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ARTICLE 15 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds $440,903 to provide for road improvement projects under Chapter 90 related to road funds, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Director of Public Works Explanation: This article authorizes the use of state grant funds for FY2000 often referred to as Chapter 90 Funds. The Town of Mashpee is 100% reimbursed for the use of funds for roadway improvements. These revenues are from the gas tax as apportioned back to cities and towns. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval. Motion made by Selectman Taylor. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate $440,903 to provide for road improvement projects in and for the Town, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90 of the Massachusetts General Laws. Motion passes to indefinitely postpone at 9:18 p.m. ARTICLE 16 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds or borrow $426,640 to the Sewer Commission Facilities Plan Account, to be expended under the direction of the Sewer Commission for consultant services and associated costs related to the development of a Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan/Effluent Pipeline Preliminary Design, and to raise such appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow $426,640, or any other sum under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Sections 7, 8(16) and 8C of the General laws, or any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor; provided that said appropriation and borrowing authorization shall be contingent on receipt of a loan for this purpose from the State Revolving Fund Program of the Department of Environmental Protection, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by Sewer Commission Explanation: The Mashpee River, Ockway Bay, Shoestring Bay, parts of Popponesset Bay and portions of the Waquoit Bay estuary have seen rapidly declining water quality, fish and shellfish kills caused by inadequate oxygen levels, excessive algae, foul odors and other problems due largely to excessive nitrogen levels. Those nitrogen levels result primarily from the increasing levels of residential development in the watersheds of those bays and the use of traditional septic systems for disposal of wastewater. In 1998 the Town funded the first phase of an effort to deal with those problems. That first phase, a study of critical nitrogen levels in the Popponesset Bay estuary by Dr. Brian Howes and the University of Massachusetts Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMAST),