[Year-Round Housing Committee] YRH Activities 2005 to present

[Mlongreene2 at aol.com]

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
 
 
 
Town of Long  Island 
Year Round Housing  Corporation 
Box  263 
Long Island,  Maine  04050 
Mark Greene, Housing Administrator 
_Mlongreene2 at aol.com_ (mailto:Mlongreene2 at aol.com)  
207 766 4440 
December 16, 2007 
Subject:            Participants in Year Round Housing Activities 2005-2007 
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:      
1.             Initial Interest: Discussions by citizens over the last 3 or 4 
 years.  Eventually some of us  started and drafted the concepts that 
resulted in the creation of the YRHC.  We all agreed that we were fortunate to  have 
many younger folks wanting be here  and still hanging on here, most in rental 
situations that were not  guaranteed for the long term.                        
                                                                              
                                     Regular participants:   Selectman Steve 
Train, Selectman Ruth Peterson, Mark Greene, Emily Jacobs  and Sam Whitener 
and others.     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 Long Island by the  
Island Institute as a Fellow in part to focus on affordable housing issues with  
Mark Greene as Advisor. 
2.             Year Round Housing Committee Participants: 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:    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.                   
                                                                              
                                                                Regular 
participants:  John  Billings, Cade and Melissa Brown, Leah Doughty, Mark Greene, 
Tom and Tammy  Hohn,   Michael Maloney, Mary  Nanos, Jonothan Norton,   Ruth  
Peterson, Alden Robinson,   Will and Amy Tierney, Steve Train,  Lorrinda Valls, 
 and Katie  Wegner.    (Apologies for  any other participants I have 
overlooked). 
3.             Year Round Housing Corporation: (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.   An excerpt of its  purpose from the IRS 
Application: – “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”   
(Complete goals from the application available if  interested).                      
                                                                              
                                        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.                                                  
4.            Year Round Housing Committee (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:  Needless to say, the goals of  this committee were continued from 
the previous work done to get to this  point.                                    
                                                                              
                                           John Billings; Cade Brown; Mark 
Greene; Mike Maloney; Amy Tierney; Will  Tierney; Lorrinda Valls;.    (Mark 
Greene was elected Committee Chair and Alden Robinson, Island  Institute Fellow 
does research, support work, and the meeting  minutes) 
5.             Year Round Housing Application and SelectionCommittee   
(YRHASC) Last, but not least, and  as recommended in the “Information Summary” 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.                                    
Members appointed are Brenda Singo, John Billings, Judy Paolini, Newell  Stewart, 
and Sandra Scheurmann.   John Billings and Newell Stewart were elected 
co-chairs. Brenda Singo was  elected clerk. 




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