09-19-18 Personnel and Finance (#10)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committeemember Williams-Preston stated, Thank you for more curbs and sidewalks. I think that's a wonderful idea and I appreciate it. Venues Parks and Art Aaron Perri, Executive Director of Venues Parks & Arts with offices located at 301 South St. Louis, stated, We're requesting one (1) new position, that is the head custodian position, and it will be a Teamsters position. This person will care for the higher level of standard that we're putting into our facilities, as well as the fact that the Charles Black Center is doubling in size. We have a couple of title changes that are positions that we're changing from Director titles to Manager titles. We didn't like the idea of Directors reporting to Directors, because it gets confusing. This comes with no salary changes, just a title change. There are a couple things from our reorganization, but the primary one (1) was on the venues side. The Director of Box Office and Events Services used to be just the Director of the Box Office,but now she also oversees booking, ushers and the whole customer experience, so we're recommending an increase there to reflect her change in duties. At the top of the organizational chart, there is the Director of Facilities and Grounds and the Director of Experience. In terms of their level of responsibility, the budget and the number of staff they oversee, in particular on the facilities and grounds side, there has been a major increase, but the other two (2) seem to be predominately underpaid from where we were in the past. The summary slide (referring to the presentation available in the City Clerk's Office) shows that everything considered only has a total net effect of a point seven percent(.7%)increase, an additional $44,000 to our budget. Part of that is that we were able to get some internal efficiencies and migrate some of the positions that were in VPA over to the Venues side of the equation.We're reintroducing ice skating, so there is some part-time labor that we'll see at the end of 2019 that hasn't been there in the last couple of years. Committeemember Williams-Preston asked, Where are the supervisors located? Mr. Perri replied, Charles Black Center and Martin Luther King Jr. Center. There are three (3) supervisors,but only two(2)of them would be recommended for the increase,the ones that oversee the significant centers. The third (3rd) one (1) oversees the Rum Village Nature Center, which doesn't have any additional staffing associated with it. Police Department Scott Ruszkowski, South Bend Police Chief with offices located at 701 W. Sample Street, stated, My backup is not with me because they are all tending to an officer who was wounded in the line of duty at the moment. He is ok, he is at the hospital being treated right now and we're trying to figure out exactly what happened. I want to give a shout out to HR for helping us with this. The Director of Logistics is a new position. However, we currently have a vacated Captain position that was held for many years. We are looking into positions that don't require arrest powers, a gun and badge to do these things, and this is one (1) of those positions. As you can see, it is a lengthy job description that includes everything from police equipment to federal grant writing. More importantly,it involves trying to collaborate with vendors and police officers,which is not an easy task to do, so it is going to be a quite intensive job.Next is the crime intelligence analyst, which is the social media component. The Council had several questions about this, and this is being done in almost every major police department in the country. We are going to customize this to fit our EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 46601.1p 574.235.9221 I f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 I www.southbendi n.gov 5