Held at Thistle Community Housing, 1845 Folsom Street

Attendance: Jim Harrington, Gene Langlois, Alex Wilson, Kathryn Alexander, Jonathon Machen and guest Carol Tebo

Minutes for 11 August were to be approved at next meeting.

Next Meeting September 8, 2003, 3-5 pm at Thistle.

To do
Kathryn volunteered to look back at old minutes and come up with a more complete to-do list.
Gene, Alex and Jonathan agreed to talk to possible new members and invite them to the next meeting.
The address of the MHA website will be printed on the bottom of the minutes. Minutes will be posted on the website in the future.

Updated contacts regarding prospective Management Committee members. Discussed what number of members is desirable. Decided one or two additional persons would be desirable. Discussed an interest in recruiting more women to the Management Committee to create a gender balance.

Report from TCH
TCH has been directed from their board to do two things in parallel: One is to get a purchase contract on this property with the City signed ASAP; The other is to get out of the agreement in the best way possible if it is not being upheld.

An administrative site review must be approved before the closing. Thistle met with a housing implementation team made up of two city council members and two planning board members who make recommendations on exemptions to the standard process. Thistle proposed to approve the master plan through an ordinance rather than put the park through an administrative site review. The housing implementation team agreed to make the recommendation to council to allow the approval of the master plan with the considerations of health/safety/living conditions in the park due to the current infrastructure that will not be replaced until after the master plan is approved.

TCH is still preparing for a January closing but will take action if things do not progress as planned.

Report from Community Coordinator
Deb Feustel, Mark Reeder and Kathryn Alexander met with John and decided we as the park would give the City $3000/month for Thistle for two months and the City agreed to put their $10,000 in first. That gives us three months at which time we could rethink what we are offering. The City might have Fannie Mae money at that time which could be given to Thistle early, rather than at closing.

The City wants to plan a meeting to explain to us how the park has been financed.

At 4:00 Loretta Milcarek from Hast and Jeff Yegian from the City joined the meeting.
Discussed a proposed storage shed. What is the purpose of the shed- what will it be used for? Will a cement pad be put down for the shed? It must be removable if necessary due to infrastructure work. The space will be viewed by a committee member. The generalities of sheds as will be discussed and decided regarding rules and regulations will be applied to this situation.

Rules and Regulations regarding sheds
The size maximum for a shed is 12X10. A formula regarding the square footage of all enclosed spaces was discussed. The shed must be removable and meet City code. Regulations regarding inhabitants is covered by city code and will be turned over to the City if such an event occurs.

Respectfully submitted,

Lori Anderegg

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