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Historic Preservation Commission President's Report — March 19th, 2012 • 02/27/2012 7:OOP: HPC Monthly Meeting (Rm 1308). • 03/02/2012 9:3OA-3:3OP: . Coordinate an opportunity with Elicia for my daughter Kelly to satisfy her community service obligation (as set forth by St. John the Baptist Catholic School). Kelly re -copied approximately 500 -survey card documents from South Bend's St. Casimir district, and sorted them by street address. Kelly also began organizing the HPC periodical collection. I delivered a door bracket from Lynn Patrick's rehabbed screen door (that I repaired using "Minwax High Performance Wood Filler" and circulated during the last monthly meeting). It will continue to serve as a model when explaining the ease, durability and appearance of epoxy products (including Abatron). • 03/02/2012 3:00-5:00P: Kelly continued her service work with the HPC by reorganizing office supplies, periodicals and stockroom inventory. • 03/03/20122:45P -5:15P: Kelly finished more work in the stockroom and office supplies cabinet. 03/14,15,16/2012: There are many facets to preservation and countless ways to demonstrate its benefits in sustaining community assets. In addition to serving on the Historic Preservation Commission, I am also a founding board member of Chapin Park, Inc., a local community development corporation whose preference is to rehabilitate buildingsihouses using cost-effective rehabilitation methods over replacement. CPI's tagline is, "Preserving Buildings, Transforming South Bend Neighborhoods". This month, I was informed that the New York Times was interested in doing a story about community efforts to revitalize South Bend housing during this national economic crisis. The `Times was interested in exploring CPI and its current project at 612 Portage Avenue. Elicia Feasel and I were invited to participate in the story as current members of the CPI board and advocates for preservation. My position with respect to the project house has been technical. So I provided detailed information about window and floor rehabilitation methods/improvements that I developed for this CPI project. I took several opportunities to promote the HPC as well. I even made sure to tout the virtues of linseed oil conditioning. I found the "Time's" documentary process to be extensive and educational. CPI was interviewed by: Susan Saulny NY Times National Correspondent, Craig Duff — Multimedia Joumalist/Professor of Journalism Northwestern University and Sally Ryan — Chicago Photo Journalist for the NY Times/Wall Street Journal. CPI was informed that the article would appear in the next few weeks. Additional content including the video documentary will be available on NYTimes.com.