Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, Nov. 7
- Council on Aging, 10 a.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 11
Town Hall closed for Veterans Day
Tuesday, Nov. 12
- Visitor Services Board, 1 p.m.
- Licensing Board, 5 p.m.
- Cultural Council, 5:30 p.m.
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 13
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Cemetery Commission, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 14
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
$50,000 to Lease to Locals
The select board and year-round market rate rental housing trust on Oct. 28 approved a transfer of $50,000 of the town’s housing funds to Placemate, the company running the town’s “Lease to Locals” year-round rental incentive program.
The extra funding will support five to seven additional leases, depending on the size of the properties being leased and the number of tenants in each property, according to town staff. Four properties that would house five people are currently under “application review” but do not have defined lease start dates yet.
Another eight properties that have leases set to begin in November will exhaust the remainder of the $348,500 allocation the two boards made to the Lease to Locals program in February. The program enlisted 20 properties over its first six months, so the November bump of eight more properties is significant.
Town staff are discussing ways to continue the program beyond its first year as well as adding a “rental preservation incentive program,” Town Manager Alex Morse told the boards.
Suicide Prevention
Provincetown and Outer Cape Health Services are holding a “question, persuade, and refer” suicide prevention training session on Monday, Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House at 236 Commercial St.
According to a notice on the town’s website, the session will “help people learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.”
The QPR Institute, founded in Washington State in 1999, focuses on training medical professionals and civilians in suicide prevention. —Paul Benson
