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• have a copy of the East Bank Multiple property nomination yet, but, that it has been sent directly to the State Historic Preservation Office. Mr. Duvall mentioned that the reason for this was due to a power outage at the offices of the Westerly'Group, who had been working on the nomination, which caused them to lose a significant amount of their work. The State Historic Preservation Office gave them an extension and in order to make that deadline the Westerly Group had to hand deliver the nomination. A copy of the nomination is in the mail to our office and will be on the commissions agenda in October for review. Mr. Duvall stated that the 1997-1998 activities include the preservation plan for Leeper Park, the nomination of the Infirmary and the republishing of the Historic Districts Guidelines books. The Request For Proposals on the first two activities have been sent out and are due back on the eighth of September. The major activity, being the republishing of the guidelines books, are going to remain an in house project. 4. Blake Gardens Mr. Duvall reported that he had been notified of one hearing regarding the Blake Gardens site from, the Department of Natural Resources to be held next.' Tuesday at Noon. Mr. Duvall noted that he had also received the notification for comments in which one could request a public hearing from the Army Corps of Engineers.' The comments are due before September ninth. There was some discussion to clarify what each notification meant and the intention of the developer. It was decided that Mr. Duvall should attend the public hearing to put forth the Commissions concerns. Mrs. Sporleder suggested that a packet be put together and sent to the Army Corps of Engineers stating the commissions • intentions and concerns. V. Old Business None VI. New Business Mr. Oxian noted that he was having Mr. Duvall make a list of all the Local Landmarks. He suggested that when any of us are out driving to keep an eye open for any violations occurring at the landmarks and if one is spotted to report it to the director. Mrs. Sporleder mentioned the idea of maybe dividing up the landmarks between each member of the commission, giving each an area of are responsibility for inspecting every so often. VII. Hearing of Visitors Julia DesLauriers, Linda Fritschner and Robert Roland presented the problems they were having with the noise from the Madison Center and the problem with the deterioration of the wall around the Leeper Park Island. They showed photographs and measurements of how much of the wall had fallen down and how much the island was eroding. Julia DesLauriers also mentioned that when one of the pumps on the island was repaired the crew accidentally knocked down another portion of the wall. The hole was eventually patched. Julia DesLauriers noted that they needed a liaison to deal with the noise from the Madison center. She explained all that they had done to get this problem taken care of. A remedy was reached and the Madison center fulfilled its end of that remedy, however, it did not stop the noise problem. Julia stated that • they are back at square one and are requesting assistance to get the problem fixed. Catherine Hostetler asked if the Madison Center had put in the a new baffle system. Julia DesLauriers said that they had not and that in place of it the Madison Center had put up an exhaust fan cap. She expressed confusion over why the Madison Center would choose to put up a $6,000.00' exhaust cap, that does not work over a $3,000.00 baffling system that would have worked.