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<DIV>Attached please find a list of committees and members involved with housing
issues. It is also opened below, but lost some format.
Hope it is helpful and apologize for anyone left out. Mark</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Town of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Long
Island</st1:place></st1:City></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Year Round Housing
Corporation</FONT></P>
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align=center><st1:address w:st="on"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><st1:Street w:st="on">Box</st1:Street>
263</FONT></FONT></st1:address></P>
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align=center><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><st1:City w:st="on">Long Island</st1:City>,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:State w:st="on">Maine</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">04050</st1:PostalCode></FONT></FONT></st1:place></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Mark Greene, Housing Administrator</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><A
href="mailto:Mlongreene2@aol.com"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Mlongreene2@aol.com</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>207 766 4440</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>December 16, 2007</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Subject:<SPAN
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</SPAN>Participants in Year Round Housing Activities 2005-2007</FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT
size=3>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">I was asked by a
YRHASC member to consider a full disclosure of everyone involved in the YRH
process for clarification as there was a question by another member about who
was who in this whole process. A good idea and here is that information:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">1.<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Initial Interest:</SPAN></U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Discussions by citizens over the last 3 or 4
years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eventually some of us
started and drafted the concepts that resulted in the creation of the YRHC.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We all agreed that we were fortunate to
have many younger folks <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">wanting be here
and still hanging on here</I>, most in rental situations that were not
guaranteed for the long term.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Regular participants:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Selectman Steve Train, Selectman Ruth Peterson, Mark Greene, Emily Jacobs
and Sam Whitener and others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mark Greene was
subsequently appointed Housing Administrator under a USDA Rural Community
Development Initiative grant through the Genesis Foundation. Separately, Alden
Robinson was dedicated to <st1:place w:st="on">Long Island</st1:place> by the
Island Institute as a Fellow in part to focus on affordable housing issues with
Mark Greene as Advisor.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">2.<SPAN
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</SPAN><U>Year Round Housing Committee Participants:</U> these participants
worked through late 2006 and into 2007 to draft the initial proposals, do the
survey work, and brought forth Article 47 to Town Meeting:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again there was pretty
widespread agreement as to our goal of finding ways to make reasonable housing
available to those here now that needed it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Regular participants:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>John
Billings, Cade and Melissa Brown, Leah Doughty, Mark Greene, Tom and Tammy
Hohn,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael Maloney, Mary
Nanos, Jonothan Norton,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ruth
Peterson, Alden Robinson,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Will and Amy Tierney, Steve Train,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Lorrinda Valls,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and Katie
Wegner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Apologies for
any other participants I have overlooked).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">3.<SPAN
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</SPAN><U>Year Round Housing Corporation:</U> (YRHCorp) as recommended by other
housing groups and our proposal a non profit (and soon to be 501c3) corporation
was formed with purposes concurrent with those of the YRHC. The YRHCorp will be
available in the future to accept properties, if offered, on behalf of qualified
applicants.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An excerpt of its
purpose from the IRS Application: \u2013 \u201c</SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Year Round
Housing Corporation was formed in response to community-wide concern that low-
and moderate-income people, often young families and single individuals of all
ages, who are not presently property-owners, will be forced to leave the island
community because housing costs have severely outstripped the ability of
residents to buy in their own communities\u201d<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(Complete goals from the application available if
interested).<SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Ruth Peterson is the
Registered Agent of the Corporation; Leah Doughty is Secretary; Mark Greene is
President, and Stephen Train is Treasurer and all are Incorporators and make up
the Board of Directors.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4.<SPAN
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</SPAN><U>Year Round Housing Committee</U> (YRHC) Following Town Meeting the
Selectmen were asked to seek applicants and formalize membership in the Year
Round Housing Committee. The following were appointed as voting members of the
YRHC:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Needless to say, the goals of
this committee were continued from the previous work done to get to this
point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>John Billings; Cade Brown; Mark Greene; Mike Maloney; Amy Tierney; Will
Tierney; Lorrinda Valls;.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Mark Greene was elected Committee Chair and Alden Robinson, Island
Institute Fellow does research, support work, and the meeting
minutes)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">5.<SPAN
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</SPAN><U>Year Round Housing Application and SelectionCommittee </U><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(YRHASC) Last, but not least, and
as recommended in the \u201cInformation Summary\u201d sent to voters, and at the request
of the YRHC, the Selectmen were asked to advertise and appoint a committee to
carry forth the application and selection process as part of the larger ongoing
work done by the YRHC, YRHCorp, Selectmen, Housing Administrator, and
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Members appointed are Brenda Singo, John Billings, Judy Paolini, Newell
Stewart, and Sandra Scheurmann.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>John Billings and Newell Stewart were elected co-chairs. Brenda Singo was
elected clerk.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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