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Meeting Minutes
Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Committee
Date: 2026-01-12
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: General Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
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Ad Hoc Community Preservation Act Study
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Conference Room
Session: Open Session
Version: Final
Chair Joe Carnahan, Vice Chair Sarah Brukilacchlo, Carlo Bacci (remote),
Margaret Donnelly -Moran, Kate Kaminer (remote), Sandy Matathla
(remote), Martha Moore
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Jacquelyn LaVerde
Topics of Discussion:
This meeting was held In -person in the Town Hall Conference Room and remotely via Zoom.
Call to order and Welcome
Chair Joe Carnahan called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm.
Public Comment
There was no comment from the public.
Liaison reports
There were no liaison reports.
CPC year in review
Sarah Brukilacchio shared that the Community Preservation Coalition (CPC) hired a new
team member, Brendan Berger, whose job Is to lead legislative strategy and statehouse
advocacy to support ongoing success and funding of the CPA program. She also shared the
CPC's statistics supporting the 201 participant communities to date including $3.7 billion
raised, 36,000 housing units created, 39,000 acres of open space preserved, 8,100 historic
preservation projects, and 4,400 recreation preservatlon projects.
Sandy Matathla joined the meeting at 7:11 pm.
Discuss the contents of a report on the merits of the CPA and methods of adootion
Carlo Bacci joined the meeting at 7:23 pm.
The Study Committee continued reviewing the draft report of their recommendations for
adoption of the Community Preservation Act (CPA) in Reading. Several minor content and
formatting corrections and revisions were made throughout the document.
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Sandy Matathia will work on clarifying how CPA can support the historic level of funding for
CPA-ellglble projects and emphasize cost savings through the state match in the Executive
Summary.
Joe Carnahan will work on clarifying the state match In the Executive Summary.
Staff and Committee members will continue to try and identify whom to credit on
photographs used throughout the document.
Any further edits will be sent to staff to compile and redistribute to the Study Committee
Kate Kaminer left the meeting at 8:23 pm.
Carlo Bacci left the meeting at 8:57 pm.
Discuss Future Meetings and Agendas
The meeting scheduled for tomorrow evening will be cancelled, as the review of the full
report was completed this evening.
The start time of the next meeting on January 20'h will begin at 8:00 pm. The Study
Committee will review the first draft of the slide presentation to be given to the Select
Board.
A subsequent meeting is scheduled for January 26'h at 7:30 pm to conclude the review of
presentation slides if needed.
Approve Prior Meeting Minutes - December 15, 2025
On a motion by Martha Moore, seconded by Sarah Brukilacchio, the Ad Hoc
Community Preservation Act Study Committee voted 5-0 to approve the meeting
minutes of December 15, 2025, as presented.
Roll call vote: Sandy Matathia - Yes, Margaret Donnelly -Moran - Yes, Sarah
Brukilacchio - Yes, Martha Moore - Yes, Joe Carnahan - Yes.
On a motion by Martha Moore, seconded by Margaret Donnelly -Moran, the Ad Hoc
Community Preservation Act Study Committee voted 5-0 to adjourn at 9:36 pm.
Roll call vote: Sandy Matathia - Yes, Margaret Donnelly -Moran - Yes, Sarah
Brukilacchio - Yes, Martha Moore - Yes, Joe Carnahan - Yes.
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