Committee discusses creating housing trust; select board would appoint trustees under Chapter 44 §55C

Staff summarized a master plan recommendation that the town consider a public housing trust to receive, manage and administer CPA funds for housing projects, including rental properties. Staff said such a trust would request funds from the CPC for specific projects and that, as spoken in the meeting, "under chapter, 44 section 55 c, it is the select board who needs to appoint the actual committee members of the trust." The committee discussed the legal and oversight implications of that structure.