The Historic Commission Question No One is Asking
Well I whacked Svarzbein earlier today and mentioned Grossman too. However lets look at this issue a little more deeply.
There's a glaring question that is not being asked in this conversation about the grant.
Why isn't the El Paso County Historical Commission applying for the grant themselves?
The EPCHC is its own county entity. They don't NEED the city to make the survey happen. They have the authority to do it themselves or partner with a private entity or the County. Its all legal.
The reason that the EPCHC wants to hook up with the city is the fact that its a hell of a lot less effort on their part if they are with the city on this.
A quick google search and this document pops up and lays down everything that can be done. Its the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook of the EPCHC.
So if the EPCHC wants to save a building downtown there needs to be a preservation plan. You can't have a plan until after you have a study, which requires some cash. And here is exactly how they can do the survey themselves.
The challenge for the EPCHC is to try to rebuild the relationships they have lost over the last couple of years. The only way they do that is to reverse the current course they are on, which will likely require a change in leadership. The EPCHC is FAR TOO politicized. A County entity should not ever call an elected official in another level of government a liar in public. In fact, I'm a little surprised that Commissioner's Court hasn't bent the ear of the EPCHC and told them to cool their shit.
Sargent is a little compromised by how he interjected himself in the conversation about the cultural center. There is also a perception that the commission is really only interested in saving Trost buildings because someone's girlfriend is the president of the Texas Trost Society.
The ship has to be righted as quickly as possible. The County should look at adding some new blood to that organization. And ensuring that EPCHC actually looks like the community would help to. Surely there are some Latinos interested in serving.
There's a glaring question that is not being asked in this conversation about the grant.
Why isn't the El Paso County Historical Commission applying for the grant themselves?
The EPCHC is its own county entity. They don't NEED the city to make the survey happen. They have the authority to do it themselves or partner with a private entity or the County. Its all legal.
The reason that the EPCHC wants to hook up with the city is the fact that its a hell of a lot less effort on their part if they are with the city on this.
A quick google search and this document pops up and lays down everything that can be done. Its the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook of the EPCHC.
So if the EPCHC wants to save a building downtown there needs to be a preservation plan. You can't have a plan until after you have a study, which requires some cash. And here is exactly how they can do the survey themselves.
The challenge for the EPCHC is to try to rebuild the relationships they have lost over the last couple of years. The only way they do that is to reverse the current course they are on, which will likely require a change in leadership. The EPCHC is FAR TOO politicized. A County entity should not ever call an elected official in another level of government a liar in public. In fact, I'm a little surprised that Commissioner's Court hasn't bent the ear of the EPCHC and told them to cool their shit.
Sargent is a little compromised by how he interjected himself in the conversation about the cultural center. There is also a perception that the commission is really only interested in saving Trost buildings because someone's girlfriend is the president of the Texas Trost Society.
The ship has to be righted as quickly as possible. The County should look at adding some new blood to that organization. And ensuring that EPCHC actually looks like the community would help to. Surely there are some Latinos interested in serving.
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