[Year-Round Housing Committee] March 28 YRHC minutes and "homework" assignments

[Mlongreene2 at aol.com]

Here are draft minutes from the last meeting. Feel free to come up  with 
additional criteria to discuss for qualification for  candidates.    I thought 
last meeting was excellent in  spite of the difficulty and personal nature of the 
issues we were working  on.      Next meeting is Wed. April 11 at Town  Hall. 
 MG
 
 


Town of  Long  Island
Year-Round Housing Committee  Minutes 
March 28,  2007

Present: Mark Greene (chair);  Ruth Peterson (selectman); Leah Doughty; Mike 
Maloney; Jonathan Norton; Katie  Wegner; Amy Tierney; Will Tierney; Tammy 
Hohn; Mary Nanos; John Billings;  Lorinda Valls; Chris Papkee; Alden Robinson 
(island fellow).

1.         Meeting called to order 7:05 p.m.  Previous meeting's minutes 
accepted.  
2.         Old business:

Alden Robinson updated the committee on his  trip to Camden National Bank's 
affordable housing conference on the 20th.   He talked to Joanne Campbell, of 
CNB, who said that banks commonly give  mortgages on ground-leased property, 
provided the lease has a long enough  term.  She said Camden National would be 
happy to help with Long Island's project, as would any number of similar  banks.

Mark said that he had sent a description of the YRHC’s grant  application 
concept to the Island Institute's Affordable Coast fund, and had received an  
encouraging response from Chris Wolff, the fund's administrator.  If  received, 
funds from the grant would be used to make preliminary site  improvements to 
leased property such as septic plans and survey  work.

3.         New business:

The committee discussed the list of proposed  selection criteria that were 
submitted by members over the past two  weeks.  
Two categories of  criteria were agreed upon:  
a.         eligibility criteria that a candidate must meet to qualify for the 
 program. 
b.         qualitative criteria to be used to make a priority list of  
candidates who had met the basic                                         eligibility 
criteria.  

The committee agreed on the following  provisional eligibility criteria:

1.         Bank  pre-approval for a construction mortgage on the project.
2.         Year-round resident of the island for a specified time period (to 
be  determined).
3.         Willing and able to build within a specified time period (to be 
agreed  upon). 
4.         Maximum income and assets below a specified threshold (to be  
determined);  The committee planned  to do further research into income and asset 
limits and look into other islands'  methods for a confidential selection 
process.

The committee discussed the  following provisional qualitative criteria:
1.         First time homeowner (tabled)
2.         Not a current property owner;
3.         Immediacy of need (more questions needed to determine);
4.         Involved in community life – either organization or employment
5.  Number in household;
6.  Family ties to the  island. 
7.         PLEASE ADD OTHERS. 
Assignments for the  next meeting:

1.         Participants will assign proposed point values to prioritize these 
 provisional criteria (1-least significant to 5 – most significant) for each 
of  these items.  
2.         Participants should also bring an initial list of proposed 
conditions  concerning the house to be built and ideas on buy back conditions should 
the  house need to be sold.    
4.         Next meeting scheduled for Wednesday, April 11th at 7 p.m. Meeting 
 adjourned 9:01 p.m. 





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