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CITY OFSOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Council President Tim Scott stated, Chair, could I ask that we establish one (1) rule during this that we allow each presenter through all these meetings go through the entire presentation, and we ask questions at the end? Committee Chair White replied, We have to leave time for public as well. Council Members, are you in agreement? Councilmember Dr. Oliver Davis interjected, I'm at peace. Committeemember Williams-Preston stated, Ok. Budget Overview from Department Heads Dan Parker, City Controller with offices located on the 12th floor of the County-City Building, stated,First(1St)of all,thank you.Thank you,Councilmember White for putting all these meetings together. And thank you Council Members for being here to do our budget overview as well as the first four (4) departments for the budget discussion of 2020. First (1St), some housekeeping types of items. There are a number of paper copies of the presentation available if any Council Members would like any. We do have those available and as you said Councilmember White, the presentation is available on our website as well. In terms of the format of tonight, I'm actually going to hand it over to Laura O'Sullivan, the Mayor's Chief of Staff, to give an overview of the strategic priorities contained in the 2020 budget. I will then do an overview of the finances of the overall budget. And then we will get into each of the individual departments. So, if there are no questions at this point then I will ask Laura to come up. ' Chiefof Staff for the Mayor of the Cityof South Bend with offices located on Laura O'Sullivan, C e y the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Thank you Dan and good evening Council. I'll just be walking you through the series of slides on our budget overview. And I just want to point out before I get started that this is exactly that, an overview. And then as each department head meets with you we'll get further into the details. But this is meant to set the stage of the upcoming presentations. So, the first 1St slide here I just want to talk a little about the context for the 2020 ( ) J budget. As you know, in 2020 the Fiscal Curb is here. So, that's somethingto take into g consideration. We are projected to have a $1.4 million decrease in property tax revenue. We'll be continuing our strategic priorities with investments in neighborhoods and communities. And that remains paramount for the budget this year. We are planning for long term financial stability with the budget in 2020. We're much lower in significant capital spending but we're higher on maintenance costs and ongoing strategic initiatives. She continued,Just going over our strategic priorities,we have the three(3)buckets of making the basics easy, delivering good government, and investing in people and places. So, with the basics we want to make sure we have a safe community for everyone to thrive and a robust and well- planned infrastructure. As far as good government goes, we want to make sure we have a well governed and administered City. Investing in people and places, we want to make sure we have a strong and inclusive economy, thriving public spaces and culture and vibrant, welcoming neighborhoods. This chart (referencing a slide in a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office) shows our resource allocation for those priorities that I just mentioned. And just to touch on a few of them you'll notice that sixty percent (60%) of our budget covers safety and infrastructure. We will have a decrease in our percentage on thriving public spaces and culture. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 WWW.southbendin.gov 2