11/8/2018 COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT COMMITTEE Minutes

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S Community Preservation Committee Minutes November 8, 2018 Applicant: Mashpee Historical Commission and Mashpee Historic District Commission Proposal Title: Mashpee War Monument: $174,154 (construction phase): Ava Costello was in attendance with Richard DeSorgher of the Mashpee Historic Commission to review their goals to honor, recognize and pay tribute to all veterans from the Town of Mashpee. CPA funding was awarded last year, and it has been time consuming to locate a landscape architect for this project. After considerable review it was determined the firm that designed the Community Park would provide this service. In October of 2018 a contractual agreement has been initiated with the architectural engineering firm of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB). Services related to the agreement include schematics, conceptual design presentations and design development to be presented to the Board of Selectmen and Community Preservation Committee, Ms. Costello anticipates the conceptual design process and design development to be completed by the end of December. At this time, costs assumptions would be determined. Although project costs have not been fully realized the current CPA funding request for Phase I of the project proposal is $174,154. A letter of support from the Mashpee VFW Post 5489 was included in the funding application. Applicant: Affordable Housing Trust--Proposed Title: Transfer of Funds to Affordable Housing Trust: TBD: Evan Lehrer, Town Planner reviewed the application submitted to the CPC in request of the 10% Affordable Housing Reserves to be set aside by the Affordable Housing Trust for the purpose of affordable housing development. Mr. Lehrer indicated that it is important to foster a streamlined and efficient process in pursuit of the minimum requirement of 10% of housing units on the Subsidized Housing Inventory. Communication was received from the Town Planner dated October 1, 2018 and from the Affordable Housing Committee (AHC) dated November 1, 2018 with respect to the transfer of CPC Affordable Housing funds. The AHC has requested the mandated 10% of CPA funding available for the development of affordable housing be set aside on an annual basis for use by the Affordable Housing Trust. Under the Declaration of Trusts and with the execution of the CPC transfer, the Affordable Housing Trust has the ability to execute affordable housing funding in a timely and efficient manner.