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54 '�► Report of the Municipal Building Needs Committee To the Honorable Board of Selectmen of the Town of Mashpee ' This committee has concluded its meetings, of which nineteen were held; its hearings with the Board of Select- men, the Chief of the Police Department, the Chief of the Fire Department, the Superintendent of Schools, the Princi- pal of the Samuel G. Davis Elementary School, the Surveyor of Highways and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library; the committee's own private meetings a and one field trip. " One guiding principle, to which all members of the com- mittee gave their earnest attention, was to separate NEEDS from DESIRES. A priority was established based on the urgency and severity of the needs and a majority vote of the committee establishes the need for new facilities in the following order: 1. A new and badly needed Police Station 2. A new Fire Station 3. A new Town Hall with facilities for all Town Departments normally housed in such a building Comments on other departments of the Town will be stated further ,on in this report. At the last formal meeting of the committee, after long and careful consideration, it was voted that while the prior- ities stated on this page are valid and accurate, the needs of the Town are such that this group feels it to be in the best interest of the Town to have the voters treat all three priorities as one and that any and all favorable action in- clude, without prejudice, the first three priorities so stated. To put it simply, the committee feels that the Town needs, in the immediate future, a new and adequate Police Station, a new Fire Station and a new Town Hall and we respect- fully request the Board of Selectmen and the voters of the f j Town to treat the three needs as one and to make a package of the plans and financing for the top three priorities.