Okay, I call this meeting of the Mount Vernon Landmark Commission to order at
12 13 p.m. on today is August 17th, Monday.
Uh we do have a quorum of four present,
Mr. Jordan, Bobby, and Ralph and myself.
Okay. First
item on on the agenda is simply in the consent agenda, which is our minutes
from the July 24th session.
Uh, everybody's had a chance to look at
those. They were sent when they were sent to
you. Uh, I'd entertain a motion to approve if you were here.
» I can't
do Okay. All right, everybody. I have a
motion from Ralph and a second from Billy to to approve the consent agenda
consent consisting of the minutes from the July 24th meeting. All in favor? I
» All right. I'm going to go ahead and read this. I'm
not sure. Do we have any public comment? Any folks?
Okay. Anyway, I'll read this so we have that on on record. Is the Texas Open
Meetings Act prohibits the board from responding to any comments other than to
refer a matter to future agenda to an existing policy or to make a statement
of factual information. claims against the city board members or employees as
well as individual personnel appeals are not appropriate for citizens for okay
we do not have anyone that chooses to make a public comment at this time we
will have some from those who have submitted requests I believe moving on
to the items to consider Uh first is the consider request for
certificate of appropriateness for 602 West Main Street here in I understand
that has been withdrawn. So that is withdrawn.
We will forgo that.
Next item to consider is the request for certificate of appropriateness for
improvements at 602 Miller Street in Mount Vernon.
And if you can move on to that application
and who do we have here from that and your
name, sir? >> Mitch.
Glad to have you with us today. Would you like to please tell come to the
podium so you be part of our record and uh tell us about your project?
Excuse
me. Secretary took the first picture.
That's the That's the proposed look when he's finished. Roll it up.
What we have that's
and currently. Well, there we go. Currently,
that's what we have to look at. Now, I'm sorry to interrupt.
We are going to make
» basically Would
you roll it back to the one that has the addendum in it?
Okay. Um, and I will begin by saying that uh you do know and I'm sure if
you've done these before that we uh they do not recommend painting brick, but as
as you've said, sometimes it can't be avoided and sometimes it's just better.
Uh, but we do ask that you use the breathable paints
and
and being the OCD person I am, I can say that I looked that up and it is a
breathable thing. >> It is.
» We're still learning about those actually.
increase the number that are available. When used to they didn't have them.
Okay. Uh the uh windows are pretty much are going to be the same. You're making
them fit the one the existing ones >> and
energy efficient. Uh they are metal but they are white powder coat.
doors and the doors of course will be and you're painting this you're
replacing with it the post out
I'm surprised you haven't found
All right. Does any of the board have any questions for our
» How long do you think your project is going to take to complete?
very efficient. Okay. Uh folks, if you're
if you're comfortable with the application, we entertain a motion to
approve the certificate of appropriateness as presented.
» I will
Jordan makes the motion and Ralph seconds.
This is 4602 Miller.
Okay. All the uh we have a motion and a second uh for the award or the approval
of the certificate of appropriateness for 60 project at 602 Miller Street
as presented. All those in favor? I >> I
have unanimous decision. Thank you, Mr.
Moving on to our next item. We have a consideration for a
certificate of appropriateness for improvements at 102 Pittsburgh Street.
For some reason, I'd forgotten where Pittsburgh Street was.
Yeah. Or just west or east there. Yeah.
Okay. So, uh who do May I get your name?
» Rachel.
» And you're the owner of the property. >> Okay. Do you also live there?
Young lady, could you come to the mic. I have trouble hearing.
» Sorry.
There is
a reason.
Okay. If you'd like to share those with the board, we'll take a quick look.
That's the color.
Okay.
Okay. You're not changing the windows or anything like that. Okay.
You own the other properties that are along that road. Okay. Just that.
Of
course, all of those have the dos, but there's
one to the north of there that does And so, you know, it's not a president
situation on that. There's lots of shade in that area there. And so,
roof shouldn't be too much of a problem.
question.
» I said being a duplex and you know rental property it is you know we want
to make sure that they are maintained as well as our privately owned.
All right. Uh, that being said, if there's no more questions for Miss Paula
about this project, entertain a motion to approve a certificate of
appropriateness.
You make the motion. Okay. Bobby has made the motion.
made the motion. Billy Jordan has seconded the motion uh to award the
certificate of appropriateness for the project at
102 Pittsburgh Street here in Mount Vernon.
It's a duplex as presented with the change in the roof, addition of the
fresh posts and paint. Okay. >> All right. All those in favor.
» I oppose. You have a
rousing approval. As I said, it's it's important
to the city as a whole, I think, to make sure that properties are given the
attention they do. Thank you for stepping in
and maint
Thank you.
Okay. Can I just I'm gonna add this to the
do we have anything from the board? I will ask that needs to be
Next
secretary, do we have anything in upcoming?
Nothing at this time. Okay. I will say that uh I had talked with the lady uh
that would made the withdrawal because they had not
completed I told her would probably be required and she
in that she would need to
make sure that what was going behind it wasn't visible.
We got at least two that I can think of that either metal buildings or metal
containers that are behind
privacy fencing.
So, we might have that in the coming weeks
depending on
» a little slow down. >> Slow down.
Okay, there's nothing else for the good of I
open for a