New Staff Member Introduction: Carrie Baniszewski
Historic Buildings in Poppleton – Updates on voted-on next steps
- Organize a walkthrough to identify historic properties in the next 2-3 weeks
- Carrie will be putting this together
- Write a letter requesting a demolition moratorium (as the SWP, a request of the Board)
- Write a letter asking that the developer be held to the terms of the mitigation agreement, and that the agreement be extended until the terms have been completed (as the SWP, a request of the Board)
Review of mission and objectives of committee
- Guest speakers
- New Marketing Manager, Rodney Nesbitt
- Field Trips
- House research
- Educational events
- Storytelling
- Update
- Vision for the future
- Being proactive rather than reactive, not waiting for a catastrophe before intervention
- Thomas asks about deconstruction of buildings prior to demolition
- Details no longer exists, no organization doing deconstruction in Baltimore
- Is this something SWP could do, tie in workforce development?
Updates and Announcements
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- Malachi Mills – Carrie
- SWP received grant funding to do a deep dive research on Mr. Mills and the house. We are under contract with a local historian, Courtney Hobson, to start this research in May
- St Luke’s
- Asking for funding to stabilize foundation
- Last year received a Heritage Fund Grant
- Building Assessment Report
- Feasibility Study
- Major water leaks repaired
- Water in soil basement; could lead to catastrophic failure
- Engineers report completed 4/13/2021 – $17k in repairs
- Floor of bell tower caving in – $6k in repairs
- Has SWP asked for state funding for this project before?
- Ann and Jane will send their prior grant applications for language
- A Place called Poppleton
- Meeting date change – 2nd Monday proposed
- Biff asked if we could meet at 7 instead of 6 – Scott will check with other committee members
- Malachi Mills – Carrie
- Next meeting May 10th
- “Telling Black History at Mount Clare” – Friday, April 23rd @ 12:00pm
