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i this endeavor. Many thanks to all who participated in the cookbook project. Report of the Board of Health On a sadder note, our grant application for build- ing funds was deferred by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioner (MBLC). We received this To the Honorable Board of Selectmen news in June and had until early December to make and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: changes to the design. The selectmen opted not to pro- ceed with the original architectural firm. All parties We,the Board of Health,respectfully submit our `t involved felt it was not realistic to go through a new annual report for the calendar year 2001. designer selection process and create a new design in less than five months just to meet the December dead- The following is a partial list of the services pro- line. The MBLC was notified that Mashpee was with- vided by the Board of Health and its staff during 2001 drawing from the process and would continue working as compared to 2000: on its project with hopes of competing in a future grant round. The overall feeling was that it was better to 2001 2000 take more time to plan the best building possible than Perc tests 182 113 rush the project and have to live with the results. Water tests 140 140 Pool inspections 48 77 b A number of new people have stepped forward to Complaint investigations 63 48 join the Building Committee. Kevin Connolly has Septic inspections 192 257 been selected as the new chairman of the committee. Food inspections 167 180 David Burton, chairman of the Library Trustees, had Housing inspections 43 28 filled that role for several years. Mr.Burton had asked Hazardous emergency calls 6 5 for another member of the committee to take over as Septic plan review 105 247 chairman so he could concentrate on working on fund Illegal dumping investigations 27 29 raising projects. I would like to thank him for all the work he did as chairman. I am happy to report that he Revenues generated by the Board of Health dur- will still be working as a member of the committee. ing 2001 as compared to 2000 are as follows: On another note, the CLAMS Library Network 2001 2000 will be upgrading its system in early 2002. A new Perc tests 13,250.00 9,925.00 software vendor has been selected that will provide a Septic permits 20,425.00 23,740.00 Windows based database to CLAMS. All members Well permits 2,600.00 2,425.00 have been working diligently throughout the fall of Installer's permits 3,850.00 7,150.00 2001 to clean up our current database. Many hours Septic pumpers 2,100.00 2,000.00 f,,l` have gone into weeding out old records and updating Trailer parks 17,254.00 20,600.00 I the patron database. There will be a cost involved in Pool permits 1,500.00 3,300.00 data transfer so the point of this project has been to Motel permits 600.00 800.00 minimize cost by deleting old or incomplete data. As Food permits 10,606.00 11,601.00 an example, CLAMS will be purging records of Stable permits 290.00 265.00 patrons who have not used their library cards since Misc. permits 7,162.12 3,610.70 1998. In reviewing Mashpee cards slated to be Trash haulers 1,500.00 1,500.00 deleted, many had registered in 1994 and hadn't been Commercial stickers* 3,000.00 3,125.00 in any CLAMS library since then. Next year's report Recycling revenue* 1,811.80 5,096.75 will note a drop in number of registered library card- Tobacco sales permits 165.00 85.00 holders. Purging these records will save money by not Fines 1,480.00 250.00 paying to transfer records on patrons who are no Disposal Fees* 944.45 1,002.00 longer in the area. Upper Cape Reg Transfer Station* 69,586.96 129,924.29 j Respectfully submitted, TOTAL REVENUES 158,125.33 226,399.74 Helene B. DeFoe Library Director Revenues generated January 1, 2001 to June 30, 2001. 1' 91