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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Bill No. 18-18- Ordinance Establishing New TIF Park Bond Debt, Capital Funds/Fire Station Debt Service and Capital Funds Ms. Hockenhull stated, The bill before you is simply asking to set up four(4)Funds for bonds that had been previously approved by Council. We are just setting up the Funds to receive the Funds in from the State and then spend the money on the Capital Projects. Committee Chair White opened the floor to members of the public wishing to speak in favor of or in opposition to the legislation. There were none. She then turned the floor back to the Committee for further continent or main motion. Committeemember Ferlic made a motion to send Bill No. 18-18 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. Committeemember Williams-Preston seconded this motion which carried unanimously by a voice vote of four(4) ayes. Committee Chair White recognized an individual from the public wishing to speak. Jim Bognar, 807 W. Washington Street, stated, On October 9th, 2017, Councilmember Oliver Davis served as presenter of a bill that stated in 2014 the Department of Community Investment proposed a resolution to gather support for the City Cemetery, The Center for History, the Studebaker Museum, Leeper Park, all within the Riverwest Development Area and established a timeframe in doing so. The ordinance sets a deadline of April 1St for the process to begin. Oliver Davis stated, quote, "I was assured again by Dr. Mueller this afternoon that we are not waiting for April 1St and are working on that now." I am deeply concerned that agreements and resolutions have passed, but we are now at a Council meeting and there are no Council meetings until after April lsc and nothing has been done. We wanted to work on the City Cemetery. Where are we going to get the funds from? I'm wondering what Council will do about this? If you pass an ordinance, does it have any real value? You set a deadline. You are honoring people this evening and you do that on a regular basis. Do you have value in this? Will you follow through on this? Why is it taking so long to protect some of our key assets?I fully expected that it would have been up here sooner because we had agreements.If there is anything I am saying that is improper,please correct me. It is just that we have not followed through with this and I am deeply concerned about this matter. Committee Chair White replied, Thank you for coming before us. I do recall during the budget process that this concern was raised at that time.The Director of Community Investment was given the letter from the then-Director Mr. Scott Ford and he said he would look into that. We will look into that. I know there was a meeting about the City Cemetery last week. James Mueller, Executive Director of Community Investment with offices on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, replied, We have been actively pursuing adjusting the TIF boundary areas and have hit a few snags. We have been actively working to see where we are on that and what the current thinking is. We expect this to move forward as expeditiously as possible. Committee Chair White stated it will be on the agenda for the Council meet to be held on April 9th, 2018. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building I 227W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 1 TTD 574.235.5567 lwww.southbendin.gov 4