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Motion made by Selectman Leveille. Health/Solid Waste/Recycling Account, or take any Motion:I move the Town vote to approve the terms of other action relating thereto. an intermunicipal agreement between the Mashpee Submitted by the Recycling Committee Board of Selectmen, the Mashpee School Committee, and the Board of Health and the Mashpee Water District Board of Water Explanation: This article proposes the purchase of Commissioners, and further to authorize the Board of Sanitary Compactors and Roll-off Compaction Selectmen and the Mashpee School Committee to Containers to be located at the Mashpee Transfer enter into a lease with the Mashpee Water District to Station for the purpose of recycling cling card board and provide School Administration facilities at the plastic waste. The Mashpee Recycling Committee is Mashpee Water District's facility on Industrial Drive recommending the compacting and disposal of this in Mashpee. waste based on environmental needs, cost savings and Motion passes unanimously at 7:43 p.m. currently mandated DEP regulations. The proposal ARTICLE 4 calls for the purchase and installation of five (5) Containers and four (4) Compactors which will allow To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and trans- for the segregation and compacting of these materials. fer $5000 from the Conservation Lands & The cost of this activity will not exceed $95,000. Of Maintenance Account to the Conservation Trust this amount estimates are that the equipment will cost Account, or take any other action relating thereto. $64,600 and the electric service installation $30,400. Submitted by the Conservation Commission Based on 1999 actual costs and estimates for the years 2000 through 2002 the compacting and sale of these Explanation: At the FY2000 annual Town meeting, recycled materials would result in average annual sav- $5000 was transferred from the Conservation Trust ings of$24,840. Financial payback on this investment j. Account.The transfer should have been made from the is 3.8 years. Savings would increase dramatically as Conservation Lands & Maintenance Account. This the percent of total recycling increases. article seeks to rectify the error. The Cape Cod Commission and the Mashpee Board of Motion made by Selectman Cahalane. Health report Mashpee recycling rates are presently at Motion: I move the Town appropriate and transfer 13%, the lowest of all Cape Cod communities. Plastic recycling rates are approximately 15% and cardboard $5,000 from the Conservation Lands and Maintenance i Account to the Conservation Trust Account. recycling rates are at 0.45%. Budget estimates for the year 2001 will require an expenditure of over Motion passes unanimously at 7:44 p.m. $850,000 for trash disposal in our town. The current ARTICLE 5 practice of disposing of this waste is financially and environmentally indefensible. The Massachusetts II. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and trans- DEP has mandated that all cardboard and plastics must fer from available funds $15,000 to the Fire &Rescue be segregated from the general waste stream com- Salary/Wage Account,or take any other action relating mencing on 4/1/2000. This is the first major effort by thereto. the Recycling Committee to prepare for increasing Submitted by the Fire Department regulation and to reduce ever escalating waste disposal costs. Explanation: This amount of money is required to fund the Fire & Rescue Salary/Wage Account for the Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- II mends approval. remainder of the fiscal year. This shortfall is due to a large increase in responses. Motion made by Selectman Leveille. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and mends approval. transfer from revenue available for appropriation f Motion made by Selectman Blythe. $95,000 to the Solid Waste/Recycling Account. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and Motion passes unanimously at 7:45 p.m. transfer from revenue available for appropriation Special Town Meeting adjourned at 7:45 p.m. $15,000 to the Fire Salary/Wage Account. And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by i Motion passes unanimously at 7.45 p.m. posting up attested copies thereof, one at the Town t ARTICLE 6 Hall, one at the Post Office, and one each on the bul- i letin boards, thirty days at least before said meeting. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and trans- fer from available funds $95,000 to the Board of 47