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consultant for the study cannot proceed until the boundaries of the site have been <br /> appropriately determined and recorded. <br /> NEW BUSINESS <br /> 1. New Member Orientation <br /> There has been significant turnover in Committee membership over the last couple months. <br /> Mike Richardson was appointed at the end of 2021. He was a member of the Committee <br /> many years ago. This is Kayla Baier's first meeting. Cassie Jackson was just appointed as <br /> the Committee's Tribal representative, as has been done by tradition and precedent in past <br /> years. However, due to a conflict she could not attend this meeting. In deference to the new <br /> Committee members the Chairman felt it would be appropriate to talk about some of the <br /> current activities undertaken by the Committee in addition to those already covered. Also, <br /> as background, the Chairman would like to discuss the mission of the Committee, the <br /> affordable housing need in Mashpee, how many affordable housing units have been <br /> produced in town and the importance of future affordable housing production. <br /> To help in orienting the new Committee members, the Chairman provided a package of <br /> informative materials for each member. The materials consisted of a copy of Article XI of <br /> the Mashpee Bylaws on the establishment and organization of the Committee, and its <br /> purpose and duties, the list of the existing affordable housing in Mashpee provided by <br /> DHCD. The DHCD Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI)for all 351 cities and towns in the <br /> Commonwealth, and a list by town of affordable housing in Barnstable County comparing all <br /> 15 towns and ranking them by total number of units and by percentage of total units in each <br /> town. <br /> a. Mashpee Housing Authority(MHA). <br /> The Mashpee Housing Authority is currently involved in a capital improvement program <br /> to replace leaking roofs and siding, including windows, in properties that the MHA owns. <br /> Currently, this involves Homeyer Village (24 units of senior housing opened in 1990) and <br /> Breezy Acres (6 units of family housing opened in 1990). The chairman explained that <br /> both of these developments were built with state financing. Therefore, the state is <br /> primarily responsible for the funding to keep these building in good habitable condition. <br /> However, state funding has typically not been able to provide the funds necessary to <br /> meet the need, and the burden to provide this funding has been falling principally on <br /> local municipalities. This has been accomplished in smaller communities like Mashpee <br /> with funding provided under the Community Preservation Act (CPA). <br /> To receive state funding for capital improvements in public housing (also called <br /> modernization funds), the Chairman explained that the state requires small public <br /> housing authorities like the MHA with less than 500 units, to work with the DHCD area <br /> Regional Capital Assistance Team (RCAT). There are three (3) RCAT areas in the <br /> state. The one that MHA is required to work with is located in Taunton, and it serves the <br /> Southeast area of the state, including all of Barnstable County, The RCAT staff is <br /> composed of specialists in capital planning and is dedicated to assist housing <br /> authorities, especially the smaller ones with less than 500 units, to develop a long range <br /> capital replacement plan that is used to decide how much state funding will be awarded. <br /> The Chairman read that the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) received 2 <br /> applications for$433,000 of assistance from the MHA for Homeyer Village ($265,000) <br /> 2 <br />