SOUTH BEND — Forever Learning Institute Executive Director Eve Finessy says South Bend needs a senior center.
Chef Monnese Plummer thinks the city needs a commissary kitchen where self-employed chefs could share space to prepare and cook food for pop-up markets and catering.
South Bend Tenant Association founder Rodney Gadson wants funding for his nonprofit that advocates for tenants, often low-income, who risk being evicted and don’t understand their legal rights.
Black Lives Matter South Bend co-founder Jorden Giger called for more city money for a broad range of initiatives and policy changes, as detailed in a 38-page Black People’s Budget, copies of which he left on tables.
They were four of about 40 people, not including city staff and common council members, who came to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Thursday night, for the first of three “Build the Budget” public “feedback” sessions the city is conducting as it crafts next year’s city budget. Before the meeting, people could spin a wheel and answer a question about city government, and then receive a yellow T-shirt with the words, “I BUILT THE BUDGET” on the back.
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