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Town of Mashpee Charter Adopted May 8, 2004 been receiving. It is the intention of section 3-1(f)that the limitation and restriction shall apply to all persons hereafter elected to office in the town of Mashpee. (d) Until such time as a different form of organization is provided, in accordance with the provisions of section 4-1 of this charter, the administrative structure of the town, as it is presently constituted, shall continue to be operative. (e) It is the intention of this charter that the provisions of article 4 providing for a town manager shall take effect on the first day of July in the year in which this charter is adopted and that the person then serving as town administrator shall have all of the powers, duties, rights and privileges of the office contained in the said article 4. Nothing in this charter shall be deemed to require that the provisions of article 4 be deferred to any date beyond the said start of the next fiscal year. (f) Within twenty-four months following the adoption of this charter the town manager shall prepare a comprehensive plan of organization of the town government administrative structure in the form of a proposed administrative code provision in accordance with section 5-1 (b)of this charter. The town manager when preparing such comprehensive plan shall consider, but shall not be h" bound in the preparation of such plan to the following departments: (1)a department of administration and finance; (2)a department of community development; ,,er (3) a department of coastal resources; r'y (4)a department of health and environment; (5)a department of parks and recreation; (6) a department of public works; (7) a fire department; and (8)a police department. The town manager may organize such departments incorporating functions, services and agencies into such departments as deemed appropriate. The town manager may appoint department heads or act as the department head. (g) The Charter Commission believes that every citizen and taxpayer in the town of Mashpee would benefit from an expanded report of its Finance Committee. In particular the commission members believe this document should provide information about the financial status of the town as a whole rather than all of the departments that constitute town government. Toward this end, the report should include a concise and readable financial report describing revenues and consolidated expenses required for the proposed budget and comparable information for the current and preceding years so that voters can easily determine where major changes occur. Members of the commission have seen and been impressed by reports of finance and advisory committees from a number of other communities in the state, both within and outside of Cape Cod. The specification of the precise structure of such a report cannot and should not be attempted in a charter. We believe one picture is worth a thousand words and, as a result we recommend that a committee be established to prepare a format for the Report of the Finance Committee following 29 MEMO