If the town meeting is not able to pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the town of Great Barrington, like hundreds of other small municipalities in the state with a town-meeting form of government, has a problem.
Tag: Great Barrington Community Preservation Committee
Construct, Lenox and GB offer emergency rental assistance during COVID-19 pandemic
Both housing trusts are allocating funds received from the local Community Preservation Act surcharge and granted to the trust in previous annual town meetings.
Affordable Housing Trust apologizes for lack of communication about development plan
If approved, the town wouldn’t close on the property until July. If taxpayers rejected the funding, then there would be no project at all, or the trust would have to identify another site.
Affordable housing misconceptions addressed
In a letter to the editor, Jonathan Hankin writes, “The Trust has a binding purchase and sale agreement that is contingent upon approval of the funding for the purchase by the May Annual Town Meeting.”
Angry Housatonic residents assail CPC for funding of affordable housing property
It was standing-room only as dozens of angry residents of the Housatonic section of Great Barrington, including a former selectman, vented their feelings about the committee’s consideration of funding a proposal from the town affordable housing trust to acquire land for housing.
News Briefs: Community Preservation Act applications; Du Bois legacy committee seeks members
The town-sponsored committee holds events throughout the year to commemorate the work of Du Bois, including a W.E.B. Du Bois Day celebration; the annual Du Bois Festival during January and February, and classes, seminars and speakers.
Town Hall Briefs: Town seeks input on Housatonic School; 100 Bridge Street gets final approvals; troubled Lake Mansfield Road to see a repaving
The Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire can finally proceed with its plan to build an affordable housing complex at 100 Bridge Street after receiving the go-ahead from the selectboard.
Grayhouse is rebuffed, as selectmen ‘reboot’ process of Housatonic School reuse
“I feel like I would like more of guarantee that you can actually move forward with financing it. It doesn’t give me a lot of feeling that this could happen.”
— Great Barrington Selectboard member Leigh Davis
Restoration of dormant school seen as critical to Housatonic village revival
The primary order of business for Conner and Nappo was to get the selectboard to write a letter of endorsement for Grayhouse’s application for $75,000 on an emergency basis from the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s Preservation Projects Fund.
100 Bridge Street project receives more than $15 million in state funding for affordable housing
The funds will provide the final financing for the $17.2 million 100 Bridge Street project that will build 45 new affordable rental units and simultaneously remediate the entire 8-acre site.
Housatonic Heritage wins grant for historic Clinton Church
Phase 1 work will focus on areas of the building that most urgently need attention and will include a new wood shingle roof, abatement of mold and mildew, improved drainage, replacement of the basement floor slab, raising the building to make the basement usable, and repair or modification to the parsonage.
Great Barrington adds Forest Springs to its affordable housing stock
In terms of housing, there are still miles to go and promises to keep if Great Barrington is to meet the state goal of 10 percent of its housing classified as affordable.
News Briefs: CPA applications; pre-harvest forest tours; emerald ash borer treatments
The first emerald ash borer infestation in Berkshire County was discovered in Dalton in 2012.