04-12-10 Council Agenda & Packet

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~ae°ks and l~.ccreatiarz -- Seasnt~al Laar° These eleven employees will replace the last Tabor force caused bar budget shortfalls grad nYandatory Reductions in Vkrork ponce for the 2D 10 budget year. Tl--ay will be assigned to srryall operational craws used to address neighborhood blight, park and property vandalism, and genera[ rriaintenance anal Code Enforcezrzent issues. Primary duties will include graffiti remove[, cleaning and cutting hank foliage on city lots, park property acid abandoned properties, mowing operations end the mai3ztenance of the public restroams tluoughout the park system. i?trblic Works - Seasor3r€1 Labor These fifteen employees wil] be an expansion of the current Public Works seasonal workforce, targeted to enforce Buitdir~g Coda Regulations such as moving lawns, alley clean-up, rexnaving illegal dttzriping sites, arzd cleaning and boarding-up abandoned properties, roost of which are found in the lowest irzcatne census tractso The increase in life number of abandoned structures in Sou#h Bend is due to foreclostu~a that in t~.trn has been directly related to the current recession and economic stress. 1?Trks and Racr'catian -Seasonal Custodial Laboz• Seven custodial positions would be used to provide basic janitorial functions forihe recreation centers that are open and provide free services across the City of South Bend. Three of these positions were teraxzinated this year because of budgetazy requirements; the other four would be used #o adequately serve theunder-maintained facilities and re#uz'n them to the 2007 standards, l~um Village Nature Center (1), Howard Park Senior Center (l), Charles Black, Sr, Conrzxzunity Center (1), Ma~•tin Luther l~ing,lr. Cozz~rnunity Center (2), and the O'l~rien 'Fitness and Recreation Center (2) would be the respective home sites far these ~varkers. 1'xrks szad Recreatiarz - Seasonal CoaamuztiEy Center Programmers Three positions are requested to providing pragraz'nming at the Charles Black, Sr, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Comrnuni#y Recreation Centers, Return of these positions will allow the two Catnrzzunity Confers to continue afterschaol and high.school age pxograznnvng for the cornrnunities they serve. These programs provide safe environments for youth. directl}~ after school hours, provide life skills and rnentoring opportunities and assist in educational preparedness far some of South Bend's most vulnerable neighborhoods, >i'ark~ and IZeereation - Seasonal playground Program Staff These four positions will be part of the Summea• Playground Program, run by the South Bend Park and lteereation l~epartmez~t. This prograrrz is free to all tlae public, but is specifically targeted to floe ARR.4law-income portiozz of our community because The program functions as a distribution unit far tho surnrzaer portion of the 5clzool l.,unch prograrra. Staf-.Fwill he involved in teaching alts, crafts, spoxts atzd in the distribution of the lunches.