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• Richard Schulman stated when he was appointed the City's Historian seven years ago, he took on the task of capturing and preserving the history of this City. He said he was able to obtain some artifacts, the horses and carriage from the Colonial Motel were fifty years old, which was donated to the City by the Dezer Corporation, and they were placed in the Gwen Margolis Park with a plaque. He said he was also able to obtain a 12'2" pelican from the Driftwood Motel, along with six Egyptian images from the Dunes Motel, which are now in storage. He also said he created Historic Books, and at this time there are seven of them, one year for each year of existence, capturing the history, written and pictures of this City. Chairperson Del Monico answered the question posed by Vice Mayor Goodman regarding the time for something to be historic, generally at the County they are downito 50 years, the mimo regulations have not been developed to the legislative status yet, they figured it would be another two years. She said that they have got to be able to show that it has a universal application, so that is what they are tying to do now, and so there is riot much they can do at this point, and unfortunately, that is where most of ours falls in that mimo time period. She said touching on what Mr. Schulman said, that we have to distinguish between artifacts and historic properties, property usually means there is real property or building, or an archeological site, in the County they have confirmed that we have no archeological sites here in Sunny Isles Beach. She said that the County is in the process of doing a new historic property survey right now, and that probably won't be finished for five to seven years. She said what we are looking for here in Sunny Isles Beach is, if you are looking at the camels in front of the hotel, or the horse and carriage, that would be more like an artifact for the City, it has no value to anyone except those here who have a fond memory of those things, so for them to be under the purview for this Board, she doesn't think so. She asked Deputy City Attorney Ottinot how he felt about that and he said that is within the Board's discretion, and that in a future meeting they could bring up this item to whether or not this Board wants to consider artifacts as items for this Board to discuss and vote on. Ms. D'Arbelles noted that perhaps in the future we can place these artifacts into a museum for display. Deputy City Attorney Ottinot said one of the duties of this Board is to increase public awareness of,the value of historical preservation, and Mr. Schulman can write a report to this Board regarding collecting artifacts, which is a public awareness. Ms. D'Arbelles said that she can work oh the public awareness campaign because she is doing it currently with the State of Florida. Mr. Abramson said if we look at the duties of the Board, it states to approve historic markers and plaques and issue recognition to be designated historic landmarks and historic landmark districts within the City. He feels that we only have historic markers such as the Rascal House Sign, the Camels, the Horse and Carriage, the Pelican, and he said that Mr. Schulman did a very extensive survey of what items were available and he doesn't believe there were any buildings that could qualify. He feels that this Board should be directed toward artifacts rather then buildings, and Mr. Schulman said that a survey may designate possible districts or an area or a block on the west side possibly for discussion, this Board shouldn't just designate artifacts. Chairperson Del Monico agreed, promoting the gathering and displaying of artifacts is something that we would do but it is not something that we need to approve or monitor or in anyway supervise. She said under the current set of criteria, except for the three things already designated, our City really has nothing that qualifies as historic designation. She said age aloneildoes not qualify you for historic designation, and she asked if we can get a copy of the Secretary of the Interior's Historic Standards booklet. She feels each member should get a copy of this. Deputy City Attorney Ottinot said that Chairperson Del Monico is correct, age alone does not qualify a site as historic, and as to Vice Mayor Goodman's question, if you designateia site and the property Summary Minutes 2004-0610 HPB Mtg Page 4 of 6