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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committee Chair Davis asked, Councilmember McBride, do you know what is going to happen to those trailers that are in your District now? Councilmember McBride replied, At this point in time, we talked with the Administration about after the Weather Amnesty is finalized, moving forward and having a discussion of what is and what is not going to happen. We know they will not be at the current location, however, they may be there through the winter time but nothing will take place there. It will cost for them to move them to another location so our neighborhood association and our District is ok with them being there until the weather breaks for them to come up with a plan if it is not being used. We will continue having communications after the Weather Amnesty breaks because we are still talking about permanent housing. That conversation will still take place. As of now they are not utilizing the pods and we are ok with where they are in their current form through the winter. Committee Chair Davis replied, Ok, good to know. Committee Chair Davis then gave the floor to the petitioner. David Vanderveen, Executive Director of Hope Ministries with offices located at 432 South Lafayette Boulevard, stated, Hope Ministries will be operating the facility from sometime in November until April 1St, 2019. This is the same thing we did in the Kratz Building last year. We will be open from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. As we talked with the neighbors we met with, folks will come at 8:00 p.m. They will be inside the building and staff will be present the whole time they are there and then at 8:00 a.m. they will leave the building. Our responsibility is that they get off the block. Most of them will be heading down the street to services like breakfast either at Broadway Christian Parish or Our Lady of the Road. So at that point the building will be closed and will not reopen until 8:00 p.m. Committee Chair Davis stated, Like you shared with us at Area Plan, 8:00 in the morning, they leave, they go to breakfast. You also mentioned that you will probably start giving passes over at dinner. Can you talk about that again? Mr. Vanderveen replied, Correct. So most of the individuals that are staying in Weather Amnesty come to Hope Ministries at our location on Lafayette for meals, so they will be there for dinner. Our plan is to have a check-in process there so they won't need to line up outside at the Tutt Street building. They will be given a card or a ticket of some sort and then once they are done eating dinner, they can walk over and enter the building. Committee Chair Davis then stated,And our discussion about families, children and all those kind of situations, you said most of them would be at that site. Or would it be more at the other? Mr. Vanderveen replied, So typically, Weather Amnesty serves very few families but when we do identify one (1), The Center for the Homeless makes space available for them. So the Center for the Homeless will also be participating in Weather Amnesty again. They will have some beds available. Committee Chair Davis stated, One (1) last comment I thought was important. You talked about your assessment of the people who are by the Kratz Building and you said they gave their evaluation of what they saw during the Winter Amnesty, could you share that please? EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 10