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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committeemember Davis stated, We can talk more about that because I've been getting more information. I know Dr. Mueller and I talked about some programing the Administration had looked at. James Mueller, Executive Director for the Department of Community Investment with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, The Library is a good partner with us on the Drucker Institute City of Life-Long Learning. This is an exciting project. Phase One(1)got some money from both Google and Wal-Mart to afford the pilot. They are ready to move into their next phase which they estimate will be about $5 million. They've gotten $2 million, $1 million each from Google and Wal-Mart and we are looking to move that forward. We think there is a role for this new space in that project. The Library is fully supportive. Financial commitments are always difficult because they are facing the same circuit breaker issues in 2020 that we are. I don't know what their exact estimated loss is but we are trying to figure out the exact details on the financial side of things. The Library is a full partner on that initiative and I think the Redevelopment Commission may look at some of the Pokagon Funds to help support that. That initiative is going to help people who have skills be recognized for the skills they have and really look to the future of how that will be done with an online platform. So that is one (1) of them. He continued, The other one (1) we are excited about is our partnership with our Office of Innovation on the CLICK Centers and that is something, I think, the Library is committed to continuing. We look to expand that. Those are kind of the two (2) big ones we have pushed for and I think the Library is with us on those. Ms. Duta stated,Also on the CLICK Sites, all of our branches are considered CLICK sites as well. We will think of the Main Branch Library to be one(1) of the CLICK Site Hubs because it will be larger than some of the other locations. All CLICK Sites are meant to be walkable within fifteen (15)minutes. My staff walks through with City staff to be sure they are ready to answer questions. We provide tech support and we will also do some programming as well. Committeemember Davis stated, Thank you. In terms of Downtown South Bend regarding the other situation we just talked about, you said you reached out to them. Was there any follow up with that yet? Ms. Duta replied, No, they haven't responded but we need to follow up again to take that a little further. It made so much sense. Committeemember Davis interrupted, It would be nice for some of us to be included. A lot of the things they do are good things but we don't necessarily always know so it would be nice to get more impact regarding that. I will follow up with you on that. Councilmember Tim Scott stated, I'm fine with all the programming. I think you will do a great job with that, however it works out. I did bring it up a few weeks ago when we met, but, do you or does the City have any metric regarding the foot traffic that come through? Any numbers? I think this is awesome. I know I've asked DCI on this and they haven't worked on it or anything but have you guys looked at that? That would be kind of nice to know. Ms. Duta replied, A lot of that will be driven by programming that we are doing or meetings that will be held so it is a little bit hard to predict. We would have our own marketing efforts, too. But EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 3