[Music] okay good evening everyone and welcome to the February 20th meeting of the community preservation committee um I'd like to say that we are being on Lake cam tonight and I'd like to ask if
anybody in the audience is recording seeing none um tonight we're going to start with our public hearing once a year we have to have a public hearing and I will read the public
notice the Lakeville Community preservation committee pursuant to the Lakeville General bylaws Community preservation committee section 2 will conduct a public informational hearing on Thursday February 20th at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeville police station 323
Bedford Street regarding the Lakeville CPC plan the purpose of the hearing will be to provide public input session and received public comment on the Lakeville Community preservation plan the plan can be viewed on the town of Lakeville
Community preservations website um also the copy of the plan and eligibility slip are Upfront for anybody to pick up that would like to and I'd look for a motion to open the public hearing so
moved second all in favor I um you'll notice that we have a slideshow running while we're talking um but if this is our this will be our third
year for the plan um the first year um it was a little more difficult to put together because we started from scratch then the second year last year we had a public hearing and not too many people came but we did get one good idea that
they were looking for more waterbased Recreation so we added that to the plan um so tonight we're looking to you and we have more of attendance tonight than we did last year even though it's February
and it's probably snowing a little out um so we're interested in what you're interested in seeing in the plan so if anybody would like to give us their thoughts and comments you can come
right up to the front here um and let us know what you'd like to see the money used for well we have a lot of people here public hearing are oh I don't know um all right well I've just been a remind we're going to introduce ourselves we'll go around and introduce
ourselves we have a committee we're not all here tonight but Bob stefanian I'm a member at large Susan Spiel a member at large Nancy H representing Conservation Commission Nancy Le representing the historical commission Liz Nash representing the
open space committee and then we have Kathleen barck who is a member at large we have a park commissioner we have a park commissioner and we have um Michelle who is here via phone
Michelle yep I'm here okay and Michelle's representing the planning board sou Carolina I'm the planning board representative um did you say that we do have a Parks representative there no no we do not okay because I I did uh want to let
you all know that uh we did receive a resignation from Britney for parks and Parks will be uh reappointing once uh they are are back to a full board after the election or a full commission
okay all right so we have somebody up to the microphone one brave soul I thought I'd break the ice david open space committee and i' just a question U you know I read through the the plan it looks very detailed and and very good I just um the process you know there's a
there's a deadline for applying and I think it's in the fall and it goes through whole process and then has to go to town hall meeting to be approved is that right so it's like submit in the fall and approved in spring or Springtown meeting okay um what what
happens if something comes up that doesn't um fall uh into that timeline like you have a parcel acquisition that comes up in uh February and it's you know the landowner wants to sell now what what do you what do you do how do
you handle that so so that that happened with um weam when they acquired um it was Little Harbor Golf Club it came up in January so in order to do something like that they make special exemptions for that and then we would call a special town meeting just to vote on an
acquisition of land so it it can be done it doesn't have to be done okay and that's and that's in the in the plan here yes y yes in in a timely fashion because you can't always you know something could canot it's not going to just come up in our timeline so a lot of
projects can be planned you know right but it can be done yeah for emergency situations it can be done okay okay and um uh educational purposes is another um you know uh valid use of money so if we
an outreach program to land owners to educate them on conservation options I believe it says that something like that would be covered in here if it's I don't quite understand the question um so if the open space
committee want to do an Outreach to land owners to um make sure they knew about their options for conservation chapter 61 conservation restrictions and such uh there are Outreach programs that are done through mailings and um having guest speakers come in to do and it's
you know it's not very expensive there's a cost cost to that and I asking if something like that it looks like it would be covered as I read through this um I don't think so no um but well if you look at this under acquire it
does say yes to actually acquire um to create that's why that colored sheet mine's not colored is up there um but what we do is that we have communication with the state commune preservation committee and
when um things come before us we send that by them and they help us determine if there's a question because there are some questionable sometimes if it's on the line whether it's because if we go to town meeting and say we would like to
see this funded then it comes around that it wasn't eligible it's not going to work then they can't get the money so so so and something like this with the thing to be do is to fill out an application submitted to the committee it's two steps there's a phase one that comes
kind of before us so we won't make you go through all the things you have to do for step two step one comes before us and we we uh review them at a public meeting and then we'll decide if it's yes if it's eligible or not not and it will'll have gone by the
state committee and they will give us advice too about this being eligible or not being eligible and if it's eligible then we'll go to step two where you'd have to do a lot more information gathering to go to town for us to take that to recommend to go to town meeting
okay as far as I I thought I remember Stuart saying that educational materials and stuff like that is not covered all right just a little but if it was to help us acquire like under a chapter 61 program that might that be something that we'd have to look into I don't
think we can definitely say yes or no right here tonight but I think that it would be something that we would look into depending on exactly what it was once you receive the applications yeah because you know it list the open space goals in there and part of it is education educating you know the town
land owners about their options and so if we're meeting that goal of the open space Committee of course we need some funds to do that so it would seem to me that it would be covered and it's not very expensive but uh what we'll plan on doing is putting an application in and then you can
review it and uh the application is in the fall um it's all covered in here on the schedule corre okay okay and for everyone out there that um since nobody's coming jumping right
up to speak oh well here comes somebody else okay I have more of a question my I'm Kathy Barne at and I've been in living full-time in the town just 5 years so this is purely a question to to see if there has been any interest in using any
of these funds for Lakeville residents to have access to Long pound whether it's by acquiring property that may come up well you know how uh Freetown has that little Landing Town Beach area right that's State really
well it's in free well not the boat ramp but they have their little beach the town beach yeah the town beach so it it just strikes me sad that you know the residents of Lakeville don't have access to Long Pond other than maybe using the
boat ramp or you know this is for acquiring land for open space y um Recreation it's also with our flooding problems that we have in Lakeville that's also another um like
townwide um kind of a goal is to um buy up some of the properties around Long Pond to help keep it clean or less building so I I would think acquiring
open space right yeah I'm not sure how it all gets done well and last year year that was a thing that came out of last year was the waterbased recreation so it would fit in
with that also so I would say yes but that's kind of rare when properties would come up and it may be a long-term kind of part of the plan where money is set aside toward that goal because I'm sure it would be fairly costly but
that's all I just wanted to give it as a suggestion of something to think about the correct process would be to go to open space yeah so I think it the confusion may lay that the CPC doesn't come up with
projects and then and then um try to convince people that that's the correct way to spend the money people in town come up with projects fill out the application you read the thing fill out the application and then come to a meeting and say I'd
like to use some of these Town funds that you folks are have to do this project so if you're I mean I guess you'd need to find people a group of people who would keep their eyes open on Long Pond to see if there was any property coming up that would fit your bill and then approach the
people perhaps and see if they would agree to selling it to if at what cost would they sell it and then come here to see if you could get some of the money from the funds from CP from CPA that's how this works like we're like a what do you call this committee sort of a
advisory we are the ones who make the recommendation to to the town meeting we don't actually bring the projects ourself but the answer to your question being it's probably an acceptable project but it wouldn't be something we would bring forth it would be something open space or the board of Selectmen who
are the actual purchasing people for the town of Lakeville when it comes to property and I don't know if open space if that's a priority for open space because this sounds more like a priority for the parks because it sounds like more of a public um recreational sort of
piece of land as opposed to a sort of an open I mean that fits too it does fit actually in open space actually it does but we don't go looking for the spaces either unless something comes up yeah I mean if something came up think um if
somebody's aware of an opportunity that somebody wants to sell that could be whether it's Parks or open space uh notify you know the open space committee or the parks uh commission and um figure out if it is a a priority and makes sense for the town to uh to pursue it
but yeah anytime you see opportunity that looks like it would be a good for that then we should definitely be notified so there's an open space plan too that's nearly finished and will be on file at Town Hall and it will be available online too where again the open space committee has taken the time
and follow the state rules to to create an entire open space plan for the people of of Lakeville so that they can look at that and you know you may agree with it you may not but that what the town from the master plan that involved a lot of the people in the town of Lakeville Etc how this open space
plan was written and it's got priority areas in it etc etc so is that a map that's right on the uh oops excuse me when if you talk I'm sorry you have to come to the microphone I get penalized if you
don't Louise Rashard you have to give my address no no okay good nothing matters but um so I forgot my question on the open space is that um a map that you can find on the town site
it actually shows you where the Open Spaces are yeah I I know the one that's up there now is the 2013 one because the new one is going through approvals right now okay and we're hoping within another month or two that it will the new maps will be out
from Sur head correct but sured would have them yeah cuz like when I went on the the accessors thing and I I looked at that I can see my whole street and plug in on that but if the open space had something where you went I don't even know the pond I mean I've been here forever but I don't go down the little
side roads to see what's down there how would you find out uh which pieces of land are even available to be bought or to be considered for something like that real estate not real estate well the open
space it's going to be online the new open space plan when it's online will show you the priority pieces because it will have Maps there'll be nice maps from surup head and it will show you priority and those priority like either habitat or
whatever are going to be what the open space is going to be keeping their eye on to purchase right if it comes up so is all the land in Lakeville owned by somebody whether it's town or an individual or a company is every Square
foot of acreage in Lakeville owned by some entity yes all right that would be on the map somewhere well I say the you know serid which um Southeast Regional or
something development District yeah there you go their their website the maps are on there now you can go in for Lakeville um priority protection areas or whatever all the maps are there because they make them for us okay and so that's available online
we'll have it on the Lille website open space once our our plan is you're saying it's under Sur so if I was looking that's what I would look under Sr p e d d serit Southeast Regional Planning and Development District it's got it memorized okay thank you you're welcome
you forgot economic it's fine oh there you [Laughter] go yeah yeah I I just had one other question as far as the amount of money that's available I know you've got the attachment in here where we where we are
now what's the uh projection based on the anticipated uh income from the taxes is there is there a projection for the next 10 years of where we might be what would be available um I know we're going to spend as we go well that was our budget that's going on the article for
um town meeting is you realize that um we have to every year put aside 10% for open space 10% for St and 10% for outdoor recreation um well how that open space and outdoor
recreation are together and the other 10% is housing so those Pockets 10% 10% 10% that's 30% and then the rest is um the big pocket that can go into any of those three
um so this year we're going to town meeting for we can also put we put 3% but we put up to 5% for um administrative expenses but we really don't use I mean we use some money to
advertise this public hearing and our dues into to the state Coalition committee Coalition um so um this year uh $ 8,325 will be for administrative
expenses the 10% in each pocket will be 27,500 and the big pocket will be 1885 925 so somebody brilliantly come up with how much about that is just for if I may yes if I can um
just add add something here um as far as projections the only thing that we can project is the amount of money that can be raised from the taxation right typically goes up by that 2.5% each year
uh otherwise the state match it fluctuates yearly so we're not able to project what the state m is going to be right year to year and then also another factor is that especially for open space open space is shared with Recreation so
um you're basically competing for funds with Recreation and um you know for that time fense portion of it um I know you know the committee knows that I'm very much in favor of of
holding back that big pot you know for something that's you know substantial um if a land purchase were to become available but you never know what kind of projects we're going to have in front of us and that would be that's another um stumbling block to projecting because
you don't know what projects are going to be applied for and under what category so it's it's not something we can really do right I was just trying to give a basic of what we were projecting for this year and also I was reading off
the chart open space and outdoor recreation are one part historic and housing I should just say it instead of trying to read it um thank you anybody else you would
go I had a question oh I'm sorry you're right there and I'm just oh state your name uh Robie Kiki okay um just what does Recreation mean outdoor recreation that's how it stated
it's open space and outdoor recreation we've had some projects that came before us that were not out Recreation and sadly we had to you have this in front of you it defines it right yeah I forgot Michael glasses okay so Recreation if you bought a piece of
property um who's you if you bought if who bought a piece of property the town okay the Town and it was considered Recreation what does that mean I mean can we put housing on there or can we put a school there no would you like to
read that quick I can read it to him you want me to read it to yeah that would be great Recreation land for active or passive recreational use including but not limited to Community Gardens Trails non-commercial Youth and adult sports use as a park playground or Athletic
Field shall not include horse or dog racing artificial turf or the use of land for a stadium gymnasium or similar structure okay so now we take that piece of property right that say we found a piece of property and it was Recreation
okay and the town approved it okay how does that work you know the town approved it right so we know that you can't do anything except what this lady said 30 years from now when there's a new board and you and
I are in heaven there's a new board and all of a sudden they need space so how does that work the recreation any land like that that we would get for outdoor recreation or open space would
most likely one of the criteria for that through the state is would be what you call article 97 land so that would be under State protection and it would take an act of the legislature to change that and I don't think any of us can control
the legislature but most article 97 land that I've seene that's been protected so far you really do need an act of legislature and it would be have to be something you know well could uh 304 40 50 years from
now could the board just say okay we want to put a school there okay and um and just go ahead not unless the state changes the rules okay all right yeah okay we don't have control of what the state okay does but as far as when we
get something that's part of the criteria for getting that open space and Recreation land is that it goes under a conservation restriction and it would be article 97 land and that would be protected and can not be changed okay um can I have another
question okay what about the ched Williams Camp is that is that Recreation well the Ted Williams Camp was purchased many many many years ago so I believe that is under article 97
land so that's Recreation but when it was purchased it was purchased for um uh what is the exact say um Recreation there was Municipal Municipal
was also in the wording Municipal comma outdoor recreation that's right so the municipal was in the original language for the Ted Williams Camp which is why we've been able to put the senior center of the
police station and now the fire station on Ted Williams game that was the original way it was written up and I can't tell you the year it was a long time ago I've been saying back in the day and Liz asked me what year was at Nancy back in the day
but it was a long time ago but that was in that deal back then the uh people voted for um voted for for recreation okay right but I don't think that's a
perview of us right now I mean I can answer your question we'll try to help answer your questions but we need to stick to the the point of we're here to see how you want this money used okay okay the other question one more one more okay I only have one more okay
okay I addressed this lady about the um the waterfront property you know maybe we could have a beach there but I just wanted to remind everybody that uh the town doesn't accept those roads right it's all private all right right around
the pond the Lakeville area the town does not plow they don't uh maintain the road so I imagine if there was a beach um we could put a beach there for everybody then I would think that the town would have to accept the roads
maintain the roads and plow and Etc so just so you know that's because everything is private all those beaches around there are private but there are plenty of individual properties that aren't necessarily on private roads and any property that the
town bought it would be now their responsibility to maintain it it wouldn't necessarily um not all the land around Long Pond is a private Community there are individual homes in different places also well you may I just want to sort of put
a general reminder out there that the the purpose of the forum tonight and the hearing tonight is your input on the plan not necessarily input on individual projects as they said earlier those get vetted through open space through Parks then they come to us as a project step
one step two and then hopefully the town meeting to to get complete the purpose of tonight is really to to nail down what you folks would like to see in in this plan that's before all of us not necessarily sort of one-off projects and hey you know can we do this can we do
that we're happy to get you answers for that I just want to stay I guess right we don't mind answering a few questions but some of them are kind of a little bit more difficult than we can take on tonight well I apologize I didn't mean to uh no good you're good twist you
right but I I just one more thing I uh respectfully disagree all everything around the pond is privately um uh privately owned and the town does nothing for us all around the pawn as
far as plowing roads or anything it's all private okay so that's that that's your opinion right okay not necessarily a fact and that's good let's give the next person a a
turn um let's see so I had I don't know much about this meeting either I saw it announced and I it looked interesting to me uh I had two concerns uh your name please oh Robert flarity pitching Post Road um and I've only been in town for 5 years too so two things one is t
Williams camp that you brought up the historical part there um is that within the perview of a project that we could add um a veteran of two Wars okay one of the greatest baseball players in the
world ever um worthy of uh of our young children looking up to okay um in you know this day and age so if we wanted to put like memorials you know you could imagine a Ted Williams statue and some
some veterans uh uh monuments and you know maybe someday the baseball fields get spruced up um where would where would where would I start with that is this the with the park Department you would go directly to the park department and they would be the one you would bring your ideas to the
park department and they would be the ones that would bring something like that forward or you you work with them yeah okay we also like to see projects that don't just depend on totally on us for our funding you know middle borrows um Community preservation
they don't even accept projects unless there's partial a little bit of funding even if it's in kind but some other little piece not just depending all on our recommendation that was one of my questions is you don't just control the funding
you control you like uh or these committees approve outside funding as well whether it could be used in in the project right you're not limited to at it more favorable if it's not taking all of our CPA money and that you know oh well we have a oh The Nature Conservancy is
going to put in you know 10% or you know even in kind things so okay and then the uh the other thing is along the lines a little bit related to The Long Pond access is you know having moved here from like the cape y oddly enough the
cape as congested as it is has way more Trails you could go miles and miles and miles and actually get places just crossing a few roads here there's always a dead end you can go a couple miles you got to turn around and come back it doesn't seem like there's really an active
Trail uh M maintenance or creation arm to any department where would that where would that come in cuz that would be outdoor recreation in Open Spaces I imagine um like you know that's an existing goal
it already is we do have that as an open space goal develop a linked system of conservation and recreational areas for human and Wildlife youth prioritizing Parcels that but existing protected land Parcels so yes that is in line with what our plan uh does look at currently and I
did want to note um about your historic question historic funds cannot be used to create with CPA funds you cannot create anything historical so just note that I'm not sure what you mean you can't create when you talked about the statue I think that's what she took you
to me you know like St I see I see can I just add one clarification pleas um just recently a Eagle Scout project was done at the park department at the Ted Williams camp that focused on Ted Williams and it's also in been connection with a gentleman named ed
Leonard who's doing an updated book about teds R in Lake Phil over I think it was either six or eight years that he was here so there is something already started there plus at the historic townhouse which is the town hall that nobody everybody gets confused about at
the intersection of Precinct in Bedford Street there is the beginning of a p system and part of the 2028 175th anniversary experience here is going to be doing something with veterans things in that area we trying
to do something where M Department of um Highway will not put a left turn signal so we want it sheltered back so it doesn't have to to be relocated so that's something that we have on the historical commission's long range plans so there are some other things going on
in town too yeah but we would love to have your name oh yeah contct yeah Robert flarity I'll give you my number um and I'm sorry the person who is remote Michelle Michelle so that existing Trail project what department
is that under Recreation open space and Recreation Recreation okay so yes so that's all in relation to plan so what we're doing tonight we're Gathering input on our plan to make sure that our plan is in line with the goals of the residents and how you want to see your CPA funds spent and so that's what we're
trying to do is make sure that our plan which if you look through the plan I know Nancy printed out a bunch of copies you can look through and see what the goals under each of these items are so if you look under the open space goals and you can read and see um the various items and if you think that there's
something lacking that's what we would add to or or tweak uh based off of the input that we get tonight um otherwise I'm just I'm just mentioning that it is in line with what our goals so we use this plan to then uh review any project
that comes before the committee so we we go through our goals and uh we determine whether or not a project that applies for the use of the community preservation act funds is in line with what the goals in the plan are are looking to to do so as long as it is in
line with those goals that's what what this committee would review and then make a determination whether to U recommend approval at town meeting so we don't we do not create a project but we review applications for projects to use
the CPA funds board so that's what committee does and the input that we're Gathering is to make sure that our plan which is our guidelines is in line with what you the residents want to see happen and where do we get the applications that's on a website
somewhere scan that QR code right up on the screen there go there you go there's also app thanks so um just to get before you go totally away you're talking about a like a map of trails or you would like to see
pieces purchased to link Trails together with your right right and I don't even know piece would need could be purchased maybe the town or some kind of conservation already owns but linking sections well we have isol like we have Betty's neack we have the biggest
property but they're not it's not you can get from one to the other we also have the whole New Bedford Waterworks that's in Lakeville it's extensive trails that are right right on your regular GIS map look at that I've looked at all my all Trails
I've looked at that to the town clerk's office and ask for a map of the APC that would be all the trails that would be on in the bed property that's ASA wet Pond complex yeah oh I'm sorry thank you welcome that's when I live right
near ASA wsit Pond complex the only place you can really go and go is when the water is really low you go all the way around ASA WSET not all the way a long way almost hi my name is Drew Elder on Freetown Street um excuse my ignorance
for the mechanics of this whole thing it's it's slowly coming into Focus um I have a question about you're talking about where your money goes um I've got a question about where you
won't put your money where you what where you won't put it where it's not going to go go yeah so the so the the the categories are are all broken down down and all the open space stuff sounds fantastic the trails and the beaches and
everything and the parks but there's also a housing component yes in here yes can you can you specify what that comes down to I'm I'm all for saving a a historic house in the middle of town and
all that stuff but that's that's totally separate from that yeah they're separate can we just Liz do you want to read that one yes I will read this one too I think I've got the right no I think if I from there all right hold on hold on
okay uh community housing housing for low and moderate income individuals and families including low or moderate income seniors age 60 plus uh moderate income is less than 100% of us HUD Area
Wide median uh low income is less than 80% of Ami Area Wide medium that's called out in the plan exactly Chang year to year right because the right go ahead well I was going to say I'm sure Michelle will
probably chime in on it too but the the biggest goal of that is sort of preserving the deed restricted housing in perpetuity and that's the goal with that money uh it well at least as it's spelled out in the plan right now so that's essentially saying the town of Lakeville has x amount of low income
units existing those funds should be spent to make sure that those don't fall off they're retain does that make sense yeah and and does that include 40b um it's it is 40 so so will will this committee be
approached to give money to to 40b it's an acceptable project we we've received them in the past we've sent them to Coalition we've gotten feedback we've had people come to the meetings and vet them yeah um and the most recent one that I was here for did not make it past that meeting not to say that another
project could okay what one was the one that was was for it was looking for like I believe it was a $10,000 Grant adus yeah for adus all right I I I live on fre time street and I'm going to be directly affected by the rocky Woods project so my major concern
is about that one so rather than discuss where where your money could go I want to make sure that your money is not going to go towards that one well it it doesn't our money does not go towards a 40b at all what we're saying every 40b has a component that's affordable
housing and that affordable piece of a 40b is supposed to be in perpetuity but in the past perpetuity is like defined as 20 years so for example learon which was a 40b also has affordable units in there that are going to fall off after
20 years off that affordable category so something our money could be used for was to help them stay affordable but I think money is used for to create 40b housing no that's private
development no I understand okay so go ahead Michelle go um I just I just want to add I think this is great feedback to get because um you know we can we could add something in our criteria that's specific to community housing that says
that you know we don't want to see it used towards any sort of private development um because I know middle borrow was approached by a private developer for for use of CPA funds for that purpose so it's probably a good idea and it's a good thing that he's
mentioning this that we could probably look to add to our plan uh to specify that I think it's it's a great thing that he brought up thank you very much yep thank you I agree because we've talked about it and now we have input and we actually can get it into the plan
that because um I don't think because we're a small town and we don't take in that much money it's I don't know if we'll ever get to the point where we could do our build our own affordable housing so our best use of our money would try to be to keep what we have affordable right I mean I know a lot of
towns that have like a let's say an old school or something that they were no longer using they have rehabed those into an affordable housing using the CPA funds so that's another way of using it is a building that the town already owns
and they're not using it for the purpose that they were using it for so they have turned these building into affordable housing like apartments and stuff and it goes towards our Shi that's a good thing is we want to build Shi because that brings us closer to Safe Harbor so there
is a there is a good part of this that brings us closer to Safe Harbor if we're able to use CPA funds to create new Shi units or to uh maintain them in perpetuity and what Michelle means by Safe Harbor is um if your town has 10%
of affordable housing then you can say no to the 40 bees the reason that we're susceptible in Lakeville is right now we're only at what 5 point something per affordable housing so we're at the mercy of the state and the private developers but the more um affordable units that we
have and they build up towards our 10% E's been as you get close then we can say no this so that's what Michelle means by Safe Harbor hi hi no El I I do think we need
to do something for the housing and I think that component of CPA is important for the young people I mean if you're fortunate enough to have your own home that's fine that's great or if you can pass something on to your kids that's great too but there are some some young
people who just have no they have no hope for having their own home so I I I do think that's really important and I and I really I have noticed that some of these towns are taking old school buildings and buildings that are not being utilized
anymore um I know we don't have a lot of that but um you know there's some creative ideas out there for um so I feel like we have to we have to do that for some of the young people thank you um okay uh somebody um say moves
into town you want to say your name one more time Robert Kiki okay um somebody moves into town they're 80 90 years old and they buy the house across the street and their income is uh low would they qualify to be low income um housing if
they buy that house themselves would that qualify them so I don't think the question really makes sense the house that they're buying already exist ised restricted or their income is they don't have any kind of
income very low all right what is low income what does low income mean to find is less than 80% of area median income and the area median income is called out in our plan when we upgrade our plan every year that figure
changes so still look what it is I'm trying to find it just trying to find it the seniors are getting um they they don't have have enough money to live a lot of them okay and their income keeps going down and down
and down so I'm saying do they do they qualify for low income and does that give you a low income they qualify to buy a house that's for sale at that is a low income housing they qualify for that they wouldn't qualify to buy the house
across the street that wouldn't be low income housing that would be the regular price so I I think the answer to your question sir would be if they got into that situation and that was they now met the low-income threshold it sounds like they would be able to sell their home that they cannot afford and be eligible
to purchase a low income restricted home so we almost uh need to change that rule that uh that they can buy the house across the street and help the town for lowincome housing okay I won't go any into you know okay but that's why why
we're here that that now you're getting more specific where at the point that we're getting is that people would like to see some more affordable housing and lowi income and affordable housing are kind of two different
things affordable housing is 80% of the say it again area medium income yeah area medium income you know like um say I my house and I made an apartment for my mother and father to move into would
that be um considered low income because they couldn't afford it so that part of the property what's the Nexus to to this to the plan and to what we're discussing here well I'm just asking I don't know okay I'm just asking
me too all right well be restricted it would have to be something deed restricted to count as affordable okay I have one other important question I think it um um I don't know if you uh zeroed in a few pieces of property right that you would
like to purchase right we don't zero in on properties we would like to purchase people either the B selectman the park Department open space they come to us with a piece that they think the town
should purchase and we decide if that's how these funds should be used we only recommend how these funds should be use we do not bring any pieces forward ourselves oh you don't have any in mind okay um one other thing if I could speak
again this is the last the last yes yes okay I'm sorry I'm the I'm chair in the meeting tonight and you've occupied quite a bit of time with questions that aren't prevalent or aren't related to what we're talking about so I'll give you one more chance one more chance okay
um I just left a gentleman up on howand wrote and he has 789 Acres he's 90 years old and almost in the grave and they got have people up there that are um uh digging test holes and surveying and no
one uh as far as I know no one knows about it okay so I wanted to bring you bring that attention to a 789 Acres up there I um if any of you would like to go up there and speak with him
um you know he can barely walk and talk and I think these people are kind of um putting a will over his eyes okay this is not in our purview but I do think that the town's aware that the Howland Road property is for sale because we previously owned the other half of it so
I'm sure that people already know that it's zoned industrial by the way okay thank you all right do we have anybody else so let's kind of consolidate maybe what we came up with tonight all right so we came up
with affordable think there may be a future meeting so like tonight this was just to receive the that's what I'm saying I want to just make sure we document what we receiv we received affordable housing um open space people are
interested in having the money spent on affordable housing open space ination Sounds like the waterbased recreation thing again also right so those are three and trails and trails okay so four things I just want to make sure that gets in that that's what we are getting from the
community of how they'd like to see the money appropriate please come up to the microphone appropriate use of funds for community housing okay
okay anybody else okay I would look for a motion to close the hearing so move second any discussion all in favor I okay thank you very much for coming
was a much better turnout than last year I know I got to grab these for we no I know I got to grab I got to grab these for a [Music] minute that's all right I would only ask if you would please take
yourside we still have to good memory yeah one of your guys was at my house yesterday minute break till they clear up okay take take a motion that would take a break for a few minutes till the audience leaves so move second
somebody second okay all in favor so we should be on agenda item two right now okay yep good all right so I need a motion to back to the meeting so moved
second all in favor I I I need to agenda item number two all right here's our revised budget that I refer to before so yeah so I can speak to this one Nancy okay um so when I was doing
the minutes from our last meeting I was adding everything up and it wasn't adding up it didn't make sense well when it was done the administrate of um expenses weren't added into the whole calculation so nothing was adding up
okay so Michelle spoke to Mike Ellis and told him about that and he said that he went on the really low conservative side when he gave us the first budget okay so he he just tweaked it and it's a different amount um adding in the
administrative fund this is it that we look at that the 277500 is the total and then on the next page is the article yeah so the yeah so um the article is under that it's
less um the 277 is estimated the 277500 is the new amount so that's going to be Chang so I believe that Michelle so they have to do a new budget article right with the new amounts
Michelle we just sorry uh we just have to um approve the revised I move to approve the revised 2026 budget and article as presented second y please
okay all in favor I I all right so my question still is um the updates to this they're not on the agenda so it's not a something we can vote on tonight what was that what we should maybe should have done it at public hearing
so Michelle yeah the um updates to the CPP that you added to this um packet is that for us to vote on at our next meeting oh no so that that's just notes
that's notes that I've been taking and uh collecting over the past few months I figured we can use that add add on to it and then have further discussion when we go to revise the plan okay all right these are just these are just items that
we should look at when we revise it so all right well it's in the packet I didn't know if you wanted us on next okay sounds good all right so let's uh approve the M the minutes from January 16th
2025 any comments changes I move to approve the minutes from January 16th 2025 second all in favor I all right so our next meeting is March 20th at 6:30 p.m. at police station and
we'll see you all then and now I need a motion unless anybody has any old business to adjourn make a motion to adjourn sir all in favor all right