08-30-17 Personnel and Finance (#4)

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age limit. He then detailed the minute differences between the old plan and the new plan. He went on, The budget we are proposing for next ye is $6.5 million. That is up $159,000 from last year primarily due to the two percent (2%) raise coming next year. A lot of this depends on attrition and quite frankly the passing of the retired officers or their widowed spouses. There is always a question of whether we have enough money for it. This year, we started at a balance of $792,000 in the Fund as we saved$450,000 in miscellaneous and interest. Our reimbursement is always paid a year behind. I'm projecting this ye that we will have a balance of around $830,000 in the Fund. Next year we won't get quite as much pension relief. I'm figuring there will be roughly a$399,000 balance at the end of 2018. We've been hanging in here without asking for more appropriations. Right now we have two hundred and four(204)retirees and widows in the old Fund. We have one hundred and twenty-nine (129) in the new Fund that we don't pay. In sum, we have three hundred and thirty-three (333)retired police officers and widows. We are paying about two-thirds of those. To my knowledge,there is nothing in the legislature right now to change the pension plans. Councilmember Voorde asked, What is the Drop Program supposed to accomplish? Mr. Pinckert replied, By the entering the Drop Program,the State and City then have an idea of the numbers with regard to who is retiring soon. Councilmember Voorde then asked,And so once they declare, they don't have to indicate how long they will be in the program for? Mr. Pinkert responded, That is incorrect. Once you enter the program, you are required to indicate how many months you anticipate having left. However, you have an opportunity to opt- out of the program but once you opt-out, you cannot reenter. It is voluntary but we encourage the officers to enroll in it. Scott Ruszkowski, Chief of the South Bend Police Department located at 701 W. Sample Street, stated, There are other members of our team here to answer any questions. This presentation is based on our data from 2016. CC stands for Citizen Complaint and Al stands for Administrative Investigation. We had 103,183 calls for service. 23,671 of those calls generated case reports. There were 2,536 arrests,not counting warrant arrests. There were seventy-two (72)uses of force out of those arrests and only three (3) complaints from use of force. There were twenty- nine (29)public complaints and thirty(30) administrative investigations. I know Councilmembers have expressed concern about use of force but these are incredible numbers. Our vision is to constantly strive for excellence in the quality of police service to help ensure a safe community for everyone. We cannot do that by ourselves. We achieve that by community outreach and community inreach. We are a branch of our community and we are part of the family. We focus on Recruiting, Retaining and Rewarding and that equals Reinvigoration. Reinvigoration is tied into the morale of the police force. We have increased our in-house training. Because we are a Regional Training Facility we have historically focused more on everyone else and not ourselves. Not pushing anyone aside but we must start focusing on ourselves more. The number one (1) mantra is accountability. We've focused on a number of different ways to better our efforts in recruitment. We do job fairs and go to schools as much as possible. We attend every single community meeting. I am frankly disappointed with the lack of 5