Above: Above are some of the CPA projects approved Town Meetings in recent years. If you hope to make a case for funding something through the next ATM, now is the time to apply. (images clockwise: by Allan Bezanson, Google Maps, Town announcement, Ryan Donovan, Kate Matison, and Neil A. Theriault’s Facebook post)
If you have a project in mind that you think should be funded by the Community Preservation Act, apply soon.
The next funding round won’t be approved until Town Meeting in March. And any approved funding doesn’t become available until July 1, 2019. But the process begins now, with applications due to the Community Preservation Commission by September 13th.
For those of you not familiar with the CPA and CPC, funding is restricted to acquisition, creation and preservation of Historic Resources, Recreational Use, or Community Housing.
The Town website explains:
The Community Preservation Committee shall make recommendations to the Town Meeting for the acquisition, creation and preservation of open space; for the acquisition, rehabilitation, restoration and preservations of historic resources; for the acquisition, creation and preservation of land for recreational use; for the creation, preservation support of community housing; and for the rehabilitation or restoration of such open space, land for recreational use and community housing that is acquired or created as provided in this section. 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.
For more details, click here.
For this year’s application, click here.
