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COLLEYVILLE HISTORICAL PRESERV A nON COMMITTEE
MINUTES - February 13, 2001
I. CALL TO ORDER - The meeting of the Colleyville Historical Preservation
Committee was called to order at 7:05 p.m.
Roll Call: Members present: Gerald Hartman, Jr, Sammie Bolling, Lila Coley, Ed
Havran, Shirley Schollmeyer, and Chris Faulkner. Members absent: Dwight Packer,
Donita Wiggins, Bettye Heath, and Chairman Joe Deupree. Also present were Acting City
Manager Dianne McWethy, Councilman Mike Taylor and Dee Barker.
II. APPROV AL OF MINUTES - A motion was made by Chris Faulkner, second by
Shirley Schollmeyer to approve the minutes of the meeting on December 11,2000 with
the following correction: Item IV. (b) should read "Chris Faulkner reported that he was
still working on the Pleasant Glade Community marker nomination".
III. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERA nON OF CITY MARKER PROGRAM
a. Application form - Acting City Manager Dianne McWethy reported that the City
Council approved the request for two city markers, (site of Dr. Colley's home and
Bransford Flag Stop Depot).
Dee Barker had requested to meet with the committee concerning changes to the
application form. The committee discussed recommended the following changes to be
made: on the cover page; 1st paragraph, Colleyville Historic Landmark Plaque will read
"Colleyville Historical marker", 2nd paragraph, historic landmarks will be changed to
read "resource to be marked".
b. Marker Design and text - Acting City Manager Diane McWethy submitted examples
of how the text would look on the two markers that have been approved. The committee
suggested that an example of the actual sizes be presented with text in both vertical and
horizontal sizes.
Chris Faulkner, Lila Coley and Gerald Hartman, Jr were appointed as a sub-committee to
work on refining the text for the markers.
IV. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF CITY MARKER
NOMINA nONS - Ed Havran reported that he had the documentation complete for the
Bogart Dairy marker.
V. STAFF REPORTS
a. Bransford Park and Webb House - Dianne McWethy reported that a meeting is
planned for the Bransford Park Master Plan Committee on February 6 at 7 p.m. Karl Von
Bieberstein will present a planning session for the Webb House.
b. National Trust Foundation - Dianne McWethy stated that she wanted to get input
from the committee on asking Daniel Carey, from the foundation, to come to Colleyville,
for a tour of markers in the city and getting his assessment ideas relating to historic
features in Colleyville. She will contact Carey for available dates that he might come. The
committee will submit a list of structures for consideration.
VI. OTHER ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA - Lila Coley approached the
committee concerning the former Karate Studio building at 5100 Colleyville Blvd. She
stated that the building has a historic value to the city and that it will be temporarily
preserved as an office. She suggested that it could be utilized as a meeting place for the
Historical Committee and a Visitors Center since it is owned by the city.
Shirley Schollmeyer will bring 50lc forms for the committee to look at for forming a tax
exempt Historical Society.
VII. ADJOURN - The next meeting of the Colleyville Historical Committee will be
held Tuesday, March 13,2001.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 p.m.