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REGULAR MEETING UNFINISHED BUSINESS AUGUST 22, 2016 16 -64 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA APPROVING A PETITION OF THE AREA BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3001 W. CLEVELAND ROAD Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to send Bill 16 -64 to the Zoning and Annexation Committee and set public hearing for September 12th, 2016. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. NEW BUSINESS Councilmember Broden stated that the four (4) bills related to the budget should get some extra coverage so that the public does not get lost in the terminology. This is the budget for the entire 2017 year and that is very important. She encouraged the public come to the Committee meetings as well, the times of which have been posted. Councilmember Dr. Varner stated the new substitute resolution for clean energy will be posted on the website very soon for public inspection. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Samuel Brown, 222 East Navarre Street South Bend, stated he lives a block from the river and that he is having issues with getting flood insurance for his home and it will cost seven - hundred dollars ($700) a year for the insurance. The only way for that figure to be lowered is for South Bend to become a CRS Qualifier. That would lower the potential insurance to three - hundred and fifty ($350) a year. He asked the Council to look into this because we have all seen why flood insurance is so important. Jesse Davis, P.O. Box 10205 South Bend, stated several years back we had six (6) inches of rain and we didn't see nearly the same amount of flooding. He asked if there has been any funding to clean up the waterways such as Bowman Creek which are in terrible conditions. Those blocked creeks restrict water flow and the flooding was obviously worse because of it. The grates around the City need to be cleaned as well. Some of our grates have ivy growing in the grates so obviously they are not being taken care of. He also asked how the backwater valve program will be administered because there wasn't very much information put out so far. Eileen Sullivan, Pile Avenue, spoke about the repeated sewer back flow that has come into her house for years. The City needs to address this issue. Her home has ten (10) inches of raw sewage in her basement and it has happened six (6) times to her basement since 1994. Every time we have a heavy rain we have to pray that nothing is going to happen. It is not fair that we have to pay for the damages to our home that are the fault of the City. Our sewers in this neighborhood were redone in 2008 and 2009 and yet this is still an issue. I could have paid for my college education with the money.that I have spent repairing my basement. A check valve should have been put at the curb when the sewers were redone back in the late 2000s. Jason Banicki - Critchlow, 3822 West Ford Street, stated a great deal of the retaining tanks had flooded over. He asked how long we keep postponing this issue and how we deal with our wastewater. We have known for almost a decade that this will be an expensive issue and delaying further will only increase the price tag of this project. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Council, President Tim Scott adjourned the meeting at 9:33 p.m. 14