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Audit of draft coverage — issues identified and corrections made

Bowling Green Historic Preservation Commission · January 12, 2026

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Summary

Internal audit identified minor naming inconsistencies (Jeff Howells/Howes, Claesel/Claizelle spelling) and clarified that staff, not the commission, had sent an initial notification to the auctioneer. The final articles were adjusted to standardize spellings and rely only on statements in the transcript.

I reviewed the draft articles against the meeting transcript and the Issues Rules. The audit flagged these items and revisions were applied in the final articles.

1) Spelling and name consistency: The transcript contains both "Jeff Howells" and "Jeff Howes," and both "Claesel" and "Claizelle." I standardized on "Jeff Howes" for the HPC member (used where the transcript described an HPC member) and "Claesel" for the theater based on repeated usages; where the transcript shows alternate spellings I preserved the fact of variation in the audit notes but used a single normalized spelling in the articles to avoid confusion.

2) Attribution and role clarity: The first reference to Heather is presented as "Heather (planning staff)" because the transcript identifies her role as planning department staff but does not give a last name. Quotes are attributed only to speakers named in the transcript.

3) Legal and procedural clarity: Where commissioners discussed a potential bona fide purchaser argument, the articles report that as an assertion raised by a commissioner and as staff noting they had sent an earlier notice to the auctioneer; no legal conclusion was stated and no enforcement action was claimed.

4) Timeline and provenance: Each article includes transcript segment provenance (topicintro/topicfinish) and the timeline entries map to the segments where the topics began and ended.

No changes were made that introduced facts not present in the transcript; ambiguous or missing details (exact auction date, exact dates of prior notices) are reported as "not specified" or left as staff follow-up items.