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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Council Members. We will have some questions, but I ask that you be very mindful that we have a number of department heads, and that if you have any additional questions that you write those out and we can give them to our City Clerk and also to the department heads. So, this meeting is only informational, and it's an update for the Council Members. Budget Overview from Department Heads Daniel Parker, City Controller for the City of South Bend with offices located on the 12th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Thank you, Council Members for being here and thank you for giving us this opportunity. I think all the department heads are excited to share their accomplishments and progress on our 2019 budget in advance of the 2020 budget. As you've said, Councilmember White, this is trying to make sure that we, as we get into the actual 2020 budget process, that we focus on 2020, and we focus on the numbers for the future and give the updates related to the current year at this meeting so that we can focus on the future in future meetings. I'm not going to talk very much because as you said, we have a limited time and a lot of departments. But I appreciate your suggestion that if there are additional questions, that those be submitted in writing and we can get the departments to respond to Council in writing as well. Committee Chair White announced, I'd like to mention that Council Members should have received the PowerPoint and this PowerPoint will be available on the website as well. Laura O'Sullivan, Chief of Staff to the Mayor of the City of South Bend with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Good evening. I just wanted to kick things off and note that this year, the Mayor's Office has worked to complete a number of the Mayor's priorities. We certainly want to thank all the department heads for being here and for all the hard work that they do to drive many of those priorities. I did want to highlight a few of the projects and initiatives that we've supported and kick it off before everyone else got underway. Back in February, we worked with Council and Code Enforcement to pass the Rental Safety Verification Program. Code will have many more details in their section, but we've already assisted several families that have found themselves in bad situations. We've also continued our partnership with the St. Joseph County Health Department to provide access to school-aged children through a series of lead screenings, the next of which is Saturday, July 27th at Living Stones Church from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. during its back to school event. We're continuing our work on homelessness and providing updates to Council throughout the year. Currently, in the news, is a second (2nd) permanent supportive housing partnership with South Bend Heritage. We hope to help twenty(20)more chronically homeless individuals enter housing through this project.We are also moving forward on a number of fronts following the officer-involved shooting of Eric Logan on June 16th, including opening up the Board of Public Safety positions to a public application, and redoubling down on our recruiting efforts to make sure that the South Bend Police Department reflects the community that it serves. The 2020 budget will help carry forward these projects, and the ones you'll hear about throughout tonight. We look forward to working with you during these budget sessions, and to deliver on Council and Administration priorities. Thank you. Stephanie Steele, Corporation Counsel for the City of South Bend with offices located on the 12th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Good evening. This year, the City Legal Department is taking a proactive approach to handling environmental matters, which we look at as an environmental justice issue. We are identifying and mitigating risks as soon as we can identify them. We've engaged in litigation with insurance companies to help us recover costs and we plan EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building!227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601;p 574.235.92211 f574.235.9173 I I I D574.235.5567!wwwsouthbendin.gov 2