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IV. OLD �BUSINESS 1. Chapin Park Resolution 2. Preservation Plan 3. Southhold Awards 2005 set committee meeting CATHERINE HOSTETLER: What we need to do is activate the Southhold Awards 2005 Committee. We do have the Palais Royal and we do have a date set for May 21, 2005. We just need to work on recipients of the southhold awards, getting a speaker, and setting the menu. This year we will be charging a nominal fee of $10.00 for the breakfast. V. NEW BUSINESS CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Joann Sporleder's term as the commission's historian is going to expire this month. A motion needs to be made to have her reappointed for another three-year term. MARY JANE CHASE: I will make a motion that Joann Sporleder be reappointed to serve another three years as the Historic Preservation Commission's architectural historian. LYNN PATRICK: Seconds the motion and it passes unanimously. Joann Sporleder abstains. John Livingston informs commission members that the Morris Civic Auditorium is in the planning and design stages for a new marquee for their building. VI. HEARING OF VISITORS Don Sporleder reported 'on the Regional Greenways Corridor Planning efforts and would invite the commission and perhaps the staff to participate in the next planning session for this regional greenways work shop that will be held January 25th at 2:00 pm. at the nature center at Bendix Woods County Park. As you recall this is an effort to work with the national parks service and the counties across the northern end of the state from Lake Porter, LaPorte, St. Joe, Elkhart, LaGrange, Marshall, and including our neighbors up north since that river corridor we have runs into Michigan as well, so Berrien and Cass counties will be involved also. The state of Michigan has just developed a Heritage River Trails Program and the first segment of this identified Heritage River Trails goes from Colon through Three Rivers. A fifty -mile segment has been set. This is an effort to identify those Heritage River Trails through that state and I would submit that we have right here some very effective heritage elements with our St. Joseph River and the connection with the LaSalle linkage across the section of the county over to Kankakee. I would again encourage and include the identification of our historic places, those natural resource elements, and the water trials would be an important part of it. 5