Heritage Commission - Regular Meeting

How is everyone? Okay. I'm seeing yeah. Shakes heads. Thumbs up. Okay. Well, let's call the order then. What is it? 05:30 something.

Thirty Yeah.

Take a note. Okay.

Okay. Role call. I could probably do that off our, little gallery pictures.

Alright. I'll do it for the formality, but we'll, chair Miller.

Present.

Vice chair Hicks. Present. Commissioner Knight Malik. Commissioner Stedman is not present. Gardner, you have your hand raised. Was there something that

Oh, no. Okay. Not quite sure why my hand's raised or how to unraise it.

Commissioner Becker is absent. Commissioner Carter?

Present.

And commissioner Shepherd is absent. And commissioner Bowman?

Present.

Perfect.

And I'm here too.

Oh, I I did I think maybe there's a bit of a sound lag. Sorry if it sounded like I didn't call you. It's kinda choppy for me.

Okay. Excellent. Next item is approval of agenda. We have a fairly short agenda tonight. Any comments or questions from anyone?

Okay. Hearing none, let's approve this by consent. Approval of the minutes from the August 27 Heritage Commission meeting. I don't have any you. I have no comments. Anyone else have any comments? Okay. Again, hearing no comments. Going once, going twice. Approve this by consensus.

Right. Noted.

Alright. Public comment. Do we have ever anybody on here?

Attendees from the public.

Well, in that case, we will move to announcements. Have anything, Britney?

I think a lot of the announcements go hand in hand with the rest of the business items for tonight.

Okay.

I'll I'll say it anyway, though. Window workshop on Saturday. Yeah. But we'll talk about that more in a second.

K. Sounds good. Anyone else have any announcements? Okay. We are already on the business items. Okay. Six a volunteer shifts. Go for it.

Okay. So we have a couple of upcoming events. So we've got the window workshop. We've got the arts walk craft event for two days and then the Legion Way Tree Memorial Day combination event with the Bighill House Museum Olympi Historical Society. I wanted to make this a business item to make sure that it was up at the forefront.

I know that there are some folks who were able to and some folks who weren't able to answer the call for shifts earlier. But I guess to start, we've got the window workshop happening, on Saturday. I think at this point, we've got Melissa who is really doing awesome to, like, get to shepherd this forward and

Thank you, Melissa.

Yeah. Thank you, Melissa. I think it's gonna be really awesome based on all of the stuff that we've been talking about with Dave. Did you have any comments or things that you wanted to bring up to the group for that one, Melissa?

So so right now, it's just just me, and my husband's gonna help me too. But we have I think we have 20 people reserved so far. And I don't think we're gonna we're not gonna do anything too elaborate for a kids craft for that event because it doesn't look like we'll have a ton of kids anyhow. So we're just gonna do some coloring pages, just in case there are some kids that come. And so it's I think it's pretty simple.

If anybody feels like they wanna come and help and make sure things are moving smoothly, Any help or and representation would be grateful.

Yeah. Absolutely. I have a potential conflict on Saturday, although that conflict might fall through. If it does, I'd love to come. So I'll let you know. Not quite sure what my status is yet.

Yeah. It should be interesting. I think it'll be, I think we're gonna have it outside. I have to it looks like it's gonna be nice out. It's supposed to be 70 and overcast, so that should be nice. So, yeah, it's kind of exciting.

Do you need anything? Any, like, physical support stuff? Or I don't exactly know what the logistics are. So

I don't think so. Dave has volunteers on his end that are gonna do most of the moving of bits that they're bringing. I think our our main task is gonna be keeping everything on schedule to keep the budget in line and just enjoying the day, I think.

Sounds good.

I'd also I mean, I know that if folks are free, they would be there. But even as attendees, I think this workshop would be great and very beneficial for anyone who is able to join. As commissioners, I'm sure that people who know this fact about you might ask you questions or maybe even resources on what's out there for them. And so if you've got time to stop by, I also think it'd be really awesome for you to, I guess, experience a little bit of the community aspect of subject matter experts. I know that there's going to be the folks who are leading the workshop, but there will also be some industry folks.

I did invite all of the previous contractors that we've done design reviews with. There's a lot of folks who've done window updates in the past while, and, actually, I did see that one of them did register it, at least one of them. So it'll be a, I think a really interesting conversation. So highly encourage it. And I think they're recording it. So if not, we can also try to get the recording out.

One of the reasons I'm kind of excited about it too is that for those of you that are on the design review committee, you know, the the question of windows and what to do with them comes up all the time. And, you know, it's it's one thing for us to say, oh, yeah. With Windows, you should definitely restore those and just kinda make that a blanket statement. But I think us getting more educated about what that really means is gonna be really helpful, I think, in the field when we're doing our reviews. So I think that that is one thing I'm I'm excited about.

Yeah. And it's also kinda cool because Dave is is he's been in the area so long, and he's so knowledgeable in the field, not just with wood windows, but woodworking in general. So

Mhmm.

He's definitely somebody that we could partner with in the future for either a similar workshop or additional workshops based on his experience. So I think it's good to be supportive of him and and make sure that it's a good experience for him too.

Appreciate it. Well, cool. Well, thanks again for all your work on setting this up. I think it's gonna be a fantastic event.

Yeah. Thank you very much, Melissa. I think that having this first one done will also be a great example for what we can do with future workshops. I know that in this sort of planning phase, the Bigelow House Museum and Swan Town Inn, which are both also historic properties, were interested in some sort of a collaboration in the future. So maybe that's opportunity to see what cyclical maintenance they might be trying to figure out and coincide some kind of a public educational programming around that too.

So, yeah, there's there is interest, and I think this was definitely a a good learning experience for how to set something like this up. I'm gonna share the sponsorship spreadsheet that I have. Give me a second. Okay. Let me know when it's up.

There you go.

Yep. Okay. So we've got the window workshop. Melissa is gonna be awesome and work with the EcoWoodWorks team to kinda set and tear set up and tear down. But for the next, we've got ArcBlock.

I know that there are some folks who can and can't make it, and we've got the specific time slots broken down here. It seems like folks are more available on Friday than Saturday. I will also note that I personally would not be available to be here for the second half, but I'd be there for the beginnings of setup. And so I'm wondering, does the group have capacity to do both days, or do you want to see if we can do Friday and not Saturday and sort of condense so that we are, maximizing but still present?

That's so far. I

haven't signed up for any daytimes either, but I'm available all day Saturday, and I can do Friday as well. So I kind of just blocked my calendar for Friday and Saturday, so I'm available for both days, whatever's needed. So I was already kinda planning to be there for Saturday. So

Okay. Will you be recovered by then? I don't want this to set you back if you're, like, almost on the man, but then you're thinking about

I'm hoping I will be. The the medicine's working well. So, Garner, I have pneumonia. So we're just

Yeah. On the day

one that's healing from that. So Yeah. I'm I'm gonna hopefully be ready for that because, man, the center's kicking off and everything else is season two. So my schedule is packed, and I just need to get better right now. So but

Well, I got your name down. If you want to have something on the Friday. Yeah.

I can be there for the teardown too. Maybe at 06:30 with Garner too, but I also wanna leave it open for other people if they wanna be there. But I can help teardown for sure.

What what do we need teardown on Friday night?

I think last time, it was less tear down and more

Just putting away the stuff that could walk away with the mirror in between.

Are we are we

doing the same thing, Melissa, or is it No.

We're gonna make it. We're gonna make Oh. Accounts because they're really easy, and I don't have to do a lot of prep work for them.

Okay. So it should be a little easier to secure that stuff then.

It's literally stapled on the inside so that the pokey parts don't touch anybody's head. And there's a little piece of elastic to make it fit.

Very nice.

I did a more elaborate one, but I think it's just too much, and it adds glue into the mix. But it does have some, like, other stuff on it.

You know the kids are gonna wanna do that. Right?

Well, yeah. I mean, I have the stuff for the for the gems, and the the regular old glue seems like it worked fine on them. It didn't work on the pom poms, but that's fine. This one's just kinda huge. But this one was really easy. This one took, like, three minutes.

Alright. With the fall leave theme, we'll Yeah. I'm working on a little handout for cyclical maintenance as far as cleaning your gutters so we can tie it back to heritage and historic homes. So it'll be pretty cute.

Michael just chatted a nice little tagline for us.

I think it'll be fun to see all the different kids and the as they're walking by with the crowns, you know, just like, hey. They came and saw us, and they don't have to carry this. It's on their head.

So Michael chatted, fall in love with the Heritage Commission.

Very cute. I took a note.

We had some good leaf puns going the other day too to tie it into the Heritage Commission as well. So we're having fun with puns and other lines. So but it'll be a great craft project for everybody. I'm just tying it into who we are. So Awesome.

Yeah. I'm gonna order some more lee I'm gonna order leaves from Amazon because they're so much cheaper and just see. And then I might look at dollar Dollar Tree too. I know sometimes they have false stuff. So I'll get some more leaves aside from the ones I got. But I think it'd be fun. It's easy.

Yeah. Okay. Well, the spreadsheet's still open. So if anyone else thinks they can squeeze a shift into their schedule, feel free to jump on there and add it, or if you know now. But

And we've also got the last one, the Veterans Day event. I know that Gary had sent an email that he was interested in attending. And then Eleanor and Garner, I think you both had sent me an email that said, oh, yeah. Maybe, possibly. It depends on some

of those stuff. I needed to check my schedule on that. Keep talking. I'll do that. And

so this one, I think if we have enough people to physically be at a station, we have handouts, and we can, you know, set something up that's in theme with the Legion Way trees. It'll be indoors at Madison, and then I believe that'll be a walk from Madison down Legion Way to the armory where they'll look at the interpretive sign. I see Garner says no.

Kicking my head. I thought I had yeah. Okay. Unfortunately, you have to take me off there.

Okay. And so if anyone's interested in this one, let me know sooner than later so we can confirm with the historical society that we do want a booth. Eleanor, if you're the only person that's interested in it, I think it would also be helpful for me to know if you're okay being mostly alone. I I'm in town on the eighth, so I would be able to help. But if we don't want to commit to it because we know that there aren't going to be enough folks at the booth I don't think Gary was, committing to being at the booth.

I think he wanted to be at the event in general because it it does he he's got a lot of ties to the themes. But, yeah, so I guess I think we would wanna have maybe another person who was committed to doing it before we sign up.

Yeah.

I can commit to doing it. I I didn't realize it was for the trees too.

Oh, nice. Okay. And then we oh, we've got the the leaves. That's already that's perfect. And, Eleanor, did you have something that you wanted to add? Yep. Just whatever

works. Yeah. If we end up just kind of piggybacking on one of the other booths, then that's fine too.

Do you happen to have the hours for that event?

It's different in a couple of different published, like, flyers that I've seen drafts of or unpublished flyers that I've seen drafts of. But let me just quickly see what I have as the latest draft.

And that's an event the public is invited to? Or Yes. Then it might be good to have one of those flyers when they're finished drafting to have an arts walk because we can advertise it at ArtsWalk too. Mhmm.

Good point.

That's a good idea.

I think I should just always wear this hat. I kinda want

It is fantastic. Very becoming.

Yes. What you said, Garner.

K. I'm so sorry. Give me another second, and there's a lot of emails about this that aren't related to the flyers.

Yeah. If I just have a ballpark, that way I don't accidentally put something on top of it.

Yeah. Okay. It says two to 4PM. I am not sure if it'll be an hour earlier or an hour later, but I think it's meant for the afternoon. But the earliest it would be one, and the latest would be at five. So between those hours. Between lunch and dinner. How about that? Okay. So I think that's maybe as far as we're gonna get with the shift.

Thank you all for signing up for things and chatting about it. And if there's any questions that you have or ways that you want to support the events that might not be physically showing up but, like, doing something, let me know, and I can see if there's ways to plug people in. But oh, yeah. Michael?

We had talked I can't remember if this was a as a big group or just the more committee, but about contributing our $25 if we had signed up for that into a pot that can support, the materials that Melissa is purchasing or, anybody is purchasing. So I wonder if there's a mechanism to do that. If, Melissa, you have a Venmo or or any other ideas for how to get you some money to support your purchasing of all these materials.

I don't personally use it, but my husband has it. So but, yeah, thank you for considering.

Yeah. If you if you know it and comfortable putting it in the chat, you can do that, or you can send me an email or send it to Britney, and maybe Britney can send it out.

That's a great idea.

I'll do that. I'll send it to Britney when when I know

what it is because I have no idea.

Okay.

Thank you for bringing that up, Michael. I think, as a commissioner led initiative, that's very wholesome and nice that y'all are banding together to donate to get these events going. Not on the business item, but I feel like this is a very casual meeting right now. We did have a, look at the city's budget moving into next year, and it's not looking as good as it it last year was kinda tough. We kinda felt like it was getting a little better, and I think next or this year is also getting kinda tough.

So I don't think, like, we've sort of been able to spend a little bit of money here and there, but I think that's going to probably actually stop soon. More

to

come when it's available, but budget is a concern more so right now. Yeah.

Okay. Well, thanks for that update. Discouraging, but thanks.

I know. I I think we were all in we we learned about this at a staff meeting recently, and so it's all new. So I don't have any details or information that's helpful, but just it's it's up again. Yeah. October's budget time.

Okay.

Anything else on the volunteer shifts?

I think that's all for the volunteer shifts. K.

Next was oh, go ahead.

Sorry. I was just gonna ask, are we still planning on having the retreat in December?

Great segue. That's the next agenda.

Good segue. Okay. Yeah. Let's move. I I believe we are unless you guys have had conversations since I've been away for two weeks. But

I don't think anything's been decided, but I did want to also bring up I think our bylaws do say October, but then we closed December last time. December seemed like a good spot for us to have enough time to discuss, get a work plan drafted, and then have it actually get reviewed and submitted on time.

Right.

Yeah. So that's, I guess, the staff consideration for you, but I'll let you decide.

Okay. Well and part of it too is just making sure everyone's schedules are available for that. I know for me, it would have to be early December, probably for most people. I don't We we wanna talk about a date to schedule on the calendar.

The holiday open house is also on December 14, so it would have to be I think probably a week. Do we have it on a weekend last we did on a Saturday.

Mhmm.

So December 6.

I will be unavailable on December 6.

Check my So I am leaving on the thirteenth. I won't be available after that. Maybe we can't

do it on the weekend. Maybe we need to do it.

Maybe there's potential for doing a longer meeting on a daytime, potentially starting, like, at four, like, four to eight or something. Yeah. Leading into the weekend or something.

Yeah. That might make the most sense, honestly.

Yeah. Is everyone does everyone here have a flexible enough work schedule that it could be? Like, I guess, maybe if we start at three or four and then just have an evening, we'll have a dinner at it.

Schedule, like, this far out. Yeah. No problem.

Yeah. I think that's fine.

How about how's the tenth for everybody on a Wednesday?

Can I go make that work?

I can't do the tenth time up in Anacortes that day. But I could do the previous The third? The third.

Yeah. I could do the third.

And out of

town Wait. Sorry. I can't do the third. My fault. My fault.

So I'm to, though.

I'm saying up until the fifth. So I think if we want to have me present, that first week is unavailable, which is if the sixth is the only day that works, I'm worried I will be asleep because it will be a totally different time zone, and I don't want to Mhmm. Set us up to not have a good retreat.

You don't wanna be a zombie?

What about, like, a Thursday, like, December 11?

Yeah. I think maybe we look at a different day that week.

And Sunday is not an option. So

I'm fine with Sunday, the seventh.

I'm okay with Sunday.

I think that works for me.

Anybody object to a Sunday?

I would prefer a Thursday night over the seventh Sunday, but we can do our best and I can actually, the fifth is a if we do that on the seventh, there won't be a workday leading up to it. So I would really heavily be relying on you guys to put it all together, and I would I'm leaving on the November 21, so we need to, like, really preplan a lot of it if the scheduling works out that way, but you feel really committed to having a committee work together.

How's the how's the eleventh for everybody? Anybody have a Yeah.

We're all like, no. We don't that doesn't sound how about the eleventh?

I think the eleventh works for me.

Eleventh would be better for me as well. Eleanor, how are you feeling?

It's good right now, but I foresee it not being good. But I think I'll just have to figure that out as we get closer. Right now, it's okay.

Okay. Well, let's let's put that on the calendar. And then if anybody and Eleanor or anybody else has something pop up, we can discuss it. But sounds like that's probably the best option right now. Would you like

to do it in November or January, like, a month before or a month after?

No. December probably is the best for me.

January would be better for me than November. But

Does January give us enough time to get everything together for you, Britney, for meeting the city schedule?

So last cycle, we had a work plan. I presented it to you all. There were some corrections, so I made those corrections and then represented it to you all. Mhmm.

So it

took two meetings. Right. We really nail it down at the retreat and we do it in one meeting, it could be possible.

So is it due in January?

It's due in March.

Oh, set it to March. Okay. So it still goes this February to make any last minute things. Right?

Mhmm.

Yeah. I have literally nothing in January except for my husband's twenty ninth anniversary at the bank. That's it.

And we may or if we don't do the retreat in December, we may or may not have a meeting in December just because of the holidays and where our meeting date falls to. So our meeting in December was off in the retreat, then we could come back in January, review, edit. That wasn't so hard to do, but I'm good for December or January too. So

So for me, the first two Saturdays are out for me in January.

Yeah. January is pretty rough for me.

I don't know. I'm kinda thinking at this point we stick with the eleventh unless the whole thing blows up with a lot of people having conflicts, but it's gonna be really tough to find a perfect day.

Yeah. I'll it early helps. Knowing the date this early would help. So Okay.

Okay.

I'll send it out, and I think who's missing? Gary, Steven, and Mark. So I'll just check-in with them to say this is the date we chose. Any unavoidable scheduling conflicts?

Okay. So we're thinking start at 04:00 on December 11. Is that cool with everybody?

We could we start a little earlier? Could we start at three 03:30, three, one three? Because I think if we are able to shift it a little earlier, we won't be out as late and have such a long day. But

Works for me. It just depends on people's work schedules.

I'm okay with three. My work schedule is pretty flexible. So

I think I could probably make that work.

That's fine.

Maybe Okay. Who doesn't wanna get out of work early in December? Right?

You'll be almost sunset by then anyway. Yeah.

No. No. Okay.

03:00 December 11. Sounds great.

Do we wanna do a little potluck dinner?

Early dinner? Yes.

Okay. Yeah.

Sounds good. That sounds fun. Do we wanna do a sign up or just free for all?

Copy what we did last time, if that's okay. Did that work for everyone? Just tap the list. You can see what people are bringing and then

I think that worked great last time.

Okay.

If you don't mind. Yeah.

Gotcha.

Yeah. I have so many things going on, but before then that I'm like, I can't tell you what I'm gonna bring. I have no idea.

That surprises.

And then the November meeting also needs to get either rescheduled or I don't know. There's a person who submitted a tax valuation application. They're due in October, but they only submitted half of it. They submitted with the county, but they didn't submit with us. I haven't been able to reach them to confirm.

If they do end up having everything and it was a mistake and they just needed to press go on the portal, I think the committee would or the commission would need to meet once before the end of the year to take a look at it.

So we could do that at the retreat. That wouldn't be a problem. Well, assuming we have a quorum, which we should. So

Oh, we could do that November meeting if we did it the week before on the Wednesday, do the third Wednesday instead of the fourth. Would that work for everybody in just a simple push it back one week? We could do a quick November meeting, finalize retreat details, do the approval on that if we need to.

Yeah. That works for me.

What was the date again? Sorry.

Oh, yeah. Because Britney's out.

I mean, the the nineteenth would either twelfth or the nineteenth would nineteenth's getting close to when you leave, Britney. I don't know if that's too close. But

I don't think that would be feasible for me.

So it would be that well, I've yeah. Be the twelfth. That'd be only one well, I guess it'd be, yeah, it'd be three weeks after the October meeting. So that makes sense.

Should we go for the twelfth?

Does it work for everybody?

That sounds good.

Yep. Yes. K. Twelfth, it is.

Noted. And if there ends up not being a business item, then it might be canceled anyway for lack of business. So

Yeah. Either that or if we do need to talk about the retreat, we could potentially do that. So why don't we put it on there? If we absolutely don't need it, then we won't meet. But don't necessarily wanna meet just to meet, but let's see how it goes.

I mean, I always enjoy meeting you folks, so I'll I'll be at City Hall on that day. I'll be there.

I'll be there too.

K. Let's see. Then the next portion of this was also oh, we've got the scheduling done.

Quick question on the scheduling too. So the retreat in December would be, in place of our standard scheduled fourth week because of the holiday. So the only time we meet in December is on December 11 for their treat. Correct?

Correct.

Cool. Just wanna make sure everybody we're all on the same page. And thank you, everybody, for being so agreeable. That was actually really easy with logged over schedules. So thank you.

Right. Well, technically, if we met on December at a regular time, it would be Christmas Eve. That might be a tough one to pull off too. So

Exactly. That's why we normally do the retreat in there too. So I just wanted to clarify for everybody. You can take that one off.

Yeah. Appreciate that, Stacy. Okay. Anything else, Britney, on housekeeping before we go to reports?

The election is the last portion of Oh. House

Yes. Thank you. I didn't expand it.

Oh, yeah. Did you wanna expand on that?

No. I I was just saying I didn't expand the topic, so I didn't I actually have the list of everything that was in your housekeeping.

Yeah. No worries. So I guess maybe this is something that we're going to be discussing at the retreat and then having a formal vote on, but it's been a whole year since we've last looked at who is on the I guess, we'll call it the executive committee, really just chair and vice chair, and then all of the different committees of the more committee, heritage review committee, and POG Committee. So how do we all feel about did is that something you'd like to have as part of the retreat to sort of look at as a group, or did you wanna have an election in January?

Do you wanna wait and see what the retreat agenda looks like? I'm all for doing it at the retreat as long as we have time.

Mhmm. And we could potentially do some prep work too at the October, November one too if people have questions about what those roles entail and just thinking about what our committees are too moving into the retreat, almost like some homework or just some things to think about as we move forward. So unless someone's ready to go right now with one of the positions, but we're always happy to have that discussion and questions so we got some time for prep work and stuff before then.

That sounds good. So why don't everyone think about it between now and October, recognizing we've got both committees, not only the leadership of the committees, but just what committees you want to commit to in the upcoming year as well as the officers. So start thinking about that, and I guess we'll pick it up next month.

Does anyone need a refresher on any any of the structure topics that people work on? Like, would it be helpful for me to send out some sort of a recap of the committees, or do you all still have the info from last year?

It couldn't hurt. And I don't know. I I'm assuming does the one from last year need any updating based on the work plan, or was that updated after the work plan was

finalized last year?

Sure. Good point. I will revisit that. So I'll have that for you to look at in the October or before the October meeting so that we can kinda be thinking about what that looks like.

Okay. That sounds good. I mean, the work plan's always a good, really high level overview. But, yeah, I think the the committee responsibilities document, whatever that thing was called, would be great to to get out. Hey. Fantastic. Okay. That was the last item on housekeeping. Right? Yes. Okay. Cool. Reports. Marketing and outreach. Should we start there?

I think we we gave most of our report. We've got the Art Spot coming up, and then we have the Windows workshop. I was curious if Michael and Stacy and Brittany would like to go ahead and since we're all here and looking at our calendars to schedule something for October to start thinking about the retreat as far as activities and venue and that kind of stuff. Like, the October might be good.

I actually think that the POG committee is the committee that technically helps plan the retreat. Mhmm. Because I think that the more committee is the outreach, and then the pub committee is the internal. Does that sound about right? Or, like I guess, Bill, do you wanna join in on this planning meeting?

Sure. I'd be happy to. Okay.

And now it can be the difficult one, but October around the fifteenth is when I'm out of state. So but I could jump on a Zoom if needed, but I'd love to do it in person with y'all too. So

I probably have to do it virtually just because of work. But if it's, in an afternoon or something, I can probably make it work either way.

And while I'm on the more committee, if we have Bill stepping into, then maybe you don't need me as much. So

I mean, I'm not on the pod committee either, so maybe you don't need me.

I need somebody. I think maybe rather than deciding right now, I I'll send something out, but having some general time frames that work would be helpful so we can at least say these work.

There's no reason why it couldn't be a joint committee planning session too.

Voice of reason. Yeah. I'm I'm pretty open. I'm pretty open. So whatever we come up with, I'll just make sure I put it on the calendar so I don't forget.

I can do most times in October except the October. So whatever works for other folks.

I just need a little pause on commission work after the Arts Walk. Just like, if I could have a couple of weeks to not do stuff.

Which is another good reason to maybe have pod help with that committee to give Melissa a break because they've been working so hard and are attending so many events with all of us too. It's okay to let go of some of that too. So maybe Britney can check-in with other members who aren't here tonight and see if we can develop a either pod committee or a small committee to help plan some other retreat. That

sounds good. I think maybe so maybe pod takes the lead on it. But if anyone else, not only for marketing and outreach, but if anyone else wants to be involved in planning, I don't see there's any reason why they can't join. So but, yeah, I think it's a good idea to have Pog take the lead on it at least.

Okay.

For October, I also think that if folks interested in planning this are available, it works ideally for me to meet on the twenty second before our regular meeting and sometime in the afternoon. So folks wanna show up early to downtown, and we can have a a work session that can be hybrid so that we can do it a little virtual, a little bit in person. That's something that would work out.

I'm pretty sure I can the twenty second work.

Okay.

I may or may not attend that. Just let other people do some of the planning too. But one suggestion too, just real quick, for the border treat, it'd be wonderful if we had a small year in review, and that could might be a fun question for you, Britney, about what was their thing you learned the most or whatever we learned in the past year and just a year in review because we've done a lot of events, and we've been out in the community and doing a lot of outreach and work. And I think it's good to celebrate that and see how far we've come in the past year because we've done a lot of great work. So

yeah.

Great. Anyone

has photos they wanna send me or achievements or kudos to fellow commissioners, send them my way. I'll start collecting now. We can amass something for December.

Cool. Hey. Anything else on the on POG for a committee report that isn't tied in with the retreat?

I don't think so unless, Britney, you have anything.

No. And, actually, I think because we had clarified the retreat thing, this is still the MORE committee. Melissa, do you have any more MORE stuff so that we're not skipping the end of your report

out? I don't think so.

Okay. Last is heritage review committee. We haven't had a review since last time we met. We do have one coming up next week, though, which should be a pretty fun one on the Carnegie Library renovation, which is a project that's been bouncing around here for, like, five years. So we'll see, where they're going with it and if it happens. But it's a great old building. It's one of my favorites in town. So I hope I hope something happens with it. Anything else on heritage review, Britney, that you know about?

Cool.

I guess you said there's a special tax valuation coming up, it sounds like. So

They're they haven't submitted any of their documents to me, so I don't know if they are ready to apply fully or not. Because to get all your documents together, there's a lot of prep work for it. So I guess I don't want to I don't have any details to share because I haven't seen their materials. Mhmm. But the Carnegie Library might actually be a joint review committee. So we haven't

done one for this. Yeah.

I think

I don't think I've done one since I've been on this commission, and that's been a long time. So that's great. I don't even know who's on design review anymore. Nope.

I think maybe when we're there Garner, you won't be there. But if we we could discuss, like, which commissioners wants to be part of the joint review committee when that time comes, that would probably be a good discussion to start. And then Yeah. The package should be coming out later this week. But, Garner, if you had any comments that you wanted me to relay, I'm happy to like, if you wanna mark something up or send a memo or a suggestion or something, I can read this out for you.

Okay. Sounds good. Okay. Well, that is committee reports. Anything else before we break out?

Okay. Well, good to see everybody, and, looking forward to the retreat and some of the cool stuff coming up. Looking forward to Artswalk for sure. That'll be great. The Windows workshop's gonna be fantastic. Yeah. Some great stuff coming up.

Please take pictures of all of the events and things that you're doing and wear your cute name tags.

Good reminders. Thank you.

But I wish I could be there on Saturday, and then on ArtsWalk, yeah, I've I'll try to be there as much as I can, but it won't be the full time. So

Okay. There we go, Melissa. I love it.

K. Good night, everyone.

Good night, everyone.

Good night. We'll officially adjourn it. Oh, sorry. '20 oh, sorry. 628. We'll officially adjourn. So now you can say good night.

Alright. Good night. Good night.

Good night. See you all. Bye.