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Councilmember Dr. David Varner asked, Is there any reason you feel compelled to subsidize the <br /> Sweep Route? <br /> Mr. Cangany replied, A lot of contracts were put into place prior to my arrival so as they start <br /> coming up for renegotiation we are playing hardball with a lot of renewals. <br /> Committeemember Regina Williams-Preston asked, Has there been any headway on bus shelter <br /> installments? <br /> Mr. Cangany replied, Some bus shelters are part of the City's Department of Public Works. <br /> TRANSPO does have plans to put more out but we have to figure out our priorities. Having <br /> reliable vehicles is the number one (1) priority for TRANSPO but passenger amenities are also a <br /> priority. Bus stops got rolled out but we needed a local match available for bus shelters. We have <br /> close to $100,000 raised for a local match but then there is also engineering site work that needs <br /> to be done. It really is an exercise trying to stretch our monetary resources. We are going to <br /> incrementally roll out the bus shelter process. The locations in the grant that was previously <br /> approved are predetermined. We have no say on where they will go. That list can be made <br /> available upon request. <br /> Councilmember Broden asked, How attentive are you to the ADA compliance of your operation? <br /> Do you have an advisory board for that compliance? <br /> Mr. Cangany replied, We don't have a specific advisory board for that but we have the <br /> TRANSPO Board. We have a full board but we regularly seek comment from individuals to <br /> make sure we are in compliance. <br /> Police Department <br /> David Pinckert, Pension Secretary for the South Bend Police Department, stated, I've been <br /> around for a number of years. He passed out a copy of the 2018 South Bend Police Pension <br /> Budget(available in the Office of the City Clerk). He continued, In the back of the packet is the <br /> list of names. The first section is a list of retired officers that we are paying and what their salary <br /> will be next year. There are two (2)pension plans involved with the Police and Fire Department. <br /> The twenty-five (25) Fund is the old pension plan. In 1977 the State of Indiana passed a new <br /> pension plan. So anyone hired since April 1, 1977 is automatically in the seventy-seven(77) <br /> Fund. However when they passed this legislation, they offered all the officers in the old plan a <br /> chance to convert to the new plan. They paid a ten thousand dollar($10,000) stipend for each <br /> decision made to convert. We had one hundred and five (10 5) officers convert to the new plan <br /> out of approximately two hundred and forty (240) enrolled in the old plan. We still have the two <br /> (2)plans going right now. We budget for and fund the old plan. Those in the seventy-seven(77) <br /> Fund are paid by the State of Indiana. Down the road there will not be an old plan anymore. <br /> Everyone will be paid by the State of Indiana. Since 1989, any officer that converted to the new <br /> Fund is still paid by the City of South Bend and I don't know why. At the end of the year, we do <br /> pension relief and get the money we spend reimbursed back. I'm guessing the State is waiting for <br /> the old plan to be eliminated before taking them all on the payroll. With the new plan, the officer <br /> has to be fifty-two (52) years of age to draw their pension whereas in the old plan there was no <br /> 4 <br />