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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK we won't see those show up in our expense budget. They're small re-categorizations happening. We see things bouncing around a little bit and have questions there that are particular. I can certainly answer those but that's net zero (0), which might have shown up in one(1) line last year and in a different line this year. Then program expenses, I mentioned that as we look at optimizing our portfolio we saw some revenue decrease. We're seeing even more decrease on the expenses. He went on,Allocations are going down this year. That's directed to our department. At the end of the day about $1.4 million dollars net reduction in expenses but if you normalize it, take all the one (1)-time project type things, My SB Parks & Trails otherwise, that's close to a $300,000 reduction in the expenses. Just to put that into historical context, that's the next slide there (referencing the presentation), slide thirteen (13), I think it's important to look at where we came from and see how the trends are shaping up. Expenses, salaries and wages have since normalized combined, so this is Fund #203, #405 and #201 combined and normalized since 2015, taken out all the one(1)-time projects, salaries and wages increased about two percent(2%) a year. Supplies have grown about two percent (2%) a year. Allocations have gone up as we all know there was a change in the City's restructuring of how IT costs were otherwise allocated out to departments. These were charges that were already in the City budget, they just got put on the departments. Services and charges have increased about a percent and a half(1.5%). The interesting point about all of this though is you're seeing very modest increases year over year. But this includes the addition of quite a few things through the years. Some of the things that I said are no longer in our budget that we've figured out how to move those out, the West Side Main Streets project and service maintenance agreements. We've done centralized mowing, added in Smart Streets and caring for Boland Trail, and managing all of this My SB Parks & Trails initiative. We expanded things like the Charles Black Center and added new programs like the soon to be ice skating. All of our standards as we started with our impact drivers, our standards have been increasing very stringently. We see some savings through all these efficiencies that we've talked about. Jeff mentioned some of them. And then we've grown our youth scholarship fund. It's pretty interesting to see on the expense side of things very modest increases with quite a bit of returns to the community. Y He continued, On the revenue side of things unfortunately, like I said, this year with property tax caps we're sliding a little bit backwards. But by and large we've been growing about five percent (5%) a year. Charges for services, that revenue side has remained relatively flat on what we see that growth projection coming online here with Howard Park, the golf, some of the things I've mentioned earlier. Donations to our programs and events primarily through sponsorships have been averaging about $125,000 a year. That's money that didn't used to be in the system. The General Fund support, whether it be through the form of pilot or more recently COIT, averaged about$1.1 million a year. I said that earlier. Reduced to $400,000 and put it back up to $820,000. Project grants and donations, we're really proud of this part, that we've been able to bring in $12 million dollars through various grants and partnerships over the past five(5) years. Committee Chair White opened the floor for questions from Council Members. Councilmember Scott stated, The DCI estimate error,that always drives me nuts. Can you explain that? Go into more detail on this? Mr. Perri replied, It's called a service maintenance agreement that we had. It's supposed to be a transfer of funds. It was basically double budgeted in both of our accounts. It was an expense to EXCELLENCE j ACCOUNTABILITY 1 INNOVATION INCLUSION 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 13