03-13-00 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING MARCH 13, 2000 Councilmember White reported that the Zoning & Annexation Committee met on this bill and sends it to the Council with a favorable recommendation. Mr. Larry Magliozzi, Assistant Director, Planning & Neighborhood Development, Community & Economic Development, 205 West Jefferson Boulevard, Suite 416, South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for this Resolution. Mr. Magliozzi informed the Council that this Resolution contains the fiscal plan portion of the ordinance for voluntary annexation. He noted that the City must show their ability and capability to provide service to this site. Mr. Magliozzi stated that a majority of the eighty -six (86) acre site is vacant with a church building located on the eastern part. In regards to services, Mr. Magliozzi stated that water and sewer are available to the site. This area will be added to Beat #15 of the Police Department and will be serviced by Fire Station #10. Mr. Magliozzi informed the Council that due to the change in state law regarding annexations, cities must be more diligent in compiling their fiscal plans to show the costs of services. The City of South Bend is still toying with the proper formulas to use in computing these costs. He noted that for the purpose of this fiscal plan, the operating budgets of the departments were divided by ail area of twenty -five thousand forty -five (25,045) square miles resulting in a cost per square mile. He referred the Council to page eight (8) of the fiscal plan for this information and stated that the fiscal plans will get more sophisticated in the future. A Public Hearing was held on the Resolution at this time. There being no one present wishing to speak to the Council either in favor of or in opposition to this Resolution, Councilmember Aranowski made a motion to adopt this Resolution. Councilmember Kelly seconded the motion which carried and the Resolution was adopted by a roll call vote of nine (9) ayes. RESOLUTION NO. 2850 -00 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND ADOPTING A WRITTEN FISCAL PLAN AND ESTABLISHING A POLICY FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO AN ANNEXED AREA IN GERMAN TOWNSHIP (STASZEWSKI ANNEXATION) WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, an ordinance which proposes the annexation of the real estate located in German Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, more particularly described in Section I of this Resolution; and WHEREAS, the property proposed to be annexed consists of approximately 0.5 acres having general boundaries on the east side of Olive Road approximately 1300 feet north of Cleveland Road and it is approximately 70% contiguous to the current City limits. The development of the territory proposed to be annexed will require a basic level of municipal public services, including police and fire protection, street and road maintenance, sewage collection, solid waste and yard pickup as well as recycling services, and services of a capital improvement nature, including a sewer collection system, a water distribution system, and a street lighting system; and WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, now desires to establish and adopt a fiscal plan and establish a definite policy showing: (1) the cost estimates of services of a non - capital nature, including street and road maintenance, police and fire protection, and other non - capital services normally provided within the corporate boundaries, and services of a capital improvement nature, including a sewer collection system, a water distribution system, and a street lighting system; (2) the method (s) of financing those services; (3) the plan for the organization and extension of those services; (4) that services of a non - capital nature will be provided to the annexed area within one (1) year after the effective date of the annexation, and that they will be provided in a manner in standard and scope to similar non - capital services provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend, regardless of similar topography,