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71 ' on M backs. Many of the other Towns on the Cape will be Report of the looking for Proposition 2 1/2 overrides in the coming Finance Committee year. I believe we will be able to get by one more year without that problem. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of One of the tasks under the new Charter is to form the Town of Mashpee: a review committee and hopefully the information coming from that committee's report will tell us in We were tasked this year to set up operations of advance what our financial position will be in the near the Finance Committee to coincide with the new future and will prepare us to better plan where we must Charter that was enacted in October 2003. Members go financially to keep Town services where they need of the Charter Commission were very helpful in assist- to be. You will be seeing the first Review Committee's ing the Finance Committee in doing so. They were report prior to the Annual Town Meeting in 2005. there to answer any questions and to guide us. Respectfully submitted, Along with setting the guidelines for our now operations, we maintained a conservative fiscal policy Gerald J. Umina, Chairman with the help of our Town Manager, the Board of Desire Hendricks-Moreno, Vice Chair Selectmen and all the Department Heads. The year of Christopher Avis 2004 finished with the Town of Mashpee in a fairly Charles Dottridge good position fiscally for the year. Next year and Leonard Long thereafter, we may be facing tighter financial times. Kenneth Patrick Although I do not foresee any major financial prob- lems for the next year, there will have to be some cut- I i G I' i. i f r I i 31