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/ otTh \akk <br /> r <br /> PEACE S t <br /> res <br /> BILL NO. 19-14 <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 4761-19 <br /> A SECOND RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, <br /> INDIANA, (PREVIOUSLY RESOLUTION 4637-17) AGAIN STRONGLY ENDORSING AND <br /> RECOMMENDING IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM TO REDUCE <br /> PANHANDLING WITHIN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND <br /> 6 , on June 12, 2017, the South Bend Common Council passed Resolution No. 4637-17, strongly <br /> endorsing and recommending implementation of a pilot employment program to reduce panhandling within the <br /> City of South Bend and requesting funding within the 2018 City of South Bend's Budget for such a pilot program; <br /> and <br /> Gym the purpose of that Resolution was to reduce the practice of personally soliciting money from <br /> others in public places, known as panhandling, which can be uncomfortable, awkward and unpleasant for the <br /> person being solicited as well as being a loss of dignity for the solicitor; and <br /> the Mayor of South Bend approved the resolution on June 19, 2017; and <br /> G, the recommended pilot program was not implemented as requested by Resolution 4637-17; and <br /> G the City Administration of Indianapolis, under Mayor Joe Hogsett, has this year of 2019, seized <br /> the opportunity to become a national leader and the first city in Indiana to have the City Administration propose <br /> funding, in the approximate amount of$150,000, to implement a similar program to be paid from funds received <br /> from extending parking meter times; and <br /> Ofiwass, South Bend's prior Resolution acknowledged programs in other cities to curtail panhandling such <br /> as installing bright parking style meters where visitors and residents can donate to local non-profits rather than <br /> handing cash to panhandlers or providing gift cards and mittens to those in need; and <br /> South Bend's prior Resolution also acknowledged programs initiated in Portland, Maine and <br /> Albuquerque,New Mexico,the same programs upon which the Indianapolis proposal is based,which offer to pay <br /> panhandlers the city's minimum wage plus lunch for a six(6)-hour work day maintaining public parks and spaces, <br /> after which social services and job training are made available; and <br /> O the estimated cost for the Portland Opportunity Crew during its first year in 2017 was $41,000 <br /> with an initial appropriation from the City of$25,000 in May 2017, to fund a pilot program for thirty-six (36)J. <br /> weeks ; and <br /> Ofiaeai, during the pilot phase, crews in Portland picked up three-hundred ten (310) bags of trash and <br /> collected two-hundred fourteen(214) hypodermic needles; and <br />