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The Department is pleased to provide this Report of the P information. We feel that our accomplishments have Dep artmnt of Public Works been beneficial and look forward to the challenge of another successful year. Respectfully submitted, To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Greg Taylor,for Director Department of.Public Works During the course of 1992, the Department of Public Works re-established a priority of drainage and road improvements while performing normal maintenance along town owned roads, buildings, beaches and parks. The winter of 1991-1992 was mild. We responded to Report of the nineteen snow and ice events, keeping within our snow Historical Commission and ice budget of$105,250.00. In preparation for new construction at the senior citizens'center, we removed and transplanted trees and To the Honorable Board of Selectmen shrubs. After contruction, the parking lot was patched. and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Fiber reinforced asphalt crack repairs were done to The Historical Commission has continued its work in route 130, South Sandwich Road, Red Brook Road, recording and documenting the history of Mashpee, Cotuit Road,Meetinghouse Road and Ashers Path.The Members are involved in "digging out" facts about intersection of Ashers Path and Route 28 was re-aligned people and families,places and events in the long history and completed. Line painting along town owned roads of the community that was described in the 1890 Gazateer was finished in the spring. of the,State of Massachusetts as"an Indian town having 66 dwelling houses, 71 legal voters and 311 inhabitants." The interior and exterior of the DPW building,now 8 The growth of Mashpee, with an increase of over three years old,was repainted for the first time.The parking lot thousand percent since that time, brings an important was repaired and completed by resurfacing with 1-1 2 challenge to those recording its history,"the cronological inches of asphalt. record of significant events." Documentation and preservation of historical information on Mashpee is a The Little Neck Bay Homeowners Association task and a challenge that all members of the Commission contracted with the Department of Public Works to take very seriously.The amount of work that is done,and provide road and drainage repairs. the information that is being assembled, in light of the small budget with which the Commission operates,is an We provided testimony at the State House and accomplishment of which we are proud. supported the local legislative effort to provide Gas Tax Funds to revert back to the cities and towns.In Mashpee We augmented our budget this year with special funds we will receive$107,521.00 from the Gas Tax in FY93 for by conducting a raffle of tickets to a Boston Red Sox the first time since 1988, baseball game in Boston. Tickets were donated by Continental Cablevision. Funds raised were used to There were two sizeable road conversion projects that purchase a computer table, and to replace the worn converted the followingroads to town roads: window curtains in the Archives Building which remained from the old Public Library when the is Quaker Run Road Timberlane Road Commission moved into the building in 1988. Light House Lane Jackbon Road Bayberry Road Briar Patch Lane Because we felt that residents and summer visitors Cranberry Lane Deerfoot Circle might like to learn"first hand"about Mashp ee's history � Deer Ridge Road Edgewater Road from some of the residentsnit n who were in the community i Fawn Road Mayflower Road the early 1900s,a series of lectures was arranged for the Santuit Pond Road month of July. New Seabury Corporation donated the use of the hall at Popponessett known as Captain These projects were completed with DPW Personnel Bellam 's Meeting House. Four lectures on successive and Subcontractors within the budget of$4,000.00 per Friday evenings were held under the umbrella title lot.The Betterment Principal Per Property Owner varied MASHPEE: OUR TOWN.x We werep leased with the , from $21,758.23 for the Quaker Run-Timberlane Road turnout and the interest. Two of the speakers were of Project to$2,035.22 for the Santuit Pond Estates Project. g � Wampanoag ancestry, and gave the audience an insight -104-