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Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend met in special session on November 20, 1940, at <br />the City Hall Council Chambers, at 7:55 P.M. with all members present. President McCarthy presided. <br />CALL FOR A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA <br />We, the undersigned members of the Common Council of the City of South Bend, hereby call a special meeting of the <br />Council to convene at 7:55 P.M. on the 20th day of Nov. 1940, for the purpose of considering the following business: <br />An ordinance reducing certain appropriations for the Health Department for the <br />year 1941 and transferring the amount so reduced to the General Fund. <br />An ordinance appropriating the sum of $500.00 from the General Fund of the City <br />of South Bend, Indiana, to the Health Department account for motor equipment and <br />declaring an emergency. <br />An ordinance licensing and regulating Parking Stations in the City of South Bend, <br />Indiana, and licensing and regulating parking station operators and employees. <br />An ordinance amending Ordinance 2331, adopted by the Common Council of the City <br />of South Bend, Indiana, June 25th, 19239, and commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance. <br />An ordinance amendatory of Ordinance 2331, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance. <br />Resolution allocating the sum of $25,000,00 from the amount appropriated for WPA and PWA in the 1940 Budget under <br />account H -27 Department of Public Works to Special WPA account. <br />Considering all communications, remonstrances, petitions and receiving committee reports. <br />Signed this 20th day of November, 1940. <br />J. M. McCARTHY <br />LEO M. JORDAN <br />GEO. F. HULL <br />MELTON 0. BRA NAN <br />WILLIAM F. PULASKI <br />COMMUNICATION <br />THE SAFE 11ALKER' S CLUB <br />Sponsored by Safety Division <br />ASSOCIATION OF C%4MERCE <br />City Council <br />City Hall <br />South Bend, Indiana <br />Dear Sirs: <br />You have doubtless observed an increase in safe behavior by pedestrians in South Bend during the last few days. <br />This greater safety has resulted from a thorough program of cooperation by the police department, by the city traffi <br />engineer, by the city traffic commission, and the Safety Division of the Association of Commerce through its <br />Pedestrian Protection Committee. •The five local Ausciliaries of the American Legion are doing their part by promot- <br />ing the Safe Walker's Club, with headquarters in the Oliver Hotel and the Pulaski Post on South Chapin Street. <br />We feel sure your organization will want to join in this movement to save lives and prevent injuries. Hazards to <br />pedestrians have been called "South Bend's No. 1 Traffic Problem`. Two- thirds of the persons killed by automobiles <br />last year were pedestrians. If we can influence motorists to respect the rights of pedestrians, and pedestrians to <br />respect the rights of motorists, we can easily reduce the traffic toll by more than one - half. <br />Your organization can be of tremendous help by having all <br />There is no obligation except for'the pledger to keep his <br />furnishes free membership buttons, cards, and literature. <br />your members sign the 10 -point pledge to walk safely. <br />or her promise. The club charges no membership dues, and <br />The Safety Division of the Association of Commerce will be glad to send a 5- minute speaker to your next meeting to <br />explain the purpose of the Safe Walker's Club and to provide membership supplies. Will you please sign the enclose( <br />card telling us when and where you would like to have a speaker? <br />Yours very truly, <br />MRS. CHARLES F. DAY <br />General Chairman, Safe Walker's Club <br />,Councilman Hull made a motion that pledge cards be signed by the Councilmen and the communication placed on file. <br />Councilman Pulaski seconded the motion. Motion carried. <br />RESOLUTION <br />WHEREAS: for the last three years, representatives of organized labor in cooperation with representatives of other <br />groups and interest, have kept before the public of South Bend that fact that we have a serious housing problem, <br />and has continually demanded of the CITY COUNCIL and the Mayor that a housing Authority be appointed which can <br />officially study this problem and take steps to remedy it, and <br />WHEREAS: the situation is becoming increasingly more acute and is causing its greatest hardships on the indigents <br />and those on the relief rolls, and because it is once more officially before the City Council and is the subject of <br />study by a special committee of the Council, which committee is to make its recommendation at the next meeting, and <br />WHEREAS: the next regularly scheduled council meeting falls on the 11th day of November, which is Armistice Day <br />and celebrated as a national holiday, which fact might be reason for postponing the meeting until the 25th day of <br />Novemher, now be it <br />RESOLVED: That the South Bend Industrial Union Council, C.I.O. repeat its demands on the City Council that it reco� <br />nize the housing problem in South Bend, and that it do so by proper resolution, and that the Mayor of the City act <br />on that resolution and appoint a Housing Authority immediately so it may officially investigate this problem and <br />take steps to remedy the situation, and further, <br />That the Council should meet on Armistice Day to consider this problem and that it should not be delayed any londer� <br />That it is fit and proper that the Council should, on Armistice Day, initiate a move designed to care for its peopl <br />economic problems. The Council will prove by its action that it is responsive to the demands of the people that <br />atteiti.on be given to the social needs of our own people, and that less attention be given to those who call for a <br />sacrifice of social gains as part of their program to make us repeat a mistake, a mistake whose ending we celebrate <br />on November 11th. <br />