Lincoln Housing Commission Minutes
April 13, 2004
Present: R. Caplan, G, Georges, A. Kalisky, BJ Scheff, and B. Wolf
Minutes: The minutes for March 9th and March 23st were approved.
Town Meeting: The results from Town Meeting were briefly reviewed. The change of CPA buydown funds to include GreenRidge was approved, as was the new appropriation. The establishment of a revolving fund for rental payments was also endorsed.
GreenRidge condo buydown: Scheff reported that she met with Mark Whitehead regarding obtaining our funding share from the HOME program. He will be following up. The Lincoln Foundation is negotiating for approval under the LIP program. Katharine Preston has sent a memo to DHCD seeking approval to sell the GreenRidge unit at the family of 3 level, even though the potential purchaser is single. It is hoped this approval will be forthcoming soon.
Chapter 418: Under the Housing Plan, Lincoln was supposed to have built about 15 units of housing in ’04. Because of legitimate delays, this has not happened and a waiver will be requested.
Assignments & Liaisons: The following assignments were made for the coming year:
Planning Board: Wolf
Board of Health: Caplan
Accessory Apartment Task Force: Scheff
Senior Housing Task Force: Kalisky
Rural Land Foundation: Kalisky
CPC: Caplan
Lincoln Foundation: Wolf
HOME Consortium: Scheff, with Mark Whitehead
CHAPA: Diadiuk
Minuteman Commons: Wolf
DHCD: Caplan & Scheff
Housing Lottery: Caplan
H. Com. Secretary: Wolf
Sunnyside Lane: Septic – Caplan/E. Midgely
Estimates/RFP – Georges/E. Midgely
Neighborhood – Diadiuk
Housing Lottery: Caplan reported that Sudbury had used a lottery system to award purchase options to four new units of affordable housing. The lottery was limited to Sudbury employees and residents, and essentially followed the LIP advertising process. Applicants were drawn from two pools: one, town-related; the other, everyone else. Three units went to town employees; the fourth to a Sudbury small businessman.
Sunnyside Lane: Bob Guernsey has either designed or is in the process of designing the new septic system; this needs to be followed up. The lot surveys have been completed and are in the Building Inspector’s office. Caplan will proceed with plans to celebrate the land transfer from the State. Diadiuk will serve as liaison to the neighborhood.
Georges raised some questions regarding designing the RFP. Usually in modular housing, the supplier just provides “box and button,” i.e., provides and delivers the unit and attaches it together. Other preparation, such as site work, foundation, utilities, etc. is provided by others. Do we want to scope an all-inclusive RFP or do we want to separate out parts, e.g., painting, landscaping. It was agreed that some parts should be reserved because donations of some labor or supplies may be forthcoming. For example, Minuteman H.S. may be able to do landscaping, as they did for Tower Rd. Planning is focussed on providing a 3-bedroom main residence, with a barrier-free 2-bedroom accessory apartment.
Georges will work with town officials in an upcoming joint meeting to iron out logistics.
It is hoped that an RFP can be sent out by May 1, with a return date of June 1. A site visit for interested bidders would be arranged for May.
Accessory Apartment Task Force: This committee has been organized and met with the Selectmen last night. It includes BJ Scheff, Tim Bornstein, Bob Domnitz, Sarah Holden, and Ellen Meadors.
Meeting Schedule: Although a change in meeting time had been requested by incoming member Diadiuk, the Committee agreed to continue with the current schedule: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, at 7:30 a.m. Regarding participation by conference call, it was found that no telephone jack exists in the Donaldson Room. Changing the meeting room would not be helpful because the Town does not possess speaker phone equipment.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 a.m.
The next meeting will be April 27, 2004. The following meetings are scheduled for May 11th and 25th.
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