[yrhasc] YRH Activities 2005 to present

[Town of Long Island]

Mark, I'm getting a warning when I went to download and open this file that
it could damage the computer, so I'll need to go with the unformatted text.

 

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Subject: [yrhasc] YRH Activities 2005 to present

 

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

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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