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it, the Building Coininissioner could sign it. Mrs. Lord said if we are doing something for the Landmarks Coinmission, she realizes we are in a politic situation, but she would be more suspicious of the Building Department than of the Mayor. She added that the board is not affiliated with the Building Department, it is affiliated as a city commission. Mr. Lang said that would be great but he's asked for that for years and years prior to 2001 and nothing ever came of it. He maybe did not approach the right people to try to get an ID, even if only for the S.I.T.E.S students. Mrs. Lord said given the fact that their goal for the Butternut Ridge brochure was really to be done by hoinecoining, even though that is a long way away, it really isn't when you start doing this kind of project. She asked if they can have someone investigate getting some form of identification that the board can get. They need to be able to take, let's say, 6 houses, and find out who lives there, what the phone number is, before the resident is ever contacted. She said we live in a different time than in 1976 when this was done before. They did most of the work by telephone and were invited to many places. It was a cold call in which you stated your name and indicated you are on the Landmarks Commission. Actually, it was the Bicentennial Commission, which predates Landmarks. She said they rarely had someone say they didn't want to talk to them. Some of it can be done that way but soine of it will be a knock on the door. That is the least preferred way to do it. Mr. Lang said if there is any way they can get the help of the Building Departinent, he finds it hard to believe that they could not print a list of every address on Butternut Ridge. He said MetroScan, which is in the Engineering Department, can provide thein with the names of the property owners. Getting the information is not going to be all that difficult. He said he has a list of every address on Butternut Ridge from a S.I.T.E.S. student of a couple of years ago. Mrs. Davis said if they get a list with all of Butternut printed out with names, addresses, and phone numbers, they could literally copy that and divide it up. Mrs. Lord said the question becomes is everyone here willing to help with the project. To take whatever part they can do understanding that we all have different other obligations, which inay be why working in a pair may work great, but is everyone willing to put some time in? Mr. Lang said, with tongue in cheek, he will volunteer to do the segment between Burns and Dover on the south side of Butternut. Mrs. Lord said if we can get the list that is the first step. Mr. Dailey said he could drop off a copy of the list to Nlrs. VanAuken. It will then be divided up. Mr. Dailey said it could then be dropped off at Mrs. Davis' office. He said the Bicentennial Commission was mentioned earlier and he suggested tying things in to this year's Ohio Bicentennial. He recently received a call from the assistant superintendent of the schools who said the schools are looking at putting together soine kind of video presentation and are looking to talk to different people about the Ohio Bicentennial. This may be one of the bodies they should be talking to. He suggested having Doug Sebring call Mr. Lang. Mr. Lang said that would be fine. Mrs. Lord said she has received nothing from the Ohio Historical Society. She did go on their website and would like to share what she learned. She said she thinks the group would be interested in knowing what is listed on the OHS website as the National Registry sites in North Olmsted. There is no surprise here except we often forget about Fort Hill. It is on the National Register. She showed the board members some of the information she gathered. She pointed out that they have no image of the Universalist Church and she wonders if that isn't something they could take on to coinplete soine of the things in terms of what is there. They have no image of Fort Hill, which would be an interesting summer activity. There isn't a picture of Town Hall. She mentioned finding information on CLG. She said it explains the rationale for doing a survey, which we've already done, but she thought there would be information in there that could be used as they move forward on the CLG application. She said there is no OHI listing on the website and she had hoped that would be there. There is a lot of other interesting information on the web site however. The section on the CLG talks about why a city would want to do that and she is sure the time will come that even though they have legislation enacted now to do it, they will still have to justify why they want to do this. Mrs. VanAuken thanked Mrs. Lord for doing all that research, as it is no small chore. Mr. Lang said taking a quick look at the first page of the CLG information, the second paragraph indicates that in a typical year about $80,000 is available to CLG's to identify their historic, architectural, and archeological resources through surveys and this is one of the reasons he had hoped they could pursue the CLG because there is money out there. He said he does not believe these funds 7