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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 8/2/1994 - Landmark Commission THE CITY OF MCHENRY LANDMARK COMMISSION August 2 , 1994 The regular meeting of the McHenry Landmark Commission was brought to order at 7 : 25 pm at the McHenry Municipal Center by Vice Chairman Larry Huck. Present were Barb Byron, Carol Jean Smith, Lori Wilhelm, Donnabelle Doherty, Marya Dixon, Adele Froehlich. Absent were Tom Bolger, Debbie Lane and Ruth Fenwick. Our special guest was Mr. Greg Bates , Alderman of the 3th ward. MINUTES There were no minutes from the last meeting . PLAQUE PROGRAM The consensus of the members is that we must get the Facade Grant Program form redone and up dated as soon as possible. Some business in town have approached one of our members about grants to remodel their buildings . Carol Jean will call Tom and Debbie to see if a meeting can be set up to start work on this . ART IN THE PARK `. This was a very successful day, many people stopped to look at the pictures of our plagued homes . Two people gave us their addresses so we many look at their homes , to see if they can receive a plaque. The Avis Fisher home on Court St . and the Phil Schimke home on Riverside Dr. . WE sold two sweatshirts and two tee shirts for a total of $64 . 00 . Marya will send a Thank you note to Bill Jones , Son in Law of Larry Huck, for his help in seting up the canopy for our booth. Lori will check for next year to see if we can have more room as we didn' t have enought space to set the canopy installed right . All in All it was a fun day and thank you to all the members for doing their part. Barb asked about getting the History of the Walsh home on Court st. She was told to contract Mr. Melvin Walsh as he lived there for many years. Barb said it is a very interesting home and must have a lot of history. This home is presently for sale . DISPLAY BOXES Marya said that the boxes are now finished. The total cost was about $315 . 00. A new piece of plexi glass had to be replaced due to some one thowing a brick and breaking it. Also new cork broad was purchase. Wayne and Marya put them together and caulked all around them to seal it. Jay Weber did the Art Work and all the running around looking for the best way and best price. It was motioned by Donnabelle to give Mr. Weber $100 . 00 for his time and 2nd by Carol Jean. Carol Jean would like the committee who worked on this project together for pictures for the next City newsletter. Mr. Bates is very interesed in the history of McHenry and he is willing to help us all he can. He would like to see impovements to the Green St . Mall , and he will talk to Debbie Harr of the Chamber about this. Mr. Bates will also see if we can get a locked cabinet for our pictures etc . so we may keep everything at the City Hall . Carol Jean will keep all the pictures for the time being at her home for safe keeping. We also ask Mr. Bates for his imput on the possibly of getting Mr. Michael Ward, Community Services Director for the Illinios Preservation Agency to come and give a talk to the businessmen about long range historic preservation planning , Mr. Bates said he would be very interested in this program and would help promote it . It will be given by the Landmark Commmission. Carol Jean will check with Mr. Wards office to set a time. Hopefully we can get this going so as to put some information in the City newsletter. A Thank you was sent to Carl Fredrickson for a job well done for his period of time on the commission. Mr. Bates thanked us for all our work. He was sorry it took him so long to attend one of our meetings. He said he will return. We apprecated Mr. Bates taking the time to attend and thanked him for coming. We have received some names of people who expressed an interest in joining our commission. They are Mr. Scott Nolan, Mr. Greg Lofgren, Mrs. Barb Glipin, Mrs . Kay Bates and Mrs . Nancy Fike . Meeting was ajoured at 8 : 45 pm.