Historical Commission
Riverside Municipal Building
A meeting of the Historical Commission
AGENDA
Gill Historical Commission
Friday, July 19, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Riverside Municipal Building
Call to order: ______ Note: No meetings were held in May or June for lack of quorum.
1. Approve minutes of April 16, 2024
2. Treasurer’s Report and Business:
Budget account as of July 19: Donation account:
Note: Cathryn, our accountant, has designed a new end-of-year process for treasurers to use.
Closing out FY’24 and finalizing budget for FY’25 will take place in the first weeks of July.
GHC’s last expenses for FY’24 were turned in on July 11. The hard drives have been synchronized and are ready for pickup. Paid for at the end of June. Budget details are still being worked out by the Town.
3. New business, short discussions
a. Final Budget worksheet for FY 2025 (discussion)
b. Update: Comments on FirstLight to FERC (Kit, Sherry); July update: FERC’s
(lengthy) responses to comments (to be sent to everyone by email)
c. Membership changes
1. Members: Charlene Currie and Terri Rice, for various reasons, are not going to
renew their GHC memberships.
2. Rearranging some of our activities; cross-training on laptop, scanner and printer;
outreach for recruiting new GHC members
3. Examples of tasks to cover:
a. Monitoring the ghc@gillmass website for inquiries
b. Plantings in spring and fall for NRHP signs; watering and maintenance
c. Graphics and images for GHC leaflets; photography
d. Monitor and sell GHC books
e. Organizing the contents of the museum
f. Preparing to open the museum: When? How? Labels for areas of artifacts?
(discussion) Note: There is an inventory of what is displayed there. (Pam)
g. One suggestion for the next couple of months: each person could visit a local
historical commission or society in a nearby town and report back
on ideas they’ve seen that might be interesting and/or useful for us.
4. Old and continuing business
a. Communications: (Kit)
1. Thank-you notes: Michael Brown, for maple sugaring bucket; Gravestone Girls for
April 20 program and cemetery walk
2. Updates on letter to Selectboard on upkeep for Anchorage: will be reformatted and sent
a week before June 3, the Selectboard meeting where this will be put on the
agenda. Kit will attend to represent GHC and discuss the need to protect the abutment and Anchorage from vandalism and from weather’s wear and tear.
Second update as of Friday, May 31: Terri reported residents or visitors parking in front of the Anchorage and its sign and sent pictures. Ray asked Kit to revise GHC’s letter to deal with both the maintenance and upkeep of the Anchorage and the possible need for a no-parking sign in that area, to be dealt with together at a July Selectboard meeting on July 15.
3. Inquiries received: Civil-war era cutlery made locally; family of Elizabeth Hines from
Ralph Stoughton’s Genealogy of Gill Families.
b. Basement cleaning and inventory, next steps (Bob, Kit)
c. Update: Railing section iron work (Bob); window cleaning in water room (Kit)
d. Acquisitions: (vote)
5. Other topics not listed at time of posting
Adjournment: _________
Next meeting: Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at RMB