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ARTICLE 13 Special Town Meeting adjourned at 8:03 p.m. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and trans- And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by fer from available funds, $15,000 to the Impact Fee posting up attested copies thereof, one at the Town Study Account, or take any other action relating Hall, one at the Post Office, and one each on the bul- thereto. letin boards, thirty days at least before said meet- Submitted by the Board of Selectmen ing.Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time Explanation: With the certification of Mashpee's and place of said meeting. i Comprehensive Plan by the Cape Cod Commission in July, 1998, the Town became legally eligible to adopt Given under our hands this twenty-ninth day of March a set of bylaws and regulations requiring payment of in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and "impact fees" for various types of new development. ninety-nine. Such fees are intended to help cover new capital costs for the Town which result from new development, Per order of, such as those for new school buildings, public safety Board of Selectmen buildings and vehicles, recreation facilities and other capital items that the Town would not have had to Kenneth E. Marsters acquire if the development had not occurred. Curtis W. Frye Development of legally defensible impact fee regula- Wayne E. Taylor tions requires extensive review of the Town's capital Nancy J. Caffyn needs and their potential costs, including development David L. Leveille f of a methodology for properly allocating a share of such costs to various forms of new development, a thorough understanding of available funding mecha- nisms and sources, a method for dealing with offset- ting payments, such as those required by permit con- ditions and Cape Cod Commission mitigation require- ments, in addition to state aid formulas, a thorough understanding of the laws and legal precedents applic- able to impact fees, the practical procedures for calcu- lating fees, collection timing and procedures and familiarity with the language and operations of impact fee regulations that have been implemented elsewhere. As the Town's expertise in this field is limited, and available assistance from the Cape Cod Commission is only general in nature, this article would fund a con- sultant with experience in development of impact fees ' elsewhere to assist the Planning Department with development of impact fee regulations, calculations and implementing measures which are specific and appropriate for Mashpee. i Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- mends approval. Motion made by Selectman Taylor. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and transfer from revenue available for appropriation $15,000 to the Impact Fee Study Account. Motion passes at 8:03 p.m. Motion made to adjourn at 8:03 p.m. i Motion passes at 8:03 p.m. 35