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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
The RHC elected to nominate the Old South Church for the
Historical Commission January 28, 2014
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Date: 2014 -01 -28 Time:
7:30 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Town Hall Conference Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Regularly scheduled meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Chair: Sharlene Reynolds Santo (SRS)
Treasurer: Roberta Sullivan (RS)
Secretary: Carl Mittnight (CM)
Robyn Parker (RP)
Nancy Kohl (NK)
Virginia Adams (VA)
Sally Hilgendorff (SH)
Members - Not Present:
Treasurer: Roberta Sullivan (RS)
Others Present:
none
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Carl Mittnight
Topics of Discussion:
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Historical
The RHC elected to nominate the Old South Church for the
Begin write -up to
VA
Awards
MA State Historic Preservation Award. VA to start on
nominate
nomination paperwork and enlist other RHC members to
work on the nomination as needed.
Next year, the RHC will discuss nominating the MF Charles
building for the same award when that project is complete.
Also discussed, the RHC grants historical restoration and
preservation awards to properties in Reading. These are
currently paper certificates, a discussion was held to
explore changing over to brass placques instead, no
agreement was reached. The subject was tabled for
further discussion.
Budget/
No changes.
Expenditures
607 Pearl St.
Roofing nails were donated by the owners of the property.
Archives
The RHC discussed and approved spending up to $50 on
Purchase dollies
VA
file cabinet dollies to make use of the bottom drawers.
Currently, the bottom file cabinet drawers are to prevent
water damage to files. Reminder: update Historical
databases when moving files.
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32 Lowell St.
The building was formerly the Christian Science Church
and is now home to the New England Ballet School. A
representative from the Christian Science Church donated
drawings of the church floor plans, via RP.
89 Woburn St.
This is the Carter Mansion opposite the Church of the
Good Shepard. An inquiry was received by the RHC from
the prospective buysers asking about restrictions on
updating historic homes. The RHC discussed prior similar
requests and discussed producing a generic letter
explaining said restrictions.
Demolition
■ Reviewed documents and approved as amended. All
Amend docs and
CM
Delay Hearing
documents to include an adoption date of 1/28/2014.
send to RHC
Process Docs
■ The RHC also reviewed a draft of Rules and
Regulations to accompany the Demolition Delay Bylaw;
more discussion to follow.
Zoning Mtg
The next Zoning Bylaw revision meeting will be held on
Attend meeting
VA
February 5 at the Senior Center. A representative from the
RHC will attend the meeting to keep up to date on changes
to the Bylaw.
Finance
A Finance Committee budget meeting will be held on
SRS
Committee
January 29; SRS will talk to Jean Delios about RHC's need
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to attend.
Placquing
■ The RHC reviewed placques used by Lynnfield and
Look into the
SH
Program
discussed their program where they provide matching
placques Lynnfield
funds to homeowners purchasing a placque for their
is using
historic homes.
■ Also discussed is Lynnfield's issue with demolishing
historic buildings. They are discussing installing
placques for demolished buildings with a picture of the
building as a way of showing the community what they
are losing when they tear down these buildings.
Historic
The RHC discussed having a roundtable discussion with
Commission
Historic Commissions from neighboring towns to talk about
Roundtable
solutions to issues. The question was raised about
whether or not public meeting rules apply?
Annual Report
SRS will write and submit the RHC Annual Report
SRS
Celebration
CM was selected to represent the RHC on the Reading
Trust
Celebration Trust.
Adjourned
The meeting adjourned at 9:15 pm.
Next Meeting
Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm I
All
Copies of referenced correspondence and documents are kept in Meeting Minutes binder and relevant project
folders located in the Reading Historical Commission Archives, lower level of the Reading Town Hall
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