HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-27-25 Public Comment - M. Osman - Remove item F6 from consent and do not approve this contract!From:Michelle Osman
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Remove item F6 from consent and do not approve this contract!
Date:Monday, October 27, 2025 11:41:34 AM
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Hello City Manager, Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Commissioners,
I'm writing to you today to request that you remove item F6. from the Commissioners consent
agenda for October 28th, and do NOT approve this contract.
The Lakota Group lacks members that fulfill the Secretary of the Interior's ProfessionalQualifications Standards, aka Historic Preservation. Considering they are being hired to
update the NCOD it seems that Conservation, aka, in a built environment, historic preservationshould be prominent. Or do you go to restaurants where the chef eschue's salt, hire contractors
that don't use siding, etc. Shall I continue with the list of idotic discrepancies? I cannot evenexplain how insulting it is, especially in light of the city's position regarding the NCOD and
the Guthrie proposal.
Survey after survey shows that the residents of this town want more historic preservation notless. We do not want the NCOD to be watered down. We want it strengthened. I know
the developers breathing down your necks want an open door to demo and re-build whereverthey please, but listen to us or we will eat whole garlic bulbs before breathing down your
necks. Hiring a consultant for the NCOD that doesn't have any, let alone strong, historicpreservation knowledge and qualifications takes another chance for true trust between the
residents and the city and throws it away.
The Historic Preservation Advisory Board should have been asked to review the materialssubmitted by each applicant for this contract.
Open a new search for qualified consultants.
Thank you,
Michelle Osman