08-22-18 Personnel and Finance (#4)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Councilmember Tim Scott stated, I appreciate Amy in your department. We did get the Controller's Trustee Cash Report on Monday and we also got this Cash Reserves Summary on Monday. It is nice to see those early. Ms. Hockenhull replied, It is on the website as well. Councilmember Jake Teshka stated,A lot of these concerns have been the things I've been asking you about. Part of that is being new and then the other part is, I think, all of us are kind of a little on edge about what is going to happen in the future and that kind of stuff. So I think some of us are more weary of deficit spending and looking at those trends.Thank you for putting this together. Ms. Hockenhull replied, We also do a cash trends report and I think the trend is that is going up. My door is always open and please reach out to me. Venues, Parks & Arts Aaron Perri, Executive Director of Venues, Parks & Arts with offices located at 301 S. St. Louis Street, stated, I appreciate the opportunity to share our accomplishments and information on current things in progress as we move into 2019. Just as a reminder, I know the Council is always interested in tracking the organizational charts. That (referencing a slide of a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office) is our organizational chart, here. We have myself and a Deputy Director, we have got the Facilities and Grounds Division that oversee the care of all of our physical plants, the Recreation Division, Venue Operations, which primarily contains the Morris, Century Center and Palais, and then the Experience Division which is our marketing, events and development arm. We will start off a little bit different from your packet regarding the order of presenters. We will go straight to the Venues presentation. Jeff Jamecke is our Executive Director of Venues. Jeff Jarnecke, Executive Director of Venues with offices located at 120 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Blvd., stated,My understanding is that,historically,this has been presented by the Venues team with reminders that you are all invited, with only two (2) Fridays left, to join us at Fridays by the Fountain at the Morris. To help you with that, here are some lunch bags to bring your lunch and join us. He then passed out lunch bags to all the Council Members. He continued, You will also hear from our partners and friends at the South Bend Museum of Art and the Studebaker Museum as part of this presentation. We are happy to share that in 2017 the Morris had almost a $6 million economic impact on the community. We are pleased to see that grow and we have every expectation that it will continue. Even more so on the Palais side, there was nearly $3 million of economic impact on the community in 2017. Part of that, and as a result of that good work is our rebranding efforts and our re-imagination of some of our space. There is much more to come and you will hear more but the marquee is up and is brighter than ever. The work being done on Michigan and Colfax is just incredible. We have one hundred and three (103) total events for 2018 which is a twenty percent (20%) increase year over year. There are many more changes to come. He went on, So getting into the budget for this ye , we anticipate nearly $1.2 million of revenue and then a net deficit of$194,000. While it is still more than what we want it to be,that is actually EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson BvldI South Bend,Indiana 466011p574.235.9221 if574.235.91731TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 3