Overview:
CPC will have an extraordinary amount of money available this year. Generally, CPC has a few hundred thousand each year. This year CPC will have $1,119,011.85. At the same time, the Commonwealth’s contribution has been decreasing, and there is every indication it will continue to decrease. Chair Sally Underwood-Miller suggested we put a sensible amount in the CPC Undesignated Fund to meet requests in future years.
There are three “baskets” that a request must fit into: open space, historic preservation, affordable housing.
Estimated Requests:
This year, local organizations requested the following estimated funds for this year:
1. Gould Meadows – out of Open Spaces for trees, benches, stump grinding and managing invasives 9,850
2. Stockbridge Library — out of historic preservation, an archival table 8-12,000
3. Stockbridge Bowl Assoc. — out of open space remove invasives 10,000
4. Construct, Inc. — out of Affordable Housing for boilers 315,000
For gutters 34,000
For decks 79,000
5. St Paul’s Church — out of historic preservation roof repair/replace 140,000
6. Berkshire Theatre Group — historic preservation preserve collection 50,000
7. Town of Stockbridge — open space for dredging 125,000
8. Kripalu — open space — remove invasives 4,300
Est. Open Space 149,150
Historic Preservation 202,000
Affordable Housing 428,000
Total est. requests 779,150
Following the February 9, 2024, deadline for submissions
Actual submissions exceeded the projection. The projection would have allowed CPC to place approximately $300,000 in an undesignated fund to fund future requests. Instead, the actual requests are $1,801,596 and exceed the $1,119,011.85 available by more than $300,000. The total requests cannot be funded in full. If it is desirable to put money aside in anticipation of cuts from the state (see Letters from CPC Chair Sally Underwood Miller in Reader to Reader). The CPC Chair cautioned CPC members there are hard decisions to make.
The requests follow:
Stockbridge Housing Authority $32,476 (replace damaged siding)
Pinewoods 428,000 (boilers decking gutters)
Affordable Housing Trust 100,000 (Morris donation study)
Riverbrook 40,000 (restore chimneys)
St Joseph’s 87,000 (arch and pillars)
St Paul’s 397,490 (slate roof)
Guerrieri Block 40 Main 152,100 (paint exterior)
Waldorf/Old Town Hall 232,576 (restoration)
Hearse House/cemetery 100,000 (restoration)
Library archives 14,165 (archival table)
Town 199 (overrun on monument)
Town 15,500 (basketball back boards)
Town 100,000 (dredge The Bowl)
Berkshire Theatre 50,000 (archives and museum)
Gould Meadows 8,250 (invasives)
Gould Meadows 1,600 (stumps?)
Kripalu 4,300 (invasives)
Commission (?) 12,870 (fence posts)
Stockbridge Bowl Assoc 10,000 (Bullard woods)
Stockbridge Housing Authority 15,500 (community garden — at Heaton Court)
