Keeping the Community Preservation Act Promise

“Editorial: Keeping the CPA Promise”
The MetroWest Daily News, July 12, 2008

An editorial in The MetroWest Daily News reflects on Massachusetts’ decrease in matching local Community Preservation Act funds. For the last seven years, local funds were matched by the state on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Now, in fiscal year 2009, the state match will fall to about 70 cents per local dollar and the Community Preservation Coalition estimates the state match could fall to about 36 cents per local dollar in 2010. A legislative bill has been introduced to ensure that the state match will be at least 70 cents per local dollar.

Since its inception in 2000, the Community Preservation Act has generated more than $100 million for open space aquisitions in Massachusetts.