Board

Historical Preservation Commission

Agendas, Minutes, Packets, and Handouts Public Meetings Calendar

The goal of the Historical Preservation Commission is to Promote and Maintain Cultural Heritage and Historic Integrity within the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and to cultivate Economic Benefits through Historic Preservation.

To do this we protect significant historic and prehistoric resources, material remains, writing and oral histories within the Borough for the benefit of those in the present and future.

Our Four Objectives:

Identification of Cultural Resources
Evaluation of Cultural Resources
Registration of Cultural Resources
Protection of Cultural Resources

Meeting Information:

The Commission meets in various locations throughout the Borough, as well as virtually via Microsoft Teams. Meetings are advertised on this website, the MSB Clerk’s Office website, in the Frontiersman newspaper, and are open to the public.

2025 Regular Meetings will be from 6:00pm-8:00pm on the following dates:

February 6, 2025
April 24, 2025

Please check the Public Meetings schedule for specific meeting information.

***There is presently ONE VACANCY on the Historical Preservation Commission. If you are interested in serving on this Commission you can find out more information here and download an application .

Certified Local Government (CLG) History

C.L.G. History Certified Local Government Annual Reports

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Historical Preservation Commission was established by an Ordinance of the Assembly in April 1982. The MSB became a certified local government (CLG) in September of 1987, and is certified to carry out the purposes of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. We are pleased that the Mat-Su Borough was the first CLG in the great state of Alaska!

Resources

New Alaska statewide preservation plan. Saving our Past: Planning for Our Future - Alaska's State Historic Preservation Plan, 2018-2023
Heritage Newsletter . Monthly news update from the Office of History and Archaeology, State of Alaska, Dept. of Natural Resources.
About the National Register of Historic Places . Background from the Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology.