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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK know,just myself personally, that is not acceptable. I've shared this with Mr. Dan Parker as well. What I am hearing, and I think other Council Members are hearing the same, that we have to see improvements in our neighborhoods. I'm not saying these are not going to benefit the neighborhoods, but I'm talking about from a more direct perspective. I would like to continue having discussions in that regard. What was the decision-making process like to increase traffic calming to $400,000, and then leaving the other programs flat? I will let the Administration think about that and we will have a discussion about that later. Committee Chair White then opened the floor to questions from Council Members. Committeemember John Voorde stated, I have a couple of questions about street lights. We have 3,000 City-owned street lights. How many are there all together? Do you know off-hand? And how did it come to be that we have a mixed system? Council Members usually get streetlight outage phone calls. Other than referring them to 3-1-1, who is responsible for the maintenance of street lights?Do we take care of our 3,000? Or,does I&M take care of all of them?And how much does each additional street light cost? When we say we need more, how much would x amount cost? Dr. Boyles replied, One(1)of the easiest ways to explain the different between the AEP lights and our lights,most of our lights are the decorative street lights.AEP is not in the business of installing decorative street lights. So, whenever you see those, those are owned by the City. Trail lighting, and historic lighting, that is maintained and installed by us. Any time we do improvements to streetscapes and there is decorative lighting, those are new City lights. Committeemember Voorde followed up, So, Traffic and Lighting would maintain those? Dr. Boyles replied, That is correct. Committeemember Voorde followed up, Ok. And a normal street light would be I&M? Mr. Horvath replied,Yeah,we can look at those numbers to make sure we have them correct. But, roughly eighty percent(80%)of the lights in South Bend are I&M lights and twenty percent(20%), roughly, are City-owned. Committeemember Voorde asked, Are you satisfied with their response time in terms of getting a call? We get a call and we refer it but how do we know there is a timely change of bulbs? Mr. Horvath replied, So, we have someone in the Streets Department that does monitor that list. But, they typically take I&M's word for it that they have been repaired. But, they do repair orders and track the status of those. So, as those are aging, we can get you some details,too,on what their average service times are in terms of how quickly the lights come back on. We can pull some of those numbers. Committeemember Voorde stated, It seems like just, and I have a tendency to over-simplify things sometimes and not use data for decision making for some things, but it seems like police officers who patrol a certain beat, or even a Street Department Foreman who has a quadrant of the City as their responsibility, on the night shift,it seems like it wouldn't be that hard to just have a legal pad and write down the seven (7) that are out. You know what I mean? EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 wvaw.southbendin.gov 10