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Lexington Housing Partnership Meeting Minutes for October 8, 2009 Attendees: Ken Kreutziger, Bob Bicknell, Carol Marine, Winifred McGowan, Melinda Walker, Chris Kluchman, Florence Baturin, Wendy Manz, Jeri Foutter, Julie Duncan Bob Bicknell chaired the meeting and took the minutes. The meeting was called to order at 7:40 pm. 1. Approval of Minutes The September minutes were approved with the addition of a sentence to recognize that the Lexington Housing Foundation had distributed financial reports. 2. Sub-Committee Reports Consortium of Local Towns – Bob Bicknell  Status has been briefed to Norm Cohen, Selectmen Chair  Plan has Lexington contributing $10K of H.O.M.E. funds each year  The plan will be forwarded to Partnership Members  Business plan has been defined for a four town consortium Lexington has identified benefits: A consortium could provide: 1.Access to skilled staff outside our areas of expertise 2.Contact with other communities and knowledge of their affordable housing initiatives and concepts that work for them 3.Support for development site planning and alternatives 4.Support for homebuyer education 5.Capacity to support development opportunities – probably around 10-12 units 6.A conduit for application of H.O.M.E. funds 7.Community education support 8.A source of program advocacy ideas and community organization concepts 9.Support to acquire and resell scattered site units for affordable homeownership subsidized by CPA funds. Busa Farm- Bob Bicknell  Land not yet owned by town  Committee to be formed to define uses  Opportunity exists for pro-bono work from Sasaki Assoc. to better define housing options  Norm Cohen and Bill Hays want to wait until land is owned and committee is established  I am determining if the pro-bono work has a time constraint The partnership discussed the possibility of applying the pro-bono work to the Leary land which is now owned by the town and which has not yet defined how the housing option will be realized. Bob will query the Town Manager and LexHAB on whether this idea has merit and if so, coordinate it with Sasaki Assoc. A discussion on the value of conducting a campaign to promote the need for affordable housing on the land was held. Other interest areas are being promoted aggressively. Melinda Walker with support from Florence Baturin and drawing on others will form an informal discussion group to seek ways that housing