Minutes from Haralson County Historical Society Meeting

January 12, 2009

Those in attendance:

Jeri Ezell
Karen Higgins
Terrell McBrayer
Pete Ewing
Jana Gentry
Philip Haddix
Roy Black
Naomi Black
Charles Jarrell
John Norton

The meeting was called to order by President Karen Higgins.

Due to the absence of Secretary Stephanie Jarrell, minutes 
from the last meeting were not read.  Jeri Ezell is taking 
the minutes from this month's meeting.

Treasurer's report - Jana reports a balance of $7847.89

Business:

The Boatwright Hotel will be relocated to the City of Bremen.

The SWHH has been rented.  The note was also paid off by 
John Norton.  Jimmy Pope has given the HCHS a list of items 
he is donating.  Terrell, Stephanie and Karen will 
personally inventory these items and decide what would be 
appropriate to keep before signing list.

Archives:

- Philip is now making good progress.  He also submitted a 
proposed mission statement for the archives:  

	"The Haralson County Historical Society 
	Archives has been established in order to 
	protect, manage, procure, and make available 
	for research all materials related to the 
	county's significant structures, its 
	municipalities, and the social, legal, 
	economic, educational and artistic aspects of 
	the lives of its citizens, throughout the 
	county's history, to the end of serving the 
	mission of the Haralson County Historical 
	Society."

Jana suggested a minor change of wording; motion was made 
and seconded with a vote to accept the statement with the 
word change. (The statement as written is what was agreed 
on.)

- Philip has created a form for donated items to the 
archives.  He also suggested inventorying all existing 
items.

- Philip has not found much appropriate for the History Book 
yet.

Building (Charles):

- Fire extinguishers have been installed at a cost of 
$1406.91
- Back door needs weather stripping and a threshold.  
Charles and Roy will look at after meeting.
- Grant from Georgia Power to insulate the attic has been 
denied.

LCSH:

- Terrell reports a couple has looked into purchasing the 
house on the lot.
- He will submit a list of new officers and trustees.
- Need a sign placed at the original site of LCSH (SR100)

Chamber dinner is January 24th at the County High School.  
We agreed to purchase a table for 8 at $175 with everyone 
wishing to attend pay their own way.

Budapest:

- missing headstone; Karen spoke with Sheriff's Dept. and 
the committed amount for the reward is at $200
- Still working to get Landfill Road name change to Budapest 
Cemetery Road.

BHPL:

- the Library has been very busy lately.
- FOTL should be able to keep the Library open until end of 
fiscal year (June).

The County is cutting the budget for HCHS and BHPL by $3000 
each.  This is for the remaining 6 months of the fiscal year 
(a deduction of $500/month).  John Norton will set up a 
meeting with Allen to discuss options.

"Homework" for next month - set priorities for 2009.