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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK first (1St) meeting we had when we went over the legal piece. I think that was budget meeting number one (1) and there has been no response to me on that. I'm done, I'm at peace. Are we all at peace?Are we all good?Now we can have the ten(10)minute summary from the Administration and the rest of it they can give to us in writing. Dr. Mueller stated, We apologize for the perceived notion of putting the cart before the horse. We will give the explanation behind what we were thinking and why we were thinking of it this way. First (11t), when we are considering a change of this magnitude, the last thing we want to do is have a disruption of service to the developers and other people who depend on it. So what we put forth in the budget is to get resources, and speaking to the bandwidth issue,to get ahead of putting all the plans in place. Do we have everything figured out? Absolutely not. The idea was to do the ordinance sometime in the middle of next ye in consultation with Council Members. In talking with the current Area Plan Director, we wanted to see what the Council was going to decide in the budget before we sit down and really figure out a timeline and a process. I will say the ordinance will probably be very boring because most of this is mandated by State Law so those nine (9) members is a matter of State Law. Who is on it is a matter of State Law. We don't have any discretion on that point. There are other things we can decide but this is not going to be having much debate unless we want to take it to the State House. He continued, So our thought was let's propose it and see what questions, concerns or support Council has, get the bandwidth in the budget with the staff members, and then lay out a plan. The last thing we want to do is pass an ordinance creating our own commission and not have the plan to have a continuity of services, not have the bandwidth staff and have it be a mess. Our idea was to get the resources to get ahead of it and we're hoping to have more discussion and answers to any questions and concerns you may have as part of the budget process. We want to get resources before we go in and decide to form the commission. If we decided that now, we would be in trouble. We apologize if there are any process issues. Committee Chair Davis stated, I appreciate your concern. I think you just made a wonderful statement that the ordinance probably may not be debated as much because a lot of it is with the State. Given the fact that it's a lot of legal language that our attorney can add,then in my opinion, there is no reason they cannot have that done now from that standpoint. Because as you stated, if it is easier to be done in 2019, why can't that be done and brought to us now so that we can have that discussion ahead of time. It is the same rationale you used. If it is not a major issue in 2019, then why is it a major issue in 2018? That is a concern. Dr. Mueller replied, We are aiming for second quarter 2019 implementation. Until we get a clear signal from Council that you want to go ahead, I haven't even sat down with Area Plan to figure out the exact timing and how to make that transfer as smooth as possible. This ordinance would have to have an implementation date and that is the one (1) piece we haven't figured out. Committee Chair Davis interjected, Well, I think it would be nice that, and,part of not only sitting down with Area Plan staff and we won't go back and forth here tonight but,just to share,it would be good for us to have a discussion. That is why this Committee is set up. We can have a set up meeting where we can discuss the ideas, even if it's done through a resolution. We've done resolutions many times when everything is not detailed and it gives direction on which way to go. We can look at the benefit of,do we need to start in the middle of the year? Or do we need to have a study so we can make a recommendation for next year and we can launch it on January 1St, 2020 EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 I TfD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 8