12/5/2006 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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J 4h J 14 d IAL L4 kh F '! 16 Great Xeck Road North th f iWas hpee, i L4 02649 rr .- Telephone - (5308) 539-1438 Fax - (508) 1539-2774 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes of Meeting - December 5, 2006 The Town of Mashpee Histori ai Commission' meeting was palled to order at the Archives Building at 10:20am on Tuesday, December ember 5, 2006. Chairperson, Lee Gurney presided. - Commissioners Present: Rosemary Burns, Lee Gurney, and Frank Lord. Gordon Peters also attended the meeting. Commissioners Absent; Sunny Merritt, Paula Peters, and Gail Slattery. The Minutes of the October Tdmeeting were approved as presented. The Commission discussed clarifying the pdsition of the IVIFIC as relating to helping the ll ashpee One-loom Schoolhouse Preservation Council, Inc. IVIOSPC . We are grilling to assist them but not manage their projects that need to be completed: A motion was made that- Lee Gurney speak to the Selectmen liaison, Wayne Taylor, to clarify our position. Lee Gurney has submitted the budget to administration at the Town Hall for the MHC for fiscal year 20 08, starting July 1, 2007, and requested level funding, sane as for fiscal year 20 . She continues to work on administration issues, including setting goals and making progress towards their successfui completion and organizing our activities. She also proposed that vire get a consultant to evaluate our coilection of artifacts, etc., to decide what to keep and what can be disposed of. Frank Lord continues to work with members of the MSC, with special interest in the schoolhouse restoration and the future opening of it to the public. He is presently , working ing rrith members of the Warnpanoag Tribe to tape record historical memories of the schoolhouse, including stories of past generations who may have attended school thea. Judy Godin, a volunteer, has offered to continue to train our clerk and other members on the use of the Access database. We discussed groups of ,materials that remain to be entered, such as, photographs, videos, and more data from the 1834-1870 period.