PRELIMINARY until voted on at 8 July 2008
meeting
Minutes of the Stratham
Heritage Commission
10 June 2008
Hearing Room,
OPENING BUSINESS
Members present: Becky
Mitchell, chair, Nancy Hansen, treasurer; secretary, Sara L. Kellner; alternates,
Bev Connolly and Flossy Wiggin; Selectmen’s Rep, David Canada. Arriving late: Planning Board Rep, MJ Werner. Absent:
Voting member, Peter Wiggin.
Meeting: The meeting was opened
at 5:40 and was adjourned at 6:25 pm.
Minutes: Minutes of
the 13 May meeting, written by secretary, Sara L. Kellner, were modified as
follows: (a) Move the last two sentences in the Mater Plan
Goals & Recommendation section to follow the first sentence in the
Historical Resources Survey. (b) Add to the Historical Survey section that
Selectman David Canada volunteered to check to see what availability the HC
would have in utilizing the town website for inputting and storing the
survey.
Treasury
Report:
The treasurer reported spending in May of $178.33 for supplies leaving $4578.67
in the HC town account; expenses to date since our last meeting (to be paid
in June) of $127.78 for brick engraving and associated costs for Memorial
Day. She also reported that we are
$19.33 over-expended in the budget sub-account of Training and
Conferences. Balance in the Heritage
Fund was reported as $3.381.66 at the end of April and includes
approximately $1200 in specified funds (
Next meeting: Tuesday, 8 July
2008, 5:30pm in the
OLD BUSINESS
Survey
of Historical Resources: the
chair reported a meeting will be held, to discuss survey data issues and
questions, on 17 June at 2pm in the Hearing Room. Included will be interested members of the HC,
the database manager, representatives from the DHR and the Exeter
HC/Selectmen. Additionally, David Canada
stated that the Town meets once a month with the library to determine the
feasibility of combining websites; until those discussions are further along,
we have no idea if the HC will be able to piggyback for data input and
storage. He will report after the next
meeting with the library.
Master
Plan Goals: Re
Archaeology, the chair announced that a woman from the DHR will attend one of
our meetings in the fall to discuss the section on archaeology and how we might
proceed. Maggie Steer & Nadine
Peterson had questions about our survey, interest in our Master Plan being used
as a model for other towns in the
Gateway/Planning
Board: Next
Wednesday the Planning and Zoning Boards will meet to discuss the most recent
changes in the Market Basket plan, and the ZBA denied a substandard lot size to
Veteran's
Garden: Nancy
Hansen met with Amy Ross, who donated money for use in the Garden, but Ms Ross
is not quite ready to move on the project.
A committee will form in the fall.
Also, that six newly engraved bricks were installed in time for the
Memorial Day service.
NEW BUSINESS
Post Card Project: The post
card project is resurrected and will be led by Bev Connolly, who has done work
in this area previously. She asked
members to email her about sites/locations in Stratham they felt warrant a
current photo card. It was decided prior
to the meeting not to make historic cards.
After a short discussion, it was concluded that Bev would do more
research and return at the next meeting with financial numbers and printing
sources, amounts, etc. for potential voting by members.
New Book Available: The chair
mentioned that the new book by Peter Francese and Lorraine Merrill, entitled “Communities
and Consequences,” is available in the library.
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NEXT MEETING: The next meeting
will take place in the
Tuesday,
8 July 2008, 5:30pm. Location TBA by chair as the center is under
construction.