07-13-98 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING July 13.1998 Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend met in the Council Chambers of the County -City Building on Monday, July 13, 1998, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was called to order and the Pledge to the Flag was given. ROLL CALL Present: Council Members Aranowski, Pfeifer, Kelly, Broden, Varner, Ujdak, Coleman, and Sniadecki - Absent: Council Member Hosinski REPORT FROM THE SUB- COMMITTEE ON MINUTES To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: The sub - committee has inspected the minutes of the June 22, meeting of the Council and found them correct. Therefore, we recommend the same be approved. /s/ Sean Coleman /s/ David Varner Council Member Broden made a motion that the minutes of the June 22, 1998, meeting be accepted and placed on file, seconded by Council Member Varner. The motion carried. SPECIAL BUSINESS BILL NO. 2643 -98 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, COMMENDING THE HONORABLE JEANNE M. JOURDAN, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE Whereas, Judge Jeanne M. Jourdan's legal career began by volunteering her services to the Legal Aid Clinic under the auspices of the University of Notre Dame Law School, while raising five (5) young daughters with her husband, Tom, at their home in the 1st District of our city; and Whereas, following her graduation from the University of Notre Dame Law School, she founded the first all woman law firm in the State of Indiana, on July 14, 1975, as Cekanski and Swartz, with that firm being hired the following year by the South Bend Common Council to provide legal services to the City Council; and Whereas, Judge Jourdan's legal career included not only the private sector but also serving as a St. Joseph County Public Defender and a hard - working St. Joseph County Deputy Prosecutor, who has always known for putting in long hours in all of her endeavors; and Whereas, Judge Jourdan quickly became a role model both on and off the bench, especially for her fairness in the application and interpretation of the law, with many persons remarking how grateful we are to have our own "Dr. Laura" as a judge, who applies not only the law, but is courageous enough to apply common sense to given situations; and Whereas, one example of Judge Jourdan's sincere concern over the growing problems of guns and violence in our neighborhoods lead her to initiate in 1993 the "This is My Neighborhood: No Shooting Allowed" in South Bend; and many recall her moving remarks before the South Bend Common Council in conjunction with many volunteers and members of the South Bend Police Department who made this a viable neighborhood initiative.