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they can get the ball rolling. If they wait longer and springtime shows up they will get requests for various things that don't need to come before the commission. So if the commission has no objection what he would like to do is go forward, introduce legislation and to see to it that the legislation is acted upon hopefully in the next 45 to 60 days. 6. Mr. Lang commented that item number 6 is discussion of the Kennedy house. This is going to be an announcement to the board. It is Mr. Lang's understanding based on conversation with the head of NOMBL that RTA has completed the purchase of the Kennedy house and has not yet completed the purchase of Mrs. Schmidlan's house. He has also been told that prior to the request for demolition for the Kennedy house, the board will be notified and given the opportunity to go on a tour of the house and to take out of it whatever artifacts they deem desirable for purposes of historical collection. Mrs. Lord commented that she has heard there is a stone sink that is very unique in the house. Mr. Gareau commented that there are other homes on Butternut they are talking about taking for purposes of the library and the thing about those homes is you can pick them up, move them, place them back down, and somebody can move in there. Which the Kennedy house, if someone moved that, they would have to spend a whole lot of money to get it to the point where somebody would want to live inside of it. It is in pretty rough shape right now. Mr. Gareau then commented he just doesn't think it is feasible to do that. Mrs. O'Rourke commented that if and when they get to go inside of the Kennedy house she would like to know. Mr. Lang commented that he would call everyone on the commission and give them a date and time for this as soon as he knows. Mrs. Lord commented that it would be nice if there were some mechanism to let possible buyers know it can be moved. Mrs. O'Rourke questioned if they could put up a public notice or publish it in the newspapers. Mrs. Lord commented that they would have to get NOMBL's permission to do something like that. W. Gareau commented that they are going to spend money to demolish it anyway, why wouldn't they let somebody else come in and take it out for them. Mr. Barker questioned if it would be possible for Mr. Lang as Chairman of the Landmarks Commission to talk to somebody at NOMBL or RTA and find out if they would have any objection to this board running an article regarding the house. Mr. Lang commented that he would talk to Tom Terbrack tomorrow about that. N. COMMUNICATIONS: At this time Mr. Lang shared the correspondences received from The Local Historian and The Alliance Report. V. CONIMITTEE REPORTS: VI. OLD BUSINESS: There needs to be approval for the public notice format. Mr. Lang commented that what they have been using seems to fit the ordinance in terms of content, size, and color. The problem is going to be whether the posting is conspicuous enough to be read from the public part of the street. Mr. Gareau commented that he did not think they could design anything that is readable from 50 feet away. If it is in the code that way he'll be happy to amend the code. They could either change it or take a pretty loose interpretation of that, the greater concern is that it is up; as opposed to you can read from 50 feet away traveling 35 mph. 3