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William J. Busse
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CITY OF MCHENRY LANDMARK COMMISSION
Barbara E.Gilpin
City Clerk June 4, 1991
Lillian Cairns
Treasurer
Gerald R. Peterson
City Administrator The regular monthly meeting of the City of McHenry Landmark
Commission was called to order at 7:40 p.m. , June 4, 1991 in the
Aldermen City Council Chambers. Members present were: Donnabelle Doherty,
Adele Froehlich, Jesse Freund, Tom Hopkins, Lori Wilhelm, Carl
WARDI Fredrickson, and Barb Byron.
William.1. Bolger
Toni Donahue
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved by unanimous vote.
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Gary W. Lieder
Terence W. Locke There was no financial report.
WARD 3 NEW MEMBERS
Raymond Smith
Dennis L. Adams New members Barb Byron and Carl Fredrickson were introduced and
welcomed by the Commission. Barb was born in Chicago and has lived
WARD4 in McHenry for 18 years. Her hobbies are geneology and history; her
Cecilia Serritella
Randy Patterson occupation is real estate sales. Carl is from Oak Park and has
lived in McHenry for seven years. He gained an interest in
preservation while working with the Frank Lloyd Wright
Association in Oak Park.
DEMOLITION ORDINANCE
A report on the status of our Demolition Ordinance was given by Tom
Hopkins. He reported that our letter survey shows 80% support
protecting only plagued homes, 7% support protecting all homes, and
13% no restriction, no ordinance.
Tom stated we have been working on this for six months now and we
should get it resolved. According to Tom, we have four Options as to
how to proceed:
1 . Present Ordinance as written
2. Go along with what the City recommends
3. Go along with what the City recommends and add a
waiting period before demolition can take place
4. Wait to see what the McHenry County Preservation
Ordinance contains and then revise ours accordingly
It was proposed by Carl that Option 3 was the best way to proceed
and the Commission agreed. It was moved by Lori Wilhelm that we
accept the City's recommendation with an amendment stating there
would be an automatic two week waiting period with immediate
notification to the Commission. Motion second by Barb Byron and
passed unanimously.
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Carl voluntered to accompany Tom to the council meeting to present
the Ordinance.
HERITAGE TOUR
Lori Wilhelm read a list of committees and their jobs for the
members to consider volunteering for; it is urgent that we get
organized especially to sell the quilt.
Carl volunteered to organize the demonstrations, Adele will do the
publicity, Barb Byron will do the Car Show, Lori will take care of
the programs,tickets, posters, etc. . Tom will discuss the Heritage
Tour in length at the next meeting. It was agreed that our booth on
Sidewalk Sale Day will be better located next to the Chamber of
Commerce on Green Street rather than the Park.
Tom will redo the list of Commission Sub-committees for our
discussion at the next meeting.
Donnabelle and Jesse are still working on Historic Structure list.
John Swierk has been notified that his application for a Facade
Improvement Grant has been approved. The McHenry Chamber of Commerce
will now be co-sponsors of the Grant.
Tom made a motion that the judging body for approval of the Grant
should be the Landmark Commission itself instead of the Mayor,
Director of Building and Zoning, etc., as it is now. The motion was
second by Adele and passed unanimously.
The Illinois Preservation Conference will be held at Rockford this
weekend and anyone able to attend should do so.
Tom suggested that this year after our Heritage Tour, we should
reassess our goals. Tom also suggested that we limit our meeting to
one hour and it was agreed.
It was suggested that since we had only seven members present
tonight, we call everyone a day or two in advance of our meeting as
a reminder. Donnabelle volunteered to make the calls.
We have one open chair on our membership. Ruth Fenwick has
submitted an application to fill it. We agreed this would be a good
choice.
Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Lori Wilhelm
Secretary