10-26-15 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING October 26, 2015 a good business venture that’s fine, then he should already be in a position to fund that himself with him and his partners going forward. We can’t afford to subsidize every business person in this city when $900,000 could go a long way to solving a lot of problems for us. We got a chronic homeless problem. We have a very serious crime problem. That we have no real solution to but $900,000 gives a lot more resources. I hope when we go through we consider, that let’s say this time we are not paying back this political figure. Instead we are going to put the people of the City of South Bend ahead first. Samuel Brown 2222, I am requesting five (5) minutes, three (3) minutes won’t do it. Samuel Brown request was approved by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. Mr. Davis has a good point. The area that he was talking about being shot up and nothing is being done is that nobody of prominence lives in those areas. If that area was in the commons and it was going on, it’d be shut down over night. I feel sorry for the home owners that are in those areas. Hardworking people just trying to hang on to their homes but it goes on a deaf ear and hope that we get behind Mr. Davis and move toward making our City safe. I have been fighting a drug house at 2229 Sadie St. and for some reason that particular house is protected by some body. The word I hear is “Shhhh” they are working on something. The drugs are still being sold. I don’t know what the answer is but we going to keep the fight up trying to get a safe neighborhood. The Council and the Mayor of South Bend came together on a resolution to rename MLK Drive but there has been no action on it. I sit on that board to rename that street, the Mayor said he sent a resolution of his people to the Council and we, every day sit silently and receive no action. I don’t know if this is just a tactic to just let this pass by and be dropped but it won’t be dropped. We are going to keep fighting like we do to save neighborhoods. I wish the Council would contact the Mayor and find out why we can’t meet and get a resolution on this as far as renaming the street. Like we can’t get the crime out of the street. Every time over there in that west side second district it’s a shooting gallery. We shouldn’t have to live like that. We don’t have a lot of money over there so I guess we have to have some people with money to have some safety. I appreciate you giving me the time to talk to you. We need help. I hope it isn’t falling on deaf ears. You are the only people we can talk about our problem to. John Schafer 402 Bison Ridge, Nappanee, IN – A few weeks ago we rented The State Marquee to send a message to Mayor to the City of South Bend, to the City itself including the Common Council. That message was we wanted a bed for every homeless. First lady Michelle Obama earlier this year created a mayor challenge. That challenge was to encourage mayors to take action to end homelessness with the emphasis on ending veteran homelessness. The Mayor of South Bend is challenged to pull together all resources with the community including the non- profits agencies, shelter, and churches in an effort to collaborate together to end homelessness in this City. The winter is soon approaching us and during extreme weather a few warming stations will open but most will close at 9:00 p.m. Turning the homeless out into the cold at the worst possible time of the day. We feel a twenty-four (24) hour warming station needs to be established during extreme weather. There being no further business to come before the Council, President Tim Scott adjourned the meeting at 8:05 p.m. ATTEST: ATTEST: ____________________________ ____________________________ John Voorde, City Clerk Tim Scott, President 11