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Advocacy and Partnerships Component
Goal: A robust network of preservation advocates support
preservation goals and objectives.
Policy 1: Strengthen partnerships for preservation.
• Action A: Provide a forum to clarify the roles of groups and
organizations that promote historic preservation.
• Action B: Establish a framework for collaboration among
community organizations.

• Action C: Improve coordination between the City and County
preservation programs.

Policy 2: Foster new partnerships in historic preservation.
• Action A: Explore new partnerships with organizations and
community members, and existing partnerships that can be
enhanced in order to distribute preservation tasks beyond
Brookings staff and the BHPC. This will help create a sense
of collective responsibility for the preservation program
throughout the community.
• Action B: Partner with organizations throughout Brookings
that are hosting events to which a preservation aspect can
be added. This will help reach new audiences while being
cognizant of the time and availability of Brookings Historic
Preservation Commission (BHPC) members’ time.

• Action C: Partner with tradespeople that can work on his-
toric buildings, such as tuckpointers and house painters, to
schedule a week or two in Brookings to work on a number
of buildings. Once determined, property owners could sign
up for a time slot ahead of time so the tradesperson knows
exactly how long he/she will be working in town. Consid-
er surveying property owners to determine what types of
tradespeople they would find to be of most value to deter-
mine what types of trades should be prioritized.

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