote: 6—0. ARTICLE 2. Approve Funds for a Santuit Pond Study ` Submitted by: Board of Selectmen This Article requests an approval for an appropriation and transfer of $58,825 from available funds to the Santuit Pond Preserve Account to fund a study to determine the causes of excessive algae growth and over-all deterioration of the Santuit Pond water quality and to recommend a mitigation plan. r THE FINANCE COMMITTEE APPROVES ARTICLE 2. Vote: 6—0. The Board of Selectmen has placed an Article in this "Special" portion of the Town Meeting seeking approval to appropriate a total of$250,000 in already collected and available state and •i local Community Preservation Act Funds. This is being done in order to continue funding of an on-going project before the start of the FY 10, which begins on July 1. p f By way of background, prior to 2004, Cape Cod municipalities had the option of participating in ` a program called the Cape Cod Open Space Land Acquisition Program (a.k.a. Cape Cod Land Bank) to raise funds locally to purchase lands to be kept as open space. Mashpee's participation ( - s 5