Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Meetings for both the broader survey and the African American survey. 1. Project Initiation: An initial planning meeting with City Staff, South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) staff, and the Consultant shall be conducted before work begins to discuss the scope of work, project deliverables, methodology and schedule. 2. Public: The consultant will lead at least four public meetings to discuss the project and collect information. The first meeting will be near the start of the project to introduce the project and receive public input and assist with understanding local history information and identifying properties for the updated survey. The second meeting will be near the end of the project to discuss findings and recommendations. These meetings can address both the broader survey component and African American survey component however, at least two additional meetings (timing to be determined) will be held specifically regarding the African American survey component. The City will help schedule these meetings. 3. Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project: The Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project is an initiative to document community-identified historic sites and resources and includes a peninsula representation in the cohort. Coordination with the Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project is expected, both for engagement and for information being surveyed/compiled. 4. Staff: The consultant will provide monthly progress reports to City staff and upon request as needed. Additional meetings may be required to address issues that may arise. B. Survey Requirements for both the broader survey and the African American survey shall include the following: 1. The Consultant will synthesize previous surveys, research, and other material to develop a historic context statement regarding the development patterns of the survey area and also include local history not previously discussed, particularly African American history. 2. The Consultant will develop a prioritization approach for properties to survey, which may include strategies based on age (oldest to newest), geographical area, phasing, specific time period, previous survey or rating status, or other. The prioritization approach must be approved by the City of Charleston before beginning fieldwork. 3. Once a prioritization approach is approved, the Consultant will conduct an intensive level survey of architecturally and historically significant buildings, structures, and districts that are at least 50 years old. The survey shall meet the Secretary of Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The Intensive Survey must follow the requirements and standards in the Survey Manual: South Carolina Statewide Survey of Historic Places (SCDAH, December 2018) and “Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning (National Register Bulletin 24)”. The Consultant will provide recommendations regarding properties and districts that may be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). 4. All survey data shall be collected from the public right-of-way. Consultants should not enter onto private property unless invited by the property owner. 5. Each building that is surveyed does not require a lengthy architectural description; those should be reserved for complex buildings and ones that are considered potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Instead, each architectural description within the SCDAH Survey Form will follow a prescriptive pattern to at least describe the dominant and pertinent characteristics of the building.
