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SPECIAL MEETING OCTOBER 7, 1968
<br />Amended minutes as recommended by the Legal Department
<br />SPECIAL MEETING
<br />OCTOBER 7, 1968
<br />Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met in Special Session pursuant to
<br />call of Special Meeting in accordance with law in City Hall on Monday, October 7, 1968, at 8:20 P.M., in the
<br />Council Chambers. The meeting was called to order by Robert 0. Laven, President.
<br />ROLL CALL
<br />PRESENT Councilmen, Laven, Allen, Craven, Reinke, Grounds,
<br />Szymkowiak, Wise, Palmer, and Zielinski.
<br />ABSENT None.
<br />Robert 0. Laven, President, stated that the purpose of the Special Meeting was to conduct a pub9.ic hearing on a
<br />proposed Cumulative Sewer Building and Sinking Fund Ordinance and that said hearing would be conducted by the
<br />Committee of the Whole of the Council.
<br />COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING
<br />William W. Grounds, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, then called the committee to order and announced
<br />that the Committee would conduct a public hearing on the following proposed ordinance, to -wit:
<br />AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A CUMULATIVE SEWER
<br />BUILDING AND SINKING FUND TO BE KNOWN AND
<br />DESIGNATED AS THE SEWAGE TREATMENT, STORM
<br />SEWER AND DISPOSAL PLANT FUND, AND PROVIDING
<br />FOR A TAX LEVY OF $.25 ANNUALLY FOR A PERIOD
<br />OF TWELVE (12) YEARS, AS AMENDED.
<br />Councilman Robert 0. Laven stated that it was the intent to levy taxes for the fund in 1968, payable in 1969,
<br />and the proposed ordinance should be amended to reflect such intention and another public hearing be held.
<br />Whereupon Councilman William W. Grounds stated that since this was a public hearing on the proposed ordinancce,
<br />anyone present who wished to be heard could speak. No one spoke other than Virginia Guthrie, executive
<br />secretary of the South Bend Civic Planning Association, who said she would withhold comment until the public
<br />hearing on the proposed ordinance as amended. Whereupon Councilman Robert 0. Laven moved that the proposed
<br />ordinance be amended as follows:
<br />SECTION III. The entire section be deleted and the following
<br />be substituted:
<br />"There is hereby levied for each year commencing 1968, payable in
<br />1969, and extending throught 1979, payable in 1980 a tax levy to
<br />be paid into said fund of the sum of $.25 on each One Hundred
<br />($100.00) Dollars of taxable property located within the said City
<br />of South Bend, Indiana."
<br />SECTION IV. On the second line, after the word "the ", delete
<br />"7th" and insert 1121st ".
<br />Councilman Wise seconded the motion. Motion carried. Councilman Laven made a motion the ordinance go to the
<br />Council favorable as amended. Councilman Wise seconded the motion. Motion carried. Councilman Allen made
<br />a motion to rise and report to the Council. Then Councilman Laven seconded the motion. Motion carried.
<br />Time: 8:26 P.M.
<br />ATTEST:
<br />APPROVED:
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<br />The meeting of the Common Council then reconvened at 8:28 P.M., Robert 0. Laven presiding.
<br />Your Committee of the Whole to whom was referred "AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A CUMULATIVE SEWER BUILDING AND
<br />SINKING FUND TO BE KNOWN AND .DESIGNATED AS THE SEWAGE TREATMENT, STORM SEWER AND DISPOSAL PLANT FUND, AND
<br />PROVIDING FOR A TAX LEVY OF $.25 ANNUALLY FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE (12) YEARS, AS AMENDED ", respectfully re-
<br />port that they have examined the matter and that in their opinion the amended ordinance be amended as follows:
<br />SECTION III. The entire section be deleted and the following
<br />be substituted:
<br />"There is hereby levied for each year commencing 1968 payable in 1969, and
<br />extending through 1979, payable in 1980 a tax levy to be paid into said
<br />fund of the sum of $.25 on each One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars of taxable
<br />property located within the said City of South Bend, Indiana."
<br />SECTION IV. On the second line, after the word "the ", delete
<br />"7th "-and insert "21st ".
<br />There being no objection, the report was accepted as read. Councilman Wise moved the ordinance be amended as
<br />follows:
<br />SECTION III. The entire section be deleted and the following
<br />be substituted:
<br />"There is hereby levied for each year commencing 1968 payable
<br />in 1969, and extending through 1979, payable in 1980 a tax levy
<br />to be paid into said fund of the sum of $.25 on each One Hundred
<br />($100.00) Dollars of taxable property located within the said City of
<br />South Bend, Indiana."
<br />SECTION IV. On the second line, after the word "the" delete
<br />"7th" and insert "21st".
<br />Councilman Grounds seconded the motion. Motion carried. City Attorney, Arthur W. Frisk suggested a
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