NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Town Hall, 40 Center Street
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
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REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS FOR CPA FUNDING
The Fairhaven Community Preservation Committee will conduct Public Hearings to review eight (8) applications for FY26 CPA funds that the CPC is reviewing for eligibility and whether to recommend to the Annual Town Meeting in 2025. The following applications will be reviewed on Wednesday, November 20, 2024:
1. Fairhaven Historical Commission – Academy Building Repairs – Replacement of the shingles on the east, north, and west faces of the building, repairs to the roof, ceiling, and basement bulkhead, and ADA-compliant upgrades to the restroom and rear door. ($82,000 request);
2. Millicent Library – HVAC Engineering and Design Project – To hire a professional HVAC engineering firm to provide design engineering services associated with the implementation of a Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) system, completing the steps necessary to begin construction. ($155,000 request);
3. Fairhaven High School – Historic Window Preservation Phase 7 – Restoration and Preservation of 51 windows and the replacement of an obsolete egress door with two windows. ($90,360 request).
4. Whitfield Manjiro Friendship Society – Cultural Center Phase 4 – Continuation of the interior renovations of the carriage house into a Cultural Center. ($42,210 request);
5. Fairhaven Pickleball and Tennis Associations – Cushman Park Court Project – Replacing the existing tennis courts with 2 dedicated Pickleball Courts, 2 dedicated Tennis Courts, and 1 Tennis court with blended lines on both sides for Pickleball Courts with nets on wheels and four foot dividing nets ($435,000 request);
6. BPW – Cushman Park Bleachers – Replace the three existing wooden bleachers with three new aluminum bleachers ($9,000 request);
7. BPW – Park Assessment – Hire an engineering group to conduct a park assessment at both Cushman and Livesey Parks to evaluate park-use patterns, preferences, and priorities as a means to improve park operations, maintenance, and design and to identify opportunities for the parks to support new or diversified programming based on community input ($20,000 request);
8. Fairhaven Housing Authority – Window Replacement at Ash Street – Replace 73 windows at the three buildings of the Ash Street Public Housing Family Development ($100,000 request).
Copies of the Applications and Plans may be viewed at the Office of Planning & Economic Development in Town Hall, located at 40 Center Street, Fairhaven, MA, and on the Town’s CPC website: https:// www.fairhaven-ma.gov/community-preservation-committee/pages/cpc-fy26-applications-received-102024
Bruce Webb, Director, Department of Land Use
FNN, 10/31/24, 11/7/24
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