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<br /> The Finance Committee recommends approval by a vote of 6-0, one absent.
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<br /> At its meeting on October 7, 2009, the Planning Board voted 5-0 to recommend approval of
<br /> Article 20.
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<br /> Motion made and seconded to dispense with reading of article.
<br /> Motion made by Petitioner Merry Sue Ahlgren.
<br /> Motion: I move the Town vote to accept the layout as a public way of Forest Drive as shown on
<br /> a plan entitled "Easement Taking and Layout Plan of Forest Drive" in Mashpee, Massachusetts
<br /> (Barnstable County)", dated October 9, 2008 and prepared by Eagle Surveying, Inc., whicht
<br /> layout shall have been filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, not later than seven days prior to the
<br /> date of the vote hereunder and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase
<br /> or eminent domain taking any land necessary for the purposes of such ways as so laid out
<br /> $164,819 to the Forest Drive Roadways Account and to raise said appropriation, the Treasurer,
<br /> with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, be authorized to borrow at one time, or from time
<br /> to time, under and pursuant to Chapter 44 Section 7 or 8 or any other enabling authority for such
<br /> purchase or taking and layout including costs of constructing such ways and legal financing and
<br /> other costs incidental and related thereto; and further authorize the Board of Selectmen to assess
<br /> betterments to the owners of the land abutting the ways.
<br /> Motion passes unanimously at 8:06PM.
<br /> Article 21
<br /> To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, for
<br /> conservation and passive recreation purposes, consistent with the provisions of Mass. Gen. Laws.
<br /> Ch. 40, Section 8C, and Article 97 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
<br /> of Massachusetts, the collection of parcels of land know as the "Dacey Properties" identified on .
<br /> the 2007 Mashpee Assessors' Maps as 16 parcels amounting to 38 acres located between
<br /> Algonquin Avenue, Old Barnstable Road and Nathan Ellis Highway {Parcel IDs: (72 117 0), (72r
<br /> 113 0), (72112 0), (7211 1 0), (72110 0), (79 80 0), (79 79 0), (79 78 0), (79 77 0), (79 76 0), (79
<br /> 75 0), (79 73 0), (79 74 0), (79 72 0), (79 710), (72 118 0)}, and further, to see if the Town will
<br /> vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, $5,619,300 for such purpose,
<br /> including expenses incidental and related thereto, and to raise such appropriation, the Treasurer,
<br /> with the approval of the Town, be authorized to borrow $5,619,300 or any other sum under and
<br /> pursuant to Chapter 44, Sections 7 and 8C and, if applicable, Chapter 40, section 8C of the
<br /> General laws, or any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefore,
<br /> with said borrowing to be repaid with funds from the Land Bank Fund established by the Town
<br /> under the provisions of Chapter 293 of the Acts of 1998 (An Act Relative to the Establishment of
<br /> the Cape Cod Open Space Land Acquisition Program); and further, to see if the Town will
<br /> authorize the Board of Selectmen and/or Conservation Commission to apply for and accept
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<br /> Federal, State and/or County grants, including reimbursement under Chapter 132A, Section 11 of Y'
<br /> the General Laws, the "Self-Help Act", and/or the Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund,
<br /> P.L. 88-568, 78 Stat 897, to be applied to the Town toward the financing of this purchase, and to
<br /> enter into contracts or agreements with Federal, State and/or County agencies, private j
<br /> conservation trusts or other entities or persons in connection with the purchase of such land and
<br /> its preservation for conservation and passive recreation purposes; to appropriate back to the
<br /> Conservation Commission Acquisition of Lands and Maintenance Account any funds reimbursed
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