Minutes - 2008 - Historic Preservation Commission - 08/23/2008 - Special
EAGLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
Minutes of Special Session, August 23, 2008
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Betty Fisher, Chair pro tem, at 3:00
p.m.
Roll Call: Commission members Betty Fisher, Shari Sharp, Gwen Sears, and Nancy
Suiter were in attendance. Chair, Jason Pierce, participated via telephone conference call.
Curator Laurie Baker was present.
Unfmished Business: Laurie Baker reported receiving an email from Kelly Reed of
Arcadia Publishing regarding the Images of America book. Ms. Reed said that Frank
Thomason, editor of The Valley Times, wants to author the book and is prepared to begin
at any time. Since authoring such publications is her particular field of expertise and
interest, Ms. Baker does not want to lose the opportunity to pursue this. It was
questioned whether help in co-authoring the book would allow her to proceed at this time
and the suggestion was made that perhaps Shari Sharp, who already has a manuscript on
Eagle's history and, in particular, a biography of her father, Orville Jackson, in progress,
might assume the position of co-author. Ms. Sharp declined and Laurie Baker told the
Commission she had already made such a suggestion to Ms. Reed who responded that the
publisher directed their inquiries to museums and other like entities because the
preference was to work with people associated with those institutions who more often
had prior experience in writing material related to their fields.
Gwen Sears asked what monetary benefit there would be to the Museum if we pursued
this proposal now and Ms. Baker was asked to find out the amount of royalty on copies
sold.
At this point Jason Pierce interceded with the desire to delay the project two to three
years, allowing Ms. Baker more time to devote directly to other, unspecified, Museum
business after the Arthur Hart book is published. Betty Fisher moved and Shari Sharp
seconded the motion to adopt Jason Pierce's suggestion. Discussion followed. Ms.
Baker feared delay would result in the book being offered to someone else, thus losing
the opportunity for it to be a future source of income to the Museum. She was curious to
understand the sudden lack of interest in the project that had manifested since the
Commission meeting in June, when everyone seemed in agreement that it was a
worthwhile pursuit. Ms. Fisher responded that Jason Pierce's remarks regarding "other
Museum business" prompted the change. The vote on the motion being called for, the
motion passed three to one.
Adjournment: Betty Fisher moved and Gwen Sears seconded the motion to adjourn the
special session. The motion passed. The session was adjourned at 3:56 p.m.
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