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MINUTES
Historic Preservation Committee
Monday, August 07, 2017 – 4:00 pm
Municipal Court
300 Krenek Tap Road
College Station, Texas 77842.
The City Council may or may not attend the Historic Preservation Committee Regular Meeting.
Present:
Committee:
Louis Hodges (chair)
Marilyn Randall
Gerald Burgner
Katherine Edwards
Sherry Frisk
Chantal Vessali
Ben Zimmer
Not Present:
Anat Geva
Andy Smith
City Staff:
David Schmitz
Andrea Lauer
Linda Harvell – Council Member
1. Called to order and announced a Quorum at 4 p.m.
2. Anat Geva and Andy Smith requested absences and they were approved.
3. The Historic Preservation Committee voted unanimously to approve the July minutes.
4. No visitors were present.
5. One Hundred copies of the original College Station History book were reprinted and are available
to purchase for $15 at City Hall, Debra Balliew has agreed to write the new edition. Lou Hodges
would like to recommend that they add photos with the text instead of the photos at the back of the
book.
A rough draft of the Historic Home Tour brochure was passed out during the meeting, the committee
will send the changes if any to David Schmitz.
No Historic Marker applications were received.
Brooke has been conducting oral interviews and has transcribed Jeff Kernsten’s interview. She is
working on the Tom Turbiville interviews as well.
The HPC Committee is working on getting Exploring History Lunch Lecture speakers for 2018.
Brooke stated that she is still working on cleaning up and organizing Project Hold. She is making it
where things are lab eled and more user fr iendly.
6. David Schmitz gave an update on the American Mile Bricks. The broken bricks that are being
replaced are currently at the manufacturer and will be installed once we receive them.
7. On September 13th at 5:30 p.m. the Mexican War Memorial Statue will be dedicated at
Veteran’s Park and November 10th is the Veteran’s Day Ceremony also at Veteran’s Park.
Booneville Day’s is October 14th at the Brazos Center.
8. Future agenda item. The committee will work on a commendation letter for Parks and
Recreation staff member Marci Rodgers, honoring her hard work with the community and
senior programming. Once the letter is complete they will present it at a future council.
Meeting. The next HPC meeting will be moved to September 11th due to the 4th being
Labor Day.
9. Lou Hodges and Katherine Edwards brought items to pass around.
10. Meeting was adjourned at 5:25 p.m.