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Veterans Memorial Committee Minutes <br />May 20, 2013 <br />Present: Rocky Waite, Dan Ryan, Kathy Hanson, Judy Berggren, Frank Costa, Rick Montour, Shelly Boss, <br />Bill Sanders, Joel Hanson, and Jessica Jagoe <br />The meeting began at 6:00 p.m. <br />Sanders distributed copies of the memorial concept plan. <br />Berggren commented that she initially thought the memorial should be located closer to Round Lake. <br />Sanders said the placement was due to maintaining accessibility on the site. Waite asked Sanders what <br />he envisioned for the interpretive features. Sanders indicated that these could be used to tell the <br />history of the site (i.e. well house, park, lake) or it could be used for some future veterans memorial <br />piece that we may not know of now, but allow space for. K. Hanson said she liked leaving room for Plan <br />B. Sanders said that maybe he should go through his concept plan and then the committee can <br />comment. <br />Sanders said what he got from the group at the last meeting was that the memorial should be simple. <br />He said he wanted to create a memorial that was straight forward, but appropriate and powerful in its <br />message. The walkway has a 5% grade by bringing it down as shown it is within accessibility limits. The <br />walkway couldn't go down on the site any further without changing the grade. Sanders stated it was his <br />feeling they will want accessible features and felt they should stay at this grade. <br />Sanders reviewed that he didn't want to bring the parking into the site due to grade issues. If that was <br />done the committee would need to look at retaining walls. This plan provides for three on- street spaces <br />that allow visitors to pull off to the site and could comply with handicap accessible. Sanders added that <br />this would need to be reviewed by the City Engineer for confirmation. <br />Sanders pointed out that this site has the opportunity to work with the existing plaza. He felt that <br />working with the pavers in their current location allows the committee to replace with new as part of <br />the memorial. He said the % wall design could have writing on it or could display the seven branches of <br />service insignias with the flagpoles behind the % wall. Sanders showed the actual memorial feature <br />along the walkway. This feature would be polished stone on top with a rough stone edge about table <br />height and an irregular shape with wording on top. The writing could be a poem or whatever the <br />committee decides they want to go with. <br />Ryan asked if bricks could go into the wall to avoid water damage. Sanders stated that they should go <br />on the ground and that this area has held up well with the existing pavers. K. Hanson brought up that <br />use of the military insignias on the wall was a good idea. <br />Sanders stated that he felt this concept covered all of what the plaza and memorial needed. He added <br />that the Interpretive features could be used for the ideas stated earlier or geology of the area. Waite <br />asked if the sidewalk loop was pavers as well. Sanders stated that he was thinking concrete. He added <br />that trails are typically asphalt, but sticking with what current exists in the plaza he recommended <br />1 <br />6 <br />