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REGULAR MEETING August 27, 2018 Councilmember John Voorde made a motion to send Bill No. 40-18 to the Personnel and Finance Committee for their September 24th, 2018 meeting Second Reading and Public Hearing and for Third (3rd) Reading on October 8th, 2018 in the Council Portion Only. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of eight (8) ayes. 41-18 FIRST READING ON AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, APPROPRIATING, ADOPTING AND APPROVING THE SOUTH BEND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION'S 2019 BUDGET AND LEVYING THE TAX AND FIXING THE RATE OF THE TAXATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING REVENUE TO FUND THE SOUTH BEND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2019 Councilmember John Voorde made a motion to send Bill No. 41-18 to the Personnel and Finance Committee for their September 24th, 2018 meeting Second Reading and Public Hearing and for Third (3rd) Reading on September 24th, 2018. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of eight(8) ayes. UNFINISHED BUSINESS Councilmember Oliver Davis asked, Have our Utilities and Public Health persons been able to send out an email for our second (2"d)meeting? Same thing about the transit summit? Council President Tim Scott replied, I will get an answer to you guys this week. Councilmember Karen White announced,Our next budget meeting will be this coming Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. The department presenting is the South Bend Police Department. Councilmember Jo M. Broden asked, Are there any changes in that schedule overall for those hearings going forward? Councilmember Karen White replied, Yes, changes will be forth coming. The City Clerk and I will be meeting with our City Controller to look at the schedule to ensure the topics forthcoming with have ample time. We hope to make those changes by this Wednesday. NEW BUSINESS Councilmember Oliver Davis asked, Is there any way we could send flowers or condolences to McCain's thing? From our City? Just thought about it. Council President Tim Scott stated, We can take that into consideration. Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, As our rep for MACOG, the Michiana on the Move Transportation Plan is being looked at. That is a long-range transportation plan for our region. There is a survey under move245.macog.com and that is open for comments until September 16th, 2018. This plan will be a blueprint for how Federal, State and Local funds are invested. We are all encouraged to give input to that survey. On a smaller scale,the Northshore Triangle Neighborhood is doing a visioning session on September 13'x', 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Resources Connection Center. Last item, if I may, yesterday was Women's Equity Day. Twelve (12) local women were honored and one(1) of them were none other than Councilmember Regina Williams- Preston. I would like to give a shout out to Nancy Flores, Diana Hess, Penny Hughes, Judge Jean 9