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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Ms. Aldridge stated,To answer some of the questions that I will amend in the third(3rd) substitute as to which points you want to be more specific. We're going to recruit directly with the schools and directly through the neighborhood associations and directly from Alumni students. So, a lot of those students have actually landed in the Youth Task Force already. That's one opportunity to recruit from as well. We've spoken with the schools so we're being super intentional. Diversity is really sort of the heart of what we're trying to do here as well. Committee Chair White then reopened the floor to questions and comments from Committee and Council Members. There were none. There were none. She then opened the floor to members of the public wishing to speak. Judy Fox with the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center located at 725 Howard Street, South Bend, IN stated, Very quickly just wanted to let you know that we work regularly creating training sessions with the Mishawaka Council so we definitely be interested in assisting this as well. Seeing no one else from the public wishing to speak in favor or against substitute Bill No. 27-19 Ordinance Amending Youth Council, Committee Chair Karen White asked the Committee what their pleasure would be for substitute Bill No. 27-19 Ordinance Amending Youth Council. Committeemember Sharon L. McBride made a motion to send substitute Bill No. 27-19 Ordinance Amending Youth Council to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. Committeemember Jo M. Broden seconded the motion and it was carried with a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Update: Western Manor Apartments, Councilmember Dr. Oliver Davis Councilmember Dr. Oliver Davis stated, As you all know, we've had three (3) meetings with our residents who live in Western Manor. I'd like to thank attorney Judy Fox who is here and will give us an update, and we have Mr. Rodney Gatson who has also been appointed by the tenants to help. Judy Fox with the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center located at 725 Howard Street, South Bend, IN stated, So, I am not exaggerating when I say that we have a humanitarian crisis here. We have a hundred families. It is very clear that the apartment complex intends to throw all of them out one way or the other. Even though they are paying the rent they are making everyone reapply and pay a new deposit even though they have an old deposit somewhere on record that apparently the apartment complex says they can't find. Pretty much everyone that I've been able to talk to who has reapplied has been denied. I've been in personal contact with over fifty (50) families. The second crisis is that everybody has to get utilities such as the electricity in their own name by September 1,2019.These are folks who haven't had utilities in their names sometimes for decades so there are often very large deposits that have to be paid as well as the rent increase. I am working with Real Services and Catholic Charities and St Vincent De Paul.We have gotten to State to agree to emergency funds so we think that we can cover the utilities.We're going to have an event where Real Services is going to be at the library on Lombardy Street on Wednesday with their laptops to take applications in order to get everybody signed up with utilities, but that's not going to solve the whole problem. The problem is going to fall on the City. The City doesn't have much control over the fact that this landlord's attitude is,and this is a paraphrase,but I'm in there to make money and I don't care what happens to these people.The City is going to face the burden of what's going to happen with all these people, and there are no units available. We have been trying to rehouse EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson BvId South Bend.Indiana 46601 p574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 vvvruv.southbendin.goy 4