Fort Crook Historical Society

Board Meeting, December 2, 2008

  The meeting of the Fort Crook Historical Society was called to order by President Robert Ingram at 7:00 P.M.  All stood for the Flag salute.

  Those present were board members Robert Ingram, Betty Stoltenberg, Milly Lakey, Billie Albaugh, John Fenn, Jeannette Ciriello, Tim Glaze and Glorianne Weigand.  Also present were Past President Chuck McCulley, Curator Dorothy Mason and guest Jerry Dunkel.

 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved as read.

 The treasurer’s report was given and there is $30,783.31 in the general fund and $51,879.75 in the Round Barn fund.  John made the motion to accept the treasurer’s report and Milly seconded it.  Motion passed.

OLD BUSINESS: Jerry Dunkel a local roofing contractor was present to talk about the Round Barn roof.  He was able to get approval from the Shasta Building Department to use class #1 Cedar fire proof shingles on the barn.  The materials alone will cost $49,457.27.  Labor would be on top of that. The roof has been our problem as we cannot continue with the construction until we have the roof plans complete.  Billy made the motion that we approve the wood shingles and the bid and Tim seconded it.  Motion passed.  Jerry will work on labor estimates.

  Robert reported that Wayne Norris will be ready to start on the construction of the walls in January.  Jerry Norris is making a special miter saw to cut the logs to scale before we peel them as there is no use peeling extra on the logs.  This will cut down that volunteer labor immensely.  We have the money to pay for the shingles and hopefully we will get a grant to help with the labor cost. All the logs and lumber to start the actual construction have been donated and are on hand.  

  Many of the board members met with Jan Lopez on November 19 and gave her all of the grant information.  She was very pleased with all the information the committee had gathered.  John will send the roof estimate on to her. She is very confident about obtaining a grant for the barn construction. 

  A bid for the roof of the main museum building was received from Wilderness Construction.  This is an unexpected expense we had not planned on, but needs done this year. No action was taken.

  Glorianne will write an article for the local papers to include all who have donated to the work and building of the Round Barn.  It will probably be a paid ad and John made a motion to put it in the papers and Milly seconded it.  This needs to be done before the end of the year.

  We would like to get the chinking done on the log cabin so we can get it in use for next year.  The plan is to put the Fort Crook Military display in the cabin.  Chuck will find the instructions and guidelines for chinking so we can get to work on it. 

  Santa’s workshop is this Saturday and the committee has plans well underway for the food concession.  We will have soups, hot dogs, chili, nachos, baked potatoes, pies, cookies and drinks.

  The bi-monthly newsletter was discussed and even though we may have to look ahead for some of our projects it was felt that this is a good idea.

  We will be hosting the 2009 meeting of the Historical Societies on May 9, 2009 at 11 A.M.  We will serve lunch at the Veterans Hall.  An invitation to all area museums will be sent out in March.

  The work day to close the museum was a busy day.  Richard Hathaway of Packway Materials brought his man lift and he and Chuck Egolf repaired the damaged roof on the main building, the cabin shingled roof was repaired, yard cleaned up and artifacts in the barn were covered with plastic to protect from the blacksmith dust.

NEW BUSINESS:  The Quilt Show has been set for April 19, 2009 at the Veterans Hall from noon to 3:00 P.M.  Jeannette and Sharon will be in charge.  Jeannette will call to get the Hall for the Quilt show and the May 9, meeting.

  The board members and their spouses will have a pot luck Christmas Dinner at Glorianne’s home on December 13 at 6:00 P.M.

  There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M.

Respectively Submitted,

Glorianne Weigand, Secretary