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City of South Bend <br />Common Council <br />441 County-City Building ● 227 W. Jefferson Blvd <br />South Bend, Indiana 46601 <br /> <br /> <br /> (574) 235-9321● Fax (574) 235-9173 ● TDD (574) 235-5567 ● http://www.southbendin.gov <br />body but has not been sworn in as a member of the governing body.” To be clear, the “governing body” <br />is defined in the same statute, and under these circumstances, as the Rules Committee. Consequently, the <br />acting chair of the Rules Committee was acting within her rights and privilege to limit seating at the <br />Council bench to those necessary to carry out the Rules Committee purposes. Unfortunately, Dr. Davis <br />chose to disregard the requests of the acting chair and the Council attorney and insisted on remaining at <br />the bench. <br />Other Council members sat in the audience or viewed the meeting online. I sat in the audience as <br />requested. Council Member Gooden -Rogers vacated the bench when her participation as a Committee <br />member ended and sat in the audience for the remainder of the meeting. Council Member Bolden- <br />Simpson was not asked to sit in the audience only because she came to the meeting late after it was <br />decided by the acting chair that it was more important to proceed with the meeting than it was to continue <br />to try to reason with Dr. Davis. <br />###