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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-03-27-HPB-min Lexington Housing Partnership LexingtonHousingPartnershipMeetingMinutes Thursday,March27,2014 EllenStoneRoom,CaryHall 1605MassachusettsAvenue Lexington,Massachusetts ATTENDEES JeriFoutter,TomHarden,MaryHaskell,WendyManz,JoePato,BobPressman,MelindaWalker&Betsey Weiss.BetseyWeisschairedthemeetingandMelindaWalkertooknotes. Themeetingwascalledtoorderat7:45PM. DISCUSSIONITEMS 1.ChangesinPartnershipComposition BetseyannouncedthatCaroleMarinehasresignedfromthepartnership.Sheaskedwhethertherewas anyinterestinmovingtheregularmeetingnighttoTuesday.Therewasnointerestindoingso.There wasabriefdiscussionaboutkeepingPatLinton(webmaster)asanonvotingmember;theconsensuswas ͷǤĻƭ͵͸BetseyreportedshehasaskedSaatvikAhluwaliaseveraltimestojointhepartnership.Although therewasadiscussionaboutrevisingtherequirednumberofcommitteemembers,nodecisionwasmade torequestachangebytheBoS. 2.ApprovalofMinutesofFebruary25,2014Meeting BobPressmanmovedtoapproveminutesascorrected.MaryHaskellsecondedthemotion.Themotion wasapprovedunanimously. 3.LexHABCPCRequest TherewasnoͷƓĻǞ͸informationaboutthe/t/͸ƭunanimoussupportoftheLexHABrequestforfundsfor thesixunitsofhousingontheBUSAproperty. 4.LHACPCRequest MelindaWalkerreportedsheexpectstheLHArequestwillbeapprovedbytownmeeting. 5.DodsonParcelUpdate SteveLaferriere(Metrowest)wasnotpresent. 1 Lexington Housing Partnership 6.HHPupdate JoePatoreportedonthestatusofthecoverletter(fromtheBoS)thatwillbeinsertedatthebeginningof thehousingproductionplan.InameetingwithAaronHenry,thetownmanagerexplainedwhythehefelt thecoverlettershouldstatethattheSelectmanaccepttheHPPasareportandendorsecontinuedstudy onhousingpolicyasͷźƓŅƚƩƒĻķbytheƩĻƦƚƩƷ͵͸Partnershipmembersexpressedsomedisappointmentin thetoneofthissuggestion.TherewasasuggestionthatLHAshouldcontinuetosuggestthatthe introductionoftheHPPincludeareferencetothecomprehensiveplan.Inresponsetotheexpressed collectivefrustrationofthepartnership,BobPressmansuggestedthepartnershipshouldencouragethe BoStostarttheRFPprocessfortheLexHABproposalontheLearyproperty.Hethenaskedifthe LexingtonHousingAuthoritywouldbeinterestedinaddingadditionalunitsonanyavailablelandatthe existingvillages.MelindaWalker(LHA)saidtherewasnostateorfederalfundingavailable.WendyManz mentionedacoupleofproperties(MarrettRoad,LincolnStreet)thatmightbesuitabletoaddtothe DodsonParcellist.ItwassuggestedthespecificaddressescouldbesenttoSteveLaferriere(Metrowest) forreview.BetseyWeisssuggestedeachpartnershipmembercouldpickthree(3)parcelsor opportunitiestoresearch. 7.BoSvoteonLexHABDevelopmentonBUSAproperty Betseyreviewedtheoutcomeofthevoteatthe{ĻƌĻĭƷƒğƓ͸ƭmeeting.BobPressmanmentionedhehad spokenwithDebMaugeraboutthelettersubmittedbytheLHP.Therewasadiscussionaboutthe strategyforadvocacyattownmeetingonApril7.Membersagreedtospeakattheͻ—Ļƭͼmicrophone. Pointsofemphasiswillincludenumberofteardowns,waitinglistsatLHAandLexHAB,ͷŭƩĻĻƓ͸ constructionproposalbyCarterScott,andtheneedtoaddtotheSHIinordertoassurefuturecompliance with40Bstatute. NEXTMEETING Thursday,May1,2014@7:30pm,EllenStoneRoom,CaryHall,Lexington. ADJOURNMENT Themeetingwasadjournedat9:05PM. Respectfullysubmitted, 2