Why spend more time looking at our own community and less time looking at other communities?

Go to Templeton town website, click boards and committees and click community preservation committee, on left side of page, cpc guidelines for applying funds, click on that and you see "guidelines for project eligibility" look over the document and you find this:

What is the timetable of the funding cycle?

Applications may be submitted between December 7, 2008 and January 31, 2009 for proposals to be considered at the May 2008 Annual Town Meeting.

Unless an applicant can demonstrate that a significant opportunity would otherwise be lost, applications will not be accepted after this date. Community preservation was accepted in 2007 and it is now 2021, talk about keeping up