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File #: HPC CA 2016-4    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Agenda Item Status: New Business
File created: 10/20/2016 In control: Historic Preservation Commission
On agenda: 1/23/2017 Final action:
Title: CA 2016-4 REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS TO REPLACE THE CIVIC CENTER BALLOT BOX WITH A LARGER MORE SECURE BALLOT BOX. The Cowlitz County Elections division has replaced all ballot boxes in the county except the civic center ballot box, to meet current best practices for security of ballots cast in the County. The existing ballot box was installed in 2008 and was custom fabricated to match the mail boxes adjacent as a condition of approval for installation in the Civic Center Historic District. Since that time, the RA Long Park Master Plan was completed and the first recommendation to move the mail boxes and ballot box out of the "Monticello Hotel/Broadway St visual corridor" have been completed. The boxes are no longer the first thing seen when looking toward the Monticello Hotel. The attached application explains the need for this change in receptacles. RA Long Park is individually listed on the Longview Register of Historic Places. UPDATE: Attached proposal presents t...
Attachments: 1. CA 2016-4 Civic Center ballot box, 2. Pages from RA Long Park Master Plan, 3. 2008-2 County Ballot Box CertificAppropriateness [for reference], 4. Rehabilitation treatment approach with guidelines for historic site (p5), 5. Civic Center Ballot Box replacement response

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CA 2016-4 REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS TO REPLACE THE CIVIC CENTER BALLOT BOX WITH A LARGER MORE SECURE BALLOT BOX.

The Cowlitz County Elections division has replaced all ballot boxes in the county except the civic center ballot box, to meet current best practices for security of ballots cast in the County. The existing ballot box was installed in 2008 and was custom fabricated to match the mail boxes adjacent as a condition of approval for installation in the Civic Center Historic District. Since that time, the RA Long Park Master Plan was completed and the first recommendation to move the mail boxes and ballot box out of the "Monticello Hotel/Broadway St visual corridor" have been completed. The boxes are no longer the first thing seen when looking toward the Monticello Hotel. The attached application explains the need for this change in receptacles. RA Long Park is individually listed on the Longview Register of Historic Places.

 

UPDATE: Attached proposal presents the research done by Elections to meet the comments provided by the Commission at the previous review.

Recommended Action: Motion to accept the proposed ballot box replacement with condition that graphics be 'inverted' with blue as the dominant color, as described in attached response to Commission comments.