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Attended the de -briefing session at HLFI to discuss the evaluations from Restore Michiana and to strategize about next year's event and location [realizing, that it's not too early to begin planning for that event]. At this time, President Klusczinski recognized Secretary Zeiger who made a brief report on Restore Michiana. He reported that 150 people attended (an increase from last year) and with a concerted effort to identify underwriters, and closely consider raising our price, next year is already looking very promising. March 1, 2008 has been chosen as a tentative date to be held again at a historic school, possibly Marquette. Secretary Zeiger thanked everyone for the help and support and will be sure to include everyone on the planning and brainstorming for next year. April 10, 2007: Meeting with Amy Herdman to review the HPC website. Broken and misplaced links as well as obsolete information was meticulously identified and brought to the attention of John Carlson, St. Joseph County GIS Coordinator and IT Representative. I am delighted to report that preliminary corrections and deletions were remedied later that day. John also assured me that HPC submissions to the site would be posted in a timely manner. These especially include our 2007 public meeting schedule and newsletter publications. Currently an effort is underway to revise (and pretty) the entire County website. I intend to stay in close contact with Amy [Herdman], John and his associates to relay any future and noticeable progress. Email Exchanges: Recently, I've observed an improvement in the transfer electronic exchanges between my email client and the staffs county email addresses. However, it was conveyed to me that glitches still exist for information exchanged between the County and City servers.. As a fail-safe measure an alternate mail address (hpc1973@gmail.com) was created to assure open intra -departmental communications. 2. Landmarks Committee — Chair, Linda Riley No report. 3. Southhold Awards Breakfast — Director Hostetler Reservations are being received. At the time of the meeting, approximately 12 had come in. The keynote, Bill Latoza is confirmed and will be arriving in South Bend on Friday, May 41h for a tour of Marquette in advance of his talk. Marquette Principal and Director Hostetler have confirmed the time and details of the visit. IV. OLD BUSINESS V. NEW BUSINESS Assistant Director Herdman informed Commissioners that she'd been awarded an NEA tuition scholarship (valued at $525.00) to attend 2 NPI Workshops scheduled for May 7-9, 2007 in Greensboro, NC. The subject matter will be Cemetery Preservation and Cemetery Landscapes. AD Herdman requested that in lieu of attendance at Cornelius O'Brien, those funds be used for associated travel expenses for the NPI workshops. After a discussion about subject matter, the availability of programming using the skills/knowledge learned, Commissioners moved to approve up to $500.00 in travel/accommodations expenses. Moved: Zeiger Second: Sporleder Authorization of $500.00 for Approved: Unanimously. travel and expenses. VI. HEARING OF VISITORS Don Sporleder reviewed the festivities of National Architecture Week which was April 9, 2007. He also praised the 21S` Century College Town conference held at ND, particularly Alicia Burg's L�