Meetings Ahead
Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join.
Thursday, Nov. 7
- Ad Hoc Building Committee, 4:30 p.m., remote
Tuesday, Nov. 12
- Human Services Committee, 11 a.m., Town Hall
- Select Board, 5 p.m., Town Hall and online
Wednesday, Nov. 13
- Council on Aging Board, 8 a.m., Council on Aging
Conversation Starters
Cloverleaf Update
The select board voted unanimously on Oct. 22 to amend the land option agreement between the town and Community Housing Resource, which is developing the long-delayed Cloverleaf mixed-income apartments.
The amendment extended the deadline for the developer to enter into the ground lease to Dec. 31 and reflected the previously discussed change in the number of apartments and mix. There will now be 43 apartments, including 22 one-bedrooms, 17 two-bedrooms, and four three-bedrooms. At least six apartments will be rented to people earning up to 30 percent of the area median income (AMI), 29 will be rented to people earning up to 60 percent, and four will be rented to people earning up to 100 percent of AMI. Four units will not have income restrictions.
After facing a funding shortfall earlier this year, the development looks to be back on track. At the meeting, town counsel Katharine Klein and select board chair Susan Areson both said that CHR president Ted Malone would soon be closing on financing needed to get the construction underway. “We are hopeful that it will be before the end of the year,” said Areson.
A New Librarian
Town Manager Darrin Tangeman announced on Nov. 1 that the town had hired Chris Kaufman as the new director of the Truro Public Library.
Kaufman, who has worked as a librarian in Yarmouth, Brewster, and Harwich since 2011, was selected from a pool of more than 20 applicants to replace Tricia Ford, who retired on Oct. 8 after 12 years in the job. The hiring panel included Tangeman, Assistant Town Manager Kelly Clark, library trustee Martha Magane, and Shawn Grunwald, a Truro resident who in August advocated for more public participation in the hiring of Ford’s successor.
It was announced that the town administration, the library trustees, and the Friends of the Truro Library had organized a meet and greet for Kaufman at the library on her first day of work, Nov. 12, from 1 to 2 p.m. She will also be introduced at the select board meeting that evening. —Aden Choate
