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of the staff. There will be second legislative action needed by the Council to amend the Historic Preservation parts of the Municipal Code. That is set to go before the Area Plan Commission meeting in December 2017, and will come to this Council sometime in Januar2018. We have heard, from community as well as Councilmembers, that the Historic Preservation Commission needs to be more customer-service minded. We will work tirelessly to make sure that happens. Committeemember Oliver Davis asked, So the composition is two (2) from the Commissioners, two (2) from the Mayor, two (2) from our Council and two (2) from the County Council. Is there any reason we need to have the County involved in its composition seeing that it is coming under City control? Mr. Mueller replied, When the arrangement was flipped, the City had four (4) representatives on the Commission. We want to have continuity with the Commission so it can be grandfathered in as smoothly as possible. The ninth member is elected from within the Commission as their architect. We still have four (4) and the County will still have (4). In the Interlocal Agreement there is a piece that implores each appointed member to act in the best interest of the appointing body. Committeemember Paul Tipps asked, The jurisdiction is still the entire County, correct? Mr. Mueller replied, Yes, it will remain the way it currently is. Committeemember Will Smith asked, What brought about this budget change in the first place? Mr. Mueller replied, This had been under discussion for a number of years. The proportion of the work that was being done in the City as opposed to the County was unbalanced. When we got into that conversation, it became clear the vast majority of the resources were being spent in the City. Committeemember Tipps stated, I think this is a great move toward efficiency. Councilmember Dr. David Varner stated, If there is anything we've learned over the years it is finding the balance of City folks voting on County things and County folks voting on City things. That has always been a hang up. This Interlocal Agreement is great. If it is possible and the rules allowed it, I would suggest future recusal of voting for certain issues. Committeemember Oliver Davis stated,The concern I have is having an elected body vote on itself rather than having the body vote on their own members. I understand why we should have the County,but I think it should be coming from the County and the City and not have someone voted in by their own members. I think that should be different. I don't know if other boards or commissions do that. When it comes to City things, that shouldn't be the case because to my knowledge I can't think of any other City structure that does that and if you could enlighten me on that, I would appreciate it. So if we have enlightenment in that area, I'll back off. But if we don't have enlightenment in that area, I think there should be consistency with that. Mr. Mueller stated, Like I said,the preference to this transition was to keep as much continuity of the services,but we are happy to look into what it would mean to change things down the road. 2