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No discussion. 2. Budget and Finance Mr. Holycross read a report concerning Division of Historic Preservation (DHPA) grant monies. He related that late last week he had received word from the DHPA that the HPC grant application for fiscal year 7-1-93 to 6-30-94 had been denied. This application was for monies to publish two educational pamphlets and to continue updating the HPC Survey computer database for city and county data. Having spoken with state officials, Mr. Holycross was told that the state had $60,000 to disperse amongst all the CLGs in the state and that the top priority projects were sites and structures surveys as half of the state was as yet unsurveyed. Five CLGs were provided funds to survey and the city of Elkhart had received $25,000 with which to renovate the Elco Theater --HPC projects as applied for did not rate high enough to compete with these. The HPC was currently completing the Resurvey of South Bend and the County was last surveyed in 1.985 --the determination was therefore made by staff that the HPC could not apply for grant money to survey. In addition, Mr. Holycross was told that "past performance" contributed to the denial: the South Bend Survey had taken . too long to complete and a National Register Nomination for West Washington was never completed in 1989 and 1990. In addition, moneys were "left over" during several grant periods --these monies went back to the federal government rather than being used for Indiana preservation projects. The HPC will receive Community Development Block Grant funds for the period ($13,650/year) as it now stands. The County commissioners continued the HPC staff budget for 1993 of $39,650 and are likely to approve the same for 1994. The staff will therefore have sufficient funds with which to do necessary work minus special grant projects. Mr. Holycross concluded by saying that, in his estimation, the lack of a state grant project for the period, which typically takes up at least half of the staffs time, would enable the pursuit of educational and organizational projects, and/or other HPC approved projects, and that a grant would again be applied for 1994-95. Ms. Brubaker asked how the funding for CLGs broke down. Mr.. Holycross replied that the other five CLGs each received funds with which to survey and do smaller projects; and Elkhart received the $25,000 for the theater project. He also stated that it would be some years before there was a local need for a survey; perhaps the commission would like to consider acquisition and development projects for the next period; a small project with Southhold, for instance; those are the types of projects that receive priority. Mr. Holycross then suggested that the commissioners begin 7