On November 25, the Board of Selectmen heard three pitches for Community Preservation Act-funded projects. After this week’s meeting, it looks like there could be more proposals for similar projects coming down the pipeline.

On Tuesday night, representatives of landscape architectural firm BL Companies gave a presentation highlighting their “open space recreation assessment” of 24 different sites in town with the potential for Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding.

The assessments gave suggestions as to what could be done to maximize the benefits at 21 of the town’s playgrounds and three of its open space areas.

BL Companies was hired by the town of Wareham to perform the assessments after town meeting approved a CPA grant to do so in the spring of 2013.

Dominic Celtruda, a representative of BL Companies, said that several representatives of his firm had worked closely with Wareham’s Open Space Action Committee and Community Economic Development Association over the course of the summer on the assessments.

Some of the locations in the report include playgrounds like the ones at Shangri-La and Swifts Beach (to name a few) as well open space areas such as Bryant Farm.

“You run the gamut in terms of active and passive recreational areas in town,” said Celtruda, who also said that depending on their current condition, some playground locations could either be torn down or redeveloped.

Though it could take a while to get through all of them, Selectmen said that each of the areas could eventually see changes. The 2002 CPA provides state-matched funds for historic preservation, affordable housing, preservation of open space or recreation through a three percent surcharge levied on residential property above the first $100,000 of assessed property.

Any department seeking CPA funding must go before Selectmen, the Finance Committee and the town's Community Preservation Committee to apply for funds. Projects ultimately have to be approved by Town Meeting in order to take effect.

Last week, Selectmen provided preliminary approvals for CPA-funded changes for the Oakdale Playground, the Onset boat ramp, and new tennis courts on Viking Drive.

“This is obviously something that’s not going to happen next year or all at once,” said Selectmen Peter Teitelbaum, saying that it’s more likely that one or two projects a year get approved.

Officials stressed the fact that although CPA projects are funded through taxpayer’s dollars, that they’re not the same type of funds that go toward budgets for places like the Wareham Free Library or the Council on Aging.

“The pot of money that is most applicable to (funding the open space projects) . . . comes out of CPC (Community Preservation Committee),” said Teitelbaum. “If you put up a playground, it doesn’t come out of the library. It’s apples and oranges.”

Sandy Slavin of the Open Space Action Committee was also on hand at Tuesday’s meeting, and said that another grant approved at Fall Town Meeting to address safety issues at some of the town’s playgrounds is currently being put into action.

She said that a copy of the the heavily detailed assessment would soon become available through the Open Space Action Committee’s web site, and that one hard copy each would be available at the the Wareham Free Library, Town Administrator’s office, the Municipal Maintenance office and through the Community Preservation Committee.

Celtruda later noted that although the assessment had several different suggestions within each site, an estimated maximum $700,000 could be spent on non-school playgrounds, with another $500,000 at the most for the cost of enhancing the town’s open space areas.

“I would challenge people in town to read the document,” said Celtruda.