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From tape on the Selectmen' s Meeting dated 10/23/85 Present: Selectmen, Richard L. Terry, Chairman; B. Jean Thomas; and Willard L. Hanson; Exec. Secretary, Joseph Murphy, Jr. , and Administrative Assistant, Joyce Mason. Excerpt of meeting with Developer John Umina and his .attorney, Bruce Gilmore, re: William Mingo Road. Terry: Have you seen the letter here, from .Mr. Reardon dated October 21? Gilmore: Yes, I. have. Terry: Maybe you can show it to Mr. Umina to see if he has any further thought. Just . hold on to this. Gilmore: I. don't have any difficulty with the proposal that has been advanced by town counsel. I .assume it is a rec- ommendation to the board. What I think I'm concerned about, if I '.can articulate very briefly, is simply practicality. The engineer that. Mr. .:.Umina has hired is a. very competent, well-recognized man. He has the ability to work ,with Mr. . Rowley(Town Engineer) ,. who is a consultant to the town and to the planning board, in terms of the layout. Because of the mechanics of the layout acceptance of. a , quote, "public way" , there is necessarily a time lag and it seems to me that the status of William Mingo Road is that of a public way, whether it is by prescription or whether it is by ancient way status, whatever status it might enjoy, is quote "a public way" and recognized. by the Land Court. What I propose is that once it. is determined by the town engineer, Mr. Rowley, and Bill. Nye as to where the..-road should be laid out in terms of its 401foot layout, that we be granted permission, so long as it is within either the property of Mr. Umina or the property of the Town of Mashpee, that it be laid_ out because, as I understand it from the records, those are the . only parties involved, the 'Town of Mashpee and Mr. Umina, and that we be allowed to pave it, and the formality of the town meeting vote at a later point in time would certainly be beneficial to the town but not imperative to our getting the road put in place and, again, we indicated to the planning board and I reiterate to this board, -that .we would con- struct that relatively short stretch of road up to the standards of the Town of Mashpee Planning Board.