07/08/2019 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Agenda Packet

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE (THE 44TRIBE") AND THE TOWN OF MASHPEE, MASSACHUSETTS (THE, 64TOWN99) RELATIVE TO COMMUNITY PRESERVATION FUNDNG OF THE MASHPEE PARSONAGE RESTORATION PROJECT. This Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") between the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe ("Tribe") and the Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts ("Town"), hereinafter collectively the "Parties", relative to Community Preservation Act("CPA") funding of the Mashpee Parsonage Restoration Project (the "Project") is, entered into by and between the Tribe and Town effective RECITALS I w n or about November 3 05 2018, the ld Indian Meeting House Authority and the Mashpee Warr panoag Tribe's Historic Preservation Office submitted an Application to the Town of Mashpee Community Preservation Committee ("CPC") seeking CPA Funding in the amount of$400,000.00 as a partial source of funding for the Mashpee Parsonage Restoration Project, located at 431 Main St. Mashpee, MA. The total projected cost to complete the proposed Project as of the application date was $693,795.00. 2. Upon review of the Project funding application and deliberation regarding the same, the CPC, on January 24, 2019, voted "to approve and recommend to the May 2019 Special Town Meeting $400,000 for the Mashpee Parsonage Restoration project contingent upon prior execution of a Memorandum of Understanding between the fund recipient and the Board of Selectmen establishing milestones for full Project funding and a schedule for release of the subject appropriated CPA funds in relation thereto, and, further subject to the recording of a Preservation Restriction to assure that the subject historic property's intrinsic values will be preserved through any subsequent ownership by restricting the demolition or alteration of its significant historic features all as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee". 3. Thereafter, on May 6, 2019, the Mashpee Special Town Meeting, pursuant to Article 12 of the warrant and upon recommendation of the CPC, voted to "to appropriate and transfer the sum of$4M �, from the Community Preservation Fund Historic Preservation Reserve in accordance with the provisionsof'M.G.L. Chapter 44B §5, for the purpose of funding the Mashpee Parsonage Restoration Project 'including any necessary costs and expenses related thereto as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee, said sum to be disbursed subject to and contingent upon prior execution of a Memorandum of Understanding between the fund recipient and the and of Selectmen establishing milestones for full Project funding and a schedule for release of the subject appropriated CPA funds in relation thereto, and, further, subject to the recording of a Preservation IIestriction to assure that the subject historic property's intrinsic values will be preserved through any subsequent ownership by restricting the demolition or alteration of its significant historic teatures, all as recommended by the Community Preservation Committee"'. 4. The CPC in its deliberations regarding the aforementioned vote to approve CPA funding of the Project, noted the historic significance of the Parsonage and emphasized the need