09/17/07 Council Special Meeting Minutes

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SPECIAL MEETING SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 communities that resembles rioting. He noted that we do not have rioting here in this community. He thinks that the student body at the University of Notre Dame that not only helps our community, but is a student body that is an asset. He noted that Ms. Taylor stated that she doesn't benefit from the money that comes in from the University, but he has got to believe that she benefits from the thousands of hours of community service that the students from Notre Dame, Holy Cross, IUSB, St. Mary's and Bethel College provide for this community. He pointed out that Professor Sniegowski was a Rhoads Scholar, he played baseball and one of his teachers, he thanked him publicly for all that he has done for him. Mr. Nussbaum noted the University of Notre Dame's Women Soccer team were National Champions, and despite all the efforts that they have to put into their own lives in their own student studies and their athletic endeavors they provided twenty (20) hours of community service per team member. They completed 519 hours as a group, a remarkable achievement. 92% of the student athletes at Notre Dame provide community service. 80% of the student body at Notre Dame provides community service. There is a special partnership between six particular organizations, although 60 organizations receive community service, the six received over 24,000 hours of community service, this is a great student body. This is a great community, a great Common Council, and with the CCAC, there will be a solution that is going to solve this problem long standing. He thinks that one of the things that have happened over the past couple of months is that the University has stepped up to the plate. He stated that they are much more engaged in this and there is much more dialogue and should see results from that. He was able to meet with the Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand and provided several suggestions. He noted that Councilmember Rouse has said that this is a fluid document and with the CCAC as a very valuable tool. He still has some concerns with the requirement to comply with all of the state statutes as it relates to open door and other things, that could get very complicated, time consuming and need legal advice as time goes along. He stated that he is not volunteering to provide that, although he would be happy to do that and volunteer to do that. He thinks that the Council needs to give that support as well, so that all the Ps are doted and all the T's are crossed as they move forward. Mr. Nussbaum thanked the Council for taking the time to listen and appreciates the dialogue and everyone is on the right track. Mr. Charles Clark, City of South Bend Licensing Auditor, Department of Administration and Finance, 12~` Floor County-City Building, South Bend, Indiana, stated that he is speaking neither for nor against this bill. He stated that he thinks there are some technical problems that he would like to see corrected in order to make it a much more workable ordinance. Applications all going to the City Clerk's Office and he doesn't think that is the job of the City Clerk, it really belongs in the licensing department. He would like to see all applications and licenses coming into and going out of the Department of Administration & Finance Licensing Department. This ordinance mandates the application that is to be used and the permit that is to be issued are primarily administrative functions, if the ordinance mandates the application the city does not have the ability to change it as it may become necessary without coming and getting the ordinance changed and he would like to see the function and design of the license be left up to the licensing department and this will make it compatible with the computer software that is currently being used. There are a couple of typos in the ordinance. One in the statement of purpose and intent on page 2 item C the phrase maybe needed to be parked. Mr. Clark stated that he would like to see the words be needed changed to the word need, so it reads may need to be parked. In the definition for a rear year, the definition is really for a side yard and that will need to be changes. He would also like to see $5.00 application fees added for all lawn parking permits that is how the licensing departments recovers a small portion of the cost of reviewing the application, if the application were to be denied. Otherwise, there would be no income at all if the application were to be denied and there would be no reimbursement. The section on removal of temporary structures would require a lot of cooperation from rental companies. Mr. Clark stated that if anyone has ever rented a tent, they come out and put it up at the rental companies convenience and tear it down at their convenience, and there really is no control over that and trying to regulate that would be a difficult thing to do. On pages 7 and 8 of Section 14-56(a) seems to imply that parking can only be done at a residence as opposed to an empty lot, and that only the resident of that residence can apply for a permit and he is questioning if that was the Council intent. Also the