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Draper Historic Preservation Commission Meeting - February 18, 2026

Meeting PortalWednesday, February 18, 2026
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DateWednesday, February 18, 2026
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0:00

It didn't work.

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IT has told me it will work.

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We're recording their apps from the museum.

0:08

Oh cool.

0:10

Okay, we're still museum at still.

0:13

We are recording, guys.

0:16

Oh, yeah.

0:18

So all right, we ready?

0:20

We're ready.

0:21

Yeah.

0:22

Alright, welcome everyone to the chat.

0:31

No, it's fine.

0:32

Welcome everyone to the February 18th, 2026 version of the Historic Preservation Commission of Draper.

0:41

Um it is currently 6 03 PM.

0:44

Uh let's start off with a roll call.

0:47

Um Annie Bomber.

0:48

David Hales, Jason Wiggins.

0:50

Melissa Day, Wendy Atzett, Nancy Michaels.

0:54

Jennifer Destromski, and then Natasha and Krista, if you want to introduce yourself.

0:59

Hi.

1:07

Alright, perfect.

1:08

Um, did everybody get a chance to read uh last month's minutes?

1:14

Yes.

1:15

Did I yes?

1:16

I have some changes.

1:18

Perfect.

1:22

To go over after I sent them, Melissa emailed me and was like, I I combined Elizabeth and Melissa together.

1:33

Oh in the minute.

1:37

So um that and then I found a couple places where I had Alan spelled AN and then E N.

1:45

So um there's so there's a couple spots.

1:47

So in the uh minute uh voting, I just need to fix Elizabeth's last name, and then in uh 3A put Elizabeth Allen.

2:00

I had Elizabeth Day.

2:01

Oh so and then there's another for the minutes recap here.

2:07

So we just need to fix the spelling of Elizabeth's name because I had it two different ways.

2:15

So all right, do I mean do we want the moment that we accept the minutes as a corrected are all in favor?

2:26

Aye.

2:27

Alright, motion good.

2:33

Okay, back to hey, let's kick it off with the historical subject.

2:45

Um Elizabeth doesn't look like she is here to win.

2:49

But you re okay, perfect.

2:50

Nancy went to the last meeting.

2:52

Do you want to give us an update?

2:53

Um, it was all talk about what they're gonna keep and what like uh each said she said things on but I asked them about the oral histories and they and I just texted Lynn today and she said they were gonna talk about it again, but we found out that they're on hold.

3:15

So the grant, so they are also warning Howard was wanting to have a band at the Heritage Banquet that would play the old time music and so I took a picture of the draper brass band and I sent it to the two um instrumental teachers at the middle school and the high school to ask them about it, and they said, well, we can't do it over the summer because we're not around, but if you made up a flyer, maybe we could pass it out to students who might be able to come up with something.

3:52

I also put it on the draper do you remember Facebook page to see if anyone might be interested?

4:00

That's fun.

4:02

Yeah.

4:03

Did they say anything about anybody being willing to come to the senior center and talk about Draper history?

4:09

Um I mentioned it to them, but nobody said, but I will bring it up again with them.

4:17

Okay, perfect.

4:19

And do we have somebody that is going to the next meeting?

4:24

And Elizabeth has joined.

4:26

Oh, hey, she's here.

4:28

Hi!

4:29

Yeah, sorry.

4:30

So perfect.

4:31

And Jordan.

4:32

Yeah, and we're joined.

4:34

Sorry.

4:37

So Elizabeth, do you have any updates on the historical society coordination?

4:46

I do not.

4:47

Um is the next meeting?

4:49

It's in last Monday of the month.

4:52

So what next Monday?

4:54

Okay.

4:54

Yeah.

4:55

Yeah, I think is that right?

4:57

Let's look over the calendar.

4:58

I'm gonna make.

5:00

Uh yeah, it would be the twenty-third.

5:01

Twenty-third.

5:02

Okay.

5:04

If no one else is able to go, I can.

5:09

Okay.

5:10

Anyone else able?

5:13

All right, Elizabeth, it looks like it's you.

5:15

Okay, perfect.

5:18

Okay.

5:19

Great.

5:20

Um and then uh as an inventory update, we went on I gotta look at my calendar.

5:26

I don't remember what day that was.

5:28

On the second of February, and we got some stuff done.

5:33

We are planning to go again on the 23rd, which is the same Monday from 6 to 8.

5:39

Um, so if anyone is interested in joining us for inventory that day, uh the more the merrier.

5:45

It'd be great to have you.

5:47

See the date again.

5:48

Uh February 23rd from 6 to 8.

5:56

We'll just keep on keeping on great.

5:59

Okay.

6:00

You'll be there perfectly.

6:02

Great.

6:03

Hope we get through those cameras.

6:08

We're so close.

6:11

All right.

6:11

And one of the things that I started doing now that I have a a computer that's working well enough, um, I have a spreadsheet and putting everything into a spreadsheet, so we'll all be searchable.

6:23

So when we go to start deaccessioning things and helping them figure that out, it'll it'll be a lot easier.

6:29

Can I say something to Elizabeth regarding the meeting?

6:31

Yeah.

6:33

Um could you talk to them about how the instrumental teachers wanted to have a flyer and see if that's something they would like to put together to pass out at the schools for the um a band for the his heritage banquet.

6:51

Are you asking if I can or yeah, can you just ask them if they would be willing to put together a flyer that we could hand out at the school?

6:58

Oh yeah.

6:59

For anyone who's interested to be part of a band like that.

7:02

Yeah.

7:03

Okay.

7:05

Okay.

7:06

All right.

7:07

Um, and then for oral history grant opportunities.

7:11

Um Utah Humanities has their oral history grants on a pause right now, so we'll table that until that updates.

7:20

And let them know that too.

7:22

I mean Yeah, we let them know that, Elizabeth.

7:24

Okay.

7:27

Uh Utah Humanities has the oral history grants paused right now.

7:33

So just let them know that we will I'll let 'em know as soon as they're reopened.

7:39

Okay.

7:40

Yeah, I can let them know that.

7:42

Great.

7:42

Thank you.

7:44

All right.

7:46

Okay, moving on.

7:48

Uh walk through video of historic homies, Jason and Nancy.

7:52

So we're supposed to meet with the people at the house next to the Drayper's tour.

7:57

They've heard next month, March.

7:59

Okay.

7:59

But we don't have money to do one, right?

8:01

Until after June.

8:02

Yeah, correct.

8:04

Um till until July.

8:06

Till July.

8:07

What sink was that again?

8:08

I want to make sure.

8:09

I don't have a date set yet.

8:10

I just need to reach out to they said March, so I'll reach out to them and let you know.

8:14

But yeah.

8:15

Cause we've got the registrations, national registrations that we've um budgeted for, and we'll be looking at a couple bits today for those, and then we've got the rest of the reconnaissance level survey that we need to pay for.

8:34

Um majority of the heavy lifting for their work will start in April.

8:40

Um, I have a question too.

8:42

I don't know if I can talk about that this right now.

8:44

But I went over to the Kimball Junction area to look I I went through that.

8:49

Who is it?

8:50

Kurt that came to talk to us about the survey over in Kimball Junction.

8:55

Yeah.

8:56

So I took made a list off of his report and went over to Kemble Junction to look at all those old homes.

9:02

And there's a couple of them I think that would be nice to add.

9:06

So because we don't really have any on our walking tour at all of those.

9:10

Will you send me the list?

9:17

Oh that are going to be demolished.

9:19

Do you know if the Johansson home is gonna be?

9:21

I don't.

9:22

Okay.

9:22

I know when Kimball's house is gonna go.

9:25

Which um, and that's the brookhouse that's on Kimball.

9:30

But I'm very sad it will go, but I that one's definitely gonna go, and there's three others that will be going.

9:36

Send me send me the addresses.

9:38

The ones I don't think yeah, and then I can see um what kind of their the status is.

9:45

Okay, and then we can go up there.

9:46

Yeah, so we can like put it online on our walking tour on there.

9:50

Yeah.

9:51

And I'd like to go to the Historic Society and find that information about them and talk to the owners if that helps too.

9:56

Okay.

10:00

We got good news also that um some friends of Jen and myself bought the Mickelson store and that property that has the post office and everything else.

10:09

Yeah.

10:09

Uh the new owner said absolutely they'd be happy to do a video tour with that.

10:14

I mean, there's a lot of things that they've done in terms of renovation, but I think there's still a cool story and they're willing to do that, but not yet.

10:22

Okay.

10:22

Um if they need to get a few things sorted in in terms of what they're gonna do in t business wise with the property, but they they said 100% they can do it.

10:33

Exciting.

10:37

All right.

10:38

Um National Register of Historic Places.

10:42

Um so we were looking into getting bids for uh getting those two properties on the national register and I send it out to five different places and heard back from both Kirk and Coral.

10:58

And um yeah, so we can look over those bids.

11:01

Let's see.

11:04

Yeah, so Kirk is saying um five thousand for each nomination.

11:11

Um we've paid in the past for nominations.

11:19

Um then coral.

11:24

Well what have we paid in the past?

11:26

I don't remember.

11:28

Um it's been about 2500 is what we paid.

11:34

This is kind of what I budgeted for because that's what we paid in the past.

11:40

Um I and I can kind of look through the records to verify exactly what we've paid.

11:46

But if you want, I can kind of open up past years budgets here.

11:50

Um Coral is looking at 2500, um, because there's no intensive level survey done on uh Dina Williams home.

12:01

Um the one on seventh, there is an intensive level survey that's already been done, so she's uh reducing that cost.

12:13

Um then this is the timeline on that.

12:18

Um so completing by June first.

12:21

Let's see, did Kurt put timeline on his it doesn't look like it.

12:31

Okay.

12:35

So those those are the two bids that we've gotten.

12:45

Oh, let's I just want to take a look and see previous years what we've what we've paid for nominations.

13:06

I'm asking you to evaluate any concision on them, or uh yes.

13:12

Now if you guys want me to send you these, then you can take a look at them and think about it, and we can put it on for the next agenda.

13:19

That's fine, but we would have to uh have a vote um to choose one of the bids and proceed forward.

13:30

I think if you just put them side by there's not a lot of text there.

13:33

I think you can just put them side by side on the screen real quick.

13:36

That might be enough to I don't know how to do that.

13:43

If you pull out the tab and then okay.

13:47

Now you should be able to split your screen left and right.

13:58

Yeah, what is it?

13:59

Like function left and function right will split your screen or something.

14:04

Is it function or all there's a lot of things?

14:06

I don't know.

14:06

I need to know this.

14:08

Yeah, I didn't know that there were buttons I could push.

14:10

I just drag it to the core until something popped up.

14:13

No, there's buttons.

14:14

You can push that little line it up beautifully.

14:18

Yeah, there's new versions of Windows have little drop zones that you can.

14:22

So you can just put it in, yeah.

14:25

Oh no.

14:26

Sorry, I may have proposed something that's more no, you're you're fine.

14:32

Um you can see the bottom line for one is five thousand and bottom line for the other 4200.

14:41

Uh it's five thousand each for the current one, so the bottom line is ten thousand.

14:45

Well, uh yeah, to me that just seems like he's not looking for work right now.

14:50

Yeah, I don't understand the difference.

14:53

Unless he's offering something that's in addition to what Coral typically does, that doesn't make sense.

15:00

Well, I don't think he didn't put a timeline also.

15:03

Yeah, agreed.

15:04

Yeah, he might have emailed me one.

15:06

Let me double check the email.

15:07

Okay.

15:08

Um I think nominations are pretty standard in what they're required to have.

15:20

Yeah.

15:20

Um, it's really a form you're filling out and then you're attaching your documentation.

15:28

I mean it doesn't look like there's anything anything, yeah, like no time.

15:33

There's nothing that explains the difference in price, so to me it's logical to go and we we have experience with coral.

15:43

It looks like in 23 for the NS auto registration, we paid 2800.

15:50

Yeah.

15:54

That might have been coral.

15:55

Pretty sure it was.

15:56

Oh, wait, I I should know that because I like that five hours.

16:03

Yeah, I think it was coral.

16:05

Okay.

16:06

So I move that we accept Coral's proposal.

16:10

Second.

16:11

All in favor?

16:12

I alright.

16:14

Easy peasy.

16:15

Easy.

16:19

And that's who's seconded.

16:22

Wendy.

16:26

Okay.

16:29

So with that, if we go back to our what we budgeted.

16:34

Yeah, sorry to make you pull up 11 more screens.

16:37

17 and 25.

16:39

Okay, so that would go up to uh 1700.

16:51

Now we go down to 25.

16:55

Was it the the other way around though?

16:58

Yeah.

16:59

What?

16:59

Yeah, I think so.

17:01

Yeah.

17:04

Stuart has to.

17:07

Oh, okay.

17:08

Sorry.

17:09

Um, and we're paying.

17:17

We're paying for half of Vino.

17:20

So if it's 2500, we're paying what, 13?

17:25

1250.

17:26

1250.

17:27

Yeah.

17:32

Was she okay?

17:33

Could someone have the conversation with her to let her know like the price range that could be, and she's okay with it?

17:39

Yep.

17:39

Yeah, I think let me double check my messages.

17:42

I think I told her it would be um ballpark of a thousand, because I wasn't quite sure what our bids would come back at, but she said that was absolutely fine.

17:52

Okay.

17:52

Let's see.

17:53

Okay.

17:54

So we would need to get with her and let her know that bid was 2500.

18:00

And so her share would be the 1250.

18:04

Perfect.

18:04

And make sure she's okay with that before we right now.

18:08

Before we uh get coral fully on board.

18:11

And I'll get with our uh purchasing agent on getting that.

18:36

I just texted her, so we'll see what she says.

18:50

Oh, you're good.

18:51

I could pull up the agenda on my computer too, and I didn't.

18:56

Alright.

18:57

Um, great.

18:59

America 250 participation.

19:01

Do we have any updates?

19:03

Um Chris, so you attended the last meeting, right?

19:07

Yeah.

19:08

Um it got moved to the 11th.

19:11

So we sat down for about an hour.

19:15

Um just to give you guys a quick one thing that I was excited about picking the career committee.

19:21

Um we just we threw out a lot of ideas.

19:24

Um but something that's definitely gonna happen is the uh July 5th I think.

19:32

Um market calendars for that one gonna be uh picnic near all of us.

19:41

And the city's gonna do a small thing towards it, like a root year float or something like that to kind of like help promote the event.

19:50

So I just thought that was cool.

19:51

But um packed us.

19:55

So uh one of the ideas that was thrown out there was a potential like humidity service project.

20:00

So uh one of the ideas that was thrown out there was a potential like community service project, like you know, make draper um you know keep draper pretty, make it you know, improve the town, and um I brought up that I have to know a group of people who need some work done to install black at the widowmakers that was that's a potential contender for a service project for this.

20:31

So, Jen, um I wanted to make sure that you know about that because we do move forward with that.

20:36

Kelly will reach out to you.

20:38

Okay, um, in terms of coordinating and stuff.

20:40

So I was like hoping I was like, we need to do this, and we don't have money to do it.

20:46

So yeah, so fingers crossed on over now.

20:51

There may be limited things that a service project can be done, mainly because of the requirements that the county has for mounting um the plaque.

21:01

But there are probably a lot of things that can be done in prep and improving sight lines, maybe a little bit of trail clearing, stuff like that could be could be probably some of the park, yeah.

21:13

Yeah, like planting some trees to make it like a nicer area and helping with concrete and potentially moving the spring cruises need to depending upon like it depends on who can do it and what can happen.

21:29

Yeah, okay, cool.

21:30

Yeah, but it's on the radar, so and then the other one is kind of an action group, and I know we've kind of discussed this before, but um we were kind of given the green light to go ahead and write an article for the Draper Forward um with the theme, you know, what was going on in Utah and Draper in 1776.

21:55

So they asked us to go ahead and do that and uh work with the communication staff to get it in there, so um, those are kind of the two major things.

22:12

I I don't keep you guys posted as you know, any of the brainstorming comes to fruition.

22:19

Uh I wasn't able to bring up the I know we had talked about potentially doing some oral histories at Draper Days, but I guess it's good since the grants can't go through now anyway.

22:31

So um yeah, I think that was all very good.

22:44

Okay, great.

22:46

Um, all right, next one Native American recognition, Wendy.

22:50

Okay, the Galena Stone Finding Monument web page is up on the website.

22:58

Uh so it is on the historic sites page.

23:07

Right.

23:08

Yep.

23:09

And then this was what we had proposed to do for sort of the next step in Native American Recognition is to get an art article together connecting with American super piece.

23:19

So we'll work on that.

23:22

Um there's a link area, thank you.

23:31

So the the write-up is there, and then there is the video.

23:36

The link to the YouTube video.

23:39

Cool.

23:39

Right.

23:40

And then they do have a map on how to how to actually get there.

23:46

Awesome.

23:47

But you know what I'll have to take.

23:49

Um, and then there's the uh resources and uh sources, uh lakes as well for people.

23:58

Oh, that looks great.

24:01

Yay!

24:02

Really does.

24:03

How do you pronounce that?

24:05

The second word.

24:13

Thank you.

24:15

Yeah, I saw Wendy on channel too.

24:18

Also our our media celebrity as usual, you did a great job.

24:27

Thanks.

24:27

That was a cool story to share.

24:30

Yeah, it was it shared well.

24:37

All right, and what is the deadline?

24:39

When did we decide we were going to do that article?

24:42

I know that we talked about a couple dates.

24:45

Small, okay.

24:46

Right.

24:47

I think it was September, October.

24:49

I have it in my other notes.

24:51

Perfect.

24:51

So that we are sort of out of the way of all of the Draper data.

24:55

Yeah, don't get to fall over within them.

24:58

Yeah.

25:01

Yeah.

25:04

Perfect.

25:09

Alright.

25:11

Great.

25:15

Okay.

25:16

And then uh Little Maker Plaque update.

25:19

I don't really have much for you.

25:20

I think Chris asked you more than I have.

25:24

Um I yeah, I think we're close on an agreement with the county.

25:32

Um I have not had a chance to look into that construction side for the installation.

25:38

So hopefully I will get something to you there.

25:41

I think great.

25:43

All right.

25:44

Uh Juneteenth events.

25:46

Uh Wendy, do you want us talk about the article?

25:49

Did everyone get a chance to read what she sent out?

25:53

Great.

25:53

Pretty cool.

25:54

I'll let you take it away.

25:55

All right.

25:56

Um so right now I'm just putting together as much information as we can kind of glean as you can imagine records around enslaved people are pretty limited usually.

26:09

But we do have the news clipping and some other we have the article from the broad acts that connects to Alex Bankhood.

26:19

So there are some good memoirs to kind of build out from like just the census records and the death records.

26:29

Um we I still have some questions, but before I do any more research or work on this, I really want to get kind of a temperature check from this group um about publishing something like this.

26:44

We were thinking about Draper Forward, I believe, isn't that closing that our plan?

26:50

Um I don't have a word count or a target for the length of how how long that should be, so that's just a question that I have.

27:00

Um but how are we feeling about the tone, the approach is it balanced in that I think so.

27:14

I mean I I love what you put together.

27:16

I think it it makes sense chronologically, it brings the whole story together.

27:21

You've got a little bit of the history, you know, how did they get here?

27:27

Uh you know, who the slave owner was.

27:30

We've got a little bit there going on that kind of contextualizes it.

27:34

Um, and then I love how you kind of did the deep dive into like where did they end up?

27:39

Yeah, I think that was the best best part so fun.

27:42

Yeah, I mean, because it it it it speaks without putting a lot of words into it, it speaks volumes as to the challenges these folks have.

27:51

Absolutely, you know, beyond just coming to Utah.

27:55

I thought I I thought the tone was perfect for I would say I would I'd say it's on the poetic side.

28:01

Oh like I I think it says just the right amount to get people to really start thinking about what the lives of these folks would would have been like.

28:09

So I think I think it's great.

28:11

I think timed with Juneteenth is also really good.

28:15

Um because it it's an appropriate time to to kind of talk about and and share these things.

28:22

So yeah, and you got my book for it.

28:24

I think it's yeah.

28:26

I love that it talks about like the life after, like once they realize that you know they they were free because you mentioned that you know the news kind of trickled out here slowly and you know, things didn't travel so fast.

28:40

Um, and how they went and they had lives and they had kids and they moved on and they looked like Nancy lived in Ogden and her kids I mean hopefully we'll find a little bit more information.

28:52

That's what I spent the entire afternoon looking for after I saw your comment.

28:56

I was like, I want to find more.

28:59

I love to find those things.

29:01

So it's yeah, yeah, it's been a really interesting project to research and like realizing just how hard it is to find anything has been kind of eye-opening.

29:14

It's yeah on them, on the people.

29:18

Yeah, oh man, is there anything you can make in the family surgery?

29:23

Oh, I she's looking.

29:24

Oh, my best friend.

29:27

I'll hand the books around so you can look at them, but these are the two most recent works on slavery in Utah, and this one has the most on the bankheads, and so the bankhead the enslaved bankheads that went with the other brother to Cash County, there are a lot more descendants out of that family, and so you'll see the bankhead name quite a bit when you're reading about the black communities in Utah, and I just figured that we would find these connections, and as I started like just logging down where people ended up, they're just a lot of sat really sad endings.

30:00

And I just figured that we would find these connections.

30:04

And as I started like just logging down where people ended up, they're just a lot of sat really sad endings.

30:15

And I hate I I'm a little worried about not being able to talk about resilience.

30:22

But we aren't quite done.

30:25

So we'll we'll think about that too.

30:29

One of the things I was really interested in in some other reading I was doing that a number of the members of the LBS Church who had space actually went back to the Southern States.

30:46

And so they actually I don't know how many it didn't say how many or anything, but said that there were some that actually took their slaves and went back to the Southern State.

30:57

Yeah, Amy Thury talks about how the ones who went on to California who were just their livestock, couldn't make it here.

31:06

That like just the climatic issues and coming kind of from the south to Utah.

31:14

Um was difficult.

31:18

Did you want to see it?

31:20

Okay.

31:21

Um I'll I'll get with Alex because I don't know about links.

31:26

Do you want to just connect us in a thread again?

31:29

Yes.

31:30

Use my work email because that is the one I check when he's at work too.

31:34

Okay.

31:35

Um you email me your work email so I can make sure I have it.

31:38

Yeah.

31:38

Okay.

31:39

Yeah, and then I can get with Alex, make sure we're okay on length, or what we want to do to make sure we're getting the information out, but also meeting what they need for for like are there any pictures of Alex or anything else?

31:55

No, there's a picture of their headstone.

31:59

Um the pictures that I put into the document are the ones that you've been able to find.

32:05

That I've been able to find.

32:06

I do wonder though, if we couldn't do something with the map.

32:10

So Annie found that map online, but if that is also the map that's in the front of the history of draper books, and you can see I mean, I'm like, isn't that about fifties?

32:27

Um so I do wonder if we could use something interesting with the map.

32:32

Yeah.

32:33

Can you see?

32:34

So it's really easy to say it's CHA, where Henry Day's place was, and then Bankhead was just directly east.

32:43

Yeah.

32:44

I think if we include the map, we should include either a description, kind of of where in the city it it is.

32:57

Yeah.

32:57

So it's clear.

32:58

I mean, people can read State Street, but that's really the only street you can really make out.

33:05

So people aren't really gonna know where they're looking.

33:08

Yeah, so I I think being able to say this is you know, State Street 50 stork or dry creek is now known as Willow Creek, so something like that uh under the picture so people can actually kind of understand where it is.

33:23

We can do that.

33:24

I'll maybe ask Alex if he have is interested in doing something a little more graphic with it.

33:32

Yeah, you could realize these folks have done a lot of research, but what what was it uh Spanish work that he ended up?

33:45

Alex Rosa.

33:47

So Alex and Marina, so I'm wondering if uh there's anything down there and historical societies or anything that hasn't been on the there could be now.

33:58

There's a really great article, recent article on Marinda in the Utah Historical Quarterly from like three or four years ago.

34:08

So there's been a lot of work done on these families.

34:14

This story I haven't seen pulled together in this way anywhere, so I mean there might be more that we could do with it, but I think I will definitely at least look at the article on Marinda and her bike.

34:30

There is uh really good picture of her with like the red family, and she's kind of standing off to the side, wearing a you know, an apron.

34:44

So um we have a picture of her, but she didn't live in Draper.

35:00

Alright, so we're carrying on.

35:02

Okay.

35:03

Great.

35:03

Thanks so much.

35:05

Great.

35:06

Thank you for all your work on that, Wendy.

35:08

Yes.

35:09

This is the kind of thing that you stay up all night doing.

35:13

I can't stop.

35:15

We can't stop reading now.

35:17

I was almost late today.

35:18

I all of my tabs right now are Frank Valentine Valentine.

35:24

It was almost late, but I made it.

35:26

Um brochures.

35:32

Um well we don't have any of the uh the holders left, and so I didn't know um what I know at one time the historical society had money that they weren't going to use.

35:46

Would anybody be opposed to me talking to Lynn to see if they would buy?

35:55

And um that's ever since Lorraine left.

35:59

Why um we've always included the brochure from the historical society.

36:04

And so I mean if they want to but I'd be would b anybody be opposed to me approaching then and then say, you know, we don't have the money to buy, I'm willing to put them out and we put yours out for all these years.

36:16

Would it be alright?

36:18

They if they want to contribute holders, then that's that's up to them.

36:23

It's their funds.

36:24

Um I didn't want to approach it if you didn't think that was.

36:29

Yeah, I mean it's it's their funds to do with and and you're right, we do we do put their flyer along with the walking doors and stuff, so yeah.

36:41

I think that'd be fine.

36:42

Yeah.

36:43

Anybody else might as well ask.

36:45

Do we need to make a motion for that?

36:47

Or no, because it's it's them perfect deciding what to do with their money.

36:53

So great.

36:54

If they aren't why then um I would be willing to spend some money and buy them since we're not having Michael July.

37:02

Um sort of on a roll now and peace.

37:05

I've had really good luck with people accepting them.

37:07

That's great.

37:07

But only had one rejection.

37:09

So would it be better if you gave me the information about where you ordered them and I ordered them?

37:14

Or should I give you the money and have you order them?

37:16

What would be best?

37:17

Let's see if the historical society's interested.

37:20

Okay.

37:21

And if they're not, give me a call and let's talk.

37:23

Okay.

37:23

Okay.

37:24

Thank you.

37:26

All right.

37:27

Perfect.

37:28

Thanks, David.

37:29

And I don't have anything to report on the historical research.

37:33

I didn't get into some things with the African Americans and Draper, but nothing with money doesn't have them.

37:41

Okay.

37:41

So it's a very interesting story.

37:44

Keep looking, David.

37:46

Keep looking.

37:48

Everybody is empowered to look.

37:50

Yes.

37:50

Share information and find.

37:52

Yeah.

37:53

More ice the better.

37:57

Alright.

37:58

Um, action items.

38:00

Okay.

38:01

Um, I will get with our purchasing agent uh on uh getting Coral on board for for the historic nominations.

38:12

Um Annie, if you'll get with Dina and make sure she's okay with the hearing.

38:17

Okay.

38:18

Um I've got uh Elizabeth and Nancy for Historical Society.

38:23

I wasn't sure who's going to the next meeting.

38:27

Okay.

38:28

Um I just wrote down what we asked her.

38:35

Okay.

38:36

Okay, okay.

38:37

Um I will continue working with Jason on Widowmaker and and uh hopefully next month I will have more concrete stuff for you guys.

38:48

Um and then I will connect uh Alx with our communications team of Wendy on uh the Juneteenth article and then David, you were gonna get with historical society all on brochure folder.

39:02

Anything else I'm missing?

39:04

Um then I'm gonna send you the list of addresses of Kim and Junction to be added to the walking drink.

39:14

Okay.

39:15

Tomorrow night the uh Brigham Young chapter of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers are having a lecture uh about the history of sheep in Utah.

39:25

So it'll be interesting to see what he says about Draper.

39:29

Yeah.

39:34

Since you know this was a major place for the sheep and some of those historic homes that were built was basically from the wealth that they acquired from having the sheep.

39:44

The bank hats and maybe there were a couple other Allen's the um homes on pork the uh those sheep.

39:54

The Anton Hillman.

39:56

Yeah.

40:00

Um during when we dressed up.

40:02

Right, the owners I made a lot of money off of sheep as well.

40:08

Which house was that?

40:10

I'm trying to remember.

40:11

Um where was she?

40:13

I used to remember the family today, but um, I'll look at my notes and see.

40:20

Okay.

40:20

It was not like it was right.

40:22

It was the zebra house.

40:25

Oh no, I don't know how they were in one time.

40:28

Yeah, that's interesting.

40:29

I I have a really cool story about how they were uh shipped sheep in from Montana on the train and riding down street.

40:37

Oh that's that's awesome.

40:39

Which house was that again, please?

40:41

The house it's right on the relation.

40:44

Relation street, right?

40:45

Yeah, relationship.

40:46

Right before going into Folder.

40:48

It has that funky intersection.

40:58

It's not a smith house, is it?

41:00

I'm trying to think.

41:01

Is there like some kind of an anniversary that we could like do a sheep story?

41:08

That would be well you know I got it from when we went to I think it was the Fitzgerald Cabin.

41:14

Is it some of the people telling stories about it?

41:17

Cedar City sat on is it summit or cedar?

41:20

I think it may be a combination of both and have a sheep drive.

41:23

That'd be the rally, yeah.

41:25

From the time the the Dallies established the the area back in the day.

41:30

And there it always coincides with with um shoring seasons.

41:34

So can we do maybe something that would be timed similarly?

41:38

Do you have the address in that house?

41:40

I imagine there were sheep drives.

41:44

They were all over.

41:46

Uh yeah, one twenty six.

41:47

Maybe we could time it similarly.

41:49

I don't know a lot about how all that works.

41:52

I don't either, but I'll ask my mom.

41:54

Cedar City does.

41:56

Yeah.

41:58

She would say that was that easy.

42:02

Yeah.

42:03

Oh yeah.

42:05

Yeah, of course.

42:06

You know, doing it with sheet.

42:10

Right.

42:10

Yeah, the manual.

42:16

Yeah.

42:18

Yeah.

42:19

Great house.

42:20

Mm-hmm.

42:21

I don't know.

42:24

What's the name of that house?

42:26

The historical name.

42:29

I don't know.

42:32

Steve spreadsheet.

42:33

Steve.

42:37

Spreadsheet.

42:38

No, that's Sally.

42:41

Sally.

42:43

That's not a Steve house.

42:45

I don't know, what do you think?

42:50

I send the brochure.

42:52

I can't remember the or on online.

42:56

Let's see.

42:58

That's not an account.

43:00

Okay.

43:01

What's its address?

43:04

Oh, it's 126 60.

43:09

Yeah.

43:10

1565.

43:11

Or relation.

43:12

Relation.

43:13

Okay.

43:14

Yeah.

43:16

It is the David J and M H Smith.

43:18

Oh, I thought it was Smith.

43:20

Yeah.

43:20

Well, it's not in 1899.

43:22

I made a spreadsheet if anyone wants it.

43:26

Did you send it to me?

43:27

I'll send it out.

43:28

It's very helpful.

43:31

Alright, I think that's it.

43:33

That's it.

43:34

Okay, can I get a motion to adjourn our meeting?

43:36

Motion.

43:37

I moved.

43:38

I second.

43:39

Okay.

43:40

Okay.

43:40

Meeting adjourned.

43:42

Thanks, everyone.

43:43

Thanks, thanks.

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Summary of Proceedings

Draper Historic Preservation Commission Meeting - February 18, 2026

The Draper Historic Preservation Commission met on February 18, 2026, at 6:03 PM. Chair Annie Bomber called the meeting to order with roll call. Commissioners present included David Hales, Jason Wiggins, Melissa Day, Wendy Atzett, Nancy Michaels, Jennifer Destromski, Natasha, Krista, and Elizabeth Allen (arriving later). The meeting covered updates on the historical society, inventory progress, national register nominations, Juneteenth article, and other preservation matters.

Consent Calendar

  • The minutes from the previous meeting were approved with corrections (fixing Elizabeth Allen's last name and spelling of Alan).

Public Comments & Testimony

  • No public comments were recorded.

Discussion Items

  • Historical Subject Update: Nancy reported that oral history grants from Utah Humanities are paused. Inventory work on February 2 made progress; another session scheduled for February 23 from 6–8 PM. A spreadsheet for inventory is being created. Plans for a band at the Heritage Banquet were discussed.
  • Walking Tour Video of Historic Homes: Jason and Nancy plan to meet with property owners in March, but funding is unavailable until July due to other budgeted items (national register nominations and reconnaissance survey).
  • National Register of Historic Places: Two bids were received: Kirk at $5,000 per nomination ($10,000 total) and Coral at $2,500 per nomination with a reduction for one property already surveyed, totaling $4,200. The commission noted previous costs around $2,500. A motion to accept Coral's proposal was moved, seconded, and passed unanimously.
  • America 250 Participation: Chris reported ideas including a community service project (possibly installing the Widowmaker plaque) and writing an article for Draper Forward about Draper in 1776.
  • Native American Recognition: Wendy announced the Galena Stone Finding Monument webpage is live on the historic sites page, with a write-up, video, and map.
  • Little Maker Plaque Update: Chris indicated progress with the county but no update on installation.
  • Juneteenth Event Article: Wendy shared a draft article about Alex Bankhead and enslaved people in Draper. Commissioners praised the tone, requested a map with modern labels, and supported publishing in Draper Forward coordinated with communications.
  • Brochures: David proposed asking the historical society to fund brochure holders since the commission lacks funds. Commissioners agreed it was appropriate to ask.
  • Historical Research: David briefly mentioned ongoing research on African Americans in Draper.
  • Other Business: Members discussed sheep history in Draper and an upcoming lecture by the Sons of the Utah Pioneers.

Key Outcomes

  • Approved previous meeting minutes with corrections.
  • Voted unanimously to accept Coral's proposal ($4,200) for two National Register nominations. Chair will confirm with the property owner (Dina) that her share is $1,250 before proceeding.
  • Commission agreed to request brochure holder funding from the historical society.
  • Action items assigned: Annie to contact Dina about cost; purchasing agent to contract Coral; Jason to continue Widowmaker work; Wendy to connect with communications on Juneteenth article; David to approach historical society; Nancy to send addresses for walking tour additions.
  • Meeting adjourned.

Meeting Transcript

It didn't work. IT has told me it will work. We're recording their apps from the museum. Oh cool. Okay, we're still museum at still. We are recording, guys. Oh, yeah. So all right, we ready? We're ready. Yeah. Alright, welcome everyone to the chat. No, it's fine. Welcome everyone to the February 18th, 2026 version of the Historic Preservation Commission of Draper. Um it is currently 6 03 PM. Uh let's start off with a roll call. Um Annie Bomber. David Hales, Jason Wiggins. Melissa Day, Wendy Atzett, Nancy Michaels. Jennifer Destromski, and then Natasha and Krista, if you want to introduce yourself. Hi. Alright, perfect. Um, did everybody get a chance to read uh last month's minutes? Yes. Did I yes? I have some changes. Perfect. To go over after I sent them, Melissa emailed me and was like, I I combined Elizabeth and Melissa together. Oh in the minute. So um that and then I found a couple places where I had Alan spelled AN and then E N. So um there's so there's a couple spots. So in the uh minute uh voting, I just need to fix Elizabeth's last name, and then in uh 3A put Elizabeth Allen. I had Elizabeth Day. Oh so and then there's another for the minutes recap here. So we just need to fix the spelling of Elizabeth's name because I had it two different ways. So all right, do I mean do we want the moment that we accept the minutes as a corrected are all in favor? Aye. Alright, motion good. Okay, back to hey, let's kick it off with the historical subject. Um Elizabeth doesn't look like she is here to win. But you re okay, perfect. Nancy went to the last meeting. Do you want to give us an update? Um, it was all talk about what they're gonna keep and what like uh each said she said things on but I asked them about the oral histories and they and I just texted Lynn today and she said they were gonna talk about it again, but we found out that they're on hold. So the grant, so they are also warning Howard was wanting to have a band at the Heritage Banquet that would play the old time music and so I took a picture of the draper brass band and I sent it to the two um instrumental teachers at the middle school and the high school to ask them about it, and they said, well, we can't do it over the summer because we're not around, but if you made up a flyer, maybe we could pass it out to students who might be able to come up with something. I also put it on the draper do you remember Facebook page to see if anyone might be interested? That's fun. Yeah. Did they say anything about anybody being willing to come to the senior center and talk about Draper history? Um I mentioned it to them, but nobody said, but I will bring it up again with them. Okay, perfect.

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