08/15/2019 SEWER COMMISSION Minutes

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Report on Mashpee Commons Sewage treatment plant tour. 9 neighborhood people signed up for the tour, 3 or 4 showed up, along with 6 or 7 others, including Selectman Cotton. There were not really any odors,what little odor there was, on one side of the plant, is due to the fact that they have no odor control. Our plant will have odor control from a wood chip bio filter. Status of other tasks: Shellfish (any report from Rick York) No Report Budget Issues: FY 2020 Budget request$35,200,Town Meeting approved $10,200 (Town Manager indicates that he would set aside$25,000 from his Legal & Engineering budget for WWTP preliminary design Value Engineering.) Status of Selectmen and Finance Team discussions regarding financing and organization of wastewater system implementation. They made the report and ended up recommending either Water&Sewer District or a separate Sewer District be used to develop the sewer system, rather than the town. Andy Gottlieb said in response he wants a written statement from the Water District Commissioners to see if they're still interested in being a district. Called an emergency meeting of Water District tomorrow at noon. Status of Sewer Commission Administrator position-we have no staff. They created a Town Engineer position, it's also Assistant DPW Director. Somehow he's supposed to help us with wastewater. Voucher approvals: $65,500 GHD July 27, 2019 invoice approved by Chair for solicitation of CCC DRI funds and payment through Town Manager's office. Intermunicipal issues: We have an IMA with Barnstable and Sandwich that was done in 2017, nothing else has been done, although Sandwich has adopted a 2%tax surcharge. They took their 3%community preservation act money and Town meeting voted to change it to 2%for wastewater and 2%for community preservation act.Also voted to allow Barnstable to run sewer mains along a number of roads in Sandwich on the way pumping sewage from Barnstable to Military base. We had one meeting with Falmouth about a similar IMA regarding Waquoit Bay, on June 26, 2018, no further meeting, but I got an email saying Falmouth has authorized $10,500 to study and recommend allocation of nitrogen responsibility among Mashpee, Falmouth, and Sandwich. Other Items: Recommendation to Selectman re: Kenneth Dunn application to for At Large Commission vacancy. Joe Lyons motioned to accept and endorse Kenneth Dunn to join the Sewer Commission, Brad Pittlsey seconded. All in favor, motion passed. Kenneth will have to go to Selectmen's meeting.