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LEARY PROPERTY COMMUNITY HOUSING TASK FORCE Room G-15, Town Office Building Meeting Minutes of December 15, 2010 Present: Bob Bicknell, Stephen Keane, Bill Kennedy, Wendy Manz, Lester Savage, and Betsey Weiss. Staff: Aaron Henry, Maryann McCall-Taylor Absent: George Burnell, Deb Mauger Minutes The Task Force approved the minutes of December 1, as amended by Ms. Manz. Recent Meeting Updates Lester Savage updated the Task Force on the Selectmen’s meeting of December 6, where further guidance was provided on their motion to support the planning money but not the stabilization of the existing structure. Aaron Henry then provided an update to the group on the Capital Expenditure Committee’s meeting of December 7. The CEC was generally favorable but had questions regarding the process, specifically why the parcel didn’t simply get turned over to LexHAB, and why the final output of the Task Force may be a RFP. Finally, Lester Savage recapped the Community Preservation Committee’s public hearing, also on December 7. Site Designs Because of the discussion prompted by the recent meeting updates and absence of Ross Speer, a resident architect who had volunteered to help with concept sketches, the Task Force tabled the site design agenda item. Task Force Process & Final Product (Staff Report) Staff led a conversation on the group’s final product, the RFP, and process to ensure that the Task Force was clear about what is was doing. The RFP was conceptualized as combining two tasks, the first determined the development program while the second part consisted of some on-the-ground pre-development activities. The Task Force must recommend to the Selectmen a development program for the site. One element of the RFP would express the Task Force’s preferred number and type of units, the architectural style of the development, how it might be permitted, and to a lesser extent how it might be financed (e.g., should it include local HOME funds). The pre-development activities that need to be conducted include a site survey and site