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The Bourne Select Board has voted to authorize Town Administrator Marlene V. McCollem to explore disposal of materials used during dredging of the Pocasset River. Ms. McCollem said the materials
The Bourne Capital Outlay Committee has approved its recommended $2,866,510 capital spending budget for Fiscal Year 2022 to be part of the townâs total FY22 general fund operating budget.
The committeeâs approval was made during its remote meeting on Monday, January 4. Committee chairwoman Mary Jane Mastrangelo noted that the budget breakdown shows $1,664,010 will be paid for with free cash, $200,000 from the townâs waterways fund and $1,002,500 from Integrated Solid Waste Management retained earnings.
The departments submitting and receiving approval for capital expenses include:
The ISWM facilityâs $1,002,500 appropriation would cover replacement of several pieces of equipment at the landfill. ISWM general manager Daniel T. Barrett told the committee he is looking to replace a 5-year-old bulldozer and to purchase a new 25-ton hydraulic excavator and one-ton containers.
To call Monument Beach a busy place right now would be an understatement. Heavy equipment and a steady flow of sand and water, disgorged onto the beach from an underground/underwater pipe, are testament to the work underway to dredge Little Bay.
A large pipe jutting from beneath the sand spews a continuous gusher of sand and water into a large pit dug into the beach. At the same time, an excavator works nonstop piling up all the material expelled by the pipe, loading it onto a truck that dumps it into yet another pit. That is just what is happening on land.
Capital funding requests for the coming fiscal year continue to climb. Another $616,000 has been requested between the Bourne Public Schools and the Bourne Shore and Harbor Committee.