The Mashpee Select Board approved a letter of support for House Bill 4082, which seeks to change the current nonrefundable Title 5 tax credit to a refundable Title 5 tax credit, at its meeting on November 3.

“I received an email from Jonathan Kaufman, who is a member of the Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee, about this House bill,” Select Board chairwoman Michaela Wyman-Colombo said, referencing House Bill 4082. “Essentially, what's happening right now...it's really a challenge for many of our residents to be able to afford to pay for hookups to the sewer.”

An advantage for residents has been a tax credit of up to $18,000 paid for up to four years' costs, Wyman-Colombo said, which works out to 60% of a resident’s sewer hookup charges.

“That, combined with the Aquafund, made a

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