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25 June Read national Register Nomination for Farm at St. Pat's Park. Arranged to tour both barns and settings with Sarah and Shelley of Parks along with Elicia and Michelle. The second level of the red barn was still filthy with bat guano and inhabited. Participated in Common Council Committee meetings. During the Public Works and Property Vacation Committee Valerie Schey commented that she has a neighborhood problem because she lives in an historic district and many neighbors want the vacant and deteriorating 1105 E. Wayne / 230 S. Eddy demolished. (The owner of record is still Arnett Echo and the taxes are current.) Kathy Cekanski-Farrand directed her to address her questions to me. I explained that a COA would need to be approved for demolition by the Commission and that over the years, deteriorated and neglected houses have been demolished in historic districts. I also spoke against a variance on Parry Street to allow for an auto repair business of be allowed behind a home within a block of 415 Parry, a landmarked home, at the Zoning and Annexation Committee. The Committee was amenable to the spot zoning for this repair shop apparently because the owner lived there over 30 years and his son wants the shop (if it didn't succeed, his mother may use it to make tamales and tacos) and the 2008 East Bank Village Plan has not been adopted by the Council. The issues was continued and a meeting on Friday, 29 June at 1:00 was scheduled to discuss this matter with all parties concerned. 26 June Finally completed the coordination with DTSB, HPC, Katherine Roos, and the Library for a meeting on Wednesday at 10:00 to discuss the Avon Theatre. Complied and turned in fee and revenue estimates for balance to 2012 and 2013 to the Auditor's Office. Reviewed article from Alliance: Historic Preservation Commissions and Local, Government Structure. Elicia would like to set up a meeting with Scott Ford with this article as a springboard to integrate the HPC in the boarder sphere of local government. Met with Catherine Topple about neighborhood raccoon problem in River Bend after turning in a dozen Code violations to Code with pictures and descriptions that Steve and intern, Phillip Dudeck compiled; also turned in two building code violations to Mark Lyons. Met with Pam Florey at 1336 E. Wayne S. concerning her dying tree that is too close to the house; brought her the Contractor's List and COA forms. Attended the Vacant and Abandoned Housing meeting at Kennedy School between 5:30 and 7:30. The emphasis was on Code enforcement and actually suggested follow up reports on completed work and productive uses for demo sites; Data -how it is used to feed Code; Land Banking and Resources/Support for Rehab and Reuse of Vacant and Abandoned Housing or sites. Need to improve acquisition process of vacant neighborhood properties; suggested involving local Churches and Neighborhood groups and once an area was rehabbed to get bus lines to it. 27 June Meeting with Debra Futa, Bruce Burnett, David Woodcox of the SJC Library; Tamara Nichols -Smith and Aaron Perri of DTSB; Katherine Roos of the Mayor's Office and Tim Klusczinski at the Library concerning saving the Avon Theatre facade that they Library would like to have demolished before Ciao's opens up in August with a seven year lease from the Library. Katherine discussed the economics of $4,000.00 per space for surface parking versus a pocket park for less money for the area behind the Avon faced. Tamara wanted to know the cost difference between mothballing and demolition; perhaps the City would look at possibly funding the difference. Aaron suggested using parking structures to which Debra said that employees are afraid of them and their amenities leave 2