Old White Meeting House Committee

Town of South Hero
South Hero Meeting House – Renovate & Adaptive Reuse Project Date: Thursday, Oct 7,2021
Steering Committee on Zoom & in person Call to Order: 4:00 PM by David Carter – Chair
Attendees: David Carter-Selectboard, Emily Klofft-NRPC, Mary Harwood – Town Consultant, Pamela Suprenant, Michael Carroll, Sarah Kjelleran, Terry Robinson, Carol Tremble, Sandy Gregg- PC
Via Zoom to start: Paul & Bob from Arnold & Scangas
Absent: Michael Breault, Beth Curtis-Granny’s Attic, Nate Hayward
1. Introductions & Project Overview by D. Carter
2. New Business:
A. The buyer of the former Fifield property (behind the Meeting House consisting of open field and woods plus Fifield historic house) is offering to donate some number of acres to the Town to be used as a public park with a baseball field to be included. This Town park area should be factored in while designing the Meeting House, especially concerning traffic patterns, lighting, landscaping etc.
3. Site Visit: The group then walked over to the Meeting House so that Rebecca Arnold could have a personal tour of the building. We lost our Zoom participants, sorry. It was requested by Rebecca Arnold that engineers will need to see the attic area above the 2nd floor and other areas such as what is above the drop ceiling in the south ground-floor bay in case it, too, is tin ceiling.
4. Next Meeting: TBD 5. Adjourned 5:30 PM
Respectfully submitted by, Sandy Gregg, Scribe

Town of South Hero
South Hero Meeting House – Preserve & Revitalize Project

Date: Monday, Aug 9,2021
Steering Committee on Zoom & in person

Call to Order: 4:02 PM by David Carter – Chair

Attendees: David Carter-Selectboard, Emily Klofft-NRPC, Beth Curtis-Granny’s Attic, Linda Seavey, Mary Harwood – Town Consultant, Sarah Kjelleren, Pamela Suprenant, Terry Robinson, Michael Carroll, Nate Hayward, Sandy Gregg- PC

Absent: Carol Tremble, Michael Breault

1. Contract for “Pre-Build Stage” with Arnold & Scangus – The Selectboard signed the contract & it is now with Arnold & Scangus. Emily K. will follow-up with A&S.
• The Town needs to set-up a separate, non-interest bearing account to receive VCD Grant funds – Kim Julow will follow-up.
• Signed contract needs legal review by an attorney referred by NRPC. Emily K. will follow-up.
• Administrative Services contract with NRPC has been sent to David C. – Needs SB approval & signature.

2. State Historic Preservation Grant Update: Mary H. reported the maximum is $20,000.
• Determination of Eligibility is required. This is included in A&S contract under their scope of work.
• October deadline to get cost estimates for this round of grants. Not going to happen so will have to apply in the next round.
• If voters approve a bond at Town Meeting the Grant funds could could be applied to paying back the bond.

3. Old Business:
A. Website: www.SouthHeroMeetingHouse.org is up!
B. Donations are live on the website!
C. Little Green Light (LGL) is also live to capture Donor information.

4. New Business:
A. Posters & Handouts: Sarah K and Sandy G. will have posters ready by 8/20.

B. Islander Article: David C. has contact info for Islander writer and will get in touch with him when we have a signed VCDP contract.

C. Front Porch Forum: posts should start happening soon. Beth C. and Sandy G. will start the ball rolling just to get folks excited that IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!

D. Community Support: Nate Hayward expressed interest in the use of the property to the north for easement for wastewater and parking behind the Meeting House. All agreed that more green space in the front is needed so it is not a mass of asphalt.

E. Communications: Bath C. will continue to pass along information to the Granny’s.

F. Motion by Sandy G. to approve invoice #140 from Harwood Consulting in the amount of $780, seconded by Michael C., vote was unanimous.

5. Next Meeting: Monday, Sept 13th at 4:00 PM at Town Office with a Zoom option (Nate will help set-up the Zoom).

8. Adjourned 4:36 PM

Respectfully submitted by,
Sandy Gregg, Scribe

Town of South Hero
South Hero Meeting House – Preserve & Revitalize Project

Date: Monday, July 12,2021
Steering Committee on Zoom

Call to Order: 4:00 PM by David Carter – Chair

Attendees: David Carter-Selectboard, Emily Klofft-NRPC, Beth Curtis-Granny’s Attic, Linda Seavey, Mary Harwood – Town Consultant, Sarah Kjelleren, Pamela Suprenant, Carol Tremble, Sandy Gregg-Planning Commission

Absent: Terry Robinson – Bicentennial Museum
Michael Carroll
Nate Hayward

1. Contract for “Pre-Build Stage” with Arnold & Scangus – This contract will be presented to the Selectboard at tonight’s SB meeting.

2. VCDP Grant Status Update – Emily Klofft reported we still have not gotten a signed contract from DCVP. She will be getting help from her NRPC colleagues to get this contract signed by the next SB meeting July 26th.

3. Old Business:
A. Website: www.SouthHeroMeetingHouse.org is up!
B. Donations are live on the website!
C. Little Green Light (LGL) is also live to capture Donor information.

4. New Business:
A. Posters & Handouts: Sarah K, Mary H., Linda S., and Sandy G. will see to creating a visually engaging poster (thank you to Sarah for a great start!) along with rack card sized handout with further details including web address, contact info, mailing address, current stage of the project etc.
Sizes, # to print etc. will be determined by this group. A show of hands fully supported this expenditure for PR purposes to generate excitement & support. Sarah K. shared some visual enticements.

B. Islander Article: David C. has contact info for Islander writer and will get in touch with him when we have a signed VCDP contract.

C. Front Porch Forum: posts should start happening soon. Beth C. and Sandy G. will start the ball rolling just to get folks excited that IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!

5. Next Meeting: Monday, August 9th at 4:00 PM at Town Office with a Zoom option.

8. Adjourned 4:34 PM

Respectfully submitted by,
Sandy Gregg, Scribe