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Town of Mashpee <br /> Blue Ribbon Comprehensive Committee <br /> Minutes of Meeting <br /> March 23,2006 <br /> The Town of Mashpee Blue Ribbon Committee was called to order in Conference Room <br /> .Mashpee Town Hall, 16 Great Neck Road North, Mashpee, Massachusetts at 7:00 p,m. on <br /> Thursday, Mach 23, 2006. The Chairman,Dan Myers,presided. <br /> Blue Ribbon Committee Members present: Zella li cnbcrry;Chuckie.Ch-een, Vice <br /> Chair;Lee `Turney; Beverly Kane;John Miller;Don Myers, Chairman; and Ted Theis. <br /> Also present; F. Thomas Fudala, Town Planner and Ed Baker, a.Maslrpee citizen, <br /> A quote being present, the Chairman called the meeting to order. <br /> Approval of Minutes <br /> Review/approval of minutes from prior meeting of February 23, 2006 and March 9, 2006. <br /> The February 23, 2006 meeting was approved. <br /> Communications <br /> Public Comment <br /> There were no public comments at this time. <br /> Old Business <br /> Reports from each Board/Commission regarding IU PC Objective <br /> Glenn Santos said he had information regarding DCPC objectives. He said that on <br /> February 28, 2006,he had attended a Departinent of Health Cancer Study meeting in Sandwich.. <br /> He said it was an"eye eye opener." One of the concerns was based on a study regarding the high <br /> cancer rate in Sandwich and Mashpee. At the meeting, Mr. Santos leat-ned that between 19 <br /> 2002, there was ten children found with cancer in Sandwirh. 1n that swine period, Mashpee had <br /> seven chil(hen. per capita and square ruffle and how the compan'son was done using grids, <br /> Mashpee was actually in a little more trouble than Sandwich, said Mr. Santos. The grid that <br /> Mashpee had was on the northern end of Cotuit Road; Snake pond. There were also cancer rate <br /> issues in Barnstable, said Mf. Santos. <br /> The Department of Health members reassured M4. Santos that there was going to be a <br /> study of Mashpee in a year and the sarne in the town of Barnstable. <br /> Mri. Santos said there was no explanation about where the cancer was coming Rom and in <br /> response to Don Myers question,that there would be studies done in the entire town of Mashpee. <br /> According to studies of one area on the grid that was the town of Mashpee, one of the <br /> most common cancers were leukemia in three children; one child with a.CNS tremor, which Mr. <br /> Santos understood was a bone cancer; soft tissue sarcoma was Bund in two children and <br /> ff o dgkin's disease was a type of bone cancer found in another child, in the total of seven in the <br /> specif�to area of the grid relating to Mashpee. <br /> Mr, Santos said that for year's,people heard that there was a high rate of cancer in women <br /> on the upper Cape. He mentioned various studies that had occuffed, including PAVE TAWS,but <br /> lie said he just wanted to mention it as a meeting he gent to. He said that it was definitely on the <br /> Massachusetts IDPH radar and that they were going to be doing a study for Mashpee. <br /> The Chaiinnan asked Mr. Santos, based on his reporting, that they hadxt-t yet identified a <br /> source or cause of the cancer. <br /> Mr. Santos responded by relating to questions asked in the DPW meeting. One of the <br /> questions asked,he said, was: "What part of town was on town water? Vtat part of town was the <br /> private well?"Basically, he said, one of the high areas effected was on town water,which moved <br /> the investigation away from the subject of it being a groundwater plume not regulated by town <br />