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Director's Report March 2013 25 February HPC Meeting and Strategic Planning meeting afterward. Learned from Catherine Toppel that 1631 LWW , one of HPC's LL, was scheduled for demolition hearing on 28 February; she also alerted the Office of an VOP letter from John Oxian criticizing HPC and Code about this. Researched the problem and discovered that HPC was never notified and that there are omissions on the City's GIS of some designations. 26 February General Office work. Work on new tour plan. Contacted SB Tribune about omissions of HPC in the Restore Michiana article. Indiana Landmarks just sent out a link from their publication and only mentioned themselves. HPC Staff and Interns put the entire series together, wrote the copy and met with Paul Hayden to inform him of the workshop series specifics. Read the Vacant and Abandoned Housing Report. 27 February RME COA for in-kind replacement of Driveway at 528 River. New Director of Code, Shubhada Kambli, introduced at the Vacant and Abandoned Housing Meeting at Washington High School. Elicia arranged a meeting on Friday with Chris Chockley for a discussion of 745 Leland that he wants to invest in. 28 February Meeting with Rob DeCleene and Sue Solmos about the proposed tour. Legends of Notre Dame is the working title at the moment. They were both very excited and supportive of the concept of a tour that would show where coaches lived and the houses and buildings of "Notre Dame Brick". Chris Fielding, Assistant Executive Director of Community Investment met with me and the Staff and the Interns. Attempted to bring him up to speed on the scope of the Commission and the focus of the Office. He is all on board with deconstruction, salvage and preservation trades for the reconstruction and rehabbing of vacant homes. Turned in fees for February. 5:00 meeting with the Events Committee at the Conservatories for a Golden Anniversary celebration for the Ella Morris Conservatory on 27 April. 1 March Meeting with Chris Chockley in Office about the house on Leland. He is also a newly appointed member of the Park's IF, Very interested in up grading the park system and looking at supporting a bond issue for the needed work. Expressed an interest in Leeper Park and possible restoration of the rose garden with more species of roses. Gave him the info on the Garden of Fragrance plans and the new lift station. Met with Jerry Frye the new owner of 319 William, a local landmark. He researched the files and I gave him information on Abatron and Speed Heaters to paint removal. Karen Hann arrived at 4:00 for research and guidance on the LaSalle Hotel that she and a group of investors want to rehab into a multi use site with apartments, condos and bike store. 2 March ,John Oxian's opinion piece was published. Highly critical of Code and HPC. E-mailed Commissioners. 4 March Worked with Brian Haygood to get the two local Landmarks off of the demo list. Sent him updated copies of the City and County landmarks for Code's records.