Community Housing Council
Caucus Hall
Members Present: A.J. Alon, Elaine Anderson, Catherine Reno
Brouillet,
Joe Carleo, William Dougal (arr
and Molly Perdue.
Members absent: none
Staff: Maxine Notaro (arr.
Meeting Agenda
Review of Minutes
Motion: Approve the minutes of
the
Motion: A.J. Alon Seconded:
Elaine Anderson Vote: 5-0-0.
Public Statements
There were none.
Affordable Housing Proposals
The main proposal discussed
was the
The Provincetown Community
Housing Council (PCHC) proposal was a Policy Statement issued from the
PCHC. Bill Dougal will rewrite the
policy statement taking everyone’s comments into consideration and will fax his
rewrite to Joe Carleo who will then fax it to members of the Council for their
approval or input.
Molly P. had an interesting,
insightful comment: the Planning Board
has bylaws to govern things and the Zoning Board interprets them. What Molly suggested is that the PCHC put out
an educational pamphlet to inform people about where the PCHC is coming from
and what they are trying to accomplish.
This would help to put affordable housing on the front burner and would
establish criteria that would relate to the “needs assessment” that was
prepared by John Ryan, the Housing Guru that the Town engaged as a consultant.
It was further decided that
any project should be looked at as a community need and, as Molly suggested, refer
to the “needs assessment” to define any decisions we make.
Bill said that we should have
two documents: one a policy statement
and the other one should consider a specific project, thus, any decision should
be accompanied by two documents.
Any other business
It was decided that at the upcoming
meeting with Herring Cove Condominiums on October 9th at
Bill also wants to make sure
that this community housing plan is part of the Planning Board’s consideration. Also the PCHC should encourage the ZBA’s,
BoH’s, ConCom’s consideration of the PCHC in any decision they make. Molly said that
perhaps we could visit Zoning
and have copies to hand out as an educational prospective in order to give them
an opportunity to get on board. We need
to educate people on what the need is and if there is no reference to Community
Housing Plan – then there could be gray areas of interpretation.
The bottom line seems to be
that Planning writes the bylaws and Zoning interprets them. Legally the PCHC is just like another member
of the public – asking for consideration.
Maxine made a valuable
suggestion when she said that what you might want to do is to familiarize yourself with Planning’s
bylaws. Then if they ask you for your
opinion on where you would like changes, you will be prepared to make suggestions
to them.
Bill Dougal suggested that we
should look at Water and Sewer Board regulations as well as the Board of
Health.
Updates from Joe Carleo, Chair.
Joe Carleo and A.J. Alon will
sit in on the interviews for the Housing Director’s position on Friday,
September 28th at
Also the “Request for
Proposal” (RFP) for the Shankpainter project is very close to completion and we
can soon have a discussion on this.
John Ryan has sent in something – perhaps a position
statement. Molly wants to know how much
we have paid him to date and she feels that we should be tracking the $25K.
A.J. said that there’s another
TAP grant application due and the deadline is Thursday. John Ryan may have the original submission
and maybe it just needs updating. We may
be able to resubmit it. Joe Carleo would
like to know why we’re being notified two or three days before the renewal is
due?
Bill Dougal, always the voice
of caution, said that we have to have a very good idea of the duties and
responsibilities for the new Housing Director.
“We have to be crystal clear!” The person selected has to have the ability to
be comfortable with the public and to exude confidence in his knowledge about
what needs to be done.
Adjournment – by popular vote
– happened at
Respectfully submitted,
Evelyn
Gaudiano
Approved by
_____________________________ on ____________, 2007.
Joe Carleo, Chair