FinCom Analysis of Article 40, Reduce CPA Surcharge

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March 26, 2010

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At their meeting of March 25, 2010 the Sudbury Finance Committee voted 6-2 to oppose Article 40, an article to reduce the CPA surcharge from its present 3% to 1.25%.

FinCom member Jim Rao presented an analysis of the petitioner's findings, attached here, FinCom Analysis of Article 40, Reduce CPA Surcharge. The attached 20 year analysis revises the future fund balance to indicate a much slower rate of growth, and projects, if Article 40 is passed, leaving minimal funding for CPA projects over the required 10% minimum spending in the 3 statutory categories.

The Community Preservation Committee also opposes this article, as it effectively eliminates the Town's ability to use CPA funds to preserve large open space 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.

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(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.

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FinCom Analysis of Article 40, Reduce CPA Surcharge

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