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SCITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK
<br /> They, in general, seem to be pushing toward their thought that we can afford a lot more than$200
<br /> million worth of projects. We are pushing back, and we will see where we end up. Obviously, any
<br /> of this will come to Council before we agree to anything. So, as we get a real meaningful update
<br /> with actually looking where we are with the project and the project costs, we will update the
<br /> Council. The plan is still the SAGE Plan which is the plan we rolled out to the Council in the
<br /> previous few meetings. We probably need to do another update in a month or two(2),just to make
<br /> sure we stay up to date with what is going on with the whole process. We have our next meeting
<br /> we are trying to schedule for late June with the EPA, DOJ and IDEM. So, it will probably make
<br /> sense after that meeting to sit back down with Council and get you up to speed on where we are
<br /> with that. Again, if there are any questions on that, I would be happy to take them, but we will set
<br /> up that meeting.
<br /> He went on, The other one(1) I wanted to address because it came up real recently is the LaSalle
<br /> Street bricks and on William to Charles Martin,they are getting ready to pave. The residents there
<br /> are interested in that becoming a brick street. Part of the problem is the middle part of that, there
<br /> are no bricks there at all. We would have to find bricks and be able to put them back. The other
<br /> issue is that all the infrastructure would need to be lowered as well. They would have to cut down
<br /> and bring down the manholes because they are too high. Problem is,we don't have the funding for
<br /> that. So, we would need to figure that out but before we can even do that, we are trying to get our
<br /> arms around how much that would cost, what that would look like and where we would even get
<br /> bricks from. If we can answer some of those questions,then maybe we can sit down and figure out
<br /> how that would be paid for. We will need to do something there very quickly because we can't
<br /> leave that street like that. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Jitin and Kara.
<br /> Jitin Kain,Deputy Director of Public Works for the City of South Bend with offices located on the
<br /> 13th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Thanks, Eric. I will go over a few things quickly.
<br /> This (referencing a slide in a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office) is an
<br /> organizational chart. As a reminder, we have five (5) divisions or offices within Public Works.
<br /> Sustainability is lead by Therese Dorau. Streets is Sean Ware. Engineering is Kara Boyles.Utilities
<br /> is Water and Waste Water functions and that is lead by Al Greek. Kim Thompson is the Assistant
<br /> Director there and Solid Waste is lead by Kelly Smith. Our new position is Cara Grabowski, the
<br /> Marketing Director, and she works on outreach and our social media.
<br /> He continued, Some other staffing changes, I sent an email out about this to all of you a couple
<br /> weeks ago, Streets and Sewers is really three (3) divisions. You have Sewers, Streets and then
<br /> Traffic Lighting. Larry Parker has been promoted to the Sewers Manager position. He has also
<br /> been with the City for a long time and has the respect of the team, so, we think he is a great fit for
<br /> that role. In Engineering, we've been working with Zach Hurst as a full-time contract position,
<br /> really helping us catch up on the extreme load of TIF projects. We're moving this position to a
<br /> full-time position, funded through TIF, again, because of the sheer volume of projects we have
<br /> with DCI. Paving,just really quickly and Kara will talk a little bit more about it, and by the way,
<br /> the Traffic and Lighting position is still open. Once we fill it, we will send you a note. But for
<br /> paving, we will be announcing our paving list this week. There is an event scheduled with the
<br /> Mayor on Wednesday of this week at 12:30 p.m. and the idea is to bring the media out and share
<br /> the list. We usually do an event every year to share publicly the list of streets. Again, we use the
<br /> PAZER Rating System to rate all of our streets. Some of you have reached out to us with a list of
<br /> requests for streets. We evaluate those and if they fall within the range of two (2) to five (5), we
<br /> try our best to add that to our list. Just as a reminder, a rating of one(1)is a complete failure of the
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