1995-03-22 Reading Housing Authority Minutes - Executive Session

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READING HOUSING AUTHORITY Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Session of March 22. 1995 A special meeting of the members of the Reading Housing Authority was held on Monday, March 22, 1995 at the Conference Room in Town Hall, in the Town of Reading, Massachuset The meeting was called to order with the Vice- Chairman, Mr. Sweet, presiding with Ms. Gall and Mr. Allen forming a quorum as well as the Executive Director, Ms. Plansky, in attendanc4 This was a joint meeting with the Board of Selectmen and Longwood Senior Living, Inc. to discuss the issues relative to the reuse of the Pearl Street School, Municipal Building Reus; Zoning By -law and the Decision of the Reading Zoning Board of Appeals. Selectmen pre6en were: Daniel Ensminger, Chairman; George Hines, Camille Anthony, Sally Hoyt and newly- elected member Bruce MacDonald along with the Town Manager, Peter Hechenbleikner; fron Longwood Senior Living, Inc.: partners Bill Casper and Ed Leavitt and John Lind from Park: Company. Upon a roll call vote and upon a motion duly made by Mr. Allen and seconded by Ms. Galvi , it was voted to adjourn to Executive Session at 6:05 P.M. for the purpose of discussing real est e matters and possible legal action and to reconvene in public session following adjournment of Executive Session upon the following roll call vote: Ms. Galvin - aye Mr. Allen - aye Mr. Sweet.- aye The Chairman then declared said motion carried and said vote in effect. Chairman Ensminger addressed the issues involved: the current wording of the P &S regarding requirement for the developer to use "reason efforts" in assuring that at least 10% of "low- income" units would match need of Town residents the interpretation of the census data showing the number of Reading residents that wou qualify for the GAFC units the "comma" in the Municipal Building Reuse Zoning By -law and Town Counsel's interpretation that the RHA had no legal standing The RHA outlined the concerns of the Board: • that if there were not sufficient numbers of Reading residents to qualify for the 10% (9 units) of low - income housing, then the RHA was prepared to project -base Section 8 certificates at the facility that would provide access to people with incomes up to $17,95 for one person • if GAFC funding were withdrawn, there is no provision or oversight by the Town to see how those low - income units wouuld be filled that the census data used by the RHA was verifiable and closely matched the population proposed to be served by the assisted living facility. As such, we saw few Reading resic