04/02/90 Board of Public Works Minutes

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11� REGULAR MEETING APRIL 2, 1990 - provide general contractor services for rehabilitation of Hansel Center day care facilities; the rehabilitation portion of the Hansel Center project is to be funded with CDBG funds through a contract between the City and Hansel Center. The total cost of this activity shall not exceed $45,000.00 SOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION CHAPIN COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY The targeted goal for this activity is to: 1. Complete the rehabilitation of 303 and 31.3 South Chapin utilizing up to $67,900 of CDBG funds under this contract along with funds generated from Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits and/or any other private funds which may be necessary; and 2. Acquire the properties at 240 and 242 South Chapin Street utilizing up to $22,100.00 of CDBG funds under this contract. The total cost of this activity shall not exceed $90,000.00. NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION CITYWIDE COMMERCIAL REVOLVING LOAN FUND The Citywide Commercial Revolving Loan Fund can be either a primary or secondary lending source and is intended to supplement conventional lending sources. The fund can provide either secondary, low interest loan money to supplement conventional bank loans, or a combination of both for the restoration, rehabilitation, acquisition or expansion of eligible businesses, existing and new, on any participating NBD Avenue. The total cost of this activity shall not exceed $242,462.00. Upon a motion made by Mrs. DeClercq, seconded by Ms. Humphreys and carried, the above referred to Contracts were approved and executed. ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 10-1990 - WRITE-OFF AMBULANCE SERVICE OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS FOR 1987 Fire Chief Luther Taylor submitted to the Board a Resolution which will write-off the ambulance service's outstanding accounts which are considered to be uncollectible for the year 1987. This action will close the books for 1987. Chief Taylor informed the Board that during 1987, the City billed a total of $351,023.75 for ambulance services. The total amount to be written off for 1987 is $112,173.03. This results in $238,850.72 in revenue or a sixty-eight per cent (68%) collection rate for 1987. Chief Taylor noted that the national average collection for emergency ambulance services is between sixty per cent (600) and sixty-five per cent (650). He also informed the Board that the procedure for ambulance billing is to turn the account over to a collection agency after one hundred twenty days (120) from the date of the service. After the collection agency exhausts every effort to collect these accounts, they are written off. The list attached to the Resolution represents those accounts considered uncollectible. Therefore, Ms. Humphreys made a motion that the Resolution as submitted be adopted. Mrs. DeClercq seconded the motion which carried and the following Resolution No. 10-1990 was adopted: