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Alkeyna Aldridge <br /> From: Alkeyna Aldridge <br /> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 8:39 AM <br /> To: Alkeyna Aldridge <br /> Subject: FW: "South Bend Program Would Pay Panhandlers To Work Councilman Proposes <br /> Resolution Based On What Other Cities Do" - South Bend Tribune Article <br /> From: oliver6thdist @aol.com [mailto:oliver6thdist @aol.com] <br /> Sent: Wednesday,June 07, 2017 6:01 AM <br /> Cc: Oliver J. Davis <br /> Subject: "South Bend Program Would Pay Panhandlers To Work Councilman Proposes Resolution Based On What Other <br /> Cities Do" -South Bend Tribune Article <br /> lttp•//www southbendtribune.com/news/local/south-bend-program-would-pay-panhandlers- <br /> o-work/article 32af2362-1352-5eOb-8965-2cf088e6b1d1.html <br /> South Bend Program Would Pay Panhandlers To Work <br /> ;ouncilman Proposes Resolution Based On What Other Cities Do - By Jeff Parrott South Bend Tribune, June 6, <br /> '.017 <br /> k group of common council members, led by Oliver Davis, D-6th (Karen L. White, Regina Williams-Preston, and John <br /> Ioorde), plans to propose a resolution Monday asking the city administration to offer day work to panhandlers. The city <br /> vould pay them the minimum wage for city employees, $10.10 an hour, and would also try linking them to social services <br /> or more permanent help. <br /> "he resolution doesn't specify the type of work the panhandlers would do, but it references similar programs in Portland, <br /> ✓laine and Albuquerque, N.M., where the jobs have involved cleaning public parks and spaces. Davis is acting now becaus <br /> he city is beginning to craft next year's budget, and he's asking the administration to earmark $25,000 for the effort in the <br /> '018 budget request it presents to the council. <br /> The resolution helps give the administration a framework of what we'd like to see in place and budgeted," Davis said. `'W, <br /> lon't really have to recreate the wheel... since programs are already out there and having some degree of success." <br /> Mow is the Link to Read the Full Article - <br /> ittp://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/south- <br /> bend-program-would-pay-panhandlers-to- <br /> Nork/article 32af2362-1352-5eOb-8965- <br /> 2cf088e6b1dthtml <br />