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Community Preservation Committee March 23, 2006 Attending: Joel Adler, Norm Cohen, Marilyn Fenollosa, Wendy Manz, Leo McSweeney, Richard Pagett, Betsey Weiss, Dick Wolk Not attending: Sandy Shaw The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. 1. Betsey described the projects to be presented at the 3/30 public hearing: a. $20,000 for update of Open Space/Recreation plan what is this for? Why do we need this? What do we do with it? Joel was concerned because we don’t want our first project to be frivolous or unnecessary. Betsey advised that the previous plan expired in 2002. We need this plan to be eligible for grant money. Betsey will check with Karen Mullins and Karen Simmons. b. $15,000 for Munroe Cemetery roofs is this historic? Richard looked at the buildings at the cemetery today – they look like sheds. Richard asked what makes a building historic; Marilyn read the definition from the statute – “a building, structure, vessel, real property, document or artifact that is listed or eligible for listing on the state register of historic places or has been determined by the local historic preservation commission to be significant in the history, archeology, architecture or culture of a city or town”. Are these sheds necessary to preserve/protect the cemetery? Can we expand this to repairs to the headstones, etc.? c. Norm asked about the warrant article for refurbishment of dispatch room of police station. Would it be within the definition of “rehabilitation” – “the remodeling, reconstruction and making of extraordinary repairs to historic resources, etc. for the purpose of making [them] functional for their intended use”. We should ask counsel if this would qualify. Dick asked about what kinds of projects we should be looking at: items in the capital budget or things we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to do. d. $60,000 for Archive Environmental Control in the vault in Cary Hall what documents are these? How old?