02-27-19 Joint Health and Public Safety and Utilities

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK change,but legislation is needed in order to allow communities to survive and we must protect our vulnerable. Those people are the younger generation and the older generations and people who may not have the education or the power to speak up about how they feel about where they live. I'm not originally from here, I am from Seattle, but I am really happy that I've spent my last four (4) years here and I had an opportunity to see all the good energy that surrounds the City. I think this is a wonderful opportunity to let the Office of Sustainability lead the way and to get everybody under the same topic, under the same motive and moving toward the right direction. Meredith Seward, 808 Corby Blvd., stated, Last week I was babysitting for a family that lives near Notre Dame's campus, and they said that their basement had flooded. And the kids said and it's fine because it's our favorite maintenance guy. And that really stuck with me that their house has been flooded that many times in the last couple of years that the kids had a favorite flooding maintenance guy and they knew them well enough to ask him a lot of questions, and as beautiful as that relationship was to see, the cause for it, I found to be really concerning. It also made me feel a little bit helpless, because I as an individual can do all that I can to take the bus everywhere I go,bring my own reusable bags to the store,turn down the temperature in my house in the winter, but that's not going to be where the big change needs to happen. As Aleah just mentioned, South Bend has been a leader before with environmental issues particularly with the Bowman Creek Ecosystem and that's been a way in which South Bend has paved the path for other Cities around the country to have similar projects. I would love to see South Bend take those leadership qualities and pass a climate ordinance here and be a leader throughout the country,saying that climate action is a priority here and we want to protect the citizens that live here. Thank you. Co-Committee Chair Broden stated, Even though we said last speakers on the line, if anyone else wants to jump in, we'll allow it. Thank you all very much. With regard to next meeting, probably the best place is, I'm going to encourage you to look to the City's website, go to the Common Council's section of the website, you'll see that listed under the Departments, we're one(1) of the Departments, and then from there you could follow this issue under meetings and agendas. Then from there at the Health and Public Safety and Utilities Committee, it will be tracked there. Additionally,a point person, and I would recommend following her on Twitter and Facebook, and I'll let Therese make her own plug on that. Ms. Dorau stated,Yes,Twitter and Facebook. I'll keep everyone updated on any meetings that get scheduled on this topic, and our handle is @SustainSB on both Facebook and Twitter. Co-Committee Chair Broden stated, Champions, Facebook,maybe you could tip everybody to the Climate Champions website. Ms. Brebeck stated, We have a Facebook Page, Climate Champions of South Bend. Do not use Youth Task Force of South Bend, no one has any way to log into that account. Co-Committee Chair Broden asked if there were any closing comments. Committee Member Voorde stated, I would like to echo Professor Keen's remarks. I am part of that generation that messed things up and its incumbent on me to begin to take responsibility for turning things around. It wasn't too long ago that I needed to be convinced that climate change was a problem, as opposed to an actual cycle of weather. So, from a what can we do right now standpoint,I think its apparent that as we begin to look at the 2020 budget.Though Councilmember EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 I 1L)574.235.5567 vwwv.southbendin.gov 24