Fiscal Plan for EMRO/NDCU Annexation Area in Centre & Penn Townships

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RESOLUTION NO. c /66 -�7 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND ADOPTING A WRITTEN FISCAL PLAN AND ESTABLISHING A POLICY FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO AN ANNEXED AREA IN CENTRE AND PENN TOWNSHIPS (EMRO /NDCU ANNEXATION) WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, an ordinance which proposed the annexation of the real estate described hereinafter as Exhibit "A," located in Centre and Penn Townships, St. Joseph County, Indiana; and WHEREAS, the territory proposed to be annexed encompasses approximately 9.5 acres of land, used primarily for commercial and office purposes located at the northwest and southeast corners of Ironwood and Ireland Roads, fifty -one percent (51%) of its aggregate external boundaries coinciding with the boundaries of the City of South Bend; approximately seventy -two percent (72%) subdivided. Sewer and municipal water service is available to the Annexation Area but development of the territory proposed to be annexed will require additional street lighting and additional police protection, street and road maintenance; WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana now desires to establish and adopt a fiscal plan and establish a definite policy showing (1) the cost estimates of services of a non - capital nature, including street and road maintenance, police and fire protection and other non - capital services normally provided within the corporate boundaries, and services of a capital improvement nature, including street, construction, street lighting, water facilities, sewer facilities, and storm water drainage facilities to be furnished to the territory to be annexed; (2) the method(s) of financing those services; (3) the plan for the organization and extension of those services; (4) that services of a non - capital nature will be provided to the annexed area within one (1) year after the effective date of the annexation, and that they will be provided in a manner equivalent in standard and scope to similar non - capital services provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend, that have characteristic of topography, patterns of land use, and population density similar to that of the territory to be annexed; (5) that services of a capital improvement nature will be provided to the annexed area within three (3) years after the effective date of the annexation in the same manner as those services are provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend that have characteristics of topography, patterns of land use and population density similar to that of the territory to be annexed and in a manner consistent with federal, state and local laws, procedures, and planning criteria; and (6) the plan for hiring the employees of other governmental entities whose jobs will be eliminated by the proposed annexation; WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, the Board of Public Safety of the City of South Bend, and the Board of Water Works Commissioners of the City of South Bend, have approved a written fiscal plan and established a policy for the provision of services to the territory to be annexed, which plan and policy the Common Council finds appropriate and the adoption of which as the plan and policy for the City of South Bend the Common Council finds to be in the best interests of the City.