04-14-14 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING APRIL 14, 2014 WHEREAS, the 2014 Northwest Indiana MDA Muscle Walk will take place at noon on Saturday, April (26), 2014 at the Gates Gymnasium in the Weikamp Athletic Center located on the campus of Bethel College in our sister city of Mishawaka with every dollar raised of the $50,000 goal going directly to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Northwest Indiana Now therefore, be it resolved, by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana as follows: Section 1. The Common Council of the City of South Bend Indiana encourages everyone to consider participating in the 2014 Northwest Indiana MDA Muscle Walk on Saturday, April (26), 2014 with this being one of three MDA walks taking place in Indiana this year. Section II. As noted one of the past MDA Muscle Walk participants: "Our favorite part of the walk is coming together as a community to show our support in ending muscular dystrophy ... when there are larger events we remember that there are more people in this fight than just us" Section III. This resolution shall be in force and effect from and after its adoption by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor. Councilmember Henry Davis made the presentation for this resolution. Robert Emery spoke on behalf of the resolution. Mr. Emery was diagnosed with MDA seven years ago and had a father who recently died with the same diagnosis. Mr. Emery noted April (26), 2014 by proclamation of Gov. Michael Pence is to be Indiana Muscular Dystrophy Day and also the day for the MDA walk of the resolution. MDA Indiana Representative- We serve over 43 different counties in Northern Indiana. We provide funds for free programs, free flu shots, free equipment, summers camps for kids between ages of 6 -17, and most importantly the coach. The MDA assists our clients and we also want to find cures and treatments. Councilmember Henry Davis as a city Council we want to recognize those who have disabilities as well, I hope we move forward on this bill. Councilmember Scott made a motion to move for favorable recommendation for this Resolution. Councilmember White seconded the motion which carried forward by a voice vote of nine (9). ANNOUNCEMENT: REPRESENTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE CHIEF OF STAFF KATHRYN ROOS REPORTS OF CITY OFFICES - DEPUTY MAYOR MARK NEAL The recent state of violence in our community is acceptable. No parent should have to pay for the death of their child. Our public safety officials are very focused, we appreciate your support and all your efforts. We will be having more consistency on beets, to get to know the residences, and increase with reporting. I will continue to urge all the community to report acts of violence, and public safety they can call anonymously. Other notes, our corridors plan there's been an effort in the budget that has been approved to work on Western Ave. There will be a series of Public Meetings to April 21' -26th, we will also be using our city voice application (to leave phone messages to give your feedback). We also want to highlight our police and firefighters who honored officers who serve our community. We appreciate hundreds of volunteers for rehabilitating the houses. Finally, we would like to recognize our Public Works employees, over hundreds of them were honored for the great job they did during last winter and cleaning our streets, and helping with our solid waste. Councilmember Dieter- You mentioned the law enforcement side, as I said for years on the city council we need to increase in beets and police personnel, so thank you for that Councilmember Dr. Varner - The city police applications that they use for surveys it's important that the results are reported. I think too often information is cleaned and not reported.