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COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
MINUTES October 19, 2005
Present: Elliot Carr, Elizabeth Taylor, Rollie Bassett, Roy Robinson, Paul Hush, Paul
Ruchinskas, Steve McKenna, William Reyburn
Absent: Michael Lach
Guest: Howard Bender, ]illian Douglass
1. The meeting was called to order at 4:00 PM.
2. Approval of Minutes- September 14t" and 28t'. Motion Bassett, second Hush. All voted
"yes".
3. Reminder—CPA Conference Saturday October 22 at Sandwich High
School —8 persons attending: Carr, Taylor, Ruchinskas, Douglass, Souve, Robinson, Cindy Baran
and Peter Hermann.
4. New date for CPA FORUM —Wednesday November 2nd at 7:00 PM,
Ladies Library.
S. Carr- Have already spoken to a reporter at the Cape Codder relative to a story on the Forum.
6. The Clerk requested that members provide names of persons who should be contacted, but are
not on the current list. All Town Hall groups/Boards/ Committees will receive an invitation.
7. Other names: Cemetery Commission- Bob Williams &John Ahrens, Friends of Nickerson State
Park—Joanne & Lionel Ferris. Skippers— Steve Ellard.
8. Taylor volunteered to do a Forum flyer for posting. Hush volunteered to post them.
9. Taylor—The Committee will need a handout for the Forum, should we use the Power Point
version?After discussion, the Committee decided that a two-sided single page flyer would work
out best, since people tend not to bother to read flyers that are more than one sheet.
10.Carr- Discussion of the four areas of CPA. Each area appears to be well in hand including
Historic Preservation.
11.Robinson— Historic Preservation now has a committee to review applications: Robinson, Sue
Carr and Pat Busch.
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There is also a Group of volunteers that wants to pull together all Town records. Some people are
working on the Town Records at Town Hall. There are at least two churches in Town that also have a
collection of old records.
They want to pull all the data together, put it on computer and then the Town website. The Library
would like to be involved with this project.
12. Carr - Review of letter from COA- re: window replacement (which is already in the Town
budget).
13.Robinson - is this maintenance or restoration? Is this under the CPA or not? Maybe this is not
the best project for a CPA application... This is right on the edge, maintenance or restoration?
14.Ruchinskas- Maybe this is not a good first project.
15.Carr-There may be restoration projects at the COA that could include this as part of a project,
but not as a stand alone item.
16.Robinson - They do need to fix up the theatre upstairs at the COA-this would be a good
restoration idea -windows could be done within the scope of such work, maybe.
17.Carr-Just a reminder for the Forum -there should be no discussion of specifics, i.e. specific
applications.
18.Hush -We need to tell people about the coalition website.This information should be added to
the Power Point.
On another subject-I have heard that someone with a condo next to Nickerson State Park wants to
sell to the Town for Affordable Housing.
19. Carr-We should sift through the Chatham CPA Committee's housing set-up. They are funding a
number of different areas of housing.
20. Robinson-There are many good Historic Preservation Projects out there - for instance-
getting the Drummer Boy windmill working again. The Historical Society expects to use Andy Shrake
as the consultant/restorer.
21. Bender-Think BIGM Find a large project-different from what the Town is already doing.
Think out of the box!!
22. Bassett- Remember, anything we do still has to go to Town Meeting.
23. Lach - How are we doing PR for the Forum? How have we set up the meeting?Who will discuss
the process at the hearing? Etc?
24. Robinson-The public will probably have trouble understanding the whole process. He is be
speaking at the Brewster Men's Club, so they will be prepared for the Town Meeting Article.
25. Carr-As Chair, I will discuss what was the Committee has done so far, a basic introduction as
to how the process will work. The each member will talk for a short time, before we open it up for
questions.
26. Bender-Look at the CPA website. See what other Towns have done.
Meeting adjourned at 5PM.
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Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth G.Taylor, Clerk
Community Preservation Committee
Approved: 9DAC Signed: _
Date Clerk ofAAe Committee
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