My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
Browse
Search
03-26-12 Common Council Meeting Minutes
sbend
>
Public
>
Common Council
>
Minutes
>
Common Council Meeting Minutes
>
2012
>
03-26-12 Common Council Meeting Minutes
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
4/27/2012 4:28:20 PM
Creation date
4/27/2012 4:28:13 PM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
City Council - City Clerk
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
36
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
Show annotations
View images
View plain text
REGULAR MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Councilmember Dieter advised that this is a passionate subject and is sure that a lot of the <br />things that were brought up that we would bring everybody in 10 or 15 years it would be <br />about the same thing. He stated that what he did and he stated that he is not a scientist, <br />but he tried to look through emotional responses at church, and what everybody believes <br />and look at what is germane to him in making a decision on this. He stated #1 he hasn’t <br />seen any economic analysis about this bill and how it would effect like Mr. King stated <br />the new jobs; he hasn’t seen any part of that other than verbiage of how many people <br />would suddenly come to South Bend because of that. Also, one of the questions that he <br />has and he doesn’t want to go back and forth with Gavin, but will just get them out here <br />on the record. If this ordinance is passed tonight what employers in the City of South <br />Bend have six or more employees would be governed unless specifically exempt and that <br />is one of the questions that he would have. Secondly, what notice would be given to <br />those employers that the regulations would now be taking effect? He wonder if someone <br />would be knocking on doors, sending out letters to make sure that every employer, every <br />housing person in South Bend knows what’s going on. One thing if it does pass tonight <br />and the Mayor said that he would sign it, does anyone in here know when that would take <br />effect. He stated that date would be April 6, 2012, so is eleven days a reasonable amount <br />of time for a South Bend employers, business owners, human resource personnel, etc. to <br />comply with what we are taking about here tonight which is seen as vague language. <br />Also is the City of South Bend when we put this information out to the public are we <br />going to offer training and education to make sure that everybody is on the same page of <br />what we are talking about in this bill. Each side had different variations from different <br />attorneys on what it is. He stated that he is going to ask the Council Attorney on what her <br />view is. But if we are going to do this and they want to have something that works, then <br />he thinks you need to train the business people and all employers to know what should be <br />done and what shouldn’t be done. There is a lot of other questions that he has, again he <br />thinks that it is evident unfortunately, what were are asking is that when incidents occur <br />and our own Human Rights people in 2005 put a statement together and in 2010 did a <br />Resolution of this very issue, they don’t even write down the people that come through <br />their doors asking for help. He stated that in his line of work he has a thing called <br />probable cause and he would think that if he is so passionate about this issue, so <br />passionate about this being a problem in South Bend, I would be marking down every <br />time someone comes through the door to make a claim about this, so when I would come <br />to the Council, I could say we’ve had 19 complaints about this. They don’t keep track, <br />they don’t have any. He reiterated that there are a lot of questions that haven’t been <br />answered. He appreciated everyone’s input and filed with City Clerk a statement from <br />former Councilmember Timothy Rouse. <br /> <br />Councilmember Gavin Ferlic asked Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand with <br />respect to notice any ordinance that is passed is it published. <br /> <br />Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand stated yes it is <br /> <br />Councilmember Gavin Ferlic reiterated responding to vague language this language is <br />almost identical to the language used in Indianapolis, establishing precedent at again that <br />ordinance has not been successfully challenged. He stated that he thinks fear and <br />misunderstanding a lot of times fuels one to think that this might have some unintended <br />consequences but again, this has not happened across the country, this is passed in nearly <br />every major city. He stated that this is not to say that we are doing this or sponsoring. <br />This because they want to be like every other city, we are doing this because this is the <br />right thing to do. <br /> <br />Councilmember Oliver Davis sated that he is thankful that this was brought up. He stated <br />that they fought hard in 2010. He stated that the City of Indianapolis is a growing city <br />and he loves being in Indianapolis and seeing all the businesses when driving through the <br />city. He stated that he is sure there are many businesses with Christian values in Indy and <br />they have not left the city because of the legislation that they have passed. He stated <br />other cities where this legislation is passed like Bloomington and Kalamazoo are not <br />losing businesses. People have not all left because of these kinds of things. The <br />bathroom stuff is just not that hard to deal with after hearing his father who grew up in <br />Alabama talk about his mother who grew up with only white and only black bathrooms. <br /> 28 <br /> <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.