09-11-18 Personnel and Finance (#7)

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1. ;(;)3 1865 OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK KAREEMAH FOWLER, CITY CLERK PERSONNEL & FINANCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 5:00 P.M. Committee Members Present: Karen White, Regina Williams-Preston Committee Members Absent: Gavin Ferlic, John Voorde Other Council Present: Jake Teshka, Tim Scott, Oliver Davis, Jo Broden Other Council Absent: Sharon McBride Others Present: Kareemah Fowler, Bob Palmer, Bianca Tirado Presenters: James Mueller, Jennifer Hockenhull Agenda: DCI Operations and Grants Debt Overview Committee Chair Karen White called the meeting of the Personal and Finance Committee to order at 5:00 p.m., introduced the members and outlined the agenda. Department of Community Investment James Mueller, Director of Community Investment, with offices on the 14th Floor of the County- City Building stated,Good afternoon, Councilmembers. I appreciate the opportunity to present the 2019 Budget proposal. There's two (2)parts to this,tonight is looking at the Operations and Civil City Funds. Tomorrow night,we will look at the Redevelopment Fund. Let's get right into it. We are looking at Fund #211, where the operations come out of. We'll look at the key performance indicators that we track, accomplishments, and programming. Tomorrow we will look at the role playing, depending on timing. I think the presentation will be a little shorter. The mission that the department worked on before I joined was this: Community Investment for a stronger South Bend. They do it three (3)ways: attracting,retaining, and growing businesses, connecting residents, and economic opportunities and planning for a vibrant difference. We are looking for more of an organization structure and what you see here is a current organization,Department of Community Investment and Building Department. There are fourteen(14) currently in DCI,there's a Planning and Community and Resources team, there's a Neighborhood Development team, there's a Business Development team, and there's an Engagement and Empowerment team. You see the positions under there (Referring to the Presentation available in the City Clerk's Office). On the other side, you'll see more of this in the Building Department presentation next week, but this is the current structure. There's a Building Commission,design Product Specialist,and a Zoning and Services Administrator, when Building used to administer zoning ordinances. That switched the beginning of this year with the Area Plan Commission. Referring to the presentation, he stated, INTEGRITY' SERVICE'ACCESSIBILITY JENNIFER M.COFFMAN BIANCA L.T n Ano JOSEPH R.MOLNAR CHIEF DEPUTY/DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS DEPUTY/DIRECTOR OF POLICY ORDINANCE VIOLATION CLERK EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Blvd.I South Bend,Indiana 46601 I p 574.235.9221 I f 574.235.9173 I www.southbendin.gov