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SCITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK to hit that final break-even point next year. So again, seeing some increased revenue on the golf side of things. Also, that will be due to some of the cross utilization of the Erskine Clubhouse for private rentals and events as well. He went on, The program optimization, quite often we look at our portfolio programing to see where there's redundancy. We want to make sure we're filling all the gaps and places where we see decreasing participation, industry trends or otherwise we look at eliminating some programs. So, things like the Kid's World day camp or flag football. We won't see those revenues, but we also don't see those expenses on the expense side of things. Then, we are just trying to make the budget a better tool to manage by. It seems like year after year,now that I've gotten into this a few times, we've historically inflated our revenues to some degree. I want to normalize that and make sure it's actually a tool that we can manage by itself. All in all, that's where you're seeing the charges for services go down. But nonetheless, the footnote there is at the end of the day it's significantly higher than what we were seeing historically. That's the revenue side of things. He continued, On the expense side of things we're still on that Fund #201, #203, and #405 combination. Personnel, we are anticipating just like every City department the two percent (2%) salary increases. Like I mentioned on the revenue side, we tended to over budget, particularly on our part-time labor. We took a hard look at that. Every year we were ending up with extra money in that fund with our part-time and seasonal folks. We had some minor reorganizations as we had somebody move out of the Experience Division, we decided instead of hiring a full-time position back,we can do it with some part-time or contract labor. We're trying to be smart about that as we see contrition otherwise. We see some small savings there. He went on, We will bring back in the Howard Park staff. We had a few years of not having them on board but these are primarily part-time or these are all part-time and seasonal folks. These are rink guards and landscapers and those types of people. Health insurance benefits are going up. You're probably seeing that across the board in every department. At the end of the day though it all comes out to about a two percent (2%) growth. That's right about where we want to be. This does include one (1) personnel change request. This would take our project manager and move him into the manager of public construction. This position already exists in the salary limits. I believe that there's one(1) or two (2) other folks in the City that have this title. His work is really in line with what they do. His quality and quantity of effort, so we want to recognize that. He's been with us for a couple of years now and we'd like to put him up to peers in other departments. That does come out to about a $13,000 increase in the salary ordinance for his position. We only anticipate awarding approximately half(1/2)of that in year one(1). I wanted to make sure I noted that. He continued, The other side of expenses becomes the supplies and services and charges. Across all divisions, we're just tightening our belt and trying to absorb some of the property tax decrease. We looked at historical spending and where we could cut some things and just cross-utilize some of the things that already exist in the department. So, we're going to be doing that there. Utilities are going up. As green as we're trying to be, that needs to be a challenge every year. But a large part of that is bringing Howard Park back online. We got a new community center and ice-skating rink which does consume, even though we're going to be, I think, certainly LEAD gold certified, I just found out the other day. So,we're pushing that. It's still going to be a costly building to have online. Debt service increases about $79,000. That's primarily golf carts and Boomer, as planned. We're seeing a decrease on My SB Parks & Trails projects. Again, as we're winding those down EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 12