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11 October Received the Code report for 609 Riverside Drive for a serious buyer. Reconciled Accounts payable for paying obligations in October. Seventeen 106 Reveiws for demolition. 14 October Columbus Day. Office Closed. 15 October Code issues at 417 W. Navarre with rotting wood, missing window and improper railing in rear -all need permits or COA approval. Contact person for 417 is Casey at Hashberger Mortgage 574 215 9935; she claims that HUD requires replacement over repair. There also may be some lead paint issues. Follow up a -mail with Valerie Schey on roofing issues at 1314 E. Wayne No. Met with Paul Fields about adding his project at 828 Park to Agenda -Code mandate that all work be completed by year end. He will come in tomorrow with all information. Met with Mark Tamer about the St. Joseph County postcards. He said that South Bend Chocolate will do anything to help out! 16 October Steve and I met with Paul Fields and began working on the Staff Report for 828 Park which was emailed to Commissioners and Staff in the afternoon along with Paul's documentation. Conversations with Kim Bowman and Chris Chockley concerning the intentions of Housing Directions LLC aka Englewood Development Co. from Indianapolis to put 44 units of low income housing in the old Ford Distributing Co site on Portage and California. There are serious concerns about additional low income housing along Portage and close to Leland, that has more and more rentals. It seems counter intuitive to NNN's work for market based housing in the NNN. 17 October Routine Office work and - signed off on 20 106 Reviews for demolition. Jeff Johnson Oiohnson@colienesrev.com. 816 651 7726) from Cohen -Esrey called about the JMS Building being adaptively re -purposed as apartments. Wanted a contact for tax credits -a third party consultant, gave him Kurt W. Garner, Greg Kil and Todd Zeiger. Spoke with Betty Gilmore about possible re -uses for 715 E. Wayne Building belonging to Zion United Church. Recommended that she speak with Indiana Landmarks- Todd Zeiger, South Bend Heritage- Marco Mariani, CID- Chris Fielding and Rob Staley of The Crossings. Examined file on JMS Building in light of JeffJohnson's call. The windows are not original. 18 October Reviewed Demo 106s that were questioned. Steve and I went out and looked at some of these and turned in 3 more for demo, 4 that were still questionable -one even occupied -and several could be candidates for deconstruction. Finished paper work for 12 106 Reviews. Routine Office work Received e-mail confirmation that Marquette School and West LaSalle District was placed on the National Register September 16, 2013. Alerted Commissioners of the good news.