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163 <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />FEBRUARY 25, 1991 <br />Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend met in the <br />Council Chambers of the County -City Building on Monday, February 25, 1991, at 5:00 <br />p.m. The meeting was called to order and the Pledge to the Flag was given. <br />ROLL CALL Present: Council Members Luecke, Niezgodski, Soderberg, <br />Puzzello, Slavinskas, Zakrzewski, Duda, Coleman <br />and Ladewski <br />Absent: None <br />REPORT FROM THE SUB- COMMITTEE ON MINUTES <br />To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: <br />The sub - committee has inspected the minutes of the February 11, 1991 meeting of the <br />Council and found them correct. <br />Therefore, we recommend the same be approved. <br />/s/ Tom Zakrzewski <br />/s /Don Niezgodski <br />Council Member Coleman made a motion that the minutes of the February 11, 1991 <br />meetings of the Council be accepted and placed on file, seconded by Council Member <br />Zakrzewski. The motion carried. <br />SPECIAL BUSINESS <br />Dr. Carl Ecker, President of the Humane Society, indicated there was an annual <br />shortage of approximately $30,000 each year that the society must make up for <br />services to South Bend, Mishawaka and St. Joseph County. She indicated it cost <br />$26.50 for each animal picked up in the City, which is lower than many other Indiana <br />cities. She indicated the society and the City were only $2,500 apart in <br />negotiations, and if this cannot be resolved the Society will have to discontinue <br />services on Thursday. Pat DeClercq, Director of Code Enforcement, indicated that <br />the City paid $156,555 in 1990 and has offered a 5% increase to $164,382. <br />11 RESOLUTION NO. 1843 -91 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND <br />ADOPTING A WRITTEN FISCAL PLAN AN ESTABLISHING A POLICY FOR <br />THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO AN ANNEXED AREA IN CENTRE <br />TOWNSHIP. <br />WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Common Council of the City of South <br />Bend, Indiana, an ordinance which proposes the annexation of the hereinafter <br />described real estate located in Centre Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana; and <br />WHEREAS, the territory proposed to be annexed is a 34 acre tract of land located <br />to the south of the City of South Bend and west of the intersection of Jackson and <br />Miami Roads, which tract is proposed to be developed for residential use, which <br />development will require a level of municipal public services basic to the <br />establishment and maintenance of such development, which services shall include <br />services of a non - capital nature, including street and road maintenance, fire and <br />police protection, and services of a capital improvement nature, including street <br />construction, street lighting, sewer facilities, water facilities and storm water <br />facilities; and <br />WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana now desires to <br />establish and adopt a fiscal plan and establish a definite policy showing (1) the <br />cost estimates of services of a non - capital nature, including street and road <br />maintenance, police and fire protection and other non - capital services normally <br />provided within the corporate boundaries, and services of a capital improvement <br />nature, including street construction, street lighting, water facilities, sewer <br />facilities, and storm water drainage facilities to be furnished to the territory to <br />be annexed; (2) the method(s) of financing those services; (3) the plan for the <br />organization and extension of those services; (4) that services of a non - capital <br />nature will be provided to the annexed area within one (1) year after the effective <br />date of the annexation, and that they will be provided in a manner equivalent in <br />standard and scope to similar non - capital services provided to areas within the <br />corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend, that have characteristic of <br />topography, patterns of land use, and population density similar to that of the <br />territory to be annexed; (5) that services of a capital improvement nature will be <br />provided to the annexed area within three (3) years after the effective date of the <br />annexation in the same manner as those services are provided to areas within the <br />corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend that have characteristics of <br />topography, patterns of land use and population density similar to that of the <br />territory to be annexed and in a manner consistent with federal, state and local <br />laws, procedures, and planning criteria; and (6) the plan for hiring the employees <br />of other governmental entities whose jobs will be eliminated by the proposed <br />annexation; and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, the Board of <br />Public Safety of the City of South Bend, and the Board of Water Works Commissioners <br />