04/23/2019 AFFORDABLE HOUSING Minutes

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Mashpee Affordable Housing Committee Meeting Minutes April 23,2019 at 6:30 pm Mashpee Town Hall-Waquoit Meeting Room Present: Chairman Allan Isbitz, Walter Abbott, Berkeley Johnson, Marie Stone Also Present: Town Planner Evan Lehrer Absent: Bruce Willard CALL TO ORDER Chairman Isbitz opened the meeting at 6:35 p.m. with a quorum, and the roll was called. APPROVAL OF MINUTES March 5, 2019 MOTION: Mr. Johnson moved approval of the minutes of March 5. Ms. Stone seconded the motion. All voted unanimously. OLD BUSINESS 950 Falmouth Road-Chairman Isbitz reported that bids were opened today and responses received from two bidders. Mr. Lehrer stated that one proposal came from Commonwealth Community Developers and the other proposal came from POAH and HAC. Review of the proposals would include an initial review by the RFP Working group to include Mr. Lehrer, Mr. Taylor, Chairman Isbitz, Mr. Abbott,Laura Shufelt from Ml-IPP and a member of the Affordable Housing Trust, to be determined. Checklists will be developed to score proposals based on evaluation criteria to create a quantitative score. The Successful bidder may or may not be the highest scorer, but the score sheet would be reflective of the desires outlined in the RFP. The RFP Working Group would continue to work over the next three weeks regarding proposal discussion and scoring, in order to provide a recommendation to the Affordable Housing Committee and for the best proposal to meet at least the minimum criteria and goals of the project. If agreed, the Committee would then vote to send the proposal for consideration by the Affordable Housing Trust to award the project. Mr. Lehrer confirmed that the two bidders would be invited to make presentations to the Working Group on May 8, in order to collect additional information. The presentations would not be scored. It was hoped that the recommendation would be forwarded to the Affordable Housing Committee at the May 14 meeting and to the Affordable Housing Trust on May 20. Once awarded, the developer would negotiate a Developer Agreement with Town staff. It was noted that both proposers provided strong proposals featuring 39 units with different unit mixes. Mr. Abbott inquired why more did not respond and Mr. Lehrer responded that only one other had been expected. Ms. Shufelt reported that she would be reviewing the financial proformas of each proposer to assess reasonableness and feasibility. Ms. Shufelt would provide financial analysis and help facilitate scoring for subjectivity. Ms. Shufelt confirmed that she was familiar with the proposers, both of whom have been awarded projects from MIHP, including on Cape. Mashpee Commons-John Connell stated that Mashpee Commons was continuing to consider various options, adding that the trend has been to integrate affordable housing with mixed income. housing.