03-24-69 Council Meeting Minutes

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A %3ULt1K Ivinr.Tivu RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION NO. 209 -69 MARCH 24, 1969 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING FILING OF APPLICATION WITH THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY FOR A GRANT UNDER THE TERMS OF PUBLIC LAW 660. WHEREAS, the City of South Bend is considering the construction of certain sewage works improvements; and, WHEREAS, pursuant to Public Law 660 Federal funds are available in the form of an outright grant for cettain stream pollution abatement projects; and, WHEREAS, it is believed that the major portion of the seqage works improvements proposed by the City of South Bend, Indiana, qualify for a Federal grant. INDIANA: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, 1. That an application for a Federal grant for sewage treatment works construction be filed with the proper agency to aid in financing the construction of the following improve- ments to the sewage treatment plant of the City of South Bend, Indiana: Improvements to existing chlorine contact tank, chlorination equipment, final chlorine tank and outfall, two new final tanks and improvements to three existing final tanks, aeration tanks and equipment, gallery building and equipment, degritting and sludge thickening, improve- ments to digestors, miscellaneous items such as sludge preheaters, drainage improvements to existing final tanks, finish effluent pumping station, main for plant cooling water and other uses, extension to existing grit building, new metering equipment in raw and digested sludge lines, mechanized trash racks, enclosure of structures over scum burner, chemical feeding equipment, flocculators and other improvements necessary for phosphate removal. 2. That the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana, be authorized to sign said application and such other documents as may be necessary, including the offer and acceptance form. John L. Hunter, Supt. Water Works spoke motion that the resolution be adopted. ried. 9 ayes (Councilmen Allen, Craven, RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION NO. 210 -69 /s/ Walter Szymkowiak Member of the Common - Council in favor of the resolution. Councilman Craven made a Councilman Szymkowiak seconded the motion. Motion car - Grounds, Laven, Palmer, Reinke Zielinski, Wise and . Szymkowiak.)0 nays. REQUESTING THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO REVIEW ITS DECISION RESPECTING TIME IN THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA. WHEREAS, petitions were previously filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation some of which requesting that St. Joseph County be moved from the Central to the Eastern Time Zone; and, WHEREAS, after consideration of the matter, the Department of Transportation announc- ed a decision to move the time line so as to include St. Joseph County, Indiana, and therewith the City of South Bend, Indiana in the Eastern Time Zone, effective April 27, 1969; and, WHEREAS, the State Government by Veto action of the Governor on a proposed law passed by the 1969 INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, which would have exempted the State from the "daylight" requirement of the Federal Uniform Time Act, has determined that the St. Joseph County, Indiana, and the City of South Bend must observe daylight time during the summer six months, and standard time during the winter six months, thereby initially resulting in a two -hour time change to the residents of this area; and, WHEREAS, it is the belief of this body that a majority of the residents in the City of South Bend, when required to observe daylight time, would prefer to be included in the Central Time Zone, thereby resulting in only a one -hour time change each six months to the residents of this area. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. THAT WE REQUEST THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO REOPEN CONSIDERATION OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED DECISION, TO HOLD HEARINGS AND CONDUCT STUDIES ON THE MATTER CONCERNING ACTIONS OF THE INDIANA STATE GOVERNMENT AS IT RELATES TO ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, AND THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. AND, FURTHER, we request that the currently established time line at the Eastern border of St. Joseph County be observed until this reconsideration has been concluded and also for so long as the observanceof daylight saving time in this area is mandatory. The granting of such a request would permit St. Joseph County, during this period of reconsideration, to continue to observe Central Standard and Central Daylight Time as it now presently is doing and has done for the past years. /s/ Robert 0. Laven Member of the Common Council Council:- .President Laven explained that the resolution refers to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation decision to include St. Joseph County in the Eastern Standard Time Zone.