[0:13] James, did you get my email?

[0:18] » Well, I just asked if you wanted to like brainstorm together.

[0:24] » Okay. >> Okay.

[0:27] » No, that's fine. I just didn't know if that was an

[0:31] accurate email address. And that's fine.

[0:51] It is 4:30 on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026, and I call this meeting of the

[0:57] Marine Historic Preservation Commission to order. Roll call. Blaine Johnston

[1:01] here. Haley Stewart >> here.

[1:04] » James Mon >> here.

[1:06] » Heather Jakamo. >> Patrick Giddings

[1:10] » here. Ken Fes >> here.

[1:12] » Harold Wilson. Thank you. Adoption of the agenda.

[1:17] » Mr. Chair, I move that we adopt the agenda.

[1:20] » And I second that. >> Motion by Commissioner Giddings, second

[1:23] by Commissioner Freeze for adoption of the agenda. All those in favor say I.

[1:27] » I. >> Opposed.

[1:29] » Motion carries. Thank you. Uh approval of our minutes from our

[1:34] December 12th special meeting of historic preservation commission.

[1:38] » Mr. Chair, I u move that we uh adopt those minutes.

[1:43] » Chair, I move to second that >> motion by Commissioner Freeze, second by

[1:46] Commissioner Mom for approval of our minutes of our December 12th meeting.

[1:51] All those in favor say I. >> Opposed? None. Motion carries. Thank

[1:56] you. Uh new business. Um as required by city code, we are to elect chair and

[2:03] vice chair uh first meeting of the calendar year. So, that's our first rule

[2:08] of business today. Um, if the commission sees fit, I'll serve as another deer as

[2:14] chairman. Do we have any other nominees?

[2:21] Hearing none, nominations are closed.

[2:25] All those in favor of having Blaine Johnson serve as chairman for Mur HBC

[2:29] say I. >> I.

[2:31] » I opposed. Hearing none. Thank you. nominations for vice chair. Commissioner

[2:37] Giddings has decided to step down from his that position for the year. So,

[2:42] we'll accept nominations for vice chair. >> Mr. Chair, I nominate Ken Fes to be vice

[2:48] chair.

[2:52] » I second the nomination. >> Motion by Commissioner Giddings,

[2:55] seconded by Commissioner Wilson to nominate Commissioner Fes to serve as

[3:00] vice chair for 2026. All those in favor say I.

[3:05] » I opposed. None. Thank you. Congratulations.

[3:09] » Thank you. [laughter] >> Um we'll go on to item three, approve

[3:14] projects consultant proposals for the water tower national register

[3:18] nomination. Um so I think everybody read the email that

[3:24] Cassandra put out um to go through that. Uh, Cassandra, do you want to bring that

[3:30] up just so everybody could see that force, please?

[3:36] » Mr. Chair, the system looks a bit different and I'm having a little bit of

[3:39] trouble pulling up the right window. Um,

[3:44] this is strange. Um,

[3:50] I guess I can screen share my whole screen.

[3:58] Does that work? No.

[4:23] No, we can just go through the points if you're having problems. Let us

[4:29] » I'm so sorry that this is I'm It's not letting me screen share from

[4:34] the PDF window. Um,

[5:02] well, of course, I have it up on my screen and it's not sharing for you

[5:06] Um, I apologize, but I know the

[5:09] commissioners do have the scoreeet in, um, I sent them through email this

[5:13] morning. Yep. >> There was a pretty clear um, top pick by

[5:17] almost every single commissioner for the Arow Rock Group's proposal um, by quite

[5:22] a bit. Um, they averaged uh, 96 points out of 100, whereas the next closest was

[5:27] 88 points out of 100.

[5:35] And their proposal cost was remind me again

[5:44] 475.

[5:52] » Sounds like someone's double-checking to pull it up.

[5:55] » Yep.

[6:04] That was 7475. Is that what I heard?

[6:35] their official total came down to $7,475.

[6:45] And with that, um, because of some work that Miss Shifter

[6:51] did on behalf of the commission, um, we have that

[6:57] paid for by another firm, um, as part of a agreement between developers are on a

[7:04] 10mi project. It's going to cover up uh, part of a canal and a pre-application

[7:09] meeting with Shipo. Um the developers agreed to pay HBC $7,500.

[7:17] So they our our cost to do that has been covered by a developer.

[7:22] So but with that we still have to approve um tag to do the work and

[7:29] Michler start the contract and pay and approve an expenditure not to exceed

[7:35] 7475.

[7:40] » Mr. Chair, >> Mr. Giddings,

[7:42] » in our last meeting, did we outline exactly what this was, what it's for,

[7:46] and what our process was? I think maybe for the record, we need to back up a

[7:52] couple of steps and explain what it is we're doing here.

[7:56] » The the request is I guess it was start back

[8:00] with Shipo that we got notification from Shipo that they would like to see the

[8:05] water tower listed on the national registry. So, Shipo is behind the

[8:09] nomination for that. So, um they they determine it's eligible for

[8:16] listing. So, our what we'll do is we'll hire the consultant to do all the

[8:21] paperwork, leg work to have the nomination ready for us, then send to

[8:26] Shipo for Shipo to review, then to send on to National.

[8:31] » Correct. And so, an RFP was sent out and we had four responses. Correct.

[8:36] » Correct. Miss Schiffler, go ahead. >> Mr. Chair and commissioners, um I can

[8:39] speak to that. Yes, I um Shipo uh sent me a list of consultants. Um I sent it

[8:44] out to I think about six different consultants. I gave them uh timeline

[8:48] information about the water tower. Um I didn't include the uh anticipated budget

[8:53] initially, but I got some questions about that. And so I responded to

[8:56] everyone to let them know um the same sort of details so everyone had the same

[9:00] information and then uh created a scoreeet rubric for all of the

[9:04] commissioners which you all have uh scored. Thank you very much. Um

[9:08] tabulated the results and that's where we came up with the um the um tag was

[9:13] the highest uh consultant. Does that does that cover?

[9:17] » Yeah. Yeah. I just think I just think we need the record, right?

[9:29] So, do we have a motion to have [clears throat] Tag start the work?

[9:38] And you can phrase it however you want. Well, since TAG was the the high scorer,

[9:45] uh I then I guess I would make the motion that since TAG was the high

[9:49] score, then I would make the motion that that um our vote is that TAG would be

[9:55] the ones that do the work. I I'm presuming, Miss Shiffler, that the it

[10:00] the final decision rests with the city of Meridian since the contractual

[10:05] obligation is between the city of Meridian and TAG. Is that correct? Yes,

[10:09] but the city will go with what the what the commission um the highest scoring

[10:14] applicant that the commission uh or what they recommend in this case.

[10:18] » Then I make a motion that we recommend that TAG do this work.

[10:21] » Okay. >> And I second it.

[10:24] probably need for the record to not only have them do the contract or do the

[10:30] contract with tag, but ultimately approve an expenditure not to exceed the

[10:35] $7,500 7475 because that'll all be done this year.

[10:41] Correct. And so my motion would be that it

[10:44] » the cost through tag would not exceed the 7475 that tag put in their

[10:50] submission. >> Okay. And I second that.

[10:53] » All right. Motion by Commissioner Gidding, second by Commissioner Freeze

[10:57] to have contracts signed with the Yout Group and for an

[11:03] expenditure not to exceed the 7475 per their proposal. All those in favor

[11:08] say I. >> I.

[11:10] » Opposed? Hearing none. Carries. Thank you. Um we will go on to next item. Um

[11:17] provide review provide comment. Um, this came about. I was just I get the

[11:23] applications for the city and I saw this application on the um, city's website.

[11:29] So, I kind of did a quick check on it. The properties are listed in Icris. So,

[11:34] we're going to have some work on this later on. But anyway, um I drove out

[11:39] past the site and I didn't see anything first glance of of of

[11:46] historical significance per se that we want to try and and save. But if you

[11:51] looked at the packet that came out, there is a a tutor home on that property

[11:57] that's got some nice character on it. Um at least document it and get some good

[12:02] photographs of that. Um the application will go before the city

[12:09] um in March. Um Mr. Ner, are you there?

[12:20] I don't see him. He was there earlier. >> He is online, but um

[12:25] » I am okay. >> Oh, there he is.

[12:28] » Camera issues, but my sound is working. >> Bill, I've got a question for you. Yes,

[12:33] sir. >> Um, on this application,

[12:37] » um, can

[12:40] I'm just say me as as chair of the commission go before the the city

[12:45] council at this time of application and ask for u approval from the landowner

[12:50] for us to document at least some of the buildings, the tutor home that's there

[12:56] uh, prior to approval. Is that possible? >> You what? You're asking if you can go to

[13:03] the council to ask them to go to the property owner to ask for permission.

[13:08] » Correct. As part of a condition of approval.

[13:11] » Um, well, I don't think you need the

[13:15] council's permission to go to the property owner and ask them for

[13:18] permission to take pictures. I think the commission can do that,

[13:24] » but we just need to get a hold of the land owner then and get permission. We

[13:27] just we just can't trespass. But we can go ask for Absolutely. Yeah. No, you

[13:31] can't trespass, but I don't think you need the council's permission to do

[13:34] that. >> Okay.

[13:36] » You just want to double check. >> Yeah. Yeah, you can do that.

[13:40] » Okay. >> The council ultimately will appro has

[13:42] Well, um I think the council do we I'll have to

[13:47] ask Cassandra. Do we normally put the these contracts on the council agenda

[13:50] for approval or because the commission has a budget?

[13:57] » Mr. Mary, sorry. Could you repeat the question? Yeah, I don't recall if we

[14:00] normally put the council put the contract like for tag on the council

[14:05] agenda for final approval or because the commission has their own budget they can

[14:09] approve it. I don't recall. >> Not typically. Um

[14:15] does the commission want professional photos for these or is this um something

[14:21] that a commissioner might like to do if if we had permission to take photos? I

[14:27] think it's just something a commissioner could go out and take you to do it.

[14:30] » Yeah. >> Yeah. I've done a lot of architectural

[14:33] type photo photography in the past. >> As long as you have permissions from the

[14:36] property owner, it's fine. I mean, I would just tell them I think you've done

[14:39] that before, Blaine, like you've done that when we were doing the um when we

[14:45] were doing the stuff with the property, the vag

[14:48] with the silos, but I I hit that one with the preapp meeting. So, I I was

[14:52] able to ask them directly at the time. >> Yeah, that's true. Um, but yeah, if what

[14:58] we'll do is I'll just have Miss Shiffler write him a letter, email it if

[15:03] possible, asking permission for a commission member to go out and take

[15:06] photographs if that would work. >> Um, and Mr. Chair and Commissioners, we

[15:10] do actually have the planner on the project at our meeting here. Um,

[15:14] and um, is that something? >> Yeah, Nick, that you would be able to

[15:19] ask the property owner if um, the commissioners could go out and take some

[15:23] photos. Yeah, I can certainly ask the property owner um for them.

[15:28] I'll ask the applicant and I'll ask the current property owners. Um do you know

[15:32] if it's on is a house that you guys are discussing on the Choi property or the

[15:36] Thrusten property? >> I'd have to go back and look at the

[15:40] Well, the address is 4925. As I was going through the application,

[15:44] I wrote that applica that address, but it's the tutor home that's that's on

[15:49] that. So 4920, it's at 4925 Franklin.

[15:54] » Yes. >> So that property is actually not

[15:56] included on this application and will be remaining Oh.

[16:00] » as a county property until the lady who lives there. Um

[16:04] » Okay. That was just including that whole >> correct. Yes, it was. So they put a

[16:10] concept plan over it to show how it could integrate in the future. So that's

[16:13] probably what you saw. >> That's what I saw.

[16:15] » It's the two properties just to the west of that threat included in the

[16:18] application. >> All right.

[16:19] That makes a lot more sense. So um never mind.

[16:27] Um any other discussion on that um development application

[16:37] hearing? None. Uh we can go on to old business

[16:42] um elongated coin machines. I have sent out another

[16:48] text emails to Josh Evers. Let me double check real

[16:53] quick before I say anything. I have not heard back yet on making sure that he

[16:57] wants to be the sponsor on that. Um,

[17:02] Commissioner Freeze, I don't remember what the price of that was. Do you

[17:05] remember right off hand? >> Um, I think with uh shipping, delivery,

[17:10] the whole thing, I think it was around 6,000.

[17:12] » Okay. Can we hold off for one more month

[17:16] before we make a decision? Sure. >> I just want to I want to make sure that

[17:19] that Mr. Evers is in agreement with what we do want to do and probably need to

[17:24] get it in writing. Um that he will be the sponsor just to cover our bases.

[17:30] So, um with that, uh social media sub apologize to the commission. I slipped

[17:38] through this one passed on me. So, give me another month to get some people

[17:43] together to form that subcommittee and so we get started on doing that. Um, and

[17:49] then Miss Shiffler, what's the time frame on the ADA requirements for social

[17:56] social media accounts for the city? Do you remember?

[17:59] » Mr. Sure. And commissioners, I'm already um attempting to do everything in

[18:02] compliance with it currently, even though the um required requirements

[18:06] don't go into effect until April 1, but we are already doing everything we can.

[18:10] » Okay. Thank you. Um

[18:14] with that, we'll go on to planning for drug preservation month in May. Um

[18:22] Commissioner Wilson, you had some information. I lost it.

[18:28] uh too much paperwork. Um,

[18:32] Commissioner Wilson had some thoughts. Um, we also had some thoughts. Um, the

[18:39] Idaho chapter of the Oregon Trails Association sent Miss Schiffer a

[18:42] newsletter on old Oregon trails through the area. And

[18:48] I thought that might be an interesting topic um for preservation month if they

[18:55] could do a presentation here at city hall when we do a walking tour. Um

[19:01] Commissioner Wilson, what were your thoughts on on what you presented?

[19:05] » Yeah. Well, um these are just ideas that I've been thinking of over the past

[19:09] month. And so obviously just kind of some different ways that we could

[19:14] involve the community in history month as well as trying to tie it to America

[19:20] 250 in some way. >> Okay.

[19:22] » I don't think all of these idea uh there's five that I suggested. Um I

[19:27] don't think all of them maybe do as good of a job, but uh one that I would say

[19:32] I've been following up a little more on is number three, Voices of Meridian. Um,

[19:37] I've been in contact with a few people who are uh in their late 70s or early

[19:42] 80s who grew up here in Meridian. And I thought it might be a nice event to just

[19:48] have them talk about what life was like when they were very very young growing

[19:53] up here and how it's changed. Um, now I don't know. I think that could be

[20:00] part of a a celebration of just, you know, how people's lives have changed

[20:05] for good or for sometimes not so good. And then um how we need to um kind of

[20:15] collect those ideas before they're lost and um that's part of the commission

[20:20] maybe in their mission. Um, I I I'm trying to remember I think how to

[20:27] phrase this. The qu I know the Bass Museum has gone around and they had one

[20:32] of their staff visit Bass community members all over the the area and they

[20:39] videotaped them and got oral history from the Bass community. Is it are you

[20:43] thinking audio and vis on video just audio file or what are you thinking?

[20:48] » Yeah. Well, I I was thinking um if we're having events in in May to celebrate

[20:53] that, it would be like a panel um that they would come and people could ask

[20:58] questions about what things were like. They could have some prepared comments

[21:02] um and we could sponsor that at a location around here somewhere.

[21:06] » Okay. >> But I also like that idea of recording

[21:09] for posterity. >> Yeah. Yeah. To have something in in for

[21:13] record for what it's like. Um, so we're not relying on our me memories to do

[21:17] stuff. >> Um,

[21:21] I'm trying to think, would you think they'd be if we get

[21:27] two or three people down here to city hall? Um,

[21:33] and and we've done it both ways. We we've had

[21:36] events during the middle of the week here at city hall since it's open. We've

[21:41] had conference rooms that we can get in and talk. the last couple years we've

[21:44] just had our walking tours and stuff outside. So, we'd have if if we want to

[21:49] do something inside, probably have to do it in the middle of the week during that

[21:53] during preservation month. So, um we'd have to pick an evening and do that if I

[21:58] have I think it'd be a great idea if we get two or three people down here talk

[22:02] to us. >> Well, yeah. And so, that that's why I

[22:05] said I've made a little headway on this. I've I my first of all, my father-in-law

[22:10] grew up in Meridian and he's 84. He's not a real big talker, but I think

[22:15] I might be able to convince him to come. And his family has a lot of history in

[22:20] the the dairy and dairy part of Meridian's history. And

[22:25] then um he knows folks, they still have high school reunions for Meridian High

[22:31] School. I think it's like their 60th or 70th reunions or

[22:36] » mine's my 50th is coming up, so I don't want to hear it. So, uh, so he put me in

[22:41] contact with another, uh, lady who moved here when she was 14, uh, Neva Timonss,

[22:47] and, um, she's really excited, actually, to share her thoughts about growing up

[22:53] here in Meridian. So, there's probably three or four people that I could gather

[22:57] myself, and I I bet someone else on the commission would know others as well.

[23:02] Oh, I could gather two or three dozen people who who grew up here who are

[23:09] pushing [clears throat] 70ish. Um, >> yeah,

[23:11] » we're 70th, Patrick. >> Yeah.

[23:14] » Well, I'm talking about people our age. [laughter]

[23:18] » Um, at the um what's the branch of the library down here?

[23:22] » Oh, Unbound. >> Unbound. Mhm.

[23:25] » They have a room or two rooms, I think, where they can do podcasts,

[23:31] » depending on how serious we wanted to be about this. We might be able to partner

[23:35] with the library and we might be able to create um I don't remember what it's

[23:40] called, but it's like living recordings of people, things that could last

[23:44] forever. We wouldn't have to do it here at city hall. We could do it there. And

[23:49] um if somebody really wanted to, you know, take this on as a project,

[23:54] » we could just do it as an ongoing thing. >> I think that's a great idea. We do

[24:01] ongoing. >> I recently on Facebook had a

[24:04] conversation with a member of the Davis family. They had Davis Foods down here

[24:08] where the where the um youth ranch is >> youth ranch is now. And I just had a

[24:13] great conversation with a member of the Davis family. That was my first real

[24:17] paying job back when I was 16 years old. And uh there there's you would be

[24:23] surprised how many people once in our walking tour I ran into a member of the

[24:27] Calgone family and it was they had Calgone's floral here and so there's

[24:33] lots of people around Meridian who could tell stories

[24:36] » about Meridian back in the day. >> I think a live panel discussion would be

[24:40] great. >> Oh yeah, something like that would be

[24:42] awesome. >> Is is Unbound open? Can we get in on an

[24:46] evening? >> Um,

[24:47] » more than likely. >> I don't know, but I guess

[24:49] » so. More than likely we could do an evening. Um,

[24:55] my biggest question is h I guess a question and also a suggestion

[25:01] is um how do we continue to share these stories once we've preserved them,

[25:07] right? Like the goal here is to preserve these living stories. Um, and so I

[25:12] wonder if we could put the museum in here to use towards that. Um, what that

[25:20] would look like could come in a variation of things.

[25:22] » Right. Exactly. That's I I think uh in my mind it reminded me I think PBS does

[25:29] that they have living stories and uh I wonder if maybe the Meridian Library

[25:34] District if we could partner with them um because

[25:39] the history center here is run by the Meridian Library District and Unbound

[25:45] and they're um you know their their I don't know what they call it but you can

[25:49] do podcasts upstairs there. they could do that and we might be able to partner

[25:54] with them where these living histories could be kept on their website and then

[26:01] you know they would be there forever for people instead of so something like a

[26:06] panel discussion is great but like you say how do you preserve that so that

[26:11] it's not just a one-time event where where it's lost that would be totally

[26:16] awesome to be able to preserve that. What if um if we had the panel

[26:21] discussion, we can obviously record that when it happens so that we get to keep

[26:24] that, right? >> Um what if during May we had an

[26:27] interactive way for anyone to come in whether it's in the museum or the

[26:31] library and just share their story, write their name and email

[26:34] [clears throat] down and then they can send in photos. Uh we can start posting

[26:37] those to the social media account after so that we have like their voice over

[26:40] and then a couple photos um that they shared in like a carousel. Uh that way

[26:44] anyone can just come do it. Maybe grab a piece of candy on their way out for

[26:48] bringing their kids in or something. So that way we get people that are

[26:51] » 85 to five uh and we'll get a good array of places.

[26:54] » Yep. That would be awesome. >> And it wouldn't have to be the craziest

[26:58] audio. I mean, obviously it'd be preferred to have the nice um things

[27:02] that they use at the library. But if we set it up here, um I'm not sure what

[27:05] sort of tech we'd use, but anything works.

[27:08] » That would be awesome. Um I I guess I guess my decision my my

[27:13] thinking is um is this something we want to go forward with for preservation

[27:20] month so we can get started on it now? Um gives us

[27:25] three months to get everything planned before May

[27:31] » to do so. >> Well, I like this voices and meridian

[27:34] concept. I I think this is a great idea. It's something that

[27:40] » something that some of the old-timers in Meridian, I think, could probably get

[27:43] behind. >> So, so let's do this. If if you guys are

[27:47] in favor, um Mr. Chair,

[27:52] » before you go forward, may I address Cassandra for a second?

[27:56] » Yes, >> Sandra. um for a project like this and

[28:00] the planning of a project like this and for

[28:06] meeting to make sure a project like this happens.

[28:10] What so that we're in compliance with sharing

[28:14] what work we do with the public. If per say me and another person on the council

[28:20] wanted to go through a proposal and like work out the next steps of this, how

[28:24] would we have to go about that?

[28:29] Um, that's a good question because as you're talking through some of these

[28:32] ideas, I am thinking about um what's going to be required of staff. Um, I

[28:36] think there this sounds like a a fairly high technology sort of project and

[28:41] dealing with um audio and video recording things which I'm um my skill

[28:48] level is pretty mid [laughter] pretty mid level. Um, so and I we're not

[28:54] really able to ask like it for much support. So I I am

[28:59] I'm a little bit hesitant um in terms of what the commission might expect of like

[29:04] staff um to to do in this. So I c

[29:09] » can we I guess first step can we go go to the library district and ask them if

[29:14] they would like to partner with us for the project. So that that's where I was

[29:19] headed with with my suggestion. If you guys want to reach out with the library

[29:22] district, say this is our thought. This is what we'd like to do.

[29:25] » Would you guys like to partner with us? If so, can we use Unbound or can we use

[29:30] part of your staff or whatever for the audio visual portion of of this program?

[29:36] And then like and then present. It's going to be ongoing. If we can do a

[29:40] couple this year going on down the line, keep recording these for the history of

[29:45] Meridian. Yeah, Chair. Um, Chair Johnson, I do

[29:50] think that's a really good idea. I And Cassandra, I I empathize with all the

[29:54] work you're doing and thank you for all the work you do. I would say that if we

[29:59] do this, it it should be um our work that we get that set up. I have also

[30:05] resources at the College of Western Idaho. I know the um you know, the

[30:09] professors that teach marketing and communications and they have equipment

[30:12] that does this type of stuff. That might be something great that students would

[30:16] like to do. >> Extra credit.

[30:18] » Exactly. So, I think there are several ways we could just um we could

[30:23] investigate that. I think the library is also really good obviously resource.

[30:28] » Then I suppose let's do this. If you want to check with your sources at

[30:34] college, Commissioner Giddings, if you want to check with library district.

[30:37] Yeah, I'll just I'll just go over to Unbound and ask

[30:41] » and ask them and then we can have report back by next month and then if we have

[30:46] let's say if we have four people we want to have discussions with during May.

[30:51] » I think we have four people here during May

[30:54] » we can ask qu I think it's going to be a good program for us yeah to do.

[30:58] » You had a question. >> No, I saw Cassandra Graham going okay.

[31:05] Um I think on on the city's end it's just partly because the ADA compliance

[31:11] or just like city branding and sort of things and how we present something. Um

[31:14] it does all have to be reviewed by staff to put out there. Um but it is it is

[31:20] something that the commission if the commission is able to do it and figure

[31:23] out a lot of the logistics and the tech um then yeah you could definitely move

[31:27] forward and do this. >> Okay. Um, I guess one example I might

[31:31] just put out there that sort of makes me a little um the the one example is the

[31:37] like the walking tour on the phones is um really fantastic, but I haven't had

[31:42] um a former commissioner set that up, but I haven't really been able to do

[31:45] much on the back end. So, that hasn't really changed or anything a lot. And

[31:49] so, um that's that's kind of an example of like a technology sort of thing that

[31:53] is long-standing and continues to run. But I um haven't had a lot of I haven't

[31:58] um been able to do a lot of edits or updates. So just thinking about like how

[32:01] to make this a sustainable project that doesn't need um that's able to kind of

[32:06] continue to function. >> How does this change if Meridian is the

[32:09] Meridian library is the publisher of the project? So let's say we help collect

[32:14] the videos, but what if they're the ones who publish said videos or said content?

[32:21] » Yeah. Then I think it would just um then it would kind of be their staff and them

[32:26] that would have to review it as it's being from them or it's you know if it's

[32:29] a joint project then it's kind of like both both entity staff kind of has to

[32:35] » I think maybe step one is just do some homework and be able to report back next

[32:39] month and >> because right now I don't know if we

[32:41] know what we don't know so we'll do some homework.

[32:45] » Yeah, I'm definitely willing to to do that.

[32:48] » Okay. Um, one other thing I would just like to mention, um, to help maybe with

[32:54] what Cassander's workload is, um, we have a very robust, um, internship

[33:00] program at College of Western Idaho and outside organizations, especially

[33:04] nonprofits or state sponsored organizations can ask for, you know, our

[33:09] students to come and learn like if they're a marketing major or in want to

[33:13] be in nonprofit um, and spend time every week helping support the things you do,

[33:19] Cassandra. So, if you want to talk further about that offline,

[33:24] » I have actually looked extensively at getting interns, but we we could talk

[33:27] about that offline. It's it's >> more complicated

[33:29] » and more challenging than facility. >> I'm glad to support that though.

[33:33] » Okay.

[33:37] Um, so you got your tasks, so we'll report back next month and hopefully

[33:43] we'll have some information and we can move forward. Sorry, away from the

[33:47] microphone. move forward for preservation month. Um,

[33:52] I would still like to, if possible, Miss Schiffler, if the people from Idaho

[33:59] Trails could give us a little presentation.

[34:03] » Yes. >> If it's a backup for future or something

[34:05] like that, but if we could get some information from them um

[34:10] on what they could do at a future time. >> Um, yes. So, Mr. Mr. Chair and

[34:16] commissioners, I um I sent that newsletter out that I have the printed

[34:20] copy of from the Oregon Trails Association. So, I talked to their

[34:23] president um who gave um a presentation to the metal detector club that Ken is a

[34:29] part of recently and said it was great. Um so, I asked him if he could do that

[34:33] presentation for us. He's very willing. He's um he's a speaker that's been doing

[34:37] this for the Idaho Humanities Council for a while. So, he has like an hourong

[34:40] presentation. um an hourlong presentation is kind of long for giving

[34:44] it to the commission but is also would be happy to do it um for the public. So

[34:49] um I sort of put some tentative dates in there. He could come to the commission

[34:52] to do a shorter like 20 minute presentation on the March meeting and

[34:57] then he's willing to do um one in May for preservation month. But we do want

[35:02] to um he has a lot he he was hoping to like nail down dates if there are dates

[35:06] happening sooner rather than later. So, I did put um tenatively March uh or May

[35:11] 16th during preservation month, which is when you do the walking tour. So, it

[35:14] could be the hour before or the hour after the walking tour. Um he could do a

[35:19] presentation in the in the meeting rooms A and B before the walking tour if

[35:23] that's of interest. >> Okay.

[35:26] » But if it is, we should we should let him know sooner rather than later.

[35:34] We can't do both, which is Well, we could do both, I suppose.

[35:38] » Why can't we do both? >> We could do both.

[35:40] » I think we could do I think we could do both.

[35:41] » We could do both. Um because there's no reason why we can't do two programs in

[35:46] May. Um

[35:50] have ours one week and then have his another week or something like that. So,

[35:57] um, if he could do the presentation in March and then we'll figure out a date

[36:02] in May that he can come down and do an hourlong presentation. So, I think I

[36:07] think what Commissioner Wilson wants to do and his

[36:11] ideas and his they all tie together as the people that formed the community.

[36:16] So, um, I think we can tie the two together and it all goes with the

[36:20] America 250 thoughts. So,

[36:26] We'll do that.

[36:31] » Shall I tell him to keep May 16 on his calendar?

[36:34] » Let's keep May 16th open for him and then we'll we'll plan a date that we can

[36:39] have um our oral histories down here. Yeah.

[36:50] » Um, >> speaking of the walking tours, I know

[36:53] this isn't on the meeting, but we're talking about the walking tours and

[36:56] May's preservation month. You'll notice all the commissioners, um, we did get

[37:00] new binders printed from TAG. They did an update. They added a table of

[37:03] contents. They added two sites that were not on the walking tour before. So, for

[37:07] new commissioners, this is your your guide to giving the walking tours. I

[37:11] think the whole walking tour is a little over two hours. So, um commissioners can

[37:14] kind of pick and choose sections, but that's uh some some homework reading for

[37:19] you as you think about leading your own walking tour later this year.

[37:23] » So, yeah. So, that's the other thing for well, we'll talk about meeting topics.

[37:27] So, yeah, we'll start planning our our walking tour dates um next month.

[37:33] So, thank you for this, Miss Schiffer. Appreciate it. um SOP for coordination

[37:39] of HPC and current planning update. Do you have anything else for us?

[37:44] » I did have a nice update. Uh when I gave the presentation to you about that um

[37:49] new SOP, one of the major issues of it is that it was relying on old data. So

[37:54] actually um thank you Alexis, our Shipo CLG coordinator. Um, we got a meeting

[38:00] between our GIS people and it does look like we're going to be able to um I

[38:04] haven't heard an update, but I think we're going to be able to um get updated

[38:08] data with um the Shipo's IIR system. So, that's great news.

[38:12] » Okay,

[38:15] perfect.

[38:19] Any other topic there discussions on that,

[38:21] » Mr. Chair? >> Yes, sir. May I open the committee for

[38:25] discussion about America 250 and any new ideas for how we want to plan around

[38:30] that >> for our preservation month?

[38:33] » Is is that all tied together? >> Yeah.

[38:35] » Okay. Perfect. Okay. So that >> so

[38:40] with that we will go on to our special workshop

[38:45] in conference room. >> All right.

[38:50] For anyone online, this next portion of the meeting will be in person only. So,

[38:55] signing off from the online portion. Thank you.

[38:58] » Thank you.

Historic Preservation Commission Regular Meridian Meeting 1-22-26

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