Community Preservation Committee

Under the provisions of the Community Preservation Act (CPA), Sudbury established a Community Preservation Committee.

This Committee is required to have 5-9 members and include a member designated from each of the following commissions or boards: Conservation Commission, Historical Commission, Planning Board, Park and Recreation Commission, and Housing Authority. The Committee shall study the needs, possibilities and resources of the Town regarding community preservation.

The Duties of said Community Preservation Committee shall be to:

(1) The Community Preservation Committee shall study the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation. The Committee shall consult with existing municipal boards, including the Conservation Commission, the Sudbury Historical Commission, the Planning Board, the Park and Recreation Commission, the Sudbury Housing Authority, or persons acting in those capacities or performing like duties, in conducting such studies. As part of its study, the Committee shall hold one or more public informational hearings on the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation possibilities and resources, notice of which shall be posted publicly and published for each of two weeks preceding a hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the town.

(2) Community Preservation Committee shall make recommendation to the Town Meeting for the acquisition, creation, and preservation of open space; for the acquisition and preservation of historic resources; for the acquisition creation, and preservation of land for recreational use; for the creation, preservation, and support of community housing; and for rehabilitation or restoration of such open space, historic resources, land for recreational use and community housing that is acquired or created as provided in MGL Chapter 44B. 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.

(3) Community Preservation Committee may include in its recommendation to the Town Meeting a recommendation to set aside for later spending funds for specific purposes that are consistent with community preservation but for which sufficient revenues are not then available in the Community Preservation Fund to accomplish that specific purpose or to set aside for later spending funds for general purposes that are consistent with community preservation.

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State Announces CPA Matching Funds for FY09

The Sudbury Community Preservation Committee (CPC) proudly announces that it has received a 37.5% match from the state for funds raised under the Community Preservation Act (CPA). Sudbury was again one of the top ten such grants issued this year.  Based upon Sudbury’s FY09 CPA surcharge revenue of $1,436,010, the state funding comes to $539,676, and brings the total FY09 CPA revenue to $1,975,686. These funds are part of the roughly $27.2 million that the Massachusetts Department of Revenue distributed on October 8th to the 135 communities currently participating in the CPA.  The average grant was $201,625.  Of the top ten grants, only one other went to a town of similar size (Weston).   

This is the 7th year that Sudbury has received funds from the state Community Preservation Fund. The Town has approved 40 CPA projects since the program’s inception in 2003. From the beginning, the CPC has been conservative in estimating its revenues, and has “banked” a substantial portion of its funds to insure that monies will be available for future projects.

Projects for funding at the 2010 Annual Town Meeting are currently under review by the committee, with public hearings to be scheduled in November.   To apply for CPC funding for FY10, download the FY10 CPC Project Form  here.

Friday, October 9, 2009

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