Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2010 06 16

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Historical Commission Minutes May 19, 2010 Page 2 of 4 . Steve Preston - numerous items from the estate of Lucille DiGiacomo Gray, including historical photos, postcards, directories, programs, an original bread oven paddle, wedding dress, and handmade doll items. The DiGiacomo family was an Italian farming family. . Bridget Bacon - old cookbooks and items relating to local businesses purchased at the DiGiacomo/Gray estate sale . David Ferguson - documents and other items from the Dionigi family, including original certificates in Italian that were brought to Louisville from Italy; historical photos; records from the estate of Josephine Dionigi Robinson . Don Ross - handwritten booklet of meeting minutes from the Walter Rhoades Post Auxiliary . Darlieen DelPizzo - four issues of The Louisville Times; historical photos; and licenses for Louisville's grain elevator from when her father operated it . Lori Chase - calendars from Bungalow Drug and other items retrieved from a Louisville house . Ronda Leggett - tax records from the McDonald and Leggett family property starting in 1913 B. Museum Coordinator's Report: Bridget reported that she attended the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums annual conference in Laramie, Wyoming the previous week and learned a great deal from the sessions that she went to. She also passed out an article entitled "The Lesson of Louisville Middle School" that Mike Koertje from the Historic Preservation Commission wrote for the most recent issue of Colorado Preservationist about how under state law, school districts are exempt from local planning processes and historic preservation codes. C. Update on possible meeting with other historical organizations: Bridget Bacon is still checking into on whether Louisville's historical organizations (the Historical Commission and Historic Preservation Commission) can meet again with the historical organizations in Superior and Lafayette. Bridget has contacted the Superior Historical Commission about whether it would be interested in hosting such a meeting again, and she will report more at the next meeting. D. Planning for "Rocky Flats and the Cold War West: Community Impacts and Historical Legacy, May 2ih, 7 PM, Louisville Public Library: The group discussed plans for the program being cosponsored by the Museum and Library. The Library is able to supply coffee. The Commission approved up to $50 for Sally Burlingame to purchase cookies. E. Approval of postal expenses - $185 postal permit & fund for returned Historians: The Commission moved, seconded, and carried a motion to approve the expense of $185 to pay for its postal permit. It was decided that a fund to cover the cost of returned Historians is not necessary at this time. Colleen Vandendriessche asked whether the Louisville Historian should be provided by email instead of in hardcopy. Bridget Bacon noted that unlike the publications of some organizations, the Historian is more than a newsletter and contains substantive historical articles that people seem to like keeping as a hard copy, like a magazine. A number of people have become members so that they can receive the Historian as a hard copy. Bridget noted that memberships are the biggest source of fundraising for the Commission. Dan Mellish also noted that it would be preferable to not make it possible for members to forward the Historian to others for free. Bridget said that she has been asked if the PDFs of past issues could be made available online and she said that she has been waiting for the future makeover of the Museum's website in order to propose this. She asked the Commission members if they would like to see issues put up on the website electronically a