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Historic Preservation Committee
April 4, 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 5:36PM.
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 March 7, 2005.
Motion passed unanimously to accept the March 7, 2005 minutes.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 5 Committee and staff report of pertinent past and
upcoming community events pertaining to historic interests.
Hillary Jessup will accompany Staff Elrod to the Texas Historical Commission
Conference on April 14-16.
Heritage Month activity dates were reviewed.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 6 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding assigning standard sub-committee meeting days.
After discussion the HPC declined to make set sub-committee meeting dates.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 7 Report, consideration and possible action
regarding increasing awareness and education regarding College Station
Cemeteries.
Hillary Jessup reported that she would like the HPC to mindful of the importance
of cemeteries since they contain history. She reported that the heritage
organization Research Ramblers has members that study and document the
contents of cemeteries and that many cemeteries are unknown by the public.
It was determined that cemeteries would make a good lunch lecture topic.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 8 Report, consideration and possible action
regarding Project HOLD.
Staff Elrod reported that volunteer Anne Boykin will operate the scanning station
at the Heritage Month Open House.
ACTION ITEM NO. 9 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. 10 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding the Historic Marker program.
There was no report at this time.
ACTION ITEM NO. 11 Report, consideration and possible action
regarding the May Heritage Month events.
Staff Elrod reported that she had a TV interview with KBTX to promote heritage
events and Marsha Sanford reported that she had an interview with KAMU.
Heritage Month events were reviewed.
ACTION ITEM NO. 12 Report, consideration, and possible action
regarding marketing HPC initiatives.
There was no further discussion on this topic,
ACTION ITEM NO. 13 Hear Visitors.
There were no visitors.
ACTION ITEM NO. 14 Future agenda items.
Staff Elrod reported that Brazos County Historical Commission Chair Charles
Schultz has asked to attend the next meeting to give a presentation on a project t
hat they are working on in College Station.
ACTION ITEM NO. 15 Adjourn
A motion was made to adjourn.
APPROVED:
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Marsh Sanford, Chair rson
ATTEST:
Katie Elrod,Elrod, Neighborhood Services