Judge Welsh Hearing Room
Members Present: A.J.
Alon, Elaine Anderson, Joe Carleo,
and
William Dougal (arr
Members absent: Catherine
Reno Brouillet and Molly Perdue
(both above excused)
Staff: David Gardner and
Amy Lawson
The meeting was called to
order at
Meeting Agenda
Review and approval of Minutes
Motion: Approve the minutes of
the January 11th meeting that took place on January 7th.
Motion: Elaine Anderson Seconded:
A.J. Alon Vote:
Introduction of new Housing Specialist and discussion of short-term
priorities
Amy Lawson is the new Housing
Specialist and right now she’s been busy organizing the files so that it’ll be
easier to find things. The last time the
listings of affordable housing records were updated was 2001. She will be finding out how many affordable
housing units there are in town and also tracking down the accessory
units. Amy said that she will be working
Monday through Thursday from 7:a.m. to 3:p.m. and she can be reached at Ext.
515. The Assessor is helping to track
units, too.
Bill Dougal arrived at this
point in the meeting.
David G. said that part of the
discussion should be to come up with priorities for Amy L. He then handed out a copy of the job
description for Amy.
Joe C. said that the short
term priorities are the work around the brochure that Polly H. worked on.
That’s the TAP grant that we have to finish in order to collect – and
maybe Amy will have to look into reapplying for it; its prime purpose was
out-reach.
David said that we should be
able to have something by April.
Also, continued Joe, the
changing of the bylaws that refer to the Local Housing Partnership (
Amy L. requested a copy of the
current application since it is not available online.
Bill D. said that in their
meeting with the Planning Board, there was some specific reference to this Council
and the Zoning board and that the Town had adopted a housing plan and that
should be a point of reference for the ZBA.
Also the zoning by-law has to go before the town meeting.
Amy, still trying to get a
handle on what is being requested of her, asked - so that as a theoretical example – you want us to look
into the mix – income mix – and whether they qualify for local preference or
not? -
not the theoretical need but the actual need?
Funding Issues
David wanted to look at how
the funding looks for ‘09. Joe wondered
if we should use the affordable housing trust fund for the Housing Specialist’s
position. Amy will be working for 30 to
35 hours/week. Elaine will be discussing
at her next
David G. said that it would be
helpful for us to have direction from this PCHC whether there will be
funding. Bill said that he thought that
the ‘09 budget had already been submitted?
The position was originally funded by the
Motion: Move to continue
financial support for the Housing Specialist for FY09 in the amount of $50K
from the
Motion: A.J. Alon Seconded: Bill Dougal Vote:
4-0-0.
Future Meeting Schedule
The next two meetings are scheduled for February 11th and
February 25th. There will be only two meetings in
February.
Presentation by Ted Malone
A.J. Alon recused himself for
this presentation. Ted said that it’s
been a long time – but he has an update on new projects that he has coming
forward. One project is Race Point Road
(which will be regulatory project) and the other is 83 Shankpainter which will
be the first one presented.
83 Shankpainter is located
between Clem and Ursie’s restaurant and the gym. It has 5 affordable housing permits that were
issued and it was intended to be 100 percent affordable. There were 4 bedrooms and one was a
handicapped accessible unit. There were
5 deeded units and the 1st floor was commercial. The 2nd floor currently has a
communal kitchen with bedrooms – much like the rooming houses of old. There are currently 15 bedrooms on the
property.
Ted M. wants to convert the 14
bedrooms on the upper floors and reconfigure them as efficiency
apartments. With his plan, he will get a
total of 13 efficiency apartments – approx. 300 sq ft. each. By carefully redesigning them, he plans on
rentals (for eligible tenants) of approximately $625/mo. which would include
heat, air conditioning, and all utilities.
There are currently five tenants in this building and rather than
relocate them, Ted would opt to work around them. The existing title 5 could support what is
there now. The tenants would have more
independent units and every unit would be long term affordable.
Ted passed out all the funding
information in his packet. He also
requested that the Affordable Housing Trust Fund finance part of this
package. He plans to have two – one bedroom
handicapped units of 450-500 sq. ft. each.
Ted - explaining the financing
- said that he still has to find an investor – he thought maybe Seamens Bank
might be interested. He can get $100k
from Barnstable County and more from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and a
permanent mortgage for $1M. He will be
spending about $500K on renovations.
The plan would dormer out on
the gym side. The rent will include
heat, air-conditioning, and electricity.
The state will pay $957 for a section 8 and he said that he would be
happy to go for
Ted said that he has been
doing this for 30 years and he has finished 70 units of housing to date.
The questions and answers were
exchanged with no definite conclusions because the project is still in the
planning stages.
At a future meeting Ted will
present further plans for Race Point Road.
Adjournment happened at 5:30
p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Evelyn
Gaudiano
E. Rogers Gaudiano
Approved by
_____________________________ on ____________, 2008.
Joe Carleo,
Chair