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Select Board approves routine minutes, utility pole petition, licenses and several administrative measures
Summary
The Mashpee Select Board on July 13 approved minutes, granted an Eversource/Verizon petition to install a joint pole on Route 151, approved common-victualer licenses, authorized two SRF PEF submittals for wastewater projects, adopted a cyber incident response policy and approved a limited construction schedule for Comcast work on Route 28.
The Mashpee Select Board approved a series of routine and administrative items at its July 13 meeting, including minutes, licensing and infrastructure requests.
At the start of the meeting the board approved the May 18 and June 22 minutes on voice votes. The board then opened a public hearing on a joint petition from NSTAR/Eversource and Verizon New England to install a new joint-owned pole in the right-of-way on Nathan Ellis Highway (Route 151). Julie Longer of Eversource told the board the overhead pole would “increase reliability to Route 151, Nathan Ellis Highway and Frank E Hicks Drive in Mashpee.” After a brief public comment noting the work would help coverage at the new police station, the board voted to approve the petition “as presented.”
The board also opened and approved applications for common-victualer (nonalcohol) food-service licenses under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 140, §2; staff told the board these approvals correct an earlier oversight. Mark Drainville of engineering firm GHD asked for and received the board’s permission to submit two project evaluation forms (PEFs) to the Massachusetts Clean Water State Revolving Fund for the Mashpee Wakeby watershed wastewater system and the Mashpee/Quashnet (Roquoit) Bay WRRF and collection system phase 3; Drainville described the PEF as the SRF loan and principal-forgiveness application and said prior submissions had been successful.
In communications, a Comcast representative asked the board to reconsider an extended construction schedule on Route 28 to finish broadband wiring to an affordable housing site; the company said the work would be aerial, keep lanes open and follow a MassDOT traffic-management plan. The board approved reconsideration with the town preference for two six-hour days on Tuesday–Wednesday between roughly 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The board also approved multiple reappointments and appointments to town committees, accepted the immediate resignation of a Conservation Commission member and voted to adopt a new cyber incident response policy (Select Board policy 085). Finally, the board voted to enter executive session to discuss threatened litigation related to a local pickleball court and approved draft executive-session minutes from June 22; the chair said reconvening in open session could harm the town’s litigation position.
Votes recorded at the meeting were procedural and unanimous unless otherwise noted in the public record. The board did not take public votes on the executive-session matters.
