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Community
Preservation
Committee
14 Easy Street
Nantucket, MA 02554
COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
MINUTES - Wednesday- November 24, 2004
A meeting of the Community Preservation Committee, CPC, was held on Wednesday, November~2;4, 2004, at 2:00
PM at the Land Bank Meeting Room at 22 Broad Street.
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Present were: Barry Rector, Chair, Ken Beaugrand, Vice Chair, Rich Brannigan, Polly Miller, linda..WilIiams, Ginger
Andrews and Stephanie Henke, Administrative Secretary. Neville Richen arrived at 3:10. Doug Bennett and Mark
Voigt were absent. '
Barry Rector establ ished a quorum and called the meeting to order at 2: 1 0 PM.
Upon a motion made by Rich and 2nd by Ken, it was unanimously VOTED to approve the agend~~:
PUBLIC COMMENT
None.
REQUEST FOR FUNDS
Atheneum. Ken presented a Request for Funds from the Atheneum in the amount of $24,031.91 from their FY '05
award. Upon a motion made by Ken and 2nd by Polly, it was unanimously VOTED to approve the Request for Funds
from the Atheneum in the amount of $24,031.91.
OTHER BUSINESS
Barry read over the letter that will be sent to the agencies that have not yet used up all of their FY '04 funds.
Barry stated that he had contacted Chris Saccardi and learned that the committee cannot spend reserves from Open
Space on recreation projects.
Barry announced to the committee that he is drafting a letter to the Board of Selectmen about the number of
meetings Doug Bennett has missed.
Barry noted that in the Nantucket Island Living magazine, put out by realtors, Sherburne Commons had a large ad,
and in it the epe funds were mentioned.
He also noted that publicity on 2 Centre Street had been seen without mention of epe funding. Stephanie will draft
the usual letter reminding them of the need to mention epe funding in press materials, etc.
FY '06 FUNDING DECISIONS
Upon a motion made by Polly and 2nd by Ginger, it was, after some discussion VOTED, 5 to 1 (with Linda opposed),
to read out all projects and see if there were any that members were willing to cut, in order to get a consensus on
those that did not need to be discussed.
BOS 2 Fairgrounds Mixed Use Project There was some discussion about how amorphous this project was.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Linda, and 2nd by Ginger, it was VOTED 5 in favor (Barry, Ken, Ginger, Linda) and 2
opposed (Polly and Rich), to fund the BOS 2 Fairgrounds Mixed Use Project at $0.
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Town Clerk Records Restoration Project. There was some discussion that this was a project that could get funding
over several years, rather than funding it all at once. There was consensus that it was a worthwhile project, but
several members felt like it did not need to be funded all at once.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Polly and 2nd by Rich, it was VOTED 1 in favor (Polly) to 5 (Rich, Barry, Ken,
Ginger, Linda) to cut $100,000 from the original recommendation for this project. MOTION FAilS.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Ken and 2nd by Rich, it was VOTED 2 in favor (Ken and Polly) and 4 opposed (Rich,
Barry, Linda, Ginger) to fund this project at $74,000. MOTION FAilS.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Linda and 2nd by Polly, it was unanimously VOTED to fund the Town elerk Records
Restoration Project to $100,000.
Nantucket Housing Office-House Relocation Program. There was some discussion about the fact that there are
houses out there that NHO could receive and recycle and that this program keeps those houses out of the dump.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Rich and 2nd by Barry it was VOTED 2 in favor (Barry and Rich) and 3 opposed
(Linda, Polly, Ginger), with Ken abstaining, to fund the house recycling program to $130,000. MOTION FAilS.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Polly and 2nd by Linda it was VOTED 3 in favor (Linda, Ginger, Polly) and 2
opposed (Barry and Rich) with Ken abstaining, to fund the NHO House Recycling Project at $200,000.
Habitat for Humanity. Linda stated that she felt this project had money for now and we could fund them again in
another year. Ginger agreed to cut this project a little.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Linda and 2nd by Polly, it was VOTED 3 in favor (Linda, Ginger, Polly) and 3
opposed (Rich, Ken, Barry) to cut Habitat for Humanity to $25,000. MOTION FAilS.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Ken and 2nd by Polly, it was unanimously VOTED to fund Habitat for Humanity at
$50,000.
2 Centre Street.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Ken and 2nd by Polly, it was unanimously VOTED, with Neville abstaining, to
reduce this project by $34,000, thereby just funding the roof [at $170,000].
Sherburne Commons.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Linda and 2nd by Rich it was VOTED 2 in favor (Linda and Rich) and 5 opposed
(Neville, Ken, Barry, Polly and Ginger) to cut $50,000 from the originally proposed funding amount to Sherburne
eommons. MOTION FAilS.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Ken and 2nd by Neville, it was unanimously VOTED to fund Sherburne eommons at
$150,000.
Higginbotham House. Rich moved and Ken 2nd to fund this project to $240,000. Linda stated that the committee
should look at cutting smaller amounts from more projects rather than such a huge cut from one. There was some
discussion about this idea, but there just weren't any other projects to cut back.
VOTE: Upon the motion made by Rich and 2nd by Ken, it was unanimously VOTED to fund the Higginbotham
House at $240,000 with the same stipulations voted on at the previous meetings.
Nantucket Conservation Foundation. Linda made a motion to cut $10,000 from this project. There being no 2nd to
her motion, the motion failed.
Nantucket Human Services Center.
VOTE: Upon a motion made by Linda 2nd by Ken it was VOTED 4 in favor (Ken, Ginger, Rich, and Linda) and 3
opposed (polly, Neville, Barry) to cut $15,000 from the previous amount allotted to this project [to fund it at
$185,000].
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Nantucket Conservation Foundation. Linda moved to cut this project by $9,000. There being no 2nd to her motion,
the motion failed.
Park and Recreation Commission Projects. Upon a motion made by Rich and 2nd by Ken, it was unanimously
VOTED to fund Children's Beach Playground at $20,000, Jetties Beach Playground at $65,000 and to tap into the
reserves forthe remaining $10,000.
FINAL FY'06 FUNDING DECISIONS
VOTE: Upon a Uniform Motion made by Ken and 2nd by Neville, it was unanimously VOTED to $0 fund all projects
that were voted on in the negative and to fund all others to the amounts agreed upon.
Warrant Article
Barry noted the different wording in this year's warrant article: that instead of naming the agencies that could grant
deed restrictions, it was left more general. Upon a motion made by Linda and 2nd by Polly, it was unanimously
VOTED to adopt this new language. Barry asked that members try to get signatures to the warrant article, which
would be at Nantucket Pharmacy.
Ken thanked the committee for all the hard work and for understanding the obligations of the committee.
There being no other business of the committee, upon a motion made by Linda and 2nd by Ken it was unanimously
VOTED to adjourn the meeting at 4: 1 0 PM.
Respectfully submitted by,
Stephanie Henke
Administrative Secretary
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