Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: <CAPzWV8ZsM8Y2YPUoc6vkzjrGq2RZ4yFSOmCC+WnDWDg4oJAXhg@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Help from the city From: West Allis Historical Society <wahs8405@gmail.com>
The city of West Allis provides our Society with an old 1888 Cream city
brick Schoolhouse where we house our museum. The city also maintains the
building, grounds, and pays the electric, gas, and water bills.
Devan Gracyalny, President, West Allis Historical Society
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mike Davis <mdavis@ci.middleton.wi.us>
wrote:
> *The City of Middleton provides a space rent free for our second museum in
> the Downtown at the Middleton Depot. The Board President (me) and
> Volunteer Coordinator are also City employees. *
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> *Mike Davis*
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> *Board President*
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> *From:* localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu [mailto:
> localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] *On Behalf Of *Mary & Mike
> Weynand
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:53 AM
> *To:* localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
> *Subject:* Re: Help from the city
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> Years ago, when I represented the Neosho/Rubicon Historical Society, I
> negotiated the purchase of the old village hall. The village board wanted
> to use a portion of the basement for the fire department. I convinced the
> village board that it would be uneconomical to have two electrical meters,
> due to the small amount of electrical usage, and to just run the electrical
> bill through the villages' meter. I also convinced them to keep the
> insurance on the building but to have our name on the insurance contract.
> (Both are more hidden support than by having special line items in the
> budget.)
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> On 8/26/2015 7:04 PM, Maureen Giese wrote:
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> Good luck! The Waterloo Area Historical Society in the past, received up
> to $3,000 then down to $1,500 and now zero the last three years.
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> Budgets are tight. So we "plug" along doing fundraisers, etc. to earn
> money to keep operating.
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> Maureen Giese, Waterloo Area Historical Society
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Westby Area Historical Society <
> westbywihistory@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am wondering if any of your organizations receive help from the city
> where you are located and if so, what kind of help or how many dollars. I
> will be attending our city council meeting to ask for some assistance and
> would like to have information on what other Wisconsin towns and cities do
> to support their local historical societies. Bringing facts to this meeting
> would give me some ammunition!
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> Thanks everyone!
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> Kathy
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> Secretary, Westby Area Historical Society
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