This summary reflects the meeting as dated October 1, 2025 in the provided metadata; however, the agenda and minutes identify the meeting as Monday, August 18, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the City Council Chambers, 1095 Duane St., 2nd Floor, Astoria. Committee members present were Kim Supple, Caroline Wuebben, Christine Lolich, Mike Haggren, and Scott McMullen; absent were Mike Soderberg, Marian Soderberg, Blair Henningsgaard, and Jaime Britton. Staff member Jonah Dart-McLean also attended. A quorum of five of nine members was confirmed.
Testing. Great. Good afternoon. Um, would like to call to order the meeting of the Union Town Maritime Memorial Committee. Um, it is Monday, August eighteenth at one PM, and we'll start all the way on the right end of the table and introduce ourselves, please. Christine Lolich. Mike Hagrid. Scott McMahon. Caroline Webin. Kim Sappel. And it doesn't look like we have anyone online. Um, and Jonah, you said we do have a quorum. Uh, we do have a quorum. We've got five of nine. Excellent. Thank you. Um, so first item on the agenda is the draft minutes from our May meeting. Um, did everyone have a chance to read them? If not, let's take a minute and review and make any corrections needed. Thank you, Mike. I'll second. Thank you. All in favor. I opposed. Great. Thank you. Um, Jonah, do you want to take on the maritime memorial engravings received to date? Yeah, one second, my cell phone is refusing to be silenced, even though it's on the right silence uh setting, so I don't want it to ring. There we go. Okay. Um I apologize too. It looked like when I was going through the agendas that I printed out that for some reason the um there's old engravings for that got mixed in when I was creating this new packet. It'll be a little confusing, but um to the new ones that we've received here. This is old. Um, and then for some reason the brackets kind of come up in the middle, but going down to yes, there we go. Receive to date, so that would be on page 14. Uh, we've had four applications uh since we closed the uh the engravings for the previous year for um 2025. So these will all be going in 2026. So we've gotten the four uh one. They've got a kind of run on word Columbia River Bar Pilot with no space to try and make their engraving work. That's Captain Jeff Stone. And we've got Mike Cagwin, who's got just a standard graphic and a standard inscription looks fine. And then uh we've got one that's got a custom image of a halibut or something, uh whatever Vancouver Granite Works comes up that's a proximal drawing of a halibut, and then the last one is Bob Radio. That would be a um inscription in lieu of graphic. So a soul as wild as the C logger fisherman that would be arrayed in three lines. Um Vancouver Granite Works hasn't been able to give me the mock-up of the custom graphic or the the three lines of text and what that would look like, but it would fit depending on how it's um apportioned in those three lines. Okay, any comments or questions from the committee after John, what you said about the Vancouver graphics, were they able to squeeze a little bit of a space in between? For the Columbia River Bar pilot, they'll there'll be some spacing. They didn't give me a mock-up for that either. Um it's but they can try to do something.