07-10-00 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING JULY 10, 2000 Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met in the Council Chambers of the County -City Building on Monday, July 10, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was called to order by Council President Charlotte Pfeifer and the Invocation and Pledge to the Flag were given. ROLL CALL Present: James Aranowski Charlotte Pfeifer Roland Kelly Karl King Andrew Uj dak Sean Coleman Al `Buddy" Kirsits Karen L. White Absent: David Varner 1St District Vice - President 2nd District President 3rd District 4'h District 6t'' District Chairperson, Committee of the Whole At -Large At -Large At -Large 5th District REPORT FROM THE SUB- COMMITTEE ON MINUTES It was noted that the minutes of the June 26, 2000 meeting will be submitted to the Council for consideration at the July 20 meeting of the Council. It was further noted that Councilmember Varner was not available to review the minutes of the June 26t' meeting. SPECIAL BUSINESS REPORT ON CENSUS 2000 Mr. Larry Magliozzi, Assistant Director, Planning & Neighborhood Development, Community & Economic Development, 205 West Jefferson Boulevard, Suite 416, South Bend, Indiana, gave the Council an update on the census effort. Mr. Magliozzi distributed the Census 2000 Response Rate which he reviewed for the Council. The report indicates the Census Bureau activity including the mail -in response phase that was wrapped up in April. Mr. Magliozzi noted that the bureau stopped accumulating statistics on April 12t'' so they could get ready for the next phase which was the non - response follow -up phase. Each household that did not respond by April 12"' was to be contacted. If you mailed in your response after that date it was likely that you would receive a visit by a census enumerator. That phase was completed on June 16t'' and it was anticipated that they had close to a one hundred per cent (100 %) success rate in making contacts of those households that did not send back their form. The enumerators contacted, or attempted to contact, higher than ninety -five per cent (95 %) of those individuals which was their target. The rechecking of the field work began today. This phase consists of a quality check of those households already contacted. By September the local office will be closed down and the program finished. Mr. Magliozzi explained for the Council that the individuals that did not respond were contacted three (3) times. The enumerators used what they call the proxy method utilizing apartment management who refuse access to census enumerators. The bureau could not give out the exact number of responses they received in the non - response area because they were totaled as one number. It is the opinion of the local director that the response rate was met or exceeded the response rate from 1990. On December 31, 2000 the official numbers will be put on the President's desk. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL Council President Pfeifer advised that a Special Meeting of the Council will be held on Monday, July 31, 2000 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers. President Pfeifer noted that the single issue to be discussed at this meeting will be the living wage committee report.