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®BflP~ ~ ~ °°•® ~ J;)Clii Stx~ltt f3~r31 C.cut~t~~o~~ Cott~kcil <br />The Fchruary 1, ?Of16 meeting of the health ar~d P~rl~iie Safot~a Corrtr~tittee was called to order at <br />4:t)~3 ~.~~. by its Chairperson, Council Niegnioer Itaren L. ~il~tite, in the Cortncil"s Int:onnal <br />Meeting RooY~. <br />Persons in attendance included Council Mernhers Dieter, l~uspa, Rouse, Pttzzello, ~Ihite, ILirsits <br />a~~d Vartrer; Dianne Greaves, ~illiarn Mark Yates of tZiley High School, Bill Bernhardt, Bonnie <br />Stryker, lxecutive l3irector of the Youth Services I3ureaLr; George i~lcCull®rtgl~ of ~~ashington <br />t-ligh School, Police Cl~ie9~ Thomas Fautz, Division Chief I]aryl Boykins, Gary Horvatl-t, Sherri <br />Taylor, Guth ~arre» of Clay Ili~;h School, Mary ,~nne "Dian'' T~llchi€~sky, t~irectcrr of SBCS <br />Athletics; Da~v~~ M. Tanis of YMCA-L~a'bar~ Yo~ttl~ Services, ~~ter~l~ers of the television media., <br />Tarr~ie l,oo of the ,~rat.ttl2 f~ea~c~ :l ~•i~~,s~2~ and. Katl~leeri C~kansl~i-~'arrand, Cu€~ncil ~ttorr~.ey. <br />Corlrrcil Me~~her ~u'hite noted that. the Carnrnittee members ineludc Council Members i~arner, <br />KLtsPa, P~,trzello and herself. <br />C~~uncil t~!Ee~~ber 4~Jhite thanked everyone for ccjming to discuss an itnportar~t cc~rnrnunity issue. <br />She Roped that there would be open discussion on a er•itical issue.; with discussion focusing o~~ <br />hove care can sLtpport cur educational system and our youth. She hoped that all would continue to <br />work together collectively to address responses, options and solutions. She will limit the. <br />n~eetir~b to one flour ire lEght of athletic e:rents scheduled by the South 13e~~d Con~s~~r~t~ity Schools <br />which many of the ream ~:nust attend. She noted that she would follow the Agenda. (copy <br />attached} and hoped that issues could 1Je looked at frot~e~. all. perspectives. :~~~ itltroduction of <br />everyone in attendance then tools pi~tce. <br />Council. Merr~her white noted. that today's ~~eeting was not called to point (rngers l~trt rather to <br />respond as a commu~~i.ty so that all could share, discuss and coll.ectivel}r work together to <br />respond to the incidents which occurred at a recent girls hasketl~all game. She appreciated how <br />quickly the School Corporation responded a.nd hoped that. both short and long term. s©lutions <br />would he discussed. She noted [hat she was encouraged I_~y the number of people who tor~lc tirr~e <br />to lie present today at the Health and Public Safety Cornrnittee meeting of the Council, since tl~e <br />incidents involve public safety. <br />Cc~unei.l. Mernl7er Dieter noted that at least one dews media outlet reported that the Council. <br />v~lotzld be looking a.t an ordinance today can tl•tis topic, that is not the case. I-l.e noted that he had <br />irzf®n~aal discr~ssians v~ritl! Co~~cil Mer~h~r l~-cause last Deoer~l~er, ~~-oting that coverall safety vv~as <br />a concern and that the recent it~cider~t culminated in today's rneetir~g which also in~rolves what. <br />aid can we give as a Council. <br />Co~incil Ivler~ber ~i.rsits noted that cor•a~~n.t~rr.tt~ ~nen~bers approached. hi~~a; and that parking <br />securit~~ concerns Icy officials vvfhcr of~ici.ated a South Bernd Corr~rriunit'y School have been <br />brougl~tt to his attention. <br />far. y~arner reclraested a synopsis of the prc~hlei~a from a rne~~i~er of South Bend C'onlr~rznity <br />Schools so that there would be a better understazDding of how the Council could help. <br />1'u1~n~a~ ~ L `Orb t3et~lSlx anct 1'iib3ie S€afet~~ Ca33~mifiee sat H:e ?[)O6 S<>~zEl~ I.~ez~~ C'c~~r~iai~ia C'oimcil -)'ale i oi' <br />