[yrhasc] minutes from last night
Judy Paolini
judyp at tpda.com
Fri Dec 21 13:48:12 EST 2007
Hi Alden:
Thanks for the great job taking the minutes and
reporting them. In the interest of full
disclosure I would like the other discussions to
be part of the record if that is proper
procedure. I think it will help to clarify any
misinterpretations of our meeting discussions by
those who were not able to attend the meeting.
Thanks!
Judy
>Hello YRHASC,
>
>Below this message, I am pasting the draft
>minutes for your meeting last night. I am also
>attaching the minutes as a Word document. Please
>let me know if you have any trouble receiving
>either of these.
>
>I welcome any corrections you may have. I also
>welcome any suggestions for ways to make the
>minutes more useful to you.
>
>Although I took notes on your entire discussion,
>I recorded only those discussions that resulted
>in an actual decision related to the agenda item
>you were working on at the time. That means I
>left out a lot of your good conversations about
>the spirit of the project and the specific
>responsibilities of your committee. However, I
>will happily work those in if you feel they
>should have a place in the record.
>
>I enjoyed working with all of you last night. It
>is a privilege to work with such a dedicated
>group.
>
>I wish you all a pleasant holiday if I don't see you beforehand-
>
>Alden
>
>
>Town of Long Island
>Year Round Housing Application and Selection Committee
>Minutes, 19 December 2007
>
>Meeting called to order: 6:33 p.m.
>
>Members Present: John Billings (chair); Newell
>Stewart (Selectman); Sandie Scheurman; Judy
>Paolini.
>
>Non-members present: Mark Greene (Housing
>Administrator); Michael Floyd (Chair,
>Selectmen); Leah Doughty (Year-Round Housing
>Committee); Tammy Hohn; Madeline Collinson;
>Meredith Sweet; Mary Nanos; Alden Robinson
>(Island Institute Fellow).
>
>Minutes of previous meeting accepted unanimously.
>
>Old Business: Review of eligibility and scoring criteria
>
>The committee reviewed its draft application for
>the Year-Round Housing program.
>
>Sandie Scheurman suggested three wording changes:
>
>Step seven on the list under "Application
>Process": remove "applications valid for one
>year". The committee decided to let the wording
>stand.
>Criterion two under "Selection Criteria": remove
>"(proof of residency may be required)". The
>committee agreed to remove.
>Criterion three under "Selection Criteria":
>change to read "signed pre-lease agreement from
>Year-Round Housing Committee". The committee
>agreed to change the wording.
>
>Eligibility criterion #5: "Not a current
>property owner": Judy Paolini suggested that
>the criterion be changed to allow applications
>only from people who had never owned property in
>the past. Leah Doughty said that the Maine
>State Housing Authority will classify people as
>"first-time homebuyers" who have not owned
>property within the past three years.
>
>The committee discussed the possibility of
>handling property-ownership as a scoring
>criterion instead of an eligibility criterion.
> Mark Greene and Leah Doughty shared the YRHC's
>approach to the question: although it would
>exclude some YRHC participants, the committee
>decided to recommend that eligible applicants
>not own property at the time of their
>application.
>
>The committee agreed to leave the criterion as
>"not a current property owner".
>
>Eligibility criterion #1: "Pre-approval for a
>mortgage on a YRHC house": Leah Doughty said
>that repeated requests for pre-approval will
>hurt a person's credit score. John Billings
>said that if the committee did not require an
>initial pre-approval with the application, some
>time limit would need to exist to prevent
>otherwise-eligible applicants from tying up the
>housing program if they are unable to get
>credit. Sandie Scheurman said that the YRHASC
>was interested primarily in the
>creditworthiness of an applicant, not so much in
>whether that person was able to fund a house.
>John Billings agreed that the YRHC was
>responsible for ascertaining the adequacy of the
>applicant's funding for a specific house.
> However, the YRHASC would still need to know
>the amount for which an applicant was
>pre-qualified, as that would have a strong
>effect on his/her ability to participate
>successfully.
>
>The committee agreed that it needed more
>information from a banker. Mark Greene
>suggested that the YRHC and YRHASC collaborate
>on hosting a presentation on the 6th of
>February.
>
>Scoring criterion #6: Years of residency on
>island: The committee discussed several
>different options for this criterion. John
>Billings said that a person who has spent his or
>her entire life on the island should get the
>maximum number of points, and that a person who
>has not lived his/her entire life on the island
>should not be able to score the maximum. Mark
>Greene stressed that prioritizing residency on
>the island was a way to ensure the applicant
>would be a good fit for the program.
>
>Leah Doughty suggested a "brackets" system,
>where a person who has lived on the island for
>(for example) 3-6 years gets 5 points, for 6-12
>years gets another 5 points, for 13+ years gets
>another 3 points.
>
>Alden Robinson suggested that the committee not
>worry about coming out with a total number of
>points out of proportion to other criteria, as
>the value of each criterion can be controlled
>after scoring using a weighted average system.
>
>The committee decided to award five points to
>applicants who have lived on the island for the
>past five years, and then one point for every
>five years on the island before that, up to a
>maximum of ten.
>
>Scoring criterion #5: Number of people in
>household: The committee discussed whether the
>number of people in the household should have a
>positive effect on an applicant's score. Mark
>Greene said that while the YRHC's objective was
>not specifically to prioritize families with
>children, it did want to get the maximum "bang
>for the buck" by making its projects serve as
>many people as possible.
>
>The committee decided to allot one point per
>each member of the household, up to a maximum of
>five. However, they decided not to request the
>names and relationships of the other household
>members from the applicant.
>
>New Business: None
>
>Public correspondence requesting agenda placement: None
>
>Public written correspondence: None
>
>Next meeting: Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall.
>
>Meeting adjourned: 9:05 p.m.
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________________________
>
>Alden S. Robinson
>Island Institute Fellow
>Town of Long Island, Maine
>
>(207) 766-2336
>
>arobinson at islandinstitute.org
>
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judy paolini
tpda
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portland, me 04102
judyp at tpda.com
207.871.1813
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