Who knows what we're gonna get in terms of water?

Good evening.

And welcome to the um September twenty-fourth two thousand twenty-six Historic Preservation Commission.

Call the uh meeting to order.

Um and also could we um Indy, can we have a roll call, please?

Miss Senker here, Mr.

Schweiker is absent.

Miss Tanner?

Here, Mr.

Shrekenberger.

Here.

And Miss Panito.

Here and our student representatives Gwen Wackerly and Bella Elmegard.

Well, welcome.

Um Gwen and you go by Bella, right?

Okay.

Um welcome to the the Historic Preservation Commission and uh why don't each of you just have a say a w uh introduce yourself and also say a little something about what your interest in historic preservation might be.

Um I'm Isabella or Bella, um, and I'm interested in learning the history of green.

Um my mom moved here when she was in fifth grade, so it's really fun to you know watch the community grow and be a part of it.

Great.

My name is Gwen, and I'm very interested in being a part of this and having a say in historical buildings because I never would thought and I got a say in a city, but now I do, and I'm also excited to learn about the buildings and green in general.

Wellcome and um I just wanted to give you a little bit of a summary of what it is we do in this commission.

Um if you look at our website, the Green Historic the the uh government section of the website, it states that the Historic Preservation Commission was established to preserve those elements which reflect the city's cultural, social, economic, political, or architectural heritage.

So to safeguard and dis uh the distinctive character of the city.

So it does affect buildings, but there are other things.

For example, we actually have uh about say about ten uh properties that are uh designated as um local uh historic places and two of them are cemeteries, believe it or not.

So it's not just buildings that we deal with.

Um you might be familiar with the Hard Tongue Farm.

Um little plug for Saturday, isn't it?

Saturday, the wilderfest.

Southgate, yeah.

So Southgate, yeah.

And then also uh Lichton Walter School.

I you may have uh visited there while you were what grade did they do that?

Uh I believe it's a third grade grade.

And then um even the you know, the um East Liberty Schoolhouse, which was moved from one place to another and it is now a restaurant.

So all of those things uh and and several others, uh some private residences and and such.

So that's kind of the thing.

And um if you want to learn a little bit about what the guidelines are that we are obligated to follow as commissioners for the historic preservation commission, there is a uh link on the uh on the website that you can go to and read a little bit if you have insomnia for an example, you can come and read that.

It's very interesting because you know, people are when they have a historic house, they come to us for a certificate of appropriateness of whether or not they can do this or that.

Um it's uh a document that really gives us guidelines, and we really just have to follow that.

There isn't a lot of wiggle room there.

We we have to follow the rules, and that's our job.

So, anyways, just wanted to give you that little thing now.

First order of business besides the introductions is the um approval of minutes from when March 26th of 26.

Right.

Okay.

Uh you've all had uh copy of that sent to you, and um I would entertain a motion to approve the minutes from a committee.

Well, I'm asking for a motion.

First month.

Yes, please is there a second?

I'll second.

Okay, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye opposed.

Thank you.

That's approved.

We don't have any um business that requires other than the minute approval that requires a vote tonight, but we do have several items that are of uh significance that Ms.

Herring wanted to uh bring to our attention.

So we'll start with um Southgate Farm Strategic Plan RFP that has been um sent out and submittals have been received and are being reviewed right now.