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Article 6 To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $54,000,000 to fund implementation and construction of Phase 1 of the Town’s comprehensive nitrogen and wastewater management, treatment and disposal improvement plans, including construction of the proposed wastewater Treatment Plant adjacent to the Town’s solid waste Transfer Station, sewer mains, pump stations, and related sewer collection system improvements, including all expenses incidental and related thereto (the “Project”), to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to issue any bonds or notes that may be necessary for that purpose, and to apply the premium received by the Town upon the sale of any bonds or notes thereunder, less any such premium applied to the payment of the costs of issuance of such bond or notes, to pay Project costs and reduce the amount authorized to be borrowed by the amount of the premium so applied, and, further, to authorize the Board of Selectmen and/or Town Manager to apply for and accept any Federal, State, County or other funds that may be available for this purpose and to enter into Intermunicipal Agreements for acceptance of any such grants or funds which shall be used to offset the total appropriation authorized herein; provided, however, that this appropriation and debt authorization shall be contingent upon passage of a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion ballot question pursuant to General Law Chapter 59, § 21C(k), or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen and the Sewer Commission Explanation: This article would provide funding to implement and construct Phase 1 of the Town’s comprehensive wastewater management, treatment, and disposal improvement plan, including construction of the Wastewater Treatment Plant to be located adjacent to the Town’s solid waste transfer station and related Phase 1 sewer collection system improvements to be connected to the wastewater treatment facility. This project is one of the initial essential steps in implementing the Town’s Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan/CWMP. The Board of Selectmen recommends approval of Article 6 by a vote of 5-0 The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 6 by a vote of 6-0 Motion made by Selectman Cotton Motion: I move the Town vote to approve Article 6 as printed in the Warrant and with the exception of the phrase “or take any other action relating thereto”. Motion passes unanimously at 8:22 PM Article 7 To see if the Town will vote pursuant to G.L. Chapter 40, Section 15A to authorize the transfer of care, custody and control of that portion of the Town owned conservation land, described as Parcel C (0-Mashpee Neck Rd) as th shown on the Plan entitled Clippership Village of Mashpee Property Owners Association, plan dated June 8, 1998 from Cape & Islands Engineering, (Mashpee Assessors' Map 76 as Block 60), in Mashpee, consisting of 2.7 acres, more or less, as described in the deed recorded in the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds in Book 29977 Page 223 from the Conservation Commission to the Board of Selectmen and/or Sewer Commission for purposes of the development and construction of a sewer pumping station and related appurtenances; to authorize the Board of Selectmen and Conservation Commission to petition the General Court for authorization and approval of such transfer in custody and change in use as is required under Article 97 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and, further, to authorize the Board of Selectmen/ Sewer Commission and Conservation Commission to enter into such agreements and execute any and all instruments on behalf of the Town, upon such terms and conditions as they shall deem to be in the best interest of the Town, to effect said transfer in custody and change in use; or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen and the Sewer Commission