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Community Preservation Committee 2006 Town Meeting Report The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) was provisionally appointed in February, 2006 and confirmed in March, 2006. The members and their affiliations, as provided in the statute, are as follows: Richard Wolk – Conservation Commission Marilyn Fenollosa – Historical Commission Leo McSweeney – Housing Authority Betsey Weiss – Housing Partnership Wendy Manz—Planning Board Sandra Shaw – Recreation Committee Joel Adler – at large, appointed by the Board of Selectmen Norm Cohen – at large, appointed by the Board of Selectmen Richard Pagett – at large, appointed by the Board of Selectmen Betsey Weiss has been appointed as Chair of the CPC, and Marilyn Fenollosa as its Secretary. th Since the March 6 election, there have been two regular CPC meetings, held on March rdth 13th and 23, and a public hearing held on March 30. Because the CPC had a very limited amount of time to consider projects during the period between enactment and Town Meeting, there was not sufficient time to establish a formal application and review process for the spring 2006 Town meeting. Therefore, the CPC was only able to vote on and recommend to Town Meeting three proposed Municipal Capital Projects already included in Article 28 of the 2006 Warrant which are eligible for CPA funding. These are the installation of environmental controls for the Cary Hall vault, police dispatch room renovations and fire station renovations. The Cary Hall Vault Environmental Controls project is described in Warrant Article 28 item (i) ($60,000). The vault, which is 800 square feet, is too hot and too dry, and not the proper environment to maintain town records. The vault contains police and fire logs (historical, for research purposes); old town reports; personal records (marriage and birth certificates); and other documents and information that are now in smaller vaults and in different departments and locations. These improvements will therefore centralize storage. Also, the Town has made a request to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a grant for shelving, which will give us 1-1/2 times more shelving space. A CPA grant would serve as matching funds. The Massachusetts Legislature recently added “documents” to the list of historic resources that may be preserved using CPA funds, making this project eligible. The second CPC project being brought before Town Meeting is the Police Station Dispatch Room renovation for $100,000, described in Warrant Article 28(g). The request