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By Patriot Staff
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DAVID STILL II PHOTC
GRIN AND BEAR IT - After a Sunday morning break-in at Guertin
Bros. Jewelers In Hyannis was foiled by passersby, the store made
the best of a bad situation.
The snazzy Toyota wagon
parked in front of Puritan's
on Main Street , Hyannis had
diplomatic plates issued by
the State Department. On
the dash was a fancy United
Nations parking permit. Yes,
we took apeek inside,tempted
by the Mapquest printout on
the seat. The starting point
was another tease: the Tufts-
Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy in Medford. We
offer this scene to the bulging
scriptorum of Cape Cod mys-
tery writers, free of charge....
It was Edward , not Edmond ,
Taylor who wrote the poem
"Upon a Spider Catching a
Fly" that appeared in our let-
ters section last week.... It's
another Youth at Mall night
from 5to 7 tonight in the Food
Court at the Cape Cod Mall. A
student band from Barnstable
High School will perform , and
the Barnstable Police will
present the Rape , Aggression,
Defense (RAD) program....
Up Where He Belongs: Com-
mander Daniel Burbank is
an astronaut whose family
prefers Cape Cod to Houston.
When Burbank served at Otis
Air Force Base, they lived in
Marstons Mills and fell in love
withthe Cape. Burbank willbe
interviewed by Jean Gardner
on her Channel 17 cable TV
show Monday at 7p.m.... Writ-
ing in 1953 of the changes to
Boston beingwrought by con-
struction of the now-demol-
ished Central Artery, author
John P. Marquand seemed
to foresee the tunnels that
would replace it. "In fact ,"he
wrote , "the time may be just
around the corner when one
can travel through Boston
without knowing one isthere
at all, and, curiously enough,
I doubt whether Boston will
greatly care.".... More about
Boston: recently,the city tore
up extensive camps created
by homeless people under
the Evelyn Moakley Bridge,
named for the wife of late
Congressman Joe Moakley.
The cut-and-dried story in
the Globe didn't offer much
about the fate of the men
and women involved. When
that happened in Hyannis
years ago, the human ser-
vices community came up
with a variety of responses,
some (like Pilot House) that
are still with us and some
short-term solutions, such as
reservation of camping sites
at a state park.
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W. Barnstable Fire annual next week
New roof among
items sought
By David Still II
dstill@barnstablepatrlot.com
Anew roof,radio equipment
and a $748,000 general oper-
ating budget will go before
voters in the West Barnstable
Fire District at Wednesday's
annual meeting.
Requests on this year 's
warrant total $1.18 million,
with the possibility of another
$85,000 for a new roof. Of that
amount, $748,000 is for the
operating expense of the fire
department.
Also included in the eve-
ning'svotes is a supplemental
request for this year'sbudget ,
expected to be in the $50,000
range.
This will be Fire Chief Joe
Maruca's first annual meet-
ing since being named chief
last fall, but he served as the
stand-in during last year's
meeting.
The only significant new ex-
pense inthe department'sop-
erational budget is $18,000 for
dispatching to the Barnstable
County Sheriff'sDepartment.
Although the dispatch cen-
ter started charging other
departments for the service
a couple of years ago, West
Barnstable and Barnstable
avoided such charges because
of their long-term relation-
ship with the county. That
changed this year.The initial
bill was going to be $28,000
for each, but after a meeting
with the sheriff, Maruca and
Barnstable Fire Chief Robert
Crosby were able to knock
that back to $18,000.
"It's a bargain no matter
how you cut it," Maruca said
of the dispatch charge. The
chief said that all other dis-
patching options are more
expensive.
There'sa$60,000 request to
replace and repair radios and
communications equipment,
some of which is 20 years old
and cannot be serviced.
The department is also
moving to its own dispatch
frequency, which up to now
has been shared with the
Barnstable Fire Depart-
ment.
Included in the depart-
ment's $748,000 operational
budget is the full-year cost
of the two new paramedics
added last year.The new staff
did not join the department
until last fall. FY'07 will be
the first that carries the new
costs for 12 months.
The district and its union
went out of contract last year,
but a year extension with pay
increases was approved to
allow time to develop a new
contract under the new chief.
Maruca expects that a con-
tract will be in place by June,
but could not predict how
much it would represent.
The fire station's cedar
shingle roof is in need of
replacement. Maruca said
that he planned to include a
capital request to fix the air
conditioning system at the
station until the wind, rain
and snow of Dec. 9.
"We had water pouring in,"
Maruca recalled.
Since then, five contractors
have inspected the roof and
all agree that it's time for a
new one.
There is no dollar amount
attached to the article, num-
ber 16 on the warrant, but
estimates for a traditional
asphalt roof put the work at
about $85,000, Maruca said.
The district will need to
ask the Old King's Highway
Historic District Committee
to changefrom cedar shingles,
but Maruca said that will be a
battle for another day.
The existing roof is original
to the building, which opened
in 1988. Maruca said that fi-
nancially it makes more sense
to pay $85,000 for a roof that
will last 30 to 50 years as op-
posed to 15 to 20 years for a
cedar roof costing $150,000.
There's another key reason
for updating materials.
"I have issueswith afire sta-
tion with a flammable roof ,"
Maruca said.
Two by-law changes willbe
placed before voters, one to
limit age requirements of fire-
fighters to 65, and another to
deal with automated alarms.
A similar by-law covering
automated alarms in the dis-
trict's commercial buildings
was adopted a few years ago.
Maruca saida"huge increase"
in residential alarm systems
prompted this request. The
by-law would require those
with such systems to provide
a department-approved lock
box containingkeys to access
the home if the alarm trips.
"We can peek in all the win-
dows and leave or we can go
in by forced entry," Maruca ¦
said. "We've done both over
the years and neither one is
a satisfactory option."
The meetingbegins at 7p.m.
at the CommunityBuilding on
Route 149.
The annual election will be
held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the
community building.
Kenneth E. Morey, the in- '
cumbent Prudential Com-
mittee member is being, chal-
lenged by Michael Grossman,
who helped develop the 24-
hour staffing plan asamember
of the district's staffing com-
mittee. He is also a firefighter
with COMM.
Mark Nelson , incumbent
Water Commissioner, is run-
ning unopposed. is
County budget...
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health and human services
meeting. Nevertheless , fin
com members heard plenty
about the need for increased
funding from representatives
of human services agencies
and those they assist.
At its public hearing on
the budget Wednesday, the
finance committee was told
the $655,000 recommended
initially by the advisory coun-
cil represented aweb of inter-
connected services that could
fail if elements were missing.
For example , a commu-
nity depression program was
funded by the commissioners,
but they declined to provide
another $50,000 for a psychia-
trist who would consult with
community health centers.
The need to maintain pro-
grams for the Homeless such
as Pilot House and the com-
munity outreach worker in
Hyannis were stressed. The
commissioners did support
continued funding of the case
manager for the Overnights of
Hospitality program.
Outside the recommenda-
tions of the advisory council
was the question of funding for
the new county HumanRights
Commission. The body's sta-
tus as a pilot project has led
to a wide variety of opinions'
regarding the amount and ;
timing of its county funding,
with Commission members
and supporters arguingthat a
staff position is essential and
other officials saying that no
commitments were made to
provide such support .
Barnstable delegate Tom
Lynch quizzed county com-
missioners chairman Bill
Doherty at length about the
process that led to the slic-
ing of the advisory council's
budget proposal , and also
questioned the co-chairs of
the council regarding their J
contacts with the commis- ,
sioners. !
If the finance committee !
votes onitsbudget recommen-
dations May 3, the full Assem-
bly could vote on May 17. \
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