[MassHistPres] Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter-October 10, 2012

[Skelly, Christopher (SEC)]

LOCAL PRESERVATION UPDATE E-NEWSLETTER
Published by the Massachusetts Historical Commission
October 10, 2012

SURVEY AND PLANNING GRANT PRE-APPLICATIONS

The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) announces the Fiscal Year 2013 Survey and Planning Grant cycle.   For the FY 2013 round, eligible applicants will include all local historical commissions, local historic district commissions, municipal planning offices, and other public and non-profit historic preservation organizations.  At the time of this writing, total available funding for the FY 2013 matching grant round is still contingent on MHC’s FY 2013 federal budget allocation, which has not yet been determined.  For FY 2013, the MHC/Grantee match shares will be 50/50. As the State Historic Preservation Office, the Massachusetts Historical Commission is responsible for administering the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service and State Historic Preservation Offices, to grant funds to communities and private non-profit organizations for a wide range of preservation‑related activities. These include completion of cultural resource inventories, nomination of significant properties to the National Register of Historic Places, completion of community-wide preservation plans, and other types of studies, reports, publications and projects that relate to the identification and protection of significant historic properties and sites. The goal of the Survey and Planning Grant program is to support efforts to identify and plan for the protection of the significant historic buildings, structures, archaeological sites and landscapes of the Commonwealth. With this announcement, the MHC is initiating the Fiscal Year 2013 grant round of funding for Certified Local Governments (CLGs), municipal historic preservation commissions, non-profit organizations and other eligible applicants.   MHC is required under federal law to pass through 10% of its annual federal budget allocation to CLGs.  CLGs in Massachusetts are the municipalities of Boston, Bedford, Brookline, Danvers, Eastham, Falmouth, Grafton, Hingham, Lexington, Lowell, Medfield, Medford, Methuen, New Bedford, Newton, Plymouth, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, and Worcester.   Contingent on final budget availability in Fiscal Year 2013, the grant program will be available to both CLG and non-CLG municipalities, as well as other qualified applicants. A Survey and Planning grant can provide critical support for projects that help to preserve the character of your community. Please consider applying for a grant by completing a pre‑application and returning it to the Massachusetts Historical Commission by Monday, November 19, 2012, 5 p.m. (no faxed or emailed applications accepted).  Additional information, guidelines and the pre-application form are available on MHC’s web site at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhchpp/Surveyandplanning.htm



SEMINAR ON GREEN DESIGN AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Green Design and Historic Preservation: Exploring the Historic Building Envelope will examine the tension between historic integrity and the quest for greater energy efficiency from the building envelope. The afternoon workshop will take place at the Umass/Amherst campus on October 19.  For more information, visit
http://umasshsv.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/green-design-and-historic-preservation-final.pdf

LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS PROPOSED
The towns of Belmont and Longmeadow have submitted local historic district preliminary study reports.  For Longmeadow, an expansion of 8 properties from the 18th and 19th Century is proposed to the existing local historic district which was established in 1973.  In Belmont, a local historic district consisting of two 18th and 19th Century residences and the last remaining working farm in Belmont has been proposed by the owner of the properties.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CULTURAL RESOURCES WEBSITE
Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEP) in Massachusetts announces the organization’s website at http://www.mass.gov/mblc/costepma.  Aimed at both the cultural and emergency management communities, the website provides immediate access to assistance and resources for emergency mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. The mission of COSTEP Massachusetts is to build and foster a statewide disaster preparedness planning process that serves the cultural and emergency management communities and addresses disaster prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. The process will ensure an ongoing dialogue that promotes mutual understanding and coordination between these communities. For more information, contact Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, gregor.trinkaus-randall at state.ma.us<mailto:gregor.trinkaus-randall at state.ma.us> or Michael Comeau, Massachusetts Archives, michael.comeau at sec.state.ma.us<mailto:michael.comeau at sec.state.ma.us>.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER
November 19, 2012
Deadline to submit a survey and planning grant pre-application.  See above.

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