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At the September 27, 2004 meeting the COA for the construction of the building was issued. The certificates expire in a year. The Army was ready to start to work and a new application was received in January, 2006. A renewal certificate was issued on January 18, 2006, for the building work to proceed. The concern of the Commission was that some of the building plans have changed from what was originally approved. The original rendition was basically just a rendition showing the Commission what the front was to look like. Rodney Flippen stated that they were initially going to brick only the front of the building. The Commission was concerned about the sides of the building. While he was out on surgery leave, he came back to find that split block had been approved, but apparently it was not presented to the Commission. The other change was the appearance of the front to keep it from looking like a "cracker box." Harrison, Walker and Harper helped with the design early on, a couple of years ago. KBI became the general contractor with no profit for doing the project-it was done at cost for benefit of the community project. The storefront was an additional $10,000, but they are happy with it and hope that it will enhance the appearance of the building. Mr. Flippen was concerned about how the facade would be affected when they went from the brick to split block. Arvin Starrett said that it was originally approved with only the south wall not being masonry. Chairman Starrett stated that with regard to some of the details on the facade, if this was designed to be a brick building, and he wondered how these details would come out using the new materials. Bobby Smallwood said that it is his understanding that all four of the walls would be block, and said that the building can still look like the picture using block. He thinks they are using 4" thick to do the recess. Paul Denney said that on the CVS building, the wall is a load bearing wall. There is no question that it is cheaper to build this type of wall than a concrete block backed up with brick veneer if it's load bearing. Mr. Denney asked why they decided to use 8" block rather than block panel and then brick veneer. Since the Salvation Army project doesn't have a load bearing wall situation like CVS, he said he was kind of surprised that the other method wasn't more economical. Rodney Flippen said that Bryan Bethea with KBI was to be present at the meeting to answer questions, but he is on vacation, so he couldn't answer that question. Paul Denney said that most of the time, that block will perform well, but