After business was taken care of, the council had one of the members from the public draw a name out of a tub in the name of a raffle for a cooler that the City of South Bend conducted at the Labor day Fair. Dawn Foster won, so come claim your cooler!
City Supervisor Houk reported that there is an upcoming project for 2015, on Cedar Street to Memorial Street that is basically a sidewalk that would connect the sidewalk on 2nd street and bring the sidewalk down and around the court house.
Treasurer Roberts reported a new utility billing method that features some convenient features such as auto pay:
"Something very new and exciting for the city of South Bend; it's called icloud, they actually interface with Vision, which is our company that does our utility billing. We hope to go live on Wednesday, and you will be able to go to our website, log in, and click on the 'pay your bill' link and you will be able to pay your bill," Roberts said.
The website has some nice features, for instance a customer can choose a completely paperless method and never get a bill in their mailbox. They can also set their account up to email them their bill, and pay it automatically.
The mayor brought an idea to the council to hear their opinion of it, the Pearl Woman's Crisis Center wants to put 25 new "work force housing" across the street from the crisis center. The council concluded that there was not enough room for parking, nor was it a suitable spot for low income housing.
The next South Bend City Council meeting will be on Monday, December 8 at 5:30 pm.