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WAYNE DOOLITTLE: I would like to give you my time line of what happened. Every year as you know I walk through every district. I take photographs of things that seem to be in need of repair and I make a report on it. I did this on July 10th and July 11th. I have been doing this for four years. I do it the same way with people all the time. When I take pictures of peoples' homes, I really hope that we can get together and talk about why I am taking pictures. I have had many people ask me why I am taking it and I tell them why. We're doing it as a record to see if that district is going up or if it is going down. I was also given some opportunity to write letters to people and to tell them about problems they might not even know they have: At this particular time, John came out and we talked about it. I noticed that they had the new Scamozzi at one end; which I thought looked rather striking, and I mentioned that. We were talking about the one that had been broke. That one he said we are going to get repaired, that was July 11th: I give everyone my card and say if we can be of any assistance to you please give us a call; we can often times find things for you because we deal with a lot of different people. That's the way I left it. So, I was under the understanding that one was going to be repaired. I would certainly have been happy to talk with them at any time about the problems that they had. So as far as I was concerned this was a problem thatwas going to be solved. I told the other staff the same thing when I printed the photographs and how pleased they were to be able to go ahead and get it fixed. They said that one had been repaired and it was put in. When I am taking photographs, everybody knows we're in the district and that's why I am taking those photographs. I don't think there should be any mistake why I am doing what I am doing. I am happy to talk to everybody because it gives me an opportunity to try to come to some resolution and to try and help people come to a good conclusion. MARY JANE CHASE: Were they going to change all of them to Doric? CATHERINE HOSTETLER: They did. MARY JANE CHASE: ' I thought you said there was a Scamozzi left: WAYNE DOOLITTLE: There was a new one, and the one in the middle was all ready there, and the one on the South side of the house was broken in half. Then there are two other half Scamozzis that were on half pillars embedded to the house. They were fine and the one in the center was fine. What really needed to be done, they had so many coats of paint on them that you needed to take some paint off in order to get a better look. I found at least three companies that manufacture Scamozzis and they ranged from; well I found more than that; but, the more reasonable ones were like $265.00 to $365.00 dollars. There were some that were a $1,000.00 dollars and I immediately discounted those. Many of them come in halves so you're able to rise them up and hook them in otherwise you would have a big problem because of the shaping of the Scamozzi. MARY JANE CHASE: I was confused if you had said they had Scamozzis and changed to Doric. WAYNE DOOLITTLE: Yes: MARY JANE CHASE: That wasn't at all in the original C of A to do anything? CATHERINE HOSTETLER: There wasn't an original C of A, it was after the fact. WAYNE DOOLITTLE: They also had a great deal of work that was'done without a building permit which is required by the city. Over at least $2,000.00 dollars worth of work done again on the original before we came to the district may really have an impact on this; but, every contractor should know that it does require a building permit for any of 5