Working Group Meeting Minutes – February 26th, 2010
In Attendance:
Pat Hartle – PSMHS
Alice Winship – NWS, PSP, SHIPS
Diana Hennick – NWS
Erin Schiedler – CWB
Betsy Davis - CWB
Karen Marshall – PSMHS
Charles See – BMA, YMTA
Ideas for Future Meeting Topics
 Education and youth
 How Heritage Vessels promote economic development
 Museum and Recreation Industries – how they overlap
 How do Museum people support Trades-people? In some cases we are preserving
crafts that are currently happening
 Les Bolton – Historic Vessels and the Film Industry
o How to communicate about these vessels?
o Movie sets bring $150k to area EACH DAY of filming
o Potential event in July for film industry people to visit Seattle Area, how
to we get in on this?
o Les is the March Third Friday Speaker at CWB! March 19th, 7pm
 Events that are happening from now until the Festival
 Volunteers, Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Transportation Issues
 SLU Chamber Members are invited to attend an SDOT subcommittee meeting on
street parking. 1:00 Fred Hutch, Kim has information about the event
Olympia Update from Betsy
 Grant Program for Historic Vessels Funding
o Didn’t make it out of Senate Ways and Means Committee
o Will be a line item in the Senate Capital Budget
o Language needs defining
o Need a better idea of a broader range of ships that might be involved
o What are the qualifications?
o Meeting in Olympia to work on details
Betsy is going to Washington DC
 Part of Preservation Lobby Day
 Washington Trust, BIG issues this year.
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Save America’s Treasures and Preserve America have both been zeroed out –
Senate and House both need to push back
Heritage Area Budget cut in half
Asking for Individual Appropriations
o CWB
o Historic Seattle
o MOHAI
Each group has about 10 minutes to present to Legislators
Board Mixer Event
 Catered by Sustainable Table (Portage Bay Café) – light appetizers
 V5 will have a cash bar, each attendee gets one drink ticket?
 Who to Invite?
o Board Members (each org)
o Vulcan folks (Kim)
o New Mayor’s Office folks (Pat)
o Parks Department (Betsy) and Parks Foundation (Kim)
o 4Culture – Norm Rice (Pat)
o Seattle Foundation (Betsy?)
o Maritime Heritage Task Force (
o SCVB – Tracy Wickersham (Betsy)
o SLU Chamber – Jason – (Pat)
o Historic Seattle (Karen)
o King County Preservation (Karen)
o National Park Service (Alice)
o Tim Gallagher (Betsy)
o School Boards/Principals (Charles)
 Short Program at 6:45 – About what’s happening, exciting going-ons
 Nametags!
 Who will do Setup: (Caterers, others?)
 Who will do Cleanup: (Betsy, Alice, Diana, Erin)
Upcoming Events
 March – Columbia River Maritime Museum – conference on most important
boats in the Northwest
 Chantey Sing on second Friday in March
 May 29th and 30th – Arthur Foss Open House
 Zodiac visiting for Armed Forces Day – May 15th
“Working Together to Make History at Lake Union Park” Feedback Discussion
 Changes should be submitted by the end of the month!
 Feedback?
o A lot to consume, needs and executive summary
o Some info can be put at the end of the document
o Seems like a CWB document, not a group document
o Add a statement from the Working Group
o Proposed Order of beginning:
 Organization list
 Table of Contents
 Introduction Letter
 Two pages of Executive Summary
Around the Room Updates
Northwest Seaport
 Signed the contract for the Lightship project!
o Old Tacoma Marine will be the Project Managers
o Three project Phases
 Request for bids for phase one – environmental concerns
o Panel review will chose contractors
o Phase two will include deck replacement, wood is currently curing, at least
one year out
o Interested bidders? E-mail Diana
 Blog Updates posted
 Three new board members
 Do a lightship lighting at the September Park Opening?
 Diana could do a presentation at a future meeting
PSMHS
 Lots of research requests coming in
 Preparing for the move, deaccessioning items, working on procedures
 Would Karen share info with other organizations? What about items moving to
other organizations?
 Meeting at Rock Salt – DVD about the Katrina Disaster and how it affected the
Maritime Community – March 3rd, $30, Contact Pat
BMA/YMTA
 8th Grade open house – 20 students already signed up for next year
 May 16th – 20th, Trip to DC
 Cal Maritime Trip in August
 Selling sailboat moored at Shilshole
 Oceanography 101 Class is going well
 Engineer for a day Class is going well (happening now!)
 Working on plans for Ballard Seafood Festival
CWB
 Staff is retreating – March 8th and 9th
 Emma working on Pond Boat Plan, will return to a meeting
 4Culture nominated CWB for an award (AALAH)