The February 12, 2007 meeting of the Haralson County Historical Society 
was called to order by President Karen Higgins.  The minutes from the 
January 8, 2007 meeting were approved as read.  Jana Gentry was not able 
to attend, but she had given me her Treasurer’s report.  After income 
and expenses our balance is $10,695.37.  The motion was made to accept 
her report also.  The following people were present:

		Terrell McBrayer
		Ron Feigenblatt
		Lisa Tamasi
		Naomi Black
		Roy Black
		Charles Jarrell
		Mary Jarrell
		Karen Higgins
		Jeri Ezell
		Stephanie Jarrell
		Peggy Kimball
		Jolaine Sims

Roy and Naomi Black were welcomed to the meeting.

Terrell McBrayer gave the Building Report:  Roofing slate has been 
found, we are checking on size, not sure exactly how much we need, but 
at least several pieces.  Some foundation work is needed in the vault.  
Also the mail buggy needs some new fabric, but it is coming along.  

Terrell also told us about the One-Room Schoolhouse.  We have written 
permission to relocate it to Buchanan.  There are three possibilities 
for locations: next to the Wade House, next to City Hall, and a third 
location that has not been disclosed yet.

We discussed the [reprinted nominally 1978] History book, and where all 
of our copies have gone.

We talked about the Streetscape.  Greg Poteet says they will let us see 
the plans as soon as they are approved.

We have planned a courthouse work day for March 10 from 9am to noon.

We welcomed Jolaine Sims, the Media Specialist from Buchanan Elementary 
School.  She came to tell us how much she liked the idea of the reading 
incentive plan and how we could use two sets of history/social studies 
books, which she already has in the school library, and how she can 
track how many have been read by each child.  She also told us that the 
children already read these books and love them.  

After some discussion about the problem we have had with a lot of people 
forgetting to pay their dues, the motion was made and seconded, with a 
unanimous vote, to change the operating year to January through 
December.

We had a problem with damage to the phone cord.  This apparently 
happened this weekend between 2:00pm Saturday and 7:00am Monday morning.  
How did it happen?  We need to find out so it doesn’t happen again.  We 
have to replace the cord.

Karen suggested several fundraising ideas:  Tree kits, First aid kits, 
Pizza, Cookies.  We’ll discuss them more next month.

Karen has donated a book to our Genealogical Library: "Tracing Your 
Civil War Ancestors." 

We discussed the new history book we are planning, what we want to 
include in it, and how we want to go about setting it up.  The motion 
was made and seconded, with a unanimous vote, to purchase "Horses of the 
Presidents" for $27.95 to check the quality of the printing (printed by 
BookSurge), to see if this is how we want to print our history book.  

Charles Jarrell told us about the serious damage to the floor of the 
[entry-level-floor, northern-windows] meeting room.  Roy Black made an 
estimate of approximately $2,100.00 to complete the necessary repairs.  
The motion was made and seconded, with a unanimous vote, to advance Roy 
$500.00 for supplies to get started immediately on the repairs.

Blinds will be installed March 9th.

One Mission Statement has been submitted for our consideration.  This 
was by John Norton.  We will discuss our plans to adopt his version at 
next month’s meeting.

Roy Black has donated a picture of Peggy Kimball, which he painted, to 
the historical society.  It will be hung in the Genealogical Library.  

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.