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REGULAR MEETING April 23, 2018
<br /> Goodchild,just runs and runs and runs and try to catch him. He keeps on running. It's a wonderful
<br /> feeling to be sixty-eight (68) and to be running for the USA record in the mile, five twenty-nine
<br /> (5:29) because it's there, people, it's there. The founding fathers gave Potawatomi Park to the
<br /> community. We have the magnificent carvings that we saved from those hundreds, some two
<br /> hundred(200)plus year old trees. All we are asking,my father who came from Menomonee, who
<br /> came from the Indian Reservation, not one (1) Goodchild got to the third grade except him. Eight
<br /> (8)miles he would take his snow shoes to get off the reservation to get to eighth grade. West High,
<br /> top class, war hero from World War two (2), one (1) semester left after his flight school at Yale,
<br /> he came back to South Bend in 1946 and ran all the Nipsco Plants. We have the stadium called the
<br /> Olkowski Field and we have the Goodchild Trailblazer Track. All I'm asking,people, is to look at
<br /> what we're talking about. The Potawatomi Nation. The proudest thing you can do for us here, is
<br /> by the 29th of May, for the Best. Week. Ever. let us get that flag up. We know it won't go next to
<br /> the other four(4)because they are putting up there now the flag for accreditation. We will put the
<br /> flagpole up, all you have to say is thank you. Let us put it up. All I'm asking is just to let us know.
<br /> Isaac Hunt, 138 E. Broadway Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I came up here to talk about this new
<br /> Gateway Center and the trailers that were put up. The residents want the Gateway Center and we
<br /> feel it is something that is good, but we don't want it on Michigan Street. If you look at what we
<br /> have over there, we are over populated with social services. I work in social services and you
<br /> would think that I want it. But at the same time, why isn't the rest of the City sharing in this social
<br /> service issue we have? Right now, it is on the agenda to rezone for it. The City is saying it is not
<br /> going there and this is just temporary. Anything that starts out as temporary turns into permanent.
<br /> When we look at it we have JJC, we have Life Treatment Center, Broadway Church, the Plasma
<br /> Center and all these things all in our general area. I just got back from Washington D.C. and there
<br /> was a homeless guy sitting in the middle of my yard peeing. He was sitting peeing in the middle
<br /> of my yard. This is all night and all day long. We can't let kids out on Broadway,Indiana or Carroll
<br /> Streets, we have people urinating and drinking. The idea is to put the Gateway Center right there
<br /> on Michigan Street. That doesn't make sense. Why can't we disperse this throughout the City?
<br /> What about two trailers by Notre Dame? See when you say that, everybody gets scared. But it's
<br /> alright for when I paid $105,000 for my house and I can't sell it for $40,000 and you raised my
<br /> property taxes. I'm sitting here with a $105,000 house that is upside down and you're putting
<br /> something on top of us again. They came down to talk to us at our Neighborhood Association
<br /> meeting. I told them and I will say it again for the record. If they put this Gateway here,they think
<br /> they got problems with the tapes. We will be out there protesting every day because this is not fair
<br /> to us as residents and tax payers in this community. We have new houses going up and we are
<br /> trying to fix this neighborhood. We have the United Way paying$5 million in the South East side.
<br /> The Daycare Center, and you want to put a Gateway there? Think about this, y'all. And I'm not
<br /> against it,I'm for it,I was on the Committee. We need to spread the wealth. We got the new center
<br /> that Heritage put over on Indiana. Come on, now. Help us out,please.
<br /> Harry Marsh, 1520 S. Carroll Street, South Bend, IN, stated, I am also here to speak about the
<br /> trailers on Michigan Street. I have been in this neighborhood a long time and have seen a lot come
<br /> and go. I've heard the word temporary hundreds of times and I know that once electric and water
<br /> are hooked up to anything that means that temporary is out the door. Please,please, stop this. We
<br /> don't need another social service on the South East side. We don't need another place for the
<br /> homeless to be where my wife and I can't sit on our front porch, this morning, on a beautiful
<br /> morning, and have a cup of coffee without having to get up and go in the house because of all the
<br /> cussing, fussing, peeing, pooping and having sex in the garages. We don't need that. There are
<br /> kids there. I have three (3) grandkids that I can't let play in my own yard because of the homeless
<br /> situation on my side of town. I don't hear anybody on the East side coming over and having this
<br /> same issue. They tell us there isn't enough room on this Michigan Street corridor for it to be there
<br /> but all of the sudden, the building next door went up for sale so there is going to be enough room.
<br /> Please stop it before it gets started and goes any further.Make it possible for me and my grandkids
<br /> to live a happy life, the same that you and your grandkids live. There is plenty of room right there
<br /> at Ignition Park for those trailers to go. There are acres and acres and acres of room. Put them over
<br /> there. If they are temporary, when they are done with them they can move them or destroy them.
<br /> But please don't put them in my neighborhood.
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