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401 of the community by carrying out rehabilitation of certain buildings. Ms. Getty stated that rather than take people off the list there will probably be a lot of people added to the list. She did not know where that puts the status of most of the downtown area or older buildings that exist throughout the community. She felt time is of the essence because it is adversely affecting a lot of people's lives. At the last meeting the Mayor asked Councilmember Wilson and herself to work with the City Attorney on this. She stated she is still willing to do anything she can to help expedite the procedure. Mr. Martin Inderbitzen, 62 W. Neal Street, stated he felt historical buildings can be exempted; it does have a tremendous benefit to buildings that are of historical significance to the community. He encouraged Council to have staff pursue that line of analysis when the final report is prepared. He added he would be willing to help in any way that he could with respect to this ordinance. He stated to say that it is affecting people's livelihood is an understatement; he occupies a building that would most certainly be classified as an unreinforced masonry building and subject to potential mitigation and also represents at least one property owner who is unable to consumate any kind of a transaction with regard to the property because of the uncertainty of how this issue is going to be dealt with. This underscores the time limit and he urged that the matter be considered in due haste. Mr. Bill Laude, 830-855 Main Street, stated he is very involved with the Cheese Factory and has had a year of frustrations in dealing with this issue. He stated he would welcome the opportunity to work with whatever committee is formed to get a resolution to the matter. It is very difficult for people to make decisions whether they own buildings or lease space until this issue is resolved. Mayor Mercer asked Mr. Roush to get together with these people as soon as possible to discuss the issue. Mr. Roush stated that in order to expedite the matter he would need a resolution from the Council to go ahead and obtain a consultant, as outlined in the report, to get the process moving so that staff will know what the scope or number of buildings that are affected; until staff knows that information it is difficult for staff to come up with a decent mitigation plan. Mr. Robert Kortz, 262 West Angela Street, stated he would like to point out that there is AB 604, Division 2 of Health and Safety Code Sections, which there is some state rehabilitation money loans and the public and property owners should be aware that there are many places to get the monies to take care of rehabilitating these buildings instead of going through a redevelopment program. Also, as far as historical structures, historical properties recognized as such by a local, state or - 5 - 12-6-88