Community Preservation
Committee
Judge Welsh Hearing Room
August 23,
2005
9:00 a.m.
Members Present: Elaine Anderson, Mona Anderson, Bill Dougal, Eric Dray, Tim Hazel, Stephen Milkewicz, and Winthrop Smith.
Members
Absent: Nancy Jacobsen (excused)
The
meeting was called to order at 9:05 a.m.
There
were none.
Based on meetings which have been held with the Board of Selectmen (BoS), a Letter of Intent will be added to the packet.
Elaine
Anderson asked the members to look over the Letter of Intent (LoI) and comment
on its suitability as a start. The LoI
was our suggestion as a Committee because of the fact that many of the projects
will come forth in January.
Another BoS requirement was Appendix A defining the Income Limits i.e., Low/Moderate, Median, and Middle. This became the biggest sticking point. Most of the committee took part in this discussion and it was finally felt that more input was needed from Laura Shufelt, the consultant from Falmouth. Evidently there is quite a disparity between County income guidelines and Provincetown income guidelines. – This will be easy to update because of what the banks will require in the future. It was decided to exclude Appendix A for now until more advice is sought. Elaine suggested keeping the appendix as a guideline for the committee only.
Tim
Hazel would like to see what people bring to us and not specify what can be
brought to us. Maybe banks wouldn’t
even want to participate in this. Bill
felt that it’s our responsibility to
create rental units and within the income levels. We have to be pro-active.
Laura
will be at the CPC meeting on the 13th of September which will be
the Falmouth trip. Bill Dougal wants to
ask Laura if she feels it’s correct to put forth an RFP with 75% rental and 25%
ownership? Wants to have an in-depth
discussion with Laura. Elaine said the
BoS were still talking about 2/3 rental and 1/3 ownership developments.
Mona
Anderson said that the group should not get locked into local developers
only. She knows a couple of large
developers (Cruz from Boston and Rogans from Dorchester) She thought maybe they should be contacted
now that we have the mechanism of the “letter of intent.”
Eric
Dray thought that the best way to be pro-active is to ask the powers that be to
define town-owned lands that we can plan on.
Mona
repeated her thought of going outside for developers. Mona feels that we should talk to everyone who is familiar with
this type of developing. Bill agreed
and said he wants to start the dialogue with whomever is out there.
Eric
feels that whatever is created should fit into the community. Tim says 40B may be the way these Boston
guys are going to go. Win said that any
small town has opposition to developments.
Eric
felt it would be a mistake not to reach out to Ted Malone. “We’re the most inconvenient town to get to
on the Cape and how many developers and going to drop everything and come
running?”
Win
Smith felt the group also needed a letter addressed to the professionals. Elaine says the funding issue is something
that we need Laura’s input on and she suggested putting this aside until the
next meeting.
Motion: Approve the plan as Laura Shufelt has amended it and approve the Letter of Intent with the following conditions on the plan:
Goal 1. On page 5 – Contributes for the preservation of Provincetown’s unique historic character visually, culturally, economically and/or artistically. Also on page 5 – add Goal 5 to read Support Provincetown’s wetland protection by-law. On page 10 a paragraph should be added stating This has been accomplished in part by the creation of the Community Preservation Act.
Made by Mona Anderson Seconded by Steve Milkewicz 7-0-0 unanimous.
The BoS wants a record
that states that the entire committee approved the above; they want to know
that this is a majority view. A
signature letter was signed by all CPC members present.
Discussion on brochure.
Win
spearheaded the discussion by saying that this brochure has to reach out to
everyone and – because of this need – the language has to be carefully drafted.
Tim
asked, “What are we trying to do?”
Bill said it was to create awareness and secondly to develop community support, community interest and community involvement.
After
a great deal of discussion, it was decided that the categories of people who
will be featured, interviewed, etc. would be:
1.
A
native Portuguese – someone who’s been here for generations.
2.
A
health care worker
3.
A
fireman
4.
A
policeman
5.
Someone
from the fishing industry
6.
A
business owner who doesn’t own his bldg.
7.
Someone
from the service industry
8.
Wild
Card (a retiree – or someone who is secure)
Tim
said that we’re wrestling with this because we’re fighting negativism. Elaine said we were promising hope – not
gloom.
Mona
– talked to two artists about designing the brochures; Marian Roth, for
one. They were enthusiastic. Win thought the cover of the brochure would
show a kitchen – and/or – living room with all these people sitting around and
discussing these concerns with the members of the CPC.
Eric
wondered - as far as the brochure is concerned – do we have a budget? The Town Manager assured us at a recent
meeting that there is a trust fund that will be happy to cover this.
EA
felt it would it be advantageous to have additional work sessions. On Tuesday, September 6th she would like to schedule a work session
to work exclusively on the brochure.
Mona will bring her draft questionnaire in at that time and then they
will focus on the brochure.
Elaine
would feel uncomfortable going over any proposals before September 15th.
The meeting held in Falmouth on September 13, 2005 will go over the
affordable housing numbers with Laura and get her advice on writing an RFP for
144 units.
At
the meeting on September 20th
we will be looking over proposals.
Thus the schedule of meetings will be:
September 6 Brochure work session
September 13 Falmouth trip
September 20 Perusal of proposals and/or Letters of
Intent
Win
thought that the committee should clarify if they will have a pool of ready
money that would be available.
Motion: Approve the minutes as amended.
Made by Bill Dougal Seconded by Win Smith Approved by all who were in attendance at the August 9th
meeting.
The
meeting adjourned at 10:50 a.m.
Respectfully Submitted
E. Rogers Gaudiano
Approved
by: _____________________________ on ______________________
Elaine Anderson, Chair Date