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REGULAR MEETING January 14, 2019 satellite location that the Solid Waste Management District approved and has an ongoing contract with now. The recycling fees went from thirty-five ($35) dollars to thirty-four($34). Council President Tim Scott announced, Thursday is Mayor's Night Out at the Charles Black Center at 5:30 p.m. Councilmember Oliver Davis stated, There was an article today about the Police Department and in terms of its diversity. Is there any way we could have an update with our Health and Public Safety Committee to address the findings of that article? Councilmember Jo M. Broden replied, I would be delighted to handle that. Councilmember Sharon L. McBride announced, On Monday, January 21st there will all-day celebrations for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The breakfast kicks off at the Century Center at 7:00 a.m. and there are festivities going on all day. I encourage everyone to participate. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Council President Tim Scott stated, The South Bend Common Council begins a new year with its first substantive public meeting of the year tonight at 7:00 p.m. The Common Council welcomes and encourages full and open discussions on all issues under the jurisdiction of the City. In order to promote such a free exchange of viewpoints, however, it is necessary to limit all discussion to just those issues. Adding a caveat, there are many avenues to contact these Council members individually and as a group. Items on the published agenda are items under the City's jurisdiction. In some cases, issues raised by individuals during the Privilege of the Floor portion of the meeting are not within the City's jurisdiction. Examples of such issues are issues within County, State or Federal jurisdiction,matters of personal and/or confidential nature,and matters relating to Council members `employment unrelated to the City's jurisdiction' such as myself in manufacturing. The Privilege of the Floor portion of the Council meeting comes toward the end of each meeting. This notice of what is permissible during Privilege of the Floor is meant to avoid persons waiting through the earlier portions of the Council meeting and then being advised that an issue not within the City's jurisdiction cannot be raised and asked to be seated. Therefore, South Bend Municipal Code Section 2-12, Common Council Meetings, Order of Business, Privilege of the floor: Individuals who wish to address the Council must state their name and residential address. Individuals will be limited to three (3) minutes only. The maximum time limit for this portion of the meeting shall be thirty(30) minutes. Individuals may address only issues over which the City has jurisdiction. Individuals shall not be permitted to address topics which the Council has heard previously on the agenda. The Council President may assign a topic raised by an individual during the Privilege of the Floor to the appropriate Council Member; and/or request the City Clerk to contact a member of the City Administration for review and comment. All topics assigned shall be responded to at the next regularly scheduled Common Council meeting. Rod Goodchild, 837 South 24th Street, South Bend, IN, stated,Yes,we got it done(referencing the handout he provided which is available in the City Clerk's Office). The project has been done. Again, we had eight (8) people there that spoke and they did a wonderful job. I can't thank Councilmember Oliver Davis enough for the kind words he had. It was a tremendous culmination of a project. We have the Indy 500, I'm sure you're all aware of that. We have the Little 500, I'm sure you're all aware when they go down to Bloomington they ride around on bicycles. Well, we got a track,we have eleven(11)between twenty(20) and forty(40) foot trees. You ask, what does that have to do with the Indy? Because they're all tracks. If you have tracks, you have to have people. If you have people, three (3)weeks before the Indy 500, everybody comes to Indianapolis because it's a ride of tradition. Everybody from all the schools surrounding us come to Potawatomi Park.Why?The three(3)weeks before you get summer break you get to go as elementary students to see the zoo. They come to the zoo,they get lunch and then they do nothing. They can go, as the Administrators said,play at playgrounds all the time but we want something special. What do you have? We've got the Indy 500. We've got the Little 500. We've got a half mile track with eleven (11) twenty(20) to forty(40) foot trees. And you ask, what does that have to do with any of this? It's the wow effect,people.When you see a twenty(20)foot carving and these elementary students get the privilege to see what sustainability and what South Bend is all about, I know we are second 25