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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1994-09-06 Historic District Board Summary HISTORIC DISTRICT BOARD. September 6, 1994 - 7:00 p.m. Kenai Council Chambers Pro Tern Chair Karen Mahurin , CALL TO ORDER e APPROVAL OF AGENDA 3~ APPROVAL OF MINUTES June 21, 1994 , PERSONS PRESENT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD Se HISTORIC BOARD REVIEW Se NEW BUSINESS a. Certified Local Government 1. Professional Nominations for District Board 2. Outline Historic Preservation Plan b. Grants 1. 5010 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid , BOARD QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS , OLD BUSINESS a. Setting Meeting Dates 9. ADJOURNMENT PLEASE CONTACT LORETTA HARVEY 283-7933 IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND SO WE CAN ESTABLISH A QUORUM HISTORIC DISTRICT BOARD September 6, 1994 - 7:00 p.m. Kenai Council Chambers Chair Dorothy Gray ,,, ,. CALL TO ORDER Members present: Jim Arness, Alan Boraas, Ethel Clausen, Dorothy Gray, Rose Ann Murphy, Karen Mahurin, Diane Rathman, Roger Meeks Members absent: Will Jahrig ., APPROVAL OF AGENDA Karen Mahurin requested that Election of Officers be added to the agenda under 6a. MOTION AND VOTE: Dorothy Gray MOVED approval of agenda as amended. SECONDED. AGENDA APPROVED AS AMENDED. Diane Rathman .. APPROVAL OF MINUTES June 21, 1994 Dorothy Gray asked that the word "precedence" on pages 2 and 3, be changed to "precedent". MOTION AND VOTE: Ethel Clausen MOVED approval of minutes as amended. Diane Rathman SECONDED. MINUTES APPROVED AS AMENDED. 1 PERSONS PRESENT SCHEDULED TO _RE HEARD 1 HISTORIC BOARD REVIEW Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 1 NEW BUSINESS a. Election of Officers/Chair & Vice Chair ,Chairperson- MOTION AND VOTE: Rogers Meeks NOMINATED Dorothy Gray. Alan Boraas SECONDED. Nominations were closed. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Vice-Chair: MOTION AND VOTE: Rogers Meeks NOMINATED Karen Mahurin. Diane Rathman SECONDED. Mahurin asked if anyone else would like to nominate or be considered for this position. Seeing and hearing none, nominations were closed. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. b. Certified Local Government 1. Professional Nominations for District Board Chairperson Gray noted the letter regarding the possibility of Bill Kluge meeting the professional criteria for Architecture. Karen Mahurin said she had been contacted by James Malanaphy III, regarding this position. He had experience in this area and had taken buildings through the historic landmark process. Chairperson Gray noted that in order for the City to obtain CLG status they needed to meet certain criteria. Alan Boraas had been asked to serve on the Board to fulfill the criteria in the area of history and possibly archaeology. The grant did not specify whether each criteria had to be met by separate individuals, or if one person could meet two criteria. Gray asked Boraas to provide a resume, to be sent to the state for approval of him meeting the history/archeaoiogy requirements. Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 2. MOTION AND VOTE: Karen Mahurin MOVED that the Board request resumes from Mr. Alan Boraas, Mr. Bill Kluge and Mr. James Malanaphy, by the next meeting for consideration by the Board. Roger Meeks SECONDED. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 2. Outline Historic Preservation Plan The Board will begin establishing Goals and Objectives and an Historic Preservation Plan at the next meeting. c. Grants 1. 5010 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid Loretta Harvey explained the City needs to file a letter of intent for 5010 Grants by September 15th. Administration requested the Board identify their priority for utilization of these funds. The grant is a 60%-Federal, 40%-City, matching grant. The eligible proiects include: Survey; Inventory; Planning; National Register nomination; Public preservation education; Architectural plans; History structures reports; Engineering studies; Pre-development/development; and Acquisition. Chairperson Gray stated that the Task Force which had been formed to draft the new TSH Ordinance had made several recommendations regarding development of Oldtowne. One was the acquisition of some land between Overland and Mission. Other projects were preservation of the sanddunes on the beach, developing a trail to the beach, and bluff erosion. Alan Boraas said a historical survey of Kenai would be a good use of the funds. Kenai has a lot of history that has never been recorded and this would be a good beginning. Karen Mahurin expressed concern about the beach area and the ongoing erosion in the bluff area. Roger Meeks said that at one time, the Corps of Engineers estimated 30 million to stop the erosion on the bluff. This was about twenty years ago and the only way they could see to stop the erosion would be to drive sheet pilings all the way from the cannery to the mouth of the river, which would be very expensive. Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 3 Jim Arness asked if the survey would be a site based or just a general history? Alan Boraas said he had served on the State Board and there was a distinction between history which was written, versus history pertaining to sites, buildings and locals. He felt that this grant would deal with the site based history. Jim Arness felt that a survey was the logical place to start. Karen Mahurin noted the Fairbanks Historic Preservation Plan had listed their top goal was to maintain an inventOry of buildings and sites of historic, cultural, architectural, archaeological, and paleontological significance located in the Fairbanks Northstar Borough. She felt a similar survey would benefit the city. MOTION: Alan Boraas MOVED to reguest grant funds to take an historic survey/inventory of the Kenai area. Karen Mahurin SECONDED. DISCUSSION- Chairperson Gray asked Alan Boraas if he had any idea how much such a survey/inventory would cost? Alan Boraas said it would depend on how detailed the survey/inventory was, and in what form the final survey/inventory would be submitted to the city. The city would probably need to prepare a Request for Proposals for this. The State Office has a list of people who do history and archeology work, and it might be advantageous to get that list. Jim Arness noted that the history of these grants has been that the amount awarded is less than what is asked. Also, it may be that grant monies are only awarded one time, so the Board may want to look at developing the survey/inventory with local resources and save-the grant money for a different project. He felt that Roger Meeks and Alan Boraas were excellent resources for local history and perhaps the Board could work with them in developing this survey/inventory. Chairperson Gray noted the letter of intent does not bind the Board to anything. It is just a preliminary step in the process. If the Board decides to not seek the grant at a later time that's okay. If the Board did the survey, it would be a large time commitment and the survey would have to be done on a strict timeline. Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 4 Karen Mahurin said one of the Board's responsibility as outlined by the code was to maintain a survey of historical sites. She felt the Board should apply for the grant and begin working on goals and obiectives and a preservation plan at the next meeting. Alan Boraas advocated the Board apply for the grant to do the survey/inventory. The city should get a document so people can identify things which are important to the heritage of Kenai. Every significant historic and prehistoric event that ever occurred in Alaska had its counterpart on the Kenai Peninsula. This is the only part of the state where you can say that. Mining, goldrush, timber, oil, Russians, it's all happened right here. A lot of the history played out just a stone's throw from Kenai, this knowledge of the past causes people to bond to the community. He felt it should be a high priority to get a written history of the area. A combination of professional work and volunteer work would probably produce a viable document. Boraas said that the State Board seemed to put a high priority on Historic Board's identifying what they wished to accomplish. John Williams said there is a lot of funding available. One of the tasks of the Historic Board is to identify what needs to be done and to seek the funds to carry out these tasks. If there is work out there to be done, and the Board can garner support for this the city will listen and support these tasks. Diane Rathman stated it would be important to get the Goals and Objectives established and submitted to the Council in writing. Dorothy Gray asked the Board if they wished to direct Staff to send the letter of intent and how much money should be requested? AMENDED MOTION' Karen Mahurin MOVED to amend motion to ask for a total grant amount of $25,000' $15,000-Federal (60%) and $10,00-City (40% match). Jim Arness SECONDED. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. VOTE MAIN MOTION: (Alan Boraas MOVED to reguest grant funds to take an historic survey/inventory of the Kenai area. Karen Mahurin SECONDED.) PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. . BOARD QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 5 am OLD BUSINESS a. Setting Meeting Dates Karen Mahurin had spoken to the City Clerk, Carol Freas and she had suggested that the Board meet the fourth Monday or Tuesday of the month so any recommendations can be forwarded to Planning and Zoning for their first monthly meeting. Roger Meeks agreed the Board should meet once a month. The Council will listen if the group shows an interest and consistency. He felt the Board needed to be aggressive to be effective. The Board concurred to meet the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Chairman Gray asked that the next agenda include: Identifying goals and objectives, identify needs and funding sources, and statement of purpose for the Board. Karen Mahurin requested the items that the Task Force identified be brought forward for the Historic Board's review. 9. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business Roger Meeks moved to adjourn, Karen Mahurin seconded. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:50 p.m. The next meeting will be September 27th, 6:00 p.m. Respectfully submitted, d{ett~ ~arve~------- Administrative Assistant Historic District Board September 6, 1994 Page 6