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and further, to authorize the Selectmen to take such actions as are necessary to make such application consistent with the Council's requirements, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen Explanation: This article authorizes the Board of Selectmen to make application to the State to designate the Town's Industrial Park as an Economic Opportunity Area for economic development purposes. This designation enables businesses seeking to locate or expand in the industrial park to apply for Massachusetts investment tax credits and local property tax incentives in order to create jobs and economic development for our community. This is a step in a multi- stage process, and any projects under this designation will require an additional vote of Town Meeting for approval. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval. Motion made by Selectman Vaccaro. Motion: I move Article 23 be voted as printed in the warrant except for the phrase, "or take any other action relating thereto." Motion passes unanimously at 9:09 p.m. Article 24 To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody, management and control of the portion of land described in this Article from the Board of Selectmen for municipal use, including construction of a high school and related facilities, to the Board of Selectmen for such municipal use, and in addition for the purpose of conveying a conservation restriction, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant to the United States of America, acting by and through the Fish & Wildlife Service and its successors and permitted assigns a Conservation Restriction in perpetuity, under the provisions of MGL Chapter 184, Sections 31-33, on a portion of that parcel of Town- owned land shown on a "Plan of Land to be Acquired by the Town for School Purposes in Mashpee, Massachusetts," dated December 5, 1994 and prepared by BSS Design, Inc., which lies within the following boundaries: Beginning at the northeasternmost corner of said parcel, thence westerly 500 feet along the southern sideline of the Nathan B. Ellis Highway (Route 151) to a point, thence southerly in a straight line to a point on the northerly sideline of a Commonwealth Electric Company power line easement lying 500 feet westerly of the center of the Quashnet River, thence westerly along the northerly sideline of said easement to the westerly boundary of the parcel, thence southerly, easterly and northerly by the westerly southerly and easterly boundaries of said parcel to the point of beginning, 14