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Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Cynthia Jordan Delaney, Deputy City Clerk
Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: (Re)Appointments to the Bozeman Historic Preservation Advisory Board
MEETING DATE: June 23, 2008
RECOMMENDATION: (Re)appoint eight members to the Bozeman Historic Preservation
Advisory Board.
BACKGROUND: There are seven terms on the Bozeman Historic Preservation Advisory Board
that will expire on June 30, 2008: three professional members, three at-large members, and one
neighborhood member. There is also a neighborhood member (with a term expiring on June 30,
2009) who recently resigned. This brings the total number of vacancies to fill to eight.
There are five applicants seeking reappointment and four new applicants who have applied to fill
these eight terms.
The Bozeman Historic Preservation Advisory Board is created under Chapter 2.80 of the
Bozeman Municipal Code. This chapter is designed as a measure to establish a local historic
preservation program designed to promote the preservation of historic and prehistoric sites,
structures, objects, buildings, and historic districts by addressing historic preservation issues at
the local level and integrating them into local, state, and federal planning and decision-making
processes. The historic preservation program will include the identification, evaluation, and
protection of historic resources within the city (Ordinance No. 1180, Section 2, 1985).
The Bozeman Historic Preservation Advisory Board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the
City Commission, City-County Planning Board, Zoning Commission, and other staff members or
boards seeking advice on historic preservation issues (Ordinance No. 1454, Section 2, 1998;
Ordinance No. 1180, Section 3, 1985).
Members are appointed to staggered two-year terms. It is to be comprised of up to fifteen
members:
(1) Three or four professional members with professional expertise in the disciplines of history,
planning, archaeology, architecture, architecture history, historic archaeology, or other history
preservation-related disciplines, such as cultural geography or cultural anthropology, provided,
however, that at least one member shall be an architect holding Montana or NCARB registration;
(2) Two to four members from historic districts;
(3) One member from the Main Street commercial district, who "shall operate a business or own
property in the neighborhood described as Main Street";
(4) Four to six at-large representatives.
Residence within the City shall not be a prerequisite for professional members or at-large
representatives. This board is considered advisory, although it is generally responsible for
overseeing the operation of the Historic Preservation Office.
This board currently has eight vacancies and nine applicants. Please review the applications to
ensure that applicants are qualified to fill these positions: three professional members, three at-
large members, and two neighborhood members.
Applicants seeking Reappointment:
Blake Maxwell (currently serving as a professional member)
Ryan Olson (currently serving as an at-large member)
Richard Brown (currently serving as an at-large member)
Mark Hufstetler (currently serving as a professional member and the board’s president)
Tuli Fisher (currently serving as an at-large member)
New Applicants:
Lesley Gilmore
Karen Walsh
Lora Dalton
Charlotte Kress
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
Respectfully submitted,
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Cynthia Jordan Delaney, Deputy City Clerk Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
Attachments: Board Applications