08-24-15 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 24,2015 Peter Holland—751 W. Ewing, South Bend—I am only up here as I was listening to Councilmember Derek Dieter bringing up how WNIT was not filming a couple weeks. I am with Public Access Michiana, I'm just concerned how that channel is going forward. I will be going down to WNIT tomorrow. I would like to say that South Bend has been chosen as the place for the regional meeting in April to hold our Public Access conference here. Last year they had 3,000 Public Access stations around the country in Michigan. I am going to be priming the pump a little bit to bring awareness of their presence here. Patrick Mangan— 1919 W. Michigan St., South Bend—I am here as I work for Citizens for Community Values of Indiana. I am disappointed to be here tonight. I am here to address the issue with Mr. Voorde, we have had so much drama and impact. This is not the type of thing that we need to move the city of South Bend forward. I am profoundly impacted not by just the judgement,but the ideal that an adultery website is being used as a dating service. The fact that John was willing to ruin the fidelity of a marriage for personal gratification. I'm empathetic as a man, but as a potential city council and city official, I think the right thing to do is to resign and abandon his candidacy for the city council. I'm calling on Jason Critchlow for help with him to resign in the case that he doesn't. What we want as a community is a pro-family by-partisan to oversee the affairs of the city. Unfortunately at this point I don't see that is going to be best served by having Mr. Voorde stay in his position. The challenge is we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. The way you have to own it, is to resign. Lynn Colliers—4900 W Washington St., South Bend—I would like to report what has happened on Western Ave. at this point in time I can travel in a slow pace and I make sure to not come back that way at a certain time. Western Ave is north and south in and out of South Bend, it has wonderful demographics. I have been here all my life and I've been told in eight(8) of the thirty meetings it was never a four(4) lane highway which we know that,but that is the way it has always be driven. The things that we asked for were the basic city services. Our vision from the 4th floor to the 14th floor are not coming together for all of us that are concerned for the quality of life. There are empty lots on Western Ave, use those for parking and if there is an overflow let those be limited. The meetings that I went to they didn't talk about the specifics it was always what we were going to do and it was always news. I don't know what phase we are in, but I'm glad we are going to talk to the Martins. The questions regarding that is what about the P &A. I'm glad that the multi-cultural groups are willing to come together and talk about living on the west end of South Bend together. Sharon Banicki —3822 W. Ford St., South Bend— I had a friend that wanted to speak to the council meeting tonight,unfortunately she is stuck in traffic on Lincoln Way she sends her regards. I know another business owner who had two (2) spots put in front of his business on Western. Talked to him the other day and asked how those two(2) spots were working for him, he replied no-one will park there. Everyone is afraid to as everyone know there is four(4) lanes and if they park there they get hit. Scott Ford talks about the thirty meetings they had beforehand no one knew when and where. We keep hearing about the meetings after the fact, they're not advertised. You talked about the budget meeting last week, but it was not advertised. You have all these meetings and want input but do you really want input when you are not letting the effected people know when and where. I went to a meeting last week at Westside where they talked about Western Ave, I was supposed to be put on the city email list for the next meeting; I'm still waiting. I heard there are many budget meetings coming up but I don't' know when and where. You want to advance yourself as technology savvy but you can't do anything on that city website in less than(3)three clicks an hour. You need to fix the website so the meetings are easily found where people know when and where to be. You shouldn't have to chase down your councilmembers. If I don't stumble upon you by chance then I don't know the great things you're doing. Valerie Schey did the animal ordinance, I called animal control several times as the dog lives in the garage next door. Give us a way to meet with you concerning our issues Western Ave, the budgets,and things like that. 10