HomeMy WebLinkAboutSave America’s Treasures Grant for Downtown BozemanCommission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor & City Commission
FROM: Courtney Kramer, Historic Preservation Officer
SUBJECT: Save America’s Treasures Grant for Downtown Bozeman
MEETING DATE: September 10, 2012
AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Consent
RECOMMENDATION: Approve the delegation of Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant funding to
two rehabilitation projects: 1) the Rialto Theatre at 10-12 West Main Street in Bozeman for a sum of
$140,000; and 2) the Bozeman Downtwon Partnership for the Caird Streetlamp Restoration on North
Willson Avenue for the sum of $10,000; and, Authorize the City Manager to sign grant contracts to that
effect.
BACKGROUND: This is a consent item requesting the Commission approve delegation of grant funds
procured through the Save America’s Treasures program for Bozeman’s Main Street Historic District
subsequent to the gas explosion and fire which occurred in March, 2009. Staff partnered with the
Downtown Bozeman Partnership to find private property owners planning rehabilitation projects which
satisfy the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, as well as the
City of Bozeman’s Design Guidelines for Historic Preservation and the standards for a Certificate of
Appropriateness.
Four grant applications were received with this round of requests:
1. From the Rialto Theatre to rehabilitate the structure at 10-12 West Main Street;
2. From the Downtown Partnership to restore historic streetlamps on North Willson Avenue;
3. From the Lovelace Building to rehabilitate the rear façade of the building at 18 West Main Street;
4. From the Emerson Cultural Center at 111 South Grand Avenue to install new, historically-
appropriate windows.
The projects proposed with the grant applications have been reviewed by the Historic Preservation
Officer, a representative from the National Park Service, a representative from the Montana State Historic
Preservation Office and a representative of the Bozeman Historic Preservation Advisory Board, all of
whom agreed that funding was most appropriately directed towards the Rialto and Caird Streetlamp
projects.
Grant contracts between the applicants, the City and the National Park Service, the required Conservation
Easement held by the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, and Certificate of Appropriateness and
Building Permit applications required by the City of Bozeman will be completed once the Commission
approves delegation of the funds.
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Report compiled on August 28, 2012
FISCAL EFFECTS: The City of Bozeman will act as a pass-through organization for the grant funding.
Kenneth Stocks, City of Bozeman Grants Coordinator, will handle ongoing management of the grant.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
CONTACT: Please feel free to email Courtney Kramer at ckramer@bozeman.net or Kenneth Stocks at
kstocks@bozeman.net if you have any questions.
APPROVED BY: Anna Rosenberry, Finance Director
Tim McHarg, Planning Director
Chris Kukulski, City Manager
Attachments: None.
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