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March 20, 1978 Page 3 the office and listen to the tapes. It was then suggested that Mr. Oxian be given the privilege of reading the draft of the minutes. Mr. Wasielewski said he has to agree with Mr. Oxian on this because he does have a concern about this particular problem. He felt all Commission members should have a say in these minutes, especially when they are their own words, and if they were cut by someone else then Mr. Oxian has a right to review and amend the minutes as required. Mr. Oxian said that if the Commission wanted to leave out parts of the minutes, then they should sit down and decide what parts were to be left out. Mrs. Price said she too finds it a problem and said the original draft of the minutes ran to 21 pages and that was not really adequate reporting of the business of the Commission. She urged the President to establish the procedure. She feels minutes are not verbatim. It should record the action of the Commission and the reasonings or basis for which they took those actions. She realized it was a difficult job and suggested that it should be further looked into to see what exactly the minutes should be. There was further discussion on the concept of the minutes. Either they should be verbatim, or the Commission has to accept someone's interpretation of them. Ms. Torzewski then made a motion that the minutes be accepted as written. Mr. Nimtz seconded the motion. The motion was put to a vote and Mr. Wasielewski and Mr. Oxian voted nay. The vote stood at four ayes and two nays. The minutes were then approved as written, but Mr. Wasielewski definitely took it under advisement that the situation will be corrected. Mr. Nimtz mentioned that the City Council has a Committee on Minutes and suggested that perhaps the Commission do likewise. He felt a basic policy should be established on just what the minutes should be. There was more discussion by Mr. Wasielewski. He again said that Mr. Oxian was justified in that several of his comments were misconstrued or chopped out. Mr. Oxian still felt the situation was unfair because the minutes were approved without corrections and still objected. He felt the matter should have been tabled, because these minutes were not properly presented and not have the corrections have been made in them. Mrs. Gilbert was instructed by Mr. Wasielewski that Mr. Oxian be sent the next month's minutes and the minutes from the February meeting. 4. Treasurer's Report Mrs. Price then distributed the written report of where the Commission stands currently and submitted additional requests for postage charges, January 1 to March 10, $24.51; duplicating charges, January 1 to March 1, $20.60, Office supplies, January 1 to March 15, $17.68, and services rendered for April for Candy Peck, $833.33. She then moved that these bills be paid. Mr. Nimtz seconded this motion, and it passed unanimously. 5. Correspondence Ms. Peck reported that there was no significant correspondence. Mr. Wasielewski then said the only correspondence he received was the appointment of Mr. Gerald Kline and he was apologetic in not introducing this newest member of the Commission and Mr. Wasielewski then welcomed Mr. Kline to the Commission and hoped that he would make a large' contribution to the Commission's efforts in the preservation area. He also said he received a legal notice on Community Development funding on block grants.