Community Preservation Committee Solicits Proposals

Published August 24, 2005 | Community Preservation Committee | Automatically Archived on 10/31/2005

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The Community Preservation Committee is currently soliciting projects for review for the fourth round of funding under Community Preservation Act (CPA). Projects will be accepted through October 17, 2005. To download a Project Submission Form Click Here. Forms are also available at the Planning Board office, Goodnow Library and the Town Clerk’s office. CPA funds must be used or reserved as set forth in the Act, with a minimum of 10% of annual revenue 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 purposes, plus recreation. All projects must be recommended to Town Meeting by the Community Preservation Committee. Residents or town boards cannot propose projects using CPA funds independently to Town Meeting. Project proponents will be notified of preliminary acceptance of their proposal, and will be scheduled to meet with the CPC later in the fall for development of a final list of project recommendations. Project proponents are encouraged to review The Project Submission Form for additional project requirements.

CPA funds are expected to again exceed $2 million in FY06. The Town anticipates receiving its third state match of CPA funds in October, 2005, in addition to local revenues of approximately $1 million. The 2005 Annual Town Meeting approved expenditures of over $3.8 million for 7 projects: Libby property open space preservation, affordable housing buy-down, Rail Trail feasibility study, completion of Cutting recreation field, Willis Pond dock, Hosmer House renovations, and historical property survey.

For a copy of the Community Preservation Committee’s 2002 report Click Here.

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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.