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REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 26, 2013
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<br />COMMENTS FROM GREG BROWN CONCERNING 311 COMMUNICATION CENTER
<br />Rev. Greg Brown, 1238 Diamond, South Bend, Indiana, stated the 311 line communications he
<br />would like to know the due process. He stated that he called the line about 205 E. Irvington.
<br />First of all I wanted to commend Councilmember Valerie Schey for coming out there. For 3 ½
<br />weeks I watched the water in front of my fiancé house run down the street. Bob Frame came out
<br />repaired it, the next morning water was shooting up. I called the 311 line, first I called sewer,
<br />they informed me to call the 311 line, I called the 311 line, I got a call back and they said well
<br />they are waiting on the tree to be removed. Ms. Valerie Schey went out there, tried to take my
<br />mother over there for an event, the sidewalk is tore up, and is that correct Ms. Schey. The
<br />gentleman told me today that I have to get in touch with Phil from the Park & Rec to get the tree
<br />torn down before they could fix the water. She took pictures of it, left to come to a meeting,
<br />about 15 minutes later Bob Frame showed up. They went down in the hole, the man was getting
<br />ready to leave, he said “but Reverend I’m not going to leave, this is a deep hole, what if one of
<br />the kids fall in. I said that’s what I’m saying, when the water comes up they put sand and it
<br />washes down in our sewer system. So I want to know the due process in the communication. I
<br />have talked to Phil and he says well even in cutting the grass, if we don’t get the information of
<br />the address whether it comes from a city officers, a policeman who writes it up, I won’t get the
<br />job done. So I would like to know that, I have a privilege of the floor form and my next question
<br />is going back to when we used to have car inspections. I try walking down Lincolnway, you got
<br />cars, one car went past me today, Mr. Dieter, and it didn’t even have a windshield in it. Some of
<br />them don’t have bumpers, some don’t have mufflers, and I would like to look into seeing if we
<br />could go back to the safety inspection.
<br />COMMENTS FROM SAM BROWN REGARDING MARTIN LUTHER KING DR.
<br />Samuel Brown, Citizens United for a Better Government, 415 LaSalle Street, South Bend, he
<br />stated that he and his granddaughter were watching civil rights movement on TV. She said papa
<br />why are you crying. Well, I tried to explain to her that papa was old enough to catch part of that.
<br />We have a problem in South Bend on some of these same things that was in the news clip. I got
<br />my pen and my paper and was writing some of these things down, by a professor from Tennessee
<br />University, he wrote a documentary on this. I called him; I’m flying to see him. I have been
<br />very patient, I’ve filed the proper forms with the Council, I try not to get into a fight with a guy
<br />that I have a lot of respect for, I’m serious about this. Everybody says to be patient, we are
<br />working on this, and we put up money. I don’t care about your money, I want this thing done
<br />right and I want it in any area that is not poverty stricken. Because I probably won’t be there
<br />when they name King Dr., I was there for the first one in Chicago. I want this done right and I’m
<br />tired of the excuses, you know, I want this thing done right. Put King Dr. in an area like those
<br />new condo’s going toward the dome. Somebody’s proud of that and I want to be proud of King
<br />Dr. I’m going to fight and fight until it’s done.
<br />COMMENTS FROM JESSE DAVIS REGARDING NEPOTISM
<br />Jesse Davis, P. O. Box 10205, South Bend, Indiana, stated that he ran across this data site that
<br />was put up by the city. I ran across is two or three days ago and I think it just went up. Pretty
<br />nifty little sight, you can actually go in there and track a lot things on there. So, I went on and
<br />started looking at some of the employee compensation. I know we passed some nepotism
<br />ordinances and Indiana passed some laws recently and when I’m looking through there I find a
<br />lot of names that apparently relate to each other. Some of those seem to work directly under the
<br />other names in the departments and one of those names that caught me as odd was Pemberton. I
<br />ran across a Rex Pemberton who works for Animal Control, then I found a Jonathan R.
<br />Pemberton who is the Manager of the Street Department, and then a Jon R. Pemberton who is a
<br />Manager of the Sewer Operations, then a Jon Pemberton who says Operator General and a Josh
<br />Pemberton that’s says Superintendent V. So I made a few phone calls and looked the names up
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