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(1COMMISSION MEETING
Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:30 PM
City Council Chambers, City Hall
33 E. Broadway, Meridian, Idaho
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1. Roll-call Attendance:
Blaine Johnston, President Dr. Frank Thomason
Josh Evarts Dawn Cronk
Robert Mortensen, Vice President Joely Walters
Councilman Ty Palmer, Ex-Officio
2. Adoption of the Agenda
3. Approval of the December 2, 2015 Workshop Meeting Minutes
4. Approval of the January 14, 2016 Meeting Minutes
5. Approval of the Monthly Financial Statement
6. Historical Society and History Center Update by Lila Hill
7. Old Business
a. Historic Sites on GIS — How to Review/Update Property Listings
b. Workshop Planning and Update — "A Value Model for Historic
Preservation in Meridian"
c. National Historic Preservation Month Planning
i. "If This Property Could Talk" History Walk Discussion
ii. Meridian History Center Archives Event Discussion
iii. Guided History Walk Tours Discussion
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COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:30 PM
City Council Chambers, City Hall
33 E. Broadway, Meridian, Idaho
1. Roll-call Attendance: 5:30
X Blaine Johnston, President 0 Dr. Frank Thomason
X Josh Evarts X Dawn Cronk
X Robert Mortensen, Vice President 0 Joely Walters
X Councilman Ty Palmer, Ex-Officio
Others in attendance: Hillary Bodnar, Arts and Culture Specialist, City of Meridian; Bill
Nary, Attorney, City of Meridian, Lila Hill, Meridian Historian
2. Adoption of the Agenda Motion made to adopt the agenda as amended by J.
Evarts; seconded by R. Mortensen All ayes— agenda adopted— No further
discussion.
3. Approval of the December 2, 2015 Workshop Meeting Minutes Tabled
4. Approval of the January 14, 2016 Meeting Minutes Amend the minutes to
show "President" and "Vice President" Motion made to approve the minutes
as amended by R. Mortensen; seconded by J. Evarts. All ayes—no further
discussion
5. Approval of the Monthly Financial Statement Motion made to approve the
financial statement by J. Evarts; seconded by R. Mortensen All ayes—agenda
adopted— No further discussion.
6. Historical Society and History Center Update by Lila Hill L. Hill provided her
update, saved.
7. Old Business
a. Historic Sites on GIS — How to Review/Update Property Listings J.
Evarts recommended Google Sheets use to have live updates on one list.
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Lila Hill recommended using the word "integrity"as excellent to poor.
Include a column for properties needing a drive by.
b. Workshop Planning and Update — "A Value Model for Historic
Preservation in Meridian"April 12th set at date. 5:30-6:30 PM in Meeting
Room A. Attendees can continue to Pre Funk, where J. Evarts has
arranged for those guys to have some stuff out, and The Vault after the
hour long workshop.
c. National Historic Preservation Month Planning
i. "If This Property Could Talk" History Walk Discussion Lila Hill
still has 19 of the 20 signs—blurbs of what might have gone on in
the building. J. Evarts requests inventory of the buildings that we
have signs for at the moment. Lila Hill and T. Palmer went to the
basement to bring up the signs that the Meridian Historical Society
still has in storage. J. Evarts said that the commission can easily
drop off and pick up the signs for the week. B. Johnston asked how
we gain permission from the downtown merchants. J. Evarts can
consult with the business owners of buildings that aren't currently
featured. H. Bodnar to consult with Clerks regarding sign permit. J.
Evarts/R. Mortensen motion to invest a Not-To-Exceed $100 for
promotion material for "If This Property Could Talk."Linda
Tewksbury did the lettering of the original sings. Lila Hill suggested
adding more buildings/signs. Signs up by the 16th of May. Have any
additional information to Lila a month in advance.
ii. Meridian History Center Archives Event Discussion J. Evarts
suggested bringing small groups of 3 with a commissioner and ten
or so talking points to the basement archives. H. Bodnar to reserve
Council Conference Chambers for the 18th. H. Bodnar to verify with
the Clerks/IT on how to arrange for door access to the basement.
History Center to open its front doors. 6-8 pm event.
iii. Guided History Walk Tours Discussion B. Johnston two guided
tours during May. One on the event night and one the weekend
following after. 18th and 21st and Memorial Day weekend of May, D.
Cronk recommended creating a map that could be referenced by
users. This map could be placed in walking tour brochures and sit
alone at information desk or businesses.
d. 2016 Meridian History Course Update D. Cronk updated the
commission on the current status of the course. Lila Hill requested that we
ask if school district would cover copy fees. Check with Modern Printers,
Clerks on cost of 20 packets of about 50 pages each. Lila Hill advised that
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Linda Belthoff would probably have her packet from last year. HB to talk to
Jacy about SIC. R. Mortensen reported that Amy Birch said that the
instructors could teach the course in June, need to follow up with Linda
and Amy to set date. R. Mortensen considers charging teachers a fee of
$10- $25.
8. New Business
a. Mayor's Office Criteria for Recognizing Volunteers H. Bodnar Updated
the Commission on the criteria discussed by the Mayor and Chief-of-Staff
b. Public Outreach Projects 2016 Discussion R. Mortensen - Online
cloud-based resource for Meridian History facts. J. Evarts- Bring some of
HPC's resources out to The Vault.
9. Reports, Presentations, Subcommittee Reports, Staff Reports
a. Blaine Johnston to Provide Annual Historic Preservation Commission
Report to City Council on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Blaine invited the other
commissioners to attend the presentation. Councilman Palmer added that
as a City Council member it is always nice to see members of the
commissions so that the Council can put faces to names.
10. Next Meeting: Thursday, March 10, 2016
a. Discussion of Possible Meeting Topics
11. Adjourn
MOTION MADE TO ADJOURN BY J. EVARTS, SECONDED BY D. CRONK
MEETING A ED AT 6:51 PM
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Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearings,
please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting.
HPC report—Feb. 11,2016
We have received some new to us books by authors with local connections.Nathaniel, from the
Meridian Library is cataloguing the Davidson donation books and others recently received.
We now have in the files the scanned pages from Millenium title of the original tract books
pertaining to all Meridian subdivisions through 1934. This just leaves one subdivision left
between those&the records that the city has and it will be obtained as soon as I can get it. From
these property owners can be traced from the homesteader through the 1990's. This tracing has
been done through several of the earliest subdivisions, six I believe—Original Town Site—
Cottage Home—Rowan—Nourse's Pt,2nd, 3rd. If you like detail work&have time, we could
use some help on this project. These copies were made available to us when I asked,because of
previous work done with the actual large handwritten tract books when Millenium was in the
basement of the Rural High School &we had an office on the second floor and later after they
had moved to Emerald Street.
Robbie has completed digitizing the 1900 Meridian census both in spread sheet format&in
software.
Meridian Library District representatives met with the Historical Society members yesterday and
their staff will doing some oral interviews with living members of settling family groups, adding
materials from or combining information from our"people&family"files. Possible grants will
be investigated to assist with this project. Information on such grants was shared with the library
personnel.
One or two additional items will be shared with the leaders of the History Class for Teachers for
their information books-
CITY of MERIDIAN
FY2016 (10/1/2015 thru 9/30/2016)
Budget for Historic Preservation & Historical Society
Effective
Acct# AGENCY/ VENDOR Date DESCRIPTION
BUDGET 10'1 2015 Budget for misc
As of: 2/4/2016
FY2016 EXPENDITUR Available
BUDGET ES Budget
300.00
Historical Society budget for misc expenses 300.00 300.00
BUDGET
1011/1015 Budget fa• Consulting
5,000.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Buudgetfou•Ti•aining
1,500.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Budget for Supplies
400.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Budget for Memberships
325.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Budgetfoi-NintingPronuotional
1,500.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Budget for Continuing Education Program
1,000.00
BUDGET
1011/2015 Budget for Historical District Branding
5,000.00
53801 MASTERCARD
11/28/2015 MC City #211/28/15 Statement - Zurchers,
14.44
10/28/15. Citv Hall Tour Proos x antv 4
Historic Preservation 15,725.00 14.44 15,710.56
TOTALS 16,025.00 14.44 16,010.56
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