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The Great Barrington Affordable Housing Trust (GBAHT) convened remotely on October 20, 2026, chaired by Ananda Timpayne. Members William Cook, Fred Clark, and Garfield were present. The meeting covered quarterly housing reports, a new down payment assistance loan, the ADU program, and a significant discussion on governance involving the Town Manager’s proposed scope of services.
Pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law and Governor Healy's March 28th, 2025 revised order extending remote participation by all members in any meeting of a public body. This meeting of the agreed Barrington Affordable Housing Trust will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. Specific information in the general guidelines for remote participation by members of the public andor parties with a right andor requirement to attend this meeting can be found on the town's website, town of GB.org. For this meeting, members of the public who wish to listen to the meeting may do so per the instructions at the top of the agenda. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every method effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means. All votes are roll call vote. And let's start the meeting uh with a roll call attendance. I'm present, Ananda Timpayne. I'm chairing the meeting. Present William Cook. Thank you. Um the first item of business are the minutes from September 15th. Uh, do I have a motion? Uh move to accept the minutes as written. Second. Uh discussion um under the financial report on I think that's page one. There's a sentence that reads the request will include funds for anticipated future down payment assistant loans at Prosperity Way and elsewhere in town and developer funds, a course of which will be proposed for the development of Risingdale Ballfield and support for other affordable housing trust programs. I my recollection was not that it would definitely include funds to develop rising Dale Baldwell, but that that could it could, and then we would that would be left to future discussion of the trust, how the trust would want to um allocate its developer allocated funds. So your change is changing would to could that would be one way to address it. Okay, but also um there's two wills in that sentence. I think the intent might have been just to have money available for down payment assistance for the rising Dale ball field rather than developer assistance. Mostly what I am saying is that in my understanding of what I am putting in the proposal, and neither of the these things are something last meeting we discussed as binding. Okay. Yeah. Or directive. Like I don't think the discussion of the trust supported like a decision being made. I would agree. So if we could change both of those wills to coulds, that would be fine. But it's no, I can't. There we go. Financial. Can you see that? Yeah. What do you want to change? The sentence beginning the request will include funds for there's two instances of will in that sentence. Could both of them be changed to could? Sorry, I'm doing this very retail. What matters is that the stone. And then on page two. Um in the section on rising Dale, the third paragraph down. There's a sentence that reads, she and Mr.