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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-09-24-LEXHAB-min 7 txHAB Min Sept 2015 LexHAB Minutes of meeting held on September 24, 2015 at the offices of LexHAB at 1620 Massachusetts Avenue m Lexington. The meeting opened at 7.05 A.M. lob Burbidge as Vice Chair presided in the absence of the Chairman who is recovering om surgery resent were the Vice-Chairman Bob Burbidge, Bill Hays,Lester Savage and Gerry owell. Present also were Norman Cohen(the Board of Selectmen's hason to LexHAB), at Nelson(LexHAB's counsel)and George Brunell. Minutes The mmutes for the previous meeting were unanimously accepted as presented. . Financial statements i s Gerry Howell first noted the cash balances in various accounts. I 1 He then called to the attention of the Board the following with respect to the profit d loss statement for the first 8 months of the year; (a) Repairs at$80,000 are $25,000 higher than for the same period m 2014, feflecting rehab of the Edna Street unit at$15,000, repairs and rehab of LexHAB's home ht Grandview Avenue ($12,600) and up-dates of one of our units at Emerson Garden in he amount of $16,157 (b)The Profit and Loss statement for the period shows other income in the ount of$10,000 reflecting the recent gift to LexHAB's LEHAC program in the ount of$10,000, offset by an increase in LEHAC's balance sheet position in equal ount. ( c) Security Deposits as shown on the balance sheet are near zero reflectmg exHAB's initiative to eliminate same by distribution of all such balances. 1 Busa Farm Project (a) The Vice- Chairman summanzed his recent meeting with the Town Manager, who indicated that he would seek an opimon from Town Counsel as to whether the P'gblic Bidding Law applies to LexHAB. (b) With regard to our application to DHCD for this project, The Vice- Chairman reported that DHCD has indicated to Jennifer VanCampen that it will not review our a â–ºplication until the site plan is on file and the site plan preparer cannot fimsh the plan until he has before him the deed from the Town to LexHAB. The deed m turn awaits approval by Special Town Meeting on the 2nd of November It was suggested that p4rhaps we might be given a look at the proposed wording of the deed which might be sufficient for site plan purposes. a (c) There followed discussion of the Article on the Warrant dealing with the deed, it ws thought that a majority vote by Town Meeting will be sufficient for passage of the A icle. 4'Fairview Project (a) Lester reported on his meeting with the supervisor at Minuteman Vocational S'hool on the subject of student participation in the rehab of the existing building. We %411 need to complete a full de-leading of the dwelling and removal of all asbestos based rriatenal. This led to the matter of whether while we are about our clean-up of the b gilding, we ought to consider removal of all intenor surfaces,banging the building Own to studs and joists;the cost might m the end not be a great deal more then the cost o r a bare clean-up and the gam would be considerable. This will be looked into for our next meeting. Kyle at Minutemen endorses this plan for the reasons above noted and for to further reason that the cost for the re-wiring and new plumbing that is required m any eent would be less with pipe and conduit routes fully open. 1 (b) There was discussion of our agreement with Carter Scott's company for the proposed new construction, including the question of how Carter proposes to select his srtb-contractors. This will need to be looked into (c)Minuteman Tech will pull the building permit for the rehab work and Carter will dp so for the new three-family structure. 5 Wright Farm Project The Vice Chairman noted that the CPC will need an estimate of the work required to hab the existing building and the cost of same. He and Lester will assemble an estimate lith input from the Chairman during his own rehab. 6 New Business None Next Meeting The next meeting will be on October 28th at 7 A.M. at the offices of LexHAB at 1620 Massachusetts Avenue m Lexington. The Vice-Chairman then proposed that the Board go into executive session to cc'nsider tenant issues, stating that consideration of same m open session could have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of a semi-public body,namely LexHAB, acid might also affect adversely the privacy rights of tenants and that the Board not return to open session at the end of executive session except to adjourn. The members of the Board individually polled, each member then voting m favor of the Vice-Chairman's proposal. Tie time then was 8 15 A.M. Respectfully submitted William C Hays Secretary Pro Tern