Bob Minichielli hopes to build affordable housing projects in Swifts Beach, the Bartlett Pond area, and on the site where the White Pines Motel once stood.

Minichielli plans to ask the town for Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds for two of the projects.

There’s just one problem: The state disbanded his company last June.

“We can’t give you any town money if you’re not incorporated by the state of Massachusetts,” said Selectman and Affordable Housing Trust member Peter Teitelbaum at the Feb. 14 Affordable Housing Trust meeting. “Right now, we wouldn’t know who to make the check out to.”

According to Minichielli, he was not aware that the company had been disbanded until it attempted to open a bank account a few weeks ago. He said that the reason it was disbanded was due to a failure to pay a yearly fee to the state.

“Our lawyer just forgot to pay it. They involuntarily take it out of active status” when the annual fee isn’t paid, said Minichielli.

Minichielli was unsure how much money the company will have to pay in order to be reinstated. However, he said it’s an issue that can be resolved in just a couple of weeks.

“We’re one or two years behind," he said. "Whether it’s one, two, three years, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of filing the paperwork and paying the money.”

The company also needs to establish a board of directors.

Minichielli submitted an application to the Community Preservation Committee requesting $100,000 to be put toward the Bartlett Pond project, hoping to get it on the spring Town Meeting warrant. However, the appplication he submitted to the committee was incomplete.

Minichielli hopes to move forward on the Swifts Beach project as well, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

“Right now [with] Swifts Beach Road, there’s a lot more planning that needs to go into that before we can make any requests,” said he said.

Minichielli said he did not know how much Community Preservation money he would request for that project, since he currently does not know how many homes he’ll be able to build.

“The primary one to get moving is the hotel site,” he noted, referring to the 3137 Cranberry Highway location where the White Pines Motel once stood. The motel was demolished in late December.

But with the status of the company up in the air, and the Bartlett Pond project going before the state Housing Appeals Committee after having been rejected by the Wareham Zoning Board of Appeals, Minichielli said he hopes to get everything straightened out in time for Town Meeting in the fall, when he hopes voters will approve the use of Community Preservation funds for the Bartlett Pond and the White Pines projects.

Teitelbaum expressed skepticism.

“I don’t see the point in continuing," Teitelbaum said. "If you brought this to fall Town Meeting, you’d be laughed off the floor.”