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1. Director's Report KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: The I.U.S.B. class project has been completed. Professor Cunningham gave all of her thirty -two students that participated grades of A +. The students have resurveyed the houses along three blocks of LaSalle Street. The project regarding Mishawaka Avenue Facade, the application for tax credits has not proceeded much further since the last meeting. We did have a meeting with one business owner of the River Park Theater. We have sent letters to fourteen of the business owners along that street offering to assist them with applications for National Registry Status for tax credits. 2. Inspector's Report WAYNE DOOLITTLE: We managed to finish the German Township Survey and we have more than half of the Clay Township is now done. In Clay Township most of the homes that were listed on the original tour are still there. The Remedy Building is now up on wheels, so it should be moving down the street some time in the very near future. I also paid a visit to 117 last week and I talked to Gerry Kline about how the scraping of the wood is proceeding. They are scraping right down to the bare wood. Even on the wood shingles most of the paint has been removed. What I found out from Mr. Kline is that the work is not being done very efficiently; but there has been some progress made in getting the job done. They hope to have this done before winter. From what I could tell without going on the property the siding looks like it is in good condition. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: Now that we have an application on the property, it gives an open invitation for our inspector to actually go on the property. WAYNE DOOLITTLE: Now that we have the application on the property, I will go and take a closer look and take some close up pictures of the work that is being done. IV. OLD BUSINESS KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: ' Having been asked by neighborhood liaison members to follow up on the erosion control efforts in Leeper Park and along Leeper Island; I contacted Lawson Fisher Associates -the commission may remember that we gave Lawson Fisher Associates a Certificate of Appropriateness in February of 2001, and renewed it on May 23` 2002 for the erosion control work; which has not yet begun. Mr. Chris Jeeter, the engineer in charge for Lawson Fisher Associates told me that the reason for the stoppage was that only part of what they applied for was approved by the Department of Natural Resources. The Department of Natural Resources approved the work as regarding Leeper Island; but as regarding the other portions of the St. Joseph River Bank, they were of the opinion that the proposed plan relied too heavily upon riff - rack and concrete blocks, and too little upon some more flexible and therefore more durable erosion control methods consisting of natural vegetation. The matter was referred back to Lawson Fisher Associates and to the Army Core of Engineers. I spoke