At-large Position on Community Preservation Committee Open

Published August 5, 2015 | Community Preservation Committee | Updated September 24, 2015 | Automatically Archived on 9/24/2015

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The Sudbury Community Preservation Committee (CPC) is seeking an At-Large member to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a three year term. Members must be Sudbury residents, have a basic understanding of Town Meeting procedures and bring complementary skills to the existing board. If interested please submit a completed Volunteer Form to the Town. The position will be open until it is filled.

Under the Sudbury Bylaws, the CPC must consist of nine voting members. One member from the Conservation Commission, Historical Commission, Planning Board, Park and Recreation Commission, Sudbury Housing Authority, Finance Committee, Board of Selectmen, and two At-Large members. The duties of the CPC are to study the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation, which include open space and recreation, community housing and historic preservation. As part of its studies, the Committee holds one or more public informational hearings to gain input on projects and possibilities. All meetings of the CPC are open to the public.

Meetings take place the first and third Wednesday evening of each month. The CPC is staffed by the Planning and Community Development Department staff, who prepare the agenda, post meetings, takes minutes and monitor projects.

For more information, call the Planning and Community Development Department at (978)639-3387, or visit the CPC website at www.sudbury.ma.us/CPC

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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.