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Lexington Community Preservation Committee
Draft
Minutes
10 January 2007
Members present: Joel Adler, Norman Cohen, Marilyn Fenollosa, Wendy Manz,
Leo McSweeney, Richard Pagett, Sandra Shaw, Betsey Weiss, Richard Wolk.
Others present included Charles Lamb from the Capital Expenditures Committee
and David Kanter from the Appropriations Committee.
Betsey Weiss, Chair, called the meeting to order shortly after 4 PM. After a
group photo was taken for the Annual Report, there was a brief, but inconclusive,
discussion of the merits of re-visiting our individual votes on each proposal after
we have discussed and voted on all of the proposals. To the extent there was
consensus, it was acknowledged that any member could make a motion to
reconsider any previous vote; if that motion passed, there would then be a new
vote on the proposal in question.
The committee then proceeded to discuss and vote on the four proposals before
us that deal with affordable housing issues:
1. Window Replacement at the Greeley Village Elderly Housing
Development. The Committee voted unanimously to recommend to Town
Meeting that they act favorably on this request for $228,404 to replace
350 windows at Greeley Village.
2. Douglas House: 15 Units of Affordable, Supportive Housing. Supportive
Living Inc.’s proposal requested $750,000 (slightly less than 10% of the
total cost of this 15 unit housing development) to help cover acquisition,
construction and development costs of this project.
A motion to recommend to Town Meeting the approval of a $300,000
contribution was defeated by a 4-5 vote, with Adler, McSweeney, Pagett,
and Weiss voting in the affirmative.
A second motion, not to forward this proposal to Town Meeting, was
approved by a 5-4 vote, with Cohen, Fenollosa, Manz, Shaw and Wolk
voting in the affirmative.
3. Muzzey Condominium Building Evaluation Study. By an 8-1 vote (Pagett
against) the Committee voted to forward the Muzzey Condo Association’s
request for $53,500 to fund an evaluation of the existing building
conditions to Town Meeting for consideration.
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4. Affordable Deed Restriction Prototype Project. The Housing Partnership
submitted this request for $200,000 to buy down the sales price of one
home and test the feasibility of this mechanism for increasing the
affordable housing stock in Lexington. A motion to move the proposal
forward to Town Meeting was defeated by a 3-6 vote, with Manz, Shaw,
and Weiss voting in the affirmative. Those voting against going forward at
this time felt it was premature to move ahead given that the
implementation and administration procedures were yet to be fully worked
out and hence were not well understood.
The next meeting of the committee is scheduled for 18 January 2007 @ 4 PM.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 PM.