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•CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK are right now around$24,000.Those are the two(2) adjustment or three(3) adjustments that we're proposing relative to the staffing side of it. I touched on capital projects at length so I'll not go into any additional detail there.And parking,I mentioned that as well. So later this year as we formulate and Council Members discuss line of questioning relative to the operation the agreement with Block by Block expires December 31, 2020., we're exploring the ideas of different operators in new technology and improving the overall experience along with pricing strategy associated with the garages then going forward. Later this year we'll have that plan available for the Council. Mr. Perri stated, Good evening, again. As we transition, I wanted to make sure to recognize the VPA team leadership team that's here. They don't get an opportunity to sit in front of the Council very often. Mr. Perri then introduced staff members present in the audience. He stated, A special thanks to them for putting all of this together and the work that goes behind implementing it all. He continued,As you move into Fund#201, we'll focus heavily on the numbers. This is found on page twenty-three(23) of your packet if you're following along.You'll see that Fund#201 appears twice in your packet back to back on page twenty-three (23) and twenty-four(24). I would highly recommend looking at page twenty-three (23). If you recall last year we combined Funds #201, #203 and #405. Page twenty-three (23) illustrates the historical combination of the three (3) accounts. That would be the most accurate picture to look at. He went on, This year, or proposed in 2020, I would call this a maintenance budget. We've had quite a few years of capital investments that will have been in front of you bringing quite a few things in the combination of different funds and even the consolidation of VPA. Quite frankly this budget's pretty simple compared to the ones I've brought to you the past three(3)or four(4)times. Some of the major things happening on the revenue side of things, we are seeing a decrease in property taxes that's projected to be about $340,000 less next year. As we're all aware, property tax caps are taking a full impact and so that's how we're going to feel it on the parks side of things. We'll see that grants are down about $4.75 million. Those are just project grants that we are rounding out. Primarily that's made up of the Regional Cities money that's being spent out at Howard Park. Other project-related type things, again small grant money that's been coming in that we're spending out that we just won't see again. Those are one (1) time kind of expenses that are off the table. Including moving some things off our books. I'll talk about it when we look at some historical things like West Side Main Streets that were historically on our books that are going to live outside of Fund#201. He continued,Then we also on the revenue side of things are looking to see an increase.Requesting Council approval of an increase of$400,000 in the General Funds support. I wanted to illustrate that footnote there though. Previous five(5)years we were averaging about$1.1 million dollars in General Fund support. Due to various reasons and some of the healthy cash reserves we had, we were able to take that down to about $400,000 here in 2019. We want to move that back up to about$800,000 just because you see our big dip in property taxes, so to normalize what's going on there.Nonetheless,it's still a decrease reliance on the General Fund of what we've historically been seeing if we normalize it. The other side of the revenue includes the charges for services. We've had a perineal error show up on our books. We had some big Department of Community Investment service maintenance agreements which showed up year after year and it's not something that we ever formalized or had on our books. So,Howard Park,we're going to see some increase there. Skating is scheduled to open up at the end of this year and room rentals as well as rent on the café space that we see coming in,so we'll see some nice revenue there. Golf is projected EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION i EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 vwnw.southbendin.gov 11