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REGULAR MEETING <br />JUNE 24, 2002 <br />involved here and if the proper procedures are very carefully followed then problems will not arise <br />with constitutional protection. He noted that no insult is meant to the police officers. <br />Councilmember Coleman made a motion to continue this bill in the Public Hearing portion until the <br />July 22, 2002 meeting of the Council and send it back to the combined Health and Public Safety and <br />Residential Neighborhood committees and also reset it for Third and final reading at that time. <br />Councilmember Coleman noted that the Public Hearing on July 22nd would be to receive new <br />information regarding the bill from the presenter and to hear from additional citizens who have not <br />yet had the opportunity to comment either for or against this bill as well as those who have already <br />commented but may wish to comment on new provisions or alterations to the bill as they are <br />presented at the next meeting. Councilmember Pfeifer seconded the motion. <br />Councilmember Pfeifer noted that another thing that needs to be addressed is the misunderstanding <br />that if a person is in the wrong neighborhood that that alone can cause a problem. Individuals must <br />be involved in specific inappropriate illegal gang activity. <br />The motion carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. <br />BILL NO. 43 -02 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON <br />COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND AMENDING <br />CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 2, SECTION 17 -21 OF THE <br />SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH NEW <br />SEWER RATES BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE <br />CITY LIMITS <br />Councilmember Al "Buddy" Kirsits reported that the Utilities Committee did not vote on this bill <br />based on the petitioner's request that it be withdrawn. <br />Mayor Stephen Luecke, 14th Floor, County -City Building, South Bend, Indiana, made the <br />presentation for this bill. <br />Mayor Luecke informed the Council that the last sewer rate increase was in 1988. Submitted to the <br />Council for consideration is an ordinance regarding a rate increase that does a number of things. <br />It meets the City's needs to meet increased operational expenses of the wastewater treatment plant <br />and maintenance of the sewer system. It provides for payments for the $24 million dollar <br />improvements that have recently been done to the wastewater treatment plant. It provides for <br />funding of capital programs as the City moves forward to begin to meet some of the combined sewer <br />overflow issues as well as other capital investments in the systems such as lining old sewers so they <br />don't collapse, extending new lines to provide for new housing and /or industrial development as <br />well as ongoing maintenance of the system. The proposal represented the City's best efforts at <br />putting together what was felt was a fair rate structure. There were a number of issues taken in <br />consideration. The current rate structure has a high fixed cost with a very small per unit cost <br />associated with the sewer rates. It was proposed to change that to have a much smaller fixed cost <br />and a higher per unit cost so that customers that produce more sewage would pay a larger percentage <br />of the operating expenses of the plant. It proposed a fifty per cent ( 50 %) surcharge on customers <br />outside the City limit. This was based on a cost of service study that was conducted. Because of <br />those changes there were some customers that were impacted not with a fifty seven per cent (57 %) <br />average increase but with a two, three or four fold or larger increase in their proposed sewer charges. <br />Discussions have been held with some of those users and they, as well as Councilmembers, have <br />raised some legitimate questions. Therefore, Mayor Luecke asked that this ordinance be withdrawn <br />from consideration tonight. He noted that the administration would like to take more time to have <br />some work sessions with the Council to help to explain further the rationale for the level of funding <br />they believe is appropriate for the rate increase and to talk about a variety of options in terms of how <br />this rate increase might be funded. Those options would include looking at the existing plan that is <br />-10- <br />
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