Hooper Renwick Legacy Preservation Committee

HOOPER-RENWICK LEGACY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE MINUTES Tuesday, September 20, 2022 Third Floor GwMA Conference Room 6:00 PM 70 S. Clayton St, GA 30046 Call to Order Chairwoman Theresa Bailey called the meeting to order at 6:03 pm. 1. Prayer – Pastor/Dr. Ronald Dunnigan, Committee Member Committee Member Dunnigan led the opening prayer. 2. Quorum/Roll Call – Ms. Joyce Moore, Vice-Chair Co-Chair Moore completed the Quorum/Roll Call. Quorum was not made until 6:06 pm when Committee Member Gary Glenn arrived. Some Committee members came into the meeting at various times after that. PRESENT Committee Member Theresa Bailey, Chairwoman Committee Member Constance Brown Committee Member Pastor/Dr. Ronald Dunnigan Committee Member Gary Glenn Committee Member Greg Lott Committee Member Dr. John Maxey Committee Member Joyce Moore, Vice-Chair Committee Member Gwendolyn Brown Taylor ABSENT Committee Member Dr. Vivian Summerour Daniel Committee Member Rory Johnson  Committee Member Rubye Neal Committee Member Deidra Williams Also in attendance: Officer Jacob Baird, City of Lawrenceville Brian Boggs, Gwinnett County Terri Gillette, New South (via zoom) Terry Healy, Healy-Kohler (via zoom) Cammie Fulmer, Gwinnett County Council Member Victoria Jones, City of Lawrenceville Mark LeBlanc, Gwinnett County Council Member Glenn Martin, City of Lawrenceville Angelia Parham, Gwinnett County Kyle Parker, City of Lawrenceville, IT Mayor David Still Council Member Marlene Taylor-Crawford, City of Lawrenceville Commissioner Jasper Watkins 3. Norms – Committee Member, Dr. Daniel Committee Member Daniel was unable to attend the meeting. Chairwoman Bailey reminded everyone to be considerate of each other. Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes 4. Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes for August 16, 2022 Motion to approve the minutes from the August 16, 2022 meeting made by Committee Member Dunnigan, Seconded by Committee Member Brown Taylor. Voting Yea: Committee Member Bailey, Committee Member Brown, Committee Member Dunnigan, Committee Member Glenn, Committee Member Lott, Committee Member Maxey, Committee Member Moore, Committee Member Brown Taylor Old Business 5. Project Status Update – Mr. Mark LeBlanc, Project Manager Continuing to work on site design. Site permit to begin construction should happen soon. On the building design we will do the same process. The design team will be submitting the design to Planning & Development before the year is out. Groundbreaking Ceremony is coming up in late October. We are still working out the details. 6. Project Status Update and Exhibit Updates - Ms. Cammie Fulmer, IRPC, HealyKohler and New South Motion to approve moving item number 6 until to New Business after number 9 made by Vice Chair Moore, Seconded by Committee Member Maxey. Voting Yea: Committee Member Bailey, Committee Member Brown, Committee Member Dunnigan, Committee Member Glenn, Committee Member Lott, Committee Member Maxey, Committee Member Moore, Committee Member Brown Taylor Cammie Fulmer gave her update regarding artifacts and oral histories. The upcoming presentation is the final exhibition documents and the next phase will be creation of construction documents when they fill be formalizing the end product. Cammie mentioned to the Committee that Brian Boggs would be attending the meetings in her place as she is out on maternity leave. Terry Healy, Healy-Kohler and Terri Gillette, New South shared the exhibition design with the Committee for all of the various sections of the museum portion of the library. 7. Comments – Mayor David Still Thank you for all of your hard work and your continued efforts to collect artifacts. Grateful to have Commissioner Watkins present tonight. It is great to see everyone come together on this project, the County, the Library System, and the City it is a great collaboration. 8. Artifacts Day – Ms. Deidra Williams, Committee Member and Ms. Joyce Moore, Vice-Chair Vice-Chair Moore gave the Artifacts Day update. We reached the objectives we had set out to achieve that day. We were able to reach out to some that did not know Hooper-Renwick existed and now they are enthusiastic about what is going on. Received some artifact  donations and signed up some more oral histories. Council Member Marlene Taylor-Crawford was there the entire time of the event. Thank you to each of the Committee Members for all you did to assist with this event and for giving up your Saturday to attend. We thank Cammie and Brian for joining us that day. New Business 9. Other Comments or Updates Chairwoman Bailey introduced Commissioner Jasper Watkins, III. Commissioner Watkins will be the new Commissioner for the area beginning in January. Commissioner Watkins spoke to the group and gave his support for the project. Final Adjournment 10. Closing Remarks – Chairwoman Theresa Bailey 11. Closing Prayer – Pastor/Dr. Ronald Dunnigan, Committee Member Committee Member Dunnigan led the Committee in the closing prayer. Minutes Signature ___________________ Theresa Bailey, Chairman ___________________ Joyce Moore, Co-Chair