Historic Preservation Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. Good evening. I'd like to call the meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission to order. First order on the agenda is roll call.

Mr. Schweikert?

Here.

Ms. Senker? Here. Ms. Panito? Here. Ms. Tanner? Here. Mr. Schreckenberger?

Here.

Also present are student representatives, Sadie Miller and Chloe Campbell.

Thank you. Next item is the approval of the minutes from our, March 27 meeting. I'd like to move to approve the minutes. Is there a second?

Second.

Any discussion? Any corrections? Any changes? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Motion passes. I'd like to introduce this is our first meeting with our student representatives from the student municipal representative program. And we have Chloe Campbell and Sadie Miller.

And so each of you, if you would like to just introduce yourself and maybe talk a little bit about why you selected the Historic Preservation Commission for, your experience this year? Either one can start.

Okay. I'll go. I'm Sadie. I'm a senior, obviously at Green High School, and I kinda chose HPC. I've been working like, volunteering at the schoolhouse with missus Schweikert for, what, a year and a half, two years now. And I really liked that, and, obviously, my mother is present, and she kinda had a big influence on that. But I just really care about, like, preserving our heritage and just loving this city for as long as we can.

Awesome. Thank you. Chloe.

Hi. My name is Chloe Campbell, and I'm a junior at Green High School. I chose this program because I am really interested in history, and I've lived in Green my whole life and thought, well, I might as well learn about the city that we live in. That was my big motivation for doing this. And I also wanted to see, like, how the processes worked on, like, how we approved the notions and things.

Well, thanks. And we're, happy to have you. And I just want to remind you that we would like you to participate as much as you feel comfortable with, not only as an observer but as a participant. So feel free to speak up when if you have something and there may or may not be a time when I ask your opinion. You might just offer it without me asking, okay, because you're part of our group for this year. Appreciate that. Next order of business is, Lichtenwalter Schoolhouse Walkway.

I would like to. Thank you. We're having we've asked our laptop to do too many things at one time over here, so our PowerPoint is is not forwarding. So most of the information you either got in, your email with your agenda, and there's also a site plan, printed out for you. A few years ago, the parks and service department hired a company to evaluate facilities and structures in the park systems for ADA compliance.

Lichtenwalter was on that list, and there were several things that were listed in different categories, either urgent. I don't think urgent is right. But, you know, in order of seriousness, several of those, the Green Historical Society addressed immediately, including signage and, making desks accommodated accommodated for wheelchairs, listening devices for those who needed that, and and I can't tell you how much I appreciate how much, I appreciate so much the responsiveness of that. One of the other things that was on that report was oh, there it is. Yay.

Hi, girl, Mindy. We had to stay out of

the puppies for a minute, but we got it. One of the other items on that list was access in terms of the walkway. So here's an aerial of our beautiful schoolhouse, and we have a lovely walkway, to the upper floor from the parking lot. But to access the lower level, which you can also see there, and access it on a sidewalk, you have to go back down the way you came and across that new, behind the new playground and around. It's, I think, something like 300, 350 feet you have to traverse to do it safely.

Of course, most people just fly down the grass hill, which, you know, we've all done it. It's it's not ideal, especially for volunteers who work there a lot and are going from one level to the next. So, we the city, we have, engineer firms that we have, on speed dial, and, one of them that we work with regularly has sketched out a couple of designs for a walkway, and that's what you have in front of you here. So at first glance, this looks a little serpentine. Well, it is a little serpentine, but it those of you who have been there and walked down that hill, you know that slope is steep, and so in order to achieve the ADA grades that are necessary, we had to loop in and out quite a bit.

We also added a connection to the rain garden. That is for me, that's ideal. That may be one of those pieces of a project that comes out because you can't afford all of it. But not only does it check the box for ADA, at least from getting from one level to the next, it also provides more connectivity in the park. Not not a ton, but if you're walking around, the pond and you're coming at the schoolhouse from that direction, there's the walkway being there is sort of an invitation to say, come up here.

See what's here. So I wouldn't say that the design is finalized. Certainly, the engineering isn't finalized, but I think this is the the what we're looking at in terms of an overall concept. I submitted a grant a couple of weeks ago to the Ohio historic, the History Fund. So, those of you who know that this group here is a CLG, a certified local government, and we are eligible for grants from that fund only for structures that are on the National Register.

This is not on the National Register because it was moved too far, but the Ohio History Fund allows you to apply for structures that are a local landmark, which this certainly is. So, hopeful that we're successful with that. Green Historical Society wrote, wonderful letter of support that I included with that. The other thing I wanna bring up about this project more than just awareness that, you know, we're working toward this is I I I hope you agree with me. I don't think, although I'm willing to have a discussion about it, that this requires a certificate of appropriateness.

So when I look at our list, a certificate of appropriateness is required for new construction and additions to the building. That category, I I suppose you could make a case for having a COA. If you want to do that, I'm happy to do that. Otherwise, I'm just gonna keep you in the loop about the project, and I'm happy to answer questions that I can. But this design is is about as much information as I have at this moment. Did I shut down your questions?

I would entertain any questions from the commissioners, if there are any.

I would preemptively say I appreciate being kept in the loop and that my sole opinion right, that the paths and sideways are not reconstruction or additions to the structure. So I appreciate that. My only question, and again, it would just be curiosity. Do we know the materials, the texture, the surfacing? Are we trying to match the existing sidewalk? Are we doing something different? And it looks like and I understand these are just preliminary designs, but it looks like it's a little bit different where it meets the schoolhouse. Do we have to reconstruct some of the existing pathway to bring things in? We do. Okay.

We do. I forgot to say that part because, Stacy, I'm right that the slope isn't correct there either. So a lot of that that's already there will have to be replaced. It's our intention that the material is very similar to what is already there, and we're not gonna mix and match. It will all match. It will all be the same. We haven't really had a a huge discussion about materials yet, but we are, we won't make that decision without asking the historical society what their preferences are as long as they're cheap.

Any other thoughts or comments?

Is the grading I mean, that's a pretty steep hill. Right. I mean, I see that there's a 4% slope or almost 5% slope. Does that mean that a bunch of that hill will be removed? There will be

dirt removed as part of this.

Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Like, that big

If you look at the map, the the original contours are sort of in a smaller dash, and the new ones are the longer dash on the diagram, meaning they're gonna have to reconstruct that hill somewhat so that they can do this serpentine kind of walk without, you know, other ramps that you see are sort of a switchback.

Yeah. Yeah.

That's to me, this is a lot easier to negotiate than one of those. It it it's a decent given this this deep hill that it's on, this is a pretty clever way to do it. And I agree that, you know, it's not only for the ADA accessibility, but also the the folks, the volunteers that have to go back and forth from one floor to the other. Yeah. If any of you have been on the needing to go from upstairs to downstairs on that grass, if it's at all wet, forget it.

Here, it's very slippery and dangerous for anybody, not just, the fact that you can't use a wheelchair. So, I think this will give a lot more access. And with everything that's going on in the lower level with historical society, it's something that we really should have.

My only other question is the moderate priority was install handrails. Is that included in this plan? Or It's not

included included in in what you see in front of you. It is going to happen.

I got it. So it's two separate. Got it.

Thank you.

I assume the handrails couldn't be addressed until the pathway is Right. First because we'd be ripping pieces back out again.

I think that, yeah, we're just trying to do things in the right order. But, yeah, absolutely, that's going to be part of it.

Any part of it that is considered ramp versus just walkway with a gentle grade would have to have those handrails just to meet the the code. Just another comment. I think having it, sort of in combination with the rain garden is a really good idea so that that becomes a little more of focus. So I guess what we were saying what to kinda tie into what, James said, there really isn't a need for us to have a certificate of appropriateness in my mind either. So, if there's any, objection to that comment, let me know.

Otherwise, I would say to the city, let's let's, thank you for again, to echo James. Thank you for keeping us in the loop. And, if there is a need for us to, participate, we're happy to do

it. Thank you. If you haven't been to the schoolhouse recently, has not too long ago, the sign got installed. Looks very nice. So if you do, oh, Twisted Boulder Fest isn't out there, but you're open for Twisted Boulder Fest.

That's isn't that this week? Yeah. Good. Well, thank you. Next item on the agenda is the Hartung Southgate, farm roof discussion. And I will, also ask Ms. Herring to introduce that item.

As a larger discussion or a larger discussion point, I want to remind you or for those of you who are new, Southgate Farm in Southgate Park is leased to, Rachel and Justin who farm it. Part of their lease part of our lease, I should say, with them is that every year, planning walks the property with Rachel and, addresses maintenance and capital improvements. It's a lot out there. Eighteen eighty five buildings. They just they just need a lot of tender loving care.

And this year's list includes the summer kitchen, the tool shed, a driveway, the house exterior, the basement, downstairs bath, dining room, kitchen, guest bathroom, master bath. It's it's a lot. But, some of those things, we're gonna address in 2026, but there are a couple of things that I feel have to be addressed imminently and this year, and one of them, in particular, I wanted to to just briefly talk about. We have a wet basement. That's not unusual, but there are a couple of suspects who are, I think, making it worse.

One is they have beautiful trees out there. Those gutters are always full of leaves. We have a couple of lines that need to be tied into downspouts, and it'll help with the water issue down there. But this issue right here, this is the south porch. This roof system, the lower roof system is a metal roof, and the downspout, the water is supposed to go if you see the downspout close to the house there, that's where the water is supposed to go.

The water has never gone there. It has always come to that corner where you see it's obviously deteriorating. So over time, not only I suspect that the material under there is rotten and needs to be replaced, but the the porch, the pillars, and the there's much more historic architectural names for these pieces, but they're they're getting punky and and rotten. So my plan of attack is to, first, have, the porch amenities fixed and then address the roof. I just wanna briefly say that as you bring roofers out and they look at this, they all have different ideas.

And one of the ideas was to, instead of having that sort of gutter system, bring the gutter have a gutter system like you see at the top, the half round, and bring it down here. I I don't really I don't think that that's the best plan of attack. We're still investigating. I'm happy to have any feedback from you. I just didn't want you to go out there and see that things are happening, and you didn't know about it.

All of the porch repairs are like to like. It's gonna be exactly the same, exactly the same colors, probably much better shape than it was before. The roof, I'm I'm still I'm still working on. And there's some sections of the gutters in the back that are also in need of repair. We're getting there.

It's just it's a process. One of the things that in 2026, because I wanna get all these systems that keep the house safe, warm, and dry done, we want to give, the house a new kitchen. The kitchen I don't know if how many of you have ever been in there, but none of the none of the cabinets actually shut. There's no mechanism to pull things out. There's almost no storage space.

It it's just, for a a farmer whose mission in life is healthy food, it'd be really great if she had a place to cook it. So, that's my goal for next year. I wanna get these things done and then move on to that. But, anything you'd like to say about the roof, happy to have that discussion. Otherwise, like the other, I'll just keep you in the loop.

As always, I'll turn to the commissioners to see if there's any comments based on Sarah's description. I guess what I would say is, correct me if I'm wrong, if all we're doing there for this particular issue on the roof is to sort of repair and the aesthetic will be maintained as it is. We are not it would not require certificate of No. That's right.

If the decision was that the half round gutter up top should be installed down, yes, that would be a COA. But I don't really feel that's the direction that we're heading. So yes, you're right.

And again, I think it's great that you're keeping us in the loop, and not only for this item, but the the plan of attack on the other parts of the structure so that we're just kinda thinking about it. And if we're ever out there, we can kinda take a peek at it, while we're there just to be familiar. But, you know, the the photograph kinda tells the story of what the problem is. You can see the what I would consider probably moss or something on the, roof edge on the far left of the porch roof, which, indicates that there's a lot of moisture there. And that that's a problem because it's not designed to do that.

And I think what's happening is the water drips off of there down to the porch floor, and it's starting to affect the column integrity and the porch floor. So that has to be addressed for sure. So

And because the trees are gonna still be there, are we thinking to probably cover those gutters so that the water can run easily?

I I wish I had a picture of where that downspout is.

You can see the downspout in the back corner of Yeah. Next to the building.

It's it's just an open hole, right, At that and and, yes, I I feel like it would be a benefit to put something over it right there. I mean, there's two schools of thought about that. Some say that's a great thing to do. Some say then all you're doing is collecting leaves in the in the

On the roof.

Yeah. And

so Probably both of them, like, from the spout connecting it to the hole instead of leaving it open. I don't know. I

Say that again. I'm sorry.

So the spout that is coming from the top connected to that hole.

Right.

So that it's always covered. The water will always flow without having to be outside.

I see what you mean. She's saying,

like, from the top all the way down. It's a I I think so there are two lines that come down, and and I think it's the amount of water.

Yeah. This

this won't won't be connected to the top.

So this will go down all the way? No. It's not stopping here. It goes down all the way.

Down all the way. It will not Yeah. Collect that water.

Okay. Okay. They're two separate spouts.

Yes. Right. Think part of the plan needs to be also that the the the downspouts are clear in accepting water. Because if if there's if it's plugged up, it'll just build up on the roof, which makes the problem even worse. So that's gotta be part of the plan. And I think

that's I'm sure that the roof on the porch, it has to have some sort of inclination or so that the water goes to the hole, not to the corner.

That is not It needs to be corrected. That yes. You're right. We wish it had more of an inkling. Exactly. Yeah. Yes.

It appears that there's water collecting in that outer corner instead of back at the downspout. Yeah. Any other comments? Okay. Thank Thank you for the again, keeping us in the loop and for your explanation.

Next item of business is the the Heritage Ohio Conference of two thousand twenty five. The, the industry, you know, the East Liberty Schoolhouse that the city, saved from demolition and relocated and is now the industry restaurant, actually is a finalist in their Heritage Ohio competition. And, there's a ceremony on October 15. I'm I'm not sure when you say a finalist. Does that, mean that there's an award already in place, or is that just a part of a small group that would be candidates for a single award.

There's three finalists

Okay.

In this category. And so when they have the ceremony, they'll

Acknowledge that. So that's awesome. And and those of you that are on the commission and have were part of that whole story, it's particularly, rewarding to us because, we helped make that happen in the right way. So is there a do you have any information on the actual ceremony and who would be available who would be able to go and invited?

Actually, they said everybody is invited. It's at the Palace Theater in Canton, at 07:00. So, that's a it's a big place.

Yeah.

That's they sent us, they sent us a press release, and I think I sent that to you. I had to correct it because it said Akron. But that's really all the information that I have so far about it.

Do you have information on the other finalists?

I don't. No. That's you don't know anything until that night.

Oh, are they all from this area? I mean

No. It's statewide.

Which is even more of

a Yes.

Kudos, I think.

So

it's pretty exciting. And I I guess we need to thank you No. Who who did the application.

No. Actually, Izzy Scott, who was one of our interns, a student municipal rep alum. She did the application and the narrative for it this summer, and very uncharacteristically for me, I changed almost nothing. So all all There is hope.

No. It's

did that. So yeah. And, of course, a lot of the thanks goes to the industry themselves for the job that they did and to all of you. I mean, how many meetings did we have about that?

So A couple.

Yeah. A couple. Yeah.

And they continue to be successful as far as I know. We we tried to get reservations, and we had to go at, like, 04:00 in the afternoon in order to get a table

Yeah.

Because they were booked.

So we're waiting for lunch now.

Same at lunch. So that's great. And I I didn't go during the summer, unfortunately, and I imagine that the patio was also full at times.

Yeah.

So, anyways, congratulations to all. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is planning department report once again.

Once again.

So pivoting not pivoting, just leaping off of what we just talked about. I'm sure some of you have seen that the city has been awarded named, best hometown, and so the Ohio home hometown or whatever magazine that is is gonna feature Green in November. But one of the reasons that they were chosen was, the creative reuse of historic structures. I I just wanna take a minute and make sure that all of you appreciate the work that you have done to get it to that point because the structures that they visited were the Licht de Malter Schoolhouse, where there was a alarm going off now. They went to Southgate Farm, and they went to the industry.

I feel sometimes like the work that you do you do is very underappreciated, but it has contributed in a really significant way to a special community. And, every community has every community has parks. Every community has, you know, great things, but, we've we've taken, real care with some of these wonderful structures, so thank you for that. The only other thing on my report I want to very briefly talk about an archival project that came to us this summer. Dale Bratt was one of the original, I'm gonna call him a trustee when the city was a, city was a township originally than a village.

And there was a group of folks, a group of residents who took it from a village to the city. And some of those folks are no longer with us, but Dale is and, has very carefully taken care of the documents and and the things that went along with that entire exercise, which was quite quite a feat. They knocked on almost every door and a lot of things that went with that. So he came to to me earlier this summer and asked about what capacity we would have to help him organize and archive this story. And I said, said, Do you know Stacy Schweikert?

And he said, Oh, yeah, I do. She's good value. So, we all met Stacy Schweikert, Sharon Salem, who is the city's archivist, Dale, and a couple of the communications folks. We, our plan is to buy, a scanner. We have scanners in the city, but a scanner dedicated to this kind of thing that does it very quickly, we know we can use it for for lots of other things.

Communications is gonna come alongside this even by videoing videoing, videotaping, some of this going on, Dale bringing the things in. We we want to somehow make this a touch point for next year's two fifty celebration. Not that we're 250 years old, but the story of how we became a city. I really appreciate his, you know, his wanting to do the right thing and do it really well. So we're gonna work together this year to make that happen, and I wanted you to know about it.

And, I sent you an email not too long ago of a webinar, I think, from NAPC. I just want to remind you that you are members of the National Association of Preservation Commissions. So if you need credits for things, they have a lot of great webinars. Because you're members, you can take advantage of them for free. If you dive into their website, you'll see they have even training for historic preservation commissions. And I've sat through a couple of those, and they're pretty good. So just a reminder. And that's all from me.

Thank you. Any comments or questions for Ms. Herring? Hearing none, we'll move on to the next item. And least not last but not least, the green historical society report.

Stacy Schweikert. And, yeah, I'm here to give the historical society report tonight. So it's been a while since I've been here. We are open right now at the schoolhouse every Sunday from noon to two. We'll be open through December then we take a little break in the winter.

This is Glenn in one of our third grade classes this year. The day in 1885 program changed a little bit this year at the request of the schools because they married the program up with a picnic celebration. So we had two classes at a time, which it's hard to believe that we can fit 70 Wow. People in the schoolhouse at once, but we did it. It takes really like three volunteers upstairs and three downstairs because we have to move a lot faster, get the kids through, and then switch classes midway which the walkway would be wonderful to assist with that.

This summer Sarah let us borrow the city interns for a couple weeks and it was marvelous. They were wonderful and they cranked through work like crazy. They worked with digitizing a lot of our photos and documents. So we would go to the schoolhouse in the mornings and work together and then I would send them back to the CAB Building with homework and homework that required the machines and infrastructure of the city. So they did a lot of cool oversized scanning and books, materials, all kinds of things that we did not have in digital format until now.

And then I taught them how to use the web hosting product that we use for our website and they started spinning up additional pages for me, putting content in, they were great. So hopefully it taught them a little bit too but yeah, it was fabulous.

Wait, wait, what's that picture of?

Oh, this is just one of the pictures that they scanned for me. This is kind of a last picture of our Quaker Oats grain elevator that was at the railroad, at the Valley Railroad here in Green. So that was torn down I think in the sixties? Aw. But it's cool, right? Yeah. Was. And as Sarah mentioned, we got a sign. So that is our sign. If you haven't seen it, come see us. Come see the sign. It's wonderful. Everybody stops to look at it now, so very nice. This year, our visitors have been a little bit off. I don't know why.

This has been a weird summer, weird weather. It's like super hot or it's rained. Like all spring it rained, then it was super hot, now we're back to rain. The weather just has not cooperated. So Freedom Fest, our visitors were down a little bit, but I think park visitors were down and Arteplooza, our visitors were down, but park visitors were down.

So you know we kind of go hand in hand with what's happening in the park and we have fair weather visitors. We did do our fourth annual quilt show, can't believe it's been four years but this was our fourth one and we got some really cool new quilts this year. Some real artiste of Green volunteered their quilts up, so it was nice. And we are doing another quilt raffle this year. So our campaign is to help us raise the bell.

We're trying to get the cupola built on the schoolhouse so we have a separate fund set aside and the proceeds from our quilt raffles get put into that account so that we can get that cupola on the building eventually and get our bell where it belongs. So if you'd like to buy raffle tickets, you still have time, the raffle is at the end of Twisted Wilderfest, it'll be at five p. M. This Saturday, tickets but you have to come see me in person because the Ohio Attorney General says that you can't sell raffle tickets online if you're a nonprofit. But come see us, I'll sell you tickets.

Oh, and I should mention Kelly Kosigi, I hope I'm not butchering her last name, is one of our City of Green participants in Leadership Green this last year and so she came through on a tour that the city set up with Glyn and I at the schoolhouse and she came back and volunteered. She helped me write a grant for the Green Community Foundation and then she made this beautiful quilt. Quilting is her passion and hobby and she made this beautiful Christmas quilt that we're raffling off and donated it to us. If you know Kelly or see Kelly, thank her for us. Today, actually it's been a busy history week this week.

Today at lunchtime we hosted the seniors, the 50 seniors with the Parks and Rec group. They came to us, they have like I think it's monthly lunch and get togethers and today's was at the schoolhouse. So we had several visitors come through, it was very well received. We did have some folks with mobility issues and we had one very determined lady with a walker who made that 350 foot track around so she could see the basement. She was very glad she did it.

Unfortunately, they were also met with a Gympie skunk that was outside our door, which is a new yeah, that's new. But, you know, we're in a park, so nature happens, I guess. America two fifty is coming and I kind of laid this on the mayor yesterday and maybe Sarah today but we have some ideas that we think are going to be high impact but low dollar and can be spun up pretty quickly and I kinda got this idea because we took a little impromptu trip to Boston a few weeks ago and it's hard to see because I'm a horrible picture taker and this is actually from a Boston trolley so not my best work. But I saw the picture and I'm like, I have to get a picture of this for Sarah. So my entire phone is filled with pictures for you guys and Sarah by the way.

But anyway, this is the Freedom Trail. If you're not familiar with it, you see that little brick stripe in the sidewalk, that's the Freedom Trail. And underneath those visitors feet, right there at the corner of that beautiful broad iron fence, there are two stickers down on the sidewalk. So what I was thinking is, oh, that is super cool. What they've done on the Freedom Trail is now they've layered on top of the Freedom Trail all these other types of trails.

So they have trails that tell the story about migrants and tales, you know, trails that tell the story of just like other things ancillary to the bigger picture of the Freedom Trail. And how they do it is they add these waterproof vinyl stickers to flat surfaces that are out outdoor. So like your sidewalk, your trail, your parking lot, whatever you've got, they slap a sticker on it and it's got a QR code on it. You scan it so like your tourists come by, they scan the sticker, it takes them to a website that tells them more about that site or about that specific thing that that sticker is about with these more specific trail topics. But since we don't have a history trail in green, ours would just be the Green History Trail and I think we'd pick like I don't know 20 sites or however many if we can come up with a meaningful number that would be great but pick a number of sites, find you know where we've got connectivity you know and figure out a place we can put those stickers and maybe some things don't fit but like one of the ideas that I've been talking to the mayor about is kind of the industrialist that were these log cabin guys that grew up in Green and then kind of started the industrial revolution for The United States, kinda cool.

We don't really have like a specific site for them so maybe their sticker goes outside a cap. But it's just another thing that I mean I think we can incorporate some artwork into this too. These stickers are like between like two and and three feet around like you can get really pretty good sized ones that make a big impact and you can put some graphics and the QR code. So we can kind of make this an art project, history project, America two fifty and it would kind of lay the groundwork for us to then maybe start like a more permanent history trail in green.

I like that a lot.

Yeah, I think it would be cool and these stickers, to have them cut like a single sticker custom printed like three by three, they're like $65. Yeah. This is an investment we can and we can spin up a website. I I have interns spinning up websites. This is not a big, you know, time or money, but high impact, high visibility.

Okay. And our other idea for America Two Fifty that we may reach out to you guys about because this will take a lot of volunteers, a lot of manpower, we would like to host a week long history camp, at least one this next summer. So Parks and Rec does themed camps and we want to work with them and we want to have at least one history camp in there in the mix where we do pioneer activities, can do things inside the schoolhouse, outside the schoolhouse, so we'll have to work out the logistics of that but I know we had great programming before for younger kids at the farm and that was really well received. This would be more the school aged kids like Parks and Rec Standard program but I think we have some cute things we could do with them and I think a lot of the kids would like to kind of come back to the school. We have so many kids come and see us on the weekend that come back after the third grade program and come back years later because they want their family to see it.

This would be another way they could kind of come back and hang out with us. Okay and you may have noticed our lovely apparel and some of you guys got these. We have new shirts. So we're gonna do a second order of shirts so if anybody would like a shirt they're $25 and we look like we know what we're doing and talking about now. It's just a look. And for the record, I did get the alarm off before the mayor and the reporter came. I was just in the middle of a work call and got a my phone started blowing up and I realized, oh my gosh, the mayor's gonna be there in like ten minutes. So, yeah. That's what happens. Your smoke alarm battery goes off ten minutes before a reporter is coming.

It's just Murphy's Law. But we had it handled. They were none the wiser. Any questions? We're just cruising along.

Where do we sign up for volunteering? Because that sounds amazing.

Oh, Carmen, I have your email in Mindy's so I will get you in the loop.

I volunteer my husband, my kids, everybody, yes.

Oh, perfect. Excellent. Yeah, if you haven't come to see our basement lately, we have so many things. So yeah, there's a lot. And we try to keep it moving, keep it and the kids this summer, we actually got so much done and so many more pictures digitized and out and on display. It's been awesome. We're gonna need a bigger schoolhouse.

House. Just kidding. You, guys. You'll

need a certificate of appropriateness. Thank you very much. That was you got a lot of cool ideas going on. And, you know, anything we can do to help, let us know.

Well, there were a couple of things I wanted to mention. I I I'm really excited, about the news this week that we are now going to officially be the city of Green on our mailing addresses. I think that's

going to

be a nice bonding thing for the community. And also that we have some things at the library that I'm not sure if it's put out by Akron or put out by Summit County, but it is about year February and different things that'll be going on and different things they'll want to be commemorating. So we have those. It's it's a nice size. It's it's like a thick magazine size, so everybody feel welcome to stop by and pick one up.

Yeah. I think that's the city of Akron doing the

I think so.

Thing. It's an ongoing series of programs, really. And they're they're already going. It's not just when you know? Mhmm. So, so thank you for everybody and all of the, input today. Is there any other items that anybody would like to bring up before we adjourn?

Actually, can I ring up somebody?

What's that?

So can I ring up something?

That's

So in my spare time, I'm getting my master's of library science, and I'm in the special collections. And I worked with Stacy this because I I needed a site, a historical site. So I actually did a preservation assessment on the archives down in the basement, and really saw the the work that had been done for the, after the arson. And this semester, I'm working, for a class for cultural in cultural heritage informatics, and I'm taking as much of the Lichtenwalter Schoolhouse history as possible and putting it all in one spot, and then I'm gonna turn it over to the historical society. So I was thinking you could use that website actually as the QR code, for the history trail, and that's why I needed to talk to you about what materials were.

So if you have any, I'll send the link. And if you have anything to add to that or any ideas, Stacy actually added. I didn't I forgot completely forgot about the time capsule. So the time capsule opening date is on that timeline as well on that website. So anything that you, think about since I'm so new on this commission that when you were going through the the rebuild process, if there's anything to add, I'm happy to do that. So Great. Been fun.

Worthy project.

Yes. We did learn that, humidity is a major factor in that basement. So Actually But yeah. Yeah.

Are you you're talking about the 2015 rebuild? Or Yes. Not the 2000 rebuild? Okay. Yep. Because there's been more than one.

Well and you know what? That is actually a piece that I'm missing is the original restoration. So if you have any information on that, I could add that's something that because we that's not something we think about. Right? We think about, like, before arson, after arson. So I would love to

add

anything about the original one. You want to just email me?

There's a lot, though. I mean, there's How soon do you need that?

Well, I can continue to add to it even when the course is over. It's it's a stat it's not static. It's a fluid

I don't know if you had a deadline. Or I

have enough for the requirements right now,

of course.

But Yeah.

In order for it to be usable and, you know, for the documentation of the city, I would love to add to it. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that sounds like a great intern project this summer. I I mean, I do have it pretty much organized in my files for me. I'm not sure anybody else would understand it when they read it. And John Walsh, who's one of our in our engineering department, he was he took lots of pictures of that one. But the technology at that time, the pictures aren't aren't great, but we have them. And I have to I'm more than willing to come and scan anything. They're digitized. Oh. Yeah. Beautiful. I can send them that way. But yeah. Great. Thank you. Thank you for that.

That's pretty exciting because that that poor building has gone through a lot and worth documenting well because those of us that live now understand, but future generations won't. And it's it's it's been a lot of effort to keep that as part as, you know, as Sarah has mentioned that, you know, the the award that was, mentioned earlier is partly because of that building. So it's cool. Alright. Hearing no other, comments, we can, I'll take a motion to adjourn.

Anybody? I move to adjourn.

Second.

All in favor? Say aye. Aye. I didn't hear anybody. I heard everybody, I should say. So it's we're adjourned. Thank you. I love this.