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HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br />PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT <br />September 16, 2013 <br />Hello Commission! <br />First of all, yet another great workshop this past Wednesday with ten people <br />attending the "Historic Paint Lecture and Q & A" hosted by Paul Hayden. Thanks to <br />Bruno's Downtown for supplying us with chairs at no charge. Those of you who missed <br />it I was on Experience Michiana September 5th to promote the last two workshops. The <br />wood floor workshop has 12 signed up for the lecture and 9 for the hands-on portion. I <br />was curious if any of the commission members had any input on topic/subject matter for <br />next year's series? I know that I will be doing tuck pointing as a hands on with Russ from <br />Slatile. Windows as a subject is a given, but what else would you like to see? <br />Next, not to be negative, but even more demolitions have come through the 106 <br />review process. It breaks my heart to recommend that any house comes down, but to <br />loose all the embodied energy, craft, and material is almost sickening. Jackson Services <br />whom has been awarded many of these bids has been kind enough to allow me access to <br />some of the properties. I am in need of some flooring to do patchwork at the hands on <br />workshop in October and should be able to get what I need from them. I hate to seem <br />like a vulture looking for the scraps after a kill, but can't we start some sort of dialogue <br />with the city to allow some salvage for specific projects? Even if the homeowners that <br />need the material pay the equivalent of the labor to remove it. Is this not a better course <br />than culturally and environmentally irresponsibility? ( I'll get off my box now) If there is <br />anything that someone needs please let me know ASAP as I expect a call any time from <br />Jackson. <br />Three houses turned in without building permits, ten additional structures into <br />code enforcement, and four more boarded up.. <br />Lastly, I have begun the Minimum Maintenance Surveys on Local Historic <br />Districts. I am currently about one-third of the way through Lincoln Way East. There are <br />some beautiful homes along this area, as well as those that need attention. I am hoping to <br />get through this quickly to give home owners enough time before the snow falls to attend <br />to repairs. <br />Steve Szaday <br />Preservation Specialist <br />