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Blue ribbon Comprehensive Committee
<br /> Minutes of Meeting
<br /> January 12,2006
<br /> The Town of Mashpee Blue Ribbon Comprehensive Committee was called to order in
<br /> Conference Room#1 Mashpee Town Hall, 16 Great Neck Road, Mashpee,Massachusetts at
<br /> 7;00 p.tu-,on Thursday January 12,2006.The Chaixinan,Tion Myers,presided.
<br /> Blue Ribbon Committee Members present: Zella Elizenberry; Chuckle Green, vice
<br /> Chair; Lee Gurney; Beverly Kane;John.Miller;Don Myers, Chairman; Glenn Santos;Douglas
<br /> Storrs,, Clerk and Ted Theis,
<br /> Also present: F. Thomas Fudala, Town planner; Edwad A. Baker, Mashpee resident;
<br /> Robert Clever, Mashpee resident;Birgette Nelson, Mashpee resident, Jim Hanks, Cbalrman of
<br /> the waterway Committee
<br /> A quormn being present, the Chairman called the ineeting to order.
<br /> Approval of Minutes
<br /> December 22,2005
<br /> The Cbakman asked if members of the Committee bad a chance to look at the.December
<br /> , mmutes, several members had not read them or gotten them via e-mail. The Chain-man
<br /> asked the Board Secretary to resend the minutes and would wait for approval of them for the
<br /> January 26, 2006 Corninittee meeting,
<br /> Communications
<br /> The Chan passed out to all members of the Committee and the public attending the
<br /> meeting, a letter written by Edward A. Baker, a Mashpee resident.
<br /> Mr. Baker said that he had a few comments to give to the cone 'ttee, He said that his
<br /> main interest was m Mashpee's waterways.
<br /> He said he was, quite fi-arrkly, surprised to find himself in agreement with the
<br /> representative of Masbpee Connuons,when that person spoke,about setting up a wastewater
<br /> connection with the Mashpee water Disttiet}making it one group. The reason was that the
<br /> Mashpee water District had gust about all of the administrative features as well as some of the
<br /> technical competence,preexisting. He had brought this idea up to the Charter Commission, and
<br /> he had talked to the water District, none of them were violently against it or, for that matter,
<br /> vehemently for it, He walked away with the impression that it must have been a good idea, but
<br /> the time may have not been right back then to address it.
<br /> One of the other concerns Mr. Barer had was that there didn't seem very much attention
<br /> paid to fresh water ponds. his feeling was that the biggest problems that Mashpee has, in terms of
<br /> fresh water ponds,was, in fact, Santult pond. Santuit Fond, all.of this year, 2005,had.readings.
<br /> The transparency standard was less than four feet, which is the minimum standard in the State
<br /> unitary Code for swing beaches, he said.
<br /> The hairrn an then said that at that moment in time,he would like to open the floor to
<br /> any other comments that the public would like to give. He asked these interested to come up to
<br /> the microphone, talk for three or four minutes and first to state their names.
<br /> Robert Clever, another Mashpee resident, came up to the microphone. He said he was at
<br /> the meeting as a concerned member of the coinmunity and was also somewhat co pitted to the
<br /> Save Mashpee waterways group.
<br /> 1r, Clever stated that he guessed, as a member of the group concerned about waterways,
<br /> he and other members saw that as a more important issue in some respects,because of the really
<br /> significant consequences and by delaying action on it for longer periods of t-me,the costs to
<br /> remediate problems that would be coming ftom continuing delays on addressing it, it will be
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