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Home My WebLink About07172013 Historic Preservation Packet Seward Historic Preservation Commission � A of sett,_ qt 5ifP Regular Meeting ... . ,, ,fr -p t Fi S.M .' ' A 44 to P to ! . % ! ) 1 1'. �r. iai:ia_..wwww .^ " . ri S 4 yM MO .. r - Iii i 1 �' _.�. ` Wi r t r .; f , I `,', , 4 f i -r • tr j i j j y 4 ... F. > a it *' 1 f ba. , or . tiMAi. r , s4 ' � ' 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 ty 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 Term Expires 05/15 4. Special Reports Sarah Fink A. City Administration Report Commissioner B. National Park Service presentation on multi modal trail to Term Expires 05/14 Exit Glacier 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 Term Expires 05/14 opportunity to speak. Time is limited to 2 minutes per Vacant speaker and 30 minutes total time for this agenda item] Term Expires 05/14 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 .t setts, To: Historic Preservation Commission fv , From: City Staff ' 4 Lg sr�p' 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 of sett, 9� t To: Historic Preservation Commission 4 a From: City Staff l P 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. City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 19, 2013 Volume 2, Page a 0 I 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 City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 19, 2013 Volume 2, Page 2 01 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. City of Seward, Alaska Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 19, 2013 Volume 2, Page 2 01 * 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. 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