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Lexington Housing Foundation, Inc. Meeting Minutes for March 26, 2009 Attendees: Bob Bicknell, Florence Baturin, Ken Kreutziger, Tom Harden, Julie Duncan, Martha Wood, Arthur Katz, Chris McVay, Lisa Snellings Bob Bicknell chaired the meeting and took the minutes. The meeting was called to order at 8 pm. 1. Open Meeting The December and January minutes were approved. 2. Discussion of HOME funds distribution. Bob presented a letter for approval that followed the request from the planning staff to ask the Selectmen to allocate all available HOME funds through the FY09 allocation to Supportive Living, Inc. for the Douglass House project. Different options were considered for the funds, but the amount of administrative effort needed to use the funds requires a recipient with experience and capability to meet the documentation requirements. Supportive Living, Inc. has this experience and capability. After a proposal to save the FY09 funds for possible future uses was a motion was approved to send the letter as written suggesting not approved allocation of all available funds of $111,498 to Supportive Living, Inc. Bob will present this to the Selectmen on April 12, 2009. 3. Reports Report of the Chair – Mr. Bicknell Consortium of Local Towns: Lincoln has opted out of the consortium. A meeting was held with the consultant to discuss survey results. A request for more information was sent to each town and a meeting to discuss th responses will be held on Monday, March 30 at WATCH. Bob agreed to send each member of the Partnership the Power Point presentation with survey results and the material leading up to the current ideas so that members could provide opinions for consideration by the consultant on March 30. Affordable Homebuyer Assistance Program: Karen’s survey report has been circulated and meetings have been held with key town boards and committees to review and comment on the Statement of Objectives for the program. Now attributes from other surveyed programs are being used to develop the parameters for a program that will work well in Lexington. Karen has made a first cut at program parameters and a coordinating meeting will be scheduled soon. LexHAB will review their role at subsequent board meetings. The plan is to have a program proposal ready for presentation to the CPC late this coming fall and then for next year’s Town Meeting. Discussion of Annual Report to Town Meeting: 4. was voted to present it to The report was coordinated with the Partnership and it Town Meeting with the deletion of Lincoln as part of the consortium.