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REGULAR MEETING UNFINISHED BUSINESS JUNE 13, 2016 Due to the Riley Rocketry Team not being in attendance, Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to continue Bill 16 -55 to June 27th 2016. Councilmember John Voorde seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. NEW BUSINESS Councilmember Oliver Davis requested. that Eric Horvath, Director of Public Works, speak to the Public Works and Property Vacation Committee on June 27th 2016 regarding the sidewalks program. Council President Tim Scott announced that he and the presidents of the Mishawaka Common Council and St. Joseph County Council agreed to three (3) meetings regarding the food and beverage tax resolutions all three (3) councils adopted. Those meetings are scheduled for June 29th, July 27th and August 31 St and will take place at the Century Center. The idea is to present information on food and beverage taxes and receive input and feedback from the various councilmembers and from the public. Councilmember Karen White announced the budget hearing process is beginning. The schedule is online and there are seven (7) public hearings beings hosted here and also one (1) meeting out in the community. The date for the community meeting will be set hopefully by next week. Those will start in August and go through September. Councilmember Oliver Davis announced the new bus shelters are being built and there are more to come as well. He asked any councilmembers to notify him if they have areas in their districts that need the bus shelters. These are needed for people during the winter when it snows and also when it rains. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Jesse Davis, 210 Towle Ave Mishawaka Indiana, stated the people who spoke at the podium earlier in the meeting disobeyed the rules by not stating their residential address. They only gave their office addresses. If the public has to play by the rules everyone else should as well. Mr. Davis voiced his opposition to the removal of the "Privilege of the Floor Letterform ". That is the citizens' only tool to document a paper trail of what we are upset about and the only way to submit any type of evidence to the City. When that form was submitted with evidence it was entered into public record which is important. We can't go online and find half the minutes and then minutes only go so far because they are just the outline of what someone might have said on an issue. Without the form there is no way to officially submit something to the Council. This is taking the public's voice away. Mr. Davis stated there was large party at the J.C. Lauber Building. Apparently that building is owned by a relative of Aaron Perri and people are concerned because people were drinking along with South Bend Brew Works was there and had a food truck parked inside the building and had a cover charge for people. The building is not permitted properly and the building has not been inspected and it needs to be looked into. Bill Dunn, 1620 Southwood Avenue South Bend, spoke in favor of the proposal to build a firehouse at the southwest corner of Potawatomi Park. Mr. Dunn is a member of the Board of Directors of the River Park Neighborhood Association but he is speaking as a citizen tonight who lives very close to the zoo. According to the petition against the firehous6, locating the firehouse would disrupt park activities ranging from the pavilion to the swimming pool and King's Kingdom when the sirens would go off for an emergency call. The petition also states the noise level would cause potential harm to children. What is not mentioned in the petition is that the most common route today for fire trucks and ambulances in River Park is Mishawaka Ave with sirens sounding and horns honking the entire time. That is approximately twenty -five (25) foot distance from the proposed site of the new firehouse. What is also not mentioned is that sound levels and decibels decrease with the hearers distance from the source. Unless someone would be standing right by the fire truck they are not going to be hearing those high decibel