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I have just returned from a fabulous vaca- tion in Alaska with my daughter so I am rested, but unorganized and way behind in my work, includ- ing authoring this column. Airnnrr flnmmissinn:I understand there was quite the hoopla while I was gone regarding the status ofthe Yarmouth representative to the Barnstable Airport Commission. The airport is financed through its enterprise account and "governed" by an Airport Commission consisting of members appointed for renewable three-year terms by the Barnstable Town Council. Additionally,the Town Council President appoints a Council liaison. The liaison formerly was Councilor Jim Crocker and currently is Councilor Greg Milne. The liaison facilitates communica- tion between the Council and the Commission and how involved in the actual business of the Commis- sion the liaison is is largely determined by the liaison and is subject to some con- troversy itself. Additionally, there has been a nonvoting member ofthe Commission representing Yarmouth who heretofore has sat at the table with the Com- missioners, participated in discussion and acted as "liaison" between the YarmouthBoard of Select- men and the Commission. An attempt to define the role of the Yarmouthrepre- sentative is the subject of an agenda item submitted by Councilor Jim Munafo. While I have long been an advocate of allowing each Councilor to bring forth any reasonable matter before the whole Council for discussion and debate, I do not agree that this one should have made it off the cutting room floor. I have in the past supported the Airport Commission's desire to keep the status quo (the inclusion of a nonvoting Yarmouthmember), which they have maintained worked well. In fact, when aResolve to appoint at least one YarmouthRep- resentative with voting privilegesto the Com- mission was proposed some months ago, I voted against it, even though I am sympathetic to Yar- mouth's arguments. I be- lieved that a vote was not necessary for the Yarmouth representative to be heard, respected and an effective liaison for Yarmouthand would be (since Yarmouth would remain a minority vote) at best symbolic. This new effort to "clari- fy"the Yarmouthrepresen- tative's role seems to me to be unnecessary,inflamma- tory, and frankly, only adds credibility to Yarmouth's argument. I do not agree withYarmouth's attempts to file legislation in the state Legislature to create a municipal airport but also do not think it is ap- propriate for us as a body CONTINUED ON PAGE B:2 fflMHi NEIGHBORS By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com PAUL GAUVIN PHOTO WE'RE HERE - Tom Mullen, president of the Barnstable Land Trust, points at one of the 14 parking and trail entrances that make up the town's portion of Cape Cod Pathways. Tom Mullen confesses he never was a roads scholar, but in a "roundabout" way,he man- aged to get through 15years as Barnstable'spublic works superintendent and, since then, pace a new path in retirement. "It had to be the round- about on Race Lane,"Mullen replied last week when he was asked for one of his more memorable achievements as DPW chief. "It was three or four years of politicsbefore we got the OK. Now, when I play golf, people still come up to me and say what a great idea it was. Looking back,"the Barnstable village resident quips, " I guess I took on certain initiatives because I didn't know any better." One of those was a pro- posal for universal curbside rubbish collection in town. It was a fresh idea burdened by political backlash and was shot down by the town coun- cil before the lid was even off the can. There were more posi- tive outcomes on his watch though, some major changes and studies that kept the town apace of the times. There was the six-year, in-house engineeringand construction of the At- tucks Lane extension, still to be linked to the airport; a convulsive but successful effort transforming the town landfill to a transfer station and capping the landfill. "We did that in-house too, saving the town about $1.8 million." Mullen also worked with the Business Improvement District for three years on redesigning Main Street but retired a month after the actual work began. He also oversaw the seven-year and still ongoing wastewater facilities plan commended by the state for its thorough- ness, and credits current DPW superintendent Mark Ells for managingthat effort. Today,four years into retirement that left him in the win column, Mullen is volunteer president of the Barnstable Land Trust (BLT), and continues traf- ficking in traffic, so to speak, by providinghikers, strollers, dog-walkers and nature lov- ers with pleasant ways to get from here to there in comfort and safety For several winters, Mullen and board members of the land trust,including Will Mason and Sam Keavy,trod Barnstable's Cape Cod Path- ways trails for many hours clearing brush, cutting new trails, color coding and mark- ing them so that nobody gets lost.They linked and marked the 17.7 miles of trails to each other from Sandwich to Yarmouth."We used about five boxes of nails,"Mullen recalls. Also going along with Mul- len was a staffer from the town's GIS mapping depart- ment."She would carry a device that lined up with a satellite to mark the color- coded trails on maps." Today those maps are tacked to kiosks at various parkingand trail entrances. Only one smallpathway segment in Barnstable is on private property.The remain- ing tracks wander pleasingly through 110acres of public wood and field held by BLT and contiguous to other parcels owned by the town or state mostly in the Barnstable/ West Barnstable corridor be- tween routes 6 and 6A. Prodding his old 4-wheel Jeep bouncing through one of the trails, Mullen betrayed his own kinshipwithna- ture by mentioning "really beautiful old stone walls" and "placid ponds" and the flora and fauna of what's left ofthe local wilds that hasn't been consummated by devel- opment. Mullen culled road designs and their signage accesso- ries from travel, he said. He experienced the roundabout on The Continent and knew it would ameliorate the Race Lane problem at Oak Street -if he could sell a hidebound town hierarchy on a new idea. "When Gary Blazis became councilpresident,be worked on other councilors and we got it though," after three touch-and-go years. Mullen also adapted de- vices he saw while traveling by car to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,the Virginiasand to his small cottage in Maine to name a few, such as the 4-way stop sign, the first of which went up in Barnstable during Mullen'swatch at the DPW helm. "My brother had had an accident at Oak Street and Service Road -he was broad- sided by another car.It was CONTINU ED ON PAGE B:2 Mullen finds path in roundabout way