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July 21, 2009
Meeting called to order at LAH Parks & Rec. Building at 2:16 pm by Mary Ann
Malcolm, Chair.
Roll call
Committee Members present: Nobuko Cleary, Bill Downey, Les Earnest, Maryann
Malcolm, Bob Stutz
Associate Member present: Barbara Packard
Council Liaison absent: Jean Mordo
Historical Sites and Structures Subcommittee. After a lengthy discussion of goals for
this project, the Committee unanimously adopted the following resolution, which had
originally been offered at the 7/19/2008 meeting of the Committee.
The Los Altos Hills Historic Sites and Structures inventory shall include only places
within the Town Limits or immediately adjacent where:
(a) a major event occurred,
(b) a structure of major architectural significance was built, or
(c) a home was occupied by someone who was nationally famous.
Inventory Subcommittee. Les Earnest suggested that the Committee reconsider
whether or not to get the historical scrapbooks scanned in view of the following
considerations:
(a) That material would apparently constitute a substantial majority of the scanning
task;
(b) That material could not be put on a publicly accessible web site because of
copyright law;
(c) Omitting the scrapbooks will greatly reduce the amount of indexing that will be
needed in order to make this material searchable;
(d) The scrapbooks have not been updated for the last several years;
(e) Much of the more recent material is already publicly accessible on newspaper
web sites; for example the Los Altos Town Crier has made its articles searchable
online going back to at least 1995.
In any case, the subcommittee will plan to meet as usual on Tuesday, July 28 at 1:30pm
in Council Chambers to continue counting pages of historical materials.
Election of Officers. Mary Ann Malcolm was reelected as Chair, Les Earnest was
reelected Secretary and Nobuko Cleary was elected Vice Chair.
Public Comment None.
Meeting Adjourned at 3:45 PM
Submitted by Les Earnest, Secretary