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1. The aluminum spear headed six foot tall fence with butterflies along the back of the yard. 2. The chain link fence which is four foot high across the back yard on the river side. 3. Aluminum spearheaded fence along side yard/driveway that is connected to the garage and the house. GERALD UJDAK: Seconds the motion and the motion passes unanimously. CATHERINE HOSTETLER: I am now going to turn the meeting over to John Oxian. C. HEARING OF VISITORS 1. Reverend Charles; River of Life Baptist Church, Taylor's Field Historic District; regarding proposed move of house adjacent to church, to allow church expansion. REVEREND CHARLES JAMERSON: We are seeking to do some renovations on the inside of our present facility. This would also include some exterior renovations as well. Primarily, we need to remove or relocate an historical residential home that is currently located on the lot next to our church. JOHN OXIAN: If you are going to propose this then I would say, after having talked with Karen about this, that you should meet with the Landmark Committee first and then the Landmark Committee would come forth with a recommendation for the Commission and then you could just come in with a C. of A. and go from there. I would also recommend to those of you who know where the church is, that you go out and look at the house and you can see for yourself that the house sits right up next to the church. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: Is there anything that the commission could do in support of your plans. Are there any city or county organizations that you're working with that might be influenced by letters from us in support of this project? REVEREND CHARLES JAMERSON: We did go to the owner previously and the only thing on the owner's mind is to sell the property. We don't really want to own the property. We realize that it still is a very nice home, and we don't want to purchase this home and then later have to tear it down. We would like to suggest to the present owner that we can in some way come to some kind of agreement to where the house could be relocated to another location. From our understanding the present owner has tried to sell the house on a couple of occasions with no success. One of the main reasons the owner was not able to sell the house was because of its location next to the alley. The house is almost touching our church and 'there is no yard whatsoever. There are several lots in our area around the corner. If we could purchase the lot and then do whatever we could do to aid in this, we would be more than happy to do.