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recommend this same firm to you to take a look at, to take a look at the windows but I recommend them very very highly. GE: I invite everyone to come to my house and I will give everyone a guided tour that will show everything. LP: I think that we're moving in that direction. GE: Yes, but I think that information about the windows in the dining room are on the table, and to say that its not clear ... I do not share that, I respectfully disagree. LP: I guess that you get to a certain point where the only way to know is just to go out and look at it. GE: Well, but you are specialists and you can read architectural drawings and they're on the. table, and all three options are there with 15 drawings and one is the original situation, one is the storm windows, and the replacement windows. I'd like to say something about the idea to repair single glass windows as they are now. It is feasibly, technically not possible because my windows are much bigger than Susan's windows. These are enormous windows, and it is not feasible to place a second glass on that frame as Wayne Doolittle said last time. It's not possible to repair, it's feasibly not possible. That is what I got from Wayne. There are only three options, well... four, do nothing. Either repair the windows as they are, keeping one glass, and then to have cold rooms in the house, or to put storm windows up so we have two glasses, but that would be against the historic record of the house. Technically, aesthetically, that is clear from the drawings, or to have those premier windows. And my proposal if you think that the information for the arched windows, then I ask that you vote on the proposal for the four dining room windows. With all the information necessary here on the table. CH: I have a letter here from the former home owner Amy Jones that I'd like to read. It's dated October 6, 2006 Dear Members of the St. Joseph County Historic Preservation Commission, I am writing as a former owner/custodian of the Anderson House — a local historic landmark home located at 710 Park Avenue. It has come to my attention that a Certificate of Appropriateness has been submitted for replacement ofseveral windows at the Anderson House. Igreatly appreciate the financial commitment involved in order to properly maintain such a historic home. Improving the energy effectiveness of an older home is certainly significant among the many concerns homeowners face. However, I think such concerns can be effectively addressed while balancing the historic integrity of the structure. An example of an unfortunate energy saving measure was evident on the Anderson House for many years. At some point in the 1970's the owner had sheet metal bolted to the arched tops of the windows squaring off the arch shape in order to make the window openings adaptable to standard rectangular metal storm windows. While the metal has since then been removed, it was most definitely a glimpse of what can happen to a beautiful and unique feature of a historic home for the sake of energy efficiency. Local Historic Landmark guidelines must certainly address such considerations as window replacement. It is my hope that your commission will help Dr. Enderle find options, which are both within the local landmark guidelines and effective means of making his home as energy eff cient as possible. My Regards to Your Efforts, Amy M. Jones, formerly of 710 Park Avenue, South Bend, Indiana. LP: Thank you. Do we have ... the chair at this point will allow for any additional evidence that anyone wishes to submit in this matter? Yes? GE: I would like to make a short comment on the session last time. Our colleague Joann (Joan Downs-Krostenko) read a well prepared statement, she was asked to do that, she did not know what the statement actually said or what it was. It was ordered or asked for by somebody else, so without knowing what that was, she made that statement. What is this? I think that this is overstepping the line of good citizen behavior. If ...and if there is, I mean organized by the staff or I don know who is organizing that, but I think that those statements should at least be truthful. LP: Thankyou. [Inaudible] Sure, in the interest offull disclosure, then I'd like to... JD: I think that you misunderstood what I said to you on the phone after that meeting. I was informed that there was an issue on the table, but I didn't have access to your C of A. So, I was told briefly what the issue was and did I have a concern? Which I did. So I prepared my C