Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2020 03 16 CANCELLED

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Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Minutes February 24th, 2020 Page 9 of 14 Ulm added that the majority of the work had to be done because of the work on the foundation. Klemme asked how Planner Selvoski got to the roughly $79,000 number. Selvoski replied that the only thing that had been recommended was to fund half the amount of the foundation and crawlspace, which qualified as extraordinary circumstances. Everything else counted toward the standard amount of $40,000. Haley stated that the other work did not have to be done without the foundation work, but in previous projects the Commission had still only funded the foundation work. The commissioners worked out the math of the different grant options. Klemme asked if the previous property had been facing lead and asbestos abatement. Haley replied that she imagined that they had faced the abatement issue. Parris noted that the $5,000 landmark bonus was not a lot but it could almost cover the chimney piece and she added that the loan program was an option. Moore noted that the original estimate was for $268,000 and had tried to get the number down to the $235,875, not knowing that he was going to compromise off the compromise off the compromise. He was worried that they had been better off with the higher numbers from the guys he knew. He felt a sense of responsibility because he created these numbers and he had not realized that there would be so much negotiation with them. Haley stated that the applicant could withdraw the grant application and come back with different numbers. Haley reopened public comment. Hopperstad stated that they did not know that foundation was the only thing that would be extraordinary circumstances and they had worked hard on all these numbers. Andy Johnson, 920 Lincoln Avenue, stated that extraordinary circumstances are not defined and do not come up a lot. He noted also that construction costs continue to increase. He had seen every different type of foundation you could imagine and he had never had an engineer tell him to completely replace a foundation. Johnson noted that this engineering report did have that recommendation and was from a source Mr. Johnson had worked with. He thought the problem the Commission was having was that the optics of the numbers in the presentation were wrong. He thought there should only be a few buckets on the list from the perspective of what had to happen based on the foundation replacement. 10