VAIL PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Student Preservation Hands on Learning-1915 Section Foreman House
High School Construction Technology students learn construction and preservation trades by doing at the 1915 Railroad Section Foreman House relocated to the Esmond Station K8 school. The building was scheduled for demolition when it was purchased by VPS and relocated. The building will provide functional space for the Esmond Station K8, be the HUB for the Heritage Garden program and host rotating student curated exhibits when the rehab work is complete in 2017.
Vail’s Past and Present Shaping Our Future
Student Oral History Project
1908 Vail Store & Post Office
Vail Public Art - Vail at the Crossroads
Building a sense of place through public art created through a process that facilitates community and youth/student engagement working with local artists.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to connect community through local history in ways that engage residents of all ages, that provide education and skill building opportunities. Our projects must fill a need in the community and encourage vibrant community engagement and lay the groundwork for local economic drivers.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We listen, identify needs, assess our ability to make a difference and bring the needed partners together to effectively move a project or program forward.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We facilitate cooperative actions within our community. Sometimes that involves helping another organization work to get grant funding that will be one piece of a project puzzle. We are serious about the business of connecting our community through local history and bringing together the partners to do that. At the foundation of every vibrant community are the experiences, stories and shared history that bind us together.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Vail Preservation Society has accomplished:
1. bringing the 1915 Railroad Section Foreman House to Esmond Station K8 school
2. engaging Cienega H.S. Construction Tech students in the rehabilitation of the 1915 Section Foreman House
3. engaging Vail students in recording and telling their community stories
4. public art for Vail-building upon three years of community work students from six schools are working with local artists to create public art for Colossal Cave Road, Vail's main thoroughfare.
5. making Vail a certified Arizona Main Street community with our Vail Connects program.
6. establishing public events that build a sense of civic identity
7. public private partnerships with the Vail Unified School District and Pima County
8. stabilizing the 1908 Vail Store & Post Office and placing it on the National Register
9. Recording over 80 oral histories
10. Filming and photographing Vail families and special places has started-the Voices of Vail
Not yet accomplished:
1. Purchasing the 1908 Vail Store & Post Office and surrounding property
2. Rehabbing the 1908 Vail Store & Post Office so that it can be a welcome center and store for Vail high school students in special needs School to Work programs
3. facilitating the development of a true town center-a heart for Vail
4. Completion of the Voices of Vail
5. A public space for Vail Preservation Society that effectively connects our community
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VAIL PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Board of directorsas of 10/05/2016
James Egbert
James P. Egbert Law Office
Term: 2015 - 2016
Max Allen
USAF, Col., Retired
Davita Mueller
Sun Tran
Calvin Baker
Vail Unified School District
Sandy Knowlden
Military Sales and Service
Mike Pena
Lucas Electric
David Yubeta
National Park Service
Al Flores
Vail Unified School District
Carla Martin
Paul O'Bert
Prudential Overall Supply
Board leadership practices
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Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes