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Bonner County Historical Society asks Sandpoint parks commission to clear path for Lakeview Park expansion, seek early lease renewal
Summary
At the March 12 Sandpoint Parks & Recreation Commission meeting, the Bonner County Historical Society presented a concept to expand its museum footprint at Lakeview Park and asked the commission for consent to pursue community outreach and an early exercise of a 40-year lease option that expires in September.
The Bonner County Historical Society asked the Sandpoint Parks and Recreation Commission on March 12 for permission to pursue a development concept that would expand the museum footprint at Lakeview Park and to seek an early renewal of a long-standing lease.
The society’s board president, Tonya Sherman, told commissioners the museum’s building is full and the organization needs more collection storage and community space for research, lectures and programming. “We would like the consent to proceed with the development concept, potentially expand in the park area,” Sherman said, adding the society wants to begin stakeholder outreach and to engage an architect to prepare concepts.
The request matters because the society’s current lease — a 1979 agreement the presenters described as…
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