[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.