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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
July 11, 2001
In accordance with the Warrant, the Special Town Meeting was held in the
Brewster Elementary School Cafetorium, Wednesday, July 11, 2001 .
The Meeting was called to order at 7 : 05 p. ms by the Moderator, Stephen L.
Doyle. The tellers were Sheila Gerhardt, Ruth Hanlon, June Gallant, Ken Berbrick
and Althea Ailing . The checkers were Mildred Unger, Janet Norton, Germaine
Cummings, Dorothy Leone, Ann Golini, Elizabeth M . Hardy, Joan Mitchell, and
Gennaro Tursi .
A quorum was present.
The Town Clerk, Joanna Krauss, read the Special Town Meeting Warrant and the
return of the Warrant. there being no objection, the Moderator dispensed with
the reading of the article.
YANKEE DRIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPOSAL
ARTICLE I; To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of
Selectmen to acquire by purchase or the exercise of eminent domain powers
under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or any other enabling authority,
the land with the building located thereon which is designated as Lot 4- 1 on
Brewster Assessor's Map 26, located at 10-28 Yankee Drive, Brewster, Barnstable
County, Massachusetts, and more particularly described in Barnstable County
Registry of Deeds Book 9870, Page 010 and shown on plan of land recorded in
said Registry in Plan Book 516, Page 81 ; to acquire this land for the purpose of
maintaining and operating six (6), town-owned, affordable housing apartment
units for lease to income qualified individuals and one ( 1 ) buildable, single family
dwelling lot to be sold at fair market value to assist in funding affordable housing
projects in the Town of Brewster or to be developed as a single family affordable
housing unit for sale to income qualified buyers or to be used in a land swap
with other land owned by the Yankee Village Owners Association; to commit this
land to the care, custody, control and management of the Board of Selectmen;
to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into any agreements with the
Brewster Housing Authority or with a non-profit affordable housing management
corporation for the purpose of managing and operating this property; to
appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of planning, acquiring, developing,
constructing, renovating and equipping it for the purpose of affordable housing;
to transfer from available funds a sum of money therefor; to authorize the
Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow a sum of
money under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7(3), and/or any other
enabling authority and to issue notes and bonds of the Town therefor; to
transfer from available funds a sum of money to pay for the preparation,
issuance, and marketing of notes and bonds issued under the authority of this
vote; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to establish a revolving fund for
operating the property, with the provision that any surplus retained in the fund
will be available for future affordable housing projects; to appropriate a sum of
money for purposes of initially funding said revolving fund ; to authorize the
Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court, if necessary, for legislation
drafted to enable the Town to provide for the following : (a) to establish a
revolving fund for operating the property, with the provision that any surplus
retained in the fund will be available for future affordable housing projects; (b)
to develop a lottery for choosing the income-qualified individuals and that
incorporates a primary preference for full-time, year round Town employees, a
secondary preference for full-time, year round Nauset Regional School District
employees, and thereafter a preference for Brewster residents; (c) to qualify the
resulting six (6) affordable housing units complex as part of the ten ( 10%)
percent affordable housing stock of the Town of Brewster as defined in
Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40B, Sections 20-22; or to take any other
action relative thereto.
( Board of Selectmen)
— MOTION : That the Town hereby votes to authorize the Board of Selectmen to
acquire by purchase or the exercise of eminent domain powers under
Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or any other enabling authority, the
land with the building located thereon which is designated as Lot 4- 1 on
Brewster Assessors' Map 26, located at 10-28 Yankee Drive, Brewster, Barnstable
county, Massachusetts, and more particularly described in Barnstable County
Registry of Deeds Book 9870, Page 010 and shown on plan of land recorded in
said Registry in Plan Book 516, Page 81 ; such acquisition to be for the purpose
of maintaining and operating six (6) town-owned, affordable housing apartment
units for lease to income qualified individuals and one ( 1) buildable, single family
dwelling lot to be sold at fair market value to assist in funding affordable housing
projects in the Town of Brewster or to be developed as a single family affordable
housing unit for sale to income qualified buyers or to be used in a land swap
with other land owned by the Yankee Village Owners Association; to commit this
land to the care, custody, control and management of the Board of Selectmen ;
to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into any agreements with the
Brewster Housing Authority or with a non-profit affordable housing management
corporation for the purpose of managing and operating this property; to
appropriate the sum of $775,000 .00 for the purpose of planning, acquiring,
developing, constructing, renovating and equipping it for the purpose of
affordable housing; to meet this appropriation, the sum of $ 170,000 .00 shall be
transferred from the Stabilization Fund, and the Town Treasurer, with the
approval of the Board of Selectmen, is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of
$600,000 . 00 under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7(3), and/or any other
enabling authority and to issue notes and bonds of the Town therefor; that the
further sum of $5,000 .00 shall be appropriated from the Stabilization Fund of the
Town to pay for the preparation, issuance, and marketing of notes and bonds
issued under the authority of this vote; that the Board of Selectmen is hereby
authorized to establish a revolving fund for operating the property, with the
provision that any surplus retained in the fund will be available for future
affordable housing projects; and that the Board of Selectmen is hereby
authorized to petition the General Court, for special legislation to provide the
Town with any additional authority it may require to effectuate the purposes
hereof, including, but not limited to the authority to : (a) establish a revolving
fund for operating the property, with the provision that any surplus retained in
the fund and any accrued interest thereon will be available for future affordable
housing projects; (b) to develop a lottery for choosing the income-qualified
individuals and that incorporates a primary preference for full-time, year-round
Town employees, a secondary preference for full-time, year round Nauset
Regional School District employees, and thereafter a preference for Brewster
residents; (c) to qualify the resulting six (6) affordable housing unit complex as
- - part of the ten ( 10%) per cent affordable housing stock of the Town of Brewster
as defined in Massachusetts General laws, Chapter 40B, Sections 20 . 22 .
ACTION : YES- 191
NO - 193
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