CPA Committee Recommends $1.17M in FY 24 Project Spending

If voters say yes at the Annual Town Meeting in May, more than $1.17 million in Community Preservation Act funds will be directed to town affordable housing, historic preservation and outdoor recreation and conservation projects around town.

The Community Preservation Act Committee has recommended the following:

• $20,000 for open space restoration work at the McAllister Wildlife Refuge.
• $40,000 for improvements to Three Mile Hill hiking trail
• $20,000 for historic preservation work at the Brown mausoleum.
• $225,000 for historic restoration of the manse at First Congregational Church.
• $50,000 for B & B Capital 77 LLC’s restoration of The Cove building at 107 Stockbridge Road.
• $400,000 for the Alander Group, for affordable housing and historic restoration costs at the Mahaiwe Block at 322 Main St.
• $265,000 for the town’s Affordable Housing Trust
• $150,000 for Construct Inc’.s housing expansion feasibility study.

CPA funding is raised through a property tax surcharge and supplemented by State funding. More CPA information can be found on the town website.

The expenditures are subject to authorizing by the Annual Town Meeting, which takes place this year on May 1, and May 4 if business is not completed on the first night.