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Director's Report September 2013 20 August Prepared approved COAs and mailed to homeowners. Reviewed Report created for HPC by Scott Scuff from the tax system. He will make some adjustments to sort by address. Reviewed the Demolition List sent by Code for locations in districts or landmarks. Most of the ones identified are in St. Casimir's National Register District. 21 August Received an inquiry from Javier Aguilar, Senior Project Manager with Great Lakes Capital Development. He is interested in being appointed to the HPC. He was on the Richmond, Indiana HPC. 22 August Attended Joseph Mathews funeral at Temple Beth -El. Spoke with Steve Anella former partner ofJoe Mathews of Mathews Prurucker and Anella. Joe was the architect on about 1200 structures in South Bend and worked on such buildings as the County -City, Century Center, the Kurt and Tessya Simon addition to Temple Beth -El. Joe also worked with Maurer and Maurer the successor firm to Freyermuth and Maurer. Prior to the service, I spoke with Theodore Foti, . retired Vice President of Memorial Hospital. He liked HPCs post card series and encouraged me to make sure the Hospital's gift shop had some. Maria Kaczmarek of Dismas House at 521 S. St. Joseph Street in Taylor's Field will be faxing a COA application for an in-kind roof replacement. Assured her that, in spite of what she was being told by CID, the project could be staff approved and would take about 10 minutes. Scott Senff is going to print off a copy of our report on his high speed printer so that die Office can verify the input. 23 August Staff joined Margaret Rupel Yoder of Huntingdon, PA for a tour of the Walkerton North Liberty area and the Rupel family history. Rupels were married into various local Arsberg, Germany "pioneer" families like the Walz; and also Ullery, Anderson and Bunch families—local prominent farming families south and north of South Bend. Gave Local Historic Districts of South Bend, Indiana bus tour between 4-6pm. 26 August Send Javier Aguilar's request for appointment to the HPC to the County -- - --- — -Commissioners-along with cover letter. Routine Office work and 106 Reviews. On site visit to Paul Hayden's renovation on w. Colfax. Followed up on a Building permit issued without COA for -- - - - soffit and other in kind work; building department clerk did not think it needed HPC approval even though the house number listed it as historic property. 27 August Signed off on 15 106 Reviews for demolition. Review additional 15 sent into Office. Gave Katrina of Code two that were occupied that wee scheduled for a special review. HPC Staff not aware of the special review; also points up the difficulties in have properties on the tax sale listing also scheduled for demolition. Buyers cannot renovate properties because of demolition orders because building permits can't be issued. Followed up with Kathryn Roos on Open Data South Bend which sated that HPC received $50,000.00 from the City in 2012 (!) Turned out to be a paper work overlap issue from 2011. 28 August Routine Office work. Spoke with Jeff Dierbeck on proposed work at 840 Park Avenue. Spoke with a representative from St. Hedgewigs Parish about repair to church step. Church is not listed, encouraged in-kind, professional work on this significant structure. Followed up on message from Betsy Harriman concerning Walker Field Shelter House in Rum Village that is on die National Register. Advised her of its status and the necessity for careful, professional work. John Oxian's landmark at 742 Sancome was the subject of a lenghy conversation with a neighbor who is concerned about the distressed state of the property -notably crumbling concrete steps and