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Maintenance Committee and that the committee should meet with the contractor to resolve the details of concern. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Choitz. The motion was approved unanimouslv. IV. Regular Business A. Approval of Minutes - July 18, 1994 Commissioner Petrass moved that the minutes from the July meeting be approved as written. Commissioner Choitz seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously. B. Treasurer's Report There was no report from the Treasurer. C. Correspondence Mr. Duvall Made the Commission aware of the following items of interest which have been received: 1. New Brochure from the National Park Service - "My Property is important to the Nations Heritage - What does that mean ?" 2. Solicitation for "Main- Street Awards" from the Indiana Dept. of Commerce. Nominations are due by Sept. 1. 3. Notice of "Indiana Main Street Conference" September. 21, 22, & 23 in Elkhart. 4. Notice of DNR -Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology winter internships. 5. Notice of Affordable Housing Forum, Friday August19 sponsored by the South Bend & St. Joseph Co. Housing Consortium. 6. Notice of Southhold's new Office location 516 South Street. D. Committee Reports 1. Budget & Finance No report. 2. Legal Mrs. Derose reported of the City of South Bend Common Council's hearing of Mr.. Dennis Laskowski's appeal of those aspects of his application for COA (1994-06-23-2) which were denied by the commission. She indicated that in her opinion the Council's decision was incorrect but that it is not in the best interest of the commission to pursue appeal. From this occasion she has concluded that the commission needs to be more careful in the wording of motions for denial to include in such motions the reason(s) for the denial in the record. She further stated that the situation which caused this appeal were somewhat unique, having to do with the delay in establishing the design guidelines after the designation of the River Bend LHD and specifically being based in the letter of Fred Holycross (former Director of the HPC) which sought to persuade the property owner to apply for a COA rather than requiring that he do so. John Oxian observed that he, Commissioner Hostetler, and Mr. Duvall spoke at the meeting of the Common Council and that the hearing of the appeal took approximately two hour. Commissioner Choitz inquired as to whether the same standard of presenting reasons should be applied to the assigning of applications to committee. Mrs. DeRose responded in the affirmative.