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Home My WebLink About08212013 Historic Preservation Packet Seward Historic Commission e. Sett, 1 q 4 , Regular eting e �AS� ._ .. .......v. .. . . , . ;,...... _ ,r ter. 4-7 _ - - ,., . , ,., •-.' - . -1: Pk 1. e*. "--... !U. ! t ' ,,, , 1 1: le" 7 ,, _ +' - 4 . � , ,, ice '' T" X ti e s C�+ ''"- a �� it _ -_ ( " -- r++ .x r • _ i I ' f � l I . „ I tnia� IT ad k ; ' .. ''' r . , ■ _,.. i ' y ;',f,.. I 1 1 • J t . E I 04,,iire .11,. _ !. . t , ,t_ 1 1 el . , , ._ k : I i ik. _, August 21 2013 Regular Meeting City Council Chambers Beginning at 6:30 pm Seward Historic Preservation Commission Regular Meeting August 18, 2013 6.•30 p.m. City Council Chambers Linda Lasota 4 Chair Term Expires 05/15 1. Call to Order John French Vice Chair Term Expires 05/14 2. Opening Ceremony A. Pledge of Allegiance Catherine Richardson Commissioner 3. Roll Call Term Expires 05/15 Sarah Fink 4. Special Reports Commissioner A. City Administration Report Term Expires 05/14 B. Other Reports, Announcements & Presentations Frank DeMarco 5. Citizens' Comments on Agenda Items Not Scheduled for Commissioner Term expires 5/15 Public Hearing and Other Items Not Included on the Agenda. [Those who have signed in will be given the first Vacant opportunity to speak Time is limited to 2 minutes per Term Expires 05/14 speaker and 30 minutes total time for this agenda item] Vacant Term Expires 05/14 6. Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda. [Approval of Consent Agenda passes all routine items indicated by asterisk ( *). Consent Agenda items are not considered separately Jim Hunt unless a Commissioner so requests. In the event of such a City Manager request, the item is returned to the Regular Agenda.] Patricia Linville 7. Public Hearings [Limit comments to 5 minutes. Those who Library /Museum Director have signed in will be given the first opportunity to speak] - Tim Morrow None Library /Museum Staff Historic Preservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda August 21, 2013 1 8. Unfinished Business A. 2013 Annual Historic Preservation Award Page 3 9. New Business A. Discuss competing bids from consulting agencies for Historic Plan Page 4 * B. Approve July 17, 2013 Regular Meeting Minutes .Page 5 10. Informational Items and Reports None 11. Commission Comments 12. Citizens' Comments [Limit to 5 minutes per individual — Each individual has one opportunity to speak] 13. Commissions and Administration Response to Citizens' Comments 14. Adjournment Historic Preservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda August 21, 2013 2 Agenda Statement Meeting Date: August 21, 2013 e sett, I N. To: Historic Preservation Commission '� ,,� a From: City Staff 1iJ .P Agenda Item: BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION: In partial pursuance to CITY OF SEWARD ALASKA RESOLUTION 2011 001, A RESOLUTION OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SEWARD ALASKA RECOMMENDING THAT THE SEWARD CITY COUNCIL ESTABLISH AN ANNUAL SEWARD HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARD, the Historic Preservation Commission would like to vote on the 2013 Historic Preservation Award Nominations. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Commissioners vote cogently on any existing Historic Preservation award nominations. 3 Agenda Statement Meeting Date: August 21, 2013 of s ew To: Historic Preservation Commission �` � �'a Staff _P From: City �ASr- Agenda Item: BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION: Information gathering is ongoing. Quotes will be presented as a lay down at the regular meeting. RECOMMENDATION: There are no staff recommendations at this time. 4 City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 17,2013 Volume 2, Page 192 Call to Order The July 17, 2013 regular meeting of the Seward Historic Preservation Commission was called to order at 6:33 p.m. by Chair Linda Lasota. Opening Ceremony Commissioner Fink led the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll Call There were present: Chair Linda Lasota presiding, and John French Sarah Fink Frank. DeMarco Commissioner Richardson was excused to be on her honeymoon. Comprising a quorum of the Commission, and Patricia Linville and Tim Morrow, Library /Museum staff Special Reports A presentation on the progress of Exit Glacier multi -modal trail was given by Sharon Kim of the Kenai Fjords National Park and John Eavis of the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest. Eavis started with a history of the proposed trail. In the late 1990s, advocacy started for a non -road communication between Seward Highway and Exit Glacier. The most likely trail corridor is private land for 1 mile (up to the first bridge), 3miles of AK DNR land, 3 1/2 miles of Forest Service land, cross the Resurrection River and you're onto NPS land. There was an informal winter trail created on AK DNR land mostly by local dog mushers, and a winter trail brushed out at one time across Forest Service land by the Forest Service. Several years ago FS applied for feasibility study. Grim Architects out of Anchorage was hired to consult. A multi - agency and public input feasibility study was conducted. Kim reported on the Conceptual Design Feasibility Study. She said that the Environmental Assessment document is only binding for NPS but expresses concordance between all involved government entities. There is no funding yet so the project is not shovel ready. A Kenai Peninsula Borough resolution was passed in May 2013 and a City of Seward resolution was passed in June 2013, both expressing support for the project. As currently foreseen there will be paved and unpaved sections, and some bridges over streams probably attached to existing roadway bridges. 5 City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 17, 2013 Volume 2, Page 193 Kim said the next step is to start finding money. The preferred plan needs 6.7 million dollars . to build, with a projected annual maintenance cost and depreciation of 1.18 million combined Richardson asked where AK DNR land begins. Eavis said the boundaries begin at the first bridge and end near the forest service sign. French asked if CIRI declined to grant right of way across their land. Eavis said that was not an issue. French asked if this trail was considered to be from the "bay to the glacier." Eavis and Kim answered yes. French asked if it would cross AK RR property to Dale Lindsay cruise ship terminal. The answer was no. Eavis summed it up as needing real strong community advocacy for the project to move forward. Kim said she could email pertinent documentation in PDF form. City Administration Report City news: Public Works, Community Development and the AVTEC contractors are working on plans to divert traffic to allow the pre - constructed modules for the AVTEC dorms to be delivered. This should happen between the dates of July 28 and August 10. They are striving for a three day closure within that timeframe and have proposed to be working around the clock in order to be finished on time. Definite details will be released when they are available. Received a request to poll the Commission as to your interest in a possible guest speaker from NPS— Shannon Kovac. I asked her to send me an email which I will read: "Hi Patty, As we discussed on the phone yesterday, Kenai Fjords National Park has been doing research on the different types of activities that have taken place in the Resurrection River Valley / Exit Glacier area since 1950. An analysis of the research has been done by Doug Deur, a senior research scientist with the University of Washington's Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. There may be an opportunity for Doug to come to Seward and talk • about his findings in the near future. Jeff Mow was wondering if the Historic Preservation Commission may be interested in having Doug speak at one of their monthly meetings. Once we hear back from the Commission, we can firm up plans on our end. Please let me know if you have any questions. The Commission members are welcome to contact me as well. Thanks, Shannon" 6 City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 17, 2013 Volume 2, Page 194 So, is the Commission interested in having Doug Deur present at a meeting? If so I will let Shannon know and they can include us in their planning. As you know we have received the Grant for review and revision of the Historic Preservation Plan. I am working on the Council paperwork to accept the grant. It will go before Council ' on August 12. I called Nuka Research on June 19, and emailed and called their Seldovia office today. I have not heard from them yet. I opted not to contact Foraker until I heard from NUKA and could get a comparison of services etc. If I don't hear from NUKA before the end of the month and there are no other recommendations of similar companies, 1 will contact Foraker for another quote. We should have something to present at our August meeting. General assent given for Kovac's poll Lasota asked about what day it's going to the council. Linville responded August 12, 2013. Linville also alerted the commission to the fact that if there was sufficient interest, John Eavis could be invited back to talk on the Iditarod Trail at a future date. The commission expressed sufficient interest provided the invitation took place in a cooler month of the year. Other Reports, Announcements & Presentations None Friends of the Jesse Lee Home Update None. Website Updates & Historical Site Inventory None. Citizens' Comments on Any Subject, Except Those Items Scheduled For Public Hearing None Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda and moving Annual HP Award Nomination to unfinished business. Motion (French/Fink) Approve the Agenda and Consent Agenda Motion Passed Unanimous Consent City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 17, 2013 Volume 2, Page 195 * The following items were approved under the Consent Agenda: Meeting Minutes for the June 19, 2013 Meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission. Public Hearing None Unfinished Business A. 2013 Annual Historic Preservation Award Nomination Carol Griswald was nominated for the 2013 Annual Historic Preservation Award. Due to the late submission of the sole award nomination, it was impossible to put it into the agenda before this month's meeting. After discussion in which it was discovered that there were some questions about the information in the nomination, it was decided to move the nomination's review to the August 21, 2013 regular meeting to give staff time to obtain clarification from the nominee, and publish the nomination as an actionable item for the public. New Business A. Discuss August 28, 2013 Founders' Day activities. Due to the special presence of our Sister City's delegation from Obihiro, Japan a range of celebratory activities were discussed. At the end of it all, Chair Lasota had volunteered to ceremonially cut the cake at the Museum Open House, and most of the other commissioners present committed to attend the celebration B. Approve draft of August 28, 2013 Seward Founders' Day Proclamation Motion (French/Fink) Approve the draft of 2013 Founders' Day Proclamation Motion Passed Unanimous Consent *C. June 19, 2013 Regular Meeting Minutes Informational Items Commission Comments Lasota brought up the fact that August 21 is supposed to be a work session; but due to the fact that there is one actionable item on the agenda it was agreed to have a short meeting that would be adjourned into a work session. 8 City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 17, 2013 Volume 2, Page 196 Citizens' Comments None Commissions and Administration Response to Citizens' Comments None The meeting was adjourned at 7:28 p.m. Tim Morrow Linda Lasota, Chair Library Staff (City Seal) 9 A ugust 2013 August 2013 September 2013 SuMo TuWe Th Fr Sa SuMo TuWe Th Fr Sa 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2930 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 29 30 y Friday 31 Aug 1 2 N o 5 6 7 8 9 1:OOpm Wellness Mtg 8:OOam Court Interview 9:O0am Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin ° 12:OOpm PACAB Mtg 12 13 14 15 —116 7:OOpm CC Mtg 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin Lo 1:OOpm Training for D r-1 19 20 21 22 23 7:OOpm P &Z Spc Mtg 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin 12:OOpm PACAB WS 6:30pm HP Mtg c 26 27 28 29 30 7:OOpm CC Mtg 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin co City Calendar 1 8/16/2013 10:22 AM S S TuW r Th Fr October 2013 September 2013 SuMo TuWe Th Fr Sa SuMo TuWe Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sep 2 3 4 5 6 LABOR DAY; OFFICES c 7:OOpm P &Z Mtg 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin 12:OOpm PACAB Mtg Q 41 V1 9 10 11 12 13 6:OOpm CC WS; Transie 9:OOam Staff Meeting 7:OOpm CC Mtg 10:OOam Project Meetin m Q N 16 17 18 19 20 6:OOpm P &Z WS 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin ° 12:OOpm PACAB WS 6:30pm HP Mtg Q 23 24 25 26 27 7:OOpm CC Mtg 9:OOam Staff Meeting 10:OOam Project Meetin rj N m d N 30 Oct 1 2 3 4 O m a v N City Calendar 1 8/16/2013 10:22 AM