diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/servlet/setup/WebappDaoSetup.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/servlet/setup/WebappDaoSetup.java
index cb87bed44..5e30a3870 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/servlet/setup/WebappDaoSetup.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/servlet/setup/WebappDaoSetup.java
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ public class WebappDaoSetup extends JenaDataSourceSetupBase
                     new ModelSynchronizer(applicationMetadataModelDB));
             
             if (applicationMetadataModel.size()== 0 /* isFirstStartup() */) {
+                JenaDataSourceSetupBase.thisIsFirstStartup();
                 applicationMetadataModel.add(
                         InitialJenaModelUtils.loadInitialModel(
                                 ctx, getDefaultNamespace(ctx)));
-                
             }
             
             baseOms.setApplicationMetadataModel(applicationMetadataModel);