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• In Social Studies, Honors Civics and AP World History had fully functioning online components. Over thirty percent of students passed the AP exam in World History. • The Spanish Department implemented new curriculum in Spanish Levels I and II. Students participated in multicultural events and Latin American music and dance activities. • Special Education implemented data collection that recorded student achievement and participation in academic they consistently checked grades online and worked with regular education colleagues to improve specific student achievement. • The Athletic Department developed both a coach's handbook and student -athletic handbook; established seasonal award banquets to recognize student athletes; and set objectives by seasons. Please visit our website: www.capetech.us for more information. Respectfully submitted, David Bloomfield Scott P. McGee Mashpee Representatives to CCRTHS School Committee Report of the Sewer Commission To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: It is time for Mashpee to act on cleaning up our rivers, bays, estuaries and ponds. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have established nitrogen loading targets for both the Popponesset Bay (including Shoestring Bay, Mashpee River, Ockway Bay, Popponesset Creek and Pinquikset Cove) and "East Waquoit" (including Sedge Lot Pond, Jehu Pond, Great and Little Rivers, Hamblin Pond and the Quashnet / Moonakis River) estuaries. These formal nitrogen targets, referred to as TMDLs (Total Maximum allowed Daily Loads of nitrogen), are required by the federal Clean Water Act. The Town is faced (along with the other towns which share the Bays' watersheds) with the need to meet those targets. Of course, Mashpee's residents have been concerned about the deterioration of our bays and rivers for decades, with extensive studies done in the late 1980s and our formal wastewater planning being kicked off by our 1996-97 "Watershed Year". Mashpee's resulting Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan (WNMP) has identified the most cost-effective approach to reducing nitrogen in each of our coastal watersheds to levels that meet the targets, while also dealing with phosphorus impacts to our ponds and protection of overall water quality. The Commission, along with our consultants and the Shellfish Constable, completed the Final Recommended Plan / Final Environmental Impact Report for the WNMP in June 2015 and forwarded it for approval by the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (MEPA), DEP and the Cape Cod Commission (CCC). The plan was approved by MEPA and DEP in July 2015 and received a first phase CCC Consistency Letter in October 2015, allowing work on the Plan's first 5-year phase (2017-2021) to begin. The CCC Development of Regional Impact (DRI) review on the entire plan has been continued a number of times and is currently scheduled for May 2017. The reason for the continuations has been the Commission's and the Town's interest in developing the first "Watershed - Based Permit", provided for in new DEP regulations, for the Popponesset Bay watershed, involving an inter - municipal agreement (IMA) with the towns of Barnstable and Sandwich. The CCC hopes it can serve as a test case for other towns and watersheds. It could also be of benefit to us in obtaining state funding assistance. The IMA and Permit would define the contributions that each of the three towns will make toward meeting the TMDL for the Bay. Meetings between the three towns have been ongoing in 2016 and into 2017 and have shown a good faith effort by all to achieve a fair IMA and Permit. Should the towns not succeed in developing the Permit, DEP can be asked to issue one on its own. The WNMP describes work to be done in five 5- year phases. As each phase is completed, the condition of our waterways and other factors will be analyzed to determine how well the plan is working toward achieving the TMDLs and whether or not adjustments need to be made to the Plan (a process referred to as "adaptive management"). This adaptive management approach is particularly important as the Plan relies heavily on removing a significant portion of the water 158