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*DRAFT#5 OCTOBER 19, 2020 ANN-UAL TOWN MEETING*
<br /> PLEASE NOTE THAT ARTICLE NUMBERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE PRIOR TO EXECUTION
<br /> Article 16
<br /> To see if Mashpee will join towns across Cape Cod in an effort to respond to a shared sense of climate
<br /> emergency, based on data and warning from the scientific community. Across Cape Cod, many
<br /> acknowledge that climate change is a dire threat to our well-being that demands immediate attention.
<br /> Passage of the article will indicate that the residents and government of Mashpee are committed to
<br /> expeditiously reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by further reducing energy consumption as
<br /> well as by supporting and instituting efforts to wisely manage our land, biodiversity, and natural resources
<br /> to reduce the town's vulnerability to climate change, or take any other action relating thereto.
<br /> Submitted by the Board of Selectmen
<br /> Explanation: Because of threats to our health, safety, and economic security, M ash pee's communities,
<br /> service organizations, government representatives, officers, and departments have already taken many
<br /> leading steps toward mitigating the environmental conditions that cause decreasing biodiversity, global
<br /> warming, melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, acidifying oceans, damaging storms, intensifying heat waves,
<br /> and raging fires, but CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere have already risen above the acceptable 350 ppm
<br /> to 415 ppm. As a member of 350 Cape Cod, this petitioner urges Mashpee's residents, communities,
<br /> elected representatives, and town employees to join in spirit and action with the residents of other Cape
<br /> Cod towns to prudently facilitate this article's objectives.
<br /> The Board of Selectmen recommends approval of Article 16 by a vote of 5-0
<br /> The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 16 by a vote of 5-1
<br /> Article 17
<br /> To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase or eminent
<br /> domain taking such interests, including temporary and permanent easements, within certain parcels of
<br /> land abutting Route 151 (Nathan Ellis Highway) for the purposes of constructing, reconstructing,, and
<br /> installing roadway improvements within said Route 151 from the Mashpee Rotary to the intersection with
<br /> Old Barnstable Road pursuant to the Route 151 Corridor Improvement Project (Phase 1) and to accept
<br /> within the public layout of Route 151/ Old Barnstable Road certain areas, all as more particularly shown
<br /> and described on a plan entitled " Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division Plan
<br /> and Profile of Nathan Ellis Highway (Route 151) Corridor Improvements in the Town of, Mashpee,
<br /> Barnstable County, Preliminary Right of Way Plans,", dated October 2020, and prepared by Stantec
<br /> Consulting Services, Inc.,, as revised, which plan/layouts shall have been filed in the Office of the Town
<br /> Clerk, not later than seven days prior to the date of the vote hereunder, and to authorize the Board of
<br /> Selectmen to enter into such agreements or adopt such orders as may be required to acquire by gift,
<br /> purchase or take by eminent domain any land or interests necessary for the purposes of such ways as so
<br /> laid out, and to appropriate and transfer a sum of money from available funds to be determined by
<br /> appraisal and/or to raise said appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen,
<br /> be authorized to borrow at one time, or from time to time, under and pursuant to Chapter 44 Section 7 or
<br /> 8 or any other enabling authority for such purchase or taking and layout, including costs of constructing
<br /> such ways and legal, financing and other costs incidental and related thereto; or take any other action
<br /> relating thereto.
<br /> Submitted by the Board of Selectmen
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