11/15/2018 COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT COMMITTEE Minutes

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4 Community Preservation Committee Minutes November 15, 2018 Applicant: Affordable Housing Trust- Transfer of Funds to Affordable Housing Trust - $30000: (cont'd) The application proposal requests $150,000 from the 10%Affordable Housing Reserves and $150,000 from unencumbered reserve funds to bring forth a total request of$300,000. To appropriate funding to the AHT, an application is required annually for CPA funding. It was disclosed the Affordable Housing Trust in an effort to streamline the process voted 6-1 to amend the project application to $300,000 requesting $150,000 from the 10%Affordable Housing Reserve and the remainder from Undesignated Funds or from the Budgeted for Appropriation Reserve for the purpose of affordable housing. It is anticipated the Affordable Housing Trust would re-apply to the CPC on an annual basis for a minimum of 10% in funding to support the affordable housing initiative. With the support of the CPC an article would be drafted with the wording this is a one-time transfer of$300,000 with the expectation the AHT would request annual CPA funding, approximately 10% for the purpose of affordable housing. The application is supported by the Town Manager's Office, the Affordable Housing Committee and Planning Department. Currently, 5.2% of Mashpee's dwelling units reside on the Subsidized Housing Inventory. The goal is to be more proactive and achieve an inventory of 10% in a more efficient and streamlined process. Applicant: Mashpee Public Library Preserving Our Past: Digitization of the Mashpee Enterprise News a er: $50,3.50: Librarian Kathy Mahoney was tunable to attend this meeting. Carolyn Savage, Assistant Library Director was present on behalf of the Mashpee Public Library to request CPA funding to support the digitization of the Mashpee Enterprise weekly newspaper from the start of its publication in 1994 to the present. The funding request is $50,350. Permission was received from William Hough, publisher to develop a data base that would create a permanent archive with continued and future growth. Digitization to an online archive will preserve this valuable historic resource while making it easily accessible and searchable. The process is popular with many libraries digitizing newspapers. Currently, the Mashpee Library has archival copies of the paper. However, it is difficult to research requests from genealogists and others.