[MassHistPres] CPA funds for planning work?

[GRETCHEN SCHULER]

Check the www.communitypreservation.org website and you will see many survey
projects.  I started to scroll down all 228 historic preservation projects
that have been reported to the community preservation coalition and see that
Acton (as Anne Forbes reported), Amherst, Ayer, Bedford, Braintree,
Chelmsford, Georgetown, etc. (I stopped scrolling) all have financed survey
projects(inventory) of historic buildings, historic landscapes,
archaeological sites......It has always been my understanding that towns can
fund survey, NR and preservation plans as well as bricks and mortar and
landscape restoration (cemeteries) etc with CPA historic preservation funds.
I think that you too can use CPA funds for a match to MHC Survey and
Planning or MPPF funding as well.

Good luck,

Gretchen Schuler
Wayland

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peg Keller" <pkeller at northamptonma.gov>
To: "MHCListserve (E-mail)" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: [MassHistPres] CPA funds for planning work?


> Hi/ our local Historical Commission was all excited to apply to CPA for
form B creation/updates and inventory work.. We are being told that this not
an eligible activity, except through the Community Preservation Committee's
admin. portion/  Is this true?  I thought as soon as the CPA was being
adopted across the state, the RFP's for planning work started appearing on
the listserv...I just assumed they were being funded by the CPA/  am I
mistaken? Having now re read the Act , I see that funds are for historic
resources are for project specific related expenses. If you all have not
been using the CPA for these activities,  how have you funded this work?
MHC's planning and survey grants?, then that leaves the question of local
match, which is a problem for us.
> thanks for any advice/  Peg Keller
>
> Peg Keller
> Housing and Community Development Planner
> Office of Planning and Development
> City of Northampton
> 210 Main Street   Northampton  MA 01060
> telephone:  413-587-1288
> fax:  413-587-1264
> pkeller at northamptonma.gov
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