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<br />Meeting Notes <br />Ad hoc Leary Property Community Housing Task Force <br />August 25, 2010 2:00 p.m. <br />Room 207, Town Office Building <br /> <br />Present: Bob Bicknell, George Burnell, MarilynFenollosa, Aaron Henry, Wendy <br /> <br />Manz, Maryann McCall-Taylor, Lester Savage and Betsey Weiss <br />Absent: Bill Hays, Stephen Keane and Deb Mauger <br /> <br /> <br />Housekeeping <br />Lex Savage to serve as interim chair <br /> <br /> <br />Reminder to read Conflict of Interest Statute and complete on-line training <br /> <br /> <br />(http://db.state.ma.us/ethics/quiz_MEthics/index.asp) <br /> <br />Review of Committee Charge <br /> <br />Issues that will need to be addressed during the life of the task force <br />Treatment of existing house <br /> <br /> <br />Development scenarios <br /> <br /> <br />Funding <br /> <br /> <br />Public process <br /> <br /> <br />Timeline <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Discussion of House <br />Cost to rehab is up to $500,000 and both Community Preservation <br /> <br /> <br />Committee (CPC) and Town Meeting would have to approve. That is a very <br />high cost per square foot <br />The letter from Salemi was in response to questions from LexHAB. <br /> <br /> <br />Community Preservation Coalition was asked if the development could be <br /> <br /> <br />mixed income. They said probably not, as it has already been acquired with <br />specified funds. This opinion should be confirmed in a letter from the <br />Department of Revenue (DOR) <br />CPA funds allow affordability for up to 100% area median income (AMI) <br /> <br /> <br />Should money be expended to preserve this structure? What is the priority <br /> <br /> <br />for CPA funds for the next five years? The historic preservation money has <br />gone to projects such as Police, Fire and Town Office Buildings that would be <br />funded even if there weren’t CPA funds. If CPA is to fund things that the town <br />couldn’t ordinarily do, this would a priority. <br />Vine Street has lost most of its integrity but this lot is emblematic of the <br /> <br /> <br />farming culture that used to be in town. Would additional units interfere with <br />the integrity of the site? No <br />Historic status- Built prior to 1853, it is on the Cultural Inventory and subject <br /> <br /> <br />to the demolition delay bylaw. Have others like it been preserved? Need to <br />know if the town wants to spend money to save this. <br /> <br />