Town of Sharon

Community Preservation Committee

Minutes of 12/11/08

Amended and Approved on February 26th, 2009

 

 

Committee Attendees

Corey Snow - Chair  - absent

Allen Garf

George Bailey - Treasurer

Jane Desberg

Arnold Cohen  - Clerk 

Susan Rich  - absent

Betsy McGrath

 

 

Guests

None

 

 

Chair’s Report

Clerk Cohen read the Chair’s Report as Mr. Snow was not in attendance. Within the Chair’s Report was a request from Civil Defense to purchase a vehicle. Mr. Cohen expressed that he was not sure if this request fell within the Community Preservation parameters.

 

Treasurer’s Report

Mr. Bailey provided the Committee with a suggested list of possible Community Preservation Committee projects. Within the discussion, Mr. Garf stated that he was not comfortable with the Committee being both a proponent and decider of a project. Mr. Cohen asked for a status on Camp Gannett and Ms. McGrath said that the Selectmen have taken over the Camp Gannett interest from the Conservation Commission. Ms. McGrath suggested asking the Community Preservation Coalition if a Community Preservation Committee can both initiate and decide on projects. She suggested asking them what is possible to do. Ms. Desberg volunteered to contact the coalition regarding the project question as well as ensuring the amount of roll over of funds that are acceptable to maintain.  

 

Mr. Bailey said for the next meeting he will look at how Community Preservation money is to be allocated for the next ten years.  

 

Meeting Minutes

Mr. Garf moved to accept the minutes of 10/30/08 as amended. Ms. Desberg seconded the motion and the Committee members voted 5-0-0.

 

CPC Bylaw Wording Changes

Mr. Bailey to provide a copy of the CPC Bylaws that were approved at the 10/30/08 meeting to all Committee members as well as to the webmaster for updating to the website.

 

Officer Elections

Officer elections continue to be postponed until the full Committee is present.

 

 

 

Suggested Agenda Items for Next Meeting

  1. Officer Elections
  2. Annual Report
  3. Finances
  4. Determine if as per the CP law, the Civil Defense application is acceptable or not.
  5. As per email from Ms.  Rich to Mr. Cohen, the Historical Commission will ask for CPC funds to support the Historic Survey.
  6. CPC action steps – Review the CPC application from Concord, MA that Mr. Bailey provided to the Committee for review.

 

Other Business

  1. Ms. Desberg reported that the Beacon Companies closed the deal on the funding for the Wilber School.
  2. Nine Glenview has been approved by the State as affordable housing. The tenant has lived in the house without paying rent but within four months the house will be sold as affordable.

 

Next Meeting

1/22/09

 

Meeting Adjournment

Mr. Garf moved to adjourn the meeting at 9:00 pm and Mr. Cohen seconded the motion. The Committee voted 5-0-0.