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Work Session Packet
Work Session Topics:
1) Alaska State Preservation Office's "Meeting in a Box"
Workshop
September 12, 2024
City Council Chambers Beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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Participant Worksheets
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Thank you for participating in an Alaska Statewide Historic Preservation Plan Meeting in a
Box. While the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office leads the statewide plan update
effort, the process is dependent on input from people like you.
Your input today will help identify issues about historic preservation that need to be addressed
within the updated plan. Moreover, your voice will inform the Statewide vision for the future of
preservation in Alaska —along with goals and objectives —so that preservation challenges can
be met and overcome at the community and state level.
We encourage you to stay involved in the planning process by visiting the Saving Our Past
(alaska.gov) webpage and comment on drafts.
Sincerely,
The Alaska Statewide Historic Preservation Planning Team &
The Alaska State Historic Preservation Office
The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) &
Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
i.Warm-up
Answer one of the following questions:
1. What is one Alaska place, location, or site that you want preserved to pass on to the
next generation?
2. What value does historic preservation have within your community now or in the
future?
3. What is your favorite memory of a historic or cultural place?
The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) &
Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
Participant Worksheets page 2
2a. Engagement Exercise #i
As a group, pick the top three benefits that make historic preservation important to you,
your organization or your community:
1. Allows for community focused public 5. The ability to teach/learn about Alaska's
spaces history
2. Economic vitality 6. The ability to conduct historical research
3. Ensuring future generations have access to 7. The preservation of cultural identity/
historical resources heritage
4. Good urban design 8. The preservation of sacred places or space
9. Other
Deep Dive:
After the group has identified the top three benefits, divide up into three groups and
your group host will assign one to each group. Discuss in your group why that reason is
important to you, your organization or your community.
Our group discussed#:
"How would this reason help promote historic preservation in Alaska?"
The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) &
Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Participant Worksheets page 3
2b. Engagement Exercise #2
As a group, you will complete an exercise to rank the things your group sees as the biggest challenges to historic
preservation.
As a group you will complete an exercise to rank the challenges to histric preservation that
your group sees.
1. Public does not value historic
preservation enough
2. _ Lack of understanding of
existing and potential resources
3. _ Low lawmaker interest
in historic preservation
4. _ Economy
5. _Too much emphasis on development
6. _In -and -out migration of rural communities
7. _Too many other priorities
8. Not enough people do preservation work
9. _Climate Change
Deep Dive:
io. _ Perception that new is better than old
11. Safetyconcerns(code
issues, school safety, etc.)
12. Natural disasters
i3. Site vulnerability
14. _ Housing needs, including affordability
i5. Gentrification and displacement
i6. Public infrastructure changes and needs
17._Changes in worship, recreation,
transportation, and other cultural norms
i8._Other
After the group has identified the top three challenges, divide up into three groups. The
group host will assign one to each group. Discuss in your group what your community or
group could do to address this challenge to historic preservation.
Our group discussed #:
The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) &
Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Participant Worksheets page 4
2C. Engagement Exercise #3
Step is Personal reflection followed by open discussion.
Take 3-s minutes to reflect and write on the question:
"What resources doesyourgroup or community needto help strengthen local preservation
efforts?"
Please return all your completed worksheets to the meeting host.
Thank you!
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The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) &
Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Participant Worksheets page 5