PITTSFIELD â Over a dozen projects are in the running to receive a financial boost courtesy of the Community Preservation Act.
In the years since Pittsfield voters passed the act in 2016, funding requests have exceeded the amount of CPA money available, said City Planner C.J. Hoss. But this year, the $620,000 pot is enough to approve all 13 project requests, with some left over.
Past years CPA requests have come in around $1 million, give or take, Hoss said, but totaled $572,531 this year.
Hoss said the pandemic ushered in fundraising challenges and increased competition for many grants, meaning local nonprofits, which are popular requesters of CPA funds, might not have quite as many eligible projects on tap. âA lot of them arenât in a place to consider projects like they were in years past,â he said.
The Berkshire County Historical Society is hosting a virtual tour of Arrowhead with a focus on its architecture from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29.
Themes will look at how Arrowhead looked when Herman Melville and his family lived there, the changes over its 230-year history, and how the Berkshire County Historical Society has worked to preserve the site where Melville wrote Moby-Dick and three other novels, all of his short stories and his initial works of poetry.
Tour guide will be John Dickson, Arrowhead docent and chairman of the Pittsfield Historical Commission.
Ticket cost $10 for members, $20 for nonmembers, and can be purchased at berkshirehistory.org.