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City of O'Fallon Historic Preservation Committee met Aug. 6

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

1. Opening

1.1. Melissa Fanning called the meeting to Order at 6:32pm

1.2. Roll Call, Present: Brian Keller, Doug Distler, Cameron Luster, Shannan Mason and Valerie Hancock.

Excused absence: Curt Schildknecht, Julie Spengler, Mark Kampen, Steve Brown, Sid LeGrand and Chad Schwarz

City representative Ryan Auer in attendance

Public: Andrea Fohne

- A suggestion from Brown-Bill Smith as a potential member to replace Melissa Fanning.

1.3. Approval of Minutes – Distler made a motion to approve, Brown seconded. Minutes approved.

2. New Business

2.1 Nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary: Chairperson: Valerie Hancock nominated by Brown and Brian Keller nominated by Hancock. Keller declined the nomination.

Vice Chair: Chad Schwarz nominated by Distler and seconded by Brown.

Secretary: Shannan Mason nominated by Brown and seconded by Distler.

- Brown moved to close nominations with second by Distler.

3. New business

-Keller announced his resignation and advised this will be his last meeting.

3.1 October event-Walking event downtown

-Starting at the chamber building, then moving on to the museum and ending at Steve Brown's house.

-Scheduled for 10/12/24 at 2pm.

-We could perhaps get an auctioneer to volunteer and do a small reenactment. Mason will make up a map of the stops and work with Auer.

3.2 Report on the proposed historic marker/sign for City Marshal Benjamin Schmitt

The plaque has been received today!

3.3 Certificate of Appropriateness:

Distler advised that the Amelia Carriel Monument is now in front of Carriel school and appears to have been altered significantly. Auer will reach out.

**Auer emailed an update on 08/07/2024:

“The Architect (applicant) is still working on a detail(ed) plan describing the footings for the monument. Until this plan is received and approved, staff will not permit the placement of the monument.”

-Reference to the Marie Schaeffer school, we have a plaque for the original gym that has never been placed there.

4. Public Comments

4.1 No comments

5. Adjournment

5.1 Mason moved to adjourn. Seconded by Distler. Meeting adjourned at 7:05 pm.

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