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City of South end
Common Council
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Data; February ~~9
~`ran~: Council president Derek D. Dieter
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Contact: 3~-~24a
n February 5~~ and ~ ~~~ the South fiend oon auncil v~ill be holding its ~~rst of .any
retreat sessions in ~~~ called by Council president Dercl~ ~, Dieter, the purposes of thaw
sessions are to share infarrntian among Council ~en~bcrs for the upcoming year with a very
strong emphasis on the budget and public safety.
~'hcse v~ork sesior~s provide tl~e ~auncil with the oppounity to have open and honest
dialogue an matters facing the pity off' South fiend. these brainstorming sessions will f~nther
allover the Council to have detailed debate a~~ topics hieh need further deiiberatia,n in order
to provide the citizens of auth fiend with the best level of services. Regular council
meetings do not afford the necessary tune to debate such issues and ~'acus on setting fey
priorities, therefore these retreat sessions have been called
1 have incorporated the philosophy in ~~~~ of past ouncii president Waxen ~. Mite as our
Da~r~d ~r~.~r f pica i ~ and ~~a~n,s ar~n . This Ives ro er focus to the
~~fr~ irr~cr theame far this year a e~~~ ~ o ~ ,~ g p p
South fiend on~n~on ouncii's iVli~sion Statement ~hicl~ is:
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i~rh Dts~r~~r ~~'a Mahe ce~tan that our ~~y avernn~ent is ~~s ~~pnnlvc
to ~~~ nods of our ~resldets that the bcte~ent of oth fiend
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~'he topics which the Council v~ill faces an at its February S~ retreat session axe public
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.~~ ~. ~ir~ included in the budget is the Council's concern that for the past five ~5}years the citizens of
.~ ~,ar~ South bend have had to pay aver ~l~ million dollars on interest alone far taking out loans
because of delayed tai billings. fore specifically, ~77,4~~ of additional casts mere incurred
as ~. result, with this a~~ount being detailed as fallovvs:
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~`he council mill be contacting the Department of Racal avernrnent Finance ~DLF~ for
the dates of the approval of budgets far each of the 9 counties far the past faun ~4} yea~~s,
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