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Cultural
Heritage Committee Meeting Update
July 27, 2009 Monday
5:30 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
Committee Members Barbara Breska, Dan Carpenter, Katy Davis, Dean
Miller, Jeff Oliveira, Vice-Chairperson Chuck Crotser, and
Chairperson John Fowler. Committee Member
Oliveira was absent.
STAFF: Deputy
Community Development Director Kim Murry and Senior Planner Jeff
Hook
PUBLIC COMMENT:
None
MINUTES:
The minutes of the June
22, 2009, regular meeting were approved as submitted.
PUBLIC HEARING
ITEMS:
1. City-Wide.
CHC 85-08; Introduction to the Updated Archaeological Resource
Preservation Program Guidelines; City of San Luis Obispo,
applicant. (Jeff Hook)
Jeff Hook gave a brief slide introduction to the
updated Archaeological Resource Preservation Program Guidelines and
explained that no Committee decisions were anticipated at this
meeting. Staff recommended the Committee take public testimony,
discuss the staff report and Draft Guidelines, and continue the item
to the Committee’s August 24, 2009, meeting. Two members of the
public, Elizabeth Thyne and Barry Price, expressed support for the
Guidelines. Mr. Price said he would be submitting more detailed
comments in writing, but his main comment was regarding professional
standards for archaeologists. He felt the Guidelines should use the
Registry of Professional Archaeologists as the professional standard
rather than the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Standards.
Committee members then reviewed public written
comments and staff responses, reviewed the Draft Guidelines page by
page, and provided detailed comments and revisions to staff.
Overall, Committee members supported the revised Draft with
relatively minor changes and, on a motion by Committee Member
Miller, seconded by Committee Member Breska, continued the item to
the August 24, 2009, meeting.
COMMUNICATIONS:
a. Agenda
Forecast – Staff
Jeff Hook provided an agenda forecast and noted the
next meeting would be the CHC/ARC training on August 17 and 18,
2009. He also asked the Committee to consider alternate dates for a
fall CHC retreat. After a brief discussion, the Committee scheduled
the retreat on Wednesday, October 21st, from 5:30 to 9
p.m. at the Ludwick Center in San Luis Obispo. Committee members
also supported a possible field trip to the City of Monterey in the
fall and felt a Monday day trip would be workable.
b. Committee
Committee Member Carpenter explained his ideas about
a possible name change from Cultural Heritage Committee to Historic
Preservation Commission, and increased meeting frequency from one to
two meetings per month. After discussion, Committee members felt a
name change was not appropriate at this time, and that increased
meeting frequency may be appropriate on a temporary, trial basis
during the Committee’s work on a historic preservation ordinance.
They supported meeting twice a month as needed by scheduling special
meetings rather than amending the Committee’s by-laws.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
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