Janesville Historic Commission Meeting - February 17, 2026

Good evening and welcome to the Historic Commission meeting Tuesday, February 17th, 2026.

It is 5 p.m.

called meeting to order.

McKenzie, roll call, please.

Griffha?

Here.

Kremmer's Conrad?

Here.

Gaw?

Here.

Hansen?

I am here.

Terrell.

Absent.

Five present, you have a quorum.

Thank you.

Item number three on our agenda is comments from the public.

Did uh we receive any written comments today?

Thank you.

Item number four, approval of the minutes of the meeting of January 20, 2020.

It's a lot of 20s.

Is there a motion to accept the minutes as presented?

I'll motion to accept the minutes.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Any discussion.

Hearing none.

All those in favor of accepting the minutes as presented from our meeting January 20th, please say.

Oh there is an incorrect date.

Oh, yeah.

On the way up at the top.

Yeah.

Before we with that, we do you accept the amended change?

Yes, I accept the movement change.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Hearing none, so moved.

Item number five, new business.

Um was there anything that potentially has come up since the agenda was sent out?

Uh nope.

Okay.

Item number six, old business, our continued discussion on the historic preservation award programs.

So McKenzie, I guess I'll turn it over to you.

Yeah, so at our last meeting we discussed a few different award programs.

I know that we talked about potentially applying to this award program on the screen, the Wisconsin Historical Society, um, the preservation and rehabilitation award program.

However, we do not have an eligible project identified, so I just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention.

Dale uh did some research and so we unfortunately we don't have a project to apply for this one.

Um however we do have a couple projects identified for this program.

Um this is the uh historic preservation excellence awards, and so Mitch has been working on collecting the information necessary for an application for two of their award program or um options.

So the identification and designation, he's working on gathering the materials for the three elementary schools that were listed um last April.

So I don't know if if we have any discussion you know related to that particular one.

Also looking at applying for the advocacy um award, and that would be for the roadway signage that is happening throughout the historic districts in the community.

Yeah, and um I also have just some outstanding questions to um McKenzie and and city staff to just confirm some outstanding pieces of information before I hit the submit button, but um I designed all the um submission materials, the uh description of our uh panel's work on these various projects and the impacts they've had and hopefully will have uh in the future.

So everything, almost everything, is uh prepared to send these out.

I just need a few more bits of uh clarifying information, uh a couple of names, a couple of numbers, and otherwise we are ready to go for both of these submissions.

So I'm uh highly confident um as long as we get the information that we need, um, we can get ourselves submitted for these awards by end of the month at the latest, so healthily before the application due date.

Yeah, if anyone has any other discussion to provide for that.

I just have a question about that.

I wasn't here, but are we submitting one application for all three schools or separate?