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City of Moline Historic Preservation Commission met Sept. 14.

Here is the minutes provided by the commission:

	Present	Absent
Jeff Dismer	X
Frank Ege	X
Craig Mack	X
Dan Mizner	X
Scott Perkins	X
Dick Potter	X
Barb Sandberg	X
Jeff Anderson - Staff	X

The meeting was held at the Moline City Hall in the Committee of the Whole with all participants keeping social distancing and wearing face mask.

Introduction of Guests – Jan and Mark Stoffer, Jolene Keeney and Joe Kuhlenbeck

• Approval of Meeting Minutes – August 24, 2020 – Commissioner Mizner noted a correction to the revised minutes of August 24, stating under Rt 92 Corridor Study, there is no “R” in COVID. Motion by Mizner, seconded by Potter to approved the revised minutes. Motion approved.

Reports:

• Code revision suggestions by HPC to review buildings over 50 years prior to issuing a demolition permit: Jeff Anderson reviewed the revised draft of the proposed ordinance change with Dirk Price from the law firm of Ancel Glink. There was no further changes after this discussion. The code revision will be presented on August 22, at 6 PM to the Committee of the Whole by Alderman/Commissioner Potter.

• Jeff Anderson’s comments:

• Jeff will have a form sent to each Commissioner, requesting the following information: Phone, email and date you were appointed to the Commission.

• Jeff Anderson will arrange training for Jeff Dismer on the Open Meeting Act.

• All correspondence from the Commission should be sent out directly to Jeff Anderson or the City appointed staff, who will send it out by blind copy to each of the members and the City Clerk. Therefore no correspondence or electronic transmissions should be sent out from one member to the total Commission. Never reply to all. A correspondence to three Commission members is consider a meeting. If out in public or at other public meetings a quorum for this Commission is 3, therefore discussion of any Historical Preservation Commission work should be avoided.

Old Business:

• Storage of drawings from Dennis Kelly’s office. Commissioner Ege informed the Commission that the drawings will be moved to Rock Island Historical Society by the end of September. The contract for the moving will be done by MFS Moving, Rock Island Illinois. Dennis Kelly is also donating some metal file drawers for the storage of the drawings. The September 2020 issue of the Rock Island County Historical Society newsletter contained an article regard their accepting the architectural drawings from the office of Dennis Kelly. It incorrectly stated that RICHS was working with the Moline Preservation Society instead of working with the City’s Historic Preservation Commission. The director apologized for the error and stated that a correction would appear in the December newsletter.

• List of Moline’s historically and architecturally significant buildings –survey/inventory – No report

• Inventory of salvaged architectural materials. - Items still being stored. 

Reports:

• Proposed Riverfront redevelopment: No report

• Main Street and Facade Improvement Program: The committee met with Olson’s Auto Service on the corner 6th Ave and 15th Street. They want to replace some overhead doors and repaint the exterior of their three buildings. The committee is waiting for additional bids, so that the Committee can approved the project.

• Downtown Heritage Tour - Last week Alma Gaul wrote an article about the Heritage tour and is waiting to put it in the Home and garden section of the local newspapers. She did post the article on Facebook. Todd Green stated that there was a significant increase of hits on the website. Commissioner Sandberg has been asked to do a video interview for the Garfield School Senior Residence Apartments for the 2020 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Virtual Award Ceremony on October 21 at 6:00 PM.

• Mural and Public Art: Commissioner Mack announced a virtual meeting of the Renew Moline Public Art Steering Committee was held on September 4, to review the proposal of 28 artists for the front wall of the Spiegel Building. Three artist were selected and the results were taken to Renew Moline PMT Meeting on September 8. The artist selected was Brandon Nees, The mural should be completed by the end of October and will be installed on the building in November by the City.

• Quad Cities Preservation Consortium: On hold.

• Rt 92 Corridor Study - Rock Island to Silvis: Nothing to report. This item can be removed from the list.

• Spiegel Building Redevelopment:A developer architect is interest in looking at the building for future redevelopment. There is no RFI on the facility, but do to COVID 19 the meeting with ULI has been put on hold.

• Carnegie Library No report.

• Old Post Office on River Drive There has been contacts to the City inquiring about the making it a Professional Services Building.

• Leedy Building Fire - The insurance company has finished their investigation and determined a price on the damages. Now waiting for the owner to give the contractor the go ahead to start the project.to give the go ahead to proceed with the repair.

• First Covenant Church Fire - Working on securing the building and some lower window replacement.

• Prospect Park Pavilion - The Pavilion has been painted. Hopefully this will be the next building to be landmarked in Moline.

• The Rock Island Courthouse - No report.

• John Deere House - The water and sewer has been connected to the house. Now they are filling in the excavation.

• Redevelopment of the Collector Center site - no report.

• Redevelopment of Ray’s Appliance site - Discussion with the City and Jack Laud about some half the property for future parking and the other half for development.

• McKinley School and the Manual Arts Building - Alex Elias from Renew Moline is trying to meet with Bob Stanley and maybe touring both buildings.

Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 5:00 PM

Next Meeting: Monday October 12, 2020 at 4 PM

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