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

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media at Board of Public Safety meetings. They only show up when something is wrong. That just demoralizes the Police Department. We are a great department and we have the stats and numbers to prove that. Ken Glowacki, Director of Accounting and Budgets for the South Bend Police Department located at 701 W. Sample Street, stated, The Police Budget has many different expenses and many different Funds. Of our $36.6 million budget, almost$29 million is funded from the General Fund, $4 million is funded out of the LOIT Fund, about$1 million comes out of the COIT for automobile maintenance and gas. PSAP is funded from the EDIT Fund, Fund#408, and that is $2.464 million. There are still some additional non-reverting Funds that come in through fines, fees and services. For example, accident reports, gun permits, fines like impound fees account for roughly $700,000 of expenses. The $36.6 million is up about$300,000 from last year. We have no capital in the budget mostly because our vehicles are leased so we don't purchase them outright. We have $2.5 million earmarked for PSAP which is what the County charges us. That is the fee for the entire City including Fire,there is no separate charge for their Department. The total for Police Operations is $34.1 million this year compared to $34.2 million from last•ye. Salaries and benefits for sworn police officers account for$28.1 million which is up $300,000 from last. This is the largest portion of our budget. Civilian salaries and benefits is about$2.5 million. Supplies costs about $800,000 this ye down from$1 million last year. In that supplies line, $500,000 is for gas. We use 275,000 to 285,000 gallons of gas a year. The price of gasoline is the biggest factor in what our yearly expense will be. The reason we are down on that number from last year is merely the cost per gallon is lower this year. Services account for$5.2 million this ye compared to $5.4 million from last ye and that is attributed to our reserve from general insurance. That is down from $1.2 million to $600,000 this .Year. We are budgeting for a total of two hundred and forty-five (245) officers. There is no change in rank. Of the one hundred and sixty-two (162) Patrolman First Class that we budget for,roughly thirty (30) of those are investigators. After January when we were at about two hundred and fifty- three (253) sworn officers, at the end of August 2014 we were at two hundred and thirty-one (23 1) sworn officers. And even if they are sworn in, that doesn't mean they are available for duty. Some officers could be on medical leave, military leave or otherwise not available. Chief Ruszkowski stated, The bare minimum we can put forward in the community is about two hundred (200) officers and that is not great. Mr. Glowacki continued, We have projections out to 2021 but that is unrealistic. We have eight (8) recruits in the Academy and we are looking to hire about nine (9) more recruits in the October/November timeframe. We are hoping to get the total number of sworn officers to two hundred and forty-three (243) by the end of 2017. I'm thinking we will have close to fifteen(15) to twenty-five (25) officers per-year in the drop program, and that means we have to have recruiting classes of twenty(20) to twenty-five (25) to stay at the level we are at. I may be over- simplifying the math but that is what we are faced with. We also have approximately eighty (80) officers that have met the minimal requirements for retirement and at any point they could leave. Chief Ruszkowski added, We've projected that at least one hundred (100) officers will become eligible in the next four(4) years. 6