10/12/2021 SHELLFISH COMMISSION Minutes

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SHELLFISH COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES October 12, 202114, 2021- 7:00 P.M. MASHPEE TOWN HALL-16 Great Neck Road North WAQUOIT MEETING ROOM PRESENT: Buddy Pocknett, Bill Holmes, Darryl Christensen, Peter Thomas, Donovan McElligatt, Dick Cook PUBLIC: Matt Haney, Jaime Pachico CALL MEETING TO ORDER Chairman Thomas called the meeting to order at 7:00pm. PUBLIC COMMENT Matt Haney stated his concerns about scallops this year. He also pointed out that the boat excise tax hasn't changed since 1978. The Commission thanked him for his comments and agreed that it is a frustrating situation that involves a lot of things they can't control. As far as the excise tax, that is out of their purview, but perhaps someone higher up and take a look at that. MINUTES Approval of the following: September 14, 2021-tabled until next meeting COMMUNICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE OLD BUSINESS 1. Water Quality in our Bays and Rivers — Task Force Update Mr. Thomas said things are still in motion, but the meeting is deferred until the end of the year. NEW BUSINESS 1. Shellfish Mitigation: Fee assessment for 43 Little Neck Lane Mr. McElligatt said they cleaned up some of the wording in the Conservation Bylaw. It's a monetary mitigation fee for any water dependent structure. There's a calculation for an objective fee to put money into the Shellfish Fund. 43 Little Neck Lane was a dock reconstruction where planting in the buffer zone wasn't appropriate. It passed though Conservation, so the fee will go into the fund. We're still figuring out when the fee will be collected. Right now it's an Order of Conditions, so they'd pay at the end of the project, but before they receive the Certificate of Completion. We're looking at different avenues of assessing the fee, like taking the fiscal year into inconsideration. Dennis uses the term shading for the footprint of the area. We don't want to ignore the footprint, but "shading" isn't the right term. We need to quantify the amount of space a project takes up. How do we quantify a water dependent structure? Mr. Cook said we should use the area under the structure itself. Mr. McElligatt agreed, we can't just do pilings, under the structure has significant impact. Mr. Pocknett said square footage of the whole footprint, even 3ft out is usually ruined. Mr. Thomas said the term should be very definitive, we can talk more about this next month.