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<br /> downtown South Bend. Well, throughout South Bend, but you'll see the first (1St) phase starting
<br /> up in downtown later this year.
<br /> He went on, Goals for the rest of the year, we'll be delivering our Climate Action Plan to the
<br /> Council, and in that, you'll see a handful of strategies for implementation, on a moving forward
<br /> basis, to help us reduce our overall impact to the environment by reducing greenhouse gas
<br /> emissions. In addition, we're going to install an EV charger to continue to try to encourage use of
<br /> electric vehicles and zero-emission vehicles. We're going to be selecting a vendor for the new
<br /> software program that will go on our trash trucks. So,the routing and the GPS, and whether or not
<br /> it's picking up a bin, the readers, all that stuff, the equipment we're using is out of date. And, it's
<br /> supported from a company overseas. So, we're going to be looking at most likely having a new
<br /> vendor for that equipment. We continue to work on reducing truck maintenance costs. We're
<br /> implementing the first (1st) phase of way-finding, you'll see it on Michigan when we start getting
<br /> that street done. We will be selecting a new shared mobility vendor. So, Lime Bike, the contract
<br /> is up at the end of August, and we've got four (4) different vendors who've submitted proposals.
<br /> So, we'll be looking at how they meet the goals that we're looking for on shared mobility. We're
<br /> going to implement the new branding of solid waste trucks. We continue to implement traffic
<br /> calming measures.We're going to update our Well Head Protection Plan,which is required by law
<br /> every five (5) years. That's establishing where we get our water from since we get ground water
<br /> and making sure we're protecting those areas environmentally so that we keep a good source of
<br /> clean water for our residents. We're also starting up a new water meter revenue loss study with
<br /> Valor Analytics. It's a sister company to EmNet.They'll go in and they'll look at water meters, and
<br /> do some data mining, and try to find areas where we may be losing revenue. So, we're looking
<br /> forward to that in the third (3`1) and fourth (4th) quarter. We're going to complete the work on
<br /> production of Well One (1)A, which is a huge well for us. It gives quite a bit of water out of our
<br /> north station. We'll be completing the infrastructure rehab projects on Western Avenue as well as
<br /> Michigan Street downtown. We will be bidding out Bendix Drive. It's been long-awaited. It's a
<br /> Federal project. That will be bid this year for construction in 2020. Then finally, we're going to be
<br /> applying for an additional $400,000 in road funding to do the Community Crossings Grant. That's
<br /> it, thanks.
<br /> Aaron Perri, Executive Director of Venues, Parks and Arts with offices located at 301 South St.
<br /> Louis Boulevard, stated, Good evening, Council. I'll start on the Venues side of things and provide
<br /> some updates there on the Century Center. We're about seventy-five percent (75%) of the way
<br /> through $1.25 million worth of capital improvements this year. You've noted through the years
<br /> that we've done a lot of"under the hood" work at Century Center,replacing the boilers,the roofs,
<br /> the tuckpointing.Now,it's a lot of the really visible things that you'll see. So,you'll go into Century
<br /> Center today and see new way-finding and softscape furniture. You're going to see some new
<br /> signage go on above the Skyway, and also in front of Century Center, as well as some upgraded
<br /> parking options there. So,that work is well underway. We had our busiest weekend ever on record
<br /> in late April. Every room in the building turned at least twice that weekend. That's what's putting
<br /> us on par to break a record in terms of hotel room nights. As we all know, Century Center is here
<br /> to produce an economic impact for the City. Last year, we saw about $14 million worth of
<br /> economic impact returned to the community. We anticipate breaking that record this year.
<br /> He continued, At the Morris, we had a record-breaking year last year, speaking of records, at one
<br /> hundred and two (102)events.We won't quite get there this year,but we'll be really close with one
<br /> hundred(100) events. So,we're excited about that. And we're preparing for our one hundred(100)
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