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TOWN OF MASHPEE And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at the Town Hall, SPECIAL TOWN MEETING one at the Post Office, and one each on the bulletin December 17, 1990 boards, fourteen days at least before said meeting. Hereof fail not and make returns of this Warrant with Meeting called to order at 7:40 P.M. your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and Voters present 163 Quorum 100 place of said meeting. BARNSTABLE, ss: Given under our hands this 28th day of November in the Greetings year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety, To the Constables of the Town: Per order of, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and summon the in- Jeremy M. Carter, Chairman habitants of the Town of Mashpee who are qualified to Carol H. Jacobson vote in the elections to meet at the Mashpee Middle Peter M. Lawrence School on Monday, the 17th day of December 1990 at Willard L. Hanson 7:30 P.M. for the following purposes: Andrew R. Gottlieb BOARD OF SELECTMEN To act on the Articles contained in the following Warrant: SOUTH CAPE BEACH DEVELOPMENT Article 1: To see if the Town will vote to authorize and AGREEMENT instruct the Selectmen to take action to accept and ratify the proposed Memorandum of Understanding between AGREEMENT entered into this day of the South Cape Beach State Park Advisory Committee December 1990, by and between the Town of Mashpee and the Department of Environmental Management for ("Town") acting through its Board of Selectmen and the the transfer of the present town owned beach to the Com- Commonwealth of Massachusetts acting through the monwealth in exchange for a new town owned beach to Commissioner of the Department of Environmental be constructed by the Commonwealth who will assume Management ("DEM"). all costs associated with the relocation,including the cost of a new access road, parking areas and necessary fenc- WHEREAS, the"Town"and"DEM"entered into an ing and other essential improvements as recommended agreement dated June 29, 1981, adopted by Chapter 287 by the South Cape Beach State Park Advisory Commit- of the Acts and Resolves of 1982 providing for the ac- tee, or in the alternative to authorize and instruct the quisition and development of an area of land now known Selectmen to retain the present town owned beach. as South Cape Beach State Park ("Park"); and Moderator read Article 1 WHEREAS, said Agreement in Paragraph 15 thereof provides for the acquisition by"DEM"of various"Town" Andrew Gottlieb Motion to Amend lands and in exchange Town would receive from"DEM" Motion that the Town Meeting vote to authorize the land of equal value. In conjunction therewith, "DEW Board of Selectmen to enter into an agreement with the would make improvements to Great Oak Road and Department of Environmental Management; substantial- assume the costs associated with the relocation of the ly the form shown in the hands of the Moderator; to ac- Town Beach ("Town Beach Facility") including costs of cept as same new access road, parking area and other amenities; and Motion to accept as amended Motion carries on a hand WHEREAS, the "Town Beach Facility" would be count with a Majority Vote 8:24 P.M. relocated to the East of the current Town Beach and con- sists of approximately thirty acres with an ocean fron- South Cape Beach Development is attached tage of about 1700 lineal feet as identified in map attached Original is on file to said Amended Agreement and incorporated therein; Article 2: To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- and propriate and/or transfer from Revenue Available for WHEREAS,"DEM"has submitted plans and designs Appropriation a sum of money to the Reserve Fund. for the development of the "Park" under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act as EOEA,File Motion to transfer$50,000 from Revenue Available for #4817; and Appropriation to the Reserve Fund Motion carries Voice Vote 8:25 P.M. WHEREAS, there currently exists some dispute over whether the "Town" should accept the "Town Beach Motion to Adjourn Facility" as identified on said Exhibit as "land of equal value", and further, to consummate the land exchanges, Motion carries Voice Vote 8:26 P.M. herein before referred to: and 76