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HERITAGE CORNWALL MEETING NO. 02 - 2010 PUBLIC LIBRARY: CORNWALL ROOM THURSDAY 4, FEBRUARY - 6:30 P.M.
Present: Chris Granger - Chairperson
Regrets: Bonnie Latreille
1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER Meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. 2. ADOPTION OF MINUTES Moved by M. Gauthier, seconded by M. Hug that the minutes of the meeting of January 7th 2010 be adopted. Carried. 3. TREASURER’S REPORT The
Treasurer made his report for the months of December and January.
The committee balance is currently at $7,338.47. When including the
special project fund it is $13,175.12. Moved by the Treasure, seconded
by R. Desrosiers, that the reports be accepted into record. The Treasurer
also presented a copy of his report that was submitted to the Budget Steering
Committee for Heritage Cornwall’s proposed 2010 budget. As previously
stated, the committee does not need additional funds but is asking for
$15,000.00 to go towards the preservation of the old Post Office artifacts.
5. REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR The
Chair circulated the available correspondence.
6. BUSINESS ARISING 1. Cornwall Room Schedule & Communities In Bloom C. Libbey passed the schedule around to book through the month of December. The Chair then asked if anyone within the committee would like to sit on the Communities In Bloom Committee for Heritage Cornwall as he was invited by their Chairperson. The Chair could not attend due to commitments. No one showed interest or were able to take up on the offer. 2. Invitation for Stephen Alexander and Ken Bedford Plans are now to invite both Ken Bedford and Stephen Alexander to the March meeting, along with invitations to all Planning staff. An invitation to Barry Coleman and his staff will also be made due to the good communication that has been going on through the last three years. 3. Plaques for Old Baptist Church, Nativity Church & Chesley’s Inn The Chair circulated the text for the Old Baptist Church and will work on the other two soon. R. Desrosiers will translate the approved text in French soon. 4. Pitt Street Publication & New Pamphlets The Vice-Chair is waiting for the meeting with Ken and Stephen before continuing her work. 5. Post Office Artifacts M. Gauthier has presented a diagram of possible locations near the clock tower where the post office stones could be mounted. M. Hug reported that circulating the pictures of the stones to the Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Historical Society helped to put things in prospective, but there is still a concern of whatever is done, what will be the means to protect the stones from vandalism. For now the present stage in this is concerned with presenting to the Budget Steering Committee for approval to City Council. Once the committee gets to the part of mounting, then discussions will be made. There is a likelihood that after the presentation that the local media will be asking about how Heritage Cornwall came to find the stones so the committee must be prepared for that question. 6. Heritage Fair After several means of communication, the committee decided to pass on fighting the insurance issue and relocated the Heritage Fair to the Cornwall Public Library for 2010. The list of participants is growing, as it does at this time every year, and the Fair will be in the Program Rooms, same date and time. M. Gauthier will place the appropriate ads in the newspapers. 7. Property Research No
one has been researching due to other matters. C. Libbey and the
Chair hope that a meeting of St. John’s Church will open the floor to the
committee to proceed with a proposed designation.
7. NEW BUSINESS 1. Old Grammar School Noted by the Vice-Chair is that the chimney needs repairs, but now there is a new real estate “For Sale” sign on the lawn. The property appears to be changing ownership yet again. 2. Footsteps Into Our Past The Chair has been asked by the Cornwall & Seaway Valley Tourism to give support to the revised brochure for Footsteps Into Our Past. Although verbal and written support was sent, a monetary commitment was asked of no less than $50.00, which the Chair stated he would bring up to the committee. R. Desrosiers and M Hug debated that unlike Doors Open, this is a project for the Tourism group that should be covered under their annual city budget request. A motion to donate funds to the Cornwall & Seaway Valley Tourism for the purpose of helping to finance the Footsteps Into Our Past Brochure was tabled by R. Derosiers and M. Hug. Committee voted against support. Motion Not Carried. The committee decided to not give financially to the above project. 3. Heritage Cornwall Archives In the last month an Internet web site, specifically a blog proclaiming that they are a member of the local media, managed to acquire by unknown means a photograph that was specifically from the Heritage Cornwall Archives. The Chair had a few exchanges of communication with the web site owner and he refused to remove the picture upon request. Consultation with Ken Bedford on the issue as well as opinions from other city staff resulted in the committee stepping away from issue. Since anyone who had gone to the web site could freely make a copy of the photograph, there is no means to prove where the source of the picture was from originally nor does Heritage Cornwall have control of the artifact now that it has circulated in that manner. Due to time constraints,
this issue has been put aside for discussion at the March meeting.
Until then the members of Heritage Cornwall are asked to be aware of making
copies of any part of the archive and to not speak to anyone associated
with the we site that posted the Heritage Cornwall owned photograph.
8. ADJOURNMENT The committee finished the meeting at 8:30 p.m. The next meeting is to be held on March 4, 2010 at 6:30 P.M. in the History Room. -30- |