From cadebro at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 00:30:50 2007 From: cadebro at gmail.com (Cade Brown) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:30:50 -0500 Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] The Long Islander Message-ID: Here is an article that the Year Round Housing Committee asked me to write for the next edition of The Long Islander: Reasonable Housing For the last couple of weeks several of the young couples on the island have gathered with the Year Round Housing Committee to discuss housing on Long Island. The YRHC was formed to solve the problem of affordable housing on the island, a phrase that doesn't sit well in anyone's mind. To the landowners of the island it conjures up images of Kennedy Park, to the young renters a feeling of inadequacy, and everyone knows that nothing on the island is affordable. That is why I am going to refer to it as reasonable housing, borrowing the phrase from a coworker of mine. No one is looking for a handout. Nobody wants to turn the Dark Forest into a low-income housing complex. These young, hardworking families are looking for a permanent place in the community, yet are unable to obtain that goal due to inflated property prices and the above-normal cost of island living. One major concern of those attending YRHC meetings is the lack of exposure to the issue. Only young families and those with multiple children - who will one day inherit a portion of a home - have reason to be concerned. On an island with few school children and even fewer young landowners, that's a very small percent. But in reality everyone on the island is or will be affected by the lack of young families and their children. Without them where will Long Island be in ten years? Fifteen? Twenty? The average age of the Fire Department is forty; the average age of the EMTs is fifty. I can only think of one town employee under the age of forty. Who will take the baton when the original wave of volunteers tires of running the government? Those are some scary thoughts. The first fourteen years of the Town of Long Island marked a period of the island gaining its feet and its independence. A lot of time and money was spent forming its government and infrastructure. The debt to Portland is paid off, roads have been paved, equipment upgraded, asbestos removed, land protected, roofs repaired. I think it's time that Long Island stops spending on itself, and starts investing in itself. By that I mean more support for its school, its Recreation department, reasonable year-round housing, assisted living, finding a way to bring more jobs to the island and young people to fill those jobs. To be frank, there is a reason we put up with the cold winters, the CBL schedule, expensive gas, high cost of living, and lack of social entertainment. We are passionate about our island. I want my children to attend the Long Island School. I want Benjamin grow up with Will and Amy's twins, and Madison to keep his life-long friends. I want to volunteer as much of my time as possible to help the community thrive. In forty years I want to be able to see some of the same faces around me that I see today. I do not want watch Long Island crumble because some can't see the need for young working families on the island to keep it sustained during the cold months. The success of the Year Round Housing Committee currently hinges on the availability of state-funding, which in turn depends on the results of the Comprehensive Plan and the YRHC Survey. If the outlook is bad after the surveys, I hope that we don't give up. We should press forward in other ways. Habitats for Humanity works by volunteers helping to build affordable homes, and those who receive participate in building future homes. The proposed YRHC plan is to start off with one efficient home to be rented out. With enough help and hard work the same could be accomplished free of state-funding. And, as with the current plan, see where it goes from there. It would just be a lot easier for the community to help itself, rather then make a few do the heavy lifting. From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Thu Feb 1 09:34:05 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:34:05 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Draft agenda - please add other items Message-ID: Attached is a proposed agenda for next week. If you have other items we should consider, please let me know and I will add them. Otherwise, I would like to post this by the weekend. You can, of course, always bring up other things at the meeting, even if not on the agenda, but State Law/Open Meeting rules require an official posting (7days actually) of any public meetings. We maybe should consider making Wed. nites a regular meeting night for a while until we get things rolling? There is never a good time to have a meeting and not conflict with something, but I will entertain alternate suggestions. We will make the detailed minutes available (thanks to Alden) to keep you up to speed if there are times you cannot attend. Thanks, MG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: YEAR ROUND HOUSING.doc meeting notice Feb. 7.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 24064 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Thu Feb 1 10:16:25 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:16:25 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Fwd: FW: Sample Talking Points Message-ID: I know this is not housing exactly, but it speaks well to how important preserving this community is as a base for what the YRHC hopes to do. Good background, although Cade said it even better than this! The idea of "talking points" is a good one that maybe we should explore more at next meeting so when someone asks you on the boat about YRH (affordable) we will have some clean simple bullets ready to share with our neighbors. I will forward some examples that I have in other e-mails concerning the school consolidation proposal of the governors, and maybe we can get some ideas from those. Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chris Wolff" Subject: FW: Sample Talking Points Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:50:23 -0500 Size: 23095 URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Thu Feb 1 10:27:15 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:27:15 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Sample "talking points" as examples Message-ID: Here are the sample talking points for island schools that we may use to stimulate thinking on "talking points" we may develop for YRH use. MG 2/1/07 Sample Education Hearing Talking Points: § Island Schools Require Unique Solutions! § We are encouraged that Governor Baldacci and other legislators are serious about reducing the state’s property tax burden. No one understands the need to achieve tax relief better than island communities, some of which have seen their property taxes triple during the past few years. § The proposed plans school consolidation plans will have the effect of dismantling island schools and, by doing so, will dismantle the very communities that have come to define Maine’s coastal heritage as “the way life should be.” § The public comment process seems like more of an exercise than a truly democratic process. The projected savings from the Governor’s plan has already been factored into the state’s budget. There is very little real opportunity for public input on this flawed plan. § Local governance is critical to island school survival. Island Schools are different than mainland schools, and different from one another. It is hard to imagine a “cookie cutter” governance approach such as that proposed by the governor that would work for these very different schools. § This plan will take away local control from island schools. Robbing island communities—parents, teachers, students, and town governments—of their voice in school governance will effectively dismantle the role of island schools as a vital part of island community life. § If governance of the new districts is based on population, island voices would be entirely lost in the new super-districts. For example, the mainland population of the Cumberland super-district is 400 times larger than that of Chebeague Island. The school board would need 400 members to justify one member from Chebeague. Effectively, this plan writes off island schools— and the communities they serve—as irrelevant. Possible discussion points for public hearing testimony (these are the things suggested by participants in the January 26 brainstorming meeting in Rockland): While each island school is different, these schools share a number of characteristics: * Geographic isolation—you cannot get to an island without a boat. * Multi-graded classrooms * Heavy community investment in the school—island communities know how important their schools are to community sustainability, and many provide significant support for their schools beyond that which is provided by the state. * Island schools make the most of every dollar, with minuscule administrations and staff who play multiple roles (from teaching in multi-level classrooms to driving the bus, to cleaning the floors, to doing the bookkeeping). * Island schools individualize and differentiate instruction, allowing each child to receive the most appropriate education for his or her needs. * Island schools are important providers of adult education to community members. * Island schools are community cultural centers whose buildings are used more efficiently than most mainland schools—for meetings, community suppers, and a host of other activities. * Island schools provide a safe and secure environment for kids that encourages new families to move to island communities—thereby strengthening those communities. Collaboration among island schools has enabled them to share knowledge and programs that enriches and strengthens individual schools, while allowing them to maintain their unique local character. Examples of collaboration include: * Bringing private investments and grants to improve island education * Offering professional development opportunities for island teachers through such programs as the Island Teachers Conference * Sharing the expense of inter-island arts programming * Creating opportunities for inter-island physical education programming such as sports tournaments, track and field, etc. * Sharing library resources with other islands * Providing transitional programming for students transferring from island to mainland schools * Providing college readiness and aspirations programming for students graduating from island schools to attend college on the mainland. 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From: "Chris Wolff" Subject: Affordable Housing at the State House Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:19:15 -0500 Size: 71286 URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Tue Feb 6 05:02:18 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 05:02:18 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Draft minutes from Jan. 31 Message-ID: Hi All, Attached please find last weeks draft minutes for your review. Please bring any changes to the meeting. Also, this will basically be a workshop meeting to refine and hopefully finish the surveys and cover letter so please bring further suggestions. I think we have noted the previous suggestions in the minutes. We will be meeting again at the library at 7. I could use a volunteer to take minutes as Alden will be away. Thanks, Mark Town of Long Island Year-Round Housing Committee Minutes 1/31/07 Present: Mark Greene (Chair); Ruth Peterson (Selectman); Steve Train (Selectman); Tammy Hohn; Tom Hohn; Will Tierney; Amy Tierney; Katie Wegner; Jonathan Norton; Alden Robinson (Island Institute Fellow). Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m. Old business: 1. The committee agreed to accept the minutes of the previous meeting as read. Mark will submit them to the upcoming issue of the Long Islander to help raise awareness of these housing issues. 2. The committee discussed the proposed cover letter to be sent with the upcoming housing survey. It was agreed that the specifics of a housing project proposal should not appear in the cover letter. Mark will send out an updated version. 3. The committee discussed the survey to be sent to year-round and seasonal residents. 1. It was suggested that the survey avoid asking directly whether respondents support year-round housing efforts on Long Island, and instead ask whether respondents think it is important for the island to have young families living on it, and also whether they know of anyone who has had to leave the island for lack of housing. 2. It was suggested that survey question #4 provide brief descriptions of housing possibilities and ask respondents to rank them by their suitability to the island. 3. It was suggested that one survey question ask whether respondents would support housing efforts on Long Island if those efforts had no tax-impact. Steve Train said it was possible that selling town land for housing would actually reduce taxes. 4. It was suggested that the survey ask whether respondents could afford to buy the home they own now, if that home were on the market today. 5. The committee agreed to go through the surveys individually and compare changes before the next meeting. New business: 1. The committee briefly discussed ownership models. Mark Greene stressed that simply living on the island, even in rented housing, is often crucial to successfully owning a house here, as it is much easier to stay informed of available houses and land coming to market. If stable, dedicated, rental housing were available, it could be the least costly option until families are certain they want to buy here and have saved towards that option. 2. The committee received copies of the Island Institute’s affordable housing reports for Maine islands, including Islesboro, North Haven, Frenchboro, Cranberry Islands, Monhegan, Vinylhaven, and Isle Au Haut for more detailed study of housing initiatives being carried out elsewhere. 3. The committee viewed a DVD produced by the Genesis foundation, which provided an overview of some affordable housing projects in the Midcoast and Down East and the role the Genesis Foundation can play in financing island needs. 4. The committee discussed the mechanics of sending the surveys to year-round residents and planned to work from the list of registered voters and add or remove people depending on whether they really live here full-time. It was agreed that all residents 18 and over would get their own survey even if it meant several copies per household. Seasonal residents would get one per household, but could certainly add divergent opinions if more than one per household wished to respond. 5. The committee discussed sending letters to the Long Islander. It was agreed to ask Cade Brown to send a version of his previous email to the LongIslander. 6. The committee agreed to meet at the same time next week and work on the surveys to get them ready to send out. Members should bring in specific proposed changes to the surveys and cover letter so that they may be finalized. 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FROM: The Town of Long Island Year-round Housing Committee TO: Long Island Residents SUBJECT: Housing Interest Survey Enclosed, please find a survey designed to gauge specific interest concerning housing issues on Long Island. We have included one copy of the survey for each person 18 years or older in your household. (FOR YR SURVEY ONLY) Please complete it by( Feb 15?) and return it in the enclosed stamped envelope. (For seasonal survey: “We have included one copy per household, but feel free to add additional comments if several members of your household have differing opinions on questions.”) The Year-round Housing Committee (YRHC) was created to explore housing issues and availability for Long Islanders in the ever-tightening coastal second home real estate market. As has already been experienced by our sister islands up and down the coast, housing is simply becoming unavailable for young people trying to stay in their island communities. As noted in several past articles in the Long Islander, the Island Times, the Working Waterfront, The Governor’s Annual Housing Conference, and elsewhere, perhaps no issue threatens the future well-being of the year round viability of this community more than lack of year round housing. Some people who already live here, including young families, with children in school, or those wishing to have families, may not be able to settle or stay here permanently due to housing issues. It is possible that many of us that do live here would have trouble re-entering this housing market again if we had to. Think about what your house may be worth and whether you could re-buy it in today’s market. Every person here—young and old—adds to the well-being and healthy diversity of the town and in no way is any initial emphasis on helping young folks to stay here meant to detract from those of us “not so young”. The reality is that certain jobs, skills, and energies require younger hands to do them. Our town needs the diversity that a continuing presence of younger people bring to serve on the fire department, pilot the rescue boat, build buildings, be sternmen, care for children, and carry on all the many activities of the community as the rest of us age! The fewer younger hands here, the more we have to hire others from the mainland, the more expensive life here becomes, and perhaps most important the less livable Long Island slowly becomes for the rest of us. The YRHC believes that a modest housing proposal might be a good beginning step to stimulate thinking, interest, and experience in addressing this issue. Keeping in mind that the goal is to keep our young people here, preference would be to make it available to such candidates by utilizing grants, low cost municipal loans and any other resources to keep the housing, in whatever form it takes, as affordable as possible. The word “affordable housing” is commonly used to describe such efforts, but affordability, while critically important, probably in this housing market is second to simple availability! It will be as affordable as possible. Other island and coastal towns have completed various kinds of projects; with much advice available from their experiences, good and bad. Project possibilities include a spectrum of ideas from helping eligible buyers find financing for year-round homes, increasing rental possibilities, developing some sort of assisted-living programs for our seniors, to perhaps being an agency that can step in and purchase properties that may be deemed affordable to be re-sold to eligible candidates when needed. We need to know before more exploratory work is done if we have the community ’s support to continue. No matter how much support this idea receives, the obvious needs to be clearly stated: any funding be it loans or needed expenditures of tax monies to move any proposed project forward would clearly be dependent on Town Meeting approval. Even though the majority of our citizens taking this survey do not have personal housing needs, your input is extremely important. We ask you to consider this a serious community issue that does have solutions if we act in a timely fashion. Thank you for taking time to complete this survey. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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One is the residents letter, and the other is the seasonal property owners letter. You will only note differences in the first paragraph. Please give them a final close reading to see if there are any errors or additional changes that are needed. Also are last weeks meeting minutes and a copy of the "Discussion Points on education" that I had sent previously as an example. Some new members may not have them and developing a similar list of discussion points for housing issues will be our major focus for this weeks meeting I will get the final survey with your changes out to you later today or more likely tomorrow as they need to be formatted by Alden and he has been delayed in his return. We are still planning on a workshop meeting Wed. a 7 at the school, although we will keep an eye on the coming weather issues and of course it is Valentines Day! It would be good if by Tues. evening (any week that we have a meeting scheduled) you let me know if you are coming or not. 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From: The Genesis Fund Subject: The Lending Hand e-newsletter Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:34:37 -0500 (EST) Size: 43373 URL: From tomtam1997 at yahoo.com Mon Feb 12 19:59:47 2007 From: tomtam1997 at yahoo.com (Tammy Hohn) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:59:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] this weeks meeting Message-ID: <110056.3431.qm@web55511.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Tom and I would prefer not to meet on Wednesday, but would be available any other day this week or next. Tammy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Tue Feb 13 06:32:58 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:32:58 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] this weeks meeting Message-ID: Good morning all, The YRHC meeting we scheduled for Wed. (tomorrow) seems less and less like a good time for many to meet, plus the weather sounds less than ideal. I cannot pick a day next week just now as Linda is here on school vacation and we may take a few days trip around the weather. Let's reschedule for the following week on Wed. Feb. 28. Let me know if this date works for most of you or not. Your assistance with the following would be most appreciated: 1. Alden and I will get out the two surveys to you with all corrections and formatting today. Please give it (and the cover letters I sent yesterday) a grand final review between now and this Friday so we can get them out next week. If any mistakes or further suggestions, please share them by Friday. 2. Please make your own list of "bullet-type" reasons that year-round, affordable, reasonable, work-force, (or whatever it be called) housing is so important for Long Islanders. The schools list I resent you yesterday should give you some ideas on how to do this. If each comes up with several ideas, we will have a good list so when you are talking with folks, you have some simple, clear reasons about the importance of this issue. Why not share your list with the e-mail group between now and say next Wed., Feb. 21 and we will compile them. Thank you, Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Tue Feb 13 09:52:14 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:52:14 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Different meeting days/times?? Message-ID: Everyone please name your best night and time for meeting and we will see if we can do better. We may also switch around to include some certain weeks and others different weeks?? MG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie_wegner at hotmail.com Tue Feb 13 10:00:25 2007 From: katie_wegner at hotmail.com (Katie Wegner) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:00:25 -0500 Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Different meeting days/times?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Any other day this week is fine for us. Or any day next week. Thanks, Katie and Jonathan >From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com >To: katie_wegner at hotmail.com >CC: housingcommittee at townoflongisland.us >Subject: Re: Different meeting days/times?? >Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:52:14 EST > >Everyone please name your best night and time for meeting and we will see >if >we can do better. We may also switch around to include some certain weeks >and others different weeks?? MG _________________________________________________________________ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo � buy and sell with people you know http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://expo.live.com?s_cid=Hotmail_tagline_12/06 From mainemalo at aol.com Tue Feb 13 12:47:12 2007 From: mainemalo at aol.com (mainemalo at aol.com) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Different meeting days/times?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8C91DAE205759F6-F50-64C3@webmail-db06.sysops.aol.com> 'normal' wednesdays are fine for both leah & mike... the 14th. not being normal... Feb. 21 or 28 is fine for re-scheduled mtg. (Other days will work for me if need be) MM -----Original Message----- From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com To: katie_wegner at hotmail.com Cc: housingcommittee at townoflongisland.us Sent: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Different meeting days/times?? Everyone please name your best night and time for meeting and we will see if we can do better. We may also switch around to include some certain weeks and others different weeks?? MG _______________________________________________ housingcommittee mailing list housingcommittee@ http://townoflongisland.us/mailman/listinfo/housingcommittee_townoflongisland.us ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cadebro at gmail.com Tue Feb 13 18:06:12 2007 From: cadebro at gmail.com (Cade Brown) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:06:12 -0500 Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Meetings Message-ID: Moday nights would be bad for me, as are second Tuesday of the month. I can make meetings on the middle Wednesdays of the month, but the first and last are taken. From tomtam1997 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 13 19:12:15 2007 From: tomtam1997 at yahoo.com (Tammy Hohn) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:12:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] meeting Message-ID: <940276.84108.qm@web55508.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Any day next week is fine with us. Tommy and Tammy ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Thu Feb 15 05:09:03 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:09:03 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Fwd: Survey Final Drafts for your review Message-ID: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com Subject: Survey Final Drafts for your review Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:16:22 EST Size: 149901 URL: From arobinson at islandinstitute.org Thu Feb 15 10:57:14 2007 From: arobinson at islandinstitute.org (Alden Robinson) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:57:14 -0500 Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] two new members Message-ID: Hello YRHC, Please welcome two new recipients to your listserver: Sam Whitener and Chris Papkee. As always, contact me if you need anything. Thanks! Alden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Fri Feb 16 14:09:17 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:09:17 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Fwd: affordable housing support needed Message-ID: Hi All, There are many fronts to be worked in the arena of housing issues. I am unable to attend this due to a long scheduled medical appointment, but Steve Train said he may be able to go and Alden Robinson has my support to go if he can and wants. Others of you who can attend may find this an interesting source of new ideas and a peek at the legislative process. There is much support statewide for such housing issues, the bottom line is how to get money and many of these bills try to address that. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks, Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chris Wolff" Subject: affordable housing support needed Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:20:51 -0500 Size: 15434 URL: From Mlongreene2 at aol.com Sun Feb 25 06:55:29 2007 From: Mlongreene2 at aol.com (Mlongreene2 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:55:29 EST Subject: [Year-Round Housing Committee] Meeting notice - Wed. Feb. 28 at TOWN HALL Message-ID: Hi All, Attached is the meeting notice for this Wed., Feb. 28 at 7PM. Note that we will be at TOWN HALL, due to the Learning Center being used for other meetings. I would like to float some ideas to help get some potential projects moving on a faster track and begin to assess returns from the survey. MG


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