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A complete list of the materials accepted at the Our self-funded center offers affordable care and Transfer Station can be found on the Town's web page quality programming to over 80 families with children at www.mashpeema.gov. ranging in age from 15 months to 6 years old. Our toddler, preschool, and full-time daycare programs CEMETERY typically fill to capacity during the course of the year. In 2017,31 plots and one niche were sold at Great Children who are 3 and 4 years old attend our half-day Neck Woods Cemetery. Twenty-six interments were or full-day preschool program, any number of days held. during the week.This flexibility in scheduling provides families with more latitude in the care and education Improvements at Great Neck Woods Cemetery of their children, while remaining affordable. High over the year include resurfacing of the roads (chip staff retention provides consistency in teaching seal),planting of trees at the entrance,and installation standards and a dependable,familiar environment for of additional pole lighting. the children as they grow with the center. Our six full- time employees and two part-time employees work Fees collected from sale of plots are deposited closely with the Mashpee school system to prepare the into a dedicated cemetery account. Cemetery children for Kindergarten. operations are 100% funded through this account. School-Aged Programs: We continue to offer a Respectfully submitted, wealth of programs and activities for youth ages 3-14. Catherine Laurent Our Extended Day programs have been extremely Director successful and, more importantly, invaluable to our local families as we provide a much needed service for their children. This year, we have enrolled approximately 112 children,representing 97 families. Our Kindergarten and 1 st grade program is held at the Report of the KC Coombs School. Our Extended Day program for Recreation Department students in grades 2-6 is held at the Quashnet School. These programs continue to meet and exceed licensing requirements set forth by the Commonwealth of To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Care. Our program has had the distinct pleasure of MISSION working with the Southeast Region Education Professionals Partnership,funded by the Educator and "To meet the needs of our community by Provider Support Grant,as we work to attain the third promoting quality educational programs, recreational highest Quality Rating score possible for programs activities, and special events that are designed to such as ours. Our program will be one of the first for enhance personal growth, learning opportunities and the Cape Cod and Islands District to achieve this community development, while focusing on the distinction. educational and recreational interests that influence our health and well-being." The Mashpee Summer Day Camp program for children and older youth expanded our capacity by an PROGRAMS additional 15%to a record number of 165 campers per week-long session for grades 1-6. Our half-day Kids Klub Childcare Center: This coming year preschool program began in the summer of 2016 and will mark our 26th year in operation as a Town- continued to be very successful in 2017.The program sponsored program. It is the only center in Town that runs for eight weeks and provides parents with quality, offers year-round,full-time daycare,in addition to half- affordable care from 7:OOAM to 5:30PM.The summer day preschool.Kids Klub Childcare Center is licensed of 2017 marked the fourth year of our Counselor in by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department Training(CIT)program for students in grades 7-9.This of Early Education and Care. year's class of 12 CIT's gained insightful, practical experience in the care and education of young children. Five members of our 2016 CIT class became Junior Camp Counselors for the summer 2017 program. 134