State Match for Community Preservation Received

Published October 11, 2007 | Community Preservation Committee | Automatically Archived on 9/30/2008

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The Sudbury Community Preservation Committee (CPC) proudly announces that it has again received a 100% match from the state for funds raised under the Community Preservation Act (CPA). Sudbury was one of the top ten such grants issued. Based upon Sudbury’s FY ’07 CPA surcharge revenue, the state funding comes to $1,307,615, an increase of $58,800 over last year. These funds are part of the roughly $68 million that the Massachusetts Department of Revenue distributed on October 10^th to the 113 communities currently participating in the CPA. The average grant was $602,000. Of the top ten grants, only one other went to a town of similar size (Weston). Not every town receives a 100% match, which doubles the funds available for current and future projects in the categories of open space, historic preservation, community housing, and recreation.

This is the 5^th year that Sudbury has received a 100% match, effectively discounting by 50% the cost to the town of the 27 CPA projects approved by Town Meeting since the program’s inception.

Projects for funding at the 2008 Annual Town Meeting are currently under review by the committee, with public hearings scheduled in October and November. From the beginning, the CPC has been conservative in estimating its revenues, and has “banked” a substantial portion of its funds to insure that monies will be available for future projects.

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Under the provisions of the Community Preservation Act (CPA), Sudbury established a Community Preservation Committee on 2002.

This Committee consists of 9 members, including a member designated from each of the following commissions or boards: Select Board, Conservation Commission, Historical Commission, Planning Board, Park and Recreation Commission, Finance Committee, and Housing Authority; and 2 members at large appointed by the Select Board.

The Duties of said Community Preservation Committee shall be to:

(1) Study the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation. The Committee shall consult with existing municipal boards, including the Conservation Commission, the Sudbury Historical Commission, the Planning Board, the Park and Recreation Commission, the Sudbury Housing Authority, or persons acting in those capacities or performing like duties, in conducting such studies. As part of its study, the Committee shall hold one or more public informational hearings on the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation possibilities and resources, notice of which shall be posted publicly and published for each of two weeks preceding a hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the town.

(2) Make recommendations to the legislative body for the acquisition, creation and preservation of open space; for the acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of historic resources; for the acquisition, creation, preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of land for recreational use; for the acquisition, creation, preservation and support of community housing; and for rehabilitation or restoration of open space and community housing that is acquired or created as provided in this section; provided, however, that funds expended pursuant to this chapter shall not be used for maintenance. With respect to community housing, the community preservation committee shall recommend, wherever possible, the reuse of existing buildings or construction of new buildings on previously developed sites. With respect to recreational use, the acquisition of artificial turf for athletic fields shall be prohibited.

(3) Community Preservation Committee may include in its recommendation to the Town Meeting a recommendation to set aside for later spending funds for specific purposes that are consistent with community preservation but for which sufficient revenues are not then available in the Community Preservation Fund to accomplish that specific purpose or to set aside for later spending funds for general purposes that are consistent with community preservation.