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shown in the column entitled "Dept. FY 2000 Town o,f Mashpee Request" (See Omnibus Budget), or take any other Annual Town Meting action relating thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen The meeting was called to order at 8:03 PM. Explanation: This article seeks to fund the annual 434 voters present operating budgets for the various Town departments. Quorum-0 Barnstable, ss: Greetings Motion made by Selectman Marsters. To,the Constables of the Town, Motion: I move the Town vote to fix the salaries of the elected officers as specified under the columns entitled In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, "Finance Committee Recommendations": in Line you are hereby directed to notify and summon the Items 1,2,10,13,22,63.68 of the "Omnibus" budget as inhabitants of the Town of Mashpee who are qualified distributed to voters at the 'Town Meeting and further to vote in the elections to meet at the Quashnet School the Town defray the expenses for the ensuing fiscal on Monday,the 3rd day of May, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. for year by appropriating those amounts shown under the the following purposes: columns entitled "Finance Committee Recommen- To act on the articles contained in the followine, dations" and that to fund said appropriation,the Town Warrant. raise and appropriate $28,300,559" and further appro- priate and transfer from the Ambulance Receipts ARTICLE 1 Reserved for Appropriation Account$125,000 to Line To choose for a one-year term a burial agent, or take Item 41 and $42,000 to Line Item 42; appropriate and any other action relating thereto. transfer from the HotellMotel Reserved Receipts Account $120;000 to Line Item 86; appropriate and Submitted by the Board of Selectmen transfer from the Conservation Receipts Reserved for Explanation: This is the only position elected at the Appropriation Account $11,300 to Line Item 27; Annual Town Meeting. All other elected positions are appropriate and transfer from the Conservation Trust included on the ballot- of the Annual Election. The Account $5,000 to Line Item 28; appropriate and incumbent is Leigh Potter. transfer from the Shellfish Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account$8,500 to Line Item 55;appro Motion made by Selectman Leveille, priate and transfer from the Betterment Receipts Motion:I nominate Leigh Potter for the one-year term Reserved for Appropriation Account$153,000 000 to Line as burial agent. Item 80 appropriate and transfer from the School Foundation Aid Account $137,000 to Line Item 56; Motion passes unanimously at 8:04 p.m. appropriate and transfer from the Stabilization Trust ARTICLE 2 Fund$300,000 to Line Item 86; appropriate and trans- fer from the Cranberry Bog Receipts for To see if the Town will vote to accept the reports of the Appropriation Account $_4,,500 to Line Item 27; pro- Town officers. vided, however, that the sum of $1,050,000 in line Submitted by the Board of Selectmen item 56 and the sum of$100,0010 in line item 88 shall Explanation: The 1998 Annual Town Report in be contingent upon passage, at an election, of a Proposition 2 Y2override vote permitting the Town to which the reports Of Town officers are presented is assess an additional $1,150,000 in real estate and per- available at the Town Meeting and at the Town Hall. conal property taxes for fiscal year 2000. Motion made by Selectman Cafryn. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recoln- Motion:I move the Town vote to accept the reports of mends passage contingent on override. the Town officers Motion passes at 8:58 p.m.by a 2/3rds vote. Motion passes unanimously at 8:05 p.m. ARTICLE 3 To see if the Town will fix the salaries of the follow- ing elected officers as provided in Chapter 41, Section 108,of the General Laws for the Period of July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000, and further to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and transfer a sum of money to defray the Town's expenses for the ensuing fiscal year according,to the following line item budget with the maximum amount to be appropriated as 36