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The enrollment of other employees into istering the wetland protection statutes. Her hard-wort Professional Development courses offered by and varied managerial skills served the' Town of }o Barnstable County was also coordinated through our Mashpee well during this difficult transition period, ar office. w In September of this past year, long-time mem. ' The Personnel Assistant continues to train on the ber John Johansen retired. John served as the 0 Automatic Data Processing System, which consists of Commission's Clerk and Chairman of the Cranberry a payroll processing cycle, entering and updating Bog Sub-Committee. He also put in many (unpaid) Jc employee information and pay information. office hours, screening permit applications. His able assistance, acute insights, dedication and "eagle eye" For the upcoming year, some of our major activ- will be irreplaceable. R ities will be to continue to assist with group training L opportunities for Town employees and to actively par- )4 Regretfully, Carole Moore had to step down asa. ticipate in them, to work closely with the Affirmative S full Commission member, due to increased job C Action Committee on "No Place for Hate" activities, demands. Her departure deprives us of a very actio¢ to continue to be more involved with Benefits and perspicacious commitment. P Management, continue to computerize department Ji I records, continue to take a leadership role in updating In 2002, former Associate member Stephanie work rules, policies, as well as continuing to be a Jones became a regular member. The steadfast partici• resource for all municipal town employees. I look for- pation she exhibited as an Associate Member wig - ward to the many new challenges ahead. undoubtedly translate into valuable contributions asa;„A Respectfully submitted, full member. Most recently Cass Costa joined our` I Commission. Her knowledge of Mashpee and active:" Marilyn Farren participation has already proved to be assets. Also-= Personnel Administrator joining the Commission was John Miller, newly 7 moved to Mashpee and a past member of the Dennis a Conservation Commission. Report of the 2002 was another busy year. The troubled econ Conservation Commission omy affected only a slight drop (9%) in applications e Though site-visits by staff were down by an identical 2 9%, Enforcement Orders (more serious infractions) To the Honorable Board of Selectmen actually increased markedly. t and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Conservation land management still places grea( t demands on the Commission. We continue to have 2002 saw the retirement of two long-time stat- problems with damage done by ATVs. We have also r warts of the Conservation Commission. Our had problems with removal of trees. One such viola- Administrative Assistant, Diana Lund, retired in tion, at the end of Porthole Drive in the Mashpee River j January, after more than 16 years as the Commission's Woodlands, was particularly serious. We are still r "secretary" and office manager. Diana "survived" investigating this incident. The Commission would three Conservation Agents (mentoring all of them), greatly appreciate any information on who did this was patient,gracious and insightful to the public,other illegal work. t Town employees, and to an ever-changing Commission. Her dedication, effectiveness and sense- This past fall, the EDB (removal) treatment of-humor will be sorely missed. plant,burned to the ground at the Quashnet Bogs.It is still not clear if vandalism was involved,but there have The Commission was fortunate to be able to hirethis been numerous other incidents of vandalism on Pauline Beaulieu as our new Administrative Assistant. Conservation property. The treatment plant,helping to Pauline had previously worked for St. Michael's clean-up the FS-1 pollution plume, will be rebuilt by College in Vermont. She brings to the job excellent the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence people-skills and proficiency with computers. (AFCEE), but will probably not be "up and running" until the Summer of 2003. Oversight of the clean-UP Aqua O'Hara, our Administrative Clerk for over effort, which is about to expand, is time-consuming 10 years,ably assumed a lot of Diana's tasks during the Peggy Fantozzi ably serves as a special consultant ro time frame before Pauline was hired. Since then she has the Commission regarding the AFCEE EDB remedia been invaluable in "apprenticing" Pauline in learning tion activities. the new(and very specialized) skills inherent to admin- f l 132