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MASHPEE SELECTMEN'S MEETING - 10/23/85 Page 5 . Umina: If it' s going to take town meeting vote, we are not. Hanson: According to, town counsel, it will take town meeting vote. If a -road is going to be taken and approved by the town, it' s got to be approved by the people. Vie haven' t got that power. Thomas: You have to put your plans together. ...You. have to have them on. file with the town. clerk. ... There . ara. some things that have to be. done. I don' t think there . is, a short cut. Terry: I'm suggesting :t,hat..you move forwar.d:.wth. whatever you can do to try and get some advance. . . Umina: We can do the"engineering right away. Terry: Meet with Mr.. Rowley and I'm sure Mr- Rowley says that it seems to be a reasonable proposal,. that there should not be any probl.em. ' So I'm suggesting that you wait and do nothing--you take . all the stuff that you can, Whether it' s going to be a meeting. between December and May, I don't really know. ,Murphy: The deadline for Annual Town. -Meeting is only 14 weeks away. Terry: It seems to me that Mr.. Reardon .is..telling .us that, if any o.f the town property is being used, that he wants us to send it to town meeting vote. - Gilmore: I:m saying against. I don.' t disagree . with.. the recgmmen- dation. All I'm saying is that arguably i-t' s over,Joe because of the current status of the road and all we are looking for is. the right to pave at our own risk, within a layout that you people approve, and if the town meeting should vote, for whatever reason, not to accept this layout, not to accept the fact that we are going to pave it, then we' re possibly caught between , a rock and a hard place. Terry: I don't have any problem with it if the town engineer says that it' s a reasonable proposal. I don't have any problem with that because it would be at your own risk and I think the town. , .