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update to the Town's Multi -Hazard Mitigation Plan,
<br />webinars on "Wayfinding Technology" (e.g.
<br />community signage and related programs), the new
<br />concept of "central social district" vs. "central business
<br />district", "Housing, Lodging and the Sharing
<br />Economy" (i.e. the impacts of AirBnB, Uber etc.) and
<br />a two-day Coastal Inundation Mapping Course taught
<br />by NOAA, two "Complete Streets 101" training
<br />sessions, the two-day Wampanoag Tribe Economic
<br />Development Community Input Sessions, where I
<br />made presentations on our Comprehensive Plan and
<br />our Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan and
<br />discussed cooperation in planning with the Tribe,
<br />meetings with representatives of Mashpee, Sandwich
<br />and Barnstable regarding development of an inter -
<br />municipal agreement regarding how we will meet EPA
<br />nitrogen loading targets to clean up Popponesset Bay,
<br />a meeting with Mass. Maritime students regarding
<br />environmental protection in Mashpee, a Cape Light
<br />Compact Meeting regarding Eversource's "Grid
<br />Modernization Plan" and attendance at the
<br />Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors
<br />Annual Meeting, the "One Cape Summit" regarding
<br />Cape wastewater & Nitrogen issues and the Cape Cod
<br />Commission's Section 2018 wastewater plan and the
<br />annual Southern New England American Planning
<br />Association Conference.
<br />Over the last 33 years, I have been privileged to
<br />work with 40 Planning Board members and 24
<br />Selectmen (as well as 15 other Sewer Commissioners).
<br />I would like to name them all here, because they all
<br />deserve to be remembered for the hard work they put
<br />into making Mashpee what it is today, but alas, can
<br />only name a few in this space. Among those, I would
<br />like to recognize the Selectmen and Planning Board
<br />members who first welcomed me to Mashpee:
<br />Selectmen B. Jean Thomas, Richard Terry and Willard
<br />Hanson and Planning Board members Chairman
<br />Richard Dubin, Earl Marsters, Richardson Jonas (who
<br />had served on the Board since it was created in 1959
<br />and taught me scalloping, when there were still plenty
<br />of scallops in Waquoit Bay), Harold Collins (the long-
<br />time Building Inspector, with whom I shared an office
<br />in my first year) and Michelle Stone, as well as
<br />Executive Secretary Joe Murphy, Town Counsel Joe
<br />Reardon and Assistant Town Counsel Leslie -Anne
<br />Morse. I must also recognize the great Chairmen the
<br />Planning Board has had over the years, including Tony
<br />Ferragamo, Pat Coffey, John Kuchinski, Matt Malone,
<br />Beverly Kane, Tom O'Hara, George Petersen and our
<br />current Chair Mary Waygan. I thank them and all the
<br />other Board members who served the town, but would
<br />be remiss if I didn't make special mention of my friend
<br />and former fellow Sewer Commissioner Dennis
<br />Balzarini, who has served the Board faithfully for the
<br />last 23 years. Among the Selectmen, I similarly can't
<br />list them all, but would like to make special mention of
<br />Andy Gottlieb, who served both during the crucial days
<br />in the late 80s when we created the Water District and
<br />Sewer Commission and today, Carol Jacobson, John
<br />Cahalane (once a fellow Sewer Commissioner and a
<br />long-time affordable housing advocate), Chuckie
<br />Green, Wayne Taylor (who I had the great pleasure of
<br />working with on the Land Bank Committee) and,
<br />especially, the late George R. Costa, with whom I
<br />partnered in the creation of his Mashpee National
<br />Wildlife Refuge (and also served with on the Sewer
<br />Commission). Special thanks also goes to Town
<br />Administrator Bob Whritenour, who supported our
<br />efforts to develop the Comprehensive Plan, create the
<br />Wildlife Refuge and fund our Nitrogen Management
<br />Plan. I have had some great staff members over the
<br />years, including long-term Administrative Assistants
<br />Nonie Nickerson and, especially, Myra Suchenicz,
<br />among the five who have held that position and my
<br />seven Assistant Planners, going back to Mark Smith in
<br />1986 and including Lee Weller, Eloise Graveno, Eric
<br />Smith (who served in the position twice and was
<br />critical to developing our Comprehensive Plan), Eric
<br />Twarog and Bill Newton, as well as interns Paul
<br />Schumacher and Caroline Woodwell. I am proud to say
<br />that many have gone on to run their own planning
<br />departments or non-profit organizations, as well as to
<br />senior positions in federal agencies.
<br />As a Mashpee resident and through my job I have
<br />also had the privilege to know hundreds of wonderful
<br />Town employees, volunteers and residents. Again, I
<br />would love to name them all, but must mention a
<br />special few who were especially great to work with or
<br />gave me freely their support and knowledge, including:
<br />Anne Shaw, Jane Labute, Ernie Virgilio, Curt Frye,
<br />Ann Tanneyhill, Frank Hicks, Joan Avant Tavares,
<br />Marie Scalley, Chief Vernon Pocknett, Russell Peters,
<br />John "Slow Turtle" Peters, Jim Peters, Johnnie Newton,
<br />Dick Shaughnessy, Evelyn Buschenfeldt, Chief Earl
<br />Mills, Joe DiMaggio, Mary LeClair, Bob DeLory,
<br />Charlie Buckingham, June Daley, Mary and Chief
<br />Vernon Lopez, Elias McQuade, John Varkonda, Lisa
<br />Hanscom, Bob Sherman, Ed Baker, Diana Lund, Bill
<br />and Betty Jones, Perry Ellis, Bill McKay, Morris
<br />Kirsner, Ben Lofchie, Gus Frederick, Alice Lopez,
<br />Molly Reis, John Miller, Carlo D'Este, Dave Bailey,
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