3/9/2004 AFFORDABLE HOUSING Minutes

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MASHPEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE Minutes March 9, 2004 Present: J. Marino, J. Cahalane, Z. Elizenberry, A. Lopez, E. Smith I. Meeting was called to order at 7:00pan Il. Approval of meeting minutes: The Committee voted 4 to 0 to approve the meeting minutes from December 2003, February 3, 2004 and the February 10, 2004 meetings. Ill. New Business: a. Before the new business officially started Alice introduced Deb'orah Battles, an interested resident who is running for the Mashpee Housing Authority, Ms. Battles also is interested in joining the Affordable Housing Committee. b. Status of Housing Consultant's Work on Needs Assessment/Action Plan and scheduling of date/time/place for public meeting in May: Eric gave an update on the consultant's status. A Draft Needs Assessment is expected the week of March 22°d. It would be mailed out to Committee members the following week, and the consultant would then come to our next meeting. The Committee discussed the date, time and location of this public meeting. Eric is to ask the consultant if they would be able to attend on a Saturday afternoon, as this day/time would allow families to attend. Eric will ask Dick Terry to see who had produced and donated printing of the poster that was created for the Mashpee Affordable Housing Committee's Dinner and Conference in November 2002. A subcommittee should be put together in order to help plan for this event. Status of Affordable Housing Committee membership: Eric reported that an ad was run in the .N.tashpee Enterprise on February 131h with the deadline for responses being February 27th. No responses were received. The ad is still being run cable and has been posted on the lobby level of Town Hall. d. New Member Packet: Eric handed out a draft "New Member Packet" to Committee members. The Committee said it should be user -friendlier and recommended making use of bullets to highlight the important points and have larger font. e. Eric reported on the revised "Density of Chapter 40B Projects" report as well as the updated "Active and Potential Chapter 40B projects" spreadsheet with the Committee. f. Eric noted that the Mashpee Housing Authority was notified that they did not received grant funding for the 56 -unit senior housing project on Asher's Path.