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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 91-291 RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: THAT the City Manager be, and he is hereby, authorized to submit a CLG grant request to the Texas Historical Commission for 1992. The grant request attached hereto as Exhibit "A" is hereby approved. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaumont this the Lday of_ 1991. - Mayor - o- r DETAILED DISCUSSION OF PROJECT PROPOSAL The Historical Landmark Commission has four objectives that this grant is intended to address and aid the City of Beaumont in it's efforts to preserve Beaumont's physical past and cultural heritage. Approval of this grant would continued the development of Beaumont's Historic Preservation Plan, written in 1985-86. FIRST OBJECTIVE The first objective is to continue the education of our commissioners and staff. To accomplish this goal the commission is requesting grant support in sending two commissioners and one staff member to the annual state CLG conference in 1992. The goal set last year was to set the stage to encourage the commissioners to attend an educational conference on a reoccurring annual basis. This year the local budget included funds targeted towards funding 75% of the cost for three persons (one minority commissioner) to attend the annual CLG conference. This goal was met and continuation would be enhanced by approval of this objective. SECOND OBJECTIVE As Phase IV of a multiple year project, the Landmark Commission proposes to continue updating the existing SPARE Beaumont survey and inventory that was completed in 1978.The SPARE Beaumont is used as a tool by the citizens of Beaumont, the Historical Landmark Commission, the Beaumont Heritage Society, Beaumont Public Library, Tyrrell Historical Library, Jefferson County Historical Commission, and numerous persons and firms from outside the city; hence, the existing survey has proven to be an excellent resource over the last decade. As is true in all communities, the stock of historic resources is dynamic and the survey needs to be complete and current and not allowed to become a source of misinformation. Phases I, II and III of the SPARE Beaumont Update Survey was conducted during the summers of 1989, 90, and 91 as one of the objectives of the 1989, 90 and 91 CLG grants for the City of Beaumont. However, the Update resulted in only a portion of the area covered by the 1978 SPARE Beaumont being surveyed. The 1978 survey produced about 300 historic structures, whereas, Phase I of the Update has added about 500 additional properties, Phase II about 800 and Phase III about 700 properties. As with phases I, II, and III of the survey update, phase IV will be a survey and inventory of historic resources based on revised historic contexts. EXHIBIT "A" n The intensive survey will include archival research, field work and state recording procedures. The survey will continue to resurvey the existing SPARE Beaumont listed properties and will continue to include additional eligible structures. The next sections of the city for survey are the old areas comprised entirely of minority, old and low to moderate income persons. These areas are key to the development of the city,being areas related to the development of the oil industry in Beaumont. The surveyor will be a qualified professional complying with the states standards. The surveyor will have a summer intern (May 92 - Aug. 92) from a graduate program specializing in historic preservation to conduct the research and field work. The surveyor will gather and record data on Texas Historic Sites Inventory Forms between May and August of 1992. The forms will be published in-house along with a guide for users to explain historic preservation and the use of historical context. The surveyor will prepare the guide, assemble and package the survey for distribution to local, state, and national arenas. Citizens and interested public private organizations will continue to use the updated publication to plan for historic preservation. The anticipated products of the this objective will be a type written Texas Historic Sites Inventory form or its approved equivalent, 35 mm negatives accompanied by contact sheets and a complete photo index of all the surveyed sites with proper identification of each view. The final product will include a detailed map for each site, an outline of the surveys purpose and methods, and make recommendations for local, state, and federal historical designations. This final report will be in conformance with the Federal Register, vol. 48, no. 190. OBJECTIVE THREE The City of Beaumont through its Historical Landmark Commission and its Texas State Fire Museum would like to prepare a multiple national register nominations for our several of fire stations. These fire stations were identified through the Spare Beaumont Survey work as being eligible for the national register. The intended objective is to include the four stations identified within the Spare Beaumont Survey, but a fifth station is believed to be eligible that will be added if it qualifies. The City of Beaumont will hire a summer intern (May 92 - Aug. 92) with a background in historic preservation, such as a graduate student in historic preservation. This intern will be responsible for working with the Director of the Fire Museum in doing the research, writing, and field work necessary to prepare and submit the nomination application. The intern will work for and be supervised by the Planning Director of the City of Beaumont, who is the Secretary to the Beaumont Historical Landmark Commission. The Secretary will oversee the project for the Landmark Commission. The intern ii will also work with the Catalog Committee of the Landmark Commission for additional technical support and for reporting to the full Landmark Commission. It has been a major objective of the Landmark Commission to become active in the nomination and designation of historic sites. This nomination objective will not only continue this process, but will present an opportunity to directly tie an active museum with the active land uses and the physical buildings that contain the land uses the museum represents, in this case fire fighting. OBJECTIVE FOUR The Landmark Commission has set as a fourth goal for 1992 the development of an educational program for the areas students. Working with the Beaumont Independent School District, BISD, the Landmark Commissioners will develop a 45 minute presentation to be given to the students one class at a time for the seventh grade. The program is intended to use the video and slide program developed several years ago with a CLG grant, a educational learning brochure, to be developed and a prepackaged lecture to allow any commissioner or docent to present the program to a class, including the classes teacher. The video and slide program will need to be edited and brought up to date. It currently is 12 minutes long. The brochure is intended to be about 18 x 24 and folded. The brochure would contain about 12 to 15 pen and ink drawings showing local historic properties with details highlighting the key features as a learning guide. The brochure would also contain a simple written message explaining the history of our area and the historical significance of the various structures in the drawings. The lecture will be carefully prepackaged in a series to address the seventh grade, but outlined to the level of information that any commissioner, docent or teacher could present the lecture and program. The BISD currently has 1613 students in the seventh grade. The plan is to present this series during the fall and spring semesters of each school year, as an on going program with additional brochures being printed in later years as needed. The Planning Staff and Landmark Commission will do the work of developing the brochure, the written history on the brochure, the classroom lecture, the editing the video and packaging the entire program. Local architects and artist will be asked to donate the individual graphics to be used in the brochure. i. TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION NATIONAL REGISTER PROGRAMS PRE-APPLICATION BUDGET WORKSHEET CLG Grant 92 1. TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION CLG CONFERENCE TOTAL $1080 a. Three persons for 3 days Hotel $65 per day x 3 persons x 3 days $ 585 Meals $30 per day x 3 persons x 3 days 270 Travel 500 miles x 2 car x .225 cts per mile 225 SUBTOTAL $1080 State's Share $540 City's Share $540 2. SPARE BEAUMONT UPDATE PHASE IV TOTAL $13,288 Cost a. Summer Intern Salary $1400 per month x 3 months (13 weeks) $ 4,200 Milage 900 miles x .225 cents per mile 200 b. Film (30 roles x $20 per role) 600 C. Supplies 100 SUBTOTAL $ 5,100 Local Match (In-Kind) a. McFaddin-Ward Staff, Professional Historian Professional staff 6 hrs. x $15.00 per hr. $ 90 d. City Staff Director -- 24 hrs. x $26 625 Secretary/Draftsman - 450 hrs. x $14 hr. 6,300 e. Printing 15 books x 1700 pgs. ea. x 4.6 cts per pg. 1,173 SUBTOTAL $8,188 State's Share $5,100 City's Share $8,188 r w 3 r r 3. NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION TOTAL $ 9,200 Cost a. Summer Internship Salary $1400 per month x 3 months (13 weeks) $ 4,200 Milage 900 x $.225 per mile 200 b. Film, supplies and printing 200 5 roles x $20 per role, 8 x 10's, and supplies SUBTOTAL $ 4,600 Local Match (In Kind) a. Staff - Planning Director 15 hrs. x $26 per hr. $ 390 Secretary/Draftsman 75 hrs. x $14 hr 1050 Fire Museum Director 150 hrs. x $15 hr. 2250 b. Film, printing and supplies 400 C. Cash 510 SUBTOTAL $ 4,600 States Share $4,600 City's Share $4,600 4. EDUCATION TOTAL $ 9,327 Cost a. Historic brochure for school kids with art printing 10000 brochures x $.43 ea. $ 4,300 SUBTOTAL $ 4,300 In Kind a. Staff Director 12 hrs. x $26 hr. $ 312 Secretary/Draftsman 60 hrs. x $14 hr. 840 Commissioner's 40 hrs. x $10 hr. 400 Local artist and architects 100 hrs. x $34 per hr. 3,400 b. Prepared lecture paper 150 x $.5 75 SUBTOTAL $ 5,027 State's Share $4,300 City's Share $5,027 1' GRANT TOTALS a. Conference State Funds $ 540 Local Match 540 SUBTOTAL $ 884 b. SPARE Beaumont Update State Funds $ 5,100 Local Match 8,1 gg SUBTOTAL $13,288 C. National Register Nomination State Funds $ 4,600 Local Match 4,600 SUBTOTAL $ 9,200 d. Education Program State Funds $ 4,300 Local Match 5,027 SUBTOTAL $ 9,327 TOTAL PROGRAM TOTALS $32,895 State Funds $14,540 Local Match $18,355