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SUBSTITUTE BILL NO. 18-74
<br /> RESOLUTION NO. 4669-18
<br /> A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND,INDIANA CALLING FOR
<br /> THE CONTINUED PROVISION OF TEMPORARY SHELTER AND PROTECTION FROM SEVERE
<br /> WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND,INDIANA
<br /> the South Bend Common Council's mission statement is to make certain that our city government
<br /> is always responsive to the needs of our residents and that the betterment of South Bend is always our highest
<br /> priority; and
<br /> OfLaw, this Common Council is committed to protecting its residents from life-threatening weather
<br /> conditions which periodically occur in our city because all of our brothers and sisters are entitled to be treated
<br /> with dignity and assisting helping our residents with these types of housing is a shared responsibility between the
<br /> individual and the government; and
<br /> the St. Joseph County Region 2a Homeless Regional Planning Council, representing service
<br /> providers and others, has recognized that issues involving the homeless require the partnership of both private
<br /> and public entities to solve; and
<br /> Ofimeme, on October 22, 2018, the South Bend Common Council unanimously voted to re-zone the former
<br /> Cutting Tools, Inc. building at 121 E. Tutt Street from light industrial to mixed use in order that it can be used
<br /> as a Weather Amnesty Shelter starting on November 1, 2018, and operating to April 1, 2019; and
<br /> Of‘pem, the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Indiana has had 10 to 15 men in for winter amnesty
<br /> since the start of November, according to Executive Director Steve Camilleri, who also stated that"a maximum
<br /> of 15 occupants is limited by an occupancy permit;" and
<br /> GNB, in prior years before 2018, Life Treatment Centers, Inc.,has provided weather amnesty services
<br /> for women in the City of South Bend, Indiana, but are no longer providing those services; and
<br /> Ofiweem, in the year of 2017, one of the previous weather amnesty sites, which was the former Kraz
<br /> Construction Building at 211 W. Monroe St., did not open its doors until December 1, 2017; and
<br /> G,i there was an undesirable delay in opening a needed second weather amnesty shelter this year until
<br /> November 29, 2018, despite previous conditions of snow, freezing rain and temperatures falling into the teens as
<br /> early as November 10, 2018; and
<br /> the problem of homelessness is very difficult to resolve, but a private and public partnership to
<br /> provide emergency shelters to protect lives during severe weather conditions does not require the same
<br /> comprehensive solution as does the problem of homelessness; and
<br /> Ofimm, although the City of South Bend has increased its support for weather amnesty service providers
<br /> over the past two years, as well as for other long-term solutions, it has not, does not currently, and does not
<br /> intend, to provide direct services for the homeless or operate a weather amnesty shelter.
<br /> Of y the City of South Bend opens emergency warming and cooling centers during emergency
<br /> temperature conditions in coordination with the Emergency Management Agency of St. Joseph County
<br /> ("Emergency Management"); and
<br /> Off.., the function of a Resolution is to express the policy and/or intent of the Common Council.
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<br /> Section I. The City of South Bend will work with Emergency Management to define emergency
<br /> temperatures and other emergency weather events.
<br /> Section II. The City of South Bend will work with Emergency Management to identify, maintain and
<br /> make known to its residents, places of shelter during severe weather, whether that weather be the result of heat,
<br /> heat index, cold, wind chill or other life threating conditions such as tornadoes.
<br /> Section III. If a Gateway or Intake Center, defined,in part,as a single-entry point into the system of care,
<br /> linking homeless individuals with shelter, case management, and appropriate community services, is not
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