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A. The primary duty of the Board is to identify and actively encourage the conservation of the City’s historic resources by establishing and maintaining a register of historic landmarks, landmark sites, historic special review districts, and conservation districts; reviewing proposed changes to register properties; raising community awareness of the City’s history and historic resources; and serving as the City’s primary resource in matters of history, historic planning, and preservation, as provided for in this chapter.

B. In carrying out these responsibilities, the Landmarks and Heritage Advisory Board shall engage in the following:

1. Serve as liaison to the City Council on matters of historic preservation policy.

2. Review proposals to construct, change, alter, modify, remodel, move, demolish, or significantly affect properties as set forth in this chapter, and adopt standards and design guidelines to be used to guide this review and the issuance of a certificate of approval.

3. Actively encourage the conservation of historic materials and make recommendations regarding mitigation measures for projects adversely affecting historic resources.

4. Review, advise, and comment to the Planning Advisory Board and City Council on land use, housing and redevelopment, municipal improvements and other types of planning and programs undertaken by any agency of the City, other neighboring communities, the county, and state or federal governments, as they relate to historic resources within the City.

5. Review nominations to the State and National Registers of Historic Places for historic properties within the City.

6. Make recommendations to the City Council on the use of various federal, state, local, or private funding sources available for preservation purposes within the City.

7. Officially recognize excellence in the rehabilitation of historic buildings, structures, sites, districts, and new construction in historic areas; and encourage appropriate measures for such recognition.

8. Provide information to the public on methods of maintaining and rehabilitating historic properties, incentives for the rehabilitation of historic properties, and the regulations concerning such properties. This may take the form of pamphlets, newsletters, workshops, or similar activities.

9. Adopt and maintain architectural standards and design guidelines for historic special review districts and historic properties.

10. The Board may, at the request of the Historic Preservation Officer or the City Manager, review proposals submitted to the City for funds made available for grants to be made to the City through the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq., the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1971, 31 U.S.C. Section 1221 et seq., the Museum Assistance Program and other applicable local, state, federal and private foundations funding programs. Upon review of such grant proposals, the Board shall make recommendations to the Council concerning which proposals should be funded, the amount of the grants that should be awarded, the conditions that should be placed on the grant, and such other matters that the Board deems appropriate. The Historic Preservation Officer shall keep the Board apprised of the status of grant proposals, deadlines for submission of proposals and the recipients of grant funds.

11. The Board may, at the request of the Historic Preservation Officer or the City Manager, make and administrate funding grants received by the City from both private and public sources for the purposes which promote the goals of this chapter.

12. The Board shall have such further powers and duties as may, from time to time, be delegated to it by the City Council.

C. The Board shall meet at least once each quarter for the purpose of considering and holding public hearings on nominations for designation and applications for certificates of appropriateness. Where no business is scheduled to come before the Board seven days before the scheduled meeting, the chair of the Board may cancel the meeting. All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public. The Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the action of the Advisory Board upon each question, and shall keep records of all official actions taken by it, all of which shall be filed in the Office of the Historical Preservation Officer and shall be public records. [Ord. 578 § 1, 2014.]