HomeMy WebLinkAboutJanuary 21Los Altos Hills History Committee
Minutes of Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:30 PM Regular Meeting
Meeting Place: Council Chambers, Los Altos Hills Town Hall
26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Present at the Meeting: Carol Gottlieb, Sylvia Jensen, Jitze Couperous, Denise Williams, Sally
Wood, Carol Grewal; Associate Members—Linda Swan; Guests—David Marta, Kjell Karlsson
Absent—Joe Heinrich, John Swan, Vicki Gardiner Taylor
1. The meeting was called to order at 3:40 PM.
2. Presentations from the floor—David Marta moved to LAH in July and is interested in history
of town.
3. Minutes for Meeting of Tuesday, November 19, 2019 were approved. Linda will send to
Deborah Padovan.
4. Old Business
a. 1958 General Plan and 1963 General Plan Research—Carol looking for pathways map
associated with 1963 General Plan update. Kjell Karlsson to ask Les Earnest if he has a copy.
b. Cataloguing the files to be more user-friendly—Nothing.
c. New Members Needed—Nothing
d. Mills Act—Nothing
e. New Plaque for Flagpole—Carol to talk to Maryann Malcolm about plaque that is there now.
f. Winter Presentation and Walk—On Sunday, March 22, 2020. Can park at Foothill College at
no charge. Explore Foothill College buildings, walk to go up Stonebrook to Morgan Manor,
Silver house, Steve Finn’s house, carriage house on private driveway off Frampton court, down
Summit Wood. Carol Gottlieb will go to February Town Council meeting to get permission for
the walk. Bill, historian of Foothill College, was contacted and will be glad to meet with us.
Dana House and Griffin House and firehouse are historical. Maybe we can get permission to
tour the Dana House. Good contact for us. Hopefully he can come to the February meeting.
Carol has Town’s permission to talk to owner of Morgan House to tour grounds for 15 minutes.
g. Ethics Education Due August 30, 2019. See Deborah e-mail of July 10, 2019. Sally Wood,
Carol Grewal, and DeniseWilliams have not done yet.
h. Setting Committee Goals for 2020
Cataloguing files, proposal for buying scanning equipment to be sent to Town Council,
more storage (Heritage House?), old-timers meeting, presentation on walk routes, or presentation
on Old Page Mill Road by Stanford archeologist. Fall presentation. Pilot study to take resources
we have and put together to make story on one topic, like history of pathways and stories about
them, to put on Town website by Sally Wood.
There are copyright issues to putting clippings and unknown documents on website.
Town files and documents do not have copyright issues.
LAH Geographic Imformation Sytem (GIS) maps will be put online later this spring.
5. New Business
a.Request for Equipment Proposal to be sent to Council. Sally Wood put together budget
request for flatbed scanner (can do up to A4 size paper, slides) with software for History
Committee and projector for all committees. Cost $229. Propose it to Carl. Small amount of
money. If not, can bring it up to Town Council. Has plenty of resolution. Will look into
computers. Sally will talk to Debora about IT support, as Town uses consultant for IT.
Also asking for projector, so that do we do not have to access Town equipment. Access to
system for 2019 Fall presentation was a problem. Motion was made for Sally Wood to request
scanner and projector and computer from Town. Motion approved.
b.Request for Council approval for March Walk, so we can put an article(s) in the Town
Crier, etc. Already on February Town Council agenda.
c.Fall Presentation—Tales of Page Mill Road. Stanford professor gave a talk on this
subject. Perhaps we can get her to present her talk again. Request for names of any other people
living on Page Mill Road that may be interesting to hear. Will talk about at next meeting. Ideas-
-Alisa Bredo’s father and history of quarry.
February Meeting—February 18, 2020
6. Adjournment at 5:00 PM