[MassHistPres] CPA Experience

[james hadley]

This is unsettling, to say the least. Can someone confirm that now a community is absolutely precluded from allocating CPA monies for improving, stabilizing, restoring, etc, a non-State Register property.
Thanks.
James Hadley
former chair, Orleans Historical Commission

From: nove.john at gmail.com
To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 09:15:56 -0400
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] CPA Experience


In addition to funding a successful graveyards restoration project over the past three years, local Community Preservation Act funds have been used by the Deerfield Historical Commission to create an inventory of the Historical Resources of South Deerfield using the standard MHC inventory forms. The project was planned to span three years, done with two local part-time researchers/writers, and would hopefully lead to the submission of a nomination of the area to the National Register. Last night our CPC pulled the funding (roughly $35.K) on our third year. Their justification was a change in the CPA law which once permitted use of funds on sites eligible for listing in the State Register but now stipulates that sites must already be in the Register (= one of the purposes of the inventory in the first place ! ). I’m writing this as a heads-up but also wondering if other communities have had similar experiences around this issue with their CPCs.
John NoveDeerfield
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