08-01-18 Personnel and Finance (#1)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK mostly to rising personnel costs and the request for paid internships as the Mayor had just mentioned.We will do a$17,727 increase in wage,shifting that part-time Project Manager position to full-time. We will also do a $10,920 increase in wage for the additional paid interns. Then $3,840 increase in personnel due to two percent(2%)raises and also a reduction of the salary cap versus actual pay reduction from 2018. This is in order to have the flexibility to increase wages throughout the year. We will also have $4,563, which is a four percent (4%) increase, in health care costs. Again, our only personnel change is the request to shift the Project Manager position from part-time to full-time. We will change more details about that prior to the salary ordinance review. She continued, Here (referencing the presentation) we outlined some of the accomplishments for 2018. We expanded the downtown infrastructure improvements. Private investment continues to climb past$125 million with the addition of the Hibberd Building,Berlin Place and the downtown offices. Again, we supported weather amnesty and emergency shelter. We continue to employ recommendations for the mayor's working group on homelessness. These are South Bend's most vulnerable residents and we hope to improve the downtown business climate and quality of life. We have secured millions of dollars in grant funding to empower residents beyond taxpayer funding including the Bloomberg Mayor's Challenge and, more recently, the Cities of Service Love Your Block Grant. As the mayor mentioned, we will be updating Council on those grants. She went on, We joined the Green and Healthy Home Initiative, the Local Covenant of Mayors, the U.S. Conference of Mayor's Task Force on Automation,the Open Internet Pledge, and South Bend was also named a silver-level bicycle friendly city. We have delivered on our commitment to financial stewardship, as the mayor mentioned, by achieving a Double A(AA)bond rating. We have completed our fourth(4th)cohort of the South Bend Youth Task Force and we just introduced our Fall 2018 class. We have maintained a community-wide response to the group-related gun violence with an integrated approach by the Police Department. We recently unveiled our new user-friendly City website with an online 311 portal. We have invited Prosperity Now to objectively evaluate the community's racial wealth gap. We have also recently unveiled the Division of Economic Engagement and Empowerment and they are focused on serving underserved areas. We have introduced a generous parental leave policy as well. She continued, The next slide just highlights our Youth Task Force. So, ongoing in 2018 will include moving forward with the relocation of the South Shore line. We will be providing updates to Council at the August 13th,2018 meeting of the Common Council. We will continue the My SB Parks & Trails construction. We will be continuing to promote performance-based management throughout our Administration. We are committed toward increasing the diversity throughout the City's workforce and boards. We have also continued the Disparity Study to evaluate the City's p rocurement for Minority and Women-owned Businesses.We are facilitating the development and implementation of the strategic vision for the City to ensure the sustainability of the Administration's progress. We will continue to support the critical infrastructure for neighborhoods' quality of life. We will focus on economic development on inclusive growth in the workforce and small business sector as well as continue to drive improvements in employee engagements and morale. Finally, we will act on resident priorities expressed through the neighborhood community survey. She went on, Our key goals and challenges for 2019 will be to continue the efforts to enhance quality of place in our neighborhoods,parks and planning. We aim to protect South Bend residents EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If574.235.91731T TD574.235.5567lwww.southbendin.gov 2