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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK new bonds in 2019 and don't anticipate in 2020 issuing new bonds. So, debt service is largely a maintenance kind of budget. The debt service increase you do see on there, $419,000, is because we are going to start paying on the general obligation debt that we issued for Fire Station Number Nine(9)in 2020. Vehicle and equipment leasing again,just so that you've seen it, this is where we actually issue debt for capital leases for things like vehicles and equipment. And again, as I said in the beginning in the overview this is expected to increase from 2019. But,still low within the realm of reasonableness, lower than where we were in 2018 and roughly where we were in 2017 from a debt issuance perspective on the capital leasing side. As I said, our highlights, we have an accounting reorganization, we split out Diversity and Inclusion and Human Resources into their own budgets that will be presented separately. And we have brought in, it's not on there, but we brought in the Central Purchasing Department into Admin and Finance. We are proposing one(1) salary increase over the two percent(2%)that is across the board. That is for our Payroll Manager. The reason behind that is the implementation of our Kronos system has really shown that position is key to ensuring that the most basic function of the Admin and Finance Department is fulfilled which is making sure that our employees are paid. We've looked at comparable positions in other cities and we're pretty significantly below that. So, we want to try to get that closer to where other cities are paying that function,managing the payroll for the entire City. So that ask is in there,that proposed increase is in the budget at this point. He continued, There is also in the budget a $300,000 capital spend for the County-City Building elevator upgrade. So, this is a project that was driven by the county. And as per our agreement with the county we are liable for twenty-six-point-four-percent (26.4%) of the cost of that. And that amounts to about$300,000 in 2020. And that is budgeted from our County Income Tax Fund. I wanted to highlight that as well. As you know, financial services are part of the Admin and Finance Department. So quickly, I will go through their budget. From a department goal perspective, Central Services is organized into four(4)different divisions and they are Equipment Services, Facilities Management, Radio Services and Print Shop. On the Equipment Services side, a lot of this has to do with making sure that we are obtaining certifications to make sure that we are increasing our services provided both internally and externally by trying to increase our outside customer base. So, it's important to know that Equipment Services serves other municipalities and other entities other than the City of South Bend. Other entities bring their fire trucks and other vehicles to the City of South Bend Central Services and pay the City for the services we provide. We are continuing to green the fleet with hybrid and CNG cars and powered vehicles whenever possible and efficient. We are implementing a new fleet software system at the end of this year and continuing into 2020 and then obviously continuing to make that so that our positions are filled with skilled employees. He went on, On the Facilities Management and Building Maintenance side, again, the goal here is to increase customer base, add internal customers to that department of operation, and increase the certification level and the skills of that team. We want to make sure that we are ensuring that preventative maintenance gets done, and that gets back to that asset replacement schedule that I talked about earlier and making sure that we are completing the first (1st) phase of our peer-rated design standardization. This allows us to better visualize and see what assets we have on hand. Making sure we know when that preventative maintenance will be necessary and being able to better plan for that. Radio Services side, again, common theme, expand our customer base and service offerings to try and bring more revenue from outside into the City. And we are trying to develop an emergency audit plan for the radio system that we have in case that goes out we need to know where our vehicles are located in the City. So,we will be developing that.And then finally EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION 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 6