The Historic Preservation Advisory Board (HPAB) met on June 10, 2026, at 5:30 PM in Room 110 of 1000 Central Avenue, Los Alamos. Chair Patrick Cruz presided. The board approved the amended agenda and the minutes from the April 1, 2026 meeting. The main action was a vote on Ashley Pond safety improvements, recommending Concept 3 (natural boulders). Staff provided updates on Historic Preservation Month, the rose garden fence, and the Historic Preservation Master Plan. Council Liaison Theresa Cull reported on recent County Council actions, including ballot measures for board term extensions and political composition changes.
Let's call the order. So I'm Patrick Cruz, the uh the chair for the historic preservation advisory board. Carrie Gregory, member of the preservation advisory board. Um Rachel Adler, I'm a new member of the historic preservation advisory board. I don't know if you want me to say anything about my background. Okay, yeah, okay. Um so I've been um in Los Alamos for about 16 years. Um my background is in archaeology. I have a master's in historic preservation, and I've been working in preservation with the National Park Service for um about 14 years. Welcome. We're very excited to have you. We're happy to have you. Yes. So the the first thing is to looks like the approval of the agenda. So do you want to everyone's looked at the agenda and make a motion? Uh Patrick, may I may I request an amendment to the agenda? Sure. Can we delete um the work plan? Can we um table the work plan until the next meeting and then uh remove the actually pond ballards from the next meetings, which is missing that today. So if we can please um amend our agenda. All right. I move that we approve the agenda as amended. Second. So it's it's moved it's uh um so then next part is the approval of the minutes. So do we want to make a yes? I move to approve the meeting minutes of April 1, our last meeting. Okay, so uh minutes of one okay. So then we're going to Section D public comments for items not on the agenda. Is there anyone online just to no one is online chair? Then to historic preservation business. So we've got we tabled the the work. Is this where we have the actually plan? Yes. Um you please bring up the presentation uh attachments to the agenda items. That was the third thing right there. And uh we welcome Jennifer to come and present and start start the uh Ashley Bollard's presentation. Whatever you're comfortable doing. I think I think it's small enough can be cozy here, right? Um so thank you for having me. Um I'm here today because unfortunately I think we all see on the news too many times of a car departing the road, whether it's intentional or whether it's accidental, um, and going off into crowded areas where there's a lot of pedestrians. Um safety became a prime factor for the county. And as part of the safety, um it was decided to make sure that Ashley Pond was well protected, as we know Ashley Pond's a huge historic marker for the area. It is um you know a marquee location for Los Alamos. We have all of our music festivals there, we have crafts festivals and fairs and a lot of public uh you know, especially the music festival, right? There are tons of pedestrians. And as an interim measure, the county put out the Jersey barriers, and the intention was to actually uh put out a more permanent before this year came around. Well, we started looking into the world of crash protection bollards, and it's the world is your oyster. Like what do you want, right? And so we thought it was a good idea to bring in a um uh landscape architect who's a little bit more experienced, and they can look into the background of Los Angeles and come up with some ideas, and they could give us these great graphics so we can actually get an idea of what it's gonna look like when they're implemented. So we um had three concepts that we're bringing to the public.