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The meeting of the Great Barrington Affordable Housing Trust was held remotely on September 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM, with all members present (Fred Clark, Ananda Timpane, Garfield Reed, Bill Cook, Peter Most, and Joseph Method). The board approved minutes, discussed financial reports and the annual CPA request, received an update on the ADU program, and debated parameters for an RFP for the Rising Dale ball field property, resulting in several votes.
Good evening, everybody. This is um September 15th, 6 30 p.m. The meeting of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Uh let me just check and see if there's anyone else who needs to be promoted. Peter Most is with us as well. Um pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law and Governor Healy's March 28, 2025 revised order extending remote participation by all members in a meeting of a public body. This meeting of the Great Baron Affordable Housing Trust will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. Specific information and general guidelines for the remote participation by members of the public and or parties with a right or requirement to attend this meeting can be found on the town's website. For this meeting, members of the public who wish to listen to the meeting may do so by consulting the instructions on the agenda. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological meetings. All votes are roll call. We have members myself, Fred Clark, uh co-chair Ananda Tempain, Garfield Reed, our select board member Bill Cook and Peter Most are with us. We have several uh visitors too who are are uh attending and welcome. Um the first item on the agenda is to approve the minutes of the last meeting. To approve the minutes from August 17th, 2026. Garfield second. Any discussion, any comments, changes. Up um this is a roll call vote. Uh Ananda. Yes. Garfield. Aye. Bill Cook. Yes. Peter Most. Aye. Um, the minutes passed. Thank you very much. They will be posted uh on the town clerk's website. Um the next item on the uh amenda agenda is a reports. I don't believe we have any. Um, financial report, what we had noted was that typically this time of year, we are talking about uh an annual CPA request. Before we respond to that, under reports, um I just want to note that quarterly reports will be due to us in advance of the October meeting from Habitat um related to Prosperity Way and from Construct related to the uh housing assistance program um or grant. So if there is any just a good time for if there's anything that's come out of our discussions that we want to make sure are addressed in either of those reports, now would be a good time to identify it so we can request that they're included in those reports. So um with respect to construct in the end of the last fiscal year, we um I I think uh granted 230,000 for the program on state road that they were looking at. Um is it possible to ask what the uh state of that uh effort is? Um that agreement is drafted, but um I haven't heard from Crest that that uh that this it's completed, and I don't have I don't know that that requires quarterly reports beginning now. So I don't think if we I'd need to go to back to Chris and take a look at that before I could answer whether or not that's included, but I do not think that it would be included. The quarterly report that and then I I'm sorry, I I thought you were finished. That the quarterly report I'm referring to is the rental assistance grant, but um Peter was asking about the newer grant, the developer grant. And if I recall, um the timeline for construction or for beginning that project is the this coming summer. That they're in the they're in the they're writing grants and raising funds at this phase and doing the preliminary work. But we can check on