<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT>Selection Committee Folks - Here are the Peaks and Chebeague documents for rental stuff. I will print some copies if you cannot. MG<br>
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<div>Mark Greene</div>
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From: Mary Terry <marykterry@gmail.com><br>
To: Mlongreene2@aol.com<br>
Cc: housingcommittee@townoflongisland.us<br>
Sent: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 8:31 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Year-Round Housing] Fwd: Housing Selection Committee (from Chebeague)<br>
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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>To follow up on what Mark sent you, Peaks uses a very similar process. Both processes were based on what Islesboro established a few years ago with tweaks to address individual community needs.</div>
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<div>I have attached the application, and some supporting materials, that Peaks uses.</div>
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<div>I look forward to seeing you next Tuesday.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Mary<br>
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<div class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:21 AM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:Mlongreene2@aol.com">Mlongreene2@aol.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi All, This is a response to the questions asked at our last meeting about who checks incomes etc. This is the way Chebeague handles it. Attached to Beth Howe's letter are 2 attachments worth downloading. The first is a rental application and the second an interesting scoring matrix (very simple) that they have developed. Mark</div>
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From: "Beth Howe" <<A href="mailto:bethhowe@chebeague.net">bethhowe@chebeague.net</A>><br>
To: <<A href="mailto:mlongreene2@aol.com">mlongreene2@aol.com</A>><br>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:42:13 -0600<br>
Subject: RE: Housing Selection Committee<br>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I\u2019m very sorry your email got lost in the in-coming waves of email on a Planning Board issue and our affordable housing project.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">You definitely need to have a committee that is willing to look at incomes \u2013 that is the primary criterion for this housing, and our rent is set at 28 percent of their yearly income. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">We set up a separate 5-member review committee with no people on it from the affordable housing group, but one from the CICA Board, and then tried to keep hands off. The members were \u201crespected\u201d people in the community who would not go around talking about who had applied and how much income they had. They took the job seriously, indeed they were quite strict about evaluating whether the applicants would be \u201csuitable\u201d tenants \u2013 no bleeding heart liberals.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Initially they wanted more guidance than the eligibility criteria gave them, so with their help we worked up a matrix giving points for various things mentioned in the eligibility criteria. The one I\u2019ve attached was actually from the second round of renting 226. By that time, they had decided that there would be yes/no criteria and then additional points. It didn\u2019t take the place of more qualitative evaluation of the applications, but it gave a first cut. This seems to have worked well.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">As far as incomes went, we asked the applicants to provide us with first page of their most recent 1040 income tax return, and used line 21 \u2013 adjusted gross income for setting the rent. Also the application itself asked about income, assets and debts, which produced somewhat different information.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The tenant is also responsible for paying the utilities as well as the rent.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I hope this helps and is not too late to be of use.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Beth</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:mlongreene2@aol.com">mlongreene2@aol.com</A> <A href="mailto:[mailto:mlongreene2@aol.com]">[mailto:mlongreene2@aol.com]</A> <br>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:05 AM<br>
<B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:bethhowe@chebeague.net">bethhowe@chebeague.net</A><br>
<B>Subject:</B> Housing Selection Committee</SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Good Morning Beth, Hope all is well by you. We are at a point of selecting potential candidates (for rental housing/option to own) should we be successful in gaining grant money to build it. While we have an application/selection committee that developed selection criteria for our original lease/homestead program, there is much hesitancy with folks to examine other folks finances for eligibility for this MaineHousing program. How do you handle that on Chebeague? Thanks for your help. Best, Mark</SPAN></div>
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Island Institute <br>
Community Development Director</div>
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