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SOUTH BEND South Bend City Clerk Dawn Jones has said she’ll take Joshua Reynolds’ word that his prior suspensions as an Indianapolis police officer amounted to retaliation for his reporting of other officers’ misconduct, but it became clear Monday night the common council won’t.
The council can’t fire Reynolds, but it appoints the citizen board to whom he would present his investigation findings and it controls his office’s budget, said council attorney Bob Palmer.
At a special meeting of the council’s Rules Committee, the committee voted unanimously to ask the full council, at its next regular meeting Monday July 26, to subpoena Community Police Review Board Director Reynolds’ internal affairs files from his former employers, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Butler University, if he won’t agree to release them himself.
SOUTH BEND â After delaying action the past two meetings over various concerns, the South Bend common council Monday night gave City Clerk Dawn Jones a green light to search for the cityâs first community police review office director.
âIâm glad itâs done,â Jones said after the council meeting, in which the nine members unanimously approved a resolution detailing the positionâs job description. âIt feels like we just got on the train and got it moving.â
Jones said the cityâs Human Resources department will post the job by the end of the week, and her office will hire the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, at a cost of $9,300, for consulting that will include posting the job through the nonprofitâs channels.
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SOUTH BEND â South Bend Common Council members declined Monday night to approve the city administrationâs request to raise all sewer bills 87 cents more a month to pay for monthly discounts of up to $28.50 for the cityâs poorest households.
The new surcharge would be added to a $1.75 increase approved by the council in October 2019, yet to be implemented by the administration, to pay for a range of smaller discounts than what is now being proposed.
The discounts would appear as âcreditsâ on low-income residentsâ bills.
The city had planned to put the surcharge and credits into effect over the past summer but delayed them because of the uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and plans to switch to a new billing software next month, said city public works Director Eric Horvath.