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REGULAR MEETING August 27, 2018 Jordan, Jan Joseph, Julie Naba, Kathy Schuth, Blair Caldwell, Maritza Robles, Albertine Wassenhove and Linda Wolfson. That is part of the Celebrating Michiana Women's Leaders exhibit at the IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center with the main partners in the project being the Michiana Women's Leaders, the League of Women Voter and IUSB. Councilmember Oliver Davis stated, We had a good meeting in the third (3rd) district and I will wait on her to give more information. Councilmember Jake Teshka announced, I will be hosting a Meet and Greet coming up on September 6t", 2018. This is the second (2nd) one (1). That will be out at the library on the corner of Miami and Kerr from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Rod Goodchild, 837 South 24 h Street, South Bend, IN, stated, It's all smiles. You probably saw me shaking the mayor's hand and you probably all read the letter from the mayor. I thanked him and gave him a nice card and showed him how we are planting those trees sustainably. That is so important. You see all fourteen (14) trees. I continue to mention that to everyone. People came from Los Angeles. They saw this and are trying their best to bring something like this back to their school systems. You have it here. You have fourteen (14)unbelievable tree carvings and they can only get one(1)or two (2). There is nothing like it in the Midwest and you could double your catch area. All I'm talking about is dollars and cents. The Zoo brings in people from twenty (20) miles out. Those people from Michigan and the superintendent of the schools that came here with the resident delegation from LA, and you ask, how do you know these people? I'm a two (2) time Olympic athlete. I have friends all over. They cannot believe it. They took hundreds of pictures to take home. You get twenty (20) miles you get forty (40) miles. Double your catch area but just introducing this. You have an interactive program here. People all over the area are saying it is a gift, it is generous, it is my fathers and I've said enough. We can coordinate with the zoo people. The second(2nd) one(1)we have the tree that is there. You have all of the text messages that went out. You have all of the papers that went out in 2014. You have all of them from the zoo people saying what we are doing. My sister worked twenty (20) years. It went out from Phil Sinclair and he said, `People, it's going to be there. She is a dedicated employee. Get a life, it is done.' It was approved, it was up there and it was controversial as all of you know. It is there, it is in front and you all know. You asked me about the new program and where it is going to go. I said we can move it and I'll pay for it. We found a location I think would be great with where the other children are. That is something we all have to talk about because the project is ongoing and it is going to be impacted. The last thing, my sister Peg,twenty-five (25)years with the food services program. She was a dedicated employee and she ran the summer parks program, over fifty (50) sites. She can't be more delighted than to see that picture with that. The bear in front of the zoo needs to be placed somewhere appropriately. It has been approved by the way for my father. Thank you. Jesse Davis, P.O. Box 10205, South Bend, IN, stated, I came and talked to you guys a while back about the monopolizing of the towing companies in South Bend. I mentioned the incident of the young lady's car that was parked on the side of the road, hit by a drunk driver and totaled, and she got a bill for$1,400 to tow that car a block. We went over the same thing with the sewer insurance program for many years. I get calls from numerous people. One (1) person in particular had a Corvette towed out at the Eddy Street Commons Area last Saturday night I believe. My first (1st) question is how the hell does somebody get a No Parking Sign to encompass an entire block with only two (2) houses? That is a public road paid for by the public. Those houses have garages and driveways that can house four(4)to six (6)vehicles on their property but yet there are No Parking Signs. I don't know how long those signs have been there but our tow companies are getting wealthy. Or I should say our tow company since it was monopolized.They towed over one hundred (100) cars out of there this weekend at one hundred and eighty dollars ($180) a piece. That put $18,000 into that tow company's pocket and another $1,000 from your citizens into the Police Department's pocket for their five dollar ($5) fee. Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous to tell citizens they can't park on a street. No parking during Notre Dame games is one (1) thing but to say No Parking at all on a street is ridiculous. If they don't get changed and y'all don't do something, the tow company said they don't care if they damage a car because they are protected by the City, and 10