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Heritage Preservation Commission Meeting <br /> Elk River City Hall <br /> March 18,2021 <br /> 5.2 Election of Officers —Vice Chair <br /> Moved by Chair Lindberg and seconded by Commissioner Hangaard to re- <br /> elect Debra Mortensen to continue serving as the Vice Chair of the Heritage <br /> Preservation Commission. <br /> Motion carried 7-0. <br /> 6.I HPC Projects and Updates <br /> Commissioner Griffiths began discussion by presenting his first draft and sources for <br /> a prospective script regarding a documentary. He was open to input. He wrote it as a <br /> voice-over with an authoritative tone like talking points. He noted he didn't have <br /> much information regarding the presence of Native Americans <br /> Chair Lindberg suggested several titles to Commissioner Griffiths for Native <br /> America history,both for relationships between European travelers and natives, and <br /> Dakota, Ojibwe, and Sioux tribes. <br /> Commissioner Griffiths continued by stating his goals for this project will be to <br /> complete the script this spring and begin gathering video footage this summer. He <br /> discussed how long the video may end up being as estimated by the number of script <br /> pages He figured around 10-12 minutes. <br /> Chair Lindberg asked if he envisioned if he would have smaller segments of videos <br /> with specific topics, as he has seen on YouTube. <br /> Commissioner Griffiths asked if any old footage or recordings were available <br /> Chair Lindberg Bank of Elk River owns film from around 1915 -1916 which was not <br /> high quality but usable. <br /> Commissioner Mortensen provided some information regarding Elk River resident <br /> and barber Perry Jones,who lived his life as a Native America but was African <br /> American, and he took photos of the city which were on glass. She stated most of <br /> them were destroyed but he has a fascinating history. <br /> Mr. Carlton suggested script comments and suggested be provided to Commissioner <br /> Griffiths by April so he would have time to incorporate them and the commission <br /> could discuss at the May HPC meeting. Mr. Carlton asked if Commissioner Griffiths <br /> could provide a budget dollar amount for upcoming 2022 budget discussions. <br /> Commissioner Griffiths stated the budget would come down to costs filming, <br /> researching,purchasing licensing of other videos to use, and editing. Using city staff <br /> and cameras would be helpful. He would like to ask them how much time they <br /> foresee needing. He also wondered if it would be a problem to use staff time and <br /> equipment. <br />