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10010-10 Appropriation - $353,437 from Parks and Recreation Fund #201 to Employ Seasonal Laborers-Passed 04-26-10
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10010-10 Appropriation - $353,437 from Parks and Recreation Fund #201 to Employ Seasonal Laborers-Passed 04-26-10
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4/26/2010
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10010-10
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Although we have been forced to reduce the length of the season for this program, these <br />are not replacement positions. Instead, this would allow the Parks and Recreation <br />Department to return to the full range of services in the more limited time window. <br />5. Submit a copy of your most receut Audit Summary or Financial Review, if applicable. <br />SEE ATTACHED (ATTACHMENT C) <br />6. Describe your entity's past experience, if any, working with REAL, Services, Inc. <br />The City has pxovided funding for partnership initiatives with REAL Services in the past, <br />and REAL Services is a partner in several aspects of the Howard Park Senior Center, <br />including the Meals on wheels/Senior Picnic collaboration. <br />7. Describe how CSBG-ARRA funds will assist with retaining or creating the positions <br />described in questions #3 and #4. <br />Most of the positions described are seasonal laborers, and these crews have a very large <br />impact on neighborhoods and the "common property" of the City of South Bend. These <br />crews usually provide labor-intensive work on shod-term but necessary projects. <br />Providing clean, safe properties and neighborhoods, remediating violations and <br />hazardous conditions will have an immediate positive effect on the neighborhoods, but <br />will also provide positive benefits to the working individuals and their families. <br />Both the seasonal laborers and the programmer positions (at the community centers and <br />at the Playground Program across the city at various park properties) simply will not be <br />available without the assistance of the CSBG-ARRA funding. <br />On March 19, 2008, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed House Bill 1001 that capped <br />property tax assessment of private residences to 1% of assessed value, The projected <br />revenue shortfall for the City of South Bend (on its full implementation in 2010) was $22 <br />million to $24 million. Frugal spending (in preparation for this Bill) had begun in 2008, <br />but even with the monies conserved in 2008, city officials were forced to make more than <br />$3.1 million in additional permanent cuts in personnel and services to complete a 2009 <br />budget. <br />Despite modifications to a Local Option Income tax and creation of a Public Safety tax to <br />fluid critical Police and Fire personnel, an estimated $6 million in lost revenue was not <br />replaced in the 2010 budget and had to be balanced by termination of personnel and <br />services compared to the diminished 2009 budget. This was compounded by the $2 <br />million revenue decline to the city from the global economic crisis. <br />In comparison to 2008 levels, the City has cut more than 80 positions and the <br />accompanying services provided by that staff as result of revenue declines. The Mayor, <br />Division Heads and most directors have taken mandatory 5% salary cuts. Non- <br />bargaining staff's pay for the entire city has been frozen for the past two years. Seasonal <br />positions were the most heavily affected, many being completely eliminated. <br />The CSBG - ARRA grant will restore a portion of those services to the sections of our <br />community that are most likely to have been most affected. <br />
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