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Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- Explanation: This article authorizes the use of state
<br /> mends approval. grant funds for FY2000 often referred to as Chapter 90
<br /> Funds. The Town of Mashpee is 100%reimbursed for
<br /> Motion made by Selectman Marsters. the use of funds for roadway improvements. These
<br /> Motion: I move the Town vote to reclassify the posi- revenues are from the gas tax as apportioned back to
<br /> tion of Assistant Conservation Agent as a full-time cities and towns.
<br /> position and for said purpose the Town vote to appro-
<br /> priate and transfer from the Conservation Lands and
<br /> Maintenance Account $10,793 and $4,000 from the mends approval. a
<br /> Conservation Reserved Receipts Account to the Motion made by Selectman Taylor.
<br /> Conservation Salary/Wage Account, and further the
<br /> Town vote to raise and appropriate $9885, with said Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate
<br /> funds to be distributed as follows: $4,095 to the $440,903 to provide for road improvement projects in
<br /> Conservation Salary/Wage Account, $5,481 to the and for the Town, in accordance with the provisions of
<br /> Medical Insurance Account, $274 to the Medicare Chapter 90 of the Massachusetts General Laws.
<br /> Account and $35 to the Group Insurance Account. Motion passes to indefinitely postpone at 9:18 p.m.
<br /> Motion passes at 9:14 p.m. ARTICLE 16 To see if the Town will vote to raise
<br /> ARTICLE 14 and appropriate or transfer from available funds or
<br /> borrow $426,640 to the Sewer Commission Facilities s
<br /> To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, Plan Account, to be expended under the direction of
<br /> or transfer from available funds $80,000 to the the Sewer Commission for consultant services and i
<br /> Mashpee Waterways Dredging Account, funds to be associated costs related to the development of a I
<br /> expended under the direction of the Board of Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan/Effluent
<br /> Selectmen, or take any other action relating thereto. Pipeline Preliminary Design, and to raise such appro-
<br /> Submitted by the Waterways Commission priation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the
<br /> Selectmen, be authorized to borrow $426,640, or any
<br /> Explanation: This article seeks funding to perform other sum under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Sections
<br /> maintenance dredging of the Popponesset Bay and 7, 8(16) and 8C of the General laws, or any other
<br /> Waquoit Bay channels, when and as required, and to enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the
<br /> dredge 15,000 cubic yards from the Mashpee River. Town therefor; provided that said appropriation and
<br /> Permits already exist for the Popponesset Bay and borrowing authorization shall be contingent on receipt
<br /> Waquoit Bay dredging, and the cost ranges from$4.14 of a loan for this purpose from the State Revolving
<br /> to $6.52 per cubic yard depending on the length of Fund Program of the Department of Environmental
<br /> pipe required. Permits for dredging the Mashpee Protection, or take any other action relating thereto.
<br /> River are in the process of being obtained, and costs of Submitted by Sewer Commission
<br /> dredging are not yet known. The cost of dredging will
<br /> depend on the method approved for disposing of Explanation: The Mashpee River, Ockway Bay,
<br /> dredged material. The range of costs is from an esti- Shoestring Bay,parts of Popponesset Bay and portions
<br /> mated $10 per cubic yard to $30 per cubic yard. We of the Waquoit Bay estuary have seen rapidly declin-
<br /> are seeking the lowest cost approach consistent with ing water quality, fish and shellfish kills caused by
<br /> environmental considerations. inadequate oxygen levels, excessive algae, foul odors
<br /> Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- and other problems due largely to excessive nitrogen
<br /> mends approval. levels. Those nitrogen levels result primarily from the
<br /> increasing levels of residential development in the
<br /> Motion made by Selectman Frye. watersheds of those bays and the use of traditional
<br /> Motion: I move Article 14 be indefinitely postponed. septic systems for disposal of wastewater. In 1998 the
<br /> Town funded the first phase of an effort to deal with
<br /> Motion passes to indefinitely postpone at 9.17 p.m. those problems. That first phase, a study of critical
<br /> ARTICLE 15 nitrogen levels in the Popponesset Bay estuary by Dr.
<br /> Brian Howes and the University of Massachusetts
<br /> To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, Center for Marine Science and Technology(CMAST),
<br /> borrow or transfer from available funds $440,903 to will identify the level of nitrogen inputs which can be
<br /> provide for road improvement projects under Chapter tolerated by the Mashpee River, Shoestring Bay,
<br /> 90 related to road funds, or take any other action relat- Ockway Bay and the main body of Popponesset Bay.
<br /> ing thereto. This article would fund the second phase of the pro-
<br /> Submitted by the Director of Public Works
<br /> ject, involving development by CMAST of similar
<br /> information on tolerable nitrogen levels for Hamblin
<br /> Pond / Little.River, Jehu Pond / Great River and the
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