10/8/2009 HOUSING AUTHORITY Minutes

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i Wednesday otherwise I will issue a 14 Day Notice to Quit. A motion ver s made by Mr. LaPorte and { seconded by Ids. Allonto accept the treasurer's report as presented. The notion was adopted. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. Mrs. Botsford stated that she had mailed her report to the board for the month of September and it is attached to these minutes as Allachment A. Mrs. Botsford reported that Rose is going to the Spectrum LIHTC training next weer in Alabama. Mrs. Botsford hired Gina Orlando as the part-time assistant property manager to help me at Asher"s Path. She is starting November 2 and she will be going to the Spectrum LIHTC training next month in Pittsburgh. Next month firs. Botsford plans on writing the official letter to MHIC to request that we can tale over management by the end of December. She asked the board if they want to sign the letter as well and it was decided that everyone would sign it. An open horse was held from 10A — 2 PM last Saturday at Asher's Path. OLD BUSINESS: Breezy Acres Expansion Pr,oj : FRAC Proposal: Mrs. Botsford provided the following in update: 0 Since there was still question about whether or not we could/couldn't hook up to the treatment system at the high school, I gave Lis le permission to contact the town to see for sure. Gisele and ether members of the HAC team met with members of the town (head of DPW, tern manager, sewer commissioner town planner and health agent) to re-open the discussion and she reported that they seemed very interested in making the connection and indicated willingness to strongly support. However, she reports that there is no money in the town to help with the cost, and the tern indicated that we would have to pay our'share'of the O&M (operations and management), which is likely to be considerably higher than if we had our own system. Gisele has priced out the two options, and it does not seem feasible to share the system with the town, larger because of the high operating costs involved • The Breezy Acres site is mapped for box turtle habitat. HAC reports that they have been able to design a site plan that gets very close to their requirements but it's been a challenge. At the meeting with the town, it was suggested that town could have some land that is never intended for development that they would be willing to put a conservation restriction on, possibly � avoiding or at lust reducing the restrictions we are currently looking at. If the town were willing to put a CR for our full requirement someplace else, it would reale the Breezy Acres land available for further development, if ever desired. HAC has pointed out that it is by far less � costly to the town to allow us to develop further on this site than it is to find another site for you to develop. • There was concern about having to gait until spring town meeting to get town's approval for adding more units to the development, but upon review by the town"s attorney, he found this to be unnecessary. Since the conveyance of the land in 1985 was a very general scope, the Selectmen have the authority to determine the terms and conditions of the deed. They took a vote in Jure to execute ars emended/confirmatory deed to permit the additional bedrooms on the property. A neve deed does need to be donne, and the town attorney has asked HAC s attorney to do it. He is willing, along as we are OK with it. I've contacted DHCD to start the process to get their approval for the subdivision and further development of the property. Since there are existing 705 units on the site Breezy Acres would fall ander Section 4.13 Transfer of Surplus Land Subject to a contract for f=inancial Assistance for Development of Affordable Housing. we have to submit an-application to DHCD requesting to surplus and transfer the land. used on our application, DHCD will need to be able to make a series of affirmative findings regarding the development proposal in order to grant approval to -2 -