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Forum Webinar: Virtual Public Meetings Part 2: Learning from the Field

With traditional, in-person public meetings on hold for the foreseeable future, local preservation commissions and advocates are exploring new ways to conduct their work and engage community members. To inform these efforts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Alliance...

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[Slide Deck and Resources] Virtual Public Meetings Part 2: Learning from the Field

With traditional, in-person public meetings on hold for the foreseeable future, local preservation commissions and advocates are exploring new ways to conduct their work and engage community members. To inform these efforts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Alliance...

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Forum Webinar: Virtual Public Meetings (Part 1 & 2)

On May 19, 2020 Preservation Leadership Forum, in partnership with the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) hosted the first of two webinars on Virtual Public Meetings. Part One focused on the legal issues surrounding this shift to virtual meetings, while part two took a look at...

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Forum Webinar: Virtual Public Meetings Part 1: Legal Issues

With traditional, in-person public meetings on hold for the foreseeable future, local preservation commissions and advocates are exploring new ways to conduct their work and engage community members. To inform these efforts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Alliance...

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[Slide Deck and Resources] Virtual Public Meetings Part 1: Legal Issues

With traditional, in-person public meetings on hold for the foreseeable future, local preservation commissions and advocates are exploring new ways to conduct their work and engage community members. To inform these efforts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Alliance...

FORUM Webinar_Virtual Mtgs Part 1.pdf

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Carrying On: Local Preservation Through Virtual Meetings

By Anne Nelson and Jim Lindberg Elected officials at all levels are struggling with how to conduct the business of government at a time when many state capitols, city halls, and council chambers remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since it is unlikely that large public meetings will...

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Winter 2016 Forum Journal: Preservation as the Movement of Yes

In order to thrive as a “Movement of Yes,” we need to first reckon with why we’re perceived as the opposite—sometimes accurately, sometimes not—and why our success in promoting a competing narrative has been limited. After all, we know that historic preservation...

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The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions: Taking Stock at Its 20th Anniversary

In the fall of 1982 a flurry of handbills spread around the National Preservation Conference in Louisville, Ky., announced the formation of a new national organization for local preservation commissions. Some six months later in March 1983, at a meeting of the National Conference of State...

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National Alliance of Preservation Commissions: Paige Pollard

Paige Pollard is the new executive director for the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. Credit: Paige Pollard By Elizabeth Byrd Wood One month into her job, Paige Pollard, the new executive director of the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC), has...

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Preservation Buoys Pueblo’s Diverse Historic Neighborhoods

The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions’ biennial meeting, Forum 2012, will be held in Norfolk, Va., July 18 – 22. The city provides a laboratory for preservation commission staff to explore a variety of preservation issues. In anticipation of the upcoming conference, NAPC...