Heritage Preservation - 05/15/2023APPROVED MINUTES
EDEN PRAIRIE HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2023 6:00 P.M. Tour
7:00 P.M. Meeting
CAMP EDEN WOOD
HPC COMMISSION MEMBERS: Rod Fisher (Chair); Paul Thorp (Vice-
Chair); George Maxwell; Steve
Schumacher; Robert Bowes; Andy
Ludowese; Melanie Willett; Catherine Lau
STUDENT MEMBERS: Avik Garg, Sophie Lunda, Mary Margaret
Mellen, Ilhaam Mohamed, Jash Parekh,
Suweda Said, Siri Tanget
COMMISSION STAFF: Beth Novak-Krebs, Staff Liaison
Kristin Harley, Recording Secretary
I. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
Chair Fisher called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. Absent were commission members
Schumacher and Willett and student members Garg, Lunda, Mohamed, Parekh, Tangeti
and Said.
II. READING OF LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT
Fisher read the land acknowledgement statement.
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
MOTION: Thorp moved, seconded by Lau to approve the agenda as amended by Thorp
to add PeopleFest under Item VA, New Business. Motion carried 5-0.
IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
MOTION: Lau moved, seconded by Bowes to approve the minutes of the April 17, 2023
minutes. Motion carried 5-0.
V. NEW BUSINESS
A. FIVE-MINUTE HISTORY REPORT (MELLEN)
Mellen reported on strong women in history: Julia Nelson, one of the first women
to graduate from college (Hamline) in the 1890s in Minnesota, who then taught