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• Other Cape Light Compact efforts Include: Since its inception, Community Preservation • 46 ENERGY STAR®qualified homes were built funding has supported a multi-year program to expand in the Town of Mashpee. the Heritage Park Recreational facility. This includes the popular Splash Pad,and the Tiger Long Playground Cape Light Compact continues to support energy with parking lot lighting. Additional recreational education in Mashpee High School and Quashnet projects supported by the CPA include the Quashnet School through classroom visits, teacher workshops, School Helping Hands Playground,the Kids Klub Pre- energy education curriculum and free materials all school Playground and the K.C. Coombs School aligned with the state NGSS and STEM initiatives. Therapeutic Playground. Funding has also allowed for Mashpee High School and Middle School participated the reconstruction of the tennis courts at the Quashnet in the Compact's Be Energy Efficient Smart (BEES) School, and track resurfacing at the Middle program and with the assistance of the Compact's School/High School. Recreation projects also include energy education staff,held an energy carnival for the the reconstruction of the twenty-year-old tennis and students at Quashnet and Peebles Schools under the basketball courts at the Middle School/High School, leadership of BEES lead teacher Amanda Hough. and improving playground equipment at both the K.C. Coombs and Quashnet Schools. At the Town beach, • Lighting upgrades were completed at Mashpee the Attaquin Park Playground was rejuvenated to Public Schools. improve the recreational facilities for Mashpee and its visitors. Community Preservation funding has also supported the creation of eight community pickleball courts on Ashumet Road. Report of the Under Historic Resources, the Old Indian Community Preservation Meetinghouse was restored and the One Room Committee Schoolhouse was relocated to the Community Park and refurbished. The Mashpee Archives building was preserved and restored in a two-phased project. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Additional CPA funding has supported an Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Archaeological Survey and the restoration of the Town Archives Holdings for Display. Funding was also At the May 2005 Annual Town Meeting, the made available for the Town Clerk to preserve Vital Town of Mashpee adopted the provisions of the Records. A Historic District sign project is also Community Preservation Act (CPA) to replace the planned to depict and promote Mashpee's unique Cape Cod Open Space Land Acquisition Program history. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the (Land Bank)and dedicate a 3%property tax surcharge, Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, a historic booklet along with state contributions that are made available to was funded to promote awareness of this valuable the Town of Mashpee under the Community resource. Preservation Act,to the Community Preservation Fund that may be appropriated and spent for certain Open The CPA has strongly supported Habitat for Space purposes, Recreation purposes, Historic Humanity in the construction of twenty affordable Resource purposes,and Community Housing purposes. homes in the Town of Mashpee deemed affordable in perpetuity. Funding was also earmarked to rehabilitate The Community Preservation Committee is a the Mashpee Village Apartments,and on two occasions nine-member committee charged with reviewing the to support a three-year Housing Assistance Program needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town of administered by the Mashpee Housing Authority. In Mashpee,with regard to community preservation. The addition, the CPA contributed to the Breezy Community Preservation Committee is responsible for Acres/Great Cove affordable family rental housing Community Preservation Fund appropriations and construction project. borrowings and makes recommendations to Town Meeting, the legislative body for the appropriation of Land acquisitions of significance include the all CPA funds. Mills Family Lands,15.24 acres at Santuit Pond,a CPA contribution towards the purchase of the St.Vincent's 98