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Historical Preservation Committee Minutes
May 14, 2025
Board Members:
Rick Robinson
Ronny Nowland
Jamie Patten
Lisa Jones
David Jones
Cheryl Empey
Krickett Mounts
Ali Rockwood
City Councilman: Robert Chambers
City Liaisons: Alisha Tietjen, Jed Platt
12:45 P.M. Back conference room
Roll Call of Committee Members: Chair Empey, Vice Chair L. Jones, J. Patten, K. Mounts, and R.
Robinson
City representatives: Not in attendance: Councilman Chambers, City Liaison Tietjen, City Liaison Jed
Platt and Ali Rockwood
Committee Chair Empey welcomed committee and referenced agenda to start Items of Business
1. Committee Chair Empey asked for approval of last meeting minutes. Vice Chair L. Jones made a
motion, seconded by Communication Officer Mounts.
2. Last meeting action item of group photo rescheduled by Communication Officer Mounts. for next
meeting, due to weather.
3. Vice Chair L. Jones reported on Chamber of Commerce discussion with Diane Bruce. Chamber invites
this commission to attend lunches 3rd Wednesday each month in Atrium. Next meeting will be June 18.
Jed Platt is speaking for Chamber in July on the Flood 50 plans.
4. Vice Chair L. Jones reports the Chamber does not have funding for loans or grants for businesses
upgrading, or historical renovations; suggests this commission has a table at Chamber meeting and
asks what small funding is available from the city for printing materials.
5. Chair Empey suggests putting packet together of "professional historical consulting services" that the
commission will offer businesses on historical preservation and design suggestions, including
procedures and contact information. A local business, Junes Place, wants to restore some original
features from the earlier Rexburg Bank era and asked City Liaison A. Tietjen for commission direction
and advice. Chair Empey will schedule a visit and suggests next commission meeting (June 11) be held
at Junes Place.
6. Historian Patten shared several flood related updates: A) "That Day in June" book published by Ricks
College will be released by BYU-Idaho with CC4 by nc non-commercial on June 5, 2025. Digital access
link to be shared with this commission and Rexburg- Madison Historical Society (new President Doug
Ladle). B) Gave report on CIMA (Conference of Intermountain Archivists) and is working with Boise
State and Utah State to access their Teton Flood collections, C) Historian Patten approved to present
poster on National Impact of the Teton Flood for Society of American Archivists. Communication
America's Family Community.
Officer Mounts volunteers to help as graphic designer.
7. City Liaison Platt (not in attendance) is planning walking tours of all business impacted by Flood, using
scrapbook 1978 as resource. Communication Officer Mounts suggests medallions for each business,
similar to the Pioneer grave markers.
8. Historian Patten shares Research folder of City Pump House history. Date of June 22, 1990 verified in
Rexburg Standard Journal as when Sunbonnet Camp DUP placed monument #454 at the 1st
schoolhouse, on the corner of 1st S and 2nd E. Committee Member R. Robinson uses GIS data to ask for
deed #. Historian Patten shows how to research old land plats, using BLM GLO website.
9. Adjournment: Next mtg Jun 11 at 12:45 P.M., Location (unconfirmed Junes Place)
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