Meeting Schedule:
The Historical Commission meets the third Monday of February, May, August, and November, at the Louis Latzer Memorial Public Library. The meetings begin at 6:30 PM and are open to the public.
List of Historical Commission 2024 Meeting Dates
Master List of 2024 City of Highland Meeting Dates
Purpose:
The Historical Commission is a five-member advisory board established in 2019 to help promote the educational, cultural, economic, and general welfare of the City through identifying, preserving, protecting, enhancing, and encouraging the continued utilization and rehabilitation of such areas, properties, structures, sites, and objects having a special historical, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value to it. The Historical Commission may be called upon to provide guidance to the City in making decisions regarding areas, properties, structures, sites, and objects having a special historical, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value to the City. The Commission has no power over the City of any owner of real or personal property, regardless of any such property having any special historical, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest of value to the City.
Historical Commission Members:
(3 Year Terms)
| Name | Position | Term Expires | Phone | |
| Jacob Rose | Chairman | October 31, 2025 | jwrose411@gmail.com | 618-604-5099 |
| Jeffrey Menz | Secretary | October 31, 2025 | jeffrey.menz@yahoo.com | 618-910-4068 |
| Joseph Garson | October 31, 2024 | joegarson22@gmail.com | 618-882-8075 | |
| Sarah Finley | October 31, 2024 | sarahfinley1978@yahoo.com | 618-978-7537 | |
| Sara Knobloch | October 31, 2026 | sara.knobloch@tcusd2.org | 618-334-8927 |
Contact:
Lana Hediger
Phone: 618-654-9892 x1481
Email: lhediger@highlandil.gov
