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July 17 2013
Regular Meeting
City Council Chambers Beginning at 6:30 pm
Seward Historic Preservation Commission
Regular Meeting
July 17, 2013 6:30 p . m. City Council Chambers
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Linda Lasota
Chair
Term Expires 05/15 1. Call to Order
John French
Vice Chair 2. Opening Ceremony
Term Expires 05/14 A. Pledge of Allegiance
Catherine Richardson 3. Roll Call
Commissioner
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4. Special Reports
Sarah Fink A. City Administration Report
Commissioner B. National Park Service presentation on multi modal trail to
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Frank DeMarco C. Other Reports, Announcements & Presentations
Commissioner
Term expires 5/15 5. Citizens' Comments on Agenda Items Not Scheduled for
Public Hearing and Other Items Not Included on the
Vacant Agenda. [Those who have signed in will be given the first
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opportunity to speak. Time is limited to 2 minutes per
Vacant speaker and 30 minutes total time for this agenda item]
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6. Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda. [Approval of
Consent Agenda passes all routine items indicated by asterisk
Jim Hunt ( *). Consent Agenda items are not considered separately
City Manager unless a Commissioner so requests. In the event of such a
request, the item is returned to the Regular Agenda.]
Patricia Linville
Library /Museum Director
7. Public Hearings [Limit comments to 5 minutes. Those who
Tim Morrow have signed in will be given the first opportunity to speak] -
Library/Museum Staff None
Historic Preservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda
May 29, 2013
8. Unfinished Business
None
9. New Business
A. Discuss coordination of August 28th 2013 Seward Founder's Day activities... Page 4
B. Draft 2013 Founder's Day Proclamation for City Council .Page 5
* C. Approve June 19, 2013 Regular Meeting Minutes Page 6
10. Informational Items and Reports
A. Draft Founders' Day Proclamation Page 10
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
May 29, 2013
Agenda Statement
Meeting Date: July 17, 2013
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Agenda Item: August 28 2013 Founders' Day activities
BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION: It is that time of year again and
according to the official Historic Preservation Commission's annual To Do list, there are
Founders' Day activities to be planned.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Commissioners plan some festivities.
Agenda Statement
Meeting Date: July 17, 2013
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Agenda Item: Founders' Day Proclamation
BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION: To get the word out about
Founder's Day, a proclamation to be read by the Mayor in front of City Council would be
just the thing..
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Commissioners provide input on this valuable
avenue of public outreach.
City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes
June 19, 2013 Volume 2, Page 2 0 I
Call to Order
The June 19, 2013 regular meeting of the Seward Historic Preservation Commission was
called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chair Linda Lasota.
Opening Ceremony
The Pledge of Alliance was performed; led by Commissioner DeMarco.
Roll Call
There were present: Chair Linda Lasota presiding, and
John French Sarah Fink
Catherine Richardson Frank DeMarco
Comprising a quorum of the Commission, and Patricia Linville, Library /Museum staff
Special Reports
A. City Administration Report
New hire at the library museum, Kate Rullman from Kenai recently graduated from
University of Arizona is the new library museum collections coordinator.
It was pretty much baptism by fire as Kate was introduced to the State Museum and the
Resurrection Bay Historical Society on her third day on the job. RBHS invited Scott
Carrlee, State Museum Curator and Outreach, to visit and advise on the museum setup
and operation thus far. We were congratulated on the space, the exhibits and the fact that
we had accomplished what he had only heard about a few years ago. Scott gave us all
very great info and advice on how to go forward with management and operations. We
will be working on becoming accredited through the American Alliance of Museums.
This will be a long process but will guide us as we seek to bring the museum operations
within the standards and guidelines of the AAM.
Railroad expansion plan:
In my notes from our last meeting I was asked /or offered to find out about historically
significant properties adjacent to the proposed railroad expansion project. After a very
short and not very deep internet search I found that the Seward projects are funded by
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds. According an Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation 2009 memo ARRC funds are subject to the Section
106. Therefore this body should be receiving a request for comment on the proposed
plans before funds are made available. I called the Railroad today for info but they were
already closed. I will follow up and get more information to you.
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Also from our last meeting you may remember Mr. Bob Riesner discussing his research
and future articles about Russian- American activities in this area for the Log. Mr.
Riesner dropped off copies of the research he spoke about. They are available to anyone
who wishes to look through them. Please return to either Tim or myself.
We have received a thumb drive from the JLH folks that contains their architects
presentation and the 35% concept design schematic photos. If you are interested I can
copy the info to a thumb drive for your use.
B. Commissioner French's Report on Friends of the Jesse Lee Home community
meeting and the ADOT Railroad master plan meeting.
French expressed a sense of overall satisfaction with the building design aspects
presented in the Friends of the Jesse Lee Home community meeting. He believes there is
a roof line alteration that may come into conflict with the building's National Historic
Registry status. His recommendation was that Historic Preservation Commission
members review the 35% design plan provided digitally on a thumb -drive and that they
decide if a work session needed to be held about any aspects of the design.
On the subject of the ADOT Railroad state -wide master plan meeting, French informed
the Commission that none of the master plan covered the Seward area specifically. He
was able to talk with Donna Glenz about the Seward master plan. It has received Flood
Service Board review. From the Seward master plan it would appear that there will be
some 106 issues. His recommendation is that Commissioners review the Railroad's
Seward master plan and decide soon if a work session should be held on it.
C. Other Reports, Announcements and Presentations
Commission Chair Lasota reported that she had made contact with Jeff Mow and Sharon
Kim of the National Park Service and invited them to speak for 10 minutes about the
proposed multi -modal trail at the July 17 Historic Preservation Meeting.
French iterated that the part of the trail from the Seward Highway to the shoreline is the
most poorly defined and of the most interest to the Commission.
Friends of the Jesse Lee Home Update
None
Citizens' Comments on Any Subject, Except Those Items Scheduled For Public Hearing
None
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Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda
Motion (French/Richardson) Approve the Agenda
Motion Passed Unanimous Consent
* The following items were approved under the Consent Agenda: Meeting Minutes for the May 29,
2013 Regular Meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission.
Public Hearing
None
Unfinished Business
A. Historic Preservation Award Nominations
Discussion was put forth in which it was decided to back away from last month's decision to
nominate the Community of Seward, Other group nominations were discussed and decided
against as being too exclusionary. The agreed upon solution was to keep the nomination
period open for one more month and to advertise the extended nomination period to the
community. If at the end of that period there are still no nominations, there will be no
Historic Preservation Award for the year of 2013.
New Business
A. Discuss implementation of the Historic Preservation Plan Revision.
Fink proposed that Linville should initiate contact with Foraker regarding what was
prerequisite to the process. French re- iterated a desire to inquire into other facilitation
organizations with more historic preservation experience. Richardson suggested a work
session in the first week of September to "get ducks in a row." Linville indicated that the pre-
planning would be included in the Foraker consultation process. Linville volunteered to
contact Foraker herself to find out what the commission was expected to bring to the table
and to inquire about recommendations for other facilitation organizations with more historic
preservation experience.
French named Nuka Research and Planning Group as a possible alternative to Foraker.
Linville agreed to contact that company.
Richardson summated that Linville bring the recommendations from Foraker and Nuka RPG
to the August 21, 2013 work session (instead of a regular meeting.) Richardson went on to
propose another work session on September 4 or 17, 2013.
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* B. Approve May 29, 2013 Regular Meeting Minutes
Informational Items
None
Commission Comments
Commission Chair Lasota expressed curiosity about State Historic Preservation Office's
interne presence as a possible resource into other Historic Preservation Plans in AK.
Linville mentioned that the communities' own websites might be abetter option, (esp. Sitka.)
Citizens' Comments
None
Commissions and Administration Response to Citizens' Comments
None
The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
Tim Morrow Linda Lasota, Chair
Library/Museum Staff
(City Seal)
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, on August 28, 1903, eighty -three men, women, and children, arrived at
Resurrection Bay on the steamer, the Santa Ana; and
WHEREAS, aboard this steamer were two brothers, John and Frank Ballaine, who arrived on
the Lowell Homestead; and
WHEREAS, the Ballaine brothers envisioned a railroad to the interior of Alaska with a coastal
headquarters; and
WHEREAS, the settlers cleared the town -site, erected buildings, and began the construction of
the Alaska Central Railroad, later to become the Alaska Railroad; and
WHEREAS, in March, 1903, John Ballaine bestowed upon the new town to be, the name
Seward, in honor of William H. Seward, President Lincoln's Secretary of State; and
WHEREAS, the landing date of August 28, 1903 is remembered as Seward's Founders' Day;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Seward, the Seward Historic Preservation Commission and the
Resurrection Bay Historical Society have planned a slate of activities from 2 -6 pm to commemorate the
founding of Seward that include the Seward Museum Open House beginning at 2:00 pm with special
exhibits and free admission, cake cutting ceremony with refreshments at 3:00 pm, and viewing of
selected documentaries about Seward to follow; and
WHEREAS, a Japanese delegation from Obihiro, Japan, Seward's Sister City, is coming for a
special visit to commemorate the Founder's Day, August 28, 2013.
NOW THEREFORE, I David Seaward, Mayor of the City of Seward, Alaska, do hereby invite
the citizens of Seward to attend all festivities in commemoration of:
Founders' Day Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Dated this 12th day of August, 2013.
THE CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
David Seaward, Mayor
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