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40 CITY OF SOUTH BEND ; OFFICE OF THE CLERK <br /> we've had some very strong activities over the years that most of us have had a small role in. <br /> Additionally, Council Members have served before me. I would like to recognize here, today, <br /> Therese Dorau from the City of South Bend's Office of Sustainability. I believe Jamie Morgan is <br /> here to represent the Mayor's Office. <br /> She went on, The last piece is to recognize that this is just one (1) of many steps going forward. <br /> To that end, hopefully it will provide insight to the process that brought us here as a Council, the <br /> input from our community including our science and youth communities, and hopefully then it <br /> will be instructive to others throughout the State of Indiana as they look to some of these types of <br /> activities. Since we last presented, I wanted to just share some pieces of information with you. Tai <br /> Verbrugge has been very instrumental in the process as one (1) of our climate youth champions <br /> and was involved in the very first(1st) class at Notre Dame. He has been very active. On Friday of <br /> last week, several members in the community contributed to an educational event and I wanted to <br /> submit this for the record (available in the City Clerk's Office). This is a real basic primer that I <br /> wanted to enter into the record. The other hot off the press. The Environmental Resilience Institute <br /> of Indiana University conducted a survey of 1,002 Indiana residents about their views on the <br /> environment and climate. I'm not going to read this to you, again, in the interest of time, but you <br /> will see some pretty interesting statistics there. As we move, hopefully in a favorable way on this <br /> legislation tonight, it will be addressing some of these concerns of our fellow Hoosiers (the article <br /> is available in the City Clerk's Office). I'm sure we will have some folks chiming in tonight in <br /> support of this. Having said that, I want to turn it over to our co-sponsors for any comments, if <br /> you'd like. <br /> Councilmember Karen White stated, I'm very pleased to be a co-sponsor of this particular <br /> resolution. I particularly like the process that got us to this point as well as the relationship and <br /> collaboration between the Administration. It is well-written, and it also gives the steps in terms of <br /> moving forward as we look toward moving from a resolution to an ordinance.Again,all the various <br /> individuals that have really given their time and expertise to really help us frame this particular <br /> resolution, thank you. It is very exciting, and I look forward to moving it to the next phase. <br /> Councilmember Jake Teshka stated, I would like to echo Councilmember White's sentiments <br /> there. I also want to thank Dr. Sakimoto, Notre Dame students, Therese, the Youth Champions <br /> and all the folks that lent their voice to this process, coming out to the two (2) meetings that were <br /> held earlier this spring. I thought it was important for this to be a bipartisan thing, so, that kind of <br /> left one (1) outfit for me. But, I was not pressured into doing this and I support this on my own <br /> free will. I was at the Goshen Founder's Day event where Mayor Stutsman gave his speech. <br /> They've been doing some really great things over there in terms of alternative energy and solar. <br /> We even watched a video at one(1) of our meetings that pertained specifically to Goshen. He said <br /> something very poignant and I was trying to remember what it was, but trust me, it was poignant. <br /> Essentially, the bottom line was that we don't have to always agree. There are those folks in our <br /> country and community who might say that climate change is cyclical or not man made and other <br /> things. We don't necessarily have to agree on that point to move forward. We can move forward <br /> just out of our shared love for our Earth and the fact we want our children and grandchildren to <br /> live here. There are a lot of practical things we can agree on. We can bring folks from all different <br /> viewpoints to the table. This shows that the majority of Hoosiers do believe that climate change is <br /> happening and impacting us on a day-to-day basis. The other comment I've received is what can <br /> the City of South Bend do about climate change when you've got these bad actors like China and <br /> other places around the world? To that I say, we have to do something. If we as human beings, <br /> EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT <br /> 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 111)574.235.5567vv vvv.southbendin.gov <br /> 2 <br />