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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, January 5, 2021 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 7 of 11 <br /> <br />Mayor Walsh said for example, one place where a cabin used to be, rather than digging up the entire thing <br />to show everyone what is there, they would have an interpretive sign that tells what was there and what it <br />used to look like. <br /> <br />Mr. Carter answered yes, and they have some amazing resources and one of the studies done by the <br />company that does the Maritime Non-profit; they literally have some of these scanned images of every <br />foundation of every building that was built out on the Island as they are still there underground. He noted <br />one could be standing in a place where a building was and see a framed view with a picture of the <br />building and the scan of the foundation that is still there. Mr. Carter mentioned he has been out at Big <br />Island the last couple of weekends and Sunday was unbelievable as there was six inches of snow and he <br />always sees a dozen or more people hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, the eagles are up in the nest, he sees <br />coyotes and deer, and it is just amazing. <br /> <br />Mayor Walsh noted it is helpful to have the signage that shows what things actually looked like and <br />obviously they want the signs to be as bulletproof as possible. <br /> <br />Mr. Carter said in interviewing Jim, the two things that most impressed him were his understanding of <br />how durable things needed to be and the idea that they would tell this story as though one was there. <br /> <br />Edwards wants to point out a couple of other things that may be coming to the Council in the near future. <br />He noted a highlighted green trail on screen and said that is one of the priorities; the other is down on the <br />far south and they are looking at putting a couple more sitting stones there. He stated they originally had <br />the picnic shelter templated right there onscreen, but there were a bunch of small archaeological finds that <br />were found there and the picnic shelter had to be moved further north away from the overlook. <br /> <br />Printup asked what the archaeological finds were. <br /> <br />Edwards is not sure exactly but as they did the pre-construction archaeological survey there was some <br />flint from pre-contact era, and most of the things found were small pieces of glass bottles, pieces of tile or <br />clay, brick from the structures that were out there, etcetera. When it was an amusement park, there were <br />all kind of streetlight structures and they found many things underground for the streetlight base. <br /> <br />Mayor Walsh said that is amazing. <br /> <br />Printup said the native history would be depicted and for example, the flint, would be shown as things <br />actually found on the Island. <br /> <br />Mr. Carter said there is not much left and his understanding is when they built the park, they scraped 3-4 <br />feet off the entire area, put the footings in, built the foundations, and then filled it. He noted they had help <br />from the Mdewakanton Sioux to help tell the story of what happened there over the time preceding <br />settlement. <br /> <br />Seals moved, Crosby seconded, to accept the proposal from Jim Roe at Museum Planning for <br />interpretive sign concept plan site for $10,000. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. <br /> <br />Seals asked Edwards when they put up the signs pointing out what is there (flint, etcetera), she does not <br />know how they do it, but there will be people who will go out there and dig it up, as people are already <br />out there with metal detectors. She asked if on the entry point, they will have clear signage stating this is