At February 10 Council there is a Staff report recommending i)  the repealing of designation bylaws for the Immanuel Baptist Church and King Station which are located at the Heritage & Cultural Centre and ii) the preparation of a single designation bylaw covering both of the these building and Laskay Hall.  (The latter’s designation bylaw was repealed to enable moving it from Laskay in 2017.)  As a member of the Heritage Advisory Committee I am very supportive of this report as I see the new designation bylaw as the opportunity to continue protecting these important buildings but also to enable making careful, judicious modifications such that they are more than artefacts from our history. (e.g. King Station would be a great place for some summer programming for our youth.) As I have said I am very supportive of the recomendations in the report but I would like to explore whether we could include the King Horn School House; much of it has been changed and/or modified but there are still some walls with windows from the original school house.  Staff have been very respectful of  this property throughout the extensive renovations done at the Museum; my interest is to do what is possible to ensure that that respect will continue for the next 50 years.