03-24-14 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING MARCH 24, 2014 Resident of PO BOX 10205- I just have a couple questions, maybe that our council might able to work me through. I brought some issues up about the sewer insurance program now for 4 years and I was actually issued a cease and assist letter from the city legal department because we had city employees who are public workers out in the streets working and I was told that I can't sit down in the street two blocks away and take photographs as evidence or audio or video tape which I think violates my first amendment anyway but this came right from your law department. And I filed some documents back in April of 2010. A month later, in May 2010 some city people Gary, Sam, Kevin... went in to a board of a public works meeting and tried to change the sewer ordinance which is what I was complaining about and they wanted to know what they can legally change without having it brought before the council. I got this from the reading hearing shows that they came in and talked about this off the agenda and they were told they have to take it through a probationary period and had to announce it to the public and get public input, now this was in 2010 in May, July of 2010 in this cease and assist letter which was a spear factor in the paragraph that was underlined the city of South Bend has instituted a new sewer insurance program in an effort to save taxpayers money. So that tells mein 2010 they already implemented a new program and its under way so and so forth, that program did not get implement until 3 and half years later in November of 2013. I gave you guys a copy of the 23 page new agenda and new insurance program so why does it take so long for anything that is brought before this city so long to be answered, there are so many things that are unanswered from last year's council meeting, when are we ever going to get answer? Resident of P.O. Box 1976- I ask now that Mr. Robinson and Mr. Davis, the people that have come before, the citizens of South Bend told me to serve better than what we are against. All those abates the intention for a year and has been whole another thing all over the United States, all kinds of courts. The citizens have paid a crucial leader of ours and we still have no answers. Are we going to use the abatements, nobody knows, but took our tax money then paid these people to do a job. I'm a taxpayer I like to know what I'm paying for simple as that. Now let me see why the mayor of the city, who is not worthy and currently running this city but you are not doing good at this job. So next year you will be put out of us, soon as we find a candidate that we deem good enough city and look out for all taxpayers. Thank you. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Council, President Oliver Davis adjourned the meeting at 8:40pm ATTEST: ATTEST: John Voorde, City Clerk Oliver J. Davis, President 34