Cathedral City preservation committee advances archiving, appoints subcommittee to revise designation application

The Cathedral City Historic Preservation Committee discussed a joint archiving and digitization effort with the Cathedral City Historical Society and moved to add revision of the historic-designation application to its work plan, appointing Committee Member Heckman to a subcommittee with Committee Member Rivera.

The discussion opened with a staff overview of a reorganized work plan and a status report on several priority projects, including an archiving partnership with the Cathedral City Historical Society, a pending update to the city's historic-resource context report, and preparations for Historic Preservation Month in May. The committee said it had reformatted the work plan into portrait orientation and reordered items by priority to make it easier to read.

Julie House, the archivist for the Cathedral City Historical Society, described a recent cataloging-and-digitization effort focused on the Wilson Davis Ellis collection. House said…