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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK would be very beneficial. If any Council Members have any more questions, please email them and carbon copy the Council Members as well. Councilmember Scott stated, I want to thank the Engineering Department and Public Works as well. You guys have done a great job with outreach to the community. I've been in several meetings where a lot of information not known was bringing people to attention and you provided a lot of information on projects moving forward.You did a lot of good listening. I like the fact that traffic calming was experimental first (1st). I think I brought that up last year, but we try things before we say,hey,we are going to just go do this on the concrete. So,kudos to you and your staff. You've done a wonderful job with outreach to the community and I think it's gone a long way. So, thankY ou. Committeemember Voorde stated, I'm glad to see you are addressing the upgrades and the maintenance of the Filtration Plant. It's been deferred maintenance and I'm glad they are now being addressed. Thanks. Mr. Horvath stated, We will now talk about Solid Waste and the Solid Waste Management Services which includes picking up trash, yard waste and then also bulky item pick-ups. Here (referencing a slide in the presentation) is our leadership staff. Mr. Horvath then named the individuals in the organizational chart. He continued, Our goals for 2020 include trying to get our truck maintenance costs down. We spend quite a bit on truck maintenance every year. We made a big change to have a transfer station. So,we are no longer going to the landfill. That was a big part of it because the landfill was pretty dirty and was a long haul to get down there. But, we are still working on trying to find ways to reduce our truck maintenance costs for 2020 as well as decreasing hourly and overtime costs. We are also trying to decrease cross-contamination between solid waste and yard waste. We are going to implement new branding in 2020 and then I apologize I didn't put it on here (referencing a slide in the presentation), but it goes in with the other three (3), implementing a new routing software system. It's a GPS camera and routing system to make us more efficient and helping to reduce the number of complaints of missed trash pickups. It will also help us on the cross-contamination issue as well. He continued, This (referencing a slide in the presentation) is the budget overview. So, you can see here that revenue is fairly stable when you look at the charges for service. That hasn't changed in the last number of years. You've got a tick down in the other revenue and that is primarily due to rebates we are receiving. We are receiving energy rebates for CNG. So, we use the CNG gas and for every gallon we use, we have a rebate with the State. Those are no longer available. Otherwise, the revenue stayed about the same. What I'm about to show you here (referencing a slide in the presentation) as we go down, when you look at the expenses and revenue, we've got an operating net loss at about $600,000 a year. That means on an Enterprise Fund is that we need to find a way that we make that either zero (0) or positive. Solid Waste is no different than water or waste water, it is all based on cost of service studies. We are putting that together right now, so, I've not included any numbers in this budget on the revenue side for increased revenue, but we will be coming back to the Council before the end of this year to talk to you about a potential rate increase on our solid waste area. There are a couple drivers here. You can see for the most part that our salaries and wages have been pretty flat. We've done a good job of controlling that. There are some areas that have increased and some of that is interfund allocations. That has gone up about $370,000, almost $400,000 a year. And then in addition to that, our debt service for truck EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION ; EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 13