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Historic Preservation Committee
March 7, 2005
CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
5:30 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairperson Marsha Sanford, Committee Members
Hillary Jessup, Bill Lancaster, Neal Nutall, Colleen
Risinger, David Chester, Carl Shafer and Tom Taylor
STAFF PRESENT: Staff Planner Katie Elrod
VISITORS PRESENT: No visitors present.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Call to Order.
Chairperson Marsha Sanford called the meeting to order at 5:34 PM.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: Consideration, discussion and possible action on
absence requests.
No members absent
AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: Hear visitors.
No visitors were present.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Consideration, discussion, and possible action to
approve meeting minutes of February 7, 2005.
Motion passed unanimously to accept the February 7, 2005 minutes.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 5 Consideration, discussion, and possible action to
Accept the resignation of R. Matthew Lee and review of resignation letter of
Intern Elisabeth Spring.
Motion passed unanimously to accept the resignation of R. Matthew Lee.
Ms. Spring's letter was read.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 6. Committee and staff report of pertinent past and
upcoming community events pertaining to historic interests.
Members interested in attending the April 14-16 Texas Historical Commission
Conference in Austin, Texas should inform staff.
Members are encouraged to attend Heritage month events: May 6 — Open House
at Benjamin Knox Gallery at 4:00 p.m. ; May 7 — TAMU Historic Building Tour by
Dr. David Woodcock at 8:30 a.m.; and May 21 —Tour of Carnegie Center for
Brazos Valley History at 8:30 a.m. followed by lunch at Maddens in Downtown
Bryan.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 7 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding assigning standard sub-committee meeting days.
Staff Elrod asked if the members were interested in setting set days for sub-
committee meetings. It was decided to discuss issue at the next meeting.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 8 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding the request from Planning and Development Service Department
to resurvey the previously surveyed historic properties in Northgate.
Staff Elrod reported that Planning staff are in the process of reworking the
Northgate ordinance and that they requested that the Historic Preservation
Committee review the list of historic surveyed properties to see if all the
properties on the list needed to remain and if all the properties were still in
existence.
Chair Sanford and David Chester volunteered to review the properties. Chair
Sanford requested Staff Elrod to give her a list of the properties so she could
have them photographed prior to review.
ACTION ITEM NO. 9 Report, consideration and possible action
regarding Project HOLD.
Staff Elrod reported that during the Heritage Month Open House at Benjamin
Knox that mounted photos from Project Hold would be on display, that the
Gallery will let HPC use their internet and computer to showcase Project
HOLD to attendees, and that a scanning station will be set up to demonstrate
scan images on site.
ACTION ITEM NO. 10 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding the Exploring History Lunch Lecture Series.
The Exploring History sub-committee reported that the spring series is dealing
with culture groups in the Brazos Valley. The February 16th lecture by
Rev. Carey Cauley, Jr., "From Montgomery to Bryan: The Price of Civil Rights"
was well attended and received. The March 30th lecture will be presented by a
panel of TAMU Professors who have lived in the community for a long time. The
April lecture will be on Italians in the Brazos Valley presented by Rosemary
Boykin. Next will be Hispanic History by Daniel Hernandez and the committee is
looking for someone to talk about Czech history in June.
ACTION ITEM NO. 11 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding the Historic Marker program.
There was no report at this time.
ACTION ITEM NO. 12 Report, consideration and possible action
regarding the May Heritage Month events.
Staff Elrod reported that the a press release will be sent out and that invitation to
the open house is being sent out by Benjamin Knox.
Staff Elrod reported that staff had found a scanner that will be very useful for
Project HOLD and that it will be portable to be able use for neighborhood
scanning sessions. Hillary Jessup volunteered to host two neighborhood
scanning sessions.
ACTION ITEM NO. 13 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding marketing HPC initiatives.
There was no further discussion on this topic,
ACTION ITEM NO. 14 Hear Visitors.
There were no visitors.
ACTION ITEM NO. 15 Future agenda items.
Hillary Jessup requested to have an agenda item about College Station
Cemeteries.
APPROVED:
Marsh Sanford, ChairpSjd1
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ATTEST:
Katie Elrod, Neighborhood Services