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Page 1 HIGHLIGHTS City of South Bend Mayor's Letter Clem Page Your Files Day III Newsletter P n Potawatomi Zoo Opens For Season City Plan Progress Building Spring Riverbank Cleanup Opt— Gridiron March 2005 Mayc'S[eve Luacke Letter from the Mayor Dear Neighbors, cable in existing city conduit. The Clean Your Files Day Metronet would provide affordable The City is offering a great The City of South Bend is fielding a access to communications systems championship team with employees opportunity for you to start spring P P that transport huge amounts of data cleaning by clearing out your files in who work hard day in and day out to quickly and securely. Fiber pipes are provide the high quality services our an environmentally friendly way. P g q tY anew Type of infrastructure that the Bring your paper to be recycled, by customers expect. We also have City is prepared to provide to secure the car load or truck load, to Clean strong community partners who our economic future. Your Files Day on Wednesday,April extend our efforts to make South Bend a competitive 21't Century City. The City also continues to prepare the 20, 2005 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. I am optimistic about the future and way for new economic development at the College Football Hall of Fame excited about the new projects in our industrial core and return located in downtown South Bend. planned for 2005. brownfields to productive use. We The City of South Bend,the Solid are making progress. The Oliver Waste Management District of St. We continue to look for innovative Industrial Park at Chapin and Sample Joseph County and Waste ways of doing business to make the Streets has successfully attracted the most of our resources. Plans are in Management Inc. invite the entire interest of light industrial,warehouse community including businesses, non- motion to create new opportunities for and distribution facilities. Only two profit organizations, households, the growth of technology. The City is parcels are still available for churches, schools and individuals to promoting creation of a Certified development. We now own the help increase the amount of paper that Technology Park in the area known as former Stamping Plant and several is diverted from landfills by Notre Dame Woods to attract high- other buildings in the Studebaker participating in the ninth annual Clean tech companies that want to tie into complex are on our acquisition list. the creativity and research capacity on We continue to seek federal and state Your Files Day,a national program of local campuses. Tech arks can the US Conference of Mayors. P P funds to help pay for the necessary provide the seeds for new ideas, new environmental remediation and Clean Your Files Day is just one of products and spin-off businesses. demolition of dilapidated buildings. many ways that you can join the City The City is also partnering with the of South Bend's environmental Notre Dame and the State's 21't These are just a few examples of stewardship efforts. By setting your Century Technology Fund to research work planned for 2005. Next month I yard waste at the curb for pickup, you the use of technology to provide a will share more news on the exciting are participating in the Organic more cost-effective long term solution developments taking place thanks to a Resource Program which composts to control combined sewer overflows. championship spirit shared by our yard waste into valuable mulch free to This research could impact cities community. I would like to thank all South Bend residents. By conserving across the count those who partner with us to find ry water in your home, you are innovative solutions to challenges we partnering with Water Works to Creating an avenue for companies to face, and I encourage community move large amounts of information members to continue to be involved, ensure w adequate water supply for will be vital to business development our growing community. And, in P to share their ideas and to help us 2005, the City's Trash Container in our area and will benefit local build a better South Bend. colleges,medical facilities and public Program will be expanded all South institutions. The City is supporting Bend residents. Using trash containers development of the St. Joseph Valley containers with lids helps keep our streets, alleys and neighborhoods Metronet by allowing a local not-for- Stephen J. Luecke clean. Thank you for your efforts to profit corporation to install fiber optic Mayor build a Clean City! Visit the City of South Bend online at www.ci.south-bend.in.us