The Compact Honors…

Brewster Select Board and Town administrators after successful Town Meeting 25 Sept 2021

…The Town of Brewster Select Board (2021-22) for bringing forward the 120-acre, $26 million Cape Cod Sea Camps purchase to town voters with enthusiasm.  The town leaders, along with Town Administrator Peter Lombardi, worked diligently for almost a year behind the scenes to ensure that the landmark properties, which included 66 acres on the Cape’s largest freshwater pond and 55 acres with 800+ feet of Cape Cod Bay shoreline, would not be sold for private residential development.

Almost 1500 citizens came to a special town meeting and voted almost unanimously to approve the purchase, which will include $20 million in new town bonding, along with pledges of $1.75 million from the Brewster Conservation Trust and $1.5 million from MassAudubon.  The Long Pond parcel abuts 41 acres of pine-oak-beech forest bought by the Town in 2019 and half of the property is within the Zone II area contributing groundwater protection to the town’s main wellfield.

The Compact provided, under contract to the Town, technical support to the Select Board in its initial offer to purchase.  Through an anonymous donor, The Compact also contributed $150,000 to the BCT fundraising campaign.

See Mark Robinson’s advocacy for the purchase HERE.

See Seth Rolbein’s article on the vote HERE.

Compact Director Mark Robinson (left) presents $150,000 check to past president Hal Minis of the Brewster Conservation Trust for the Sea Camps purchase.

(Select Board Photo, left to right: Town Administrator Peter Lombardi, Mary Chafee, Ned Chatelain, Kari Hoffman, Ben DeRuyter (2021 Select Board), Cindy Bingham, David Whitney, Asst. Town Administrator Donna Kalnick.)