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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02192014 Historic Preservation Minutes City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 19, 2014 Volume 2, Page 238 Call to Order The February 19,2014 regular meeting of the Seward Historic Preservation Commission was called to order at 6:33 and a half 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 Catherine Hedman Sarah Fink Comprising a quorum of the Commission, and Patricia Linville and Tim Morrow,Library/Museum staff Special Reports None City Administration Report Linville discussed some city issues that the Historic Preservation Commission may want to monitor: Engineers from Great Northern Engineering, contracted by Shoreside Petroleum,met with City Department heads and are beginning a conversation about the possibility of locating bulk storage tanks in the old Four Seasons property. Many issues to be discussed and no applications have been submitted as of yet. Dairy Hill Drainage Mitigation Project—funds will be accepted and appropriated at Monday's Council Meeting. This is a mitigation project to help with flooding in that area. Council vacancy has three applicants: Iris Darling, Deborah Alterman and Sandi Roach. Council will be considering each applicant,voting for their choice and appointing someone to fill the vacancy at next Council meeting. The Council will also be setting a date for the annual joint work session to discuss accomplishments and future priorities. As it is a juggling act to get that many people to meet on the same day we are suggesting March 3 or 7 as possible. What is the availability of the Commission on those dates? We will be discussing the priorities later in this meeting. City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 19, 2014 Volume 2, Page 239 Finally,Tim and I teleconferenced with Michelle Prior and Sierra Fletcher on Friday. Our focus was to detail the logistics of the way forward with the Plan revision process. Additionally,the library museum staff who are planning the Earthquake Commemoration met to discuss the reality of adding the HP Outreach component to that event. The library museum staff tried to figure out how the outreach sessions would fit into what has been planned thus far and we couldn't see it working very seamlessly. In fact, we thought that doing so would lessen the impact of both programs. Therefore we are suggesting that HP do a "fireside" chat as the draw for the plan revision outreach. We discussed this with NUKA as well. They agreed and have submitted possible dates they are available for this program. Their best possible dates are April 21-24. We also made an executive decision concerning the next step. Once the first public outreach is completed NUKA will take all the available data they have been given and create a draft plan for us. We all felt that we were at a point where an actual draft of the new plan is a logical progression from here. We will be discussing this all under the Agenda Item 9C. 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 Motion(French/Fink) Approve the Agenda and Consent Agenda Motion Passed Unanimous Consent * The following items were approved under the Consent Agenda: Meeting Minutes for the September 18, 2013 Meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission. Public Hearing None Unfinished Business None New Business A. Prepare Proclamation for Seward's Day City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 19, 2014 Volume 2, Page 240 Desultory discussion was parlayed using a sample Seward's Day proclamation from years past. Dates were justified. Linville explained that the city is closed on Seward's Day, limiting actual celebrations on Monday, March 31. B. Review and update a draft of the annual priorities for 2014 The 2014—2015 Historic Preservation Commission priorities list was gone over line by line to come up with an updated draft to bring before Seward City Council. It was discovered that priorities had been being overlooked like getting H.P. Annual Award winners' names on the award plaque, and soliciting nominations for plants and trees. It was also decided that the Historic Preservation Commission would like to make it a priority to work more in concert with the Planning and Zoning Commission. Another alteration to the Priorities list was discussing coordination of summer planting of Hoben Park with the Parks and Rec. Dept. Priorities removed due to completion were monitoring of the Library Museum project and the National Park Service project(Old Solly building remodel.) • C. Discuss Historic Plan revision public outreach strategies Linville's recommendation to move the public outreach schedule to 21St—23rd of April was accepted. Commissioner Fink agreed to ask Mr. Hinders to move the high school class presentation and survey to the 2nd week of April. Linville gave a reiteration of the proposed public outreach timeline which went like: • Nuka Research develops a public outreach survey. • Nuka Research compiles public input, including that obtained from the surveys to create a draft historic plan. • The Seward Historic Preservation Commission will take that draft historic plan back out to the public for comment. The likelihood of City Council wanting to have a work session concerning the ongoing progress of the Historic Plan revision was discussed. Commissioner French welcomed the opportunity should it present itself;but general consensus was that Council would be more interested in the finished product than the process. Chairperson Lasota wanted to make sure that there would be an open invitation extended to City Administration and Council Members to attend the proposed fireside chat. Differing fireside chat topics were discussed and commercial fishing was agreed upon. Candidates to approach for chatting_about their experiences in the area were narrowed down City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 19, 2014 Volume 2, Page 241 to: Margaret Anderson,the Burches,the Hatches,Jim Herbert,Jim Hubbard,Bob Linville, Ron Long,Herman Nelson, and Tom Tressler. A narrowing of the subject matter was decided to be commercial fishing as it pertains to local . processing plants,both past and current.Linville agreed to give Jim Herbert a call to get the ball rolling. Lasota proposed Tuesday,April 22nd as a target date for the fireside chat and that is the day everyone agreed to shoot for. Finally it was proposed that the high school outline could be adapted for the senior center outreach. Redman asked if it was still in the works to try to survey"snowbirds,"she was answered in the affirmative and then asked to take up planning such a survey and to have it ready by March's regular meeting. • D. Approve February 19,2014 Regular Meeting Minutes Informational Items None Commission Comments Chairperson Lasota stated expressed an interest in being kept more in the loop with new city projects and Planning and Zoning. Commissioner French expressed that he felt it had been a productive meeting. Citizens' Comments None Commissions and Administration Response to Citizens' Comments None The meeting was . • at 7:52 p.m. AM 4.iW L IL ac e t . Wilde-Executive Liaison Linda Lasota, Chair (Minutes prepared by Tim Morrow who is no d i rg £ 4nto sign) W�+ Q (City*era•r � y.o e • , II V Fpm m S n . o C rl P o • • eemomo••°