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survive the Dulaney Building, the Gibralter Hotel, the Beiford Apartments, the Cotton F~cchange and the First National Banl~ Within#five years essentially the entire commercial district had been rebuilt, harmoniously composed by architects strongly influenced by architecture found in Chicago, $~ Louis, and Kansas City. This phenomenon created a downtown district with remarkably compatible design, scale material and detain, worthy of the preservation of it's beauty and integreity for future generations." It was suggested by Barbara Wilson that we include the fact that the city and county governments are inside this district, and the following sentence was reworded to say, "The downtown commercial district of Paris, Texas, long the heart of the business commmunity including county and city governments, contains the original fifty acres donated for the city by early settler George Wrigh~ ' Another error, "In Apri~ 1916, afire destroyed many buildings in the district, leaving to survive the Dulaney Buildings, the Gibraltar Hotel, the Belford Apartments, The Cotton Exchange and the First National Bank .~The date of April, 1916 should read March ,1916 and the Gibralter Hotel should be spelled Gibraltar. The Chairman called for a motion after the correction and the Chairman asked for a motion to include the synopsis in the minutes and the motion was made by Barbara Wilson and seconded by Sue Lancaster. The voice vote was unanimous. Item # 7 on the agenda dealt with the discussion and possible action on boundaries of the Downtown Historic District. A discussion was held on the differences in the boundaries recommended by the Main Street Board and the boundaries recommended for the Down- town in 1984-85. It was decided that item #7 was rendered moot, because the item in question had already been voted on and was included in the November minutes. Item # 8 was on the discussion and action on formal proposal of the Downtown boundaries. After a discusssion of the correct terminology and the advice of the City Attorney, Larry Schenke, a motion was made by Barbara Wilson to offer to the City Council a recommendation to adopt the boundaries of 1985 for the Downtown Area only. The motion was carried unanimously by a voice vote. Item 09 dealt with a discussion of a possible historical survey update and potential funding sources for this update. It was suggested that we seek funding for the update. The discussion centered on how best to avail the Commission of these needed funds. Shall we go through the CDC for funding? Shall we seek matching funding for grants? Barbara Wilson has made inquiries about types of funding available and will report on these sources at a later date. Item # 10 was a discussion and possible action of agenda for regular meeting of the commission on January 14, 2003. It was decided to schedule Ron Emmerich of the Dallas Preservation Society. Commisision members were asked to bring any questions to the meeting they think may arise when we begin heatings with homeowners.