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• block grant funds to pay the DHPA Consultants. Mr. Oxian suggested that they have a meeting to discuss the carry over 'situation,, that being currently nothing carries over. Mr.Duvall noted that we have not asked for a nonreverting fund, we have asked to be made a separate entity (separate budget) as opposed to a line item. Mr. Oxian sent a letter requesting the reestablishment of the $10,000.00 matching grant fund with the county. Mrs. Sporleder moved to accept the report. Mr. Fine seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. C. Correspondence Mr. Duvall indicated that the office had received an emergency response tool. These tools cost about $6.00 a piece and he though it might be something worth acquiring . D. Committee Reports 1. Budget & Finance Was already covered in the Treasurer's report. 2. Historic Districts Mr. Duvall noted that Mrs. Choitz met with the East Wayne Liaison Committee last Wednesday night. They solicited changes in their guidelines, one was for the elimination of front yard fence and the second was for reorganizing the selection of the liaison committee. Mr. Duvall -stated that he had discussed protocol with Area Planning for having them initiate a new historic district for us. Currently an historic district can be initiated by a petition of the is owners, by the Area Plan Commission or by the Common Council. His sense from the Area Plan Commission was that they don't really want to expend the time and they felt that the owners of the proposed South St. Joseph District would not put together a petition. The protocol when the Area Plan Commission entertains a change of zoning is that they notify the neighborhood, then hold at least two neighborhood meetings. If there is positive support then they would initiate the rezoning. The Area Planning Commission feels that HPC should be the ones to make the step to notify the neighborhood. Mr. Duvall noted that the commission itself can not initiate the ordinance. Mr. Oxian observed that the commission had to convince the Common Council to introduce the ordinance. He then noted that the Commission and the City, have been saying for years that the South St. Joseph area should be saved. He also expressed the fear that if something wasn't done soon to protect this area that it would disappear and go commercial. He feels the only way to get the ball rolling will be to go through the Council. Mr. Oxian stated that this was a good opportunity to put together new tYPes of standards for the district. 3. Historic Landmarks Mr. Oxian noted that he was postponing 629 LaSalle Street, per the owners request. Mr. Oxian also stated that he wants to bring up the Natatorium for first reading for LandMark designation maybe by next month. 4. Standards & Maintenance Mr. Fine reported that the application made for 1325 East Wayne concerning the construction of a rear deck, which the commission had previously sent to . committee for evaluation, had been approved unanimously by the committee. Then he circulated a summarization of the meeting and the motion that denied 1615 East Wayne Streets application to replace existing steel case windows with new wood casement windows. Mr. Oxian noted that everyone needed to read the summarization, due to the fact that the applicant had reapplied and will be up for review again in next months meeting. Mr. Fine explained that the reason the committee made the final,