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the things that they do and it's for the safety of the homeowner that it's done. The only thing that connects the contractor to the job is the building permit. Every single contractor is required to register and required to have a $5,000.00 dollar bond. The $5,000.00 bond is there in case you don't meet the requirements of city code and they require them to redo the work. Either they get the bond back or the contractor will have to do the work over. This is something a lot of homeowners don't know. Most of the contractors know they have to do it; but, they would rather skip the $20.00 dollars or so that it cost and the hassle to do it. JOHN OXIAN: First of all, they automatically violated by putting these in without coming for a C of A and that completely turns me off. For thirty-two years it's been turning me off and it isn't going to change my opinion yet. You violate the law when you don't get a C of A. It's like running a traffic light, you violate the law. The other thing is if they repaired one why would you go ahead and replace the other ones when you only have to replace or repair one other one when you have already found another one you can replace it with. If there was something that you couldn't replace because it does not exist anymore then I could understand that; but, when you've already replaced one why would you remove them all? That to me makes no sense whatsoever. You're in a district now and you abide by the rules and regulations; just like I told the people earlier. I don't care who you are, or where you are, or whether you've read the standards or not; that's inexcusable. You have received preliminary standards and if you didn't read those then it's your fault because it's a district now and you still have to abide. You have two choices. Whenever we made a district if we didn't have standards we follow the guidelines. If there were preliminary standards we follow them until the permanent ones come. I can't approve this and I cannot see going ahead and setting bad precedent. JOANN SPORLEDER: Ok, I am going to weigh into something that I had said that I wasn't going to do. We're going to get into the time line. The preservation commission accepted from the time line for when this became a district. Unfortunately, I guess, I don't keep such good records; because I don't really know exactly when this became a district nor do I know and have in my records when the standards were finally approved by a vote of the committee and the commission and when the neighborhood was given those standards and given a notice that they were in fact now a district and this is the procedure that now must be followed. I would like to know exactly when the neighborhood was informed. All of the people, even those who were not necessarily participating in the endlessly, apparently, endless discussions about becoming a district and the endless revisions, and revisions, and revisions of the standards; which I notice we still have on our agenda today for further review of the standards. CATHERINE HOSTETLER: No, you're not reviewing the standards. You're just receiving a status report on the printing of the standards. JOANN SPORLEDER: Well, whatever it is, I don't have any documentation and perhaps other commission members do have documentation and I am just totally negligent about having lost something that I shouldn't have. I don't know that the district has been informed about being a district and what the time line is for that and when what goes into effect. I am sorry to have brought that up because I think it's going to be point of great difficulty; but, I think it's important that we cannot hold people to standards if Cel