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this through Huntington people and through the people at Whitley county where Mr. Fine acts as staff through Historic Landmarks Foundation. Ms. Choitz noted that the money they raised would be put into this fund to buy things for the office. Mr. Talley stated that he and Mr. Oxian and Mr. Wiener had been working for the past two years on reorganizing commission financing. The county auditor now has officially directed the commissioners to put the Executive Committee of Historic Preservation Commission on a five year budget plan. We are one to two weeks away, both the city and county side, from "The Meeting", stated Mr. Talley. He went on to say that the phone call last Friday, regarding funding - for the commission budget asking for the wish list for the city controller to look at, was to see if we get half, seventy-five percent or all of what we asked for. Ms. Choitz said that she was told to ask for a non -reverting line item by the people who told her about the funding in Elkhart. Mr. Talley agreed but said that we are a line item by the county commissioners which is where the problem comes in. Ms. Choitz agreed that we are in the wrong category to begin with. Mr. Talley went on to say that the commission, for the past two years, has attempted to fund the commission like the building department, i.e., $25,000 from the city and $25,000 from the county with the establishment of nonreverting funds. Mr. Oxian stated that with two new commissioners, and with what has happened in the last months, has now convinced Mr. Nagy, and which is why he sent that letter to the county commissioners, that it is not proper for us to be a line item for the county and that we should be a separate entity. For all these years we could not get them to pull us out of the line item. Now, at last, • the point has finally gotten across. Mr. Oxian asked Mr. Duvall to speak with Mr. Nagy, the auditor, about what he has heard and what the other Preservation Commissions are doing regarding non -reverting funds, and to see if it would be possible for this commission to do something like that. The answer here will help us later with the original question of what to do with monies we might receive from items sold from the office. V. Old Business A. 1202 Lincolnway East Mr. Oxian stated that this would continue on as old business but we should be hearing something in the next month or two on this. Mr. Talley reported on the River Bend Pinhook park becoming a "catch and release" area rather than fly fishing which was discussed with the Chamber of Commerce. This would be in lieu of Leeper Park due to parking problems there. The Chamber of Commerce plans to work with Mr. Duvall on this in the near future. VI. New Business None VII. Hearing of Visitors None VIII. Announcements & Miscellaneous Matters None IX. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 8:.50 p.m. • MKV 3/21/97 Revised 4/29/97 MKV