MARION — Applications for Community Preservation Act funding are available in the Town Clerk’s office at the Marion Town House located at 2 Spring Street.

The Community Preservation Act is a Massachusetts Law that allows participating cities and towns to adopt a real estate tax surcharge, matched by the state, to fund community preservation.

Open space and recreation, historic preservation and community housing projects will be considered for funds. Applications must be received no later than Feb. 7 to be considered at the May 2020 Annual Town Meeting.

Past Community Preservation funds have been used to design an accessible boardwalk and viewing platform at Osprey Marsh, secure nine affordable housing units, design and secure permits for Phase I of the Marion Pathway (or bike path), install playground equipment at Washburn Park, the Point Road playground and Silvershell Beach, protect Marion’s drinking water supply through the purchase of lands and conservation interests in the Mattapoisett River Valley, catalogue the Sippican Historical Society’s archives and complete the town’s architectural survey, restore Marion’s historic 1937 Maxim fire truck and restore the Marion Town House