All right, welcome to the Heritage Preservation Commission meeting for Monday, January 12th. Um, glad to see everybody's here. It's been a while since we've had a meeting. Has everybody had a chance to read uh Oh, wait a minute. We have to go through elections
of officers. Excuse me. >> Yep. So, I'll take over here first. So, we need a nomination for chair for the next for 2026. >> Deb, are you willing to accept the position of chair again? >> I will again. Yes, >> I would like to nominate Deb.
>> All right. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Oh. All right. Everybody in favor for Deb say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Congratulations, Deb. You get to do it again. >> Thank you. >> And now you get the rest of the time.
>> All right. Now we'll have nominations for vice chair. >> Who's vice chair right now? You are right. >> No. >> No. I'm Ron. >> I don't think we had one. >> I don't think we had one. Did we? >> I trying to remember. It might have been Cara.
>> Cara. That's it. Yep. >> Yeah. And she's no longer on. She >> I'll nominate Ron Brute Live. Any other nominations? All in favor of Ron? >> I.
>> Opposed. >> Welcome aboard, Ron. You're the new vice chair. >> And now we'll vote for secretary. A nomination for its secretary. >> Can we nominate somebody who is not here?
>> I think we should. >> Al has been, isn't he? The secretary. I believe so. >> I think he was. >> But he never takes minutes because somebody else takes minutes. >> Well, Beth does the minutes and >> takes it off of our meeting minutes here. It's really easy. So easy to be a secretary.
>> Great. >> No other nominations. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. All right. We have our new secretary. Now, has anybody everybody had a chance
to read the September 15th, 2025 meeting minutes? That's the last time we met. >> If there's no changes, I need a nomination for approval, please. >> I move that we approve the minutes as presented.
>> Support. Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Now we'll get on to reviews. Um, >> Mr. M chair, Mrs. Chairman, chairwoman, before I go into that, um, since Cara is
off, she had been their representative to the museum board, uh, board of trustees. They always had a representative from the historic preservation committee
>> from Brown County. Yep. Iron Safford is going to be the new appointee from Brown County Museum. >> Okay. Well, he's on the commission right now, right? I mean, the museum. >> Yeah. Well, I don't know if he's part of
the board or not. He >> is. >> Okay. Because we we clarified that. It doesn't have to be anybody on the board. It can be anybody that's a member of Brown County Historical Society. >> So, he will be coming to our meetings. >> Correct. Yes. >> Okay. >> Yep. because they meet, right? They're meeting tonight now.
>> Okay. Yep. Yeah. That's the information we got from from Brown County is he's the the appointee for this. >> Thank you for bringing that up, Ron. >> Yeah, they kept on asking me because I had been on >> Okay.
>> And I was off this past year. They asked I didn't I didn't know if we made the suggestion or Brown County Commissioners. >> Yeah, it comes from Brown County. Everybody else is You guys are appointed by the mayor. >> Yeah. >> Um that gets appointed by Brown County.
>> Yep. >> Right. Next on the agenda would be >> design review for >> reviews for Yep. for 22 North Minnesota. Andy Reinhardt's the applicant's name. Um they're looking at replacing the four windows above Mounds. Um so they're a
white trimmed window out now and that's what's going back in is the same style and the same same color going back in. And it's my understanding that the transoms above didn't get replaced. It was just the window below. >> Correct. >> So So
what you see there is probably what you're going to see when they're replaced. Will they look like a a double hung window? All of them? >> All four of them? >> All four of them? Because right now it looks like one of them is just a open piece of GL or just
glass. >> Two out of the four. >> Oh, okay. I see. All right. >> I have a a a comment if I may. Um, this past August when Chipo was here, we
talked about one of the workshops talked about having something in your city that brings people in and you have to have a story and evidently everybody knows New Alm
story is the German heritage and I'm wondering would it be possible or have them. Now, is the the owner of that building here? >> Andy's Andy's right here. >> Have you ever thought about maybe
putting some type of window box underneath just to show like a a German theme like some of the other buildings in town? >> What's there is there we're talking about something that's way up here. I know, but there are others.
If you look at Rodney's, >> Rodney has it looks like little planters up there, >> but I don't know if he puts wind flowers up there. >> Well, >> I know he's got them there, but >> the planters that you're talking about are about ready to fall.
>> And I just brought it up because it's part of the new home tradition, >> right? >> That brings people if you're willing to come water them every time. I don't know if >> you can get the crew that comes down and
>> now are those apartments are those apartments up there? >> They are, but they're not apartments. I mean, they're they're for my family >> for if if my family comes to visit all
>> Can we get on the podium? Just state your name and address. >> Andyards, 22 North Minnesota Street, New >> Thank you. >> So, they are apartments, but they're just familyowned. >> Apartments are for rent. I would be more inept to call them
condos, but >> but they're not rented out. Nope. >> Ever since Johnny left us, uh it's uh they're just available for people that want to use them. And I know >> family. >> Yeah. Your family uses it. >> Okay.
>> Friends. >> Yeah. >> I mean, you would never rent them out to like a uh B&B or anything like that. >> Nope. I I I keep getting calls from the city of Nam that uh they keep telling people that they're available and stuff
like that, but it never happens. So, um, somehow I got on a list that I I get calls from the city of New all the time that, uh, hey, you got an apartment for rent. No, no, I don't. I've had renters for 40 to 50 years. So,
I mean, I I not a big crazy guy when it comes to renters. Renters uh, tend to destroy things. >> Yeah. >> That was just a thought I had. >> Yeah. Thought I'd bring it up and see if you are willing to do anything like
that. >> No, no other questions. >> Now I need a nomination to approve the windows to be replaced. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed.
Thank you. Mark >> Andy. >> Andy. Why would I Why do I always do that? >> I get it all the time. >> That's cuz I cuz I know him, too. >> He was the last one in the apartment up there.
>> The next design for VU is for um Rodney's. Uh Rodney Zimmer is the applicant. Um, 6 South Minnesota, I believe, is the address for this one. Yeah, 6 South
Minnesota. Again, replacing four windows up above. Um, there the existing is the front picture that we handed out here. And what it's going to is the dark bronze um the same as the storefront that's
down below matching that color. Again, it's a uh same type of window double hung that's going in there. So, the color is changing on that one is all that's all that's changing. >> Now, are these apartments?
>> Nope. There's apartment spaces up there, but they're not it's not fixed up in any way, shape, or form up there right now. >> There's kind of an entrance problem with that whole building. So, um, Rodney's decided not to really do
too much about it. So, >> that's a shame. It's It's kind of be kind of neat to live downtown. Of course, I don't know about over a tavern, but >> that's just it. There's any questions? I look for a
nomination to approve. >> So, move. >> Second. >> Opposed. All right, Radney is done. >> And now a city report. >> All I've got is we're still waiting on
um getting the information back from the architect on the Herman um project. Um, we've signed a contract with them to get us a pretty firm price estimate of what it would cost to tear down and rebuild so
we can have that number for the legislators that so moves so goes that way. They they were require they were requiring to have a >> this very fair number >> this session. >> Don't know if it's this session or when it will happen but um >> well hopefully sooner or better. Yeah,
>> because two years from now, it'll be more money again. >> Yeah. So, that's that's what we're waiting on right now. That should be coming here. Hopefully in the next month or two. >> Okay. >> Um that's where we're at. That's all I have on the city report and I really don't have anything to
report. Always glad to that I've got a good crew to work with here. So, welcome back for 2026. This meeting is adjourned. Okay.