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Director's Report August 2014 21 July Vacation Day 22 July General Office work; Local Historic Districts Tour for Holy Cross Village for 18 people; Complied data for Invoice to City for annual stipend. Fielded phone call from concerned neighbors about state of 107 West North Shore; followed up with e-mail to owner's family. 23 July Completed City Invoice for first half of 2014 and e- mailed to Pam Meyer, Mark Neal and Teresa Shuter, SJC Auditor. Completed 1 106 Review. Follow up with Marcia Qualls and Paul South of South Bend Streets about replacing the downed Park View lamp post at Park Avenue. Brought over the globe to Marcia and long with copy of lighting agreement between the City and ARP and the guideline from the Chapin Park book. Dropped off information to Don Sappington at 902 Riverside Drive. 24 July Continued research and article on South Bend's architectural history for Jennifer Parker. Sent Don Sappington our Contractor Listing. 25 July Completed draft of S.B. architectural history and e- mailed to Jennifer Parker at Notre Dame's Architecture Library. Elicia and I met with Mark Cantanzarite, Marsha and Mark about the HPC's 2015 Budget. When we returned to the Office we then learned that it was a complete waste of time and that all county departments were to resubmit their adopted 2014 Budget by 3% and then using that new total reduce the 2015 budgets by 5% by Friday 1 August. No exceptions. This is mandatory. 28 July -1 August: Theoretical Vacation Week. Spent Monday Evening at a 6:00 meeting at the SJCPL on the South Hub and Western Ave. Presentation by IU Students and Faculty. Spoke at the Code hearing for Ambassadors for Christ Church on Tuesday at 1;30. Worked on the budget and completed that work by Wednesday afternoon. Friday gave Then & Now tour at 6:00. 4 August Participated in a 2 hour presentation about Smart Streets with all of the Stakeholders. Met with Michael Wallwork, the round about expert, about die configuration of the Bartlett Street roundabout and its impact on Leeper Park. He said that these were Ian Lockwood's conceptual drawings and that there will need to be much more finely turning before the project goes forward. CJ Cunningham of the Troyer Group requested to be on die Agenda to bring the Commissioners up to speed on the proposals for Granger Paths phase lb /lc that will affect the Metzger House at 14309 Adams Road owned by Diana and Ronald Snyder. COA deadline day but no applications submitted. Prepared two RMEs for trees per Brent Thompson and processed one 106 Review. 5 August General Office work. Researched the City/I &M Historic Lighting Agreement and faxed to Paul south with a hard copy to Tim Klusczinski. Researched missing Park View lamp post for Paul South and Tim . Tim emailed his photos which I forwarded to Paul. Paul will check out his storage area and also die 6 that were installed at Wise Guys on Sample. Reviewed CJ Cunningliom's proposal for the Granger padis that will be in front of the Local Landmarked Metzger House on Adams. CJ and Chris from Troyer sent their preliminary ideas for Granger path phase lb /lc for the Commissioners to review on 18 August.