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i <br /> Page 5 Special Town Meeting Aug 46/71 <br /> E1 <br /> Article 7 Ctd. : l <br /> Denway: (addressing Garland) Mr. Chairman. What it amounts to is that <br /> if we don't put more money into it as the article requests, we BLOW a1 <br /> 11,000. . If we vote "no" - we tear down and lose $11,000.00. <br /> If we want to recoup we vote the money and finish and get our money 1 <br /> back. have <br /> Floor: What assurance/we that the money, if voted, will in fact j <br /> enable us to complete the job - and get our money from the Government? j <br /> As it looks now - the building is about to fall down'. I am wondering <br /> if additional money voted will put the building in condition so we can <br /> get this money. <br /> Koch: $11,500 has been spent. We are here asked to vote 6500 more. <br /> This amounts to $18,000. Do we have to vote another $10,000 to get <br /> our $28,000 back? <br /> K.D®O'Connell : The money the Federal Government will give are matching <br /> funds. We have to spend $28,000 to get $28,000. The $28,000 we have <br /> to raise doasn't have to be in money. It can be in the fora of services, <br /> labor, materials, gifts. We have already received $ which <br /> the Federal Government will accept. At one-third construction point, <br /> they will reimburse. You ask i $6500.00 will complete the job? No. <br /> Amelia Bingham - Chairman of the Historical Commission, appears and <br /> comes to the fore: <br /> A. D. : Please excuse my tardiness. 1. The Town of Mashpee voted to <br /> accept a grant from the U. S. Government. 2. We therefore have a <br /> contract from. the Federal Government. 3. The property now <br /> belongs to the Town of Mashpee. In its present condition, it is a <br /> disgrace. The Federal Government allocated $100,000 for the entire <br /> country. Mashpee got $28,000.00 of this® It is in escrow® Is it <br /> going da . ` the d ain? The whole county is watching® Persona y, <br /> I wou=ike to get out and try to raise the money to complete it® <br /> But since it is a Town project I think. the Town should appropriate the <br /> money. <br /> .Floor: The action taken so far has been highly unsatisfactory. I <br /> would like to know what assurance we have that further appropriations <br /> will result in the completion of this project in a satisfactory manner. <br /> Another from the Floor: As I understand it, the contract for the <br /> original $11,000.00 wasn't bonded. If this is true, and we were not <br /> why didn't wereprotect ourselves in this way? Did the Finance Committee <br /> kmow it was not bonded? <br /> Garland: No. This is not in our province. <br /> Floor: In the future , all contracts should be bonded._ Is this going <br /> to be done? The other thing I want to ask the Accountant: Am I right <br /> that in a cotract ,with the Federal Government if a thing costs 22,000 <br /> would we get $28,000 or $22,000? <br /> K. O'Connell : We would get matching funds. But we cannot now get <br /> it &s the contractor failed to fulfill his contract® He walked <br /> out in the middle of it® He was only paid for the work he did. He <br /> was not paid monies for work he did not do. <br /> hrisman here raised the question of how much monies the Town voted <br /> ® how much has been spent saying we are now asking 6500 on top of <br />