# Presentation: 290358

## Charting A Future CourseIssue Area Report Preserve America SummitOctober 20, 2006

## Panel Ideas For Consideration

- Identifying Resources
- Enhancing Stewardship
- Sustaining Communities
- Educating Citizens
- Providing Leadership

## Identifying Resources

## A National Inventory

- Integrate current inventories
- Disaster preparedness tool
- Digitize and organize current     information by 2016

## The National Register

- Encourage diversity
- Recognize the intangible
- Be more flexible and user-friendly

## Enhancing Stewardship

## Innovation and Effectiveness

- Promote innovative technologies
- Create a national clearinghouse for information exchange
- Establish priorities and performance measures

## Inclusiveness

- Look for models for involving all cultures in preservation
- Integrate preservation into activities

## Cultural Collections

- Make conservation essential to cultural institution missions
- Educate about the importance of funding for conservation

## Security

- Keep public historic properties open to the public
- Hold design of security interventions to a high standard

## Security

- Reflect security issues in national building codes
- Develop risk assessment methodology
- Develop new guidance and training

## Responding to Disasters

- Better integrate preservation into emergency management and mitigation
- Shape local and statewide preparedness plans
- Establish a Web-based network

## Sustaining Communities

## Costs and Benefits

- Quantify costs and benefits of historic preservation
- Devise uniform ways to measure economic impacts

## Sustainability

- Promote mutual understanding internationally
- Expand and sustain the “creative economy”
- Positive & negative effects of listing on the National Register

## Federal Preservation  Tax Credit

- Increase awareness and streamline administration
- Remove regulatory and legislative barriers

## Federal Funding Programs

- Resolve impediments to funding rehabilitation
- Tie preservation, Federal funding, & development plans

## Technical Assistance

- Create *Preserve America* Community Agents
- Develop an integrated Federal Web site on historic resources as economic assets

## Educating Citizens

## Communicate the Importance

- Enhance citizenship through history and preservation
- Communicate the value of heritage resources
- Market the benefits of investing in heritage resources

## Teaching and Training

- Use historic resources as teaching tools
- Include heritage education in school standards and curricula

## Teaching and Training 

- Support partnerships between historians, preservationists, and teachers
- Ensure a professionally trained work force

## Broaden Outreach

- Expand the history and preservation community
- Create a U.S. clearinghouse and other opportunities for outreach on international preservation

## Providing Leadership

## Federal Program Structure

- Evaluate improving the Federal  preservation program structure
- Raise the profile of heritage resources
- Create a Presidential Commission of corporate leaders

## Policy

- Fully implement the existing provisions of the NHPA
- Improve how laws and regulations address preservation & disasters
- Reinvigorate participation in international preservation

## Funding

- Ensure national program funding is sustainable and sufficient
- Create new financial vehicles and incentives
- Support disaster stabilization efforts & continuity of operations

## Partnerships

- Enhance Federal/Indian Tribe/ Native Hawaiian partnerships
- Encourage collaboration among state and local cultural institutions
- Foster public-private partnerships, particularly with local governments

## Where Do We Go   From Here?

## Immediate Next Steps

- Preliminary reports are available for public review and comment
- Reports revised by panels

## Immediate Next Steps

- Final reports made available for public review and comment in  November
- Summit results, reports, and public views presented to the ACHP at February 2007 quarterly meeting

## 2016

- A major anniversary for the NHPA
- A goal to strive toward
- A milestone by which to judge progress