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D. STAFF REPORTS 1. Director's Reports: C. of A. Approvals; Correspondence KAREN HAMMOND-NASH: I mailed to commission members some correspondence regarding the street lights on Riverside Drive. There were questions raised because several of the new street lights had been taken down and dismantled in preparation for repainting, because of concern about whether the commission would approve of the color of the streetlights. Having checked with commission members, I found out that neither the staff nor any commission member knew of any demand to have these street lights taken down and sandblasted, because of complaints about their color. I then wrote the City Engineer's Office informing them that the commission had no complaint, and that we had not been apprised of any complaints. I also informed them that there were no complaints from the Neighborhood Association about the color of the street lights. I then went on to further inform them that the commission was very surprised that the City Engineer's Office would actually take down and dismantle these street lights and have them repainted based on the fact that they thought the commission would not approve of the current color of the street lights without first asking our office if this was in fact true. The street lights that were taken down and dismantled to be painted were new street lights just installed The contract requirement and the C. of A. specify that the luminaries be cast -metal -factory -finish in a dark green. Based on this fact, the City Engineer's Office had anticipated that the dark green would be a pine forest green and not the bottle green that was used on the street lights instead JOHN OXIAN: I not only received a call on this, but, when Daren asked me about this I specifically told her to write a letter because I don't want the commission or any of us to be accused of something as petty as taking down street tights because of their color. I noticed that they even took down the earlier street lights around the North Pumping Station by the Water Works and had them repainted I feel that we have more important things to do than worry about which green looks better on the street lights. I have set up a meeting with Gary Gilot, Public Works Director, for October 2, 2002, to discuss the following matters: 1. The painting of these new street lights on Riverside Drive. 2. How the people of the Riverbend area would like to have installed the same type of street lights that are presently in Leeper Park East. 3. The article in the South Bend Tribune which someone wrote about the two street lights on Robin Hood Lane. In reference to the newspaper about Robin Hood Lane, I would like to say that I did receive a phone call from I & M about these two street lights. The person in this article is accusing the commission of not working with I & M to repair these two street lights, even after the person claims the commission supposedly made these two street lights into landmarks. The person claimed that one of the street lights has not been working at all /U