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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
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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:
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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.
Lexington Housing Foundation, Inc.
5. Discussion of Letter to Selectmen on the subject of a central
land acquisition commission:
Comments were made related to the draft letter. It was decided not to include a list
of possible properties identified by the Partnership as available for future housing
considerations. The list has sensitive elements and should be handled with
discretion. The letter will continue to be polished and submitted for approval at a
later date.
The meeting was concluded at 9:50pm.
The next Lexington Housing Partnership meeting will be held in the Ellen Stone room
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in Cary Hall on Thursday, May 21 from 7:00 to 9:00pm.