HomeMy WebLinkAboutApril 19DRAFT History Committee Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2011
1. Meeting called to order in Parks and Recreation Building at 2:06 pm by Nobuko
Cleary, Chair.
Committee Members present: Nobuko Cleary, Bill Downey, Les Earnest, Maryann
Malcolm, Barbara Packard.
Council Liaison absent: Jean Mordo
Others present: Elisabeth and Charles Garbett
2. Minutes of the 3/15/2011 Committee meeting
Not available.
3. OLD BUSINESS
a. Town Newsletter scanning project
Earnest reported that this project is still about two days work short of completion
but that there has been no progress.
b. Street and path name history project
Downey said that there is nothing new to report.
d. Oral histories
Earnest volunteered to try to identify long term Town residents by reviewing the
County Assessor’s property records to find properties that have not been sold for
many years.
5. NEW BUSINESS
a. Need for funding and display space for historical artifacts
The Committee has twice before attempted to get the Council to set up an account
to receive public donations in support of history preservation and presentation and
to provide an allocation of space to carry out these functions. Earnest volunteered
to redraft the Committee’s earlier requests in the form of two separate resolutions
for the Council to consider, to be reviewed at the next Committee meeting.
5. PRESENTATIONS FROM THE FLOOR
Packard requested “Historical Sites and Structures” be agendized for the next
meeting.
6. MEETING ADJOURNED at 2:50 pm
Submitted by Les Earnest, Secretary