to throw in whatever expertise you have above mine um or information from different committees that I may not be aware of um so that we can all sort of benefit from each other. I just want to go around and not everybody's met everybody. We have two new people from
the spring. Um Christine is isn't here right now, but she will be coming in. Um and then we are looking for an atlarge person. Um the select board will be appointing hopefully sometime before the fall u an atlarge person for the
committee. So we have all nine. So I'm Judy Wchinsky. I was appointed about two and a half years ago to the committee. Um, I've enjoyed it. I've been truly educated with the information and the grant process along with getting information from the different committee
representatives um from that are here that represent whether it be planning board or recreation or housing or conservation. So, it's always nice to share all that information and truly truly grateful to Dawn Marie for keeping us going and and getting us uh started
for next year. So, David, thank you very much Jud. I'm David Japalos and I'm a member of the Yarmouth Historical Commission. So I'm representing the historical commission on the CPC and it's been a lot of fun for me to participate in the historical
commission and just a little bit uh over the past several months with the CPC. So I'm looking forward to working with all of you and getting to know you and trying to help uh get the job done. Just want to put in a plug for the historical commission. We have a few seats open on
the commission and if you know people who are interested in the history of the town and preserving the town's history um and uh participating in a lot of great uh projects that we have underway, please ask them to apply in the town
hall bank and express interest in the historical commission. Thank David Paul Huggin. I've been on this committee for a while. I don't really know how many years and I forget. Um the committee's changed a little bit over the years. I think it's been like six
years or seven or eight at least. And I'm on the conservation commission and um I I like being involved in town committee because you know you have to find out what's going on and maybe contribute one thing or another that
could be helpful or whatever. So it's been a nice experience. I like this committee. I always say because they get to spend money but support really great great. So I know we will continue with that that um mission. So thank you very
much and Paul is also our vice chair. Oh I will say thank you trust me often. I'm Joan Crowley board representative and I think I don't know
I feel like I've been here forever but it's probably only been a few years. Um and uh this committee in particular I think weighs in pretty heavily in terms of priorities and action that the town
can take to make real improvements. Um uh and that I I enjoy most. I mean, I truly enjoy the planning board. Um, but there rarely do we get the chance under three zoning amendments. How boring
could that be? Do we affect some change? But here it's boots on the ground kind of thing. And I think it's it's just wonderful uh to be members of this team um and working with John Gray in particular. So, I look
forward to another good year. Lee Lee Hamilton. I've been a member of the community housing committee for a long time. I don't know how many years. And you must have been on this committee longer than three years, Julie, because I think I came on here years ago, four
years ago. So, um, so I'm the representative from the community housing committee of this and I think it's been three years or maybe I don't know. I can't keep track of that. Well, you got to use the COVID benchmark in 2020 when we went into CO.
We I think you were on it. Not during CO. Okay. So, you came on after CO. So, great. Thank you, Drew. My name is Drew Krauss. And it says right here that I was appointed on 12 and 24
a couple of months ago. A few several months ago. I did a lot of research. So, the one that was in your packet that I sent out Monday, I think. Yeah, this is updated from that because I spent this morning trying to figure out
where we exactly stand and now we know right because I am a member of the board of the housing authority and housing authority that's this board and I replaced someone to resign from the
board. had been a longtime member of this and I started with town stuff several years ago at the senior center was the age friendly committee and got recruited to the community housing committee
and then I uh the opening came up for an election on the housing authority and I was persuaded to go for that. So I want that that's the deal. Great. Thank you. Welcome.
Uh I'm Debbie Clark and I've been on four years now and uh I represent a recreation which I was on for still on 35 years. And um and I'm one of the directors for the
Amouth PD5 gay race. So I'm very involved in the town. That way I don't have to be. Thank you. Um just a a comment um for the different people that are represent other
committees to the CPC, just remember to bring back our plan to your committee um as applications are being done in the fall or even beforehand if you're meeting to make sure that they're aligned or if you have they may have questions that you might be able to
answer. If not, you might have to contact Don Marie. But it's important that you not only bring their information to us as a whole, but you bring our information back to them. Here's the application. Here's, you know, the deadline's coming up. Did you Is it going to be in on time? Do they have other questions and information?
So, we just want to make sure that that information goes back and forth. Um, and Don Marie had recommended last week, and I highly recommend if you're not already on to get the emails from the statewide CPC. Um they have a email. Um they don't
send out newsletters that often, but just go on the state website for the CPC. Plug in your email and you'll get updates of information when they're doing funding if there's something going on. Um it's just really just good
knowledge. Um I found it very helpful as a whole for the whole state. Um and then we're going to talk about a little bit later on our our dates that we've set for meetings in the fall. If you're unable to attend any and you know in advance, please let Don Maria or I know
you all have my email. Um just so that if there's three or four we need a forum that can't attend. If there's some big thing going on that we're not aware of, we can reschedule ahead of time and not be trying to cancel at the last minute. Oh, here's the website. Yep, that's what the website looks like.
And I can send out the link again. They can see they have a lot of um they have a great datab bank which is where I go to look for um you know is there a comparable project in another town or it's got tons and tons of information
technical assistance where we can ask technical questions and and they're always advocating for more money to go into the trust fund to be redistributed back out to the towns. So that's what the website looks like. But
a lot of their Excel spreadsheets are really interesting to read of all the communities that are involved in CPC in the state because not everybody is um and what projects and how much money they get, what kinds of projects they hold. So it's it's been interesting to
um go through their information. Um just to talk about our 202526 schedule, we are required to place uh legal ads and they will be done on June 25th and July 9th. just talking about that the application will be coming forward that
we're looking forward to a new year. Um you all received a copy of that and Don Marie takes care of that. That will be in the paper and there is a hard copy it that I just handed out so you can if there's any typos let me know and that will be taken care of. Our
application for this coming year will um be online June 25th and the application deadline closes September 5th. So people are pretty good about knowing that we exist. Um they are great about contacting Don Marie with
questions and for information. But if you all have any questions or you're hearing, oh geez, somebody wants to do this. Is it is it doable? Is it something that we should bring before the committee? just we'd rather have the questions ask a thousand questions um
beforehand rather than um last minute and having where us having to to get information back before the deadline hits. Um the applications as I said to the CPC um are due um we'll see them the 12th
of September. And then below that are our meeting dates. So take a look at the dates. They'll start at the end of September and then run every Wednesday through the that's okay, middle of November. Um they will be in this room from 3:00 to 5
roughly. We don't go past 5:00. Um Don Marie is great about sending packets out in advance. So you'll be able to see the applications, see who's coming in. Um, after we review them, we will see if any if we want to have any of the applicants
come in and talk to us about it or if we have questions. Don Marie's been great about saying to them, "Hey, here are the questions from the committee. Could you get us back the answers?" Or we have a question about your finances. What are you contributing to it that wasn't listed? So, there's a lot of back and forth. And then we'll have people come
in um after November. Any questions? I I do have ahead. Um with regard to our annual public meeting and the annual report, um Don Marie, you might be able to
answer this. Um where in the schedule is that and um you know, we're required to report that we then present at a public meeting and it's right. It's the um the
community preservation plan needs to be updated annually. So the one that we have in the room today is from 2024. We have we'll hold a public hearing. I think we looked input on it, update it, and that'll be
the plan for 2025. We didn't put it on the calendar yet because I think it's going to have to be in the fall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I of course we've done it in June sometimes. I remember. Yeah. Yeah. But um there's it's not it's just not
No, we were we were looking at um a possible date of September 10th, a Wednesday, doing it here or I mean downstairs in the select room for in the hearing room. So, we'll plan on that. But again, if people want to look through our plan, if
there's commentary, if there's questions, get it to Don Marie over the next month or two um so that we can get it together and then we'll put out the announcement in August um that we'll have the public hearing. Last time we had a couple of people come that were
going to submit applications and just had specific questions about their application, not necessarily about the committee in general, and we answered them and it was less I think like an hour meeting. It wasn't that long, but we'd like as many committee people um that can attend to attend at that
questions. Thanks, Joan. I'm just again I guess my question is when might we see a a draft of this for 2025? Sometime before the public meeting, I presume. No, no, because it gets updated.
Well, unless anybody brings me something from your committee, that could happen, too. Like if conservation has input from the conservation commission about open space, I mean it it gets updated by public
input or committee input. So I'm sorry go down this this road, but there will be a 2025 plan. Yes. And it'll come out probably in December.
Um, so it won't be in conjunction with this annual meeting that we have. The the the piece of the piece of information the public will have before that kind of hearing in the hearing room would be this, right? Yeah,
I see. Okay. It's a Yeah. But if if and then that becomes that then comments and whatever becomes incorporated into the 2025 which is and it things got knocked off a bit during COVID because of course we weren't
really doing public hearings and it but we would update this for all of the actions we took at annual town meeting. Oh no it's really conceptual. It has it talks about like goals, opportunities, challenges,
not not specific. Right. Right. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Nice. Oh, sure. But if if you're on a specific, let's say community housing or um historic, you might want to take that page, let's say it's for historic for David, take
this page back to your committee and say, would how would we like to see? Do we want new information? Has it changed? Is there something else we have to add into it? Because we're not going to know that. You will as the rep to bring it back or give it to Dawn Marie. Okay.
Questions, other again, I just want to mention that we do have major accomplishments that we do. We do. You're right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will Yeah. include those. any other This is a schedule that we didn't get
printed on, right? But it is it via email. You did get it via email and I It looks like it has something to do with the paper size and it might be the printer. So, I'll try to I'll get copies of this um hard copies for you if you'd like
them after the meeting. Um and it starts, you can see where we are now actually is down here at the bottom. We're in uh June, May, June, let's see, June. Active project updates. I'm trying to work on
that. Um new contracts for the previous town meeting would be starting July 1, the new fiscal year. And here we are today, the 18th. We've got the updated application materials. Honestly, they haven't changed in years, but if anybody
sees anything that needs to be changed, you can let me know. Um, Friday or Monday or Tuesday. And then the summer is outreach and organization on my end
usually. And then then in the um the oh here it says July and August annual plan that Joanne is talking about reviewed and edited. And then we go back to the top.
August is when we get information from the state about how much money is going into our account from the trust fund. September I have to do a report back to the state to let them know the status of all our projects. And then September 5th is our deadline for
applications and we'll start that's when we start again the active review of the applications questions. I'm a little embarrassed because I don't understand the acronyms yet initials like okay end of year.
Okay. Yeah. CP2, why is it two and three? CP2 is um a state report that the treasur's office um supplies to the to the state so that they can give us our money. So that's an internal
administrative thing. CP3, same thing. It's a report I now provide to the CP that coalition so that they can integrate it into their database that everybody has access to and the state can track our projects through that.
Um what else is in FTM? That's fall town meeting and selectman BOS. Oh, and I should change that to SB for select board. Um, and I'll also just point out that um
I know what TBD means. Yeah. But this is why we're doing this to get everybody freshly on a on the same page and everybody's starting at the same point, which is is very helpful. the um the fall town meeting date has not been set,
but it is scheduled to be determined by the select board at their August 5th meeting. So once they choose the date for the fall town meeting, then we will know uh when we have to have our or I have to
have the articles drafted if there's anything that comes to the committee that would be appropriate for a fall town meeting. It's not usually the case. Usually everything is heard at the spring annual town meeting, but occasionally applications can come in um
that that fit and are appropriate for fall. So that's why that date is important to us. Other questions, comments, thoughts? Is it good? Okay. Thanks,
John. So, legal ads application goes out, the application deadline, um, and then our meeting dates. And you all can let us know. We'll just plan on coming back September 24th, unless we hear from
anybody differently that it doesn't work. But it seemed like the consensus was Wednesdays at three worked for everybody. So, we'll keep it that way. Anything else? Yeah. Yep. Go ahead, Paul. I've asked it many
probably forgot where where newspaper do you propose times. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it goes in the hard copy but it goes online. I don't know anybody who gets the hard copy. I do it. Oh, okay. Good.
They sell a hard copy. I like that every day. We We were That's We were supposed to be getting hard copies, but they just never get delivered. So, We just go online and see it and it's it's
there. So it qualifies as public notification. Used to be a different register. Yeah. That folded a few years ago. Yeah. We also put it on um channel 8 which used to be channel 18. We try to get it put on the two
community information boards which is the sign in front of the chamber of commerce and also the sign in front of the high school. Um, we do I do an email blast out to all the email addresses I have of past
applicants and it's a just a whole mess of of emails that we've accumulated. Um, and we'll put a, you know, thing on social media. We now we have a communications director so we'll be able to pass everything along to her and
she'll distribute it along among our platforms. Yeah. whatever they are. I always thought historic stands out one of the one of the I think it might be the tax bill or something a little wild
about you know what is potentially allowed or not allowed in the historic district in terms of you know architecture and so on so forth and I thought that was a great idea that the conservation commission should do that. No one has taken me up on it, but do you ever think about that that kind of
program? And I haven't do a mailer with the tax. Yeah, the mailer that comes with I think it's a tax bill. It is I think it's the assessor's card. Um the it's something to consider. It's
very competitive because everybody wants to be in that mailing. Yeah. Yeah. And so because it only comes out I I think twice or four times a year for the tax bill, but then they get heavy if everybody's putting something
in the tax bill and the mailing gets harder. Yeah. You know, the postage, but you know, it's the newspapers, you know, they don't exist. I look at the Cape Fat Times online very briefly. That's something I get. But it just seems to me with the um you know
with the the way newspapers have run by the board that is there and everybody always points to well it's online you know but the that's a whole cumbersome thing sometimes I mean
I go on I go on the town uh website sometimes and it's not the easiest to say yeah you know and I always thought this was a great idea. It is, like I said, that's why it's it's pretty competitive because we've got Old Kings Highway gets it once
a year and then um the scholarship committee gets it once a year. They send out do you want to contribute to the scholarship fund? Um those are the only two that I've seen. There are a couple others that are all on one piece of paper and then you can get your magazine your
magnifying glass. But um it is something to think about. Uh 6A within two miles. I had to get when they changed the color of my house. That way we got it. Old King Highway is
6A and more than one town. 6A. Yeah. It's all the way up. Miles from 6A is still considered in the east. Yeah. Yeah. If you're north of the M. But we can check into it and then Yeah. And we're, you know, trying to
work with the communications director as to like communicating generally about as much town stuff as possible. Who is the communication? Lorie Sullivan, she did the St. Lori. She did Did you If you saw the video of the St. Patrick's
parade, she was mceing that. Um. Yeah. Okay. Well, and you know, helping everybody. Well, I think everybody the tax bill and the water bill. That's um Christine. I see that. Let's
Hi, Christine. Welcome to the meeting. Oh, allowed to talk. How about that? How about There you go. Christine, are you um unmuted? Yes. Welcome. Thanks for uh being the representative and joining the
committee. Appreciate it. Thank you. Did you want to We can go around the table with our names again if you missed that part. Um I actually I wrote people down. So I've got Judy, David, Paul. I'm not sure about
just trying to uh get familiar and I apologize. I haven't used my Zoom in a while. So I haven't been able to figure it out with the uh camera situation. Look at her. Yeah. Okay. So,
Christine, we're just having trouble hearing you. It's very soft. So, if you can raise the volume at your end a little bit, maybe. Okay. Is that any better? A little bit. Okay. All right.
Um All right. Well, I won't do a lot of talking then. How about that? Okay. We're going to continue then. Okay. Okay, thank you. Um, we talked a little bit already about the plans.
Again, if people need copies of it, we have, um, and Don Marie was great about sending the links um, with the email that we received. So, we have the community preservation committee plan, the vision plan, the open space and
recreation plan, and the housing production plan. So when people do applications for a grant from this committee, they should look at these plans and sort of make it correlate a little bit um to something that's in there and it shouldn't just be something
random that that they want to do. There's the town's gotten really good the last couple of years about making sure that they either correspond like with the capital improvement plan or one of these plans so that there's more cohesiveness all around. Okay. And if you have questions about them, again,
just just contact us and or if you think something isn't right compared to what your committee um has is talking about, we can talk to the select board in the town manager. And I think the um I think personally well the best place
to start is the community preservation plan because that's us. But from the be a good perspective is the vision plan because there was a lot that went into the development of it. A lot of public input um and it is the basis for the
local comprehensive plan which is under development under revision now. So and it's again just as big as the open space and wreck plan or the housing production plan. So, it's not easy to like use, but the vision plan is.
And even even the open space and wreck plan has tables that show you specific um goals and action steps. So, any questions so far about anything? The meeting minutes we are that's the
only change to the agenda today. We will not be reviewing them. We'll do those that are meeting in the fall from April 23rd. Sorry about that. That's okay. You've got a few things you've had to do. Um, is there anything else from anybody
on the committee to bring up any updates from your representative committees or information that we should have or share at this point? We're good. It's a community housing committee. They missed our last meeting, but I
understand, you know, we we've played our role with the affordable housing trusts on the muck. Yep. And where that that committee is reviewing everybody's Okay.
Hopefully we'll hear at some point what what their recommendation is going forward. Great. Thank you, Lee. Appreciate it. Debbie, anything from Rick or? Yeah, you're talking you've had pickle ball
and they're talking about shading for a flax pond. It's a considered a recreation type program. I told him I'd get more information, but so somehow providing shade to the pickle balls parts.
Yeah. Well, basically where people stand in. Okay. Oh, all right. So, some sort of bench covering. Yeah. And they have a big tournament every year. Okay. So, it's uh I've I've asked them if you have any ideas, let me know now and I'll bring it
forward. Okay. We got a new um director. So, at the recck department. Mhm. Anony's gone. Oh, okay. And Steve's in He was at Barville, right? Steve, was he at Yeah. He used to do the boys
basketball there. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And we are an assistant, too. Okay. I get what his name is. Jack, I think. Okay. Great. Thank you. This isn't a committee report per se, but I didn't mention it when we started
the meeting. The Rick Tr who was the founder of housing system appropriation. I guess he died 6. I just saw it today on Facebook and then I Googled his obituary which is very Thank you. So he was the founder of
housing of the housing assistance. Yeah. Thank you, Lee. Drew, anything? Last time I was here, I filled you in on what's going on. Status quo. Okay. Paul,
you can't look at her. We'll have a meeting, but um have one the day before the July 3rd. So if you're not getting your hamburgers and hot ready for the next day, I think they should
at some point in time. I don't know if this is the right time, but you know, I think that it would be important to review town applications from the town um various town committee because sometimes we had a little more the challenge with
them in terms of the complete substitute applications and I hope that the message will follow through. Um and uh I don't know there's other other things I've noticed over the time like you know Um,
I like it sometimes to discuss the reimbursement aspect of of how that relates for example to the town or how it works. So I think there's better understanding um of how that works. Did you want to change it or just better
explanation of how it works? Want to change it. I think it's just a matter of there's one there's one group in town who kind of made a arrangement with the town, right? And you know, I kind of never really understood how that was made and and why that was made the way it was.
And so, um, because everybody everybody else has to be in, right, do the other way. Reimburse and in that case. Okay. Well, I'll put it on the agenda for our meeting. Yeah. Just to discuss it again so that there's no murkiness. Okay. Great. Think and um but generally everything
goes pretty well. Sure. I hope there's some really great application. So, yeah. Great. Thank you, Joanne. I'm sorry. It's just the committee member updates from anything from the planning board or
anything else? Yep. Planning board uh our most recent um uh meeting we uh finalized draft number two of the global comprehensive plan. Okay. And we have submitted that to K5 commission for preliminary review. This
is a big step um in terms of we've already met with the K commission once. They're the approving authority and the state as well. Um and we've been we've got um three sets of consultants
who are helping us with this. They are finishing up several pieces of work by June 30 at the end of the fiscal year. Okay. um on visioning for 28 um in terms of uh multi-use uh meaning both commercial and
um residential. We've got a consultant on for that uh which will be incorporated into the plan at some point. Uh the local comprehensive plan draft which um um Don Reed gave me again was submitted to the commission. We like
to get their feedback early. um we have to follow some of the the template that they've had doesn't necessarily fit the way we think about things, but it's we can we've done it before and we've we've worked through it
um on this one as well. Okay. Um one one chapter is missing. Excuse me. Um the capital improvement plan. Um we're still working on that and we wanted to have um some more input from uh the CPC and Bill Scott as to how
we um go forward with that as was because it was presented and accepted at town meeting, but it's a chapter that needs it's one chapter that's um um in the works. But things like the open space and recck plan, the housing
production plan, those are all appendices to to yours. Yeah. And what we do is we we parse out the most important elements of the plan and identify them as action items uh in the plan. So that's what we've been that's what we've been focusing on.
Great. Thank you very much, David. Anything? Sure. Just a little update. The historical commission regularly reviews requests for architectural changes and other things on buildings within the historic
district. um and buildings that are over 75 years old and there one or two of those matters pending all the time at the meetings. The main thing that we've been focused on since the town meeting in April is furthering the the design of
the Revolutionary War monument that will be installed in time for the 250th anniversary of Yarmouth's Declaration of Independence. That's June 20th, 2026. So, a year from Friday. And it was on
that date that Yarmouth declared independence. And uh the project is on track well to have the thing completed before that event. And uh there's some other events being planned around it by the historical society of old Yarmouth
and the Sons of the American Revolution and other organizations. So those are long lead things but we're keeping in touch with the contractor to make sure everything right that the organizations who will be participating in the event will be
unveiling are hearing getting excited drawing people. It'll be a great day. Thank you. And that's definitely one of these things that we need to make sure it gets to Lorie Sullivan communications director. Great.
Thank you. on mine. It's too Yeah, now that we have Yeah, we have somebody. Um, one of the things when Joanne was talking, she kept mentioning the Cape Cod Commission. It's a great um organization commission here on the
Cape, but they also have um pieces. I know I pulled from one of their newsletters celebrating National Historic Preservation Month and they actually listed like the his how many um historical properties Yarmmouth has and what categories whether they're burial
grounds, structures, buildings, what kind of protection they have, what what year they were built pre700, whatever. So that's another group that has great just information for us if we needed to reference it or look at you know and it lists all the towns on the Cape. So you
could say, well, we're sponsorable at orleans or where do we sit with the other towns? So Cape Cod Commission is another one that has newsletters um that come out and and on their website and stuff information to reference anything, Don Marie from
Oh, sorry. Would the commission send something in draft to the town or to the historical commission to make sure they got it all right? Oh, I don't know. I just stuff that I had well that I had received. So are you familiar with that um
particular well piece of work that they're I I don't know about this stuff. No, I like to know more about is into a lot of different things and we don't know most of them. Yeah. Um in fact many of them we don't know.
Um but they they are um there's a they're a very good group but as you said Judy they're they're worth paying attention to. Yeah. in all in all aspects. They're doing a visioning for Route 6A, right? They just had um uh public meeting on
several public meetings on that. Um so they're they're touching all sorts of things in Yarmouth all the time. Part of what the historical commission does is to fulfill the requirements of a town bylaw, historic preservation, but
another part of it has to do with fulfilling the requirements of the Cape Cod Commission Act. So we get yeah some of the responsibility for these things from the K commission and we communicate with them about those but I I'm glad you told me about this document so I can
yeah I'll share great John Marie anything at your end no nothing else from me if they're all set you want me to read this or yeah and um
I don't see anybody else on but Yeah, we'll say goodbye to Christine. Thank Yeah, Christine, we're going to be going into executive session now. So, I'm going to shut down the Zoom, but I think you're familiar with um the topic that we're going to discuss.
Okay, thank you very much. Sure thing. Have a good week. See you next time. Okay, I am going to shut that and then if you could read the motion. The community preservation committee
will enter into executive session pursuant to MGL chapter 38A section 21A6 to consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property as conducting an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the negotiating
position of the town. And um the meeting and the meeting I probably can't see that bottom line right above it's on yours too but right no the meeting will adjourn following executive session and not reconvene in
an open session. So is there a second to that motion? Second. We can have a vote. Deb I I Lee I I Very good. We will enter the executive
session.