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an adjacent wetland system, revegetation of banks on Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom.
<br /> the Quashnet River and engineering/design for a new mends approval.
<br /> water-control structure at the head of the Quashnet Article 24: To seed the Town will vote to transfer the
<br /> River(as it leaves Johns Pond). care, custody, management and control of the portion
<br /> Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- of land described in this Article from the Board of
<br /> mends approval. Selectmen for municipal use, including construction
<br /> of a high school and related facilities, to the Board of
<br /> Article 21: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate Selectmen for such municipal use, and in addition for
<br /> or transfer$15,000 from the Cranberry Bogs Reserved
<br /> Receipts Account to the Conservation Lands Mainte- the purpose of conveying a conservation restriction,
<br /> and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant to the
<br /> nance and Improvement Account, or take any other United States of America, acting by and through the
<br /> action relating thereto. Fish&Wildlife Service and its successors and permit.
<br /> Submitted by the Conservation Commission ted assigns a Conservation Restriction in perpetuity,
<br /> Explanation: These monies would be used for our under the provisions of MGL Chapter 184, Section
<br /> Interpretive Tours Program, for revegetation/stabiliza- 531-33, on a portion of that parcel of Town-owned
<br /> tion of the area of the Mashpee River where emer- land shown on a Plan of Land to be Acquired by the
<br /> gency dredging was done and for bank stabilization, Town of School Purposes in Mashpee, Massachu.
<br /> signage, trail work and resource inventory work on setts, dated December 5, 1994 and prepared by BSS
<br /> Conservation Lands. Design, Inc., which lies within the following bound-
<br /> aries:
<br /> Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- Beginning at the northeasternmost corner
<br /> mends approval. of said parcel, thence westerly 500 feet
<br /> Article 22: To see if the Town will vote to raise and along the southern sideline of the Nathan B.
<br /> appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of Ellis Highway (Route 15 1) to a point,
<br /> money to the Stabilization Account, or take any other thence southerly in a straight line to a point
<br /> action relating thereto. on the northerly sideline of a Common-
<br /> Submitted by the Finance Committee wealth Electric Company power line ease-
<br /> ment lying 500 feet westerly of the enter of
<br /> Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- the Quashnet River, thence westerly along
<br /> mends approval. the northerly sideline of said easement to
<br /> Article 23: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the westerly boundary of the parcel, thence
<br /> the Board of Selectmen to prepare an application to southerly, easterly and northerly by the
<br /> the Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating westerly southerly and easterly boundaries
<br /> Council for designation of the following described of said parcel to the point of beginning,
<br /> area, as shown on a map in the Town Clerk's office, as and furthermore to authorize the Selectmen to enter
<br /> an economic opportunity area (as shown on Mashpee into any agreements and execute any and all instru-
<br /> Assessors Map 88, Lots, 2, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, ments as may be necessary on behalf of the town to
<br /> 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, and 42) pur- effectuate said grant, or take any other action relating
<br /> suant to the provisions of Chapter 23A of the General thereto.
<br /> Laws, and further, to authorize the Selectmen to take Submitted by the Board of Selectmen
<br /> such actions as are necessary to make such application
<br /> consistent with the Council's requirements, or take Explanation: This article would authorize the Board
<br /> any other action relating thereto. of Selectmen to grant a Conservation Restriction to the
<br /> Submitted by the Board of Selectmen U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on certain portions of
<br /> the new high school site which lie along the Quashnel
<br /> Explanation: This article authorizes the Board of River and south of, and including, a Commonwealth
<br /> Selectmen to make application to the State to desig- Electric power line easement. The Restriction will not
<br /> nate the Town's Industrial Park as an Economic affect any of the land proposed to be used for school
<br /> Opportunity Area for economic development purpos- facilities, including future expansion areas. It is pro'
<br /> es. This designation enables businesses seeking to posed by the Selectmen in order to provide the Fish&
<br /> locate or expand in the industrial park to apply for Wildlife Service with a legal interest in a parcel of
<br /> Massachusetts investment tax credits and local proper- land, which is required before they can begin formal
<br /> ty tax incentives in order to create jobs and economic operations of the proposed National Wildlife Refuge
<br /> development for our community. This is a step in a The land would continue to be owned and managed by
<br /> multi-stage process, and any projects under this desig- the Town.
<br /> nation will require an additional vote of Town Meeting
<br /> for approval. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom-
<br /> mends approval.
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