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We are consolidating fiscal officers into Administration and Finance, IT, Innovation and 311, verified reporting structures, and managing worker's compensation claims. It used to be around $700,000, and now it's about $400,000. The municipal ID program is moving along, Casa De Amistad is working on it too. We're training, doing financial reporting, and we'll be refining the Priority Based Budgeting process in year two (2). We have good information but next year will be even better. We also plan to maintain our AA bond rating, actually it is a AA+ for property tax debt supported funds, and that is the highest possible. Our highest programs are accounts payable, financial reporting, personnel records management, payroll processing, budget development and talent management. The health insurance plan is probably going to be paying dividends. As of June 30, our total revenue was $7.7 million and our total expenses were $6.6 million, so we are about 1 million dollars ahead on the revenue side. It is always going to be some kind of an increase, but we're hoping that will really help. On page seventy -nine (79), we're setting up a couple different funds in 2017. It is not new spending, it is the vehicle equipment and leasing fund. We keep track of it in excel and we do a lot of leasing for police vehicles and public works vehicles. We've always kept that in a separate file, but we're integrating it into our financial system because it is more transparent and will make it easier to complete the CAFR. Councilmember Jo M. Broden asked what was projected as the breakeven point for the clinic. Mr. Murphy stated that after a year we would have a better analysis on whether or not we were breaking even. South Bend Community Schools has broken even with Activate, and they made money during, their first year. We didn't set a certain target date, but we're hopeful. Lonnie Douglas, Director of the South Bend Human Rights Commission, the commission has always been an effective part of the City Administration, and we feel as though we have made some great accomplishments this year and we've gone above and beyond what we are called to do. One of the calls that we are trying to take into consideration is that we must try to deal with how the entire City interacts with one another. We are really excited to have a diversity and inclusion officer. When you start to think about accomplishments, there are so many that it is hard to decide what you want to put up there. We continue to do training for the Police and occasionally the Fire Department in terms of diversity, because we want them to understand that diversity and inclusion is very important in our City, and we want them to go forward and do great things. It is important for us to become part of the EEOC -FEPA Committee, which meets with the federal government in terms of what local cities are doing, and we're the only city represented in the entire United States of America. We are proud of that, and again ask to be involved in that. We managed to save ourselves $40,000 because of our involvement. We will continue to work N.