[MassHistPres] CPA Experience

[Gretchen Schuler]

I just received an e-mail from Community Preservation Coalition that this is
not the case.  I think we will hear more clarifying information later today
- I sent an e-mail yesterday to the Coalition asking as we are about to take
up an article at ATM on a building that is not yet listed in NR or SR.   I
hope Coalition will weigh in soon - on listserv.  

 

Gretchen Schuler

Wayland Historic District Commission and Wayland CPC

 

From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of james hadley
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:58 PM
To: John Nove; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] CPA Experience

 

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

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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 Nove

Deerfield


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