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established to be responsible for advising the City on how to make financial reparations to <br />impacted communities. <br />Section III. The Common Council hereby encourages the City to target investment into <br />institutions and programs that provide affordable housing,psychological counseling, health <br />care services, and vocational training to impacted communities, their family members and <br />others affected by aforementioned practices. <br />Section IV. The Common Council hereby calls on the South Bend Community School <br />Corporation to work with the City around reparatory justice efforts for impacted communities <br />and to incorporate into its curriculum a history lesson about the experiences of African <br />Americans in South Bend and their efforts to hold those at fault accountable and to seek <br />reparatory justice for affected communities. <br />Section V.The Common Council hereby commits to supporting the creation of public <br />memorials that memorialize African American history in the City. <br />Section VI. The Common Council hereby calls on the City to develop a detailed plan to set <br />aside a significant portion of federal American Rescue Plan and Infrastructure Investment <br />and Jobs Act dollars to fund institutions and programs designated by impacted communities <br />that provide affordable housing, psychological counseling, health care services, and <br />vocational training to impacted communities,their family members and others affected by <br />said practices. <br />Section VII This resolution shall become effective upon the date of passage. <br />Dated this 9th day of January 2023. <br />Approved this 9th Day January 2023 <br />Sharon McBride, President, <br />South Bend Common <br />Council <br />Attest: <br />Dawn M. Jones, City Clerk <br />Presented by me, the undersigned Clerk of the City of South Bend, to the Mayor of the <br />City of South Bend, Indiana on the day of January 2023 at_o'clock . m.