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Minutes
September 28, 2010
6:30 p.m.
City Hall

Present: Marsha Gunderson - Chair, Sharon Bures, Chuck Flemmer, Gordon Iseminger,
Sylvia Kloster, Melinda Leach, Cory Lien, Dale Sickels, Sandy Slater
Others: Debra Pflughoeft-Hassett (GF Energy Alliance), Peg O’Leary

Minutes
Motion: to approve the minutes of the September 14, 2010, meeting. (Slater, Bures)
Discussion: Slater noted that the Ted Jelliff award nomination, discussed at the last meeting, may have seemed short. The award criteria limited the narrative to 250 words, which necessitated brevity.
Motion carries.

Grand Forks Energy Alliance – Debra Pflughoeft-Hassett
5015 6th Avenue North, Built 1984 – The house is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is not in a historic district. The owners plan to use a federally subsidized loan for energy saving measures including replacing eleven windows; installing front storm door; replacing siding, soffits and fascia; and insulating under the siding.
Motion: to concur with a determination of no historic properties affected from the work described at 5015 6th Avenue North. (Flemmer, Leach)
Motion carries.

Office of Urban Development – Debra Pflughoeft-Hassett
1220 South 52nd Street – Pflughoeft-Hassett explained that the City of Grand Forks is working with the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) to erect a small wind turbine in the industrial park near the LM Wind Power building. The turbine will be 114’ tall at the full extension of the blade. The turbine will generate power that the city will use but its primary purpose is for training of wind turbine technicians and for education of youngsters in the GF school system.
Motion: to concur with a determination of no historic properties affected from the construction of the proposed turbine at this site, provided that all appropriate state and federal guidelines are followed if anything of archaeological significance is discovered during excavation and site work. (Slater, Sickels)
Motion carries.

Chair Report – Marsha Gunderson
Downtown Design and Review Board – The most recent DDRB meeting dealt with the provision for outdoor smoker shelters in the downtown area. These shelters are to be covered but not enclosed and must be at least 15’ from any building entrance/exit. They are not to be in front of buildings.

Coordinator Report – Peg O’Leary
Grand Forks Teacher Hall of Fame – Commissioners have been invited to the Teacher Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Sunday, October 10, at 1:30 p.m. in the Red River High School Theater, to witness the induction of Ted Jelliff and others into the Hall of Fame.
State CLG Meeting – O’Leary has received good feedback from the state and various attendees about the conference. University invoices have not been received yet but we should be well within budget and should be able to charge back our copying and postage costs as well. O’Leary distributed hardcopies of Steve Marten’s map indicating a number of New Deal resources that he thinks are eligible for the NRHP. Gunderson questioned whether the railroad underpass might be from that era; O’Leary believed it to be from the early 1960s but will check. Iseminger noted that Martens had suggested that shelter belts planted as part of a New Deal program might be eligible; members considered that shelter belts might be considered as a multiple resource district but, given their transient nature, it could be a difficult case to make.
The Kegs NRHP Nomination – O’Leary has received the second draft from the contractor and will review it by the end of the week. If the contractor has addressed our relatively minor first draft comments, this draft will be forwarded to the State for comment.
B’nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery Nomination – It is time to cut a check for the remaining $1,750 that the contract requires be paid out upon completion of the nomination.
Motion: to authorize a check in the amount of $1,750.00 in payment for completed B’nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery National Register of Historic Places nomination. (Flemmer, Slater)
Motion carries. Eight ayes; one nay.
Granitoid – The boundary decrease for the Granitoid National Register listing has been approved at the federal level. O’Leary will provide maps of the areas retained on the Register at the next meeting.
Office Equipment – Because of the purchase of a new color printer and, last year, of the new scanner, the Lexmark inkjet printer and the Visioneer scanner have been returned to the State Historical Society, which provided funding for their purchase.

Meeting adjourned. 7:45 p.m.
The next regular meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in A101, City Hall.

Respectfully submitted,



Peg O’Leary
Coordinator