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Motion made by Select Board Member Cotton: I move that the Town vote to appropriate the sum of $7,500,000 for the planning and design of wastewater collection, treatment and effluent recharge initiatives in the Town of Mashpee, and all costs and expenses incidental and related thereto, including costs relating to the acquisition of necessary easements and other interests in real property; and to meet this appropriation, that the sum of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) be transferred from revenue available for appropriation (Free Cash) and the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select Board, be authorized to borrow the amount of Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($4,500,000) under M.G.L. Chapter 44, sections 7 and/or 8 or any other enabling authority and to issue such bonds or notes as may be necessary for such purpose; provided, 1 however, that this debt authorization shall be contingent upon passage of a Proposition 2/, so- 2 1 called, debt exclusion ballot question exempting from the provisions of said Proposition 2/the amounts 2 required to pay the principal and interest on bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness issued for this purpose pursuant to General Laws Chapter 59, §21C(k). Motion passes 512 to 65 at 7:44PM Motion made by Select Board Member Cotton: I move that the Town vote to dispense with the reading of the Annual Town Meeting warrant articles. Article 2 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Bylaws by adding the following new subsections into Article XI: Floodplain Zone Overlay as follows: §174-67 Prohibitions The purpose of this section is to encourage use of more resilient, safer, and more environmentally beneficial construction methods in the Floodplain Zone Overlay District. It is not intended to otherwise restrict or prevent construction of a new or redeveloped dwelling or other allowable structure. No person shall fill, place or dump in any flood hazard area within the Floodplain Zone Overlay District any soil, loam, peat, sand, gravel, rock or other material substance, refuse, trash, rubbish, debris or dredged material for the purposes of raising their first floor elevation to be at or above the base flood elevation. Solid wall foundations with flood vents or pilings are the only acceptable construction methods within the Floodplain Zone Overlay District. No Letters of Map Revision based on Fill (LOMR-Fs) or Letters of Map Amendment Based on Fill (LOMA-F) will be permitted. Conventional Title V Septic System technologies shall not be permitted within the Floodplain Zone Overlay District and a Board of Health approved Innovative/Alternative septic system is required pursuant to Board of Health Regulations. 2