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MINUTES QF THE REGULAR MEETIiVG
OF THE FDLJNTAIN HIL�S HISTQRY AND Cl1l.T{JRE ADVIS�RY COMMISSIDN
5eptember 4, 2D25
A Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills Histary and Culture Advisory Commission was
convened at 1fi705 E. Avenue �f the Foun#ains in 4pen and public session at 4:�1 p.m.
Members Presen#: Chairperson Tim Yader; Cammissivner Bvb Burns;
Commissianer 8onnie Kline; Commissioner Peter Gallagher
Members Absent: Cammissioner Toni Lepoer
Staff Present: Recreation Manager Ryan Prestan; Executive Assistant Patti
Lapuszanski
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CHAIR YDDER: Govd day, e�eryf�vdy. I'd like ta call to order the September 4th, 2�25,
meeting flf the Histary and Culture Advisory Cammission at 4:�1 p.m.
May I have a roll call, please?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: ❑f course. Chair CHAIR Y�pER.
CHAIR YDDER: Here.
UNIDElVTfFIED SPEAKER: Commissioner �urns.
BlJRNS: Here.
IINIDENTfFIEd SPEAKER: Commissioner Kiine.
KUNE: Here.
L�NIDENTfFIE❑ SPEAKER: CammissionerGallagher.
GALLAGHER: Here.
U�VIDENTlFIEp SPEAICER: And Cammissivner LePver has called in, and she will be
absent.
CHAIR YDDER: All right. Thank yflu.
Next up, a call to the public. I see, Patti, that you have in�luded a AR5 paragraph there.
That's just for �ur notes.
L�RUSZANSKI: That is �orrect. It just needs a new pasting that we've had to put on f�r
aursel�es, sa you do not ha�e to read that. And we do nat ha�e a call t� public.
CHAIR YD�ER: Very gaod. Moving ❑n. Statement of parti�ipation is the item number 4.
5ame.
LQRU5ZAN51C1: Also, it is an infarmational piece just for people to icnow, just if they
want t� participate in how they must da so. But we need ta ha�e this formally admitted
in all flf our agendas now.
CHAIR YDQER: Next on the agenda item number 5. reparts by cammissianers.
So we ha�e reports by commissioners. No. That's the --
LDPL152ANSK1: Chair, this --
CHAIR Y�DER: I'm waiting for the update. We don't ha�e -- yes. Are there reports by
the cammissivners?
GALLAGHER: No. What ! ha�e ta report is an agerrda item.
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CHAIR YODER: Veah, it's an agenda item.
Any�ady else here?
BURNS: Well, I'll throw ti�is in. Dvesn't really pertain to thss in particularly, but I ha�e
made it afficial with the a#fice that f'm going to �e retiring at the end ❑f the year from
the news business, so -- but I plan ta continue this, so as long as they'll ha�e me.
CHAIR YOaER: Did you ask any of our permission before retiring or?
BURNS: I'm sorry?
CHAIR Y�DER: You didn't ask if you cauld retire or not, s❑ I guess --
6L1RN5: l'm not asking you.
CHAiR Y�aER: I guess it would have been ni�e.
KLINE: 5o how many years is that, Bob?
BURNS: Thirty-eight.
KLINE: Thirty-eight. Wow.
BURNS: Thirty -- I'm sorry. Thirty-se�en. I Iflse track.
KLINE: i can speak from seeing you work that you'�e done a great job and yau're gaing
to be greatly missed.
CHAIR YOaER: Yes. You ha�e ser�ed the �ommuni#y well.
BL1RN5: They've already hired my replacement, sa. 5a I guess I can't change my mind.
CHAIR Y�dER: Funny.
KLINE: 5o I'll just mention samething I saw an F�cebaak. Actually, it was something
that Mark Gridley wrote a�out his early days in Fountain Hills. And it was reposted just
recently in the histarical saciety or not the historical saciety, but a historical graup of
Fauntain Hills anline, and it was really fascinating to read through tha#. And I don't
remem�er where the Fauntain Mauntain Inn was.
CHAlR YnDER: The Fountain Mountain Inn iater was called the Sil�erstein.
KLINE: Oh, ❑kay. That explains it.
CHAIR YDDER: Yeah. Uh-huh. I wauld like to state �or the recvrd that my brother sent
me a phatograph tQday of the Dan I(uchan residence, anather �ery lang-time resident,
who has a flag banner waving n�w in his front yard far the 25�th anniversary af the
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nativn. Real nice, calorful f�anner. So people are --
KLINE: Gaad start.
CHAIR YDdER: -- ge#ting ramped up for this already.
❑kay. If that's it, let's move an then ta the regular agenda items. Consideration and
possibie actian approving the minutes #rom our June 4th meeting.
Anybody have any �omments, ❑r can I get a motion to appro�e the minutes?
GALLAGHER: I d� have one comment. Ha�ing not been at the last meeting, I read them
with interest, and i found Daug Katanak's name spelled about fi�e differen# ways. Sa
that needs to be corrected. ❑therwise, I would say they're fine.
CHAiR YDQER: I believe that's just the machine's transcription problem, but.
LOPlJ52AN5Kf: Yeah, it doesn't --
CHAlR Y�DER: They ha�e an a�tual recarding.
LOPU5ZAN5KI: tt doesn't r2cognize a specific name kind of thing. 5a a lot of times it's
just a �erbatim that's going vff of the software pragram, so. But if it's just a spellir�g, we
can still apprave the minutes.
CHAIR YDDER: AI will fix that up in another year and a half.
Can I get a motion ta approve?
BURNS: Mo�e to appro�e --
KLINE: I'll second --
BURN5: -- the minutes.
KLINE: I'!I se�ond that mfltion.
CHAIR YO�fR: All in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
CHAIR YO�ER: Any apposed?
L�PUS2A1VSK1: And chair that gets approved 4-�. Thank yau.
CHAIR Y�DER: Thank you.
Next on the agenda is public art applicatians.
Da we have any coming in?
L�PLIS2AN5K1: At this pnint in time, no, we do nat.
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CHAIR YD�ER: Mo�ing on. The historical registry for the Fountain -- getting the
Fauntain registered as a national landmaric.
GALLAGHER: Yeah, I think I can gi�e a quick update. Althaugh if you read the paper
recently, yau may ha�e gotten alsa another update, #�ut we were ahle to get it
submitted kind Of first round subm�tted to the State H+staric Preser�ation ❑fficer, that's
Dr. Callins and his team. It is currently under re�iew by them. They like to re�iew it and
make sure everything's gaad ta go before they then push it to review, the 5tate re�iew
process, which is going to be in No�ember. And that re�iew pracess just ensures it's
ready to go ta the federal level after that to the national park service. Sa that's kind of
where we're sitting at naw. We expect to get it back here in the next week or so with
some requested edits. We wifl take care of that in-house, any edits they request. If we
need information, we may ask you guys to dig a little deeper, 6ut I got a feeling he said
it's mastly going to be just structure af the submittal mare than cantent, said the
cantent laoked goad far the most part. 5a it's more my errors and how I submitted it.
Sfl anyway, that's what we're looking at. They said it could be up ta about six months
after it gets pushed from state, sa we're hoping for e�erything ta be settled no later
than May of '25 far that. That's icind of where we stand at this point.
C�IAIR YDQER: That's great news. I'm really excited about t�at whale thing.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. Thanks. I mean, yau guys did the �ast majority of that work, so I
really appreciate the work you guys put inta it. 5v it �ame together really well. And like
I said, hopefully, we get through the first time around.
CHAIR YD�ER: Yeah. �kay.
Any ather further camments?
We'll mo�e on then to the 25�th anni�ersary of the United 5tates and that work graup.
BURNS: I think Bonnie pro�abfy has something she wants ta say. I don't -- I ha�en'#
done much work on it over the sumtner.
KLINE: 5o yeah, I wauld like to do some more. 6ut one thing that 1 faund was that
there's an America 2-- Arizona celebrates the 250th anni�ersary, and tF�ey have a
prograrrs with a loga that towns and ather groups can use on their publicity. And there's
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a passport of 250 places ta visit in Ari2ona. And I I�oked through it, signed up for it and
looked thraugh it, and Fountain Hills is not an there yet so I would like to see if we can
cha nge that.
CHAIR Yn�ER: Is that a we�site then, Bannie?
KLINE: They have a website. Let's see.
CHAIR Y�DER: 5tate go�ernments?
GALLAGHER: Yeah.
KU N E: Yes.
GALLAGHER: There's a we6site. it's a state site. And there's a form yau can fill ❑ut. 5a
right nQw, they're still gathering the information. They're nat I mean, you can view it,
but it hasn't really been pushed out yet. 5o there's a form you can fill out. 5o Bonnie,
yau mentioned this to me. Yau left me that vaice maii. I emailed you ba�k earlier
today. BasicalEy, there's categories to choose from. It can be things like, ab�iousiy,
restaurants, but alsn landmarks. There's dark sky focused stuff. So there's a lot there
that we can submit. And sa you knaw what, I �ould ask for that workgraup's help on
would be maybe choosing which categories and what we can submit to possibly be on
that list. And then l think it's number five and six on that form, there's some more
questi�ns that requtre a bit of a narrati�e and maybe asking for that committees,
subcommittees, or workgroup's help with thase narratives --
KLINE: Okay.
GALLAGH£R: -- on those twa questions. The other questians we can answer, no
prablem. But those two, we could use some help an. I think that's a cool thing ta get on
and see if we can subrrtit and see what gets picked up.
KLINE: �kay.
GALLAGHER: Uh-huh.
KLINE: All right. I'd be glad t❑ heip.
GALLAGHER: Excellent. I know. like I said, aff the top of my head� alaviously, the
Fourrtair�. Any ather historical places we can think of? €7ark Sky Discovery Center still
wan't be open probably far at least half of next year. And sa I'm nat sure, but we da
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have some stargazing spots and things like that, and maybe we can highlight the dark
skies as well. And I"ske I said, there's a lot of categories to lvok throu$h and make
recflmmendations. And feel free to do that within the warkgroup and see what you
guys come up with.
KLINE: �kay.
GALLAGHER: And just update, I didn't see a deadline an that. I assume the sooner the
better.
KLIN�: Yeah.
GALLAGHER: I assume they're going ta start pushing it out, No��mber, Qecember,
really, January 2025.
KLINE: Yeah. I was loolcing fvr the deadline. f didn't see one.
GALLAGHER: I didn't see either.
KLINE: Like you said 2025, sa.
GA�LAGHER: Uh-huh. 5o I figured if we get it in before No�ember, would f�e great by
the end of October if we ha�e that ready tfl go.
CHAIR YD�ER: ❑kay. Very good.
Anybody else on that?
All right. Mo�in� an nflw ta the hi5tarical art and essay cantest. That we ha�e proposed
ta the Fountain Hills Unified Schovl aistrict. Pete and t went to the meeting as we
planned there in mid-June, and I think it was goad. But Pete, maybe I'll just let yau take
o�er for this and then maybe malce a final comment, but --
GALLAGHER: ❑kay.
CHAIR YO�ER: Pete put together a nice dispiay and let him talk about that.
GALLAGNER: I put t�gether a P�werPoint presentation sa we could show them same
�retty pictures while I taik to them abaut the contest. But for some reasan, my slides
blew up, and the fonts were wrong, and you couldn'# read them, and everybody enjoyed
that quite a bit, but they actuaily enjayed the hriefing e�en more. I think they were very
excited about the �ontest that we want to run, and the schoal district seemed to i�e very
interested in supporting it. Cer#ainly, ❑r. J was very, very interested in supporting it, and
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I didn't get any pushback from anybody, a�tually. 5o I feel that we're gQod ta ga. I have
a copy a# it if it needs t� go inta the record, but otherwise that's all I ha�e to say.
CHAIR V�DER: I double up on what Pete said. I saw ❑r. J again after that meeting in a
social oc�asion and unsalicited, he came to me and he said, by the way, you're all goad
w�th that. You just let us know when you want to go. And sa. as we've dis�ussed, I was
hoping ta kick that aff, like, right be#ore their Christmas break. 5o hopefully, we can
ha�e the website information or the formalized appli�ation infarmation somewhere
a�ailable that we'll need from the town. And then it's just basicaliy, I think a matter of
Pete and ar me ❑r us gaing o�er to the schoal distri�t and knfl�king on the door and
Saying, here it is, we're ready ta go.
PRESTQN: ❑id you ha�e anything a�tianable at all for you guys at that point? What ta
kind of do next, or is it more like you said ball's in our court for fallawing up?
CHA1R YO�ER: I think it's ball's in aur court. i kind of suggested that at the meeting that
we were in. I said, we'll come back to you in tF�e fall and write ahead of time. And I
think I mentioned s�mething like late in Septemher ar in Octaber and then go to the --
another meeting and say, we're ready to go. We just wanted to remind yau, and we'll
bring the materials ❑r make the materials public. We ha�e to de�ide t�at an November
the 3�th ar something like that.
PRESTON: Right. Dkay. And then in your guys's vision, when is the }udging taking
place? When are we re�ealing the winner? �ike, how did yau guys discuss yet? How to
kind of wrap that up?
BURNS: I ha�e some notes an a schedule, as Tim said, we'll kick it off in December or
the end of Na�ember with a due date af early March, and then make decisions before
the end af the school year and perhaps be able to d❑ ❑ur presentatians in May far the
winners flf the contest.
CHAIR Y�DER: Sa just for clarity, Ryan, all af this scheduling and stuff, I hasically just
took directly from that ear�ier Mesa City thing, and they did -- their whole tF�ing was
designed because May is Historic Preser�ation Month.
PRESTON: Right.
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�HAlfi Y��ER: So they wanted the students to hand in their materials in mid -- early
mid-March so that they cauld be evaluated and judged and then k�e like displayed in
May, which is coincides with the end of the school year, too. 5o I mean, we dan't F�a�e
ta fallow that. But ! thought, well, you suggested that we lavk at that, and I just
mimicked it.
PRESTON: Right. ❑kay. Yeah. fVo, that's I think that �auld wQrk. It just it depends on
how we want to present the winners as well. I know we had dis�ussed pre�iousiy daing
i# at a-- maybe a town council meeting. SQ it's alsa looking at those agendas and seeing
i#we can get on #hase agendas. I know May is typi�ally pretty packed for agenda items
for the town council meeting. So those could be taugh ta get an to squeeze into. 50
that's samethin� we'll ha�e to look into a little bit as far as time�ine is con�erned.
CHAIR YOC]ER: Tell me, when are the tawn cauncil meetings each month? Are they --
LDPLJ52ANSK1: LJsually, it's the second and the �ourth Tuesday af the month.
CHAI R YO�ER: Okay.
LflPUSZANSKl: Uh-huh.
CHAIR YODER: So maybe what we rould do --
LOPU5ZAN5KI: Wait, first. I'm sorry.
PRES�ON: First ancf third.
LOPUSZANSKI: First and third. 5orry. first and third.
CHAIR Y�QER: First and third.
LOPU5ZAN5KI: Yeah.
CHAIR YQdER: 5o maybe we could ha�e them ready to go if May i5 nat good. maybe at
the �ery end of April, we cauld have them all. I mean, it's prof�ably all still cramped then
too, but that might be better.
BURNS: Could we at least try at this paint to get an the May agenda? ❑ne of the two
agendas for May?
GALLAGHER: Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying we can't. I'm just saying it's a difficult time ta
get something like this ❑n th2 agenda as a recognition, just because af how packed
those get and how aften things like this may get bumped. And so that's why I dan't
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want -- I wouldn't want it t� get bumped if we had set up, had the kids in. 5o I'd like to
pi�k a time where maybe there's a guarantee that we're gaing t� 3�e ❑n it and stay on i#
again, it's nat a na. I just wanted ta hring that up as a possibility. And maybe ha�ing a
backup plan of -- if we can't da it through the t�wn cauncil padium, maybQ there's
something with the school district we could partner with at the same time where we
can join up with and maybe da it with the district ar at a district e�ent, as well schoal
distri�t event. 5a just kind af keeping that in mind as we faok at this. But I'll see -- but
we won't know haw packed that May agenda is going to be until fortunately claser ta
M�y.
BL1RN5: Another suggestion or question, I suppose, is if we can't get it on a town council
agenda, waufd it be appropriate for the History and Culture Ad�isQry Cammission to do
the presentations here?
GALLAGHER: Yeah. I mean that's definitely an option. We can do it at one of our
meetings as well.
CHAIR YD�ER: We c�uld do that early May thing, or that'd be cool because the parents
would come in, and we got plenty af space here. Another option might be backing up ta
yaur suggestion, partnering with the school district, doing it maybe at the schaol, maybe
same af us and maybe we caulci �an�ince the mayor t❑ shQw up alsa or samething like
thatjust like on their schedule some Wednesday afternaon at a rafly or l don't know
what.
GALLAGHER: Right. Yeah. �ike I said. 5o I'm just, you knaw, we'll F�ave a couple plans,
couple hacicup plans as well. And I'll try to get more ideas about what the possibiiities
are that time Qf year far getting on the agenda. And so I think it's something like this
they would want ta push and pramote, k�ut again, it`s things liice this ❑ften get pusned
taward the end af the year because thai's the last meeting I believe.
Is there a June meeting?
L�PUS2AN5Kl: There is a June meeting.
GALLAGHER: ❑kay.
L�PU52AN5K1: But yau're right, May is really tight because we're doing budget and then
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it goes into June with the final, but they`re always pretty well pa�ked. There's a lot
gfling on for the end of the year, fout we can kind of check to see what the timeline
campared to what it was last year, and we'll ga fram there.
CHAIR Y�aER: Well, just casually speaking for myself, I like that Pete's suggestion
may6e we just da it here, May the 4th or whatever that day will be. Sut we`�e gat some
education specialists here. and I think the grading and e�aluatian prflcess will be fairly
straightforward and easy for us to do sometime ir� late March. And we don't even ha�e
ta knaw the exact details ❑f the awards recagnition when we start in Navember iike
that. 5ome of that could be the nuts anc{ hofts.
GALLAGHER: Corre�t. Yeah, a lot of that �an be ta be annaunced.
CHAIR YODER: And if we can figure it out irs January or February.
GALLAGHER: ❑kay. And so, the presentation orthe information you guys have is pretty
standard from what was there before, as far as the talking points �r the �riteria. Okay. I
wvuldn't mind taking a laak at the PawerPoint. So if you have it, I can grab that from
you. And if you need to pick up the jump drive later, I can pull it on my computer, you
can take it back.
BL1RN5: I rather dump it on your -- I'd rather lea�e it �n your computer naw, because
there's other information on here that I shauld not 6e sharing with anyane.
GALLAGHER: Gotcha. ❑kay. Ali right. 5a maybe we �an figure aut a way ta get that just
so I �an see it, and then anymore -- and just maybe just re sending me some of the ather
documents. We can start putting a package together #or the schoal.
CHAIR Y�QER: ❑kay. I'If forward you the raugh draft that I had created. f think that's
what he worked off flf to create what he did.
GALLAGHER: ❑kay. So I made -- ifi that's all we ha�e then that's probably --
CHAIF2 YODER: I had sent it tQ you guys already, hut yeah, sure, I'll resend it.
GA�LAG H E R: Perfect. Okay.
BLIRIVS: I'll email the presentatian --
�ALLAGHER: That'd be perfe�t.
BURNS: -- with fncludes the script and e�erything.
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GA�LAGHER: Okay. �erfect.
CHAIR YOaER: ❑kay. Mo�ing right along t❑ paint f, public art identification.
Anything? No.
GALLAGHER: I befie�e part �f that work group isn't here today, so maybe we can get an
update time. ❑h, yes, I can update yau. We had talked about the saftware. It's called
SeeMyLegacy. I did a small presentation an it, I think last iirne we were together, abaut
the qR codes ❑n the art, the art waik, kind vf updating that. So we have purchased that
software and I have gotten started an some vf the updates. I am just waiting far same
updated descriptions far thase, but then we'll -- basically, what !`II do is we'il start
adding these little QR rodes, which we've already purGhased, metal QR cades, that`I!
start being placed an the art pieces, and then �t'll be a really upgraded di�ital tour far
that as well. 5o that is in the w�rks. That is something I'm currently working an. I just
know the workgroup is helping us put together some af thase packages and same af
the -- what they call the staries for each of those art pieces. We already ha�e a lat af
that already, but we're iooking to kind af add a little more meat ta what we already
ha�e for thase.
KLINE: Sa I did bring some notebooks fram when I was an art dacent to gi�e ta Toni, k�ut
she's not here today, but I will make sure she gets that if there's any infarmation in
there that migh# be useful.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. Perfect. Because, like I said, a lat of what we have, at least a lat of
what I ha�e access to is a little older, maybe n�t. It's more informationai, more dry.
And we're laoking ta get that informatian in there, but also, we want to tell whate�er
story we can behind that art piece as well. And sa that's more the informatian we're
laflking for at this paint, so yeah, that'd be great.
�HAIR YOQER: ❑kay. Very good. Very good.
Last but not least, future agenda items arrd presentations.
KLINE: I can speak to that if we �an start with -- in October, I knvw that Chair CHAIR
YO�IER has decided that t�e wanted to step dawn as chair. He's still staying on the
commission. His term is up Detok�er 31st. We are in the pro�ess of subcommittee
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interviews, which will be on Manday afternoan. I'm hoping that there will �e a secand.
S� we ha�e two �acant positions. 5o we will be interviewing with our council members
on Monday. Unfartunately, 5usan decided t❑ step dawn. 5he had some personal issues
that she was taking �are af, and so she didn't feel she could cammit to them, the Histary
and Cuiture Commission. 5❑ she will be recagnized at a future town cauncil meeting.
And right now, it's tentati�e for �ctaber 21st. � will send you all out an emaii and let you
know we would like to ha�e e�eryane #here to recognize. If she's able ta make it, I will
be able to tell yau, and the mayor would be presenting her with the appreciatian
plaque. Sa that is all I ha�e for you right now.
IJNI�ENTIFIEQ SP�AKER: Is that a Wednesday?
KLINE: It is a Tuesday.
UNIpENTIFIED SPEAKER: A 7uesday.
KLIiVE: Tuesday. Llh-huh.
GALLAGHER: And I just have anather quick th3ng maybe ta add next time, depending on
what I hear back. So there was a question, I think a couple times ago about the warlc
dane with the Fountain Park signs. The new signs, kind of the big placard, informational
signs at Fountain Park. I think we ha�e th�'ee af them that this commission had wvrked
on, I think before. Mayhe any Qf you guys were actual�y an the commission. And Susan
had been asking about that, but we are in the design phase af t�at now that has acti�ely
been working an for the clesign 6ecause you guys, this �ommissian came up with, again,
what are we going to put on there? What's the #ext gaing to loak like? What's the
copy? 5o we're now working on the design. And if I ha�e an update, we'll add it t� that.
�therwise, just kind of stay tuned far that as well. Sa that is acti�ely being warked ors at
this point.
BURNS: Are thase replacements for the existing signs?
GALLAGHER: Yes. Yeah. The ones that you can't see ar read anymore.
BL1f�N5: All right.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. Uh-huh. Sa iike at the end of the a�enue --
BL1RN5: Dther than potential updates, yau're probaf�ly just kind of using the same copy
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and stuff, aren't yau?
GALLAGHER: I think it's pretty well updated. Yeah. It's campletely different --
BURNS: nh, okay.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. -- br�ught in and we're hoping io use that same QR SeeMyLegacy
things where they can actuaily scan a QR cocfe ciepending on where you are. For
example, I ha�e a bunch ❑# aerials nflw of Fountain Hilis. I've had b�th the whale town.
i als❑ ha�e #acused an the park thraugh the years as well, 5o that's where things like
that will he uploaded as well, and then there'il �e a Iflt vf informatian from thase qR
cades that are going t❑ be on there as well. And they won't be printed. They'll be metal
laser engra�ed on there sfl that it won't fade either.
CHAlR YOOER: Anybody else?
All right. Next meeting date is Dctfl#�er the 1st, 2025.
Can I get a move ta adjourn?
BiJRN5: ! so move.
KLINE: I'll second the motion.
CHAIR YODER: Ail in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
CNAI R YODEf�: Any opposed?
LOPUSZANSKL Matian passes, 4-Q
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Having no further business, Cha�rperson Burns adjourned the Regular Meeting of the
History and Culture Advisvey Cammission meeting held on 5eptember 4, 2�25, at 4:28 p.m.
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I hereby �ertify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct copy of the
minutes ❑f the Regular Meeting held by the History and Culture Advisory
Commission of Fountain Hills in the Town Hali Counci! Chambers on the Tth �f
January 2��6. I further certify that the meeting was duiy called and that a quarum
was present.
DATE❑ this �th Day vf Jar�uary 2�26.
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