Fiscal Plan for Drake Annexation Area Centre Township

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RESOLUTION NO. ~~°~S-0~ A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA ADOPTING A WRITTEN FISCAL PLAN AND ESTABLISHING A POLICY FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO AN ANNEXATION AREA IN CENTRE TOWNSHIP (DRAKE ANNEXATION AREA) WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, an Ordinance and a petition by all (100%) property owners which proposes the annexation of real estate located in Centre Township; St. Joseph County, Indiana, which is more particularly described in Section I of this Resolution; and WHEREAS, the territory proposed to be annexed encompasses approximately 3.31 acres of land containing a grouping of three single story motel buildings, which property is at least 12.5% contiguous to the current City limits, i.e., approximately 18.3 % contiguous, generally" located at the northwest corner of U.S. 31 and Kern Road. It is anticipated that the annexation area will be developed for athree-story motel facility. This development will require a basic level of municipal public services of anon-capital improvement nature, including police and fire protection, street and road maintenance, street sweeping, flushing, snow removal, and sewage collection, as well as services of a capital improvement nature, including street and road construction, street lighting, a sanitary sewer system, a water distribution system, and a storm water system and drainage plan; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council now desires to establish and adopt a fiscal plan and establish a definite policy showing: (1) the cost estimates of services of anon-capital nature, including police and fire protection, street and road maintenance, street sweeping, flushing, and snow removal, and sewage collection, and other non-capital services normall}~ provided within the corporate boundaries; and services of a capital improvement nature including street and road construction, street lighting, a sanitar}~ sewer extension, a water distribution system, and a storm water system 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 anon-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, regardless of similar topography, patterns of land use, and population density; (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 within the same manner as those services are provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend regardless of similar topography, patterns of land use, or population density, and in a manner consistent with federal, state and local laws, procedures, and planning criteria; and (6) the plan for hiring the employees or other governmental entities whose jobs will be eliminated by the proposed annexation; and WHEREAS, the City of South Bend Board of Public Safety and Board of Public Works