Sacramento Preservation Commission Meeting: LGBTQ+ Historic Experience Project and Annual Report
Sacramento Preservation Commission November 2024 Meeting
Meeting Overview
The Sacramento Preservation Commission held its final meeting of 2024, focusing on recognizing commissioners' service and advancing significant historical preservation projects.
Opening and Introductions
- Commissioners recognized for their service: Commissioner Ambacher, Commissioner Ricca, and Chair McSlavkin
- Conducted land acknowledgement and Pledge of Allegiance
Consent Calendar
- Approved meeting minutes from October 16, 2024
Discussion Items
2024 Annual Report
- Forwarded 2024 Annual Report and 2025 Workplan to Personnel & Public Employees Committee
- Discussed upcoming grant applications for historic preservation projects
LGBTQ+ Historic Experience Project
- Presented final draft of historic context and building survey findings
- Key achievements:
- Completed comprehensive research on LGBTQ+ history in Sacramento
- Identified potential historic landmarks and Lavender Heights historic district
- Conducted extensive community outreach and oral history collection
Key Outcomes
- Recommended City Council accept LGBTQ+ Historic Experience Project findings
- Received $14,000 National Park Service Network to Freedom Program grant
- Reappointment of existing commissioners confirmed
Closing
- Meeting adjourned at 5:55 p.m.
- No meeting scheduled for December 2024
Meeting Transcript
We're ready when you are. In November 2020, the 24th Preservation Commission meeting, the meeting is now called to order. Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum? Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Murker? Commissioner Ambacher? Commissioner Burns? Commissioner Rika noted he would be absent this meeting, Vice Chair Nair and Chair McSloffkin. Thank you. We have a quorum. Thank you. I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins. You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on. And after the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips. Speaker slips. We will now proceed with today's agenda, beginning with the land acknowledgement. Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Vali and Plains Mewak, Patwyn, Wintun peoples and the people of the Wilton, Rinshariah, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives. Thank you. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we get started with today's agenda, I believe we have a special presentation from the clerk. Thank you, Chair. Yes, hi, this is Cecilia Ventress with the Office of the City Clerk. As this is our last regular scheduled meeting before the current terms expire, the Office of the City Clerk would like to extend our sincerest gratitude for your service to the Preservation Commission. Your service has been invaluable to this commission as well as the City of Sacramento. So I will now hand out the certificates to some of the members and turn it over to the Dias if you guys wish to speak. Well thank you for the certificate and for the comments. I believe all three of us are still going to be here for the next term. So it's a bit of an anticlimactic farewell. It's been a pleasure to serve as Chair and to work on these experience projects in the buildings we've landmarked and it's been a fun year. I'll just bring that. I said I've only been since March and I'm looking forward to serving on the next term. All right, well thank you so much.
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