12-10-12 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 10, 2012 COMMENTS FROM MR. BRIAN BAKER REGARDING ST. JOE VALLEY METRO NET Brian Baker, Offices in the Commerce Center in South Bend, Indiana, advised that his appearance today is conjunction with and follow up to his April appearance at an Information & Technology Committee Meeting. He stated that he showed up with a number of wireless internet service providers who were concerned about the proposed entrance of the St. Joe Valley Metronet to the local wireless market place. He stated that he packaged up a response that he provided to the County Clerk, reading materials and as a result of that meeting defending their position and also defending the attacks and threats and accusations that were made by a couple of Metronet employees in correspondence previous to his appearance and after his appearance and as a result of that he decided to take some legal advice and he also provided the legal advice as to what his actions entailed and why they were being threatened both in their credibility and their involvement in the creation of the Metronet project itself. He stated that he included his case work on the Metronet and also included the contracts that they were contracted to create the Metronet in South Bend and also brought canceled check stubs from Metronet itself through 2009 to run it. He stated that the relevance of this is because what they found through the work through their attorney is that and the reason that they are being threatened and bullied is that he believes that there is an illegal situation occurring. He stated that when they brought the Metronet model into place it was not-for-profit that was incorporated by a couple individuals. A couple of years later evidentially a for-profit was created in the name of SJVM, Inc. and as we try to help customers to continue Metronet in the marketplace here they have been threatened on a number of instances that they are not allowed to use the harbor in an discretionary manner as those other entities are. So the recommendation upon the attorney that they hired to take a look at the contracts provided to them by South Bend, with SJVM I. the not-for-profit did not show any of the legal conveyance of the rights and privileges between SJVM and SJVM, Inc. the for- profit, nor were there any contracts surfaced between the City of South Bend and SJVM, Inc. Thus, providing a situation that there may be some illegal happenings at the cost of the City, at the cost of the local vendor out here that actually work in the market place and the city departments, the city employees, the millions of dollars that the for-profit SJVM, Inc. brings in off of what could be perceived as the illegal use or transfer of use of city conduit. COMMENTS FROM KEITH SHROCK REGARDING SOCIAL MEDIA Mr. Keith D. Schrock, Founder, Keith D. Shrock, Founder, Lord Marketing, South Bend, Social Marketing & Media, 2205 S. Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana, he stated that he sees a lot of dissention between people of color and white folks here in South Bend, Indiana, with the police chief and also other matters. He noted the South Bend Tribunes wakeup call request for Wednesday December 5, 2012, the newspaper headline front and center he asked the Council to th channel that towards the December 19 meeting of the Mayor. He asked the Council to make their needs and wishes known, this community issue not a black/white issue and it is time that South Bend, Indiana came together and went one direction. One of the most popular fan page reaches up to 158,000 people, administer six (6) pages, business pages on Facebook, social media has grown 37% during the past twelve calendar months, it is replacing rapidly, newspaper, television, billboards, and every other media in the United States of America. Something will be done about this issue. People think that money is the most important asset in America, it is not, it is time and he thanked the Council for theirs. 21