Mashpee: $2.1 Million? We Meant $2.6 Million

"Did We Say $2.1M? We Meant $2.6M"
Cape Cod Times, April 25, 2008
By Stephanie Vosk

MASHPEE -- A paved trail meanders through the heavily wooded area, leading the way to Mashpee-Wakeby Pond.

"This is what I saw when I was a kid. This is what it looked like all over Mashpee," said Selectman George "Chuckie" Green, who led finance and community preservation committee members on a tour of the 80-acre property off Route 130 earlier this month.

Green and fellow Selectman Wayne Taylor want the town to buy the vacant land through a debt exclusion at town meeting in May. But a clerical error that led to a misprint on the warrant may hold up or even derail the process ...

The warrant article asks voters to approve a $2.1 million debt exclusion, but the town needs $2.6 million ... ©

Read the full article in the Cape Cod Times.

Read Article 10 of the Mashpee Annual Town Meeting Warrant.