From: To: Subject: Date: Jon Bartz MARK T BUECHEL RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Monday, November 6, 2017 4:09:01 PM Mark – I will not officially accept this application until I receive an email from you with the appropriate paperwork. But you are right. I should have told them to contact you for the WEDC application rather than sending it to them. I will not do that anymore. Thanks, Jon From: MARK T BUECHEL [mailto Mark Buechel @wisc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 4:05 PM To: Jon Bartz Subject: RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Jon, Just to follow up, this project is submitting the WEDC application because they forgot to include it with the part two submission so in this instance it may not be as critical to follow policy but it could cause big problems in the future if WEDC accepts applications from projects that are not approvable. Due to the pending law changes we expect two to three years’ worth of projects to be submitted in a 60-90 day time period (I know of one developer planning to submit eleven HTC projects by the end of February and that is just one company). Every developer with a project over $2.5 million with any chance of success will be accelerating the project to get it in prior to the law change. If developers are scrambling to get projects in and they start to send applications directly to you to get something in “under the wire” but they have not submitted a complete project to us or they have submitted a weak project that is not approvable then what happens? With the huge onslaught of projects we expect to arrive in the next few months SHPO would hope that WEDC maintain a strict policy of not accepting anything directly to avoid the headaches that confusion could cause. Mark T Buechel, AIA Senior Preservation Architect State Historic Preservation Office Wisconsin Historical Society 816 State Street, Madison, Wi. 53706 608-264-6491 (O) mark.buechel@wisconsinhistory.org Wisconsin Historical Society Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846 From: Jon Bartz [mailto:jon.bartz@wedc.org] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 3:12 PM To: MARK T BUECHEL Subject: FW: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Mark – This project is a bit out of order. They told me they had been in touch with you but they requested the WEDC application from me. I thought I better forward it to you for your records plus I need the Part I and Part II from you for my records. Please give me a call if you have any questions/comments. Thanks, Jon From: Carey Sharpe [mailto:Carey Sharpe @gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 1:03 PM To: Jon Bartz Subject: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Hello Jonathan- Please attached forms for 405 Washington Ave LLC (the Fraternal Order of the Eagles building in Oshkosh). Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything further from me. Thank you- Carey Sharpe Managing Member 405 Washington Ave, LLC From: To: Subject: Date: Jon Bartz MARK T BUECHEL RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Monday, November 6, 2017 4:35:00 PM Thanks, Mark. I do need some more information from them for a complete application. I will contact Casey. Jon From: MARK T BUECHEL [mailto Mark Buechel @wisc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 4:31 PM To: Jon Bartz Subject: RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application I do not want to make this difficult for them because of a technicality, we should have some level of customer service if we can help them out. In situations where they have the project submitted and approved and just forgot the WEDC application the easiest solution is to merge the documents we need to move it forward. So I have attached the part one and two copies that would normally accompany the submission to you. The part one was approved for the project by NPS on 9/18/2017 and the part two was conditionally approved by NPS on 10/05/2017. The point I was making earlier was more to make sure we curb things like this from happening as deadlines loom for project submissions because I anticipate someone will try to speed things up by sending directly to you and bypassing SHPO and we do not want you spending time executing contracts for projects that have not been reviewed and approved. In this instance you can add these to the submission and process it, the project is in good standing and well underway, I do not see any significant issues. Also, an FYI, in case you do not recognize the owner, Carey Sharpe, is Senator Ron Johnson’s daughter. Mark T Buechel, AIA Senior Preservation Architect State Historic Preservation Office Wisconsin Historical Society 816 State Street, Madison, Wi. 53706 608-264-6491 (O) mark.buechel@wisconsinhistory.org Wisconsin Historical Society Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846 From: Jon Bartz [mailto:jon.bartz@wedc.org] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 4:14 PM To: MARK T BUECHEL Subject: RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Mark – I read your second email first. Should I inform the applicant they need to submit a hard copy of the WEDC application to you or will you be contacting them? Thanks, Jon From: MARK T BUECHEL [mailto Mark Buechel @wisc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 3:39 PM To: Jon Bartz Subject: RE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Jon, WEDC policy has always been to reject any direct submission to your office, WEDC applications for HTC’s are supposed to come through the SHPO office and are not to be forwarded to WEDC until such time as the project is an approvable project. If you follow past protocol you request they send hard copy to the SHPO office for processing. Has your policy changed? I specifically told the ownership group they are to send it to the SHPO office and not directly to your office, they apparently did not follow those directions. Mark T Buechel, AIA Senior Preservation Architect State Historic Preservation Office Wisconsin Historical Society 816 State Street, Madison, Wi. 53706 608-264-6491 (O) mark.buechel@wisconsinhistory.org Wisconsin Historical Society Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846 From: Jon Bartz [mailto:jon.bartz@wedc.org] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 3:12 PM To: MARK T BUECHEL Subject: FW: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Mark – This project is a bit out of order. They told me they had been in touch with you but they requested the WEDC application from me. I thought I better forward it to you for your records plus I need the Part I and Part II from you for my records. Please give me a call if you have any questions/comments. Thanks, Jon From: Carey Sharpe [mailto:Carey Sharpe @gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 1:03 PM To: Jon Bartz Subject: Fraternal Order of the Eagles/405 Washington Ave LLC WEDC Application Hello Jonathan- Please attached forms for 405 Washington Ave LLC (the Fraternal Order of the Eagles building in Oshkosh). Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything further from me. Thank you- Carey Sharpe Managing Member 405 Washington Ave, LLC