The meeting was called to order on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008 at 4 p.m. at the Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library. Present were Stanley Young, Michael Dell’Orto, Don Channing, David Potter, and Nancy Clark.

The minutes of the Jan. 24th meeting were accepted as written. The Treasurer reported that nothing had been spent. He also informed Commission members that the $4,000 budget request for funds to finance efforts to place the Town Hall on the National Register of Historic Places was to be deferred until next year. In the meanwhile, other finance avenues will be pursued.

Michael noted that the Heritage Commission website is up and running at www.wiltonlibrarynh.org/HeritageCommission/home.htm. Among the site’s features are old photographs, the complete text of the report of the invesigative committee looking into the cause of the 1859 Meetinghouse fire, and scanned pages of warrant articles from 1775 will be available for online viewing. The Heritage Commission has a new email address as well: Heritage@WiltonlibraryNH.org.

Stanley told Commission members that a warrant article to designate Dwight Road as a Scenic Road will be presented at Town Meeting. Stanley said that a resident’s concerns whether tree cutting, etc. would be made more difficult by Scenic Road status has been addressed. A compromise was reached to seek scenic road status for just the unimproved section of Dwight Road, which would not affect the concerned resident’s frontage along the road. A member of the Heritage Commission will speak on behalf of the warrant article at Town Meeting.

It was noted that the Conservation Commission would be meeting with a mapper on Feb. 27 at 7:30 at the Town Hall to go over the historical/natural resources map overlays. The Heritage Commission participated in this project by listing and noting the locations of Wilton’s historical assets.

The meeting adjourned at 4:20.

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Clark, Secretary