Community Preservation Committee Seeking Proposals

Published September 3, 2008 | Community Preservation Committee | Updated November 7, 2014 | Automatically Archived on 11/4/2008

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The Sudbury Community Preservation Committee is currently soliciting project proposals for funding under the Community Preservation Act (CPA). Proposals will be accepted through October 31, 2008. The Application For 2009 CPC Projects is available at the Planning and Community Development office, the Town Manager’s Office and the Town Clerk’s offices, or can be downloaded on the CPC website. CPA funds must be used, reserved or retained as set forth in the Act. A minimum of 10% of annual revenue must used or reserved in each of the following categories: open space, community housing, and historic preservation. The remaining 70% of the funds can be used for any of these three purposes as well as the category of recreation, or can be retained for future use in all four areas.

All project proposals must be recommended to Town Meeting by a majority of the Community Preservation Committee. Project proponents will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal for further evaluation, and will be scheduled to present to the CPC later in the fall as it develops a final list of projects to recommend at the April 2009 Town Meeting. Project proponents are encouraged to review the Project Submission Form carefully for all project requirements.

Sudbury’s 2008 Annual Town Meeting approved ten projects in all three funding categories, including 5 in the Historic Preservation category for the Town Clerk Document Preservation, Military Training Filed Archaeology Study, Florence Hosmer Painting Appraisal, Stearn’s Mill Dam Evaluation and Town Hall Window Restoration; 2 in the Community Housing category for the Sudbury Housing Trust Allocation and the Sudbury Housing Authority Unit Reconstruction; 2 in the Open Space category for the CSX Land Purchase and the Nobscot Reservation Purchase of Development Rights; and one in the Recreation Category for Walkway Construction. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2008, Sudbury’s CPA surtax raised $1,367,707.90. We anticipate another significant match of funds from the state to be delivered to the Town in October.

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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.