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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK I wanted to have the update because it almost goes back to the similar situation we had with the parks.On August 3rd,2018,there was an article in the South Bend Tribune and I shared my positive views that I can see benefits of having it in the City. The City of Mishawaka has theirs. The issue I had is that we are already discussing the budget. People were asking if this is a budget issue and if we should have this as a budget session. My point on that is,prior to it even becoming a budget issue, the ordinance should have come before our Committee, the Zoning and Annexation Committee, so we could have a discussion on it. Then after we have that discussion and have the votes on that, then it goes to a budget Committee for us to approve the budget. We've had all this time talking about the budget and yet there is no clear understanding on what the ordinance is. Unless I missed the ordinance. Was there an ordinance already on this? Councilmember Tim Scott stated, It was only just discussed in the budget. Committee Chair Davis stated, My point of issue is, before it goes, where I am is similar to the same thing we had with Historic Preservation. These things of significant nature where this has been the same thing since 1966, any significant kind of a situation should have been discussed within our Committee. And then after it gets the blessings and all that, it goes into the budget. For us to approve the budget and all that kind of stuff and then come back to it because I didn't see it on any of the reading. There hasn't been a first(1St) reading of it so it has to have at least the first (1 st) reading on October 8th, 2018. That means it would be voted on the same day we approve the budget. So in essence, we will be dealing with an ordinance after we've already approved the budget. As the Chair of this kind of thing, the Ordinance should have come prior to us budgeting for it. I shared this, we had an Area Plan meeting, and I shared my concerns regarding this at the meeting because of the fact that I publically stated I see the reason for it but I had no anticipation of that. That was August 3rd, 2018 and we are now at September 24th, 2018 and no ordinance has come before us.I have great concerns of this being in a budget when we have not had the discussion for it. I see the reason why we need to have it but I would just like to have that ordinance because there are a couple things we need to look at. He continued Number one 1 we need to look at the structure of the group. Mishawaka has nine (9) on that group. Out of that nine (9) they have one (1) representative. Will the Mayor appoint eight (8) and we appoint one (1)? Is it in the Department of Community Investment? Is it tilted that way? We need to ask that question. My initial thought when it came up is that we could consider something similar to how TRANSPO's Board is set up. The Mayor has three (3), the Council has four(4),that's seven(7)but whoever does the other two (2)really doesn't matter. It's just the fact that I don't know who reports that so we need to look at that. Staff members,we need to figure out how that will all work out from that standpoint. Times of the meetings, Mishawaka has theirs on the second(2nd)monthly Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and I want to make sure we have ours in the afternoon hours. Again, we need to discuss that because a lot of our City meetings such as Board of Public Safety is in the morning. We need to be able to have that where that would be written and that would be in that standpoint.And so,again,with it being housed within Community Investment,would there be a check and balance kind of thing? Councilmember Tim Scott stepped out of the meeting at 5:44 p.m. Committee Chair Davis went on, There were some concerns of the oversight that some people have shared with me. It's nice to have had some of the outside groups to look at what we are doing to take all onus off us when it comes to those kinds of things. That is something we have to EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY ( INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building I227W.Jefferson BvldISouth Bend,Indiana 466011p574.235.9221If574.235.9173 TTD574.235.55671www.southbendin.gov 4