09-05-18 Personnel and Finance (#6)

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK She went on, So as far as the Department of Administration and Finance goes, our Department vision is that we are here to provide excellent, timely and cost-effective customer service to all departments within the City,to the Common Council and to interested residents. We achieve this goal by hiring and retaining highly qualified and motivated individuals.We encourage professional development at all levels of the organization. We maintain high standards for service and reporting and we provide regular opportunities for communication and collaboration within departments, our own department, with Council and our residents. This is very small on the screen(referencing a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office), I apologize, so please refer to your handouts for this section here. The major Funds that Administration and Finance oversee are the County-Option Income Taxes and our Economic Development Income Tax Funds. We don't actually typically spend the money out of here but we do manage it and make sure we are consolidating and making sure we are not overspending the Funds and those kinds of things. We kind of orchestrate and bring all that together. She continued, So for COIT and EDIT this year,we were able to get very good estimates from the DLGF. They have moved these targets around a little bit on us over the past couple of weeks but I think we have very solid estimates going forward. For COIT, they are stating that we have about an eleven percent(11%)increase over last year which is great news for 2019.That is not something we are banking on going forward, so,when we come before you on September 24th,2018 with our overview of the entire budget and we show you our fiscal curb analysis where we take what we will spend in 2019 but this is what 2020 and 2021 look like, we are only going to estimate a two percent (2%) increase in these income taxes. They are the most volatile. As soon as the economy takes a hit, these are the ones that take a hit so we always want to be very conservative when we estimate these increases. She went on, So within COIT this year, you're going to see $130,000 again for the Goodwill Strategic Outreach Unit Program, or, GVI. There was an article done that Mayor Pete gave an interview for, this is the second (2nd) year of a three (3) year program. There are $120,000 earmarked for the 2019 Election Administration expense. Please note that this is what the County charges us. This has nothing to do with anyone's campaign. I want to be very clear about that. This is simply for the County to run the actual elections in 2019. This was the estimate the County gave us.We have$100,000 earmarked for permanent supportive housing,$200,000 earmarked for Light Up South Bend which Eric talked about earlier in this process, and about $1.9 million for community and neighborhood engagement and improvements. That includes the City Cemetery updates and James Mueller will talk more about that in the Community Investment discussion next week. We have $500,000 set aside to continue with the demolitions of vacant and abandoned properties. We set aside about $150,000 for County-City Building office remodels. Our facility continues to age and we are hoping this$150,000 makes it through the budget process. Our offices are in bad shape and we are hoping to use this to fix and update the offices. She continued, Also within COIT we fund the operations for Motor Vehicle Highway including the curb and sidewalk program, emergency medical services to supplement that program and also for some Parks and Recreation. We continue to see very strong cash reserve levels through 2019 in this Fund. We will have further projections on that but they remain strong through 2019 in that Fund. For Economic Development Income Tax, we are receiving an eight point three five percent (8.35%) increase in revenues. Our requested expenditures in this Fund include funding for the operations of the Department of Community Investment, Animal Care and Control and Code EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1 227 W Jefferson Bvld(South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 1TTD574.235.55671www.southbendin.gov 12