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JOHN OXIAN: The Woolman House, located at 409 Lincoln Way West, will be coming up on the agenda next month. This is a brick house that has been boarded up. It is a house where very little has been done to change the exterior of the house. It is one of the brick houses in that area which is quite unique. Being on the Lincoln Way West Steering Committee, and also being Chairman of the Land Use Committee, and working with Jeff Gibney, as the chairman, we felt that this is a house that should be declared a landmark, so that it can be preserved and not torn down. Right now this property is in the hands of an absentee landlord who is not too keen on preserving things. The other reason I am doing this is because last time he did the same thing to a house on Harrison Street. When I made the house on Harrison Street into a landmark, we saved not only the cement block house, which is unique; but, also another house in which the landlord bailed out and ended up giving the house to South Bend Heritage. III. A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES (July) KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: Regarding the approval of the minutes, as the commission is aware the July minutes were extremely lengthy and complex and they are still in the process of "tieing completed, and hopefully will be available for approval next month. B. LEGAL REPORT JOHN LIVINGSTON: Informed the commission that he should have an answer soon about the Madison School Project. JOHN OXIAN: Asked if there had been anything new done about the window situation with Madison School. JOHN LIVINGSTON: Stated that he did not know what else they were going to be able to do about this situation. TOHN OXIAN: Stated that he would like a letter to be sent to the South Bend School Corporation stating that when they removed those windows they were in direct violation of the C. of A. That the commission knows what happened with the windows and they do not appreciate it. JOHN LIVINGSTON: Informed the commission on what new updates he had regarding the case pending against former director, Ed Talley. There was discussion regarding the pending claims against Ed Talley. Commission members discussed what is currently being done and what possible other avenues might be avaiable. C. TREASURER'S REPORT: 2004 BUDGET PROPOSAL KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: The material for the 2004 budget proposal I put on the July meeting agenda and it was not covered in the July meeting which is why I put it back on the agenda. The only additional data is that the County Council and the County Commissioners have a hearing on August 26, at 5:30, regarding budget approvals. We have not received back �1