The Carson City Historic Resources Commission met on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM. All commissioners were present, establishing a quorum. The meeting covered approval of minutes, recognition of preservation efforts, planning for the annual scavenger hunt, and staff updates.
All this meeting of the Carson City Historic Resources Commission on Wednesday, March fourth, twenty twenty-six to order. Zach, can we have a roll, please? Chair Drews. Here. Vice Chair Schmitter. Commissioner Block. Commissioner Darney. Commissioner Schmidt. Commissioner Spielda. Here. And Commissioner Wright. We have a quorum. Thank you. Uh next item is public comment. Is there any public comment on Historic Resource Commission items? Hearing none, we'll move to item four for possible action. We have approval of the minutes from our January seventh, twenty twenty-six meeting. Um minutes from the last meeting as presented by staff. Motion and a second, any questions. Opposed. Uh I I did have for consideration. We were playing with a shed for 10 years. And we had a gentleman come in here and step up the plate to preserve that building, you know, and I and I think that he went the extra mile. And I'd I'd like to uh you know have a discussion on Darren Berger, because I do think he went the a little bit more than uh anybody anticipated, and working with uh staff and working with the owners to get that to happen. I I just think that uh when somebody does the go to the extra mile, the consideration might be warranted. So that's just my point. That's a good point, Don. We I'm almost thinking we can wait, hopefully he gets it up by next year, and we can do it when it's up too, so that people can see the control board based on that following, and then now we're not next year, we're back. Yeah, we talked about this last year, and they hadn't quite completed the building yet. We thought let's put it off until they get the final. But it was, I mean, it is pretty amazing what they did it and they did it without anybody saying you have to do this. It was Bruce and uh the RCI guys just saying no, we need to do this. So I if I could too, I would just recommend um for Darren Berger. Um while your point's well taken, um Commissioner Smith. I I would recommend waiting until the project's completed. The project hasn't actually been completed yet. He's gone through the process for the zoning map amendment. Um he's um taken the the structure down from its original location and is storing it. Um but my understanding from him is that he's gonna be working on getting that erected on his property. Um and when that's completed, I think maybe at that point that the year that that's completed or the following year might be the appropriate time to recognize him. I'd also thought about that and uh thought is that premature. And I'm going, well, the effort was put there and successful effort because it took some hoops to get through there. And I thought, well, to recognize it even at this point, not the building, the person provides a little impetus for him to really follow through. Uh that was just something I thought about too. You know, wow, now I've really got to I've got to do the best job I can on this. But that was my stupid way of thinking. No, there's no reason why we couldn't do it for as a person and for the other work. We've done multiple awards before. So if we if you know the other thing with uh with Darren, he worked many years with art on projects that you know he was the initials on the page, but never got any of the the credit for what art was able to accomplish, but he was there. But I have no problem waiting a year and you know, moving forward with just one, you know.