Community Preservation Committee

Community Preservation Plan

For fiscal year 2020, revised October, 2019 - download as MS Word or PDF file

Shutesbury’s Community Preservation Applications

Applications for Shutesbury’s Community Preservation Committee’s (CPC)
annual funding cycle are now available. The CPC utilizes a two-tiered
application process that begins with a simple one-page ‘Preliminary
Determination of Eligibility’ proposal which is due by November 30th. If the CPC
agrees that a proposal is eligible, then the full ‘Application’ will be due
no later than January 25 of the following year. Only proposals that are approved at a town
meeting can be funded. The applications are contained in Appendices B
and C of the Community Preservation Plan; they are also available in
the CPC mail box on the main floor in Town Hall. If you have questions
about the application process, please call one of the co-chairs of Shutesbury’s CPC,
Rita Farrell (259-1297) or Allen Hanson (259-1623), or email them at cpc-at-shutesbury.org.

The Shutesbury CPC has gathered information and studied the town’s
needs, possibilities and resources regarding community
preservation. This included a preliminary evaluation of historic
preservation, open space and community housing opportunities in town,
hearing from other town committees, a public hearing, and from
reviewing other town plans. We have also reviewed related guidelines
and/or criteria from a number Community Preservation Act (CPA) communities,
With information gathered from this collaborative process the
Shutesbury CPC established its ‘Guidelines’ for priority use of
Community Preservation Act funds.