Fiscal Plan for Stouffer Annexation Area in Clay Township

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RESOLUTION NO. 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 CLAY TOWNSHIP WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, an ordinance which proposes the annexation of the hereinafter described real estate located in Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana; and WHEREAS, the territory proposed to be annexed is generally located on the north side of Creekview Drive within the Creekwood Villas Subdivision. Creekwood Villas is on the north side of Hepler Street just west of Hickory Road and is needed and can be used by the City of South Bend for its development in the reasonably near future, the development of which land as proposed will require a level of municipal public services basic to the establishment and maintenance of such development, which services shall include services of a non - capital nature, including street and road maintenance, and services of a capital improvement nature, including street construction, street lighting, sewer facilities, and storm water facilities; and 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; and 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, as it relates to the territory to be annexed, the Common Council finds to be in the best interests of the City. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS FOLLOWS: Section I. That it is in the best interest of the City of South Bend and of the area proposed to be annexed that the real property located in Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, described in Table 2 of the Fiscal Plan, attached hereto and made a part hereof, be annexed to the City of South Bend.