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REGULAR MEETING MAY 23, 2016 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 16 -49 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, APPROVING A PETITION OF THE AREA BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2319 LINCOLNWAY WEST 16 -51 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, APPROVING A PETITION OF THE AREA BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 700 WEST IRELAND ROAD. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to send bills 16 -49 and 16 -51 to the Zoning and Annexation Committee for June 13th. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of eight (8) ayes. NEW BUSINESS Councilmember Karen White announced at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow at the Charles Black Center there will be a meeting to receive information regarding the EPA investigation into LaSalle Park and the work forthcoming. Also, there will be an open budget meeting with the City Administration on June 7th at 4:30 p.m. in the informal Council meeting room. In the past, Councilmembers have submitted there budget priorities to the Administration. Information will be posted on the website but currently the links on the EPA site are not working. Councilmember Randy Kelly announced the Mom's Against Violence Remembrance and Awareness Walk is this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Robinson Community Learning Center and will walk over to Pearly School. PRIVILEDGE OF THE FLOOR Jesse Davis, P.O. Box 10205 South Bend IN, stated he has submitted multiple privilege of the floors requests and has not heard anything back. There are some very important questions he has and does a lot of research before submitting these. He submitted new requests to the City Clerk's Office which includes all prior requests outstanding. Samuel Brown, 222 East Navarre Street, there needs to be more street crime units in the police. They are understaffed and underfunded even though they do such a great job. As it is getting warmer there will be more crime like always and these units need our support. Elder Dennis Plump, 302 South Chicago Street, stated the Council needs to care more about all of their residents. We need equality for all people no matter of color or sex. It is a sad thing that at some of these Council Meetings there is no equality and some people are treated differently because of who they know or what demographic area they live in. Its easy to see the millions of dollars spent in the Smart Streets project but the inner city population has to accept the low standards of improvement. We just want our equal share of the pie. We are tired of the crime and the bones thrown to our community. We are going to hold this elected body accountable for their actions and that includes the mayor. Marvin Creighton, 305 South Lake Street, reiterated Mr. Plum's sentiments. Everyone knows about all the killings and shootings going on in the neighborhoods. Code Enforcement has not done a good job keeping our neighborhoods clean. We need to take care of the drug problem in this City as well. We need more police protection as well and need to do better. Jason Baniki Critchlow, 3822 West Ford Street, stated last year we raised fines for the tall grass ordinance. Now here on some of these vacant lots we have grass that is knee high already. There was this plan to tear down a thousand houses in a thousand days but there was no plan on what to deal with the properties now that they are empty. These high fines are not changing the behavior 1.1