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The Board of Selectmen recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0. The Finance Committee recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0. Motion made by Selectman Carol Sherman. Motion: I move the Town vote to continue participation in the Community Septic Management Program and the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust (MCWT) for the purpose of making loans to residents of the Town for repairing and/or upgrading residential septic systems pursuant to agreements between the Board of Health and residential property owners, including all costs incidental and related thereto. Motion passes unanimously at 8:26 PM. Article 17 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer $18,753 from revenue available for appropriation to the Elections and Registration Expense Account to purchase new voting booths for five (5) precincts, or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Town Clerk Explanation: At more than twenty years old, our current voting booths are damaged and functionally obsolete. Each precinct would receive four new voting quads, thereby allowing increased voter participation with a greater number of booths per precinct. The Board of Selectmen recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0. The Finance Committee recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0. Motion made by Selectman Andrew Gottlieb. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and transfer $18,753 from revenue available for appropriation to the Elections and Registration Expense Account to purchase new voting booths for five (5) precincts. Motion passes unanimously at 8:27 PM. Article 18 To see of the Town will vote to amend Chapter 172-4 of the General Bylaw as follows: Replace the language of Subsection (B)(1) with the following: "An Administrative Review - Submission of a form as required by the rules and regulations of the commission for minor* activities within the 100 foot buffer zone to any wetland resource areas as described under Chapter 172-2. (*Minor activities are defined as those activities that are deemed by the Commission to require neither a Request for Determination nor a Notice of Intent.)" Replace the language of Subsection (13)(2) with the following: "A Request for Determination of Applicability application (WPA Form 1 of 310 CMR 10.99) and additional forms as required by the rules and regulations of the Commission [Such form will require by the Massachusetts regulations, 310 CMR 10.05(3)(b)(1), notice in a local newspaper of the required hearing]." Add a new Subsection (13)(3) with the following language: "A notice of intent (Form 3 of CMR 10.00) filing as prescribed in 310 CMR 280.21 through 280.25 and Chapter172 of the Mashpee Code and its regulations." or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by the Conservation Department Explanation: The conservation commission has always had an Administrative Review process for minor development proposals within the buffer zone to wetland resource areas; however, this process has never been defined within the existing bylaw language. This article proposes appropriate language for administrative approval requests, including defining the parameters of what constitutes an administrative approval request. The Board of Selectmen recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0. 59