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i 1 ■ Article To see if the Town will vote, notwithstanding any provision -of the Town By-Laws to the contrary, accept the layouts of DeerfieldRoad, Alden Circlet and Blair Circle as shown on a plan entitled "Layout of Deerfield Road, Mashpee, MA, Scale : 111=4 ' March 20, 1986,, Charles L. Rowley & Associates, Civil Engineers a Surveyors, West Wareham, MA" copy of which is on file 'in the office of the Town Clerk, and to authorize and empower the Board of Selectmen to- acquire the fee ownership or an easement in, on, over and under the said roads as so defined, by -deed or by eminent domain# and to accomplish said purpose and for expenses incidental and related thereto, the Town vote to appropriate $50FOOO and to raise such appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized o borrow at one time or- from time to time, $ coo under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7 of Massachusetts General Laws, or any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefore; and further that the Board of Selectmen assess betterments to the owners of the land abutting the ways and to an.y other owners of land deemed to the benfitted thereby, f Motion to appropri*ate , and to o ow * *unanimous vote* . 08: 1 Subject to betterments The Finance Committee approves this Article because there is no cost to the Town to reconstruct this road, The cost will be borne by betterment to those lot owners with frontage on Deerfield Road. It should be recognized that the existing road was. accepted by the Town of mashpee ' s Planning Board as being satisfactory and meeting cage specifications which, in fact, was not true. It is the feeling of the Finance Committee that when the road was built, it was substandard and should not have been approved, Residents of the Deerfield Road neighborhood have expressed to Select- men for several years their extreme concern over the drainage problems at the lower end of Deerfield Road, At the December 15 Special Town Meeting, townspeople approved a private petition article that was designed to accept Deerfield Road as a Town-owned way. This article was found by Town 'Counsel to be defective, As presently designed b Selectmen, the three roads in the subdivision would be accepted, funds would be borrowed to pay for repairs and betterments would be assessed o each lot owner to pay allcosts of the repairs . This process was recommended in the FY88 Capital Improvement Program. Article To see if the Town will vote, notwithstanding any provision of the TownBy-Laws to the contrary, to accept the layout and definition of