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REGULAR MEETINGJULY 25, 2005
<br />sewage collections, street sweeping, flushing, and snow removal, police and fire
<br />protection, and other non-capital services normally provided within the corporate
<br />boundaries, and services of a capital improvement nature, including street and road
<br />construction, street lighting, a sanitary sewer extension, a water distribution system, and a
<br />storm water system to be furnished to the territory to be annexed; (2) the methods (s) of
<br />financing those services; (3) the plan for the organization and extension of those services;
<br />(4) that services of a non-capital nature will be provided to the annexed area within one
<br />(1) year after the effective date of the annexation, and that they will be provided in a
<br />manner in standard and scope to similar non-capital services provided to areas within the
<br />corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend, regardless of similar topography,
<br />patterns of land use, or population density; (5) that the services of a capital improvement
<br />nature will be provided to the annexed area within three (3) years after the effective date
<br />of the annexation in the same manner as the services are provided to areas within the
<br />corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend, regardless of similar topography,
<br />patterns of land use, or population density, and in a manner consistent with federal, state
<br />and local laws; and (6) the plan for hiring the employees of other governmental entitites
<br />whose jobs will be eliminated by the proposed annexation; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, and the Baord
<br />of Public Safety of the City of South Bend, have each approved a written fiscal plan and
<br />established a policy for the provision of services to the territory proposed to be annexed,
<br />which plan and policy the Common Council finds to be appropriate and in the best
<br />interest of the City, and, which it desires to adopt.
<br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF
<br />THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS FOLLOWS:
<br />Section I. It is in the best interest of the City of South Bend and the area proposed
<br />to be annexed that the following described real property located in Centre Township, St.
<br />Joseph County, Indiana, be annexed to the City of South Bend:
<br /> Lot Numbered Thirty-nine (39) as shown on the recorded Plat of Whitcomb &
<br />Keller’s Southmoor, and Addition to the City of South Bend, recorded in Plat Book 13,
<br />page 39 in the office of Recorder of St. Joseph County, Indiana. Lot Numbered Forty
<br />(40) as shown on the recorded Plat of Whitcomb & Keller’s Southmoor, an Addition to
<br />the City of South Bend, recorded in Plat Book 13, page 39 in the office of Recorder of St.
<br />Joseph County, Indiana.
<br />Section II. It shall be and hereby is now declared and established that it is the
<br />policy of the City of South Bend, to furnish services to said territory of a non-capital
<br />nature, such as police and fire protection, street and road maintenance, sewage collection,
<br />street sweeping, flushing, and snow removal, within one (1) year of the effective date of
<br />the annexation, in a manner equivalent in standard and scope to the services furninshed
<br />by the City to other areas of the City regardless of similar topography, patterns of land
<br />use, or population density; and to furnish to said territory services of a capital
<br />improvement nature, such as street and road construction, street lighting, a sanitary sewer
<br />extension, a water distribution system, a storm water system, and drainage plan, within
<br />three (3) years of the effective date of the annexation in the same manner as those
<br />services are provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend
<br />regardless of similar topography, patterns of land use, or population density, and in a
<br />manner consistent with federal, state and local laws, procedures, and planning criteria.
<br />Section III. The Common Council for the City of South Bend shall and does
<br />hereby now establish and adopt The Fiscal Plan as set forth in Exhibit “A” attached
<br />hereto and made a part hereof, for the furnishing of said services to the territory to be
<br />annexed, which Fiscal Plan provides, among other things, that an existing water main line
<br />will be sufficient to service this area and that a lateral sewer line many need to be
<br />installed from the sanitary sewer service available on U.S. 31 South, to be paid for by the
<br />developer; that street lighting will be provided by revenue in the General Fund; that no
<br />new streets are presently required, but any future street construction will be planned,
<br />provided and paid for by the developer; and that a street drainage plan will be also be
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