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REGULAR MEETING <br />JUNE 22, 2015 <br />Councilmember Karen White — I would like clarification, I thought you said during the <br />committee meeting that it would be effective 2016. Eric Horvath responded the yard waste that <br />we discussed is 2016. This is for August 1st of 2015. <br />Councilmember Oliver Davis — All the different rationale and the different issues and the <br />different options would you be able to present that in our next meeting and still have time to get <br />that done by August 1st? I just want to see the rationale and the different options whether <br />privatization, and everything else, and the numbers so we can compare those. You put down the <br />Elkhart numbers, you put down the Mishawaka numbers, I just want to see it and have it as a part <br />of our record as something that you present. The thing about our role is we have to take this out <br />and share with people why we passed it. I have no numbers here except based on you. I don't <br />see why we have to rush to deal with this. That's all I am asking for tonight. I asked for that last <br />Tuesday, for some other things. When I'm sitting at my neighborhood associations and going to <br />my different people, I can pass it out, I can be intelligent. I can share what the Mayor's doing <br />instead of that's what he asked for. So it's not the Council versus the Mayor, it's the fact that we <br />have the documents. We don't have that, that's all I'm asking for. <br />This being the time heretofore set for the Public Hearing on the above bill, proponents and <br />opponents were given an opportunity to be heard. <br />Those wishing to speak in opposition: <br />Roy Saenz, 921 W. Colfax, South Bend —The first question is the yard waste shows up on our <br />water bills, and we know there will be some issues coming up with water with the CSO project. <br />It is $1 today, but how much will it be tomorrow? We want accountability which I think the <br />Council has made it clear that accountability with this issue has been financially irresponsible on <br />part of the Mayor's office. We want fiscal responsibility how is it that Mishawaka can balance a <br />budget and not come back every week with a different department asking for money. The <br />department may not operate in terms of a profit, but they need to operate within the terms of <br />staying within the budget. <br />S.J. Sabo, Offices on Mishawaka Ave., South Bend — Mr. Horvath did quite a little song and <br />dance for you. He neglected to mention something very important, and I quote from the paper <br />"but what's driving it more than anything else is the need for new equipment." Not once did I <br />hear him say, we can drop the million dollar expenditure in new equipment, not once. As once <br />again, it is the Mayor's way or the highway. All the apologist are use to falling asleep as they <br />are thinking about what the Mayor wants. They need to open their eyes to see what's going on <br />here. Once again it is being ram routed right past you just like the smart street program and <br />everything else he spent our money on without backup, without facts, without any compromise <br />other than dire consequences. Oh, we'll cut services, if we don't get the money we'll cut this <br />we'll cut that. That's not compromise, that's not intelligent financial planning that's my way or <br />the highway. We have had enough out of this administration and enough of those who aren't <br />willing to question those including members of this council. You know who you are. <br />John Wise, 532'/2 Kosciuszko Street, South Bend— Two things I don't approve of, on trash <br />pickup day I have alley pick up in the back of my house, and I don't have on street house pickup. <br />During the winter months, when we get heavy snow storms and blizzards our trash trucks can't <br />get through to my alley. As the city of South Bend doesn't plow the alleys. So my trash sits in <br />the back of my house for a month to a month and a half before the alley gets plowed. Those who <br />live on Pulaski and Jackson, which are all one -way streets, they all park one direction and have <br />to put their trash out on the streets or they get stuck in the alley and get buried by snow as the <br />trash trucks can't get through. These are very unsanitary practices. It causes us inconveniences <br />when you are talking about jacking up our water bill and our trash pick -up, when we can't get it <br />picked up at all. That is very unsanitary, causing taxpayers' money when it is not being of <br />service to us. Something else needs to be changed. My house went a whole month without <br />being picked up. Animals got into it; that makes South Bend look like a junk yard. A better <br />system of things need to be put together. I wish I had on street parking maybe my trash would <br />get picked up, I don't know. <br />22 <br />