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Review The Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend & St. Joseph County has handled the following . items of business during the past thirty days: . Mailed Request For Proposals (RFP) concerning 1998 DHPA Grant Completed and presented the 1999 DHPA Grant Application to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) (The Narrative was completed by Adrian Fine) Attended the Crown Point Seminar Attended the Cornelius O'Brien Conference along with Commission President John Oxian (Held in New Harmony and Evansville, Indiana) Represented this Commission at the Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board (There were 15 applications made to the State and National Register; all applications were approved) Attended the Huggart Ceremony of Potato State Park Organized an archeology dig (probing) for Leeper Park East (Within the boundaries of the North Pump Station Project. The dig will be conducted by the Archeology Department of the Indiana University Campus at South Bend and will be executed over the weekend of October 23 to 26) Handled the Leeper Bridge traffic accident incident (The Commission made the news regarding this story on television stations 16 & 22 and a front page story in the South Bend Tribune) Three-quarters of the Commission office has been re -organized by way of the, furniture. (Several items were deemed to be obsolete by the St. Joseph County Commissioners and removed from the office space. For the first time in twenty-five years the Director and Administrative Assistant have a computer on their desk, replacing the typewriter. Both computers are also connected to a laser printer. Painting of the window ledges has been approved by the County Commissioners, which will match their office decor. One office computer holding all form letters, etc. had its hard -drive crash. The Computer Department for St. Joseph County was only able to save a few items. There was and is no back-up copies for any of the lost files. The Director's telephone was replaced and covered under warranty, due to failure of the device.) Request for a Ledger Printout of the Commission's accounts was submitted to the St. Joseph County Auditor's office. (You are presented a copy)