08-13-18 Health and Public Safety

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committee Chair Broden interjected, These will be the last two (2) speakers. Reverend Zawitowski continued, I know we want to meet certain timelines but I think it is more important to take our time and do something right. We do need a City-wide strategy so that we can start actually dealing with the problem and not slapping something together. I know we say what we want to do and that we are going to provide services. We have a track record already with the Oliver Apartments. We were told there would be wrap-around services and there are not. Sixteen (16) hours a day, the residents that are there that are all officially designated as mentally ill are unsupervised. They don't even have a staff person there. Sixteen(16)hours a day. You have drugs being delivered to the facility and I think the Police and Fire Departments would verify that they are there almost every day. If we can't get that right, how are we going to get something like this right? Let's take our time and let's do it right. Charlotte Pfeifer, 1013 W. Washington Street, stated, I am here this evening representing 466Works.466Works is a neighborhood development corporation in that area of the near southeast side. We have built two (2) new homes there and I hope you will come by to look at them. We support all of the neighbors there, both homeowners and those who are less fortunate. A couple things haven't been said tonight. We did neighborhood meetings and some of the wounds of that neighborhood includes the fact that communities like La Porte, Elkhart and Mishawaka send their homeless people to South Bend. This neighborhood would like to see the leaders of those communities part of the planning. The other thing is that the $1.5 million may be a poor use of scarce resources to do something temporary. Maybe that money could be put to something more permanent. The other thing about the Salvation Army, what we are trying to do is part of their vision and mission and I guess I wonder if we couldn't put some pressure on the Salvation Army to allow us to use that fine building. Many years ago as a probation officer I used to send people to the Salvation Army as they had a wonderful program. Scientists are saying today that to build buildings like that is the use of sand and we are losing sand. They are really trying to promote the reuse of fine buildings like that. Lastly, part of the concern is that we wonder if there couldn't be just one (1) place where breakfast, lunch and dinner is served instead of having all these different places. With no further business, Committee Chair Broden adjourned the Health and Public Safety Committee meeting at 5:18 p.m. Respectfully Submitted, A &4"b-, Jo . Broden, Committee Chair EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173!TM 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 9