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commission. Mr. Berndt is not here to speak on this matter. He has already started to build it without a C. of A. and it was red tagged. Joann Sporleder: I make a motion to table it until September, and when it is no longer red tagged we can figure out what to do next. MARY JANE CHASE: I will second the motion. GERALD UJDAK: All those in favor say aye. All those against say nay. Motion carries unanimously. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: 2002 -0815; 217 West Washington Street Tower Building; install a rooftop sign. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: This application is for the installation of a sign on the top of the Tower Building. While I received this application on August 16 I included it in agenda anyway; because, the officials from this bank had ongoing discussion with the commission for approximately a month regarding the sign. The application was mailed on August 2 "d . The application was apparently lost in the mail; because, we didn't receive it. The proposal is to put a 6' x 42' sign on the top of Tower Bank Building facing towards the river. The staff's overriding concern would be with the effect of the sign on architectural integrity, and structural integrity of the building given the wind load that it would catch off the river. Valley City Sign has delivered a letter from an engineer stating that they believe it would be safe to do this. Staff would recommend seeking the advice and opinion of our own architect. Staff has no recommendation regarding the historic accuracy of the sign on the top of the bank. We have been able to find nothing that indicates that there were such signs on the top of a 12 or 13 story building; but, neither have we been able to find anything to indicate that they were not there. So it is submitted without recommendation. GERALD UJDAK: So what you are saying is that you have not found any evidence that there ever was a similar sign on top of this building in the years past. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: That is correct. MELANIE GRAY: I am from Valley City Sign and we are the sign company for Fifth Third Bank. We were also the sign company for Old Kent Bank. Old Kent Bank did go through all the approval process and get the approval and then as we were going to go forward with producing the sign the Third Bank situation came in and they said they did not want to spend the money to put the Old Kent Bank sign up there temporarily. So we are now back looking for some more approval. Our problem is the lettering is white for Fifth Third Bank, so for us to put white letters up there during the day it would not be visible without some kind of background; plus that is their standard background for their sign. That is where we came up with a background with letters on it. The background is a very dark navy blue, we call it blue- O