Okie do. Good afternoon everybody. Uh, welcome to the Heritage Preservation Commission meeting of Monday, June 16th, 2025. Um, I'd like to have if anybody didn't get a chance to read all the minutes, uh, would they do so, make any additions
or corrections? Move we accept the minutes. You can accept the minutes. Need a second. Second. All in favor? I. I. Okay. Now, we're going to hear from Mr. Nisley. Is that correct? Yes. Okay.
Sure. So, I just wanted to provide the uh commission with an update for the September 2025 um state historic preservation conference that we're hosting here in NewM. So, the conference uh is is three days in total, September
10th through the 12th. Um and there are kind of let's call it three parts to the conference. Um on the 10th is the opening reception. Um, and that is going to be hel uh held at the Shells Brewery beer hall. Uh, so
the lower level of Shells Brewery. The recommendation I'm I'm looking from you all for is what time do we want to start and end that? Um, last year at in Redwing it was from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. But it doesn't necessarily
need to be that long. No. Um, it could be something like 5 to 7 or 5:30 to 7:30, but I'm looking for uh your guidance so I can tell the state historic preservation office, yeah, this
is the time we want it. I've been to several of these and yeah, a lot of times they come and go. It's not, you know, people come to eat or get a drink or whatever we're going to have down there and then they probably wind up at their hotels where they're staying and it isn't the whole crew. It's just
going to be people that are coming a day early, right? So, there they'll be people arriving um probably Thursday morning, too. So, um I'm assuming Shells likes to close by 8:00 if I'm not correct. M. Yeah. Um, I
don't see any problem with making it 7:30. 5 to 7:30. 5 to 7:30. Or 5:30 to 7:30. I'm fine with that, too. I mean, do they get food at it? Uh, that we can I think they'll be provided with like orurve type of stuff. Yes. It's not a meal.
It's just an orvy type thing. So, whatever we decide to serve them. Would um excuse me, chair and members, would 5 to 7 um be too early? Um I know normally on a Wednesday they close
um at uh actually 5. Yeah. Oh, they do. Sunday through Wednesday is 5:00 p.m. Thursday 6. Friday and Saturday are eight. Okay. I didn't know that. So, if we go five
to seven, um it our our event begins when the beer hall closes. I'm sure they'll be very happy to stay open for us. So, that would be my suggestion is 5 to 7, but I'm just one Yeah, I haven't really Have you spoken to anybody out at
Shells? They're they're free with that 5:00 to that 8:30 time, but we have to confirm it with them. Obviously, I'm sure they would be they wouldn't mind closing a little earlier. Sure. Um really they'd be they'd have to have staff on hand to deal with providing
drinks if if um people want them. And it seems like since it's really just coming and saying hello, stopping in um and then leaving and just kind of uh mingling. Two hours seems like plenty of time. Yeah, I think so too. Do they
actually reg those that come will register then? No, those those that come will register the next morning at Turner Hall. Yeah, all the the paperwork type stuff is done at Turner Hall because their representatives will be there. I don't know how many of them will be here um Wednesday night already. Um I don't
have that answer. Um but anyway, yeah, two hours is plenty. I think so. Okay. 5 to 7. 5 to 7 sounds good. Do we need to vote on that? No. Yeah. Okay. I don't think so. This is just providing a recommendation to ship out. Fine.
And madame chair, we would expect most of us to be there, right? From if you can, if you can't, it's understandable, but if you can participate in as much as you can for that those three days would be great. Okay. So, that takes care um that is on
September 10th. Um on September 11th, um this is when we have a dayong concurrent session. So, um registration and um breakfast starts at would start at like 8:45 at Turner Hall and that would go
till 9:30. 9:30 is when the first concurrent sessions starts. That's two in Turner Hall and one over at State Street Theater. Then there's um a break from 10:30 to 11:00. Then there is the
keynote address. Um that could be that would be 11 to noon. Then there's a lunch from noon to 1:15. And then there's two more concurrent sessions in the afternoon. Um 1:30 to
2:45, 3:15 to 4:15. After that, um Mr. Coupe from the state historic preservation office has been in in contact with the grand um and having the grand reserved for conference attendees
um and just have um kind of like a social couple hours. They were thinking of some fun things like historic trivia or having having someone provide a little bit more information on the on the history of new home or specifically
the grand perhaps and and make these might assist with that. Um, so that would um I believe be from 5 to 7:00 p.m. I have to confirm that time with uh Mr. Coupe yet or the people that don't want to go to
that have a choice of probably finding someplace to eat downtown or go back to their hotels, whatever. So yeah. Yeah, you wouldn't be obligated as an attendee to no attend. They're just offering that as a something to do. But
um and then on Friday, uh registration is from registration and breakfast is from would be from 8:00 to 9:00 at Turner. Uh concurrent sessions from 9 to 10, then 10:30 to 11:30.
Um from 11:30 to 1 would be lunch again at Turner. And then the tours would start um at 1:00 um and they would be going also concurrently. So at this time um
we want to ask the commission do we want to dedicate 3 hours for these for these tours or four hours? And I guess I can just go through the tours. Uh the the one tour that will be going um will be doing the Shells tour. So they'll be taking a bus out to Shells. they will be
doing the actual brewery tour. Um, and then after that they will be going to Artstone for a tour out there as well. Um, my estimates of each one of those with drive time is going to take an hour and a half,
I would think. Um, the other uh tour that will be running at the same time will be the horserawn trolley. Um, and that will be touring the homes, the historic homes on South German Um, and then lastly, there'll be the
downtown tours, uh, hosted by the Sweenies. Um, and, uh, they will be touring the downtown and doing their Tutonic tours, uh, guidance, I should say. But it it seems to me that three hours would be plenty of time for the
tours, or should be enough time for the tours. I'm a little concerned that if you go much later uh than that, people are going to start dropping off um and not want to stay that long. Right. My experience is we were usually done by 4:00. By 4:00. Okay. We were back where
we needed to be closest to our vehicles or whatever and so forth. So, but that's So, we're not doing anything down at the brewery, Black Frost. Black. So, Black Frost, um, for those who want to, um,
they can all go down to Black Frost. Again, it wouldn't be required. uh if they want the the option to go have kind of an ending session or just an ending um social time at Black Frost, Jace would be happy to host us and then give
us some background on how they started uh the distillery, some history on the on the building itself, and then he's offered to provide short tours too of if if anybody wants to. Again, this would be not required to you wouldn't be
required to attend. It's Friday afternoon. People might be leaving, but it is another option. Well, I'm assuming all the tours will be leaving from Turner Hall. Yep. Leaving leaving from Turner Hall and then we return there because that'll be the most optimal place for parking for everybody. Yeah.
The the only one that won't be leaving from Turner Hall or where folks are going to need to get to is for the trolley tour because that'll be leaving from um right behind the Franklin. Okay. Starting at German Park by the public
utilities office and then heading south. It has to start there. Yeah, it does. They don't want to cross the Broadway with with horses. Um there's also a public parking lot right there, right? Uh that people can park at. Yeah. Well, as we get closer to this, we're going to
know the numbers of people that are coming for each thing because when you sign up for this, you sign up for what tours you want to go on, right? So we might have 50 people going on one 100 on a different one and it just depends, you know, you never know. So that'll give us a better um take on it once we get
closer to the date. But otherwise, this sounds really good. Okay. Super. So will they be staggered so that you can do a couple or you just sign up for one and that's it? You sign up for one.
It would be too hard to be transporting people back and forth because whoever whatever buses we're going to have will stay at like shells. They won't be going in and out of there. So, stay. Yeah. Unfortunately, sometimes it's hard to pick what you want to do, but I don't
know any other way to go around it if they want to take the bus to. I guess if they want to opt to drive to these locations, I suppose that's that's an option, too. You know, the trolley is limited. It's capped at 30 people um that can go on that one. That should Well, they have
that stated in the the thing that's out there because that would be important to know. Correct. First come, first serve. All right. That's the largest one we could get. Is that will that take three hours? Well, we will be actually So, there will
be um Lisa Basmer will actually be discussing the homes. Okay. On the trolley. Yeah. Then we're actually going to be getting off the trolley, going into the homes, a few a few of them, not all of them. Vis and visiting with the property owners or Lisa will be giving. So it will take that long. Yeah. And
then we're going to drive down on the bike trail or I'm sorry, the recreational trail um all the way down to Black Frost. Um and that's only a block and a half away from the starting point. So it's kind of nice how that that all ends up. And it that should
take a whole three hours. Okay. I would think so. any chance we should start at the Black Frost and come up the hill and then the cars would all be there already. Oh, you know that's an option and I certainly Well, it would just be really really simple. Yeah, that's a good idea. Otherwise, you know, they'd
have to find a way to get down to the Black Cross other than walking or going back up to Turner. Yeah. Let me let me talk with the uh folks of the horses and uh draw the trolley. So, what we were looking at was slope um and seeing the the least amount of slope to get down to
the recreational trail. Okay. Back over to Black Frost because those horses I mean, right, 30 person trolley, it takes they have to put the brakes on pretty hard. We're trying that was the route they they thought worked best. Um but I can certainly ask them to start at Black
Frost, go up the hill, which they can do better than going down the hill and and then go back. I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem. It It's just a thought because it's always a trouble with the transportation. I mean, I've been to so many of these that sometimes you wind up walking several more blocks
than you probably want to at the end of the day. But, okay, just a thought. See what they say. Okay. Another idea chair members and Mr. Nisley is the city parking lot, uh, the German park lower parking lot in
the PUC area there. But again, the horses would have to haul the wagon up to German Street, which if you know, again, that'd be a good parking spot. They could use the behind Yeah. the PUC, which is kind of winds up the hill.
Might be a little easier. Yep. Yep. Yep. And that's just a half a block from um Black Frost. Yeah. Okay. So, back to the tours then. Um there's
the the horser horsedrawn wagon tour. One bus tour that goes to two different locations there. There's two buses that'll be going. Yeah. Oh, sorry. There's two buses that'll be going. Bus, let's just say bus number
one will be starting at Artstone during doing their tour. When they're finished, they'll be going to Shells. Okay. Finishing up there. Okay. Bus number two will start at Shells, then go to Artstone. I'm going to guess that that'll be the biggest tour thing that people are going
to want to do because of Shells for sure. So, that one would be able to provide probably for the most participants probably because of the size of the buses and Shells is able to, if I understand correctly, take 30 about 30 p people per tour. Oh, really? That's
even a pretty good chunk. I've been on the tours. I said, you know, some spots aren't very big, but well, that'll whatever they want to do, that should work. I'm glad they're willing to do it. Perfect.
Any other questions for anybody? So, just for clarification, one bus will start at Turner and go to Shells, correct? And one bus will start at Turner and go to Artsdale. Yes. Okay.
that we're just going to use uh school buses. No, there's two coaches. They've already been reserved from Lake Crystal bus lanes. Yeah, we never go school buses. It's always coaches. Are you using Felen or Lake Crystal?
Lake Crystal. Lake Crystal. Good. So, one more uh topic before we leave this uh one more question comment before we leave the conference topic is um I really like the minutes where you had a kind of an outline of of what we know
what we knew a month ago. Um I'd like to continue seeing that what the outline you just gave, Mr. Nisley, was awesome and excellent verbally. Um, I'd also like to see it in writing so we all can, you know, start to put this stuff, the
details into our schedule, even though it's draft. Um, and it's, uh, not final yet, but I like seeing the the draft schedule in writing. So, you with the times and so on. Thank you very much.
Thank you, John. You bet. Okay. Um, I have a question. If we're planning to attend, do you we need to register or No, because we're members, we can just show up. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Okay. We'll get into more details as it gets closer, but let's see what they want us to do. Yeah. Well, part of part of the
matching um part of this grant is that there's an expectation that HBC members would help in some way, whether it's just greeting people at the registration table or directing people where to go if they're unaware of how to get to certain
places. Um so there it's not mandatory necessarily. Um but there is some matching dollars connected with help from you all. Yeah, sure. Do we need more volunteers? Not at this point. Okay.
All right. Thank you. We'll move on to um design review. Commissioners and chair. In your packets, you have before you a design review form submitted by Jackie Bod. Uh the Wonderberg Collective at 21 North
Minnesota Street, Sweet 101. Uh they're not changing the structure of the awning, but they are uh repainting the existing covering the old sign, which is white vinyl, and replacing that sign with gold vinyl. The proposed sign does
meet uh our criteria for size um size restrictions within the ordin city ordinance. [Music] And this is where the gypsy girl was. That's correct. Right next to True
Reality. Uh, no. Next to American Family Insurance. Oh, okay. Up that way. Yeah. It used to be the whole Rhettzl store front. It just be didn't be divided. Yeah. Okay. Any comments and any questions? The gals are
here if we want to ask them any questions. Okay. So, this is what kind of business is going to be. It's a microphone. You can go over here to the podium right there. Over to the podium.
Just state your name and your address, please. Sure. I'm Jackie Bodh. Um I am the owner of Vundberg Collective, 21 North Minnesota Street, downtown New [Music]
It is um I would say 95% consignment. Um and then the other 5% of our business is helping other small business owners um build their business. So those consists of local makers or artisans as we call
them. Um, in our business store name, it's similar to what it was, if I'm correct. Um, maybe just a little different type. Correct. Uh, the previous owner was consignment and also local makers. Um, the big difference
there, she only offered women's clothing and then she brought on Little Gypsies, which was, I think, an added on to that awning um, at one point, but that was like kids clothes. Um for us we actually offer clothing for all people, all
sizes, all seasons, all year round. So um men's clothing, the kids clothing, women's obviously stayed. Um and then we also got into a little bit of home decor and light furniture pieces. So something
for everybody? So, is it all consignment or will you be providing some of the clothes in there? Um, all the all the clothing, all of that will stay consignment. Um, however, there are
going to be makers that are making things like t-shirts, um, hats, other, you know, apparel, things like that where they'll, you know, maybe put a a fun German saying on it for some of our fests. um different things like that or
seasonal. Um so there'll be some new clothing on the maker side of the business. Yeah, I've been in I haven't been in the new store, but I bet it's the old one. And I said there is a nice variety of uh crafty things that people make that the artisans we've got around this area are
really very good, very talented. So it would be worth a stop in there to see what they have. Yeah, we appreciate that. We've been working on a store remodel as well. So, lots of changes um even from people that haven't visited, you know, since we've made uh the purchase. So, great. Yeah.
Stop in. So, are you are you open right now? Um yes, we're our business hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. And then we're looking to potentially extend that um I'd say till maybe seven at least one night a week,
if not two. So looking at like a Thursday or a Wednesday going till 7:00 at night. So you got in on the the conference that's going to be held here and Thursday night is a freebie right for the the people. You might want
to be open later on Thursday night. Thursdays in September. Yeah. So yeah, it'll bring in a lot of people from out of town. So yeah. All right. Okay. Any other comments? Any objections? Otherwise, I need a
nomination for approval. I move that we accept this um awning. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I Okay, thank you very much and good luck. Thank you.
Come on. We'll move on to the city report. Uh city has very little to report at the moment uh because I was not prefaced with a lot of with a lot of items, but we do have uh construction window replacement continues at uh the at the
Brown County at the uh post office site. Uh we do have several inquiries into um some downtown projects that haven't come to fruition yet, but um looking looking for some applications to come this way. Okay,
thank you very much. And I am the chair and I do not have anything to report. Does anybody else want to speak up on anything? All right, then this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Okay, thank You