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Right now the money is sitting in the county clerk's office, and I need to have it moved over to John Lentz's office so that it can be put into a fund specifically for HPC use. IV. OLD BUSINESS 1. US 31 Section 106 JULIE SCHUTTE: Catherine and I attended a meeting on November 5`h at Lakeville School. Wientrout and Associates, the historical consultants for MOT, Bernadette and Lockmuller and Associates, the engineer and design team for MOT, Walmark Archeology and Federal Highway, and a few other consulting parties attended the meeting. They discussed their new preferred route, which is the hybrid of G and EX. The maps I passed out to you earlier come in six sections from North to South. (Julie used the enclosed maps in the meeting packet to explain to commission members the direction in which the proposed route would travel). They have also discussed how they would put in access roads for emergency service vehicles. The only historical property eligible for the National Register that would be potentially impacted would be the Bunch Farm on Pierce Road. The way in which it would be impacted is that there is currently a two-lane road in front of the home and in order to turn the road into an access route for the highway they are planning on widening it. If they widen the travel lanes, it would still be a two-lane road; but they would also add a shoulder. If this were to be an adverse impact to the property then they would add a jog into Pierce Road so that they would not have to take any property from the farmhouse or right-of-way. If it were determined that this would not adversely impact the property then they would add a jog to the road and the state would probably save a great deal of money. INDOT determined that with this preferred route there would be fewer historic impacts, no section 4-F litigations. The total cost of the project is about $200,000,000.00 dollars for St. Joseph County alone. 2. Chapin Park Resolution CATHERINE HOSTETLER: The president of Chapin Park Neighborhood Association wrote both John Oxian and me, requesting that this issue be tabled until next month; pending the outcome of the meetings with Temple Beth El. 3. Preservation Plan Review CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Everyone has received their preservation plan and should be reviewing it so that we can collect them at the end of the year or early next year. JOHN OXIAN: I would like commission members to read through the Preservation Plan Booklet and let me know if they have any suggestions so that I can call a meeting and then I can take it down to the Common Council before the year is up and ask that the amendments be made so that when we put ours together for next year it will be ready.