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REGULAR MEETING March 26, 2018
<br /> training sessions to teach the citizens how to respond to those events. Call 574-647-2853 or sign
<br /> up online. Secondly, Chief Cox sent Captain Stoneburner to my senior group and he was excellent.
<br /> We loved him. One (1) of the things he talked about was when homes have the medical tubes that
<br /> have all the medical information for that individual. This program has been discontinued and I
<br /> would love to see funding from the City or somewhere to reenact this program. The medics would
<br /> love it. I think it would be a great thing to pass out on the neighborhood walks to help the citizens.
<br /> I was going to give you samples but Councilmember Broden didn't want me to pass them out so
<br /> if you want samples, let me know.
<br /> Rod Goodchild, 837 S. 24th Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I like what we heard tonight. I like that
<br /> direct approach. We have an outstanding program here. It took two (2) years to get that program
<br /> done. Now we have the Best. Week. Ever. coming. I heard Oliver talk about Change the World.
<br /> People thought I lost my mind.We have fourteen(14)forty(40)foot trees and there will be nothing
<br /> else like it. This is good for South Bend. Nothing means as much as that Potawatomi Flag to be
<br /> flown on that fourth flag pole. It is flying at the casino and all I'm asking for one (1) email. We
<br /> need it up by May 29th. That is all I'm asking.
<br /> Isaac Hunt, 138 E. Broadway Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I am here to talk about the new Ivy
<br /> Tech Homeless trailers that popped up just down the street from me. Nobody talked to the
<br /> residents. We are not against the homeless, we want the homeless, I was on the homeless
<br /> committee,but our residents don't want this in our neighborhood. We have enough social services
<br /> in our neighborhood. We just put a new homeless place on Indiana. Let the rest of the City get
<br /> some of this glory working with this homeless issue. Please do not continue inundating us with the
<br /> homeless issue on the west side of town. I didn't even hear from the committee. It is said to be
<br /> temporary but you know what temporary turns into. There is plenty of space in other locations in
<br /> this City.
<br /> Tracy Miller, 229 E. Broadway Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I would like to echo what Mr. Hunt
<br /> said. Those trailers would be the ticket for me to move. I am a taxpaying citizen and business
<br /> owner in this community. We are inundated with so many social services in our area and it causes
<br /> our property taxes to go down and things of that nature. I would ask the Council to not pass any
<br /> measures to have that stay there. As Mr. Hunt said, I am also in support of homeless. I support
<br /> trying to help them get to where they need to go and to help them get out of homelessness
<br /> situations, but I think our neighborhood has seen enough. One (1) other thing I wanted to say the
<br /> tubes that other lady was talking about, we use them at the building I manage, and they are
<br /> excellent.
<br /> Yolanda Croom, 138 E. Broadway Street, South Bend,IN, stated,I am here because I wasn't asked
<br /> if I would like the pods put on Michigan Street. I have only been in the area for a year and a half,
<br /> but the time I've been there, there has been a lot of trash, urination and such. I just really don't
<br /> want to see any more people who don't have a residence and I don't want the residents put there
<br /> just because people don't want it somewhere else. Thank you.
<br /> Harry Marsh, 1520 S. Carroll Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I've been a life-long resident on the
<br /> southeast side of town. I've lived in the house I live in for approximately sixty (60) years. The
<br /> other day I went up Michigan Street and I saw the trailers moved over there and I saw three (3) at
<br /> first, and next time I saw six(6). I thought it was Ivy Tech using that space for classes and I came
<br /> to find out that is not what is happening. It looks horrible, it brings down my property taxes, and I
<br /> would love to pay the right amount of property taxes, but I want to do it fairly. It is not fair I keep
<br /> being inundated with negative things in my neighborhood. I ask you not to put the trailers there.
<br /> We don't want them there.
<br /> Fred Teague, 704 Roland Court, South Bend, IN, stated, I am also here to speak in opposition of
<br /> the trailers. I am working with 466Works to try and revitalize the southeast side and bring some
<br /> life to that area and it is kind of hard to build up an area when so much trash is steady being dumped
<br /> in the neighborhood. I'm not calling the homeless trash. I love them. I've been homeless before
<br /> and have been through the whole thing when it comes to that. But looking at the market study
<br /> revealed, I just didn't know there was a homeless problem there. We have enough on our side of
<br /> town and we shouldn't have to bear the burden of the City's problem with the homeless.
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