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Page 1 of 3 Affordable Housing Trust Meeting Minutes of October 10, 2023 12:00 pm Hybrid meeting on Zoom and attended in-person in the Parker room, Town Office Building Affordable Housing Trust Board Members present: Elaine Tung, Chair; Mark Sandeen, William Erickson, Tiffany Payne, Linda Prosnitz Staff present: Carol Kowalski, Assistant Town Manager for Development; Ragi Ramachandran, Administrative Assistant Other attendees: Caileen Foley, Sarah Morrison, Margaret Heitz, Ingrid Klimoff, Melinda Walker, Kathryn Roy, Bob Pressman Ms. Tung conducted a roll call to ensure all members of the AHT Board and members of staff present could hear and be heard. Ms. Tung chaired the hybrid meeting and calle d the meeting to order at 12:02 pm. The meeting was recorded by LexMedia for future on-demand viewing. 1. Approval of September 28 meeting minutes Ms. Tung shared her updates to the Sept 28 minutes. Mr. Sandeen moved to approve the minutes of 9/28/23 AHT meeting, as amended. Mr. Erickson seconded. The Trustees voted in favor of the motion 4-0-1, by a roll call vote (Erickson – yes, Tung – yes, Sandeen – yes, Payne – yes, Prosnitz – abstained). Meeting minutes approved. 2. Chair, Select Board, Board/Committee Liaison and RHSO/staff report Ms. Kowalski updated that they have been approved for a State grant in the amount of $10,000 from Community Planning Grant Program to conduct the housing needs assessment in town. The Regional Housing Services Office (RHSO) will be conducting the assessment. Ms. Tung stated that Liz Rust would like for the Trust to come up with parameters that RHSO could focus on for the needs assessment. This will be discussed in a future meeting. 3. Discussion with LexHAB and Lexington Housing Authority representatives Ms. Morrison represented LexHAB. Ms. Foley and Ms. Walker represented Lexington Housing Authority (LHA). Prior to this meeting, Ms. Payne and Ms. Tung had met with Ms. Foley and Ms. Walker from LHA. Mr. Erickson and Ms. Tung had met with Ms. Morrison, Tara Mizrahi and Barbara Bridge from LexHAB. The LexHAB and LHA representatives shared their concerns around how CPC will award funding to the various housing partners. They wanted clarity on the types of funding requests that should be submitted to the Trust and the ones that should go to CPC. They sought clarification on the way AHT is going to operate going forward. They were curious on what the Trust’s expectations were for LexHAB and LHA. They were concerned about making a policy for all the money to go to the Trust and then the Trust dispersing the funds.